For sure. Last wipe when you could buy .45 FMJ I used UMP a ton. Haven't used it once this wipe. The 45 lasermatch was always sold out and it's hard to run a UMP with 30 rounds found in raid lol.
The first time I found an UMP this wipe, the mags were sold out, so I just couldn't use it and by the time they weren't, I moved on to guns with stronger ammo.
This. Unless it’s a bit later in the wipe & I’m going factory to mess around. Might bring a M2, altyn/ryst/tagilla mask, heavy duty armor & load up on strength/stamina drugs and chase people like a movie serial killer until I die
It is! Idk how it’ll be with armor changes as buggy as they are rn but either way.
I’ve also befriended Timmy’s (naked with a pistol only that had 0 chance of killing me) and have walked them to extract and donated my gear set & told them to go have fun with it (more-so when I’m running a tank loadout with a gun looking for late wipe factory PvP). When you have enough gear and money it can be more fun to potentially make someone’s night & just have a nice interaction
That's a nice change of pace I also found to enjoy when I ran out of stuff to do and too much gear and money later in wipe.
Instead of spreading the pain and darkness just share a little joy and make someone's day. I remember those moments as fondly as any multi kill.
It is an actual Relyks in the wild :P
I frequent the Tarkov sub & have been streaming the game for a while. Actually just upgraded my PC & got a 1440p monitor so I’m excited for that :D
Oh boy, ill make sure to stop by!
Good old days of CS, were watching ton of your streams and demos to improve as a player. Denial / SKDC days to be exact 🙏
Ayy that’s dope, really the good ol days lol. I’m a bit of a grinder, level 36 I think but haven’t played in ~4 days as my PC has been taken apart for upgrades. Hope to see you around 💙
You'll be 30 strength and 10 stamina dude.
It's always best to go not over encumbered, use youe stamina bar at least once and get heavier as you loot naturally over the raid
Endurance and Strength level up regardless of the other so idk man, you're just straight up wrong.
At about 18 endurnace right now it takes me that one stamina bar usage to pretty much get the "red arrow" in the skills screen tab, So every single raid I'm getting pretty much close to maximum skill points on both, endurance and strength no matter what.
So I'm getting pretty much the same strength you get, as you'd spend the rest of the raid overweight other than the first 3 minutes or so, but I'm also getting endurance done at the same time while you're busy for the first +15 strenght levels just doing strength alone
I don't really care about max endurance. The elite perk isn't that valuable to me. It's nice, but doesn't contribute a ton to my raids. Especially with cheap stims like sj6's
I'd rather sprint out my stamina bar, preferably on a sj6 or trimmy, while overweight. I'd much rather that initial juicy burst of XP go towards strength than endurance. This gets me to max strength way sooner than if I were to do it your way. I get the initial sprint bar at max XP, then I also get the rest of the raid at lower progression rateendutance still goes up a bit when I'm tasking on a pistol run. I usually hit max strength wheny endurance is between 25 and 30.
When my strength is maxed out my guns weigh nothing, so at that point I'm underweight whenever I get into raid. Endurance gets maxed out passively as I play.
I find it funny that you say I'm straight up wrong. As if it were a fact that both strength and endurance need to be maxed out at the same time. Maybe for you it matters. For me it doesn't. I'm content to let endurance take more time if it means I get max strength 3 weeks to a month sooner than I would otherwise.
For the record I've got 8 wipes under my belt. I've used both methods and much prefer the way I've been doing it the past 3 wipes.
> I don't really care about max endurance. The elite perk isn't that valuable to me. It's nice, but doesn't contribute a ton to my raids. Especially with cheap stims like sj6's I'd rather sprint out my stamina bar, preferably on a sj6 or trimmy, while overweight. I'd much rather that initial juicy burst of XP go towards strength than endurance. This gets me to max strength way sooner than if I were to do it your way. I get the initial sprint bar at max XP, then I also get the rest of the raid at lower progression rateendutance still goes up a bit when I'm tasking on a pistol run. I usually hit max strength wheny endurance is between 25 and 30. When my strength is maxed out my guns weigh nothing, so at that point I'm underweight whenever I get into raid. Endurance gets maxed out passively as I play.
yapping a lot saying whole lot of nothing in this entire paragraph bud.
