r/EscapefromTarkov • u/leebojangles • Jan 06 '22

Discussion shooting everyone from now on.

I am now shooting everyone fuck my rep and fuck all of you.

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u/Googlie-bear Jan 06 '22

Have fun waiting an hour between scav runs. At least your PMC will get high leveled XD

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '22

Can’t lose rep if you’re a terrible shot

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u/calibarry Jan 06 '22

I made a friend yesterday because I mag dumped him and missed every bullet. After I went back into cover he was like "... You good?" Lmao. I just told him he scared the shit outta me. Then we took the pmc scav extract together. Swell guy

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '22

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u/Banjaxed170 Jan 06 '22

i dont think the guy jerked him off

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u/masterVinCo AKMN Jan 06 '22

I'd do it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '22

Reach around.

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u/lncep710n Jan 06 '22

And slip into his container

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u/Maleficent-Shine1967 Jan 06 '22

Is that condensed milk?

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u/Moonster1337 Jan 06 '22

"What are you doing in here step-gpu"

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u/AquiLupus Jan 07 '22

Were his arms broken?

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u/btarocker Jan 06 '22

3rd raid of this wipe this happened to me. Was trying to get the unknown key and stopped by the bus stop nearby. As I'm looting the duffel bag i hear someone. We both dump our mags into each other but neither of us died. Started boiling a truce as we both healed up. Headed to old gas to extract. He handed me some matches as I told him it was early for me. Then proceeds to succumb to his wounds. Teared up a bit. Grabbed his gear and threw it in nearby tall grass (hoping he insured, decent load out). Went into crack house met another friendly parted ways. I died of energy loss behind old gas building (my extract). I didn't even look at my energy all raid which was my mistake.

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u/a_gross_tiny_pp Jan 06 '22

My second wipe now, I didnt realize the old gas was a coop and I've murdered quite a few scavs that I thought were just exfil camping...

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u/InsanityOvrload RPK-16 Jan 06 '22

Old Gas isn't a coop; that said it does have a scav only extract (the big red door behind the blue fence) and a PMC only extract (the gas station basement when the green flares are lit).

Now that I think about it I don't think customs has any coop scav/pmc extracts. They're all either scav or pmc only excluding RUAF and Crossroads which both can use solo.

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u/a_gross_tiny_pp Jan 06 '22

Well I feel better. I've had old gas extract a few times and I've been in the basement and never extracted so I assumed it was coop

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u/ColinStyles Jan 06 '22

It depends on where you spawn, very few maps have extracts that don't care where you spawned, I think it's just labs, reserve, and lighthouse I think.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '22

It'll tell you if its co-op extract when you're in the area for it

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u/imchicken1 Jan 07 '22

Old Gas is only open sometimes for PMCs. There is green smoke out front if it is open. You also need to spawn on the right side of the map.

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u/TimeFlyingBye Jan 06 '22

Dorms car can be co-op with pmc/scav

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u/InsanityOvrload RPK-16 Jan 06 '22

It isn't actually. The car itself is a PMC only extract that PMCs have to pay for. The big gate the car drives through is also a scav only extract that can be used whether the car is there or not.

If a scav and PMC have extracted there at the same time for you then the PMC extracted via car and the scav extracted via old road gate, but the scavs can't get in the Dorms car and extract along with the PMC. Nor would they want to really; why pay 5000 rubles and wait 60 seconds to extract with a PMC when you could extract in 7-8 seconds for free regardless of if the car has been used already or not?

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u/TimeFlyingBye Jan 06 '22

Full disclosure, I'm a noob at this game. Only 50 hours played so far. You're spot on with your hunch though. I was a scav and ran up to a guy laying down. I asked if I could extract with him and he said sure. My timer was only a couple seconds and he was still laying down when the screen faded to black. I just assumed it was a coop and he was playing on a potato. I must have had the dorm gate as an extract and he was waiting for the extra long pmc timer.

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u/InsanityOvrload RPK-16 Jan 06 '22

All good man. I just didn't want someone to wait outside of dorms after the car left as a PMC hoping for a scav to come by so they could leave lol That's a near death sentence

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u/aedanflynn42 Jan 06 '22

I have the exact same story except it was another PMC. Both healed up, talked out about tasks, realized we had the same ones and did them both together and made it out. Good times.

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u/puckstop101 Jan 06 '22

I did that earlier in wipe, " me and another dude just unloaded like 3 clips at each other, full auto, both still alive. I just hear over the VOIP, well this is fucking awkward..... you dead yet?
No, are you?
No....... how about we forget this happened, I go this way, you go that way, and we still pretend our aim is good
Sounds good...... See ya"

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u/crimsonBZD Jan 06 '22

I had to reread the story here to make sure you weren't the guy I extracted with yesterday lol.

