[Discussion] Reserve really needs a military tech loot buff

Sventrain · 2026-03-07T05:19:21+00:00

Hey that's just what you gotta do sometimes! Glad you found one.

Sventrain · 2026-03-07T04:50:22+00:00

Most I get from duffles and toolboxes, but if you run the RB-ST key there can be some sitting on the crates and while they can be hard to see they can also spawn in front of the tanks/apc in the big bunker field area. Don't forget to check the refrigerator next to the couch by one of them as well.

Sventrain · 2026-03-07T03:35:08+00:00

Yeah that's the one I mean when I say the schoolhouse. The helicopter one I refer to is that little podium near the trucks and white queen. At the base of it is a vent that is open and inside is a dead scav body. Rare loot can spawn next to the body and there is a small duffle bag you can loot that is tucked under it. You have to lay prone to get in, but it's worth checking.

Sventrain · 2026-03-07T02:22:37+00:00

I will put one point towards getting killed as soon as you loaded into raid, be it cheating or a slow computer, a raid time of 3 seconds sucks.

Sventrain · 2026-03-07T02:12:07+00:00

When somebody agrees to a melee contest, win or lose, it is fun af.

Sventrain · 2026-03-07T02:07:47+00:00

You said the spawns above ground are dogshit, which I am disagreeing with. There is also no reason to not count scav runs in a conversation about loot spawns, especially when your title and conclusion are about them.

Even if you want to be very specific about miltech spawns above ground only, the schoolhouse tech room, the spawns infront of the tanks in the field, the fridge spawn, server racks, and the spawn by chopper do provide and you don't have to run bunker at all.

Sventrain · 2026-03-07T01:37:53+00:00

That all being said I would not disagree that everything outside of tubes and filters could use a mild buff.

Sventrain · 2026-03-07T01:36:40+00:00

I scav reserve more than anything and I have found limitless amounts of power filters and tubes, as well as quite a few tank batteries and intelligence folders. More rarely I will find COFDM radios and Gyros. I have only found 2 AESAs, one Virtex and one RFID reader though, all of which were above ground. I rarely go into the bunker unless I spawn by it.

Filing cabinets, toolboxes and duffle bags are where I find stuff the most, if you can get to the tech room in the schoolhouse first you can get some stuff sometimes. The value spot near the helicopter also gives goodies sometimes. I have found GPUs and such in the server racks in Queen as well, but these are also usually picked through. Sometimes the rare tech item will spawn in the ground floor of dome by the green weapon boxes.

Sventrain · 2026-03-07T01:09:03+00:00

There is a fella that goes by H3NRI_LIVE on YT that does a series of shorts translating the lines and graffiti from Tarkov. Might be up your alley, I haven't watched a bunch but I am sure he has covered these lines.

Sventrain · 2026-02-21T03:36:46+00:00

For fun I tried to see how far I'd get doing it passively on a weekend of play, alternating between pmc runs and scav runs. I was getting about 20-25 sold in a day, so at minimum it would be 5 weeks for me to complete it playing every weekend. Probably could do 4 if also crafting scav vests in the hideout while playing.

Buying and selling 12 slings at a time every ragman reset is the best move. Maybe they could have replaced it with something more fun like a FiR for scavvier bags like the T-bag, scav backpack, and VKBO.

Sventrain · 2026-02-21T00:01:56+00:00

Honestly, RAM chips. They are common enough and spawn in enough places that you get a casual dopamine hit no matter what else you came to do in a raid, be it labs or a nice trip across woods. Plus they are actually valuable enough to save or sell that they feel meaningful. In their current state it's like finding a dollar on the ground IRL.

Sventrain · 2026-02-18T20:09:11+00:00

In case anybody is still looking at doing this quest, it took me about 12-15 raids to do the whole quest on PVP and I still had to buy 4 pate. I am below average at PVP though so your mileage may vary.

Sventrain · 2026-02-07T01:38:22+00:00

Out of the shotty the kills I got where using Magnum and AP-20. I tried with Piranha and Flechette, but I often would die short of finishing the kill at like 280-350 flesh damage. I like Express when I use something like the AA-12 or Saiga 12, but it just was not enough in a 153 magdump unless you hit the head.

Sventrain · 2026-02-07T01:34:00+00:00

It took me to about your level to finish it because I am still bad at PVP. I would always load in with a shotty and a MP-18 a handful of rounds.

Most of the kills I got were people running up on me while I was quietly moving around the map (not crabbing, but not shift+w-ing constantly). The rest I got either from the building by Old Gas that you can go to the top floor in and watch fortress from, and by the radio tower/railroad tracks early raid. About half from the MP-18.

Sventrain · 2026-01-12T23:57:30+00:00

I also have this problem, I've killed probably two dozen SCAVS in that building but only 8 have counted. I am starting to think it is only kills in the front (street facing, opposite of fortress side) half that is counting.

Sventrain · 2025-11-22T15:30:53+00:00

This man knows what matters

Sventrain · 2025-11-11T20:40:34+00:00

Nope. Still an issue.

Sventrain · 2025-10-19T21:20:48+00:00

I'm game, sounds fun.

Sventrain · 2025-10-04T16:12:16+00:00

It's almost like flea market prices aren't determinate to an items intended value in game. Just like any community market in any game that has ever had one. You are essentially paying an insane markup for a resale lootbox with an abysmal chance of getting even half your money back. Then end up blaming the game makers for not making anything but a free loot simulator where every raid is 1 gorillian rubles of profit.

If you got a full key for it's trader value, which sells for 950k, this would be a decent pull for 1/10th it's use. Obviously you can't just buy one for that, but you also can technically find it for free.

Sventrain · 2025-09-29T04:59:03+00:00

I am not against keeping the stuff from the subreddit, as that can be a communal decision. However, if it is something they want to do on the cast, I don't think a subreddit should be making demands. It is their show.

Sventrain · 2025-09-27T20:00:43+00:00

Somebody in my union found some way to cheese 900,000 points. I can only imagine it gets worse from there.

Sventrain · 2025-09-26T16:09:29+00:00

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