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A Good Raid - Raid 2 - Level 3

Destination: Customs
Goal: Kill 3 more scavs for Debut quest, find Salewas.
Progress: Rocking

Raid 2

Loadout: AK-74M lightly modded with PSO scope, ears, meds, backpack, class 4 armored rig.

Spawned across road in front of the customs house.  Entered a bush and switched the weapon to autofire, ranged the scope, changed the reticle color, and turned on the aiming laser.  Ok - now I'm ready.  If I move right off spawn I'm more likely to encounter other PMCs, and they are not a priority right now - I want scav kills. Of course, if I wait too long, all the scavs might be killed so there is a balance. I decided to wait just three minutes.  After a short sit I crept out of the bushes and prepared to stand and head out.  There was blue helmeted PMC crouch walking on the other side of the road. I was slightly behind him.  I aimed down sight through the scope - he must have heard that because he immediately froze.  Which was very nice of him. It made for an easy shot for me and a learning opportunity for him.  

After the noise I didn't want to rush to the body - there might be more. So I re-entered my bush and slow walked to its far end, hoping to build up my "stealth" skill. When I reached the body I discovered it was a level 2 player like myself. I took the loot that he had gathered but left him his things.  Decided to check out the customs yard before proceeding - might be an easy scav kill there. As I turned a scav shouted and started firing.  But not firing on me.  There was a hatchet runner crouched behind a car in the road - the scav was firing on him. The hatchet runner was trying to decide how best to rush the scav when I started firing on him (the hatchet runner). He confused my shots for the scavs and took better cover behind the car, bringing himself closer to me. I killed him.   Then I moved quickly cover to cover and took out the scav.

Wow - this is turning into some raid. I haven't even crossed the river and I've killed two PMC and a scav.  And my bag is nearly full of not great loot. Bonus!

Customs yard, once I finally got there, was empty. I started to cross the river by the main span, but hadn't got far when  THWACK, THWACK, THWACK - someone was firing on me with a suppressed weapon. I don't know where they are shooting from, and I'm not going to try to figure it out. I ran down to the junk bridge on the smuggler side and crossed the river. I stopped in some bushes, gasping for air.  The sniper will have seen the route I took, so he'll be looking for me to come up somewhere on this sniper roadblock road.  But I have a big brain play in my pocket. Instead, I quieted down and slowly crept underneath the bridge to the other side.  It's exposed over there, but not likely exposed to the sniper.

Keeping low I crossed over, and made my way to the RUAF roadblock area. I wanted to come here to seek scav kills, and that worked out. I heard scavs chatting, so I moved quickly and killed two of them. Looted the Unknown Key from the body there.  After touching all the butts, moved into the construction area where I killed another scav.  

As I was repacking magazines, my timer turned red - 10 minutes left.  I'm not even halfway across map yet, I need to pick up the pace. So I started moving quicker. I heard a scav firing at New Gas, but didn't see him. I carefully scanned the military checkpoint and there was no one there, but the minute I started moving I started to catch fire from some unseen scav. Where is he?  I didn't wait to figure it out - entered the industrial area.  As I headed to ZB-1011 I shot another scav who ran away from me, running along a building. I killed him as he fled at 91 meters - it was a nice shot.

Extracted.

Time In Raid: 31 minutes, 3 seconds
Exp: 4228   (a great start to this new wipe)
Kills: BenGrimm (Level 2 USEC), Windywinnie (Level 7 BEAR) and several AI Scavs: Kolya Baton, Rostislav Banschik, Yustin Rozha, Aleksandr Pentium, Yarik Bubelbush. Godspeed gentelemen and good game! Good luck on your next raid!

Mistakes

  • after the raid I realized I had picked up an MP5 and it wasn't found in raid. BenGrimm - I'm very sorry - I think I accidentally looted your weapon.  

Successes

  • much better (than I normally am) at checking bodies, especially scav kills. I got two half-masks (which I'll need for one of the Punisher quests).  I encountered several shotguns, but never a MP-133 which I need for the quest.
  • survived.  
  • achieved level 3
  • last wipe I died my first four raids and was barely pulling a hundred XP per raid. But this wipe after only two raids I've pulled in 1500 XP and 4000 XP.  Wow!  

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