I Tarkov Poorly

Destination: Reserve Goals acquire military tech for Secure Container Beta trade (Iridium, Virtex, Military Cable and Tank Battery) Kill PMCs Find Bunker Control Room for Prapor Quest I haven't run too many raids on Reserve yet, two as a PMC, and a few as a scav. But except for one military cable, I haven't yet come across an Iridium, Virtex, or any of that.  But for every PMC I kill I'll allow myself to buy one of the items I need.   Today's plan is to go to King - quickly check it for military tech, and then go into the basement.  There is supposedly an Iridium spawn near the D2 power switch. Plus I need to go into the Bunker control room for that Prapor quest.   This should be exciting. In my offline raids, it seems the bunker is always crawling with Raiders, and those firefights don't go my way more often than not.  So my plan is get down by the switch, open the door to the control room for the quest. Then drink my energy drink, pop a pain pill, hi...

It's been almost two weeks since my last PMC raid, mostly due to time constraints.  Before I go any further I'd like to take this moment and thank Battlestate Games for making Escape From Tarkov be such a great immersive game. During this past year of covid and lockdowns and boredom and dread EFT has been a godsend.  As a game it is often frustrating and dispiriting, but it can also be terrifying and thrilling. And awesome.   I don't think that my Tarkov time is ending, but as the vaccinations increase and the lockdowns wane, normalcy seems nearer and I expect my habits will change. So it's possible. Destination: Reserve Goals: find military tech. Especially Virtexes, Iridiums, and Military Cable kill PMCs Plan: I still don't have a good plan for this level. I've played it offline more and I've made several discoveries: some of the Raiders have voice lines in English. The raiders are tough and will absolutely kill you if they catch you from two different a...

I have a big announcement to share: I have decided to pursue acquiring secure container beta!!   Yes, I know that's not as impressive as acquiring kappa, or gamma, or epsilon, but I need to set realistic achievable goals.  I could just buy a beta container on the flea market, they were going for about 750K rubles last I checked. But I want to do this properly: barter trade with Peacekeeper. In exchange for a beta container Peacekeeper wants 3 Iridiums 2 Virtexes 3 Military Cables 1 Tank Battery That's a lot of military tech, which means I need to go where there are multiple military tech spawns, which means Reserve.  The rules for this quest is that I have to find each of those items in raid, but, for every PMC I kill (starting today) I will allow myself to reward myself by buying one of the items off the flea market.  Also, some of those items are craftable, and if I'm in a bind I'll allow myself to craft them, but only using 75% or more found-in-raid ingredien...

I am tired of questing on Interchange. I want to finish this "Kill 25 Scavs on Interchange" quest and then go do something else. All I need are two scav kills and it'll be done.  Anyone want to place a bet on how many raids it'll take me to kill two scavs? Three raids? Five raids?  Destination: Interchange Goals: kill two (2) scavs retrieve shipping schedule from Oli logistics office (low priority) Raid 114 Loadout: lightly worn Class 5 High Mobility Gen IV armor, AK-104 with canted dot sight and two thirty round magazines of BP, one of PS. Ears, meds, extra ammo, energy drink (lesson learned) and a Vulcan MG nightscope in my rig.   Spawned on roadway, south of scav camp.  The plan is the same as yesterday: rotate between the car park under IDEA and the power station, and get those scav kills.  Started working cover to cover up the road. Suddenly started taking sniper fire from somewhere - I ran and zig-zagged my way across the road and parking lot and into...

Destination: Interchange Goals: kill scavs for Ragman quest (need 8 more) retrieve shipping list from Oli Logistics office (lower priority) This "Kill 25 Scavs on Interchange" quest is dragging out.  Just want to get it done. Raid 113 Loadout: Class 5 "High Mobility" Gen IV armor, AK-104 with canted sight and two 30 round magazines of BP and one of PS, ears, meds, et cetera. In my rig I am also carrying a Vulcan MG Nightscope, which is proving to be very handy when in or under the mall (but very awkward otherwise). The plan is simple:  rotate between the IDEA garages and power station to kill scavs.  When I was reviewing my loadout I stopped for a second: should I bring food and drink? The lack of it cut my last raid short.  But, honestly, I always seem to find food and drink on Interchange, that was just unlucky. In fact, I had looted quite a bit of food, just no hydration. So I didn't.   I spawned into the far south west corner, pre-dawn. Oli is the close...

