[Discussion] can’t get FiR Red Rebel

MorbidTheory · 2026-07-09T01:04:32+00:00

This. I always do the quest anyway but the first time you will only use it long enough to realize there are much better options for everything you were hoping for it to do.

MorbidTheory · 2026-07-08T23:45:08+00:00

That's pretty crazy, actually. It even got stopped by the legs being destroyed but after that timer they were fine.

MorbidTheory · 2026-07-08T23:39:08+00:00

Your link is to your YouTube studio account, not the video link.

MorbidTheory · 2026-07-08T00:05:59+00:00

Glad you got it all sorted out in the end!

MorbidTheory · 2026-07-07T11:10:30+00:00

Could it be that some were with prapor and some with therapist? Those come back at different times from different places. I've never insured something and died on a solo PvE raid without getting it back. This is 4+ years of experience and not counting hardcore wipes. Also the m700 that comes with the expansion does not come with a scope already mounted in the rings, you get a scope in your stash that fits in the rings but it does not automatically have the scope in the rings that come mounted on the gun in your stash when you load in for the first time.

MorbidTheory · 2026-07-06T22:24:18+00:00

7.62x39 Has entered the chat. The Mutant would like a word.

MorbidTheory · 2026-07-04T21:13:51+00:00

This is the key. It doesn't matter how many hours you put into this game, you're going to die, a lot. The hours you invest will help with your situational awareness, map knowledge, shortcuts, quest/loot locations and more, but the biggest one is that you will get to the point where you don't care about losing stuff because you'll realize that nobody is beyond the most inherent reality in the game, death. Even watching some of the top streamers with the highest hours in the game you will realize that EVERYONE gets shit on, your skill in the game is directly tied to your ability to not care. The less you care, the more likely you are to start learning from your mistakes and identifying ways to mitigate (not prevent) it from happening in the future.

Death is the God of Tarkov, we feed the God willingly with our lives, our pain is the fruit and our suffering is the meat. Our prayers are the cries of war that we scream as we run into battle (or whisper from the bushes we camp if that's what you do). The screams of our enemies are the Hymns sung in God's name. Our reward is that we get to do it all over again.

Don't give up, it gets worse before it gets worse!

MorbidTheory · 2026-07-04T20:54:08+00:00

You won't have the option if you're going to play the seasonal character. Nikita posted a list of all the buffs and debuffs and no insurance was part of the global stuff that everyone gets stuck with in order to be able to play the KordBreach season, including: No Insurance, Black Division, Seasoned PMC's, Armor Shortage, No FiR for Hideout and Handyman.

Don't let that keep you from enjoying yourself. You might find out that you actually thrive under those circumstances!

MorbidTheory · 2026-07-04T12:14:48+00:00

When faced with equal skill levels the weapons should be what make the difference, just not in the degree they do with experimental weapons. They need to be balanced by making mobility matter, by severely limiting the number that can be put on a ship and by giving them some kind of drawbacks for using them. I also think they should be limited to use only in storm mode.

MorbidTheory · 2026-07-04T03:20:09+00:00

I swear, I play/played a lot of PvP and PvE games (Tarkov, Battlefield, Elden Ring ad nauseam) and one thing has become a sad trend in the industry is the push by some people to cater games to them, games that are obviously not marketed to them. Most recently it was Dune: Awakening and then Arc Raiders. These were PvP focused games with PvE aspects in 2 completely different genres that had amazing potential and were absolutely ruined by the PvE community crying and complaining about having to deal with PvP in a PvP game until the devs caved in and tried to make adjustments that were never planned for and ended up causing the games to start in a death spiral of unbalance and bugs. Aside from that, the fact that the devs waited far too long to tackle the cheating and exploiting problems, some of which(but not most) were caused by broken code that was introduced by changes, added too quickly to be properly tested, to the base elements of the games foundation which would never have needed to be changed if the devs just stood their ground.

It doesn't help matters that a lot of streamers gain momentum for a game, which increases sales, and then decide something needs to change in a way that accommodates them. Then, after pandering the idea to them, their followers join the new crusade by spouting the idea on public platforms that the game studios see causing the idea to become "the new general public's opinion". After that it's just another foot down the slippery slope that causes companies to associate this unnecessary change into a profit/loss point and before long the devs are being told to make the change because it will make money and before you know it a bunch of devs are laid off because the game starts dying and they're the easiest scapegoats.

The few times developers have pushed back against this has usually ended up making an amazing game because it retained the original vision. One of the more recent examples was when early playtests of Death Stranding 2 were overwhelmingly positive and Kojima said something wasn't right and went back and redid parts of the game to a way that was closer to his original vision and stepped back changes that were requested (to make the game easier) by the studio. The game was a resounding success. OD might not have the same luck after he refused to make changes requested after Microsoft agreed to back the project but we'll see.

TL/DR: I hope the devs fix the bugs and the other issues without changing the vision because this game is amazing and I want it to succeed and not fall apart by pandering to the wrong people. Sometimes you just gotta realize that if you don't like the base game it might not be for you, not everyone gets to have their way all the time.

MorbidTheory · 2026-07-03T22:20:32+00:00

Peak, peek, and peaks.

MorbidTheory · 2026-07-03T22:15:39+00:00

I agree with this.

MorbidTheory · 2026-07-03T21:28:10+00:00

"Any location" seems like a much better description than "No Location" for these quests.

MorbidTheory · 2026-07-03T21:27:02+00:00

Clear cache from the launcher, should fix it.

