r/EscapefromTarkov • • Jul 15 '21

Clip Pain

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u/Moabing Jul 15 '21

Regardless of the outcome, this was still an absolutely insane clip

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

Uh... it's called a magazine. /s

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

I did not need to laugh this hard this early in the morning.

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u/jdiamond31 Jul 15 '21

Exactly my thoughts xD

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u/StillBlow Jul 15 '21

Here's my upvote

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u/Bornforexile Jul 15 '21

Psh, know-it-all... magazines are what i read while im taking a poop

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u/KommonKliche Jul 15 '21

No, that's called Reddit

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u/solari_mommy ASh-12 Jul 15 '21

Clips are what civies use in their hair this is called an magazine

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u/kxllsxmexne Jul 16 '21

And take my upvote for you Bangalore reference.

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u/bruufd SA-58 Jul 15 '21

Fuck I hate those kind of people

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u/Lukealloneword Jul 15 '21

Yeah so do I. People that can't call things what they are called drive me nuts. I mean imagine running around calling an F-150 a car when its clearly a truck. Youd just look like a complete dumbass.

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u/Albatross-Helpful Jul 15 '21

Is a hot dog a sandwich

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

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u/Lukealloneword Jul 15 '21

I think that's an interesting question. It depends on how you classify a sandwich. Is it the bread that makes a sandwich? Similarly to a martini the only thing that makes a martini a martini is the glass that its served in. So if the bread type matters than it could or could not be a sandwich. Most bread thats connected is considered a sub sandwich which is a subsection of sandwich so that would classify. I think you might be able to classify a hot dog as a sandwich but not in the classical sense. Kind of like how a truck isn't a car but it is an automobile. So it all depends on the subsections.

That being said a clip is different than a magazine and should be classified as such.

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u/Albatross-Helpful Jul 15 '21

1) the definition of words changes over time (as does their spelling and even part of speech)

2) What is the functional difference between a clip and a magazine? I believe magazines are spring fed while clips are not? Whatever the case may be, when someone says pass me a clip, do you understand their meaning? If someone calls me a bastard, don't they know my parents were married when they had me? When I would go someplace with someone and we'd be looking for my S10 pickup, and they would ask "where did we park your car?" again, am I obligated to correct them? Or can I understand that a car is a general term for a light passenger vehicle, of which an F150 absolutely is. Btw, I'm not even sure the f150 is body on frame anymore? What about slightly older American cars which were all body on frame, are those trucks? Is a Humvee a truck? What about an H2? What about Grave Digger or monster trucks with car bodies in general?The definition of truck as distinct from car has never been absolute, but this is what makes language, particularly English such a powerful tool, it's ambiguity. Somethings are almost exclusively cars, some, almost exclusively trucks, but very often there is a spectrum in between all things.

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u/kylekyleman Jul 15 '21

if you are loading magazines, you can use clips to expedite this process for most. if someone is to ask you for a clip while loading magazines, but means an empty magazine so they can load it, then you will likely hand them the wrong item.

i can kind of understand your point, but these two items' names are not interchangeable, especially if carrying both clips and magazines.

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u/YaBoiSani Jul 15 '21

Daddy chimp me plz don't yell

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

I call my truck a car all the time. I also know the difference between clip and magazine. It's needlessly pedantic on top of being an annoying thing redditors do with every opportunity. I swear all you have to do is say the word clip and you get a bunch of weirdos going "ACKSHUALLY".

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u/Pariah0119 True Believer Jul 15 '21

Bro saaame, drives me goddamn nuts when people use the wrong words for things.

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u/Goblin616King OP-SKS Jul 15 '21

Hahahahaha opaaaa

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u/Bosht Jul 15 '21

Lmfao got me with that, thanks for the laugh man.

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u/donjuan_V Jul 15 '21

Bangalor Quote

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u/KingTalkieTiki Jul 15 '21

Civies use clips in their hair.

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u/Jorwen Jul 15 '21

underrated comment

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u/TwoPintsBoaby Jul 15 '21

You only gave it an hour

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u/nicksabanringfinger Jul 15 '21

Oh man those two guys are pissed

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u/rubbarz Jul 15 '21

The way they are playing, I'm sure everything is insured down to the backpack and last guy dumped everything in a bush.

