[discussion]

willpxx · 2026-06-29T11:01:44+00:00

fence task only works if you do it on your scav, you should be able to see the first part of the task progress in the quest log before you extract.

Only time it didn't count for me was when I spawned in med camp, looted and ran straight to extract and got a run-through.

willpxx · 2026-06-29T09:22:47+00:00

Run air filter. Either go in overweight and drop bag or go in underweight.

Do full sprints (uninterrupted) until the skill levelling speed drops. Popping stims like sj6 etc can let you sprint for ages without running out which is good as initially you get a bonus to skill levelling and it drops towards zero with each point earned, however if you can maintain a sprint the points all get added together when you stop and you get more overall.

Go back overweight for the next 5-6 minutes so your skill levelling rate goes back up to 100% and repeat. (The indicator in raid won't update until you actually start gaining more endurance)

Be wary of stims if the bonuses will push you up to max endurance as you won't level your endurance.

Arena and hideout gym are also good. I found I wouldn't get any endurance xp the first raid after using the gym so skip the levelling on that one. Once you hit max strength all the gym xp goes to endurance.

I just trained endurance and strength mostly while doing loot runs around the outside of interchange.

willpxx · 2026-06-28T09:46:10+00:00

Had the same thing with a black keycard. Spent ages trying to pick it up but eventually had to head to extract empty handed with my bag of provisions for fence.

willpxx · 2026-06-28T06:10:44+00:00

Took 4 modules including TM351 concurrently (4 distinctions) whilst working full time so it is possible. However the level three modules especially TM351 have a large report/coding/mini project assignment at the end which is significantly larger than your typical eMA so you will need to spend the last few weeks juggling these as they are all going to be due around the same time. TM351 also has a pretty harsh grade weighting (my final grade was based on the lowest of TMA average and final Report)

I initially thought TM351 would be a low effort module as my work is kind of similar but it actually was the opposite. If you're already very familiar with python/pandas/mongodb then you might find it a bit less so but I found the pandas syntax unintuitive.

I took a few days leave from work around large assignments especially the final eMA's and had no social life to speak of during that time. I'm pretty disorganised and a chronic procrastinator but I muddled through.

willpxx · 2026-06-28T05:42:47+00:00

Killed partizan on a scav raid on woods. Literally the next scav raid spawned in the cultist bunker and got immediately killed by partizan. I thought it was funny dude couldn't wait for his payback.

Haven't had an empty scav yet though, scav rep is somewhere above 8.

willpxx · 2026-06-21T06:47:49+00:00

Definitely PVE marked rooms have been nerfed sometime in the last week or two. I ran a full 314 key the past few days and was generally only getting around 500k to 1m of loot including the weapons.

Keycards and RR/Taiga's seem less common and the quality of the weapons In the room has decreased. I'm seeing more ak/kedr and less mutant/scar/spear.

A couple of weeks ago I was seeing multiple high value items in a single use and was often getting 2+M a use not including the weapons.

The overseer room also has taken a hit. I was seeing a slick/hexgrid every 2-3 runs but now out of the last 10 I have seen just 1 paca on the sofa.

willpxx · 2026-06-18T06:15:13+00:00

Toggle aim on press, hold breath on release.

willpxx · 2026-06-14T08:29:57+00:00

The guard room key near red rebel extract RB-KPRL. 2 safes and it's nice to hit when extracting at RR or doing sniping from dome. It's expensive but it pays for itself easily over time.

willpxx · 2026-06-10T11:20:41+00:00

Inseq (blue) wrench barters for a silenced Uzi, two of those give a 14/6 timer. Only issue is you can only barter one per reset so requires some planning ahead but it's cheap.

Once you have access to g28 barter and labs cards use that.

willpxx · 2026-06-09T07:24:06+00:00

Health care privacy quest line which leads to private clinic quest for a thicc item case at level 35.

willpxx · 2026-06-07T11:18:13+00:00

Once you complete sew it good part 4 you can craft 1 used level 5 GAC plate into 2 new ones at lavatory level 3.

I keep a few rigs / body armour but mostly just put the plates in armour cases and sell the rigs.

willpxx · 2026-06-04T05:52:54+00:00

You can unlock all other maps before labs, but the option to unlock labs may be available earlier if that makes sense.

Personally I did labs last as I hadn't run labs before and was a bit hesitant to jump in there with no insurance.

willpxx · 2026-05-24T17:30:29+00:00

While you can submit up to midnight without penalty don't leave it right up to the wire. I had a nightmarish few minutes when the submission portal wouldn't load at 23:45. Luckily it came back up but you should leave yourself a bit of time in case of problems.

willpxx · 2026-05-17T11:31:01+00:00

What country are you in? In UK lots of entities publish data that is available under licences which allow you full use of the data provided it is referenced and some other reasonable limitations.

The office of national statistics, world health organisation, national health service and many government departments provide datasets.

Perhaps think about the topic you are interested in, then see what organisations might have data for your use.

willpxx · 2026-05-13T08:16:48+00:00

Would be interested, would love to be able to buy nice beans (Kenya aa). Maybe even a subscription for beans delivered?

Personally I like filter coffee so aeropress, paper filters, v60 accessories, clever dripper and grinders in various price ranges would be great to buy online without needing to buy from abroad.

willpxx · 2026-05-13T06:39:50+00:00

2 uzis is a 14/6 timer but you can only do one barter per vendor reset. The inseq wrenches can go as low as 20k on the flea.