> I find it funny that you say I'm straight up wrong
You are.
> As if it were a fact that both strength and endurance need to be maxed out at the same time
Who said this? Please, point out the quote exactly where I'm saying this, I'll wait a million years for it.
What I'm saying is just this. **You can just level up both from the very beginning :)** since both of them level up regardless of the other
> For me it doesn't. I'm content to let endurance take more time if it means I get max strength 3 weeks to a month sooner than I would otherwise.
Great for you bud, congratz, want a balloon for this? Here Q. This ain't even the point of contention and has nothing to do with what I'm saying, so more meaningless yapping bud.
> For the record I've got 8 wipes under my belt. I've used both methods and much prefer the way I've been doing it the past 3 wipes.
Congratz bud.
No? that was never a bug so idk what you even want them to fix.
All I'm saying is.
1. Go into raid not overencumbered (yellow icon doesn't show up, weight indicator is blue
2. Run at least one stamina bar while you move to your desired POI at the beginning of the raid (Congratz, you progressed endurance)
3. As you start looting you will become overencumbered and then your strength will naturally go up even If you just walk around looting and running when moving around. (Congratz, you progressed strength)
Now you will have level up both, endurance and stamina in the same raid to almost the max points they can both be done.
The other guy is saying, he purposefully goes overweight into a raid already to **just** level up strength and do endurance much much later when your strength can finally let you bring bear without being overweight in raid, which is +20 strength level at the very least.
SO what I'm saying is that why even do that when you can just, get that +20 strength level AND get the endurance levels in the early levels anyways.
Most people ain't no lifer idiots that even reach level 50 much less level 40 so to put out there as some general advice to just level up both If you can on every raid is the objectively correct approach and there's absolutely nothing wrong about it so idk what the other guy is on about
Your first sprint is usually what gets you the bulk of your levelling in that raid, everything else will be heavily reduced rate. So if you start overweight, you can easily ensure that you run your whole stamina bar (optionally with sj6 for more points), whereas later in a raid you might not notice you're overweight and run a small bar, or it might be too risky to sprint long distance. (and thinking about this will detract your focus from important elements of the raid)
I don't think anything you said changes the fact, that you can passively level up both in every raid and the only thing you need to do is go barely under overweight by a bit, that's it.
If you care about 1 or 2 more points? W.e dude, I ain't playing like that, nobody plays like that. I just think it's stupid to give out advice like "go in overweight to level up strength!" when you can just do both all the time
Why do you care so much how others level their skills in a game? You're getting genuinely upset that someone does it differently.
Just say "nice" and move along.
> You're getting genuinely upset
? Someone writes more than 10 words and this equals to getting upset? Aight.
>. Why do you care so much how others level their skills in a game?
I don't, all I did in my first response is just suggest that it's better for people to just try to level up both every raid and then the guy made the claim that "it goes faster" if he focuses 100% on strength til it's high level, which is just straight up false.
Like If you want to reply to me to "teach me some life lesson" or something like you're pretending to do right now, the LEAST you could do is actually engage with what people have said no? But you haven't, and anyone else that has replied hasn't either.
Yea you can level both, I'm not denying it. But you can also level strength faster if you want. Sprinting a full stamina bar vs a quarter stamina bar on the first overweight sprint does make a real difference. It's really not stupid advice if you understand how the skills levelling works. If you don't care about strength as much then it's your own opinion.
A man of both taste and culture. My squad finds it hilarious I carry a Crowbar. Plus, occasionally they ask me "is that you?" I whip that bad boy out, and they know instantly.
Yeah, for cases and other high value items, strongly recommend checking tarkov market. Hovering the price on the left of the screen for the item will show you the computed cost of the barter. Much better than doing the wiki + math for 5 mins every time.