Destination: Interchange Goal kill scavs (need 10 more kills to complete quest) get shipping list from Oli Logistics Office (lower priority) Raid 112 Loadout: Class 5 Gen IV "High Mobility" armor, AK-104 with canted dot sight, three 30-round mags of BP,  meds, ears. Extra ammo, Logistics Office Key and CMS kit in my alpha container. I am also carrying a Vulcan MG Nightscope in my rig for use in the mall or underground (it's awkward on the weapon). Got the same spawn as last raid - close to the garage entrances at Oli. But this time I didn't know what to do. My "sneaky plan" for this spawn is obviously stupid. Should I head to the Logistics Office? Hmmm. I want to focus on killing scavs, the nightscope give me an advantage in the darkness, and I don't want players behind me. How about I hit some outside stashes and then go into the garages?  Aren't there scavs underneath Goshan and IDEA? So I did that. After I entered the garages I attached the awkwar...

The Interchange quests from Ragman have the biggest experience point rewards (~10,0000 each).  But the "kill 3 PMCs with a pistol" quest from Skier is blocking several other quests and unlocks.  I had hoped to undertake these simultaneously by making a pistol my primary armament, doing the Interchange quests, and stumbling onto some PMC kills along the way.  But I don't think that's going to work.  And I still need to kill a lot of Scavs to reach the 25 scav kills Ragman wants. I think I need 17 more.  So now the plan is to finish what I started: kill the 17 scavs.  Then worry about the pistol kills, which likely means returning to the meat grinder known as Factory. Destination: Interchange Goals: Kill 17 Scavs Do "Logistics Office" Oli retrieval if convenient. Raid 111 Loadout: Class 5 High Mobility Gen IV armor, suppressed AK-104 with cobra mount and canted dot sight, two 30 round magazines of BP, one of PS.  Ears, meds. Extra BP and the Logistics Of...

Destination: Interchange Goal Kill Scavs (need 17 more to complete quest) Kill PMCs with pistol Progress: not a single iota of forward progress. Raid 108 Loadout: Class 5 Ghzel armor, SR1MP Pistol with two magazines of SP13, meds, no grenade. Extra ammo, AFAK and CMS kit in alpha container I spawned behind power plant.  That's good - there should be some scavs here. I waited. No scavs showed up. Looted the power plant. Found a Tetriz.  That's cool! I don't know what they are worth, but I believe it's a lot.  I think even a non-FIR Tetriz is worth a lot, because you can trade it for a physical bitcoin to Mechanic?  Not sure. But I took out the AFAK and extra ammo from my secure container and popped the Tetriz there. Made my way to the underground. Was walking along, cover to cover, looking for scavs. No scavs.  I was behind a container when I heard someone running, heading my direction. I leaned out and aimed down sight - but the angle wasn't good - I was too clo...

I didn't have much time to play and wanted to just run a scav raid on Reserve. But after 20 minutes of Matching...   I cancelled and decided to just go get the damn manifest. No blow-by-blow for this raid. I spawned far away, I crossed the map, went into Oli, got the manifest and left and extracted. I didn't see any scavs or players the entire raid. As I was leaving Oli I think I heard someone rustling around - probably a player scav looting the automotive section. But I'm on the clock and I'm sick and tired of dying for this manifest - so I hope whoever you are that you got some good loot and had a successful raid. Stay safe, tovarisch. Time In Raid: 15 minutes.  Exp: 684    Completed Database 1 Quest.

I have done many many scav runs on Interchange.  By and large it's low stress easy money.  As as scav, if I get any spawn except for the Oli ones, I can just go about my way looting, encountering very few others, and on the occasional encounter just a friendly bit of wiggling to and fro defuses the situation. I probably survive 9 out of 10 of these runs.    But if I get an Oli spawn, well that's something else entirely. Oli abuts the tech stores and Killas demesne, and there are wide views from those places deep into the store itself. The player scavs that haunt Oli are not of the wiggling disposition. They'll cut your throat on sight. Both escalators are right next to the high traffic danger zones, and the rear loading docks are often camped. As a scav, if I get an Oli spawn, I don't even bother looting - what's the point if I'm not going to survive? Instead, I focus first on getting the hell out of Oli and then worry about looting.  As a scav, when I spawn int...