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Update: Raid 82 - Delivery from the Past Run Through

I got an insurance return from Prapor today. It contained good news and bad.  The good news was that Wilbur, my trusty VPO-209 came back again on insurance. I must be really lucky, that weapon always comes back.   But the bad news is that my Trooper Class 4 armor and my Armasight N-15 NVGs did not.  

I figure to finish this "Kill 15 Scavs on Customs" quest for Therapist that'll I'll be doing a few more raids on Customs. So maybe I should try delivering the package on Factory. That way when it goes south ("when" not "if") I can make another swing by the director's office on Customs.  Also, since I've been doing that "night raid" thing, let's make it a night raid.  This might be a bad idea, because I suspect the only people crawling Factory at night are the folk with the Insomnia quest, and they are out to kill PMCs. 

Plus I don't have much time to play today, so Factory is a good fit.  I put together a quick Vityaz PP-19 kit, purchased a new NVG setup, and did a quick offline nighttime raid on Factory to warm up.  Hey - you can shoot out the lights!!  That might help with that terrible glare. 

And off we go to the real show.

Raid 82

Destination: Factory (in the dead of night)

Loadout: Press class 3 armor, N-15 NVGs, Vityaz SMG loaded with half a mag of AP6.3 and half Pst gzh. 3 more magazines of Pst gzh. Two grenades, meds. Backpack just in case, and the very important deliverable.

Insurance: 38K

Spawned into the worst spot - the back room behind the forklifts pincered by the glass hallway and the room next to the breach room.  Quickly toggled off the flashlight  (why was it on?) and turned on the NVGs.  Moved forward to door, listened, moved past it. No sign of anyone. Peeked towards breach. No one. Glass? Nothing.  Scooted down glass hallway and entered generator room. No sign of scavs.  Suddenly there was a lot of explosions and firing, but farther away - probably at the far stairs.  I used the opportunity to run up to the delivery room - weapon ready in case it was occupied. It was empty. I laid down and pressed my cheek to the cool floor for 10 seconds until the package was well and truly hid. No subtask or quest complete sound.  Hmm.  Well, nothing to do about it. I got up and left. I heard more scav chatter, but again - towards the stairwells and offices. Did the player(s) not survive?

I know if I leave now it'll be a run-through. I am very very tempted to go and peek around - just to see what I can see. But I've already died on this quest once. Don't need that again. I opened the door to Gate 3 and left.

Time In Raid: 2 minutes, 7 seconds

Exp: 135  and Run Through

No shots fired.

Mistakes

  • run through
  • would have been more fun to go and shoot stuff

Successes

  • damn quest is done

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