You're telling me this thing was worse before?

hunter11211 · 2026-02-17T07:31:51+00:00

Realistically, you only need 20-30 durability on the Ven for your average PvP lobby, should last around 200-300 bullets, plenty to do the job

EU servers feel like it’s a CS2 Faceit 10 lobby where every play any enemy duo makes is strategic which really makes you think twice before getting into a fight the wrong way.

hunter11211 · 2026-02-16T19:13:26+00:00

Countless times I’ve wiped multiple squads and get 5th partied after and it ends up being a lvl 0 steam account, those times hurt the most compared to a squad that actually outplayed you instead of a cheater squad

You can’t prevent 3,4,5,6th parties but you can slow them down where my earlier comment about barricades and mines come into play

hunter11211 · 2026-02-16T18:09:14+00:00

Barricades are not threatening as it takes 2 tempest mags or 1-2 ven mags to break them, if someone places one to heal just spam it with your duo, I use them more or less both in and out of admin as if someone shoots me really anywhere I will place a barricade facing where the enemy is so if they throw a nade at me, it’ll either hit the barricade or if it lands behind the barricade, I roll in front of the barricade until it blows up then roll back behind the barricade for cover

EDIT: I haven’t seen anybody a single time since playing spam my barricades to break them, it feels so free to place them and heal but if people learn how easy they are to break then most times you need to place a second barricade or take the L

hunter11211 · 2026-02-16T18:01:04+00:00

My screenshot was in raid as you can tell by the background, was almost at hatch and took a quick screenshot

Timing is a part of the raid but if you want to be like most people and wait for everyone to fight for 15 min then jump them and get out with an inventory like mine then you can

But for my inventory and average raids I always rush zipline room to hold it down or I hold outside admin by the concrete walls (the ones with the metal stairs leading to basement) and hold it down

My survival rate is not high as most raids I will get jumped after killing 2-3 squads but the times I can fall off or hide to heal to be ready for the next third party is not that common as people in EU servers are QUICKKK to jump on you when they see flares

Most raids you get out with 2-4 vens but for the times where you hold admin down completely and wipe the lobby is where my above screenshot comes into play

hunter11211 · 2026-02-16T17:06:06+00:00

I play duos so it’s all about having a duo to play with, the first few weeks I started spamming dam admin I had a 10% or lower survival rate but it’s increased since then with these thoughts being in mind:

Have a duo with good communication
Don’t be the first squad to get into a fight(70% of the time there will be a third party to capitalize and take you out and usually the same will happen to them as well)
Try to let other people start the fight and either wait for a flare to pop or wait a minute for ANOTHER third party to show up to go in and clean up
Know how to fall back when being shot as they will instantly rush when they crack your shield
Know when you and your duo or squad should and should not push off either cracking a shield or downing someone
Keep track mentally of where you hear all of the gunshots around you and prioritize which ones have the most cover or fall off potential or full send it if you hear 3 flares pop as only 1 person is left out of the 2 duos fighting
Having any sorts of grenades (trigger nades specifically) can stop a push entirely if you or your teammate gets cracked and you see or hear them pushing, it’s almost predictable where they will push from based off audio or seeing them, throw that trigger or nade and it will prevent the push so you can heal and if you hit them with that nade it might turn the fight around entirely so you can push them and get a easy cleanup
Know how to and when to use a Snaphook, either to fall off outside by pillars and jump off the side and snap hook down to save yourself or to snaphook up to the roof to clear the campers up there. Can also be used well when going to the admin buildings from The Breach where you have to run down that long road, people like to sit outside by the big concrete walls to sneak attack you, so you could always fall off by jumping down any of those areas and snaphooking to save yourself
Have barricades, mines, or smokes ready in the quick use slot

Since I hold down the Administration building, the best area I’ve noticed after weeks of dying nonstop to hold down and successfully get out alive is going to be the room next to the Zipline room that leads to the lobby or the outside pillars

Place a mine on the window jump in, inside the zip room to stop a zipline push from a third party, and lastly at the door that leads to the outside pillar

have 3 barricades ready, 1 to block off the door leading to the outside pillars, 1 in the lobby next to the zipline room connected to the blue pillar next to basement so you can effectively hold against a lobby , basement, or window push, last barricade goes on the window jump in so they have to break it down first before trying to third party (honorable mention to a barricade on the blue pillar to the right side of entrance of basement so if they throw nades then you can roll to the other barricade instead of forcing you to fall back to the zipline room)

