To use the Free Loadout in ARC Raiders , you just need to select it on the pre-raid screen, ready up, and the game will give you a random basic kit when you spawn in, without risking any of your own gear.

How to Use Free Loadout

  • From the main menu, hit Play , pick your map, and go to the pre-raid loadout screen.
  • At the top of that screen, switch the tab from your normal/custom loadout to “Free loadout”. It often looks “empty” there because the random gear only appears after you load into the raid.
  • Click Ready Up and start the raid; when you spawn, you’ll see your free weapon, light shield, healing, and basic utility items.

In short: pick the Free Loadout tab, ignore that it looks blank, ready up, and your kit appears once you deploy.

What the Free Loadout Gives You

  • A random basic weapon , a light shield, some healing (like bandage or med item), and usually a grenade or similar utility.
  • A Free Loadout Augment , often with around 14 backpack slots but no safe pocket , so anything you find is lost if you die.
  • Gear is weaker than a fully crafted/custom kit, but it’s completely zero risk : if you die, you lose nothing from your stash.

When You Should Use It

  • Early game / learning maps
    • Perfect when you’re new, learning enemy behavior, routes, and extraction points without risking crafted gear.
  • Recovery after bad raids
    • If you just wiped and lost a lot of loot, spam free loadouts to rebuild your stash and confidence without needing resources first.
  • Task / quest runs and pure scavenging
    • Great for delivery quests, exploring new areas, or “just farming materials” runs where you don’t need your best weapons.

Extra Trick: Turning Free Runs into Progress

  • If you extract successfully using a free loadout, you can trade the Free Loadout Augment with Lance at the Clinic for a basic Mk.I augment (loot, combat, or tactical), helping you slowly power up without spending resources.
  • You can chain this: keep spare augments in your stash and exchange more free-loadout augments for additional green augments over time.

Quick “Arc Raiders How to Use Free Loadout” Checklist

  • Open Play → choose map.
  • On the loadout screen, click Free loadout tab at the top.
  • Ignore the blank-looking slots; that’s normal.
  • Hit Ready Up and deploy.
  • Extract to keep all loot plus the free gear and possibly convert the augment at Lance.

TL;DR: Use free loadouts whenever you want zero-risk raids , to learn the game , farm safely , or recover after losses —you can use them as often as you like with no cooldown or hidden cost.

Information gathered from public forums or data available on the internet and portrayed here.