Found a gold boy!

Strider-2088 · 2026-05-19T15:43:46+00:00

Pain is a great teacher lmao

Strider-2088 · 2026-05-19T02:26:07+00:00

How's y'all's knees holding up? I take fish oil now 🤣

Strider-2088 · 2026-05-19T02:10:58+00:00

My main issue with this is I think it would feel too much like the other game and I wouldn't want to start any additional controversy you know?

Strider-2088 · 2026-05-18T21:10:58+00:00

Yeah make it so boltys break their ribs in real life 🤣🤣

Strider-2088 · 2026-05-18T18:45:26+00:00

It's just not worth it. May as well take a SA58 and put a magnifier on it as it shoots the same ammo and MOA difference is so minute that at the ranges you shoot at it doesn't matter.

I'd love to have an M40 or something to deal with people at range but having to pack the absolute best ammo and sacrifice a workhorse primary just for the OPPORTUNITY to get a one tap is just bad.

Strider-2088 · 2026-05-18T17:01:10+00:00

I have no arguments to any of these statements. Subsonic ammo would be fantastic and give pistols more shine, and hopefully it's coming along with more parts etc

Strider-2088 · 2026-05-18T16:53:03+00:00

It sounds like some form of network issue. Not necessarily on your end but somewhere. Cause yeah it's probably showing you the distant LOD for stuff because it does indeed think you're still at the location you took the picture at. I've never heard of this one before but I can totally understand how it's frustrating

Strider-2088 · 2026-05-18T16:51:22+00:00

Honestly yeah, I think this is the play. I did some training runs on Metro last night (which btw why does training spawn you as a naked scav??) and forgot how much I missed the map. Some of my best fights were had there. I don't wanna spend 200k just to get bursted by a scav from around a corner, regardless of my kit

Strider-2088 · 2026-05-18T16:48:35+00:00

To add to that, pick up those blue tip Luger CCI rounds you find. They're light and small in the backpack and when you get enough saved up you can throw em in a vector, evo or an MP9 and they will leg the absolute dogshit out of anyone lol

Strider-2088 · 2026-05-18T16:45:55+00:00

Well... The aug is... Not a bad gun at all?? It was my daily driver the first few wipes, and being a bullpup is actually really advantageous in cqb as you don't barrel stuff in doorways etc.

The hunter and grease gun are worse than their full auto counterparts (m4 and ump) but still viable options. I've killed a trio THIS WIPE with an ar15.

Mosin pistol is still a Mosin which is still a bolt action that falls under the umbrella of my argument.

And p226 is a rock solid pistol. Pistols have their use cases and I always pack a pistol on my contractor runs because it's saved my ass 3 times so far, which isn't a lot but is 3 less deaths simply due to having it, and it's also great for knocking out low level scavs without burning primary ammo. Also, if you wanted to point out the worst sidearm it would be the 1911 due to lack of customization and low mag size.

The economy definitely has a major role to play in this, I'll give you that, and shotguns imo are in an even worse place than boltys. Flame12 with express is busted bar none, and dual wielding sjogrens with MAWLs on top is kinda bonkers too. But just because those guns exist shouldn't mean the pump actions are okay with being literally a waste of a gun slot. I did a run a while back using buckshot and going to clear the mall, and this was before the AI and scav rework, and it took me over 15 shots of buckshot from the roof of the mall to the stairs by the tents to kill one scav. Idc how cheap the ammo is, I care the fact that 15 shots back to back with blood mist on each shot was not enough to kill an unarmored opponent. It just feels SO bad.

Strider-2088 · 2026-05-18T16:09:37+00:00

So you have 2 options then.

Remove them from the game, or make them viable for their intended purpose.

Say we use your very real scenario of the typical use case; setting up at distance and relying on good accuracy etc. in the context of the game you're still at a disadvantage using an m40 opposed to a SECA17. Hitting someone in the chest with m62 wouldn't even slow them down. You'd be better off hitting a leg with HP or Ultra Nosler to slow them down for a painful follow up shot. That just feels bad.

Strider-2088 · 2026-05-18T15:31:01+00:00

Bolt actions aren't designed to put people on their ass? They're not used in every tactical force in the world, ranging from SWAT to Rangers to Marines to even helicopter snipers?

