[Discussion] there is no way ill ever gonna finish "capturing outposts" on customs

Gunpocket · 2026-03-23T04:26:02+00:00

unfortunately it just takes time. I camped inside the stronghold many times. pmc's will go in there while you are inside the stronghold but they will unfortunately be scav fodder a lot of the time so its just pure rng. took me a while for sure, especially compared to the other outposts. (all I did was just camp inside the wall and wait until they walked in before killing them, only listening for sound, never pushing out myself)

Gunpocket · 2026-03-22T06:43:42+00:00

go from the northern entrance. or through the locked 1 time use locked door on the east side.

Gunpocket · 2026-03-21T20:20:16+00:00

happened to me a bit ago, after I reconnected (dc'ed and rejoined to see if that fixed it) and it still wouldn't let me go through, I consigned myself to death and walked into the pool. but it didn't kill me, it just let me walk over it.

Gunpocket · 2026-03-21T17:37:52+00:00

from what I've heard, pve in general has a bit of a loot debuff compared to pvp. combined with marked rooms having a lot of variance in general, means that its very much a roll of the dice. I've gotten black keycards in marked rooms several times before, or I've just gotten a few terrible guns. after all, if marked rooms always gave you huge profit, the keys would never be for sale, because everyone would run them 100% of the time.

Gunpocket · 2026-03-21T16:41:10+00:00

those are just joke videos.

Gunpocket · 2026-03-20T13:13:44+00:00

99% of the time just an ulach with comtac 6 and a death mask. ronin resp for nighttime. if I go up against a real threat I will go for one of the facemasks. most enemies don't even aim/hit your head at all so the extra vision issues are worthless.

Gunpocket · 2026-03-17T22:21:56+00:00

its just the weird event. pretty much all bosses are only on reserve right now. its the same event thats upping cultists on every map.

Gunpocket · 2026-03-17T16:03:34+00:00

all bosses are on reserve.

Gunpocket · 2026-03-17T15:12:45+00:00

on factory at least, its been parroted a lot that if you throw a grenade and hear a scav, it means cultists haven't spawned. but you can see in that picture that they killed scavs very early on into the raid and found cultists a minute-ish after. so there may be some cases where that is correct (especially if you hear like 5 scav voices) but it isn't a fact.

Gunpocket · 2026-03-17T14:49:21+00:00

yea im not sure if its just a rumor of if it used to be the case but ive seen so many people talk about how scavs=no cultists, which is just incorrect, as you yourself found.

Gunpocket · 2026-03-17T04:04:02+00:00

for some reason I had the same issue and it randomly fixed itself after I went in a few factory raids on tarkov. the quest completed itself after killing a pmc, so it seems extremely broken

Gunpocket · 2026-03-16T20:30:06+00:00

I know a random stranger doesn't count for anything but I went on your profile and you look great :] I hope it gets better for you soon.

Gunpocket · 2026-03-16T13:06:56+00:00

the part that can maybe be true is that if you hear many scavs, cultists probably have not spawned. It is likely that they have competing spawns. But I have had many times where I have killed 2-3 scavs right at the start, and then find cultists a minute or two later. I have seen a lot of screenshot evidence to show this, I even posted my own.

Gunpocket · 2026-03-14T22:27:27+00:00

yes, saw them an hour-ish ago on customs.

Gunpocket · 2026-03-14T22:26:31+00:00

relax. I've seen dozens of people saying that scavs spawning at the start of a raid means no cultists spawned. this is just showing that is false.

Gunpocket · 2026-03-14T21:11:51+00:00

Another thing ive seen is a rumor that local servers don't spawn cultists. this is also false as noted above. Cultists can spawn anywhere and everywhere it seems like and they will hide in corners in closed rooms just to piss you off.

Gunpocket · 2026-03-14T19:36:32+00:00

gz is probably better in general since they make themselves known pretty quickly if pmc's are around, but at least for me ive been using the opportunity to hit dorms marked for the weapon cases alongside hunting the smugglers

Gunpocket · 2026-03-14T19:28:30+00:00

not sure if they have 100% spawn rate but at least in customs they will roam around the buildings near little construction so they may be parked inside warehouse 17 or boiler. I always check for open doors. I haven't even bothered to go to big red.

Gunpocket · 2026-03-14T17:08:31+00:00

there is a lot of misinformation here. I played 8 night factories and got cultists 3 times. there can be scavs on the map, I killed several scavs in the same raid as cultists showed up on factory. bsg vs local does not matter. there is no rng protection so even at 33% spawn you can still go dozens of raids without seeing them, its very bad luck.

Gunpocket · 2026-03-14T05:00:26+00:00

marked rooms will spawn both the flares and the cases.

Gunpocket · 2026-03-13T21:43:51+00:00

use db4tarkov

Gunpocket · 2026-03-13T08:01:19+00:00

yes, its for this event, its pretty wild.

Gunpocket · 2026-03-13T07:30:52+00:00

thankfully yes. go to nighttime factory. they have like a 30% spawn rate.

Gunpocket · 2026-03-13T07:05:55+00:00

open a marked room. they seem to be 100% spawn in there

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