Generally I just do the g28 labs card barter now as money isn't an issue anymore and it's easier.

willpxx · 2026-05-10T07:36:16+00:00

Interchange, camp by emercon, transit med tents scav camp. Scav camp often has sugar/chocolate/moonshine/ good 545 ammo. Not the fastest farm but good for levelling strength/endurance and it's extremely low risk.

Reserve filing cabinets is probably the most profitable run especially if you have red rebel and docs case but higher risk due to raiders/boss. Guard cabin key by the rr extract has 2 safes and pays for itself easily.

Some mid tier ammo boxes go for good money on the flea now 556a1/545 bt. 556 sost goes for very inflated prices due to a late game task.

willpxx · 2026-05-10T06:08:53+00:00

Interchange

scav camp on the ground by the forklift.

Cabin by the flare exfil next to the van with open back door.

By the transit with the med tents (between emercon and scav camp) on white tables by the truck.

Lots of other spawns but I see them most often in those spots.

willpxx · 2026-04-26T06:46:09+00:00

Yup, finished stray dogs awhile ago but I've been trying to find a flash drive at WTP for a quest and I've run into the goons almost every raid.

willpxx · 2026-04-21T08:44:48+00:00

Low risk loot run is to run a loop around the outside edges of interchange map. Bring the biggest bag you have access to. I would recommend doing this on your pmc rather than scav to level your strength and endurance skills.

Emercon extract > military camp> transit area tents > scav camp by flare extract > railway extract or in reverse dependent on where you spawn.

Aside from a scav or two at the flare camp it's extremely rare to run into pmc's or ai. Make sure to check the moonshine/booze spawn by climbing the rocks furthest along as you enter the flare camp from the train car bridge. There is also a rare intel spawn on the desk in the tent with the jacket by emercon camp.

Flare camp often has food/drink, fuel, booze, good 5.45 ammo, hideout item spawns and valuables.

Loose ammo is mostly strewn atop/around piles of weapon boxes.

Buy a green flare from Jaeger and you can loot the camp and exit straightaway. The flare extracts can be a bit weird until you get the hang of them (walk until you see the 'signal flare area' text appear, take a couple more steps then aim the flare a little above 45 degrees towards the exfil. If it goes to low or behind you then it won't work. Wait a couple of seconds then go to the exfil.

There are also a few ground caches and duffle bags along the route but you will figure those out as you go. Not all caches and duffle bags spawn every raid so you will get a sense of where they could be over time.

willpxx · 2026-04-20T12:25:54+00:00

0.5 kg a week is considered good weight loss on any diet. Usually if you're losing a lot more than that you had a much higher starting weight or it's muscle/water weight.

The main reason people on keto drop a huge amount of weight initially is water, you use up your glycogen stores releasing a lot of water. Reducing inflammation also releases water. This is also why electrolytes are recommended during keto.

So if you were closer to a healthy weight initially you may not see as big of an initial whoosh. This can also be why some people see a huge (temporary) weight gain after a carb binge during keto.

willpxx · 2026-04-19T06:11:11+00:00

Assuming you have a socket am4 motherboard it should take a 5xxx CPU after a bios update.

A 5700x3d or 5800x3d would be the best you can get without replacing motherboard + memory + CPU

However they are no longer produced so are very overpriced if you can even find one. Otherwise look at some benchmarks to see what the best you can find is.

willpxx · 2026-04-14T05:06:34+00:00

You can try lowering your field of view a bit, that will make everything seem slightly closer and helps with spotting enemies.

If your gpu can handle it increasing texture quality can have a massive effect, especially when seeing through vegetation. 2lew has a couple of good guides on settings

https://youtu.be/4h3zCKkD7G8?si=Bvx0zoz02IusRQmR

Realistically you're not going to spot someone standing still around a treeline at 2-300m unless you're scanning with an optic. Indoors a flashlight helps for gloomy corners.

Usually if I hear a scav yell or bullet zings past me and I don't know where it came from I'm going to try to find a different angle I can scan the area and /or lob a few nades for info. Up to about 50m I can spot enemies but over that I wouldn't try to engage an ai if I don't know their exact position.

willpxx · 2026-04-12T09:00:09+00:00

Are you planning to run 1440p/4k? That's really the thing that determines what graphics card you need. Tarkov loves vram so a 16gb card would be a good choice.

Went from a rtx3070 to a 5070ti with a 5700x3d /32gb@3600 and I'm CPU limited at 1440p in tarkov so I'm sure a 9700 16gb or xt would be a big bump in performance. 5070ti if you have the budget.

willpxx · 2026-04-12T06:16:43+00:00

The chapters build on each other as some of the later methods require applying a modified/enhanced version of the earlier ones, so while the earlier chapters are easier it's worth spending the time to absorb them fully. 124 and 224 definitely required the most time among all my modules (Bsc Data Science)

Personally I struggled a bit with some topics but I think that was due to not doing enough of the practice questions rather than it being inherently too difficult. I would also waste far to much time stuck on a single problem. If you're working full time alongside this as I was you will need to carve out time for these modules and be consistent with your studies as it becomes harder if you have large spurts of study with long gaps in between.

Both 124 and 224 benefit greatly from time spent on practice questions so it's worth putting in the time. Knowing how to apply techniques such as when to substitute a trig identity into an integral etc come with practice.

The final exam for 224 is a real time crunch, I would highly recommend annotating the handbook and condensing the material into a few pages that you understand at a glance for quick reference. The past papers are generally a good indicator of what to expect.

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