YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!! I just got out of a raid and my duo killed preist first. They ALL rushed us! Thank god I had a zabralo on because I wasn't prepared for it and got absolutely roasted with 7.62 BP. We made it out and my duo got dorms marked key. Thanks for the tip!!!
Great video man, I don’t play much shoreline so this was really helpful! 99% of my raids are on customs and I do a lot of cultist farming so I just wanted to add a few pointers for anyone who wants to try this on customs. I’ve had a shit ton of experience with the cultists on customs, but I’ve only ever seen them in two spots; outside of the garage south of crackhouse and east of ruaf, or by the train under skeleton. I haven’t seen them by the train in two wipes, and I only ever saw them while fighting reshala at fortress, but it’s worth mentioning. If you come from ruaf roadblock, you can peek the crack in the wall and see if they are there. It’s actually broken, you can peek the hole in the wall and see them all standing still, but they won’t shoot until you do. Your best bet is to kill the priest and maybe one more, then run over to construction, usually I finish the rest of them off from there, sometimes one of them hides in the garage or by the busses. IMO customs is super easy for cultist farming but that’s prolly bc I’ve always loved that map
easiest way to kill or bait them if they're not rushing you is to abuse a half right lean peek around a corner(use the smooth lean to right hand peek only halfway out instead of fully) and slowly clear every angle from a window or something while a friend watches the entrance also half right peeking, similar to the established customs method. They cannot "see" you even if you've aggroed them if you're not peeking more than halfway out. Obviously this is vastly inferior to simply baiting them to the door which is much safer, but like you said, sometimes only 2 or 3 rush you and you need to track down the remaining ones
keep in mind that they can respawn in a different location a few minutes after you killed them, in this case you could find them at Path To Lightouse after killing them at the resort Edit: damn you btw, i've been secretly farming them uncontested for a month, now's gonna be a challenge
More infos : Sometime they'll stalk you and try to knife you, which poisons you, losing life until you extract / use an antidote (You'll extract or die unless you planned beforehand pretty much.) Also meeting one for the first time is the most confusing experience ever for a new player, that one guy really looked like a scav with a weird IA, fleeing me. Ends up dying, kektor and cultist knife. "Hum..." Suddenly the bushes started to speak suppressed fire from 4 different angles as I was panicking, got cornered on the metal crates / sport bag corner near the bus parking, and promptly executed after downing two other cultists. I do go out of my way not to meet them, and have only saw them twice in two wipes (if you don't count the aftermath of a cultist farm that I eagerly finished looting, thanks whoever.) So pretty much, you should be fine, night doesn't always mean cultists, some place are free to stroll. To my knowledge, you can meet them on Woods, Shoreline, Customs, and that's about it. Woods ones are the worst imo, but at least you'll get back your gear with insurance, since no one will ever find your body.
Huh. I must have been running straight past these guys on my night time loot runs. I’ve done roughly 20 so far, and entered right there on the west wing, never once engaged or been engaged by them.
Their spawns are fairly limited something like 20% iirc and that is split between 3 locations on Shoreline so it is very possible that they just never spawned on the resort and instead on one of the other 2 locations. In addition Cultists will only spawn during specific times in the night, from I iirc 22:00 to 4:00 which isn't a terribly large window even if you do exclusively night raids you could easily begin a raid that is "nighttime" but still not be in the spawn window, or start a raid early in the morning that will end outside the spawn window, in both cases the Cultists wouldn't spawn. On top of all that, the cultists when not agro-ed are very low profile with very few voice lines and silent movement and a fairly small activation radius so you could very easily walk right past them and never even know they were there.
Last wipe they were consistently spawning at resort we would see them 3 to 4 times there outof 10 raids this wipe has definitely knocked back there spawn down to around 12 percent I believe this is bc of the new goon squad spawn at weather station .... so far I've killed them 3 separate time this whole wipe out of almost 80 shoreline raids they are almost non existence at this point
@@justinangelle5571 yeah it is really weird, something must have been messed with for their spawns, I almost never see them anymore. Personally I'm not advanced enough or frankly interested enough to bother with farming them so for me it's a bit if a relief to be able to do my night raid loot runs in relative peace. However not seeing them at all is a bit concerning. It is somewhat fun once you realize they are there to try and skirt around them as you loot the resort. They also can also act as a makeshift security force similar similar to Scavs, since they'll very likely engage or be engaged by most PMCs that come in after you.
