There are a few more super efficient things you can get at Lv2 traders: 1) Klin. 9x18 PBM is dirt cheap on Prapor 2 and stat-wise it's literally 5.45 PS with 25% less damage (which is easily compensated for by Klin's insane fire rate). As a bonus, folded Kedr variants have the exact same stats as unfolded ones because of stock weirdness, so you can shove a Klin into an Umka from Jaeger 1 and have two free weapon slots for looting. 2) Grizzly. You can get this monster of a medkit for less than 20K using the barter on Therapist 2 (or for 35-40K if buying straight from the flea). My favorite thing to do with these is to heal with one after dying (which will by itself almost pay for the Grizzly), then take it into the next raid with the 1000+ health that it'll have left on it. And again, get an Umka from Jaeger 1.
I have a few feedbacks from my mostly-worthless "experience" playing Tarkov a few wipes as a bad player with no hours to devote: - With the gamma container, instead of running empty slots, I like to put a can of food and a 2-slot drink in there: essentially you get the same spare-area function most raids (cause you will eat and drink, freeing the slots) but if you get Tarkov'ed and end up dead in the first 90 seconds of the raid, you didn't waste any food or drink. - With "kits": if you are actually new to the game (or just bad like me)-- don't worry too much about sticking to one or two "kits." It's totally acceptable to run your scav and either just extract with their items and use those, or run around a bit and pick up some things to use on your next PMC raid. Scav guns (yours or pickups from dead ones) are often low durability, but can often be salvaged by repairing them with the traders. They won't be wonderful weapons, but more often than not they can at least be made reliable enough to use for several raids and they often come with some attachments which can be useful or at least retained for other builds. - The civilian bolty (VPO-215?) is not to be overlooked (nor is the break-action 54R hunting rifle)-- these are quite cheap guns that are great for scrounging around and some questing. They are also extremely light, which will allow you to start leveling your endurance skill. The .366 TKM ammo is available in a few varieties with different qualities and offers some decent starter bullets-- the two soft/hollowpointy options both do huge flesh damage (you can black legs in one shot, which can be very helpful for killing scavs if you don't think you can land an initial headshot, since it makes them hobble around instead of sprinting like madmen-- easy follow-up shots), and EKO actually has a big of pen (more likely to land those headshot kills on PMCs wearing low-end helmets and/or go through bad body armor (though this is not a good approach with a bolt-action). You'd be surprised how far you can go by entering raid with an ultralight VPO kit on a map like Woods, playing cautious for a while while letting PMCs rush objectives and kill each other, and then running around doing a bit of stash running and PvE. It's really a good tool for picking yourself back up after losses or just forcing yourself to play slow and safe and try to make consistent progress with survives. Also it's perfect for those early Jaeger quests. - For big open maps, the 5.45 full-length AKs + a PSO are a really good budget rifle: they shoot flat and fast like 5.56 guns but are way easier to acquire and equip. Yes, the bullets kind of suck, but try and play slow and aim for headshots and they will down even big chunky PMCs with a couple of head donks assuming you can get your hands on some PS ammo. - You can use SKS for nostalgia's sake, but the civilian AKM (VPO-136?) is pretty much just superior in most cases-- faster reload, easily available 20-round mags, etc. SKS still has an accuracy edge for sniping if you will fit a PSO (and gets very quiet with suppressors later in your wipe) but for general use I think the VPO is better.
Goldenstar does hit your energy, but it also has energy recovery for a few seconds. So if you hit 0 energy from using it repeatedly or having a blacked out stomach, it can save your life by using it again.
I know I'm talking med station level three so not early game but 2 meds, ibuprofen and a golden star gets you 7 propitals. You can use both painkillers to one use
You pay nearly twice the price of any item from fence regardless of rep, unlike all the other traders and charisma actually affects every other trader than fence
One small thing i'd like to add, the Poyas rig is THE biggest rig you can find (25slot) and its only around 25k on flea, and since its 4x4 in size you almost always get it back. The more slots you bring into raid the more stuff (aka money) you can bring with you out of raid, so equipping this is a good way to earn money, the poyas and Mechanism backpack carries me easily on my way to 10+mil. Also Bibageef
I'm of the opinion that if you're going to bring in a cat, bandage, and Ai-2, then it's generally worthwhile to bring in 2 of each. They're all so cheap that losing them isn't going to hurt, and being able to fix 2 heavy and light bleeds can keep you in a raid that you otherwise might have to exit early.
I do this too. Bandages, esmarch and cheese cost nothing and prevent you from chewing through expensive medkits. I keep that crap in my rig and the good stuff in the pouch for predicaments.
I have been running the RD-704 with PS and PP as my primary weapon the last month, absolutely love it. Just rips through everything, the ergo and recoil combo feels so strong for every situation and I don't ever feel bad on a bad aim mag dump because the ammo cost is so low. I have taken 3 of these down below 50% durability because I have survived for so long with them and can confirm that the jamming rate is also extremely low compared to most of the other guns I have tried. Might be my favorite gun for making money, uber efficient.
just a note on pbp, because it's such a fast and light round, it loses velocity very quickly over range and also loses pen very quickley as well. That means that at about 50 meters + ap 6.3 has more pen then pbp, so if you are going to use pbp use it on very close range maps like factory or in dorms becuase at any medium range ap 6.3 will be better.
Honorable mention for the press armor for lvl 2 traders/flea. They're everywhere, cheaper than dirt, repair well (aramid), accepts the same lvl 4 front plate as 6B and the whole thing weighs 6 kg w/ plates (i think?). Equivalent to the 6B and far less than the Thor. Most ppl see it on the ground and assume a pscav already dumped it for something better. Has neck/nape/stomach (only class 2, but it's there) Main downside, it's garishly blue. Jaeger's 4 slotter vest covers most of it tho, which is nice if you are a keister grizzly enjoyer.