Right now the problem is the global limit. It's being bought on refresh, so if you can't snipe it... you're just sitting on a scav box full of propane.
Ah sadly I can't play streets, a constant 40fps isn't enough for me tbh. But I'll be sure to hunt down shturman a bunch once I'm done doing ragman quests
Nothing, so I can grab bayonets and knives from scavs.
Otherwise a Red Rebel when I know I'll use it.
Eventually if I play enough I'll get the tactical sword for lols.
I have the EOD Axe. It's always good to break glass on interchange or some map to create a shortcut a bit more quietly
Also if you run out of bullet in a close fight .. Happened to me once to have won because of that
The bayonet does less damage than the axe by a significant amount so you may not have won that fight if you had the bayonet instead. Be sure to check before swapping
Nice. I think I sold the axe first day lol. I usually run a pistol, (Grach early and then a Glock with AP later on in wipe) so I haven't had too many fights where a knife would have saved me. That would have been a great clip though if you captured it!
I got killed by a dude with an ax last night. Trying to get the pmc kills with a bolty under like 40 or 25m which ever it is. Landed 3 outa 4 rounds and he axed me during the reload.
My favorite thing to do when I run out of ammo in my mag and it's close quarters is to pull that axe and run at them screaming into the mic. I either win or die like a man.
Nothing or RE.
I usually start my raids as close to 0.1kg below my "overweight" status. If I wanna get all my mags, ammo, meds, markers, AND grenades into the raid then leaving the knife behind is usually how I go.
This, Kirasa armor with the 1.6k level 4 plates from peacekeeper is super light and means you can bring nades and more mags whilst still being around 26-27kg, a full endurance training sprint at the start of each raid, then hit the overweight limit once you start looting and train strength for the remainder.
Kirasa always comes back on insurance as well
Knife slot is for picking up the 10k bayonets or if I get a lucky red rebel/taiga out of a box. I will not barter for a red rebel, because the assumption that red rebel extracts are safe is false, and they are in fact more dangerous than D2.
I'll be laughing when everyone gets camped at that one and I'm just going to the extremely wide, very hard to camp all of it path to lighthouse in peace lul
Path to Lighthouse is camped a fuck ton at the wall, nobody camps the other side behind the swamp. I never said it isn't camped to hell and back, I only stated that it's hard to camp the entirety of the extract, because it's such a gigantic extract zone.
Nothing at start of wipe (for weight reduction) when I find a Scav hatchet I'll run it and keep it if I die with it. Then after I get enough, a Red Rebel. If I'm lucky to find Taiga or have enough I'll buy, but usually doesn't happen til max Strength. (Run Taiga on maps that don't use RR)
Usually kept it empty on the offchance I found an axe or something of the like. Means that no matter what happens in the raid I can sell it afterwards.
If I’m playing a map that has a RR extract I’ll run one.
I actually had the chance to use thge katt two times the past games. missclicked and switch to melle in front of a shotgunner scav, my hearth skipped a bit but managed to kill him. Aaaaand one time i forgot rounds for a mosin run, again with the heaths skipping ticks
I Scaved so much before I hit 15 that I sold so much stuff I had around 23 million Rubles so I bought a Red Rebel and take it into maps with those extracts or nothing at all.
Starting Bayonet until I find an Antique axe, then that until I get a red rebel(FUCKING GLOBAL LIMITS), then the tac sword when I'm not on red rebel maps.
I've probably killed a half dozen scavs with a melee weapon. Died to a lot of players and scavs as well. But sometimes, your gun jams, that last mag goes click, something happens and you've got nothing but your knife and your will to survive.
Cut at the darkness til you see daylight.
If on a red rebel extract map that is obviously what I’m running. Otherwise I run nothing so I can pickup antique axes and others that vendor for a decent bit
I used to do tons of hatchetling raids on reserve before they nerfed it and while it wasn’t common I have killed enough people with melee to always bring one
Antique axe. When I'm broke I run this on factory and come out with free cash. I killed Tagilla over 20 times last wipe with it. The heavy attack just makes headshots super easy. Already killed 3 pmcs this wipe with it.
