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once you unlock the workbench, you should be able to go into the modding screen and be able to see what parts of the gun can be swapped around, and if you have any of those parts in your inventory too then you can start building guns you'll never use because you spent too much time and money modding the gun that your gear fear tells you that you need to save the gun for... later. and then it sits in your stash forever not speaking from experience of course
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ROFLburger posted:what do i do if i lose the weapons that came with my account? i thought i could just buy new ones with the money i have in my stash but it looks like you have to trade poo poo to the vendors in addition to money? If you find a corpse with bigger rig and backpack than yours, use the Discard hotkey to throw your equipped stuff on the ground and then alt+click to equip their poo poo and run outta there before you get sniped from across the map. Do this a couple times and your stash will be overflowing.
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If you're lazy like me, you can scav in factory and just run straight to the exit. The map's tiny so you can leave in like 1 to 2 minutes and just sell whatever you spawned with.
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Scav into factory, loot and scoot is the correct advice when you’re hollowed out
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i read that factory is a meatgrinder so i thought i should maybe avoid it for now, i'll try that one. looks easier to learn than woods. i've played my first and only 10-20 games in woods mostly on a scav and while i'm getting familiar with *parts* of the map, i keep getting lost and getting owned or missing the signs and finding my way into a minefield. this game looks like it owns once you get your head around it but god drat. with no map (besides the one on my other monitor), no compass, and everything else i don't understand the learning curve is steep!
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ROFLburger posted:i read that factory is a meatgrinder so i thought i should maybe avoid it for now, i'll try that one. looks easier to learn than woods. i've played my first and only 10-20 games in woods mostly on a scav and while i'm getting familiar with *parts* of the map, i keep getting lost and getting owned or missing the signs and finding my way into a minefield. Eventually you get a compass from a quest reward that goes in your special slots so it doesn’t drop on death. That was a great help for me to really start getting used to navigating the maps. Factory is absolutely a meat grinder, but mostly as PMC, but it’s fun sometimes you’re the one doing the grinding and you’ll kill 4 PMCs and 5 scavs with a shotgun. As a scav, it’s usually fairly quiet(still gotta watch for PMC who stick around to kill pscavs, or traitor scavs) and once you run it a few times, you can hit a bunch of good loot spots very quickly to build up your money.
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ROFLburger posted:i read that factory is a meatgrinder so i thought i should maybe avoid it for now, i'll try that one. looks easier to learn than woods. i've played my first and only 10-20 games in woods mostly on a scav and while i'm getting familiar with *parts* of the map, i keep getting lost and getting owned or missing the signs and finding my way into a minefield. Factory is def a meatgrinder but it is a very fun meatgrinder. Some explicitly exclude it but it can be a really good place to slam through PMC kill tasks. Especially early/mid wipe, you will find tons of people doing pistol and bolt action kills there so it’s just like a mosin/gorno/pistol deathmatch. It’s so small and fast with very little objectives besides “shoot other PMC” that it’s very chill in a way that is unique in tarkov. If you’re 15 and have flea market it’s worth it to invest in a factory exit key. It makes extracting on factory way easier since the extracts it opens are relatively safe compared to gate3 and way more flexible. It also opens up a really nice mid-map extract on customs as well as a shortcut from new gas into the warehouse 4 courtyard (maybe you can do a car jump to do this without they key, idk if it still works though or requires a certain STR level).
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I still get lost on woods all the time and have to wander around until I find a landmark I can recognize. "This isn't the side of USEC camp that has mines is it?..." *BLAM*
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Or the feared "Oh god is that the radio tow-"*Head, Eyes by Birdeye*
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I don't exactly get lost on woods but I'm never approaching something from quite the angle I think I am in my head which seems to get me killed just as often.
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lol I’m at the point where if I’m solo and think I’m anywhere near USEC I head the other direction or take a wide path around the east side of it. I should really learn how to approach it so I can loot it but lmao I’ve had one too many games where the first mine breaks both my legs, I heal them up, try to back out and get killed by the next one. If I’m coming from the east side I should basically be fine right? When I’m with my group we always climb over the big rock to get from the first side to the other, so I’m not quite sure where’s safe.
