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Aerial heavy weapons platform armed with a devastating rocket launcher system. Rocketeers are large flying ARC machines that hover above the battlefield and rain rockets down on player positions. Their size and altitude make them hard to miss but their HP pool demands sustained fire.
Rocketeers hover at high altitude and fire volleys of rockets at player positions. The rockets deal massive area damage and are fired in patterns designed to flush players from cover. Between volleys they reposition, circling the engagement area. Their thrusters and the scanner on top are their vulnerable points, but hitting them requires accuracy at range.
The Rocketeer is a large-class ARC machine with 4,000 HP and a danger rating of 8/5. Large ARC machines like the Rocketeer are mid-difficulty fights that punish overextension. They take time to drop and can stagger you while other ARC patrols converge on the gunfire — pick your moment carefully.
The Rocketeer has 2 weak points: Thrusters (underside/rear) (2.5x), Scanner (above, top of chassis) (2x). Hitting the thrusters (underside/rear) is the highest-value target — every shot landing there does 2.5x damage compared to body shots, which means you can drop the Rocketeer with roughly 32 well-placed precision rounds from a mid-tier rifle. Body shots will work, but you'll burn through three to four times the ammo and pull every ARC patrol within a few hundred metres.
You'll find the Rocketeer spawning in Dam Battlegrounds, Spaceport, Blue Gate. Common drops include ARC Alloy, Advanced ARC Powercell, Rocketeer Driver, Heavy Ammo, which makes it a priority target for Raiders running crafting routes for the Workshop tech tree — the rare components from this enemy fast-track several mid-game upgrades. For full map context on where the Rocketeer spawns, see our map guides, or compare it against the rest of the ARC bestiary on the enemies index.