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Does Active Matter Have Timed Raids

Timed raids confirmed: Active Matter's rotation countdown, the Downtown raid's 45-minute duration, and the Missions Terminal checks to make before you deploy.

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Raid timers and rotations, confirmed in the patch notes

Active Matter raids run on a schedule, and two official updates confirm the timing: Update 0.4.0.62 added a countdown timer to the next raid rotation, displayed in the 'Raids' section and in the status of the button for a raid unavailable by schedule, while Update 0.4.0.73 confirms a concrete raid duration by raising the Downtown raid from 30 to 45 minutes.

For extraction, those timers give you the endpoints to plan around: the widget updated in Update 0.4.0.50 displays the closing time of the current raid alongside the opening time of the next one, with an icon and a colored alert, and Update 0.4.0.73 sets the Downtown raid's confirmed length at 45 minutes, up from 30.

Read those numbers before committing to an objective or an extraction run: the countdown tracks the next raid rotation and the widget's closing time shows when the current raid ends.

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What to check in the Missions Terminal before picking a scheduled raid

  1. Open the Missions Terminal and scan the reworked raid list: Update 0.4.0.62 turned it into a single list with three categories — Raids, Hired Ops, and Faction Battles.
  2. Note each raid's subtype icon — green marks isolated raids and blue marks open raids — and look for the hourglass mark that Update 0.4.0.62 puts on raids unavailable by schedule.
  3. Read the countdown timer to the next raid rotation, which Update 0.4.0.62 added in the 'Raids' section and in the status of the button for a raid unavailable by schedule.
  4. On a raid carrying the hourglass mark, check its schedule status: Update 0.4.0.62 replaced the word 'Cycle' there with 'Temporarily unavailable'.
  5. Select the raid you are weighing and read the weather and time-of-day widget in its corner: updated in Update 0.4.0.50, it displays the opening time of the next raid and the closing time of the current one, flagged with an icon and a colored alert.
  6. Commit to objectives and an extraction route with those readings in hand: the countdown tracks the next raid rotation and the widget's closing time marks when the current raid ends, so shape your objective order around the schedule the terminal shows.

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