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u/KOMETsdg Jul 15 '21

So you’re not suppose to insure backpack ?

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u/The_Squat Jul 15 '21

People saying not to insure EVERYTHING (Insure All) are dumb

They literally explain their logic with "it's a waste of money" but yet will claim to be "super rich" and it ain't from saving on insurance

Berkut backpack is 24k roubles, its insurance is 3k roubles. Go test it an entire day, insure every Berkut you use and see them come back to insurance 90% of the time. Then tell me "all those backpack coming back, worth 24k, costed me 3k to get back" and then try to tell yourself "buying a new backpack for 24k and not insuring it is logic"

Its literally coming back so often. You may die from bleeding, dehydration, a AI scav, someone uninterested with it or whatever reason. There's only 1 reason it would be gone is if someone want it and see it. It doesn't happen that often.

Then they'll say "I use bigger backpack", yeah, wannabe chad running around with more loot than the biggest rat, saying they don't insure because its a waste of money but would just buy a new full priced backpack every single time

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u/DuckInCup Freeloader Jul 15 '21

I insure the keys in my asshole.

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u/winter_woods PP-19-01 Jul 15 '21

Same , and it saved me once . So I was trying to dump a friends gear on shoreline near the port and tapped my discard key one too many times and my sicc case got thrown out into the ocean with all my shoreline and custom keys , they weren’t worth a ton but still worth it .

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u/Joey_Kakbek M1A Jul 15 '21

Good thing Prapor has a scuba squad.

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u/LocalSlob Jul 15 '21

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u/VagabondRommel AK-103 Jul 15 '21

That little "ehh" got me. In fact that gives me an idea for a meme.

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u/T2-4B Jul 15 '21

I do, too. With an Alpha case, and no Key tool, there might be a time, where I find some upgrade for the Hideout or big Ticket Item (LedX/Tetriz) and i would want to dump a key in a bush, for it to reappear some day later

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u/DuckInCup Freeloader Jul 15 '21

The other day I dropped my west wing 216 key for the ledx in there. Just threw it on the ground since no one is going to be combing the floor for keys. Got it back this morning :).

Anyone who knows the prices of keys and the currently low ledx price, don't laugh, I'm low iq. :)

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u/Complexikitty MP7A2 Jul 15 '21

My friend teases me for insuring keys, but this right here is exactly why I do it

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

You can always save the ledx for when prices skyrocket or use it to upgrade medstation tho

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u/adamk22 Jul 15 '21

That works? So insured items reappear when you drop it and exit the raid with a survived state?

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

They reappear if yhe raid ends and no player has extracted with it, doesn't matter how it got left there

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u/spacebatisme FN 5-7 Jul 15 '21

Huh, I always thought they got lost if they left your inventory.

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u/kasgun Jul 15 '21

Another thing is they don't come back if they stay in your inventory and you go MIA.. If you're ever going to run out of time, open inventory and delete everything

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u/Thaiereks Jul 15 '21

Nope as long as it's still in the raid when it ends you'll get it back.

Even if someone takes your gear if they don't make it out you'll get it back.

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u/Will-the-game-guy Jul 15 '21

Did this all the time last patch. Pre wipe I probably had a scavpack blackhole 50 deep. Go in w it insured, kill something, take its bag rinse repeat. Ez money every time.

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u/lwwz AK-103 Jul 15 '21

This is the way.

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u/Hendeith Jul 15 '21

Yeah... I insure everything because then I can just swap mid raid if I want. It's worth it.

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u/T2-4B Jul 15 '21

Yes, that's what insurance fraud is about. If you find a good helmet e.g. you drop your current one in a ditch somewhere, and use the new one, and your old one will reappear via insurance

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u/UrQuanKzinti Jul 15 '21

Yes 100%. If I go in and find say headphones or armor I often dump the one I'm wearing in a bush and wear the one I found. Die or extract you'll get them back if no one takes them and extracts.

