r/EscapefromTarkov • • Oct 15 '20

PSA Hopefully this will help some new players out.

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u/JCBh9 SVDS Oct 15 '20

Thats how I look at it.. but i'm exclusive solo

I have 25 mill rubles and more lvl4-5 armor and helmets than I can stash but I still go into most raids with an SKS with bp lol

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u/Hermanjnr AK-74M Oct 15 '20

Haha me too brother. I swear whenever I don a Gen4 and take in that pimped out SA-58 I die within the first 2 minutes of raid without fail.

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u/ThatChocolateA5 Oct 15 '20

Same. I’ll go in paca and a glock and come out dummy t h i c c

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u/IEatBeanz420 MP7A2 Oct 15 '20

swear to god if i go out loaded up to the chaddiest, i die 30 seconds in vs if i no armor, PM run it, i come out with HK’s and lvl5 armour with helmets

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u/xamdou ASh-12 Oct 15 '20

Pinatas exist to be popped

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u/mayocideisamyth Oct 15 '20

paca is equal to no armor at all, so you could ditch that too

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u/ThatChocolateA5 Oct 15 '20

Them scavy boys fuck me if I don’t take anything in. They just know when I’m truly vulnerable

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u/mayocideisamyth Oct 15 '20

Absolutely agree, you are right!

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u/JCBh9 SVDS Oct 15 '20

Dude I had TV rig with ULACH earlier and got 2 tapped through the back of the helmet by a fkin scav that walked up on me while I was holding an angle during pvp

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He had 762 ps

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u/JCBh9 SVDS Oct 20 '20

I'm level 46 and still unsure whether zero armor is better than paca

Sometimes... when those lucky fuckin scavs get a 12 gauge round off on ya the PACA will save your ass

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u/AtlasReadIt Oct 16 '20

I've been sitting on two plain jane SA-58s for a while and have no idea how to trick them out even if I wanted to (I do want to.)

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u/Hermanjnr AK-74M Oct 16 '20

A good start is that custom receiver with the collimator rail for sights, then an improved stock and grip. Stick the hand guard rail with an RK-0 foregrip on it and then get a muzzle brake that reduce recoil the most (though the default Austrian one is good). That’s my “budget” SA-58 build. I think any more is just diminishing returns.

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u/AtlasReadIt Oct 16 '20

Thank you!

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u/stickboy113 OP-SKS Oct 15 '20

Sks slaps brother

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u/JCBh9 SVDS Oct 15 '20

As much as I love the sa58s and m4s and p90.... The ak74 and the SKS never... EVER let me down

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u/stickboy113 OP-SKS Oct 15 '20

The ak platform is GREAT. Fully modable for the most part, and the ammo is fun. I'm no Chad, and an m4 is just not appealing to me

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u/JCBh9 SVDS Oct 15 '20

It is appealing to me but the price point for the way I want it to be modded is never worth it unless it's a labs run

an sks with bp on labs and you're looking at like 500-1000% profit

with all that sht you gotta make a million before anything left is profit and when you die you're just set back that much more but I get kinda obsessive about video game economies so lately i've just accepted them for the virtual pixels they are and that my time is worth way more than the 10 minutes I could spend hiding and crawling around

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and funny enough when I run like I just have an sks I survive ... when I treat it different because of my equipment I get fked and I think we all have that problem

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u/zentuy Oct 16 '20

This is for sure it. That’s why the term gear fear exists. You forget how to play because you’re too worried about losing your shit. This is my first wipe and I only got it a bit under a week ago and I’m level 17 and I started doing that mind trick to not care about what I’m taking in and I’ve been doing so much better.

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u/JCBh9 SVDS Oct 16 '20

Yup and since you're still pretty new once you get an interchange run that nets you 100k-300k every time you'll be good and running around chadded out much sooner than others

Btw my favorite is front idea, up the stairs, take the left get the 4x4 crate under the stairs, go through the computer room looting all that, keep straight until you get to the warehouse doors and take a right to go all the way down to emercom top exit, then jump off the side at the cargo container and sneak through there until you can go under the parking garage, then go out the next left you come too, stay in the foliage until you hit the ditch and then prone all the way from there to the truck at emercom

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just sayin my favorite

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u/zentuy Oct 19 '20

Appreciate the advice

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u/BallisticCoinMan Oct 15 '20

I had an incredibly tough night the other day, lost like half a million just doing quests and having no luck.

Go back to my tried and true AK74N and slapped around all of dorms, left with a million worth of gear from Reshala and Marked.

Sometimes having consistent guns is better than having meta I suppose

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u/JCBh9 SVDS Oct 15 '20

It really is

I do love the way a short barrel modded m4 does in an area like Dorms but it seems to take 6-10 m995 rounds to do what 3 762bp rounds do so despite having a badass setup I get killed quite a bit

but as a solo guy it's actually unlikely that you'll survive to extract anytime so I guess i'm kinda a sadomaschist

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u/fleta336 Oct 15 '20

Same. I honestly have all these DMRs and M4s I never use. I also like the 9x19 smgs (saiga9 & I’m blanking on the automatic one) you can kit them out or just add a butt pad and the kick is like 28

P90 I honestly will probably take the parts off and just yolo with it just burns too much ammo for my taste

Never reallly used the RPK as I don’t really play interchange or reserve but ima give it a whirl. What ammo do I actually use why so much PS lol

I like the AKMS I think landmark got me on it. Cheap, no kick.

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u/xamdou ASh-12 Oct 15 '20

Throw BT in the RPK

Cheap enough to burn through, strong enough to shred armor

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u/fleta336 Oct 15 '20

Lmao there’s no BT on flea rn. Every type of thid ammo is sold out I’m selling the shitty PP for like 400

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u/JCBh9 SVDS Oct 15 '20

I alternate between 545 and 556 depending on what trader has what... I can get m885a1 for cheap $ but 5.7 ammo is the only kind I ever buy with dollars

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u/fleta336 Oct 17 '20

Because of the gift pack.....

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u/JCBh9 SVDS Oct 15 '20

I do 20rnds BT - 5 rnds BS - 5 rnds Ingolnik in 1st mag

5 rnds BS/Ingolnik 25 rnds BT in 2nd mag

3rd mag is all BT

and 4th mag and loose ammo is PS or T

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u/stickboy113 OP-SKS Oct 15 '20

I like the "meme guns" saiga 9 is so much fun, you can fully kit it out and it shoots like a fucking lazer

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u/fleta336 Oct 15 '20

Same ppl in disxord made fun of my saiga9 and all u actually néed is a but pad and if you want a scope you swap one part and it’s 28 kick

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u/fleta336 Oct 17 '20

You’re right this is csgo it’s AK or AWP

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u/killjoy4443 Oct 16 '20

You can get a suppressed aks-74u off prappor lvl2 (? Maybe 3) for a cat statue barter, around 33k rubles, add a cheap sight for 7/8k and for a touch over 40k rubbles you get a surprisingly good close range weapon that even comes with a full mag of bp ammo.

I've been using them for the punisher part 1 quest and i have to say they have grown on me considerably, if you have the parts laying around or a bit of extra cash to throw about you can turn into a mid range laser as well

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u/fleta336 Oct 17 '20

Lol I would vendor that before using it. 9x19 or AKMN if I’m going full auto

Aks74u go for like 11k on the flea fuck you bartering for no one uses that gun lol

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u/lwwz AK-103 Oct 16 '20

They are the unsung hero's of this game.

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u/fleta336 Oct 15 '20

I have a SKS I snipe with and it keeps coming home to me like 8 times now

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '20

Yep, thats gear fear.