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Update: Raids 75 - 77 - PvP Much?

 Goals:

  • repair last panel and extract
  • improve PvP 
  • have fun
  • kill scavs or players
  • try not worry about dying
Destination: Factory

Loadout for these raids: SMG (Vityaz PP-19-01) with Pst gzh, Class 3 armor (Zhuk Press typically), meds, ears, backpack with Tools.  I usually salt my magazines with AP6.3, but that takes too much time, so today it was just Pst gzh. 

Raid 75

Spawned in the room south of the Silos.  By the time I turned on my aiming laser and made sure the weapon was set to autofire, there was already fighting going on in the stairwell and upper stories. I took cover behind a pillar, in case anyone approached my door. No one did. Allright, time to go. Went forward and dropped into the pit. Heard footsteps coming my way - sounded like a above. Scurried to the side tunnel, made sure it was clear, and backed into it. Footsteps were right on top of me - whoever it is must be above.  Wait a second... I turned around, and a player was right behind me. Oddly, he was throwing a grenade. (Why not just shoot me in the back of the head?) He ran away, I ran after him, we rounded a corner and I began shooting. I dumped a mag as we rounded another corner then I had to reload. CarlosL2D turned around and shot me dead with a shotgun.  Nice work CarlosL2D !

Time In Raid: 1 minute, 54 seconds
Exp: 0
Ammo Used: 21, Hits: 5, Accuracy: 0.24   Damage to Body: 13   Damage to Armor: 256

Mistakes

  • misplacing the sound
  • poor aim. both missing shots and not aiming at head.

Successes

  • not killed by grenade

Raid 76 - Quest Completed

Loadout: using a 6B3TM-01M armored rig I got off the flea market. Vityaz is the basic one from Prapor, no silencer or laser. 

Spawned down near Gate 0, south of the Blue Container room.  Took cover behind a pillar while I made sure the weapon was set to autofire.  Then I hit the tunnels, took them all the way over to the Cellars extract under the forklift room, without encountering anyone.  Quieted down, listened, and then went up the stairs - no one in these spawn areas, and no one down the glass corridor.  Ran down the corridor, repaired the control panel, and then exited the corridor.  No sign of anyone, no scavs.  The door to Gate 3 is already open.  Went to Gate 3, hoping to not get camped, and extracted.   This raid was a run-through, my first ever.

Time in Raid: a couple minutes
Exp: 65

Mistakes

  • run-through

Successes

  • completed quest
  • made Level 13

Raid 77 - Bedazzled

Spawned into area next to breach room, the spawn adjacent to the difficult forklift spawn. Listened carefully - is there a player in the next spawn?  There is!  I switched to autofire and took cover at the end of the hall, leaning out aiming down sight to cover the hallway.
Suddenly there were loud footsteps running outside, approaching my door that leads to the main generator room. What the heck? I backed away from the intersection and faced that door. It opened and I opened fire. I sank a half a magazine of rounds into my visitor before PWAF!! He flashed me with one of those star rounds from a KS-23.  I was utterly blinded.  I could tell by the sound that my rounds weren't hitting him anymore - they were hitting a wall . I tried to adjust my fire, but I was dead. TheRealDoughboy shot me with Shrap 10.  Nice play, TheRealDoughboy!

But TheRealDoughboy's victory might have been short lived. On my post-mortem screen I could see that I also suffered a minor injury from an F-1 hand grenade.  I think my spawn buddy down the hall may have gotten himself a double serving of loot.  Congratulations to whoever that was.

Time In Raid: 21 seconds
Exp: 0
Ammo Used: 27  Hits: 9  Accuracy: 0.33 Damage to Body: 128  Damage to Armor: 338

Mistakes

  • not dropping TheRealDoughBoy quicker
  • I didn't really think anybody was going to come through that door. Had I fully appreciated that, I perhaps could have sought cover. Though, I don't even know if there is cover in that room - I certainly didn't have enough time to look around and find it.

Successes

  • was not taken completely unawares - heard the interloper approaching and adjusted my aim accordingly.  I put a lot of rounds into TheRealDoughboy before being flashed

PostScript

In both of these raids with combat there are two things that could have changed the outcome:
  • aiming better (by which I mean, the head)
  • better ammo.  Would AP6.3 or 7N31 have tilted these outcomes for me?  Those ammos are 1.2K and 2.2K per round on the flea market, respectively.  I haven't unlocked the traders for them yet.  And I need Workbench 2 to craft AP6.3, which I can't get until I'm level 15.  A single 30 round magazine of AP6.3 costs 36K (and usually more), which is what I pay for that Press armor.  I usually have about 120 to 150 rounds in four or five magazines.  That would more than double the cost of my loadouts. 

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