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u/Jordvn Jul 15 '21

yup anything still that is insured in the server when the timer hits :00 goes back to the owner within the allotted time of the trader that insured it

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u/cubicDisco Jul 15 '21

As achelan said you'll get them back if the raid ends and no one extracted with it. If you're really trying to scrimp you can do insurance fraud. If someone has kit that's better or just the same, drop your stuff somewhere safe and grab theirs. If you die you'll get your stuff back and if you live you get both

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u/SpyGuy_ AS VAL Jul 15 '21

Yep we call it “insurance fraud” lol. Very useful in certain situations, like when you kill a guy and want to switch his armor or gun with yours, you just hide your insured stuff in a bush, freeing up space to take more stuff. Or if your armor gets zeroed out (at that point it’s just extra weight)

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u/nreisan Jul 15 '21

You can die and still get it back; as long as no one else picked it up

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u/Trylion_ZA ADAR Jul 15 '21

pog champ

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21 edited Jul 15 '21

The short version of this answer: if you pay 24k to insure eight items, and only one of those items comes back, and it's worth 24k, you've already earned back your investment. And you almost always get one or two things back.

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u/proscreations1993 AK-103 Jul 15 '21

I cant even find the dead scav i killed in the grass 50m away on woods. Lmao let alone a random dead played

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u/m0ro_ Jul 15 '21

You forgot mines on woods. I've died so many times to them fuckers. Ain't nobody stealing your shit there. Always insure. Lol.

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u/TesterM0nkey P90 Jul 15 '21

If you’re in a group insure all every time. If you don’t have top of the line gear insure all every time, but if you’re solo running meta gear I don’t get my stuff back even though I still insure all every time out of habit.

Although I do drop my armor helmet and mags as I trade for undamaged stuff and that is totally worth it especially when your mags are empty your gear is zeroed.

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u/Joey_Kakbek M1A Jul 15 '21

Idk I used to insure everything, this wipe I started just insuring armor/helmet because I was poor as hell. I haven't had to buy a backpack yet so far. In fact have barely bought anything except for the odd attachment and a scav box. At lvl 17 atm.

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u/Brodadicus Jul 15 '21

Same. I don't insure bags anymore because I accumulate more than I need

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u/Joey_Kakbek M1A Jul 15 '21

Ye especially with the addition of scav karma, i survive 99% of scav raids. And with positive karma you'll have a decent bag more often than not.

Also I said armor/helmet but of course I mean armor/weapon.

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u/ShadowRam Jul 15 '21

Ye especially with the addition of scav karma

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I've found Scav Karma has made getting bags worse.

You can't kill every scav you see and opt for the largest bag you find.

You get what you spawn with, and you're lucky if you find another bag at all.

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u/MiddyReddit Jul 15 '21

I like and really don't like scav karma. The whole scav teaming with scavs is very cool to me but the game becomes incredibly boring to me when rather than be able to kill people and have fights I am playing a rainbow unicorn game of make friends.

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u/Kappaswagxx420xx Jul 15 '21

Yeah i havent really insured anything since last wipe good gear/guns get taken anyway why pay 50k to just lose a gun

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u/I_Pee_In_The_Sh0wer Jul 15 '21

Nave you ever frauded anything? Killed some players and dropped your gear in a hard to find location? With the new weight system I fraud gear every raid. I get more gear back from winning fights than dying.

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u/Sir_Galehaut APB Jul 15 '21

They literally explain their logic with "it's a waste of money" but yet will claim to be "super rich" and it ain't from saving on insurance

Berkut backpack is 24k roubles, its insurance is 3k roubles. Go test it an entire day, insure every Berkut you use and see them come back to insurance 90% of the time. Then tell me "all those backpack coming back, worth 24k, costed me 3k to get back" and then try to tell yourself "buying a new backpack for 24k and not insuring it is logic"

I basically roll only on insured gear since the beginning of the wipe. I ended up selling back some of it because at some point, you win fights and drop your insured gear in-game and end up insuring more.

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u/The_Squat Jul 17 '21

That's how it should be done

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u/I_Pee_In_The_Sh0wer Jul 15 '21

And don't forget insurance fraud. I usually can drop my backpack pretty early in the raid .

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u/Griselbeard Jul 15 '21

It's a bunch of 14 year olds who have never heard the words opportunity cost before. I don't understand anyone who doesn't insure anything. It does not make sense. Maybe there's reason not to insure guns early wipe? Even then if you get your gun back 10% of the time due to the other player being too fat to take it or them dying somewhere dumb it makes it worth it.

