I Tarkov Poorly

Last raid I completed Signal Part 1.  I've been collecting all the items needed for Signal Part 2 since my very first raid this wipe. So today I'm pursuing three quests. Signal Part 3 (jam the radio/radar towers), Courtesy Visit (hit up three houses in sunken village) and, most importantly, Punisher Part 1 (kill 15 scavs, I have 11 to go). Raid 103 - Snoreline  Loadout: AKM with US gzh ammo and PS gzh for long range, Class 5 armor, food and drink, ears, meds, jammers. I spawned into the sunken village. Excellent!  I hit up the three houses (Quest Complete) and from those and one stash filled my bag with loot. I crossed the map towards the resort. Heard exactly one gunshot, unsuppressed rifle fire, from somewhere far ahead, but didn't see anyone.  Cover to cover, concealment to concealment I made my way there. I was disappointed that there were no scavs at the truck or the rocks.   I arrived at the resort, just outside the hole in the fence and settled into ...

The Punisher questline stretches out ahead of me. At its culmination awaits an epsilon secure container, with 8 slots. Twice the size of my little alpha container.  I wonder if I can make it before the next wipe. In addition to Punisher Quest 1 (kill 15 scavs on Shoreline with an AKM), I have two other quests on Shoreline: Healthcare Privacy Part 2 (grab something from room 306 in the resort) and Signal Part 1 (visit the two satellite dishes).   I probably won't be able to find, much less kill, 15 scavs in a single raid, but if I'm lucky I can maybe get the other two done. Raid 102 - Two Quests Completed - Level 20 Loadout: Level 5 armor and modded and suppressed AKM, loaded with HP and US gzh.  Ears, meds, food and drink. The recoil on the AKM is really high. Even with mods I can't get it to be manageable for me. However, the US gzh ammo drops the recoil by a whopping 30%.  It's amazing. The AKM becomes a different animal with that ammo. Supposedly it's quieter...

Did some raids. Two on Customs, two on Interchange, and two on Reserve. Raid 96 - Chemical Part 4 Destination: Customs Goal: Mark a van and survive. Kill scavs. Loadout: Class 4 armor, AK-102, meds, ears.  I spawned in the building with the van I need to mark. Convenient. Marked it.  Left the building and waited a bit in a bush for the players to move and the scavs to spawn. As I moved across the railroad tracks to the next building over a scav shouted from somewhere on my right. I immediately ran, heading to some rubble for cover, but he tagged me. I ducked behind the rubble, listening for him. I poked my head out to see if I could spot him, and BUDDA-BUDDA-BUDDA  - got tore up by a suppressed M4, coming from the direction I just came from.  I displaced, staggering, popped a pain and then ran around to the bush corridor on the far side.  I was badly damaged and, worse, I mismanaged my meds, an arm going black before I stopped a bleed.  I healed and waited....

EFT had a big Halloween event, with pumpkin headed scavs, cultists and apparently day changing to night and other things. I didn't have much time to play. I ran some raids on Factory on Halloween and then some more Factory raids a few days later.  No need for a blow by blow, most of them were dreadfully short.   Raid 90 - 2 minutes, 16 seconds. Survived and Completed Chemical Part 3 Quest Raid 91 - 40 seconds. Died to scavs. Raid 92 - 17 seconds. Died to scavs. Raid 93 - 10 seconds. Died to xMerccyy . GG xMerccyy Raid 94 - 27 seconds. Died to scavs. Raid 95 - 3 minutes, 20 seconds.  Survived and Completed Postman Pat Quests The loadout for these was typically just some meds, maybe armor, and a SR1-MP pistol.  That's the armor piercing pistol and the BT gzh rounds for that thing are great.  And expensive. So I was using the shitty P gzh rounds.   It's nice to get the two quests done, but overall I was pretty unhappy with my performance. Factory has...