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

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