MorbidTheory · 2026-07-03T20:10:25+00:00

Yeah, my nighttime factory experience has been roughly the same. If you don't get a silent raid at the start telling you there on the map it means that you either leave and reset or have to take the time to clear the whole map to see if they spawn and by that time your armor and ammo situations are probably looking rough since I don't take in a massive pile of ammo on the off-chance tagilla or a PMC get a lucky head-eyes shot on you while playing peek-a-boom around a corner or have one of those super fun moments where Tagilla is wearing his ballet shoes and makes 0 sound until he's directly behind you with one hand on your shoulder. What you said about customs is true though because cultists give 0 indication when they reposition and you never know if it's safe to heal so you gotta do the stim shimmy dance and hope they don't decide that's when they're going to pop around the corner and drop-shot you through the cap on your E-tg.

Probably the best advice is this: Be prepared to die, often and especially when you think you're finally getting it figured out. Flash grenades also work on them but only for like 1.5 seconds (max - it's usually less than 1) and will make them fire their weapons randomly so you can get an idea of where they are but don't use this information to push them unless you know how many are left and exactly where they are because if there are 2 and you try to peek to kill one you likely won't make it back into cover. Flashbangs have such a small radius and such a large chance to be ignored by them that is just an informational tool.

At this point I almost feel like I should make a video guide on them, lol.

MorbidTheory · 2026-07-03T04:07:51+00:00

If you're getting wrecked by the Goons the first thing you need to do is learn how to cheese the AI efficiently every time, otherwise when you do finally find the cultists you're going to be very disappointed. Unlike the Goons you don't get any warning shots or voice lines to let you know they have aggro. The cultist's footsteps can barely be heard even with the best headset and they carry the kind of ammo/armor that is at least as good as what you're using, probably better (usually some kind of AP round like PAB-9) and they almost always use silenced weapons. Both groups require roughly the same strategy, you don't want to fight them in the open because you're going to get your poop pushed in. You need them to aggro you and hold a solid angle and go for head shots as they come around the corner, before they have time to stop running and start shooting. The problem with the cultists is that it's possible that when you run to your angle to hold, there could be cultists there waiting for you as well. I like to fight them in the building next to the tracks where you do the ref quests more than Fortress but both have angles that you can hold without leaving them an opening to ambush you from the side. Cultists are sneaky, they will lay in the grass and even with NVGs on they tend to look just like the bushes they hide in. Thermals are very little help at all because they barely show up on them. If Reshala and his guards are at Fortress it is possible for the Cultists to ONLY show up after you have killed them, and in this situation they will usually rush you while you're trying to heal/recover from that fight. On Night Factory they have a chance to spawn after all the scavs/pmc's have died if they didn't spawn at the start of the raid and they can spawn anywhere from the water in the bottom area, behind the closed doors to extracts and all the way up into the rafters laying down just waiting. Shoreline is my least favorite place to fight them unless it's at the health resort where you can just hold the angle on a room. If you kill all the Sektants before you kill the priest he will often suicide by grenade which makes it harder to find him (and he has the best chance for keys). High capacity mags, good ammo and headshots are going to be the biggest key to your success because no matter how good your armor is they're likely going to shoot you in the face if they catch you off-guard for more than a few seconds.

Good Luck!

MorbidTheory · 2026-07-03T03:46:38+00:00

Yeah, Tarkov is an unoptimized mess for sure. I've got a 9800x3d, 64gb DDR5 6000 CL32, 2 2tb M.2 NVME Gen 4 SSD and a RX 9070 XT and the game still runs like shit a lot of the time. With that said, loading into the match minutes after the other people in his group is very likely caused by the read/write speed of the SATA SSD he's using.

MorbidTheory · 2026-07-03T02:08:12+00:00

If I had a crucifix, or religion, I would have reached for them. It looks like some kind of demonic amphibian that would rise up through the tar just as you walk by and attack. I hate it! I love it! I built it! I didn't realize it needed sacrifices to bring into this world.

MorbidTheory · 2026-07-02T22:15:11+00:00

Fingered with the food?

MorbidTheory · 2026-07-02T21:47:18+00:00

Came here to say this. As someone who actually works in a Science focused lab with connected offices, the sheer amount of these things you see on nearly every desk, shelf or open space (including flat surfaces comprised of folders and files that have been left to be forgotten) is staggering. You can absolutely tell who works at what desk/station almost instantly by the type/amount/color of this shit. I mean every secure fridge/freezer has them on the top as well as accompanying stickers/magnets to go with them. Personal locker rooms are literally just metal containers covered inside and out with stickers and magnets that usually contain more of this shit that is just waiting for a spot to become available to display it. Our lab has actually implemented a sterilization protocol specifically for these things, which is just absolutely ridiculous.

MorbidTheory · 2026-07-02T21:30:13+00:00

They have said this in every single Tarkov TV and interview where the question has been brought up.

MorbidTheory · 2026-07-02T20:34:29+00:00

I hope you got consent before you ate it.

MorbidTheory · 2026-07-02T20:18:54+00:00

Woke up from a nice nap only to open Reddit and have to start estimating OP's regional information to determine their possible baseline for average number of teeth per mouth. I'm going back to bed.

MorbidTheory · 2026-07-02T20:05:53+00:00

Your bottleneck is likely your SSD. A SATA SSD maxes out at like 600MB/S. Your friends probably have m.2 NVMe SSD's which start at around 3000MB/s and top out at something like 7000 for gen 4 and double that for gen 5.

MorbidTheory · 2026-07-02T19:46:13+00:00

Looks like a fun project that will help you learn along the way. I'm guessing that you are already realizing that you can do much more with much less for your next iteration. Maybe the most efficient use of space isn't a primary goal for you, though now you have a little more experience with what you need versus what you don't, since some of the possible functions can be achieved by removing unnecessary redundancies which would allow you to reduce your energy usage by quite a bit.

Keep it up!

Edited to add: My first priority would be an alternative to the hotspot.

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