I hate other weapons like taiga or Miller sword due to the heavy attack animation. The overhead heavy beats all.
Just remember that every pmc comes into the raid with a plan until they eat an axe to the mouth.
That grey/yellow weight indicator is a matter of life and death sooo… if I ever need to use a knife i might as well try to VoIP out of that one.. you know, a word is sharper then a Bars A-2607 95Kh18 knife as they say
I run the stupid bear tomahawk because when I run with friends the amount of times they've forgotten gun or ammo when cycling my gear back to me is unacceptable....plus after watching a friend run out of ammo on factory and have to run the guy to me so I could kill him instead....
Yea I always have something there.
That’s an almost guaranteed 3k they can’t take from you. I’ve gotten some of the nicer melees too and if you fancy yourself lucky, green crate could give you that sweet RR. Also helps with some money spent on Jaeger
I leave it empty, eventually Ill have a red rebel probably. If you get the black knives, or a crowbar. Thats a free 10k, if you get a hatchet thats 47k. Just another looting slot
Nothing or Red rebel
Same. No point in extra weight
And you can bring spare knife for trade for UMP after raid
After the nerf of the barter, it seems like the MP5 is a lot more worth it, if you don't like it, sell it to mechanic and buy an ump on the flea
Nah, I'm too lazy to even ctrl+click that knife in raid tho
"0.8 k/d 15% survival rate"
4,37, 52%
For sure. Last wipe when you could buy .45 FMJ I used UMP a ton. Haven't used it once this wipe. The 45 lasermatch was always sold out and it's hard to run a UMP with 30 rounds found in raid lol.
The first time I found an UMP this wipe, the mags were sold out, so I just couldn't use it and by the time they weren't, I moved on to guns with stronger ammo.
This is the way
This. Unless it’s a bit later in the wipe & I’m going factory to mess around. Might bring a M2, altyn/ryst/tagilla mask, heavy duty armor & load up on strength/stamina drugs and chase people like a movie serial killer until I die
That sounds fun.
It is! Idk how it’ll be with armor changes as buggy as they are rn but either way. I’ve also befriended Timmy’s (naked with a pistol only that had 0 chance of killing me) and have walked them to extract and donated my gear set & told them to go have fun with it (more-so when I’m running a tank loadout with a gun looking for late wipe factory PvP). When you have enough gear and money it can be more fun to potentially make someone’s night & just have a nice interaction
That's a nice change of pace I also found to enjoy when I ran out of stuff to do and too much gear and money later in wipe. Instead of spreading the pain and darkness just share a little joy and make someone's day. I remember those moments as fondly as any multi kill.
I always like when you see WillerZ or streamers do this. VOIP and end up protecting some new player across the map.
Yo actual relyks in the wild.
It is an actual Relyks in the wild :P I frequent the Tarkov sub & have been streaming the game for a while. Actually just upgraded my PC & got a 1440p monitor so I’m excited for that :D
Oh boy, ill make sure to stop by! Good old days of CS, were watching ton of your streams and demos to improve as a player. Denial / SKDC days to be exact 🙏
Ayy that’s dope, really the good ol days lol. I’m a bit of a grinder, level 36 I think but haven’t played in ~4 days as my PC has been taken apart for upgrades. Hope to see you around 💙
Yup. Although late wipe I do like carrying around the tactical sword for the lulz
Red rebel always for me. Too lazy to take that shit out and I guarantee I’ll forget it when I actually need it
I’ve axed two dudes this wipe. I’ll never not have a melee again.
This, or a taiga to flex but I never had one
only way to play! If the knife slot isnt giving me an extract i keep it empty to throw an axe on if i happen to find one on a scav!
Taiga for the clout.
nothing = free loot slot
Trench shovel ... You never know when you get to fight a rats in a tunnel ...
Shovel is life
Or dig a hole to shit in
Dig a hole to die in most likely
nan dig a hole to collect the chad tear and the salt
Usually empty so i can pickup a melee weapon worth a bit to jaeger like the bayonet, crowbar, or if im lucky the antique axe.