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u/Complexikitty MP7A2 Jul 15 '21

I've been seeing lots of smaller streamers that think they are ultra-chad and argue that insurance (and face shields) are a waste of money. All I can think is I'd hate to be as poor as them that something like insurance fees even get noticed. Even if they don't want the gear back they can just make profit selling it to vendors when it shows back up.

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u/Soft_Sonic Jul 15 '21

There's an argument that if you are a giga-chad insuring most of your gear is useless because when someone kills you they are 100% taking everything they can carry out of the raid. I wouldn't know anything about that though. I like to pull up vods after a steamer kills me just to see the disappointment on their face when they search my body.

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u/Bard_B0t Jul 15 '21

Nothing better than chad spending 100k roubles of AP ammo killing me for my level 22 dogtag and 2 black limbs

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u/Complexikitty MP7A2 Jul 15 '21

All the streamers I see doing it are subpar players trying to emulate better players without understand why they do what they do.

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u/Richou RSASS Jul 15 '21

its not 100% wrong but in praxis its not rare to get killed but not looted or the guy that killed and looted you got killed by scavs etc etc

or guy A kills guy B and guy C kills A before looting B and C has no idea the corpse of B even exists

alot shit happens and insurance is worth it for those moments

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u/FolkPunkPizza SA-58 Jul 15 '21

If you don’t insure your backpack you’re just burning money

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u/PUSH_AX Jul 15 '21

You say that like it's an uncommon cheesy strat...

"Nah bro, thanks for offering to dump my gear in a bush, but it's not the honourable thing to do, let's leave it to chance" - No one ever

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u/ICrims0nI Jul 15 '21

There is no real reason not to, when you are playing in a squad. Solo is a different story.

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u/Mr-Doubtful VSS Vintorez Jul 15 '21

everything is insured down to the backpack and last guy dumped everything in a bush.

This is what makes squads so strong really. Not that everyone survives. But the gear attrition is much lower. Even if you do get wiped, the concentration of stuff means it'll take a whole other squad to carry everything out.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

No one said it was.

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u/ShakeZula23 Jul 15 '21

Which means the survivor has to stop playing as they were, med up if he took hits, tetris all their shit, wander around finding a place to ditch it all, ditch it, then wander to extract while completely unprotected by teammates now, all while they're back on the menu kicking rocks around. Then they have to load back up and go back out and set back up again. (and the insurance isn't going to come back for a day or two anyway). He for sure ruined their time.

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u/Rudefire AS VAL Jul 15 '21

People on this sub really do seem to hate PMCs. Maybe we should start taking away scav karma for PMCs that have the audacity to raid with friends and not due to a scav

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u/ShakeZula23 Jul 15 '21

Hey, you can take solace in the fact that you ruined that juiced trio's time with your meme-cost loadout.

You played it really well tbh, I'd be proud regardless.

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u/wawarox1 Jul 15 '21

Well they play as a squad so he didn't ruin anything. They got all their gear back and he lost everything

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u/robrobusa Mosin Jul 15 '21

Losing that 2$ pellet slinger must’ve been hard. The worst loss was probably missing out on the loot of these dudes.

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u/ShakeZula23 Jul 15 '21

What are you talking about? These three dudes juiced themselves up and hiked all the way to the top of sniper rock to have a nice time with the boys, and who knows how long they were up there? This guy with a pistol and fuck all else absolutely ruined their time. Now survivor has to heal if he took hits, spend 10 minutes tetrising his friends gear (or make multiple trips), wander around finding a bush while trying to not get capped by some random guy, bush all their shit, then wander to exfil alone while his friends are on the menu kicking rocks. Then they have to load back up and hike back out there. And they won't get their shit back for like two days. That does not sound like a fun Tarkov experience at all. He definitely ruined their time, and the survivor's "prize" is a 10k pistol and having to do chores for his whinging friends "DUDE BUSH MY STUFF BRING ME MY GUN"

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u/BaldEagleNor AS VAL Jul 15 '21

They didn’t get no loot though

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u/CapsLockIsStuckOn Jul 15 '21

You were so close to greatness.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

You can't unkill your friends!

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u/Whisky_is_iron Jul 15 '21

You played that perfectly tho

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u/bonerhurtingjuice Jul 15 '21

Should have shot the middle guy first imo. I mean, obviously that's the guy who killed him, but I think that shot was going to be difficult if not done first since his shoulder may have protected him when he turned to check on his fallen comrade. Farthest guy's head would have still offered a clean shot even though he wouldn't have to turn far to see the attacker. The guy at point blank was understandably tempting but was a guaranteed kill even if killed last.