This is good to know. I knew about another door method with the goon squad by watching other vids, so it seems the door method is our friend. I'm gonna try this sooner or later. Hopefully later :) Thanks for taking the time to demonstrate the spawn points as well as the one shot agro. Good tip for saving ammo to do this. I think I'm gonna bring food/water due to the potential long wait time.
okay, coming across this as a new player, this is great info, but also.. the editing and pacing here is pretty good, and is consistently making me feel unnerved. not much does that, good job!
@@Idkwhattomakethis824 in my experience night resort is either a bunch of chads with hexs and bastions rushing and you die in the firdt 2 minutes or resort is completely empty and you loot the entire place and encounter like 2 scavs
@@jadonlimoges1830 this. I ve been to shoreline idk, about 300 raids, and if u didnt die in the first 2min, you are good to go. Chads at night know exactly the spawns and they just run for it and you probaly have no chance against them, im just a lvl 32 timmy with a AKM with PS ammo so, no way to fight (fuck granadier)
I've learned to farm cultist behind blue on woods, as woods has the highest spawn for them I can usually farm shturmin and cultist all in one raid leading me 3 violets this wipe, 4 red rebels, black keycard, and many marked room keys:)
What's your trick to farm them? Do PMC's get in the way often? Are there any spots you like to shoot them from, and what's your weapon/ammo of choice to do it?
@@JustAJauneArc For my spot, I like to take Shturmin on the rock over hang opposite of blue. Shturmin can’t see you at night but his guards can as they have night vision, so they should be your primary target first. One spawns on your left hand side in front of the red buildings in the bushes the other spawns near the very far cabin on your right in a bush as well and shturmin spawns below your rock perch near the trucks closest to the the nearest cabin on the right of you. I usually use m62 as the 7.62 MDR is my favorite gun. 7.62x39 BP will one shot shturmins guards but not shrurmin, but it will one shot headshot cultist. Now for the cultist you can see them in the exact same spot this can be done solo but I prefer duo. In that rock perch across from blue you want to look right between blue and red buildings into the woods. You can see the cultist leader usually crouching up and down head bobbing and sometimes you can see another guard. If it is too foggy you can hop down onto one of the lumber stacks in front of blue to get a better view (just a more risky spot). They will not push you if you remain over 100m away, I like to have my team ready in blue huddled into the corner covering the door. Who ever kills the cult leader will have the aggro so when you go to meet your duo in blue is when they will push usually. 1-3 cultist will push you once you arrive into blue wait a couple minutes and if nothing me and my team mate pop painkillers and run out the back back in forth until we get shot at, if you remain moving you won’t get hit, then we will rush back into blue and take our positions at the back door and will rinse and repeat until they are all dead. We learned not to throw grenades at them as it will push them back into the woods and then you have to go into that scary place together to get the last couple so don’t do that. And that’s pretty much it! Now for PMC’s we probably run into them 1 out of ever 10 raids so not often at all! If shrurmin or the cultist aren’t there I loot lumber, med camp, and depending on spawn used and get out and repeat. If it’s around 0500 and cultist aren’t there I usually loot the whole map and wait for the night cycle again. I’ve made 25+ mil over the last two weeks doing this.
@@indom3047 Great stuff man! Thanks for sharing. Fighting cultists is not easy, but it is fun. Sunken Village on Woods and Spine on Shoreline are two spots that are incredibly difficult to do in my experience, as a solo at least... Ever tried those?
lol, my one encounter with cultists so far was seeing 1 in customs construction, getting a headshot then immediately being sprayed down from behind from one I *didn't* see. Sneaky breekis.
My friend and I like to try woods at exactly midnight with thermals. We'd wander around practically glued to our sights looking for the faintest signs of life and heading towards cultist hotspots. We'd then snipe them with suppressors as they wouldn't aggro if you did so in this way. But you'd have to go for headshots.
so i saw this in my feed and clicked to watch it later, had no idea it was about tarkov, thought it was just a guide to killing cultists irl. 2023 may require this info.
I have always used the customs method but I gotta give this one a try seeing there is only one door u have to watch instead of the 2 on the customs farming method
used this just now, used a saiga 9 carbine with luger and green tip, killed 3 and the boss. looted the goons but didn't know I got the hit on the boss, so I just snuck away with the loot, his last guard was too sneaky and I didn't have the shot. first time killing cultists! thanks for the help
I did the door method on killa. He was down by mantis, I was directly above. Peaked to get his agro, ran to the bathroom where the hidden card access is, closed the door and his knee peaked through the door and I ump'ed his kneecap - it was not very calm and collected.
