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What a rent-a-raider hour looks like from the inside: booking the slot, getting on comms, who leads the extraction, how the loot rule is agreed before the drop, and why nobody ever asks for your login.
You have read what the service covers and you still want to know what the session itself looks like once the two of you are actually on the surface. This walks through the part the service page does not, which is the hour itself, from booking the slot to agreeing who keeps what before anybody drops.
What you are actually booking
A rent-a-raider order is a block of time with a raider who plays alongside you. You are in your own game, on your own account, with your own hands on the keyboard. What you are buying is the second player, somebody who knows the routes, the patrol behaviour and the extraction windows well enough to turn a run that would have ended badly into one where you both walk out.
That is the whole difference from a piloted order. Nothing is delivered while you are away from the screen, because you are at the screen for all of it, and your account never changes hands.
Self-play, in plain terms
Self-play means nobody asks for a login, nobody sits on your account, and nobody needs your email or your password. The raider adds you in game the way any squadmate would. If anyone ever asks you for credentials for a self-play service, stop and open a ticket with support, because that is not how it works here.
Getting the session started
Placing the order opens a chat thread, and the raider you are matched with answers in it. Everything before the first drop happens there.
Agree a window. You say when you can play, the raider confirms a slot that works on their side. A session is a booking rather than something you queue into whenever.
Swap in-game names in the order chat rather than anywhere else, so the session leaves one record.
Pick your comms. Voice on a call, or text in the order chat if you would rather not talk. Say which before the session, not during it.
Name the goal. A specific quest, a region that keeps killing you, or simply kit you get to keep. The run is built differently depending on the answer.
Voice or text, your call
Voice is faster when things go wrong, and in an extraction game things go wrong at the worst possible moment. A callout that takes two seconds to say takes ten to type, and ten seconds is a squad wipe. Plenty of sessions still run entirely in text, and a raider who knows the map leads almost as well with pings and movement. Neither is wrong. Deciding halfway through the first drop is.
What the raider does once you are in
The raider takes the parts of the run that punish a mistake hardest. That means leading the route, opening the fights that have to happen, and standing in the place where the shooting starts.
A normal run looks like this. The raider sets the rotation and calls the order you move in. They engage first when a patrol has to be cleared, and they break contact when a fight is not worth taking. They carry what will not fit in your bag. And when the extraction is live they hold the approach while you go through it, because the player standing at the exit is the one most likely to get shot.
If you die early the session does not stop being useful. That is exactly the situation a second player exists for, and the raider will reshape the rest of the time around what is still recoverable.
What you do
Your half is smaller than you think and matters more than it sounds.
Turn up on time. The slot is booked. A session that starts forty minutes late is a shorter session.
Follow the calls in the moment. Ask why afterwards. Most of the calls that sound strange are about something you cannot see yet.
Say when you are low. Ammo, heals, bag space. A raider planning the next rotation is planning it for both of you.
Ask questions while it is happening. One narrated run teaches more than a week of solo attempts.
Loot, and who keeps what
Loot is worth settling before the drop rather than after it, because an extraction game starts arguments the second something valuable comes out of a container.
The default is simple. What you pick up is yours. The raider is there so that more ends up in your bag, not so that a share of it ends up in theirs, and anything they are holding purely for space comes back to you at extraction.
If you want a different arrangement, say so before the session starts. Some players prefer the raider keeps whatever the raider finds. Some want one specific item hunted and nothing else touched. All of that is fine. All of it is a line of text before the drop instead of a disagreement afterwards.
Booster tip: put the loot rule in the order chat, not only on voice. Two lines before the first drop settle it for the whole session, and the thread is still there if anyone remembers it differently later.
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