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Tetramin posted:lol I’m at the point where if I’m solo and think I’m anywhere near USEC I head the other direction or take a wide path around the east side of it. I should really learn how to approach it so I can loot it but lmao I’ve had one too many games where the first mine breaks both my legs, I heal them up, try to back out and get killed by the next one. Yeah, only the west side has mines. If you're coming up from the south, either run up the right hand side to the M4 rock and you're safe, or wrap all the way around it to the right to the lake. If you're coming from the lake, everywhere is safe. If you're coming from the north, keep left. If you're coming from the west, don't.
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thanks for all of the help. in between scav runs i've been doing naked PMC runs so that I don't just gradually lose everything that's in my stash. my thought was that i could learn maps and level up my stats at the same time while potentially extracting with random poo poo, is that a bad/dumb idea?
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You don’t want to be entirely naked, you want a pistol and any rig at minimum or nearby scavs will sprint directly at you at light speed to kill your rear end. It’s otherwise a good idea though.
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Hooplah posted:https://escapefromtarkov.fandom.com/wiki/Tagged_and_Cursed I had no idea this was a thing. Friggin' Tarkov, man.
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imo it's all but impossible to lose everything in tarkov, don't even worry about that. take actual kits in because 1) ya gotta risk something to gain something and 2) without gear you have to be terrified of scavs, whereas with gear you can just blast scavs all day with virtually no problems (unlesss sks scav or buckshot scav gets lucky) if you do ever get close to actually having nothing, just scav streets or woods or reserve. fill your bag and get out and you can afford several trader level 1/2 kits Herstory Begins Now fucked around with this message at 03:48 on Jan 19, 2024 |
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"Head eyes" to a scav is old news. Its now "armpit thorax" you have to fear.
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Kazinsal posted:I had no idea this was a thing. Hatchet runs were too much of a problem 
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Mesadoram posted:Hatchet runs were too much of a problem Naked guys who come to quick run high tier loot spots and die with the good stuff in their alpha container while not dropping any loot at all are terrible and I’m glad they’re gone
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yeah if you want a zero risk way to play, just scav. pmcs have to risk something and in turn have much, much better potential rewards. letting pmcs have zero risk but still get full (or even better) access to rewards is just stupid. Or was. scavving is kind of dumb and imo pretty boring, but it's a trivial way to pull out insane amounts of rubles to fund whatever you want to do Herstory Begins Now fucked around with this message at 07:00 on Jan 19, 2024 |
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Herstory Begins Now posted:yeah if you want a zero risk way to play, just scav. pmcs have to risk something and in turn have much, much better potential rewards. letting pmcs have zero risk but still get full (or even better) access to rewards is just stupid. Or was. But it's also a good way for people with less than 10,000 hours in the game to learn the maps etc. it's kind of needed and a pretty valuable tool IMO.
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that's exactly what I said? it's valuable and useful, just don't confuse it with the actual game unless the only thing you care about is seeing ruble number go up also it doesn't take all that long to learn enough of a map that you can semi-confidently load into it. definitely scav into maps your first few times on them or whatever, like until you learn the landmarks enough that you're relatively oriented in them, but past that point you aren't really learning anything about how the map actually plays hell, loading into maps on pmc when you know fuckall is one of the single funnest things in tarkov and something that you literally only get to experience a few times
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Herstory Begins Now posted:that's exactly what I said? it's valuable and useful, just don't confuse it with the actual game unless the only thing you care about is seeing ruble number go up Sorry, I wasn't disagreeing with you. I've clearly spent too long on the Tarkov subreddit listening to chads drone on about skill issues and just trying to gloss over the problems the game has. 