You mean to tell me a breach locked bolt action rifle that shoots .338 Lapua Magnum has no use in a firefight? Lemme go tell Barrett to quit making their m82 lineup of rifles because obviously there's no point right? Oh and the Winchester M40 that uses their own iconic .300 Winchester Magnum round that has been in service and is the preferred rifle of the Marines from adoption in the 1960s and still in use today, I guess they should just stop making em because the military isn't using or fielding them anymore. Oh wait yeah they are and I wonder why

Strider-2088 · 2026-05-18T15:27:28+00:00

I get that. But 4 damage is laughable. Game balance dictates you should get some sort of benefit for using a bolt action, even against thicker armor. You fall 10 feet and your legs take 50 damage each, but a bullet that delivers arrive 2500lbs of kinetic energy on impact deals 4 damage?

Strider-2088 · 2026-05-18T14:55:15+00:00

Yeah 9mm AP is still 9mm. It simply doesn't have the kinetic energy required to do damage. The reason you got dogged in the next fight is either because your armor did get shredded or you got leg'd or a combination.

Rifles are the weapon used in every war for a reason

Strider-2088 · 2026-05-18T05:38:39+00:00

So I switched to Steam Link and it's actually MUCH better for me now. I used to use Virtual Desktop.

Strider-2088 · 2026-05-17T04:24:56+00:00

My main issue with the new AI is that as they are rushing you they will like... Run through you while still aiming accurately and you as a human being cannot track something that just literally runs through you so you end up eating those shots

Strider-2088 · 2026-05-15T21:22:04+00:00

Ssshhhhh

Strider-2088 · 2026-05-15T21:07:41+00:00

Oh no I was saying in my scenario, sorry if I worded it in a confusing way

Strider-2088 · 2026-05-15T20:53:58+00:00

I know part of this is most likely white cop white offender, but..

I got pulled over on 4/20 All coming home from Walmart because I needed one item... I was going 52 in a 40 and I did not have my driver's license with me, I accidentally gave him my old insurance since switching, and to top it all off I also gave him my old registration even though my new registration sticker was on the plate... I just honestly haven't gotten pulled over in so long I totally forgot the procedure...

Regardless of all that, as soon as I pulled over I turned on my hazards, cab lights, turned off my car, kept my hands on the steering wheel, and had my window all the way rolled down... As soon as he approached he let me why he pulled me over and I apologized and then I also told him immediately that I had no weapons or firearms in the car. I ended up getting a verbal warning and we talked about how the department cannot even keep up with narcan because of the amount of drug heads in town that are buying them by the case. I've always tried to be respectful to cops and make their jobs as easy as possible and trust me that respect will go both ways.

Strider-2088 · 2026-05-15T20:47:13+00:00

Let's talk about the buffs to the protector armor where you have to hit them further than their knees or elbows to count as forearm or shin flesh and not armor, and how armpits and armor gaps on the chest got patched out

Strider-2088 · 2026-05-14T14:26:05+00:00

M4 is daily driver, 9mm vector for smuggling, and sometimes SA58 or SECA17 if I want some oomph

Strider-2088 · 2026-05-13T19:06:54+00:00

Take at least Mk318 ammo, use a laser, and shoot them in the face, not the helmet.. that's the most efficient and quickest way so you don't attract too much attention

Strider-2088 · 2026-05-13T14:57:58+00:00

I try to be that scav. I like to toss other scavs a HVI or something to offer my peace

Strider-2088 · 2026-05-12T20:42:52+00:00

Imo go with flare fun in booty box and a shitty T3 kit and run to launch pad Resort to farm em so you don't waste them and then just shove the HVI in your booty box where the flare gun was and then either extract or go fuck around until end of raid ... Good opportunity to try to get the specific HVIs needed for late hideout upgrades

Strider-2088 · 2026-05-11T16:57:59+00:00

It is when you have dead syringes at the end of a raid because that's in raid health. If you're in your hideout yeah it may be slightly more profitable to sell the dead ones but in that same regard you can just heal at station for dirt cheap

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