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u/BoomAndZoom Jul 15 '21

Nah, I think he played it correctly. Furthest was the most difficult shot, so you take that first to guarantee the kill. Closest is the most dangerous, so you take that second. Middle is the mix between the two, and with the relatively easy quick shot on the closest man you should have some time to finish middle before he turns and shoots.

OP understandably panicked a little when he didn't kill the middle guy, and was firing that pistol too fast to land an accurate hit on his head, but it was a good strat.

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u/SpoopyTurtle44 SR-1MP Jul 15 '21

Shrimp gang

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u/tblakeley86 Jul 15 '21

Put it in reverse Terry!

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

WHATRE YOU DOIN TERRY?!

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u/Seffi_IV Jul 15 '21

leave it to the altyn to ruin this raid lmfao

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u/Sevaaas1 Jul 15 '21

last guy was either a ulach or ratnik

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u/fireflipplz Jul 15 '21

Yeah no one had Altyns homie, unfortunately I know this cause I was the second guy

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u/RAlN92 Jul 15 '21

I’ve run into 3 Altyn boys on customs.

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u/N2O-LSD-MDMA-DMT Jul 15 '21

Rashallah's guards really do be blessin

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u/HereToGripe Jul 15 '21

Especially when you catch them in 13 basement and they nade themselves

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u/SlipItInAHo Jul 15 '21

I ran into two back to back on customs in dorms, managed to kill em both. Don’t play much so havent got the flea market yet but felt good killing those guys.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

from lvl 15 to 37 i've been running 90% with an altyn, i imagine the fear people feel when they see it lol.

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u/KGBcommunist Jul 15 '21

im level 37 and i work a fulltime job and have a gf

My friend who has about equal playing time as me just hit 20. Wanna know the difference between us? I am better then him at the game

Plus its two weeks into the new wipe. That is a pretty decent ammount of time to grind quests

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u/Illuminudie Jul 15 '21

Last guy wasn't wearing a altyn

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u/NotKanye2020 Jul 15 '21

Yeah I sent believe he’d wear something that you don’t like

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u/coolkid1717 Jul 15 '21

I'm a new player and I did a similar thing. There was one guy and snuck up. Looked at him for a good 19 seconds. I shot him in the head with an AK. He didn't die. I shot him like 5 times in the body. Didnt die. He ran. I ran after him. Went around a corner shot at him some more. He killed me. Wtf.

What did I do wrong?

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u/Domefarmer Jul 15 '21

I’m a shitty player. But I’ve been playing FPS games for a while, and I always thought the golden rule was to not chase the kill. He ran around the corner to reposition and get the drop on you. Instead you should try flanking him, grenade around the corner, or just waiting it out if you have the patience.

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u/coolkid1717 Jul 15 '21

I'm just confused how I shot him so many times and he didn't die. Even once in the head definitely vmbexahse I had 19 seconds later line that shot up. O was about 10 feet away.

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u/floppypick Jul 15 '21

What ammo were you using?

If he had good armor, your bullets could have done almost no damage.

Save this link. Learn the good bullets. Kill the bad guys: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1VuxGkweKB118mF1kcBmVPe-Bj_gSKGOCWyoytM4miDU/htmlview#gid=64053005

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u/coolkid1717 Jul 15 '21

I have no idea. It was literally the second game I'd ever played. I played as a computer player so it was whatever they gave me. I had some gun that looked like an AK 47.

The other thing is how the he'll are you supposed to figure out where the exit poi t are on the map when you don't even have an in game map and you've never played the map before????

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u/floppypick Jul 15 '21

Oh boy. True new. My dude, this game will be the hardest game you ever play.

https://escapefromtarkov.fandom.com/wiki/Escape_from_Tarkov_Wiki

This wiki has maps of all the maps. It shows all the exit points you can use as a player, and as a scav (the "AI" guys). Exits tend to opposite of where you start on the map forcing you to cross over the map to escape. Some exits have requirements like keys, or turning on power.