Heads up to all! Just tried playing Arena for the first time this wipe yesterday. Transferred some money to EFT, and when I started EFT, all traders where reset to Rep 0.00. Quite frustrating being at traders II allaround.
Man, i have no idea why they dropped the price of the CSA from 22k to 11k going into last wipe. Thing was already one of the best rigs in the game to walk into raid with, for all the reasons you mentioned, but it's also an early game must-buy for increasing your stash space. Every wipe since it came out, I've been buying like 20-30 of them purely for extra stash space before i started getting access to cases, and last wipe i was absolutely spoiled by the cheap price tag. I love them, and recommend them to all my friends.
Even well into mid wipe, I'll have 2-3 takedowns with four CSAs in them. 40 storage space made out of 24 slots is a great deal for just shoving random stuff into.
In addition. VERY important! - If its your first wipe and or you dont play much, DO NOT go into the raid WITHOUT water and food. DO NOT ! You will DIE, i almost guarantee it. Bring a bottle of water minimum! Yes, even on interchange. Even on Woods. Exception - Factory. - Don't ignore bandages to fix light bleeds. It will save your medkit points. Fixing bleeds with your medkit eats away its durability really fast.
For those whom it may concern. If all you have is armor with dogshit camo, do night raids. The color doesn't matter if you can't see it. And even chads are scared of the giga nod users. As a giganod/therm user, haven't run into another one yet. Or if I did, they killed me. But most of my night raid deaths in woods are from Partizan though lol
To the people at interchange vehicle extract, I'm sorry, I wasn't actually extract camping you. Your yelling made me consider doing it, though. What a reaction lol xD
@TwiggehTV It's good and is probably my second choice over the Vomz in third because it feels more drifty, but slightly worse than MRS because of less field of view IMO. Although early last wipe I was slaughtering with it, so maybe I should re-explore it? I think the MRS used to be worse with more drift so I had previously went with the Kobra.
17:50 IMO as a standard player you want to take a CMS or (5k rubles + something) over ammo + splint. Ammo isn't that important early, a scav gun will do just fine and breaks aren't important when you have painkiller.
How did you enlarge your window size when you were showcasing the armor? I've seen people do this but I can't figure out how to do it myself and trying to search how to hasn't given any relevant results.
Do the diamond shaped plates offer the same coverage now with the armor changes late last wipe? I remember before they were worse because they were thinner at the top.
I think this might be my poorest wipe yet, hopefully that'll change when I hit Bitcoin farm but for now I'm literally staying afloat from raid to raid with less than 400k roubles the past 3 or 4 days
Level 1 before the flea market; Finish the ground zero quests, then play arena until flea market. Not worth it to be stuck with 20 pen ammo against lvl 4+ plates.
I think insurance should be for if you die only. I know 60% of the community will disagree. Those are the same players that want the game handed to them on a plater without having to do anything though.
Idk about going into raid without CMS kit if you're able to bring one, I'd much rather risk 2 cheap splints and/or extra trash ammo in my bag/rig. I mean I've done Factory with no CMS but yeah other maps it's just too risky.
Surprised no mention of the pk-06. It's a REALLY cheap sight, even with the fuzzy reticle. Basically half the price of the kobra and the burris fast fire.
@@theorphanobliterator Compared to the burris fast fire and kobra that are mentioned in the pre-flea level 1 category they are about the same. The burris only has one giant fuzzy dot as a reticle, has a body that is basically the same in terms of size, and also costs over twice as much. Kobra is much more range adjustable, but quite a bit bulkier with similar fuzziness(if not more) and is a bit under twice the price. The ergo bonus it provides can be quite worth it if you want a red dot and are itching for max ergo though. In terms of cost efficiency of getting a red dot on your gun, the pk-06 is basically the cheapest, and it will help significantly with aim.
@@deadoon the pk06 is the worst sight in the game. if you move whatsoever while aiming, the reticle disappears. that's why literally nobody who knows what they're doing uses it.
Just finished Punisher pt.6 with the SVD kills and i hate that gun so much. The recoil and ergo are god awful even with a further 150k in mods on an already 90k gun. The SKS and RFB are much better The SKS with PP is incredible (again) this wipe
Just scav and build kits with what you find. this game is so open ended yet people meta themselves into oblivion and it kills alot of the inate magic on offer.
Ooh and wear a tv-115 or the other common armor rig from Raiders. They never take it. Plus swap plates with t4/5. I mostly scav reserve for them plus bullets! 545x39 heaven for those on reserve
I have over 500 rounds of 7n40 and igolnic after using grumpys hideout key on ref lvl 2. It is totally worth it to play a bit of arena as a warm up every day, the keys from ref are insane for ammo and gear
@@cherryfruit5492 yippie I love 5.45 and it is totally not garbage. Grumpy has given me some m995 but I'm not looking to go into raid to farm ammo I would really like to buy it from traders or at worst craft it :P
That's absolutely not my experience. Mostly it is careless movement or just luck of the opponent, why someone knows where you are. Just try to sit in a bush (or somewhere else totally hidden) for 20mins or so. No one will come and hunt you down.
@@cornelius2993 Might just be on EU servers I am on, I have played many wipes, I am getting killed multiple times in a row by 200 hour accounts with over 30kd and 30+ raids in a row survived, nearly uninstalled after 2day, when you bring good gear in the chance of getting cheated on increases massively especially if you come in with good ammo.
@@cornelius2993maybe for you but i am also being randomly hunted down in a very unusual mannor. Not only that, but when I fight as im well aware its going to be a weird one, i check the body hit stats and its some bullshit round that magically only hits my head. Im 7 wipes in so im not new by any means.
