How to Complete A Warm Place to Rest in ARC Raiders: Red Flag Trail and Grave Location

A Warm Place to Rest is an Apollo quest on the Buried City map in ARC Raiders. Head to the Abandoned Highway Camp on the raised highway in the south-west, inspect the yellow backpack beside the bus at the camp entrance, then follow the trail of red flags across the city to a grave near Buried Properties on the east side. The last two objectives only appear as you progress, which is why the red-marker step catches so many players out.

You can finish the whole thing in a single Buried City round once you know the route, and there is nothing to extract at the end, so a free loadout keeps the risk low.

The four quest objectives in order

The quest chain is short, but the quest log does not show all of it at once. Here is everything you will tick off:

1. Locate the Abandoned Highway Camp.
2. Search for any signs of survivors.
3. Follow the red markers.
4. Inspect the grave.

Objectives three and four only appear once you clear the earlier steps. If your quest log looks short after accepting the job, that is expected: the trail of red flags is not revealed until you have inspected the backpack at the camp.

Locate the Abandoned Highway Camp

The camp sits on the raised, broken highway in the south-west of Buried City. Aim for the highway structure itself rather than a specific building.

The catch is the elevation. The camp is on top of the highway, and it is easy to end up stuck underneath the deck with no obvious way up. Get onto the rooftops first, then use a zipline or a grappling hook to reach the road surface.

Tag the location on your map when you get close. Doing so also marks a handy zipline that takes you straight up to the camp on later runs.

Once you are on the highway, head to the southern end of the bridge, all the way to the pair of buses, to progress the quest.

Search for any signs of survivors

At the camp, the objective changes to "search for any signs of survivors". The interactable is a yellow-marked backpack next to the vehicle entrance, specifically beside the left-hand bus of the pair.

Inspect it and the next objective appears. This is the moment the red marker trail becomes active, so do not wander off looking for flags before you have touched the backpack.

Follow the red markers to the grave

This is the step that trips people up. A trail of red flags snakes across Buried City, and none of it is marked on your map. Follow the flags in order:

1. Leave the camp on foot. From the buses, pick up the first red flag next to the backpack and follow the markers northeast along the top of the bridge.
2. Cross the exposed highway. The flags run over the damaged road surface rather than dropping to street level. Stay on the elevated route instead of cutting across the ground below.
3. Track the line east. The trail follows the highway east until the collapsed section that descends into Piazza Arbusto, then heads north-east toward the Buried Properties.
4. Arrive at Buried Properties. The final flag stands beside a grave on open ground near Buried Properties, where you inspect the grave to close out the quest.

The markers are placed relatively close together, so you can follow them fairly easily; if you lose the line during a firefight, return to the last flag you remember.

The route passes through high-traffic areas near the city's busier districts, so expect ARC patrols and other Raiders along the way. Keep moving between markers and use cover rather than standing in the open to check your map.

Rewards and what to expect

The quest has four objectives, and Apollo rewards you with three noisemakers, five blue light sticks, a rosary and a new cosmetic colour. Rewards are claimed from the quest claim screen after you inspect the grave, and there are no items to extract for this quest, so a free loadout is a low-risk way to run it.

Where this quest sits in Apollo's chain

A Warm Place to Rest comes from Apollo, one of the traders based in Speranza, the underground hub you operate from. It sits in Apollo's quest chain within the main quest progression. If you are working through his list, our The League Quest Guide covers another of his assignments.

If you are clearing other Buried City jobs at the same time, How to Complete Broken Monument in ARC Raiders covers a quest on the same map, and our "Someone Else's Shoes" Quest Walkthrough and Arc Raiders "Empathetic Prototypes" Quest Walkthrough cover two more jobs in the same rotation.

Running the trail cleanly

The reason this quest has a reputation for being awkward is not difficulty, it is visibility. Two of the four objectives do not exist until you trigger them, and the red flags never appear on your map at all. Treat the backpack as the real starting gun: everything before it is navigation, everything after it is a visual search.

Climb before you commit. Reaching the highway deck from the rooftops with a zipline or grapple saves the frustration of circling underneath the camp, and tagging the location early means you can drop straight back in on a repeat run.

Finally, do not sprint the flag trail blindly. The markers lead you over exposed highway and through busy districts, and losing the line to a firefight means returning to the last flag you remember. Walk the route, keep the next flag in sight before you move, and the grave near Buried Properties will come up faster than you expect. For more on the game's other systems, see our ARC Raiders Trophy Display Project breakdown and our ARC Raiders Blueprint Farming Guide.

Sources

• ARC Raiders Wiki: A Warm Place To Rest
• ARC Raiders Wiki: Apollo
• ARC Raiders Wiki: Quests
• PC Gamer: How to complete A Warm Place to Rest in Arc Raiders
• Rock Paper Shotgun: A Warm Place To Rest quest walkthrough
• TheGamer: Where To Follow The Red Markers In The Buried City
• Shacknews: How to complete A Warm Place to Rest in ARC Raiders
• MetaForge: A Warm Place to Rest quest database entry