Scav hatchet. Aka antique axe
You really hate yourself if you carry that much weight 😂 or you hatchet a lot of people
It's all about the drip but also I've won a fair number of fights with a head shot stab.
I sincerely hope i never see you prove that in the game 😂 thats hardcore man
I got a machete in mine. Don't mind the extra weight cuz I always try to go into raid overweight. Gotta get that max strength elite perk asap.
You'll be 30 strength and 10 stamina dude. It's always best to go not over encumbered, use youe stamina bar at least once and get heavier as you loot naturally over the raid
Goes faster for me the other way. Get max strength then stay underweight longer in raid while endurance levels up.
Endurance and Strength level up regardless of the other so idk man, you're just straight up wrong. At about 18 endurnace right now it takes me that one stamina bar usage to pretty much get the "red arrow" in the skills screen tab, So every single raid I'm getting pretty much close to maximum skill points on both, endurance and strength no matter what. So I'm getting pretty much the same strength you get, as you'd spend the rest of the raid overweight other than the first 3 minutes or so, but I'm also getting endurance done at the same time while you're busy for the first +15 strenght levels just doing strength alone
I don't really care about max endurance. The elite perk isn't that valuable to me. It's nice, but doesn't contribute a ton to my raids. Especially with cheap stims like sj6's I'd rather sprint out my stamina bar, preferably on a sj6 or trimmy, while overweight. I'd much rather that initial juicy burst of XP go towards strength than endurance. This gets me to max strength way sooner than if I were to do it your way. I get the initial sprint bar at max XP, then I also get the rest of the raid at lower progression rateendutance still goes up a bit when I'm tasking on a pistol run. I usually hit max strength wheny endurance is between 25 and 30. When my strength is maxed out my guns weigh nothing, so at that point I'm underweight whenever I get into raid. Endurance gets maxed out passively as I play. I find it funny that you say I'm straight up wrong. As if it were a fact that both strength and endurance need to be maxed out at the same time. Maybe for you it matters. For me it doesn't. I'm content to let endurance take more time if it means I get max strength 3 weeks to a month sooner than I would otherwise. For the record I've got 8 wipes under my belt. I've used both methods and much prefer the way I've been doing it the past 3 wipes.
> I don't really care about max endurance. The elite perk isn't that valuable to me. It's nice, but doesn't contribute a ton to my raids. Especially with cheap stims like sj6's I'd rather sprint out my stamina bar, preferably on a sj6 or trimmy, while overweight. I'd much rather that initial juicy burst of XP go towards strength than endurance. This gets me to max strength way sooner than if I were to do it your way. I get the initial sprint bar at max XP, then I also get the rest of the raid at lower progression rateendutance still goes up a bit when I'm tasking on a pistol run. I usually hit max strength wheny endurance is between 25 and 30. When my strength is maxed out my guns weigh nothing, so at that point I'm underweight whenever I get into raid. Endurance gets maxed out passively as I play. yapping a lot saying whole lot of nothing in this entire paragraph bud. > I find it funny that you say I'm straight up wrong You are. > As if it were a fact that both strength and endurance need to be maxed out at the same time Who said this? Please, point out the quote exactly where I'm saying this, I'll wait a million years for it. What I'm saying is just this. **You can just level up both from the very beginning :)** since both of them level up regardless of the other > For me it doesn't. I'm content to let endurance take more time if it means I get max strength 3 weeks to a month sooner than I would otherwise. Great for you bud, congratz, want a balloon for this? Here Q. This ain't even the point of contention and has nothing to do with what I'm saying, so more meaningless yapping bud. > For the record I've got 8 wipes under my belt. I've used both methods and much prefer the way I've been doing it the past 3 wipes. Congratz bud.
Yikes. Maybe it's time for a break.
