ARC Raiders has this habit of shaking up your plans the moment you think you’ve settled in, and that includes chasing items like the Geiger Counter. You go out thinking it’ll be a quick grab, only to realise it’s a loot‑only drop tied to specific zones, which means you can’t craft it and you can’t buy it from Celeste or anyone else. If you’re running topside and trying to keep your gear rotation fresh, you’ll quickly learn that hunting down gear like this sits right at the core of the loop, much like picking up an ARC Raiders BluePrint when you stumble across one during a lucky run.

Finding the Right Loot Spots

You’ll end up spending most of your time pushing through the Exodus loot zones, because that’s where the counter can actually appear. These zones arrived alongside the Stella Montis map, and for now they’re basically the only real places worth hitting. Most players I’ve run with tend to jump between Stella Montis and the Spaceport, mostly because the spawn rate feels decent enough to justify repeat runs. It’s not glamorous, and there are definitely nights when you think the game’s messing with you, but after a few drops you start to get a feel for where it’s worth slowing down and sweeping properly.

The Hot Zones

The Rocket Assembly area on Spaceport is where most people camp out, and it’s almost always noisy. You’ll be dodging fire before you even get your bearings, so don’t go in half-prepped. If you’re heading into Stella Montis instead, the lower Assembly levels are your best bet. The funny thing is you might walk in hoping for a counter and walk out with an Exodus Module instead, which isn’t a bad trade at all. Plenty of players actually go in looking for modules first and treat any counter as a bonus, which makes sense once you’ve fine‑tuned your craft queue.

Why the Counter Matters

The Geiger Counter isn’t really about radiation checks. You grab it because scrapping it gives you Exodus Modules, and those modules are insanely useful. They’re the backbone of some of the best crafts at the Gunsmith workstation, especially the Hullcracker. Anyone who’s watched a teammate blast through enemies with that thing knows the grind pays off. So you keep running those Assembly zones, picking through every crate or body you see, and before long you’ll have a stash big enough to start building the stuff you actually want.

It might feel like a slog sometimes, but once you’ve turned a few counters into modules and pushed your weapon lineup forward, the loop starts to click, and that’s when the game really opens up, especially once you’ve got a few tools that hit as hard as anything crafted from a cheap BluePrint you luck into along the way.