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How It Went, How It's Going ( 12.12.30 and 13.0 )

How It Went

Didn't play too much last wipe.  Had a lot trouble with desync.  Once I reached the flea, I stopped running crappy AKs and started running whatever weapon I wanted. Mostly the VSS and the Ash-12. Mostly because those weapons had good ammo available on the flea. And then I ran offline raids, Reserve mostly.  I'd head to the basement, keeping an eye and ear open for Gluhar. Kill the raiders down below, pull the hermetic door switch and head over to the tracks to fight any raiders that might be there (or arriving later with the train), again looking for Gluhar. If at any time I figured out where Gluhar was, I'd go fight him and his crew.  I died a lot. But also killed Gluhar quite a bit, and a lot of raiders.  It was fun.

If anyone is interested, in offline mode with Bosses ON, three or four raiders will spawn in the basement at the beginning of the raid.  Gluhar and his crew will be somewhere on the map too. The hermetic switch raiders or train raiders don't always spawn. And the D-2 switch won't always trigger more raiders either, and, when it does, they will often spawn in after 5 or 10 minutes ( a long time in Tarkov ).  But this might be a good thing for finding basement raiders in online raids - less need to race down to the bunker at the beginning of the raid.

How It's Going

Haven't been playing this new wipe ( 13.0 ) too much, but a little. Did two raids and reached level 4.  Ran eight more to make level 5.  Have a 50% survival rate right now, but I've died in two raids due to starvation.  Getting that metabolism skill up is clutch.

I've mostly been running Customs, killing scavs and avoiding players. Can't complain.  Got some Class 6 armor and an AK-101 off a PMC body and I've been running that these last three raids. It's serving me well. I'll undoubtedly lose it on my next raid, but it's not like I earned it.

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