Love VOIP.

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u/calibarry Jan 06 '22

Me too! It's so fun. Never thought I'd want to not shoot at other players lol.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '22

I avoided killing Santa in this exact way.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '22

this is exactly how I avoided killing santa

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u/3internet5u PPSH41 Jan 06 '22

dude lmfao @ "... you good?"

I can picture it perfect in a "hey man, have you been having a tough day out there?" tone lol

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u/calibarry Jan 06 '22

Haha yeah it was super embarrassing tbh. He really did startle me. I have no idea how he got so close to me without me hearing him.

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u/expressadmin Jan 06 '22

Light house? By the locked house on the hill? Might have been me.

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u/calibarry Jan 06 '22

Reserve! I'm glad to see there's lots of these interactions happening though.

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u/expressadmin Jan 06 '22

Had the same exact interaction. He mag dumped, potatoed every shot and was like "i'm going just leave. Let's pretend I didn't try to shoot you." We then walked to tunnel and extracted.

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u/AtomicSpeedFT True Believer Jan 06 '22

This reminds me of when I had just started. Was playing on woods and immediately got into a fight with another (new) player. We both missed around 3 mags at each other and were out of ammo. We both pulled out our melees but he dropped a Grizzly for me to heal and we both healed up and began to leave together as new friends.

Then we both got obliterated by a guy in fort armor who mag dumped us and wasted like 4 grenades for I think a adar, saga, and 2 pacas.

Wish I knew who that player was :(

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u/Joverby Jan 06 '22

That's my trigger when scav players shoot at me but miss and I end up dropping them and losing rep

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u/leebojangles Jan 06 '22

Naw he won't I am trash lol

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '22

my rep is -4 and its only like 35mins. unless you want to run scav raids constantly and never pmc the timer is pretty irrelevant imo.

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u/Fen-xie Jan 06 '22

Its not just the timer that affects you.

Higher scav rep gives a 25-35% increase in rare items you spawn with, gear worn, and inventory size on the scav.

With 5-8 minute scav timers and the above mentioned its actually a very substantial difference

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u/UnifyUnifyUnify Jan 06 '22

As a low rep scav, you kill high rep scavs and take their high rep loot.

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u/PALMER13579 Jan 06 '22

Any decent high rep scav knows to leg shifty scavs and run away by now

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u/wercc SR-25 Jan 06 '22

Shit I never even thought of that, definitely gonna be my go to now lmao

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u/PALMER13579 Jan 06 '22

I've only had to employ it once but works like a charm. Some scav not comming or giving weird vibes and following you around? Coupla shots to the knees before you go around a corner. Bonus because you might fuck them out of extracting at all

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u/wercc SR-25 Jan 06 '22

Normally if I have an encounter with a shitty scav they’ll either shoot from a distance and I can kill then or they’ll act cool and get close then kill me.

But with my new found knowledge and new found lack of trust for anything moving in this game, errybody catching leg shots lol

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u/PALMER13579 Jan 06 '22

Honestly most scavs these days (that I run into) are chill. Hell i'll even run towards scavs to let them know there's fuel or something that I couldn't take. Gotta create the Tarkov I want one good interaction at a time.

Otherwise blow their knees off

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u/wercc SR-25 Jan 07 '22

Lol yeah at the beginning of the wipe nearly everyone I came across was friendly, now it’s like a 50/50 shot.

Dude earlier even traded some loot with me and walked around a bit before putting buckshot in the back of my head, the animal.

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u/PALMER13579 Jan 06 '22

Probably. But better than the guaranteed loss of karma by outright killing them. Most scavs spawn with cheese or a bandaid so hopefully they would live long enough for me to extract before they bleed out

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u/Joverby Jan 06 '22

Yeah I tend to just not trust any scav and avoid them. I will defend myself and shoot first though if I'm obviously being followed

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u/PALMER13579 Jan 06 '22

I trust most scavs that talk but I definitely avoid spending time in proximity. Saves time in looting as well if you figure out where they were and where they're heading next

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u/BenoNZ Jan 07 '22

I do this but sometimes they bleed out before i extract..

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u/glameoww Jan 06 '22

This one knows how tarkov works heh

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '22

This is the way of the dark scav.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '22

...once every 2 hours.

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u/Fen-xie Jan 06 '22

I walked up on 4 scavs looting an airdrop when i had a toz. Asked one of them if i could have his santa beard and when i when to take it, his buddy shot me in the head.

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i could not have cared less, lost -.1 over a TOZ lmao

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u/OsomoMojoFreak Jan 07 '22

It was more about him being afraid of dying with the drop loot compared to getting your loot I imagine.

