What's up guys, I am in the hotshot rank for the weekly trials and trying desperately to maintain my position (currently in the demotion section, spot 70 of leaderboard).
Curious what everyone's tactics for the trials are - what can I boost better? I did some google/youtube searching and don't see anything different than what I am currently doing.
However, there are several people with over 160k total score for this week? How?

Deliver Carriables - 5,000 pts
Damage Ground ARC - 19,432 pts
Open ARC Probes - 28,014 pts
Damage Hornets - 15,473 pts
Hidden Bunker DL - 7,200 pts

Less than 24-hours remaining and I am hoping not to be demoted.
Appreciate all the help my fellow Speranzians!

For damaging hornets, bring snitch scanners. Anytime you can't find a hornet or a snitch you throw a scanner.

Hey!

For the "Damage ground-based ARC enemies" I suggest the hidden bunker event. During the event, 1 bastion and 1 bombardier spawns are fixed there with relatively low respawn timers. Grab wolfpacks and a hullcracker/jupiter with plenty of ammo and kill them as soon as they respawn. Works faster if you have 2 teammates you know with similar setup. Make sure to go in naked and surrender 10 times if any of you are usually PVP players to get back into PVE lobbies.

Try to get a good spawn with fresh round timer, and the last extract being one of the closer ones to you.

You can send one of your people away to hunt the other parts of the map for ground arc as well as 2 people on the Bastion / Bombardier is plenty if geared towards fighting them.

I have 21,396 score on this trial without really trying to do it. I was just farming for cells and didn't break a sweat over my score.

Hope this helps

tyvm! appreciate the insight a lot



Snitch Scanners (when thrown) no longer call Hornets, only Wasps.

This post was edited by Epiphany on Feb 8 2026 09:02am

For deliverable go into stella night, the batteries for the doors count as deliverable, you can actualy do 12k points max if you get all doors (both sides count & there is 3 bateries door in the sandbox & archives area)
damage ground what is said above go into hidden bunker and farm the bastion / bombardier.
arc probes, electric storm on spaceport seems to be the best bet you can go a lil higher but not that much - about 32-38k EDIT :btw, important point, if you do this in trio, every search count, meaning if all 3 search one probe, you can triple your points.
Hornet, hidden bunker is also a good bet, bring osprey & hullcraker with lot of ammo, pull them from afar and finish with hullcraker.
Hidden bunker, seems like u missed a terminal or 2, max points is 9600.

This post was edited by Gouls on Feb 8 2026 09:44am

Didn't know they had changed that, sorry. Best option then would be spaceport at night or during hidden bunker. Take an osprey and find a high spot.

I'm currently in Hotshot too 29th position with 122k points solo. I didn't even bother with carriables i only have 1k points on that. The easiest way to boost your points this week imo is Damage Hornets and Ground Based ARCs. For hornets, go to hidden bunker and bring a zipline to the top of south trench tower, bring renegade 4 and hullcracker 4. There are tons of hornet spawns around that and snitches. I got 43k points there without even really trying much. Also kill wasps within that range as to prevent spawn blocks of hornets.

tyvm to you both for the insight, much appreciated!



No worries, I appreciate you trying to help out - my buddies and I discovered it 2-3 trials ago when we had the same idea - found out the hard way lol

well i can help you out without saying shit i think ..



IF YOU NEED INFO HOOK ME UP!

Still working on Ground base but i got shitty partner all time lol

This post was edited by mordok1st on Feb 8 2026 12:28pm