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New Wipe - Great at First, Now Only Death

Tarkov wiped in June. I downloaded the update mid-July. As usual, haven't been playing it much.  This wipe I've decided to not blog every raid. Instead I'm just recording the stats into a spreadsheet.  I'll figure out later how to put that on the blog.

Summary of Wipe 12.12.30 (So Far)

Technically, this is my fifth wipe. Right off I decided I wasn't interested in grinding all those beginner quests again. Instead, I decided to just run around Customs and maybe Reserve and kill things and have fun.  Excepting a few short Woods raids to unlock Jaeger and the compass, that's what I did.

It started out great.  I killed a couple PMCs, killed Reshala and some Zavodskys, and a whole lot of scavs.  My survival rate was floating around 50%, which is par for me. I was banking rubles, approaching 2 million. And, most importantly for me, I went 17 raids in a row without dying to an AI Scav.  Things were great.

And then they weren't.  I started dying all the time, every raid.   Raid after raid of being insta-killed, not seeing my adversary. And, worse than dying to players, I started dying to AI scavs. Scavs that were crack shots, scavs that would fire on me before even finishing their voiceline, scavs that would fire one shot from an SKS but put two rounds into my torso, scavs where my shots wouldn't register as hits, scavs where my shots would register as hits, but the damage was paltry ( 16 hits, 62 damage ?? ). Scavs that would spawn into the raid next to me already shouting in my ear.  Also any and every dumb thing I did would get me killed. No mistake overlooked, no foible forgiven. Make an error: die.  Don't make an error: die. 

My rubles depleted precipitously. I dropped below 10,000 rubles. I was selling scopes I was saving just to cover insurance costs. Soon I was peddling items I'd planned for hideout improvements. Things were dire.  I started making scav runs.  

Nowadays, I'll run a scav run, praying and hoping to stumble on an unlooted PMC body from which I can get an armor set or a decent weapon. Maybe someone left his magazines unlooted?  I paw over every scav body I find, taking pretty much anything.  Then I sell what I can, pick up my least busted Saiga-9 pea shooter, and head back into Customs as a PMC, where I will inevitably die.

I've started questing too. I need the flea market badly. Need it to make any real scratch. Need it to buy a halfway decent weapon. So I'm grinding the quests, trying to double and triple quest when I can. 

It isn't all bad. I've had some great raids.  Some really great raids. They just all end in my death.

Level: 14
Raids: 78
Survived: 24
KIA: 54
Survival Rate: 30%

Damage to body: 20,337
Damage absorbed by armor: 1789
Ammo used: 1687
Hit count: 492
Fata hits: 114
Overall accuracy: 0.25

Mistakes

  • my aim seems slow and unsteady these days. Might be because I never use the same weapon on more than two consecutive raids
  • dying to other players too much. I'm mostly trying to avoid them until I reach the flea, but I've lost encounters even where by rights I should have had an advantage. 
  • what is with the scavs? I notice that as it gets later in the raid, the scavs become more difficult. That's also when they are most likely to spawn in on top of me. 
  • dying

Successes

  • Ignoring the dying, I've had some great raids.  



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