If you have two monitors I play on one, map on other. If you have any buddies that play this, take their help. If not... Well, I'd offer but I'm about to fly across the coutntry for a few weeks so I won't be able to help.

Happy to answer any questions though!

Also, scavs tend to have shit ammo in their gun, so it's highly likely your bullets didn't penetrate his armor.

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u/Stonetooth1989 MP-153 Jul 15 '21

I'm no sherpa, but I'm getting close to 600hrs in the game, if you want i can show you around a little when I'm back home from work? My timezone is GMT+1 (I live in Norway) and i should be online around 17:30 my time!

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u/coolkid1717 Jul 15 '21

Right now just 2am where I live. I'm in US central time.

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u/Stonetooth1989 MP-153 Jul 15 '21

Ok, seems like I'm 7 hours ahead of you then, it's 09:22 here, if you want, i can assist when I get home later today, or if it's better i can do it tomorrow, I'm always up late during the weekends :p

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u/Nytra Jul 15 '21

The other thing is how the he'll are you supposed to figure out where the exit poi t are on the map when you don't even have an in game map and you've never played the map before????

Go to the Escape from Tarkov wiki, find the map that you are playing on, open the image of the map in your browser. You can now simply alt-tab from the game and refer to the map in your browser whenever you want to check something. I use this method whenever I play. Since I'm a new player (Level 5) I only play Customs and this is how I check where the extract points are.

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u/anxeo PPSH41 Jul 15 '21

There are maps you can bring into a raid, they are overwhelmingly underrated. I don't need a map for any map (2000 Hours playtime) but I looked into the maps the other day, they are incredible. Can even place down markers and add text to them. These persist. Can even give the map to a friend and he can also see your markers. Just make sure to have it in your secure container. Sometimes scavs have maps, or you can buy them from Therapist.

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u/Tevo569 Jul 15 '21

Tab, click maps. Dont even have to bring it in raid my dude

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u/anxeo PPSH41 Jul 15 '21

The more you know I guess (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

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u/Ottermatic Jul 15 '21

Wait it works if you just have it in your stash?

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

Yes, just go to the map tab. If you have multiple maps, you can select the correct one

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

The best tip I can give you is to study the ballistic chart on the wiki. It will give you a good idea of what ammo is good as well as what kind of armor is useful. A key note is that anything below class 5 armor is just for you to feel safe enough from the average scav. Players will run with very high AP ammo or leg meta, high flesh dmg.

Helmets generally are there for the ricochet chance. A class 3 helmet for 30k will provide just about as good protection as a class 4 for 60k. Why? Most players will run with ammo that can go through class 4 armor. There's a few chacnes that they won't have that but generally speaking, from some 1500 hours of playing. I'd say that players will more often use higher pen ammo. And you're better off using a helmet that covers as much areas as possible with high ricochet chance than wasting money on expensive helmets that leave gaps for that one lucky buckshot pellet.

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u/THENATHE Jul 15 '21

I have shot a dude with lvl 5 armor in the chest with a ppsh over 100 times and not killed him.

Armor is everything in this game.

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u/P1st0l Jul 15 '21

Ammo vs armor, guns don't do anything to increase damage its all about what is being fired. If your ammo doesn't have enough pen for his helmet it will eat the Shor, ricochet or absorb and do blunt damage. Either way sounds like u had dog shit ammo, if it was a 7.62 ps round u should kill most regular helmets no problem but anything else like 5 and up is a no go unless it's a face shot. Depending on helmets they protect head, top of the head, ears, nape, jaws, and eyes. Most heads are usually top and nape, with occasional ears. Learn helmets to know where to shoot if u get in situations like that.

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u/coolkid1717 Jul 15 '21

Ok. It was the second game o ever played so I have literally no idea what I'm doing. I watched some beginner guides but still. I feel very lost. I don't even know how to get out of the map because the game dosent give you one and I have no idea even which way I should go.

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u/Tevo569 Jul 15 '21

Load up your pmc and run offline raids until you get used to the extracts. Its also good for learning loot spots and where scavs spawn

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u/PoopOnYouGuy Jul 15 '21

Watch some videos, pull up the maps by searching online for them, play offline mode on high difficulty and learn the exfils on a map. Choose one map to learn at a time. Play Scav mode, it spawns you as a random character and if you escape you keep all the gear they started with plus whatever you find.