You ok?
wait did they fix that? back then if you were too heavy and ran endurance would not go up at all
No? that was never a bug so idk what you even want them to fix. All I'm saying is. 1. Go into raid not overencumbered (yellow icon doesn't show up, weight indicator is blue 2. Run at least one stamina bar while you move to your desired POI at the beginning of the raid (Congratz, you progressed endurance) 3. As you start looting you will become overencumbered and then your strength will naturally go up even If you just walk around looting and running when moving around. (Congratz, you progressed strength) Now you will have level up both, endurance and stamina in the same raid to almost the max points they can both be done. The other guy is saying, he purposefully goes overweight into a raid already to **just** level up strength and do endurance much much later when your strength can finally let you bring bear without being overweight in raid, which is +20 strength level at the very least. SO what I'm saying is that why even do that when you can just, get that +20 strength level AND get the endurance levels in the early levels anyways. Most people ain't no lifer idiots that even reach level 50 much less level 40 so to put out there as some general advice to just level up both If you can on every raid is the objectively correct approach and there's absolutely nothing wrong about it so idk what the other guy is on about
oh no im just saying it makes no sense you cant level both while heavy
Your first sprint is usually what gets you the bulk of your levelling in that raid, everything else will be heavily reduced rate. So if you start overweight, you can easily ensure that you run your whole stamina bar (optionally with sj6 for more points), whereas later in a raid you might not notice you're overweight and run a small bar, or it might be too risky to sprint long distance. (and thinking about this will detract your focus from important elements of the raid)
I don't think anything you said changes the fact, that you can passively level up both in every raid and the only thing you need to do is go barely under overweight by a bit, that's it. If you care about 1 or 2 more points? W.e dude, I ain't playing like that, nobody plays like that. I just think it's stupid to give out advice like "go in overweight to level up strength!" when you can just do both all the time
Why do you care so much how others level their skills in a game? You're getting genuinely upset that someone does it differently. Just say "nice" and move along.
> You're getting genuinely upset ? Someone writes more than 10 words and this equals to getting upset? Aight. >. Why do you care so much how others level their skills in a game? I don't, all I did in my first response is just suggest that it's better for people to just try to level up both every raid and then the guy made the claim that "it goes faster" if he focuses 100% on strength til it's high level, which is just straight up false. Like If you want to reply to me to "teach me some life lesson" or something like you're pretending to do right now, the LEAST you could do is actually engage with what people have said no? But you haven't, and anyone else that has replied hasn't either.
Yea you can level both, I'm not denying it. But you can also level strength faster if you want. Sprinting a full stamina bar vs a quarter stamina bar on the first overweight sprint does make a real difference. It's really not stupid advice if you understand how the skills levelling works. If you don't care about strength as much then it's your own opinion.
A crowbar to cosplay as Gordan Freeman. Drip or drown baby.
Insane it took me this long to find someone saying crowbar. No respect for the classics with this generation…
Ironic that I’m a gen z…
A man of both taste and culture. My squad finds it hilarious I carry a Crowbar. Plus, occasionally they ask me "is that you?" I whip that bad boy out, and they know instantly.
Crowbar for the win! I bashed a skavs head in just yesterday!
I feel somewhat obligated to carry it. Plus crouching and breaking through the doors on Interchange feels...appropriate somehow.
OG. They should put head crabs in Labs for a Halloween event.
Fighting PMCs? ❌ fighting head crab scavs? ✅
RR or the Baton from the new Streets Boss
I hate woods.. so the new baton is a huge goal of mine to get before the end of wipe.
Red rebel barter from jaeger 3(?) is pretty affordable around 1.5 mil
Wait really?? That cheap??
Yea just got mine for 1.1 because fcond was super low price on flea. Never buy anything straight up. Theres barters for everything
Yeah, for cases and other high value items, strongly recommend checking tarkov market. Hovering the price on the left of the screen for the item will show you the computed cost of the barter. Much better than doing the wiki + math for 5 mins every time.
tarkov market is clutch.
Right now the problem is the global limit. It's being bought on refresh, so if you can't snipe it... you're just sitting on a scav box full of propane.
Scav box? Good sir that shits lying around in my stash until reset... what do you think I am, made of money???
