I Tarkov Poorly

Finally, after years of playing EFT, I have completed Punisher 6 and have secured my own Secure Container Epsilon. That thing has 8 slots - it's huge. Twice the size of the little alpha I've used all these years. I started it on Shoreline, because I was doubling with some Peacekeeper tasks.  I even used the SVD at long range (as it was intended) and sniped some PMCS from afar.  I tried sniping on Reserve and that was boring. Ran some of my ammo runs on Reserve carrying that SVD around, but never encountered PMCs.  I finally decided to just cheese it and run dorms on Customs over and over. That mostly worked. I also tried fighting the PMCs in the industrial area, but that rarely went well.  The SVD is really big and ungainly for a cramped place like dorms, but it's easier to control the fights there.  My very last raid I needed only one PMC kill to finish the quest.  I went to dorms. Two story was completely empty. Three story the same. I was descending the ...

Halloween The Halloween event is behind us now. It was mostly fun. I switched to the MCX using .300 Whisper and the VPO-209 with Geksa.  Both suppressed to avoid attracting too much zombie attention.  Carried a pistol too for when I'd inevitably run out of ammo. Leaned on it on several occasions. The MCX was awesome. The VPO-209 was perfectly adequate. Died a lot. Survived a lot. Killed a lot. I think my record was 65 zombie kills in a raid (from which I survived).  Anyway, it was a fun event.  My goal for every raid became reduced to simply kill zombies and extract.  As a solo, trying to conduct a moving gun fight was just too difficult with the zombies.  So my strategy was to try and plot of path of safe spots on the high ground, like cars and trash bins, that I could clamber on and use as a firing platform. I'd prioritize pistol zombies first, followed by the fast ones. The slow ones could be ignored if ammo concerns loomed (pretty much always). So kill ...

Before the current Halloween event I was pursuing the Punisher quest line and trying to level up Mechanic and Peacekeeper, which meant I was running a lot of raids on Shoreline. In several of my raids the weather station was the first real hot spot that I encountered. Sometimes in the first minutes after spawning, sometimes a bit later. But in four of the times that has happened, I have encountered a trio of PMCs at the weather station - them having gotten there before me.  Once I engaged and got killed. Once I approached very cautiously and killed them. And twice I approached cautiously and watch them leave the area, heading toward power or the resort.  And on one of those two occasions where they were leaving, I tried to follow them, hoping to snipe them from behind. But when I got to the edge of the weather station cliffs, looking over where they had just departed seconds before, there was no sign of them.  Did they vanish? Were they removed by the game, or did I ...

Apocalypse  EFT has a new Halloween event: Zombie Apocalypse.  Cool concept, but has been decidedly "meh" for me.  I have yet to survive a single raid. During this event PVE is no longer using local servers, but the official remote ones. The whole reason I play PVE is to avoid those servers. Unsurprisingly my first raid had a Disconnect after I killed one zombie and then the game was aborted. Nice.  I've tried this several times, but it mostly hasn't gone well.   Lately I've been running a very high ergo AK-105. That weapon has been great to me, and I can easily stock up on good ammo on Reserve.  I never run scav runs ( I hate those ), instead I occasionally run Reserve looking for Raiders and ammo.  It's been good, and in PVE mode, D-2 is a safe easy extract. But for the zombie event, the AK-105 just isn't cutting it. I load up HP rounds, which, in theory, should have plenty of flesh damage but I'm just struggling.  Maybe it's because of the...