Hello i am new in cultist farm, this video helped me a lot! I just have 2 questions. When you go to abandoned village and you see them they gona shoot you or run up to knife kill?(like when i just see one, should i just shot him down or first run to the house and wait for them to run on me) And second is are they loot you? or are they just pick up your gun when they kill you? Thanks you!
Ran into a cultist once in the narrow passages in factory sublevel. He just came running at me with a knife and ran off as fast. It was really creepy but cool. I got mad and ran after him and shot him down like mad lol.
This is a method I’ve used before the only other way I hunt them tho is with the thermal on a bolt action or DMR usually on woods sniping across the lake it’s lower risk but more expensive plus a secondary is a must especially if you can’t pick them all off from range first
@@logannicholson1850 Ah now I get you, I was picturing FOB to behind sawmil 😅 Didn't know cultists appeared on thermals? Not tried since before last wipe. Good to know!
My method last wipe is an unorthodox one, I farmed those Fuckers on woods, I however took the long approach, I used a thermal to have an easier time seeing them and would kill 1 or 2 with headshots as I used m61 and then I would dip, wait a few minutes for them to de aggro and repeat, worked pretty well on top of killing many pmcs with thermals and high tier armor.
@@Kojakofthelake they aren't illuminated by thermals, so they won't be bright ass white... but you can see them in the scope, they just are..... outlined I guess, it's hard for me to explain...... you can see the cultists model through the scope, but they have no thermal signature, so the thermal part of the scope doesn't work. But being a video game you can still make out the model if you pay attention, they will be slightly brighter than the area around them, best I can explain it so I hope this helps and sorry for it being so long
@@raptorgaming2763 No problem at all ! I'll try to find some on woods and hopefully die to them and not a player, I'm really curious about how it looks, thank for the infos, I was under the impression that if you had a thermal, you could only point-fire at them, good info !
@@EULGamingYT ohhh, cuz I can make money but I have to skip abandoned village unless I see ai scavs moving around. 10 raids and 0 pmcs with an average haul of .8-1.2 mil with skipping the best spawns for but coins. But need more data and more experience with woods cultists
I just fought some sektants on customs....day customs... and I found a glitch. I took a bullet out of their mag but it froze the slot and wouldn't let me discard or do anything with the bullet. Be sure to not empty the mags, check them by sight.
thats literally just a normal bug that has been around for years, sometimes it happens and you cant put things in that slot of your rig/bag for the rest of the raid, even alt f4 wont fix it
Interesting that you say they don’t attack unless close, I got absolutely lit up from about 40 metres on Shoreline the other day by cultists I hadn’t shot at or approached. Kind of weird.
Because his information is very and I mean very wrong in some terms, cultist have been programmed to generally hunt or follow you and will shoot you on site majority of the time if the Priest is with them
so, i walked in shoreline, tried going east. the second i turned right next to the white-blue bunkhouse i see one cultist sitting, suddenly he looks at me - he wasnt even shooting. We stare at each other and i panicked af. loaded a mag of ap sx into his face then another sektant killed me lol. i guess its not for me
I still remember my one and only cultist run in last wipe on Customs near crackhouse my friend got obliterated after shooting one only for me to nearly get stabbed by the priest but I remember killing him only looting his knife and AS VAL and running for my life I had no idea before then that they were absolutely silent
Very good guide man I really appreciate the tips cuz I usually just avoid at all costs. Lol only thing I recommend is maybe putting the room numbers in your description
Also for anyone watching this a year later cultists can spawn with a Taiga in their melee slot which is usuallly around 10 mil stay on the lookout for it
Was doing quests on Resort Night Time, they were randomly running next to me so I just kill them all lol, no peeking, no hiding, they just wouldnt shoot
Its like I love the amount of teamwork amd effort it takes to fight the cultists and rogues but I hate the fact you basically have to cheese them to win :/ The duality of tarkov strikes agaon lol
i do have my own method but your is better. I usually bring ADAR with warmage rounds and a big ass scope (x6 to x16) and snipe those group on East Wing from West Wing and reverse
"They will not fire or chase you unless you come within just a few meters of them" not even close to my experience. They 100% will. Atleast the cultists on customs anyway
I ran into them on Customs. I didn't realize what they were but they just silently moved around me until I shot first. Just got all my gear back today lol. now that I know I"ll handle that differently.
