The Controlled Access Zone is a valuable loot area on Dam Battlegrounds that was added ARC Raiders in the Shrouded Sky update. While the area is filled with containers ripe for loot, players can also solve a puzzle that involves pressing four buttons together to enter the best loot room in the game. Unlike the puzzles on the Blue Gate map, the Controlled Access Zone button puzzle cannot be solved alone or with your team, but will instead require the cooperation of several friendly raiders.
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How to solve the Controlled Access Zone puzzle in ARC Raiders
To try to puzzle with the Controlled Access Zone button ARC Raidersplayers must first enter the Dam Battlegrouds area through one of the three entrances (marked on the map above). Make sure you play the game solo and is present in PvE friendly lobbies.
This puzzle will require you press four buttons simultaneously to unlock the doorwhich clearly won't be possible with your trio squad alone. The company with other raiders will have to enter the locked room.
Raiding with duos and trios is usually subject to PvP encounters, which is one reason why I've recommended going into a raid solo to attempt the Controlled Access Zone button puzzle in ARC Raiders.
While on your way to the location, use proximity chat to collect three other raiders by asking them if they are interested in attempting the puzzle with you (and splitting the change evenly). Since it's newer content in the game, they'll likely agree to do the puzzle with you.
Unlock the first door by pressing four buttons
Once inside the controlled access zone, the first thing you need to do is locate the battery on the ground floor. You'll likely find it near the generator in the connecting room, or around the open area that isn't covered by brush/overgrowth. Once you find the battery, insert it into the panel across from the main office on the top floor.
The location of two buttons in the controlled access zone is fixed/static. One can be found inside the main office with windows overlooking the area, which you unlock after inserting the battery into the terminal. The second button is located to the left of the locked door with four lights on top.
The other two buttons can be found near the stairs or on top of the metal pipesand will be much easier to find compared to the Raider's Refuge puzzle at the Blue Gate. Once you've found all four buttons in the controlled access zone, you must assign them to each raider in your friendly party, including one for yourself.
Unlock the second locked door with materials
On the count of three, each player must press the buttons at the same time. If you do it correctly, all the lights on top of the locked door should light up and it will open. But wait, there's more! Inside the room you just unlocked with the buttons, you will come across another locked door that requires you to find materials.
The materials are randomized every time, but I've mostly done that common wiring, metal parts, motors, industrial batteries, ARC Powercells and a Leaper Pulse Unit is a requirement. Once you have all of these materials, use them on the door panel to the left to unlock the second door and finally enter the controlled access loot room.
The changing room that you unlock after solving the controlled access zone button ARC Raiders is huge, and there's enough loot to go around. You will find a lot of loot on the ground floor, incl weapons on control panels, breakable containers and weapon boxes.
There is more things to find if you go up the stairs. Once everyone is looted, simply head out and hope your party isn't surprised by campers.
- Released
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30 October 2025
- ESRB
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Teen/violence, blood
