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Raid 5. Reserve Quiet. Level 3

 I don't have much time, so only one raid today and I want to make it a good one.  Heading to Reserve to kill raiders in the underground.  I got my Vityaz PP-19 back with insurance, so I reloaded it, got my meds and a flash grenade and headed out.

Raid 5

Spawned above the spiral stairs that lead down to D2 and the underground. Awesome!  I can head straight there without encountering any disruptions.  I made my way there, looting only lightly because I don't want to waste time. But I did allow myself the distraction of hitting the safe in that side control room. As I went, I closed any door I opened so as to not alert any player of my presence.

When I finally reached the last staircase before the underground I could hear someone running, but no sounds of combat. Probably a scav? From here I have two choices: go to the bunker via the White Pawn entrance, or down the ramp by the King entrance. I don't like fighting on that ramp - no good cover. So I took the side passage and came in via the White Pawn entrance. I carefully pied the first entry way. Quiet. I slowly advanced to the next covered doorframe and leaned out - a raider in full gear ran by me, heading for the King entrance. He was too quick for me to tag. I'll bring him here. I leaned out and threw my flash grenade. No one yelled "Granata!". Instead, the running feet stopped.  Shit, that wasn't a raider - it was a player. I heard him retreat up the ramp. He's going to flank me.

Well, two can play at that game. I went up the Black Pawn ramp, around, and snuck down the stairs  - now I was behind the next entrance. If he's looking for me in that White Pawn access room, he'll be surprised.  In retrospect, this was a bit of a dumb maneuver. I could have just walked over the 40 meters an repositioned. Didn't need to go the long way around. But given that I didn't' know if that was cleared,   I guess it's still a smart choice.

Except he wasn't flanking me. He was leaving. I guess he decided he didn't want trouble after my flash grenade. And, of course he was leaving - why else would he be running across the big room in that direction?  I'm an idiot.  There was only one dead scav, who didn't have much. Most of the loot had been gotten - but I still did pretty good loot-wise.  Gathered what I could and extracted via D2.

Time In Raid: 18 minutes, 28 seconds
Exp: 772 ( graduated to Level 3.  Only 4317 more to Level 4 ).

Mistakes

  • Why were there no raiders? It was a daytime raid and the lobby was full. I had to wait 10 minutes to get matched.  I guess my friend and I were the only two on the map?  
  • I got a spark plug and used it to build a generator in my hideout. That cost 100K rubles. Now I'm very low on funds. I may need to start doing boring money runs.

Successes

  • I survived and extracted. That's a big deal. My survival rate has now gone from 0% to 20%. Can't stop me now.    

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