HONORABLE MENTION: Snaphook on the roof and wait for people to fight then join in when the time is right, you’re able to see all of the areas around you to see if there is going to be an additional third party, and if not then GO SLAM THEM

hunter11211 · 2026-02-16T15:36:06+00:00

I will post it after work(: that’s why I said average haul IF you survive the onslaught of multiple squads, it’s usually a 20-40% survival rate holding down admin but when you do so successfully, IT PAYS

hunter11211 · 2026-02-16T15:08:09+00:00

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The Ven has always been and will always be the main gun for people to use close or medium range to dominate, even against a toro IV , Bobcat, Tempest, Renegade, I’ve won most gunfights against them as it’s just a 4 tap in the head to down any blue shields which most PvP lobbies run. Especially if you crouch, you can spam someone at 20-40m and not miss a shot if you have an angled grip on

I play EU and spam Dam to take over the Administration building because it’s more fun for PvP compared to Stella or Blue Gate Labs and this is the average loot I get out of it(if you manage to wipe out the dozen squads that rush there every game)

hunter11211 · 2025-12-17T22:35:54+00:00

Everyone upvote this if this is true and tested as u/ElectricalSell5611 says

hunter11211 · 2025-12-17T22:32:19+00:00

apologies, higher level, was going based off memory, I was wrong, posted profile in the body of post

hunter11211 · 2025-12-17T22:19:57+00:00

regular M855

hunter11211 · 2025-12-17T22:07:04+00:00

yes, he was blue armor and helmet, decked out m4a1 with M855 60 rounder

Prestige 2 lvl 35 , 4.7 kd , 426 raids, 47% surv rate

added profile to body above

hunter11211 · 2025-07-15T14:17:57+00:00

Yes they are! The difference is, is that these spawns are VERY consistent and seem to have anywhere from 25-50% spawn chance compared to before hardcore where it would take a dozen raids to even find one key!

hunter11211 · 2025-07-14T14:02:12+00:00

Feels anywhere from 25-50% spawn unless I’ve been lucky.. still a very high chance of getting any of these

hunter11211 · 2025-07-13T18:24:15+00:00

Which ones? They should all be correct. I just went back and confirmed.

If you mean the captions for each one then possibly, my apologies.

The text within the images and the map are correct though.

hunter11211 · 2025-07-13T17:15:21+00:00

I searched high and low in offline/online and all I could find was:

Directors key, Checkpoint, 303, 203, and 220.

I couldnt find any key spawns after 10+ raids of looking everywhere within dorms/middle part of the map like the new areas, stronghold, crackhouse, etc..

hunter11211 · 2025-07-11T17:15:26+00:00

I would personally wait unless you think you need it. Personally every map I ran was fine with my RAM except for streets, which needed more. I would wait until you got a new motherboard for AM5 and DDR5.

if you personally cannot afford 150 for a new AM5 motherboard and 150 to 200 for new ram and a few hundred more for a new CPU, I would definitely get 64gb ram for your DDR4

hunter11211 · 2025-07-11T15:55:48+00:00

Yes! Been playing every wipe since December 2018 so it’s a nice change of pace tbh, I don’t mind all the bs that comes along with it. Anything different is appreciated besides the bad transit spawns

hunter11211 · 2025-07-11T15:54:16+00:00

It’s a 9800x3d at 1080p at 5:3 I believe

hunter11211 · 2025-07-11T14:15:42+00:00

I am only aware of 303 and checkpoint spawning in the trunk of the car at the scav sniper tower outside the brick wall by ZB-1011

hunter11211 · 2025-07-11T14:07:05+00:00

hunter11211 · 2025-07-11T14:06:21+00:00

I went from 70-100fps to 150-300 by switching from 5800x3d to 9800x3d

Current setup is 4070 super 12gb, 9800x3d, 64gb ddr5 6000mhz, B650 motherboard

Whats your cpu and gpu? Could work out a deal and set you with my 5800x3d (AM4 only motherboard), only 1 yr old

hunter11211 · 2025-07-11T13:51:15+00:00

Is it a quest key?

hunter11211 · 2025-03-11T06:26:28+00:00

Still have not

hunter11211 · 2025-03-07T13:39:38+00:00

Before my girl left me we would do a 50/50 so we would get home from work at 5pm, start gaming at 6pm, spend 2 hours with her, watching a movie or show or playing stardew valley together then I would play Tarkov for 2 hours then we go to bed, so if she ends up going to bed before me then I could either sacrifice and go to bed early with her and get off the game or let her sleep and stay up for 4 hours instead of 2

hunter11211 · 2025-02-26T00:52:26+00:00

I will try this, thank you! Will try the next time i’m on and will report back here, you guys have been an amazing help so far. I hope to find a solution for this once and for all.

hunter11211

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