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Quadruple Questing - Raids 133 and 134 - Level 22

Raid 133 - Boring

I have four quests I am undertaking simultaneously:

  • Punisher 4
  • Colleagues Part 1
  • Anesthesia
  • Healthcare Privacy Part 1
I placed 5 of the six markers last raid, but still need to place one more, identify the three bodies and survive to finish.  I did all that this raid but didn't see a single player.  So I completed three of those quests, but made no progress on Punisher 4.  

The only remarkable event was that as I descended from the resort towards power I saw two snipers on the roof of power. I had forgotten to bring my rangefinder, but I estimated it must be about 200 meters.  I adjusted the scope and fired. And missed. But I must have scared the sniper, because he got down on his stomach where I couldn't see him anymore.  So then I tried the same with the second sniper, and missed again. And he also climbed onto his stomach for safety.  Oh well. I must have misestimated the range. I moved on.  On the post mortem screen I saw that I had managed to kill BOTH of them (range 215 meters).  I had forgotten just how slow the Ash-12 round flies.  

Time In Raid: 37 minutes, 49 seconds
Exp: 1294
Ammo: 15, Hits: 6, Accuracy: 0.27, Body: 498
Kills: Lag Siska, Pisya RVSN, Borya Drobash, Guram Mozg.  Godspeed gentlemen.

Raid 134 - Also Boring

Once again I am pursuing four quests simultaneously:
  • Punisher 4
  • Healthcare Privacy Part 2
  • Rigged Game
  • Colleagues Part 2
I didn't see anyone the whole raid, but the cottage rear door was open and I ran across a couple of scav bodies, so someone must have been there with me.  It got dark right as I finished my last stop at the pier, and the boat extract was closed, so I had to move on to the railroad extract.  I stumbled across two different pairs of scavs in the dark, and both pairs seemed rather determined to hunt me down, but I evaded them. It was too difficult to conduct a fight against multiple scavs in the dark and me only having a flashlight.

Time In Raid: 46 minutes, 1 second
Exp: 2128
Shots: 13, Hits: 6, Accuracy: 0.31, Body: 499
Kills: Gena Vezunchik, Vasyan Spartak, Prov Neznayka

Postscript

I'm happy to have completed 6 different quests in just a couple raids.  And though I didn't have the key, I probably should have checked the blue tape key room - it might have been unlocked by whomever I was sharing the map.  That would have given me another quest.
Also, surviving raids and walking out with a bunch of loot is great too.
But I can't help complaining a tiny bit. I'm not a huge fan of Shoreline. The reason I'm here is to get PMC kills for Punisher 4. But if there is no one, then there is no progress.  And the reason I'm pursuing the Punisher quest line is twofold: to get a container epsilon (a big step up from my little four slot alpha) and to force myself to engage in PvP - to become a better player.  But if I really want PvP, then instead of wasting time on Shoreline perhaps I should just main Customs.  Hmmm.

Post Postscript

With two big breaks, I've been running Punisher 4 since Raid 108.  Since then I've done four pistol loot runs (which don't really count), and seven raids where I encountered nobody at all, and four raids where I actually encountered other players (and I secured two kills those raids). So, ignoring the loot runs, that's one kill every 5 raids, and the majority of the raids are empty.  I need 7 more kills. At the current rate that'll take another 35 raids, which is probably two months real world time for me.  

Lighthouse and Customs and Reserve seem a lot more fun. 

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