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Update: Level 3 and Dying

 I have two AK-74s, which is a weapon I've never liked. Run them in raids and see what happens. If I lose them I lose them.

Goals:

  • survive
  • find MP-133 shotguns (scavs)
Progress
  • poor

Raid #12

Loadout: 6813 Class 4 Armor, AK-74, 3 magazines of PRS ammo, meds, sling, rig.  Salewa and water in pouch.
Insurance: 22.7 K

Spawned in storage area. Nothing like long alleys with no cover to start off the day. Immediately exited to crossroads.  Carefully checked both streets, nothing.  Cross over the truck with weapons box - it's been searched already.  Crossed street to other box - also searched.  How late did I spawn in? 
Crossed map uneventfully. I'm very bad at analyzing gunfire sounds, but there was a pitched battle over by the RUAF roadblock, another in warehouse, then gas.  To me it seemed like the same weapons at each location - probably a levelled player or fireteam dominating the map.  
As I approached the military checkpoint I saw the scav guard up there. I also heard another pitched battle up on power tower.  Seal Team 6 must be crossing the map. The scav guard and I traded fire. I used cover well and brought him down without much effort and no injury. I went up the tower, and got his weapon. Mosin with scope.  Our little skirmish had just made noise and now I was worried about getting third partied by Seal Team 6.  But here I made a mistake.  With that Mosin and that scope and that vantage point on the checkpoint tower, I should have at least checked the liquid storage area from above - might have gotten an easy scav kill.
Instead I hustled down towards liquid storage. I need to extract at ZB-011 and there is a good chance that's where Seal Team 6 is headed too.  I peeked the gap in the wall - a scav guard shouted and we began to exchange fire.  I used cover well, but was having trouble landing shots.  He ducked behind the pipeline and began to move closer to me. I could see his head bobbing.  I was aiming down sight with the AK, following him.  Then he popped up, square in my sights. I pulled the trigger ... and died to his shotgun blast?  Robbed.  Perhaps I should have shifted as he moved to be better covered.  But regardless, this sucks.

Time In Raid: 25:11
Exp: 430
Kills: Arkasha Moloko, scav guard.

Mistakes

  • did not survive
  • should have peeked liquid storage with scope from above
  • not maintaining cover during firefight. Especially with scavs, this is important.
  • While the scav displaced, should I have switched to autofire and run to flank?  Not a lot of cover in there...

Successes

  • killed a scav

Raid 13

Marie Kondo says to keep those things in your life which bring you joy, and let go that which does not.  Why am I raiding with these AK-74s when they do not bring me joy?  Worse, I insure them, which ensures that they will continue to burden me.    So I sold the last AK-74 and went and bought a VPC-209 from Fence.  

Loadout: VPC-209, three 10 round magazines with FMJ. Razor ears, class 3 armor, 1 Zarya flash grenade.  Meds
Insurance: 19K
 
Spawned inside customs house, answering the question I had yesterday.  Great. I am at ground zero of the LMSTDOC ( last man standing tarcone directors office clusterfuck ).  I don't have that quest (yet), need to get out - fast.  I run to the main entrance, gun trained on the gap in the fence, past the tires, and down the little setback between the customs building and the trench fence.  This is a bad place, because it is narrow and has no cover - any player that comes to either end of this passage will enjoy a nice turkey shoot. But, as luck would have it, I kept low, stayed quiet, listened, and moved.  Didn't hear anyone rustling the bushes on the other side of the wall and no one peeked the alleyway. I made it out, into the little side lawn and entered the little shack next to the gate.  Just then the LMSTDOC started up, making a ruckus.  I looted the shack and headed towards the train.  Boom!! Someone blasted me from behind.  Shotgun? VPC-209?  Not sure, but loud.  I could barely walk, but I persisted, PK'd and ran.  A few more booms, but nothing fatal. Who was shooting?  Player scav with a shotgun? Maybe out of range?
Hid above river and medded.  Nothing serious, thankfully. Proceeded to junk bridge.  Above the bridge eyed the other side of the river - all quiet.  Just as I took my first step on the wood span I heard running on metal - someone was on the other span! I ADS but my weapon was barely raised when I received a blast of paralyzing automatic fire. I swear I pulled the trigger repeatedly, but nothing happened. Dead.  Killed by  ttvThe_De_Leon with 7.62 39mm BP.   He should have been directly in front of me, but I never saw him. Nice work ttvThe_De_Leon.  Please don't take my VPO.

Mistakes
  • died
  • perhaps wasn't cautious enough. How did I not see him beforehand?
  • suck at combat
Successes
  • Did not get caught up in LMSTDOC 


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