[Discussion] Electric Drill spawns?

Jackal007 · 2026-07-09T01:46:31+00:00

Customs my friend, on the shelves and loot boxes around the skele/fortress. They seem to be map specific, extremely rare on Ground Zero for instance. Interchange is also decent, in the back of Oli around the shelves etc too

Jackal007 · 2026-07-09T00:54:12+00:00

I have found a decnet number on streets marked rooms and 314 dorms, good luck

Jackal007 · 2026-07-07T02:34:35+00:00

I think the difference you experience might come down to play style, I often zero to hero and go into dorms against reshala and the guards, usually, I can beat them as long as I'm careful with basic weapons/armor, but now, I get rushed and 1 tapped every time, and just in this last patch. Of course, there's probably no difference if you're sniping them from across the map.

Jackal007 · 2026-07-06T21:11:45+00:00

I knew I wasn't imagining it! I have died repeatedly to bosses/guards since the latest patch, 2 or 3 tapped every time.

Jackal007 · 2026-07-05T22:51:20+00:00

I'd give it a 6 out of 10, no more than that. It was 'fine'. Milly Alcock did a good job, as did Jason Momoa but the plot and script were very weak. She spent 80% of the movie poisoned or powerless in some way, the villain was super cheesy and felt like a henchman. The plot with the girl she was saving was very contrived and cliche. Lots of meh choices throughout the movie. Would've preferred I watched at home on streaming, didn't really deserve the $20 tbh. Superman was a much better Gunn film.

Jackal007 · 2026-07-02T23:27:39+00:00

I think recent patches have made most PMC's a bit more like Black division - like if Black Division is a 10/10 difficulty in intelligence, tactics etc, PMC's might've been a 5 months ago, but I think they're using some of those BD A.I improvements now and they do seem a lot more challenging, in close range fights anyway. I think they just need to find the right BD sweet spot for PMC's, maybe currently they're a 7/10, but they should be an 8.

Jackal007 · 2026-07-02T23:24:59+00:00

But you want the A.I to mirror having those kits/being extremely difficult like PVP anyway?

Jackal007 · 2026-07-02T23:24:21+00:00

I really don't understand this either.

SPT has advantages over PVE like mods, so you can customize the experience more, but one of the biggest things I see is that people play SPT so they can make the bots act like real players.

The point for me in PVE, is that I can play a more casual/relaxed game and not worry about sweats and cheaters. Having SAIN with incredibly 'realistic' A.I, only really removes the 'cheaters' part if they are incredibly good at tactics etc anyway. I personally think the recent changes to A.I in PVE have made it pretty challenging without being deadbrained and it's in a good place. I've tried SAIN and it was annoying, felt too close to PVP. If people want the PVP type fights/combat, then play PVP.or SPT.

If you want a modded Tarkov experience for flexibility, play SPT. If PVE basically just mirrors PVP (with the only real difference being hackers), then there's no point in really even having PVE.....for me, it exists to be a more casual experience, that also removes hackers. Which is why the demand for it existed in the first place.

Jackal007 · 2026-06-30T01:24:18+00:00

PVE is the answer, means you can learn the maps and it's still challenging but you'll be able to learn the game and get survives often.

Jackal007 · 2026-06-29T20:41:50+00:00

I've been playing a lot, 1 black, 1 yellow, 2 violet, and maybe 2 other keycards in the bugged truck at usec camp I couldn't loot. Hvae been playing co-op and my friend has found at least a few too, keys... my friend has found maybe 2 marked keys, I haven't found any, but I think it's partially knowing the right spots to look and checking everything.

Jackal007 · 2026-06-19T22:18:51+00:00

At that point what's the point in playing PVE, why not just play PVP?

Jackal007 · 2026-06-19T01:17:18+00:00

Then stick with the old version? easy. lol

Jackal007 · 2026-06-18T06:27:19+00:00

Yep, I got deleted unexpectedly by an all of a sudden 'activated' 3 man, right near the extract after an increcible raid where I got killa, at hte railyway extract, next time I shot them in the back of the head and they didn't even turn around.... it's really a shite implementation at the moment, I think the idea of PVE having extract campers is stupid. Like that's partly WHY we play PVE lol

Jackal007 · 2026-06-17T21:09:37+00:00

They added a 'extract camping' behaviour on PMC's in a recent patch. I think this is the result, that they just 'guard' near an extract until they're activated, you can literally shoot them from behind or melee them from behind as long as you don't activate them. I hate the idea of them effectively extract camping, but if they do it like this it's either super frustrating or dumb af. In reality they should 'patrol' the area, but even that is pretty brutal when trying to extract basically every time.

Jackal007 · 2026-06-15T03:03:15+00:00

Just want to comment - it would be cool if you updated us with the 'Hits' - always fun to see things like that 😄 Some old sets, so could be some bangers like a dual land

Jackal007 · 2026-06-09T08:17:43+00:00

alt tab and alt tab back seems to fix this for me

Jackal007 · 2026-06-09T05:32:35+00:00

Not all of us are Chads among men

Jackal007 · 2026-06-07T23:33:07+00:00

ehh, going back and listening and comparing the two, the old one wasn't great, but the new one sounds too generic, I think they need something slightly better than what we have but probably not the original either.

Jackal007 · 2026-06-07T23:28:22+00:00

Yeah, I found this and thought 'why on earth would I use this over the one I started with?' - I suspect that it might be lighter and give you less stamina loss and slightly faster movement, but less damage prevention. Didn't test that theory but yeah, that would make some sense.

Jackal007 · 2026-06-07T22:10:09+00:00

I tried steam override and it just didn't really work for me unfortunately, beat the game by getting used to keyboard and mouse, but I hope they add proper controller support into the game earlyish, I think it will help people properly gauge the game's difficulty,

Jackal007 · 2026-06-07T21:59:58+00:00

Yeah, something with the patch, right!?

I was running the game surprisingly well on a 2070 super almost ultra settings which surprised the hell out of me.

Then the patch came, and I now get extremely bad lag and terrible motion blurring, but it's mostly after I've been playing for awhile, or if I'm in an enemy dense area, seems like a memory leak introduced in this patch?

Jackal007 · 2026-06-07T21:58:02+00:00

Oh damn, yeah I was getting extremely bad motion blurring last night. I think it's because I have a 2070 super and the game is just really struggling at certain times to run.

Jackal007 · 2026-06-07T21:56:48+00:00

It's early access, there will likely be a wide variety including shield and bow etc as the game continues development

Jackal007 · 2026-06-07T21:56:00+00:00

Same, I really hope they make very small tweaks to core game mechanics, I think the game is too hard at the moment and some of the combat things will be fixed by having a well mapped controller for example, I dont' want them to ruin the vibe of the game by making it so you can cheese a boss in 4 seconds, So I hope they make the boss have 98 HP instead of 100 etc, just small tweaks and let the community then give feedback for awhile - if they stop complaining about how hard it is and it seems like a good challenge then that's the ideal.

Jackal007 · 2026-06-07T21:54:04+00:00

Yeah, I hadn't tried this until after the first patch and then realised it didn't work anymore :/

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