Factorying - Raids 90 through 95

Factorying - Raids 90 through 95 - Level 19

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 I can usually manage the firefights pretty well, but in each encounter I was getting caught when moving between cover, usually from multiple simultaneous angles. Except the loss to xMerccyy, where I was confused about where I had spawned and realized my mistake too late.

Also, the average wait time for each of the raids was about 4 minutes, and a few of them took significantly longer. Nothing like kitting out, waiting 7 minutes to join a raid, and then dying in less than 20 seconds to really make you appreciate Escape from Tarkov.

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