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 a bush. Checked t

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 too

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. But no one approached.   I j

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 a lot of cover, so offline