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I like to learn maps or practice ones I’m not familiar with by just taking some cheap dogshit gear out with the intent of leaving as soon as my backpack is full. The SKS has always been my favorite and with the recoil rework it’s low key hilarious
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once you have level 2 traders and the flea unlocked my favorite cheap loadout for earning back roubles by far is a gornostay with one extra mag, the 25mm optic and suppressor plus a big bag. no need for a vest really unless you bring a big med buy ap-m off the flea and you only risk 9 rounds when dying, leave a full stack in your secure container for repacking in safety. you can't push fights but you can very safely kill scavs from distance, and pmcs will nearly always die in a single headshot regardless of headwear. just be careful of really long range shots. the gornostay has a deceptively large moa for being a bolt action total cost on death is like 60k
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well, we're at the point in a wipe where I spend too much time grinding out a lovely weekly (50 scav headshots on streets) and people are kind of geared up so i'm probably quitting soon. i twas nice, I hit lv 20 faster than any wipe before hand and likely wealthier Hooplah posted:once you have level 2 traders and the flea unlocked my favorite cheap loadout for earning back roubles by far is a gornostay with one extra mag, the 25mm optic and suppressor plus a big bag. no need for a vest really unless you bring a big med E: So true, so true so true. Listen to this poster. Ragnar Gunvald posted:Switch to SPT when it's updated. It's what I do now. Last night a geared PMC started blasting me with his AK from construction with some kind of tracer round. He caught me by surprised but I unloaded on him with much more better accuracy using my glock. The bear retreated, ducking behind a power lifter. I reloaded and strode forward, coughing up blood. He starts voice comming! He is just looking for sausage and needs directions to the next store! He's begging for his life! I got to put him out of his misery with my stupid PSO loaded glock after he opens up on me again. IDK, using lovely load outs gives me power trips like this sometimes. Scavs don't beg for their lives lmfao. Toalpaz fucked around with this message at 18:07 on Jan 19, 2024 |
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Toalpaz posted:well, we're at the point in a wipe where I spend too much time grinding out a lovely weekly (50 scav headshots on streets) and people are kind of geared up so i'm probably quitting soon. Switch to SPT when it's updated. It's what I do now. Play the wipe for a couple of weeks, hit level 15 or so, get annoyed with people and take a break, before going to SPT for a few months
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I'm trying to do some undercover scav runs. Any suggestions on drip? I think Idea rigs but may be OTT. 
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Incoming Chinchilla posted:I'm trying to do some undercover scav runs. Any suggestions on drip? Good setup but use the pompon hat. No PMC would ever wear it into a raid. https://escapefromtarkov.fandom.com/wiki/Pompon_hat Youtuber General Sam had a video where he used it to good effect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPAUwhN_zHQ
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Incoming Chinchilla posted:I'm trying to do some undercover scav runs. Any suggestions on drip? nice pmc backpack
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lovely backpack, like the duffel bag or at most scav backpack and one of the hockey masks if you actually want to pass somewhat consistently as a scav. especially with a lovely shotgun or if you're kinda ballsy rock an svt also put on a rig because scavs spawn with a rig like 99% of the time
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Good feedback. Gone with duffle and IDEA/security rig. I agree that the pompon hat is the scav classic, but it doesn't obscure the headset as well as the ski mask.  This goes pretty hard though: 
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Maybe depends on map - don’t run a ushanka on customs right now if you’re trying to roleplay as a player scav because like 50% of the pop is doing setup and is dressing up like a scav also
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the hockey mask is a good go to as nobody takes anyone wearing that seriously in my experience i like to rock them a lot and ive had plenty of p scavs sprint right up to me and begin to voip before realising i was a pmc
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pmc on his first day of school generally that looks a lot more scav like. imo the hockey mask is the single biggest thing you can do to look like a scav and that massive fuckin holster on your leg is the biggest thing making you scream pmc, but it kinda doesn't matter, player scavs aren't very bright and it only has to work for like 1/4 a second Herstory Begins Now fucked around with this message at 02:32 on Jan 20, 2024 |
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I wouldn't worry about the headset too much, nothings to say you didn't scav it in raid. You don't look overly like a PMC so I don't think anyone's going to question it right off the bat.
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I can never tell PMCs from scavs at a glance lol. I’ve had plenty of times where I thought one was the other. Sometimes the scavs behavior will even make me think it might’ve been a PMC. Is there anything telltale or just gotta play more
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season start you can look at their pants/boots/gloves to get an idea. after early mid season people start buying ragman gear and it gets a lot harder to tell the difference. edit: the main telltale is to f1 and if they don't f1 back then they're likely not on the same side as you. if you are a pmc you probably shouldn't be the one hitting f1 and just shoot first and sort out who is who after. vvv: afaik no scav has kneepads as well, but past wipe start you're gonna run into a lot of pmcs without kneepads also. tjones fucked around with this message at 03:27 on Jan 20, 2024 |
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