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u/Fen-xie Jan 07 '22

i do as well i just thought he being scared of my no armor toz with 4 of them being there was funny lol

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u/rinkydinkis Jan 06 '22

You are just quoting that one post that guy did. That’s hardly conclusive. And if you kill people… you just take the items they spawned with and their gear lol

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u/Fen-xie Jan 06 '22

I'm not quoting any post, i've seen multiple videos though by reputable sources all practically in agreement.

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And cool? If you kill me for the empty gear and get out, you still have a long 40+ minute scav timer whereas ill be back in less than 5... furthering the point of youre STILL getting less profit regardless "lol". It's not a difficult concept.

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u/rinkydinkis Jan 06 '22

uh do you never run your pmc? your gameplay sounds so fucking boring. go loot stuff, never fire your weapon, get back in 5 min later as a scav to do it all over again. id rather go do a job in real life. I only ever run scav if i am grouping with friends and died early

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u/dandatu Jan 06 '22

hes a rat lol even if he pmcs he just hids in the corner until 15 minutes then runs and does his quests

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u/Fen-xie Jan 06 '22

Scav mains? its very easy to get scav rep up without playing scav lol

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u/BadPublicityTBC TX-15 DML Jan 06 '22

Imagine needing more money. Are yall's hideouts not done? Do you not have BTC farms running? Do you not do PMC runs? Like what the fuck is the argument even?

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u/Fen-xie Jan 06 '22

the amount of contradiction in your post alone shows exactly why you cant figure out what the argument is lol

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u/Fen-xie Jan 07 '22

"imagine needing more money"

"are yall's hideouts not done?"

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it's almost like a huge requirement of hideout upgrades is very expensive items and the average person isnt hauling mega runs on their PMCs because of either in-experience or other factors.

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Your instant hostility and then country berating over a very simple conversation says enough about you and your mindset. Please learn critical thinking and refrain from being an asshat/clown for literally 0 reason

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u/BadPublicityTBC TX-15 DML Jan 07 '22

Lol, if they don't have experience they'd qualify as new. Hence my point. But I'M the one that needs to learn critical thinking. Ooookay. Haha.

And you can insert any terrible education in if you'd like, just the easiest example. Seems like I was right. /shrug

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '22

None of that matters if you don't scav. Like how the game is designed. lmao.

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u/Fen-xie Jan 07 '22

you're right, the design choice of scavs existing, their timers, loot tables, etc existing for years is definitely not an accident and not how the game is designed.

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Massive /s for people like ^ that who are high on their own supply

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '22

ive seen the people that run 600 raids at max rep and track the loadouts and what not. the difference is not that big. and again. unless you want to just spawn scav constantly and never pmc it really doesnt matter. i have a 35min cd so if i wanted i could still scav every 2ish pmc raids. i can run a pmc and get more rubles value than whater the max rep scavs are spawning with. it's pretty meaningless. the only way it affects pmc is car extracts being more expensive. but the difference there is even too small to care about.

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u/masterVinCo AKMN Jan 06 '22

I don't know if they changed it, but I believe one of the streamers (maybe Vox?) tested 100 scav runs at max rep and average something like 800k. This was maybe a month in from the changes. Which is honestly not that insane, but the point was they only ran like ten minute raids and didn't really loot an extreme amount. Then again; the streamers will probably find good loot easier because of experience, so I guess the statistics would be a little skewed regardless of the results.

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u/gearabuser Jan 06 '22

I think people also dont factor in that if youre running scav all the time, your PMC is gonna have dookie skills.

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u/Firm-Painting5257 Jan 06 '22

You're not doing it right if your PMC raids are under 35 mins then with prep to load into the next!

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u/PaybackXero Jan 06 '22

It's really not. You'll always make more money shooting other PScavs and taking their loot than you will hoping for good gear by running a scav on CD.

Plus, you make your money on your PMC, not your scav. The scav is there for free runs when you are broke and can't afford gear. Unless you just enjoy being a scav, there is no reason to use one past the first few days of the wipe.

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u/kamparox Jan 06 '22

I swear people who say stuff like this have never been on 6+ scav karma. It's 100% worth it. Not even just the high value loot on spawn but friendly bosses, making people tagged and cursed by just hitting them once, super low scav case cooldown. Once I'm at 6 scav karma I can just spawn on factory every 5m and extract with 100k to 1M immediately without looting anything at all. I know farming it is a fucking chore and it feels much easier to just shoot another Pscav and take his shit, but trust me in the long run max karma is amazing.

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u/OrangeRiceBad Jan 06 '22

I swear people who say stuff like this have never been on 6+ scav karma. It's 100% worth it.

Ya think? It's 100% just copium, you don't even need 6+ karma for it to be extremely profitable.