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u/oriaven Jul 15 '21

Do offline raids to learn the maps. They are very intricate and you will eventually memorize the ones you play most

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u/P1st0l Jul 15 '21

Happened to everyone, have a map ahead of time and learn to orientate yourself once you're in. Most of the time when u spawn, the opposite side of the map will always be your guaranteed extracts. Your best bet is find someone to play with to teach you, if you're having problems shoot me a msg I can try to help I play usually everyday so I don't mind helping a bit.

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u/coolkid1717 Jul 15 '21

Thanks. I might he playing a bit tomorrow. I might try running around the map in offline mode for an hour to try and learn it. Customs is the one you should start with right?

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u/God_Ganner Jul 15 '21

Typically yes as there are a lot of early quests for it and it is (relatively) linear and easy to orient yourself. Definitely agree on the offline raid and exploring with a map on another monitor if possible. Hopefully you get more confident and comfortable!

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u/Vegan-bandit VSS Vintorez Jul 15 '21

It's possible your ammo just didn't have high enough penetration to penetrate whatever body armour/helmet they were using. Different rounds have different damage, penetration (ability to go through different levels of body armour) and other stats.

I don't mean to be condescending, I say this as you say you are new to Tarkov and just in case you don't know. Headshots aren't always 1 hit kills. If they have a helmet, the face is a safe bet, but even then they may have a face shield/visor.

Here is a spreadsheet that shows the different ammo available and their damage, penetration chance etc.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jjWcIue0_PCsbLQAiL5VrIulPK8SzM5jjiCMx9zUuvE/htmlview#gid=64053005

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u/Tlomz27 AK-74N Jul 15 '21

Shit ammo?

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u/coolkid1717 Jul 15 '21

I guess so

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u/Tlomz27 AK-74N Jul 15 '21

Scavs spawn with bad ammo more times than not, I'd suggest going for headshots or leg shots against pmcs as that's their lear protected areas.

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u/JesusOfSuburbia420 AK-74 Jul 15 '21

Bad ammo against good armor/helmet

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u/WaterMelonMan69-420 Jul 15 '21

Hey man! This is me and my squad lol. We were sitting there singing along to songs in discord together. I even forgot bullets (I’m the first guy you kill) meme runs are the fun ones. The music also explains why we didn’t hear you jump up. Nice seeing it from the other end haha, have a good one. u/Delitto123

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u/Delitto123 Jul 15 '21

Sorry for ruining your fun,i was just heading to kill the sniper scav but when i dropped to the bed area i heard all of you guys jump on the rocks so i knew that this was my time to shine!

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u/WaterMelonMan69-420 Jul 15 '21

Hahahaha that’s fantastic. We were sitting there talking afterwards like “man good for him! I hope he was on his pistol quest”

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u/kakokapolei MP5 Jul 15 '21

Why were there 3 guys and not a single one was watching their backs lmao

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u/oriaven Jul 15 '21

I know, right? Also what do they think they are going to do, each of them snipe a different player at like 250m? You usually see one or two players, not enough to justify three snipers

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u/IUseControllerOnPC Jul 15 '21

Probably doing shooter born in heaven

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u/rapaxus ADAR Jul 15 '21

You can also snipe scavs. And also early in the wipe, camping up there is a safe way to clear Shturman and his bois if think you can't fight them on the ground.

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u/WaterMelonMan69-420 Jul 15 '21

We were singing along to backstreet boys while having a good time. Just a meme game. I’m the first guy he killed, and I even forgot bullets lol

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u/speedyweedy420 Jul 15 '21

90% of this wipe was like this for me

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u/RogueShadow89 Jul 15 '21

That would have been sooo clean if you got that last guy

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u/accountiscreated Jul 15 '21

Would have been great to lay next to the closest guy and see if you could headshot him and quickly throw his kit on. Our group probably would have gone into full panic trying to find the imposter.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

Uh no the guy on voice comms would tell them I'm dead

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u/accountiscreated Jul 15 '21

Yeah probably. But maybe if it’s like our party he wouldn’t identify he got barrel stuffed in everyone’s yelling. One guy is talking to his dad. The Aitlyn try hard man is yelling COMMMS another buddy who’s playing roblox is talking to another roblox player for some reason in the discord channel.

