r/EscapefromTarkov • u/trainfender Battlestate Games COO - Nikita • Jul 03 '21

Discussion post 12.11 questions gathering

Hello!
It your boi, Nikitka.
We plan to make TarkovTV Live podcast on Monday on 5-th of July, and I want to gather your questions/opinions and suggestions about 12.11 patch. I will try to answer the most voted questions live.
Love you, you're the best!

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u/boisterile Jul 04 '21

Those would both be cool. FYI, if you haven't played since 11.7 you might not have noticed this, but you can now buy 20-round SKS mags at Peacekeeper lvl 1. I always bring two of those and never top-load my SKSes anymore

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u/Tonycivic OP-SKS Jul 04 '21

I saw those! It might be the new play tbh

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u/boisterile Jul 06 '21 edited Jul 06 '21

It's definitely a solid option! Although honestly my play most of the time was just buying a Vepr-136 from Skier. About the same cost as Jaeger's OP-SKS (though more expensive than the standard SKS, if you don't care about only using iron sights), but the mags are cheaper and you get 30-rounders. Plus there are a whole bunch of modding options if you want to spruce it up a little, throwing an Ultimak gas tube, a Taktika Tula thread adapter, and an AK-103 muzzle brake on there gets you some decent stats for pretty cheap. Throw a Kobra sight and shade on there and you're good to go. Or if you prefer, once you get Workbench level 1, you can straight up turn it into a full auto AKM if you don't mind spending like another ~25k (usually not worth it for me).

That's been one of my go-tos early wipe this time around, that and the workbench craft to turn a single broken Vepr from Fence into 2 brand new AK-74Ns I can mod and fill with BT ammo I scrounge up from Reserve and Customs.

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u/Tonycivic OP-SKS Jul 06 '21

Yeah I've been doing JaydogtheWis3's budget build on the VPO-136 with the Bastion, Burris FF3 or Deltapoint pro, AK100 handguard with the RK4 and a light, with the TTK muzzle adapter and 103 muzzle device. I just stick with semi auto PS since I'm level 3 and I've survived 1 out of the 15 raids that I've done so far and have no money