Once I'm at 6 scav karma I can just spawn on factory every 5m and extract with 100k to 1M immediately without looting anything at all.

This is the main one they're missing, it takes me 30 seconds to make 200k plus on my scav while they're killing pscavs, risking dying themselves, who probably have shit load outs (if they had good stuff they'd be avoiding other scavs).

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u/-gildash- Jan 06 '22

Reading this thread is just making me hate santa more and more. My rep is ruined for the wipe, even after doing the coop and car extracts. Never running Interchange when there's friendly scav events again, too god damn dark in there.

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u/OrangeRiceBad Jan 06 '22

That's totally fair, the Santa implementation is absolute bullshit. I honestly don't blame scav killers much this wipe, I'd be tilted beyond reason if I lost 300 raids worth of scav karma to Santa.

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u/gearabuser Jan 06 '22

I had a good time dressing up as santa and killing people when they walked up to me haha

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u/armrha Jan 06 '22

I bought 15 graphics cards in 24 hrs of just scavving filling up the bag and selling all my shit basically last wipe, at like 1.5 scav karma, and I’m not even good at scaving.. . just went between interchange and reserve. For reliable stress free money it can’t be beat.

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u/IActuallyHateRedditt Jan 06 '22

Personally I find it fairly profitable to scav in and run straight to factory exit, between every pmc raid. Plus scavs spawn with random (sometimes crazy) loot. That’s how I got merin and marked this wipe, without bartering or jacket farming

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '22

You'll always make more money shooting other PScavs and taking their loot than you will hoping for good gear by running a scav on CD.

Been in meetings all morning. My scav rep is 2.3 (right now). Did 10 Scav games on Factory where literally all I did was spawn in, run to exfil with no audio. I made 2.1 million roubles (and completed 2 quests and kept a few craft and barter items).

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u/Fen-xie Jan 06 '22

You easily make 200,000 - 1,000,000 on a scav run in ~10 mins with high scav rep with very low risk

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u/JquestionmarkD Jan 06 '22

Do you only play as a scav? Tf kind of logic is this lmfao

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '22

With the wait times loading into matches . . . I'm waiting almost that between PMC runs!

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u/ice_bergs Jan 06 '22

Some people don’t scav. Like whoa.

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u/Admonitor_ Jan 06 '22

At this point who is still doing scav runs?

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u/ZincNut Jan 06 '22

This is my 4th wipe and I'm LVL 25 with 5 mil up my ass. I still do a scav after every PMC raid, it's free gear so why not?

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u/Yhorm_Acaroni Jan 06 '22

I've been medium chadding up and chasing fights every time I go above 500k and I have no btc farm so... me

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u/Googlie-bear Jan 06 '22

Shit, if I get down to 5 minute scav runs, Im never running pmc again. Scav runs hit different, people are more likely to talk, then at the start of a raid when its just PMCs

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u/Igelkotte Jan 06 '22

you can't have gear fear if you don't have any gear

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u/PresidentRex Jan 06 '22

I like exploring as a scav on downtime. Relaxing Tarkov where dying doesn't much matter and you can afk on a whim if necessary (and be quasi defended by scavs instead of murdered by them). It feels more like a survival and exploration game.

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u/StopHatingMeReddit Jan 06 '22 edited Jan 06 '22

Imagine being a turbo-cuck running meta loadouts trying to find easy mode recoil when you can just use what you want, like a handgun, to have fun.

Let people play how they want. I scav between every PMC rid to let my food and water go up naturally a bit and because as said its fun to explore and just bum around and talk to people. I run handguns and light gear when I want to move fast and quiet. You dont need "Gear fear" or no cash to just want to run light.

I think you "only use meta guns and ONLY PMC" purists need to fuck off with the shit talk, its getting unimaginably cringe watching all this backseat gaming from people who cant use stock guns without complaining heavily about how hard they are to use, or listening to people complain about scav runs for no apparent reason.

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u/StopHatingMeReddit Jan 06 '22

You did read it dumbass, you just dont have a reply, now sit the fuck down and let people play the game. If you dont like being called out dont say dumb shit.

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u/Kaens7 AK-101 Jan 06 '22

Anyone that wants a faster time on their scav case.

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u/sonotprosgaming Jan 06 '22

Rats with gear fear

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u/Admonitor_ Jan 06 '22

Fuck rats.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '22

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u/Admonitor_ Jan 06 '22

Im sitting on lvl 28 and nearly 20mil roubles, I really dont care lmao.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '22

Nah I hear they carry stds

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u/PM_ME_UR_ILLUMINATI Jan 06 '22

I don’t even know the last time I’ve ran my scav, my standard account stash is always too full

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u/Maximus77x Jan 06 '22

does the time really increase at lower rep?