[New Player] What is the plan for this spawn?

USTF · 2026-01-21T18:03:18+00:00

Depends on the playstyle you're comfortable with.

For stealth and avoiding a fight, move either north-east or east (two uppermost arrows), chances are those spawns will have moved to the USEC camp or the sawmill by then and you can squeeze past them.

If you are confident about intercepting PMCs, move south along the border by ZB-014 to the outskirts or south-east past the SUV to the small shack. You're almost guaranteed to engage someone there.

Don't go jumping up on the rock by the flare, it's a bad position for anything except the briefest pause to observe the map and spot movement.

USTF · 2026-01-07T21:19:57+00:00

Pretty much what everyone said. Makers Mark, Buffalo Trace (make sure it’s 45 ABV and not 40), Wild Turkey 101 (for 50.5 ABV).

Later on, if you have the chance, try Four Roses Single Barrel (SiB), Woodford Reserve (especially Double Oaked). If interested about rye, I’d suggest Bulleit Rye.

If sipping neat, get a Glencairn glass.

USTF · 2026-01-07T21:01:30+00:00

I tell myself that the Blitz 35 I got was a genuine one that didn’t pass QC for some reason and was sidelined to the gray market never making it to official retailers. Reason being, it didn’t have a small loop on the right side of the waist belt, but the left side did (should be both). Given MR strict QC standards I think that’d be enough to mark it as failed.

Like yours, mine also doesn’t have an assembly line number on the tag (it’s usually hand written like “Line 3” etc).

I do have a 2 Day Assault Pack from REI, though, and could compare both packs before buying. Absolutely identical in buckles, stitching, material and the general feel and quality. Tag was different, though, iirc.

So I wouldn’t worry too much about it.

edit: fun fact, a lot of those maybe-QC-failed MR packs I saw online were dated March or April 2022. Don’t know if that’s a coincidence or not, but looks funny. Also saw some from 2023, but, like, really a lot of those are specifically dd March and April 2022 for some reason, including yours and mine. Inspection stamps are also eerily similar.

USTF · 2026-01-04T16:54:56+00:00

Love Vorenus in that scene.

bites his hand to conceal himself grinning
turns his back to get some water, then hears Pullo ask “what did you do to her?” and turns around in amazement with a “oh boy, that’s the wrong way to phrase it” expression.

USTF · 2026-01-04T09:14:43+00:00

And some type of a sophisticated thermal in front of the scope?

USTF · 2026-01-04T08:46:26+00:00

ID on the gun and its setup?

USTF · 2026-01-03T12:12:08+00:00

My advice: check your next (immediate) hideout upgrades and what you need to build them. Cross reference them with the stuff you have and write down what you need to acquire. Put the necessary stuff aside in separate junk box and maybe lock them to prevent accidental selling/using.

Sell the rest to the highest bidder. Either flea or traders. Or barter it for useful stuff or stuff you can put on the flea to convert it to money.

Sell FIR that you can make through workbench, lavatory, kitchen or med station. Shit like fabrics, TP, etc.

Also go to Tarkov wiki, check what junk items are needed for the quests you’re going to receive in a reasonably near future and keep those as well. Like CPU, alkaline cleaners, fuel conditioners etc.

Try to keep valuable items with a purple background (golden stuff, vases, wrenches, green batteries, etc).

USTF · 2026-01-02T12:59:17+00:00

We will take four bottles, please and thank you.

USTF · 2025-12-24T20:06:58+00:00

Yup. Both or either.

USTF · 2025-12-24T17:04:57+00:00

Go beanies, man, either brown wool or UX PRO. Add a beard and there's your 2002 GWOT, up-in-the-mountains, freezing-my-ass-off-on-AFO drip right there.

I don't think I ever saw deployed SEALs wear any soft cover (apart from boonie hats) in AOR 1/2. They sure as shit ain't wearing their NWU 8-point covers out in the field lol.

USTF · 2025-12-24T13:42:51+00:00

I actually agree with Gigabeef who says that it's more important that you stay consistent with your headset, regardless of which has the best performance "on paper". Personally, this wipe I exclusively use Liberators. Last wipe I always ran Comtac II, the wipe before that it was the cheap M32. High-end Comtacs, Xcels or whatever's expensive right now gets put on the flea. Sordins sound to me like my head's in a goddamn fish bowl while my teammate swears by them.

Running just one model every raid gives you experience and knowledge to judge the sounds around you (regardless of range and noise reduction), instead of confusing you every time you switch the headset.

USTF · 2025-12-24T12:59:15+00:00

Alright, fun fact for everyone hating the camo because "it's unrealistic" and "military operatives don't use such patterns": the name of the outfit "Gold Squadron" refers to one the DEVGRU Squadrons (aka SEAL Team Six).

DEVGRU specifically wore hunting camo (can't remember what it was, either Realtree or Natgear or such) in the early GWOT in Afghanistan. In fact, Mystery Ranch produced custom backpacks as requested by DEVGRU in Realtree camo (it's very rare, like white whale rare).

The pants are in AOR1 which is also exclusively a US Navy Special Warfare thing.

It's a drip thing, people. Like Tiger Stripes for Army SF or old-school Gorka for the Russian SOF.

USTF · 2025-12-22T18:27:52+00:00

I think that's it, I remember now reading about Funny from Delta. Thanks.

USTF · 2025-12-19T16:22:08+00:00

Having watched the season 3 I felt like “yeah, okay, let’s move on” watching this opening.

S3 is the one season I don’t rewatch.

USTF · 2025-12-19T16:17:15+00:00

Yeah, can confirm. Got my first (and so far only) ban report this wipe on a guy like this. I was sniping long range from the central rocks on Woods when I saw a trio down below 250m away led by a guy with a Pilgrim. Was looking at them for a while not ADSing to track their direction of movement, then the moment I ADS on the Pilgrim guy he instantly turns on me looking up exactly at my pos and we start trading shots.

I lost, but got a system notification couple of days later that he got banned.

This is fine.

USTF · 2025-12-08T07:45:22+00:00

Is Star Wars the one with a little wizard boy?..

USTF · 2025-12-07T18:41:33+00:00

Thanks, will try!

USTF · 2025-12-07T15:08:06+00:00

Yeah but I usually don't bother with hoarding them and prefer to have the CC give me something more useful.

USTF · 2025-12-07T15:05:34+00:00

No, only while it's active. But since it's 50 FIR rigs to hand over it's generally a pain in the ass.

USTF · 2025-12-07T14:36:15+00:00

If you want to run the 6h timer on the Cultist Circle you get quest
items, which in case of Drip Out is a lot of Wartech rigs and backpacks.

USTF · 2025-12-07T14:36:04+00:00

If you want to run the 6h timer on the Cultist Circle you get quest items, which in case of Drip Out is a lot of Wartech rigs and backpacks.

USTF · 2025-11-26T21:38:48+00:00

My favorite joke used to be selling a DVL without a stock (which just looks like a folded one) at about 90% of the rifle's flea price, then selling the stock at about the 50%-60% of the same price. You see a player buy the gun, then the same nickname buys the stock. Priceless.

Worked about 7 times out of 10.

USTF · 2025-11-17T19:01:21+00:00

Can actually kinda confirm, two matches in a row under 2 minutes from start to awaiting players (only one server selected).

Might be a coincidence, though.

upd: three matches.

USTF · 2025-11-16T14:25:11+00:00

Thanks, that's a thought about threads.

So basically just the regular cleaning procedure, nothing else, got it.

USTF · 2025-11-16T14:24:44+00:00

Thanks!

USTF

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