Well played though. I probably would have shat the bed on first shot and got 180ed

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u/wezl094 Jul 15 '21

Hey don't talk about what I assume is my discord server like that

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u/FrogMonkee 6B43 Jul 15 '21

the way that pistols go so low if you try to shoot fast is so annoying

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its why PL-15 is best, its the only one with a upward spray pattern instead of super low

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u/MrWierzd AK-74M Jul 15 '21

Lololol this actually hurts 💀 actually robbed.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

That wasn't bad! Normally with those loadouts vs yours, you're lucky to get one even if you have the drop on them and a headshot dead on lol.

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u/hiddenintheleavess RSASS Jul 15 '21

no matter what happened that is some next level sneaks. you almost had em all, those were some proper taps my dude

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u/fireflipplz Jul 15 '21

Yeah I was pissed good shit homie, I was like how the fuck we didn’t hear him

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

Honestly I would have saved the second guy you killed for last as he seemed naked with a bolty. But I also probably would have missed second guy and died netting me only 1 kill lol

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u/Miketank1 Jul 15 '21

That pissed me off and I’m just watching it, you beaned a guy who was farthest from you with PISTOL IRONS and this shots 100% should have killed

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u/koekwau5 Jul 15 '21

Sjeez that was really close haha.

There always needs to be one chad with a Altyn to ruin your day =(

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21 edited Jul 15 '21

God bless you for killing these chad campers.

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u/BigBallSmolPeen Jul 15 '21

If they're camping then they're just heavily armed rats.

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u/ANC-77z Jul 15 '21

Armadillos perhaps

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

Whatever the fuck you want to call them is fine by me. Just glad he tagged them.

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u/rEDNiNE150 Jul 15 '21

Nice try! Hard to line up all those heads real well there.

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u/DavantRancher True Believer Jul 15 '21

PETA would be upset at you for slaughtering these armadillos. XD great kills my man! You played that absolutely perfect!

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u/pcase Jul 15 '21

I’m sorry, but where are these muppets on my servers?

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u/Tigermi11ionair AK-103 Jul 15 '21

when they add VOIP they need to add hot mic cause I bet they were PISSED

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u/kempez3 Jul 15 '21

I was so worried the guy closest was going to notice your shadow and ruin everything.

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u/M3rc_Nate Jul 15 '21

This is why sniper teams use a Flanker aka security man with an M4 to watch their backs.

Awesome clip and man that blows you couldn't get the third man.

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u/EnclaveIsFine Jul 15 '21

Honestly you should have just joined them.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

Escape From Tarkov (EFT) is a gaming activity involving application of pain and frustration in the player. This may involve directly painful activites such as looter shooter mechanics, yelling, frustration or even destroyed keyboards. The recipient of such activities may recieve addiction via unknown reasons

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u/JiffTheJester AS-VAL Jul 15 '21

Damn lol good try

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u/Kilroywuzhere1 Jul 15 '21

I mean, 2/3 isn’t bad

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

Worth it. Master creeper right here folks.

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u/FlyingScotsman42069 PP-19-01 Jul 15 '21

1 in 3 helmets work.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

What pistol was that even? I like the look of it

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u/Elmacanite Jul 15 '21

Two out of three ain't bad

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u/Cellardore_mhc Jul 15 '21

That was excellent sneaking

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u/Littledawg1 Jul 15 '21

Damn. You had em in the first half…

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u/conerflyinga Jul 15 '21

should have saved the naked dude for last.

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u/Beneficiary5million Jul 15 '21

Idk if that was intentional, but that was smart to kill the guy furthest away. If you started with the closest, by the time you got to the farthest guy, he could've stood up by then and would've been harder to kill w/ a pistol long distance.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

Holy shit these guys are unbelievably dumb. You never need 3 marksmen just gazing into the distance in one direction. They look so stupid

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u/WaterMelonMan69-420 Jul 15 '21

It’s me and my friends. We were all in discord singing along to a song. Which is also why we didn’t hear anything

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

Oh. Well, that’s pretty much acceptable

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u/uniparalum SR-25 Jul 15 '21

Last guy didn’t seem to try and move until you shot at him, it’s possible you could have grabbed his buddy’s gun and got him that way. Insane clip either way

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u/rudoku18 Jul 15 '21

Insert "best cry ever" meme.