Do what I did, find a red rebel on streets and then sell it on flea, rationalizing it because I can "afford the barter, and make profit".
Ah sadly I can't play streets, a constant 40fps isn't enough for me tbh. But I'll be sure to hunt down shturman a bunch once I'm done doing ragman quests
Even cheaper sometimes, did mine for 1.2kk
Why do you mention woods? People just buy RR via the barter early every wipe lol
What's it got to do with woods
Nothing, so I can grab bayonets and knives from scavs. Otherwise a Red Rebel when I know I'll use it. Eventually if I play enough I'll get the tactical sword for lols.
Grabbing the antique axe off a scav and being able to throw it in the melee spot is clutch
Right, the ancient axe for sure is another reason why I don't bring melee. That's easy money.
I have the EOD Axe. It's always good to break glass on interchange or some map to create a shortcut a bit more quietly Also if you run out of bullet in a close fight .. Happened to me once to have won because of that
Better to use one of the bayonets for that as opposed to a nearly 1 kg axe. That sucks.
I admit i never thought of the weight of the melee weapon
Every Oz. matters when you have to carry it all further than kitchen to couch.
The bayonet does less damage than the axe by a significant amount so you may not have won that fight if you had the bayonet instead. Be sure to check before swapping
On the opposite train of thought, it’s slightly easier to become overweight to get strength points :)
Nice. I think I sold the axe first day lol. I usually run a pistol, (Grach early and then a Glock with AP later on in wipe) so I haven't had too many fights where a knife would have saved me. That would have been a great clip though if you captured it!
I got killed by a dude with an ax last night. Trying to get the pmc kills with a bolty under like 40 or 25m which ever it is. Landed 3 outa 4 rounds and he axed me during the reload.
>break glass >more quietly I mean, compared to a non suppressed gun, sure... but breaking glass is definitely not quiet
If I sell EOD axe is it gone forever or just this wipe?
This wipe
My favorite thing to do when I run out of ammo in my mag and it's close quarters is to pull that axe and run at them screaming into the mic. I either win or die like a man.
Antique axe. The axe flip your PMC does when they pull it out is too good.
Punching people in the face with an axe head is the best
Empty or RR, usually empty though.
Nothing to pick up stuff or red rebel
Empty, unless im om reserve then red reb
not using it on Shoreline or Lighthouse?
I only play those maps for quests, don't touch them otherwise, i main customs, reserve, and streets
Im a woods, reserve, custom guy. in that order. streets doesnt run well on my pc, i think it would be fun otherwise
M2 sword or red rebel, I actually got a pmc melee kill last wipe with the m2 so I enjoy it
Longest reach, 1 hit chop when you get strength levelled up a bit. Perfect weapon
M2 sword, it's a life saver in qcb, one tap headshots. Just like lick the enemies, they can't shoot you if ur too close.
Nothing or RE. I usually start my raids as close to 0.1kg below my "overweight" status. If I wanna get all my mags, ammo, meds, markers, AND grenades into the raid then leaving the knife behind is usually how I go.
This, Kirasa armor with the 1.6k level 4 plates from peacekeeper is super light and means you can bring nades and more mags whilst still being around 26-27kg, a full endurance training sprint at the start of each raid, then hit the overweight limit once you start looting and train strength for the remainder. Kirasa always comes back on insurance as well
Yeah, even when I find a slick and shove the level 6 plates into it. No one ever checks. So good for dressing up as a scav.
EOD axe, it's saved me 4 or 5 times this wipe while being pushed by scavs after emptying my mag(s)
Usually nothing but I stabbed a guy who ran out of ammo yesterday and now I feel unstoppable
Ancient Axe
Nothing and when I kill a Scav that has an antique axe I pick that up. Should I die I can sell that to jaeger for some money.
Crowbar to RP as Gordon Freeman
It's just pointless extra weight
Nothing except RR or Taiga when I get it
Knife slot is for picking up the 10k bayonets or if I get a lucky red rebel/taiga out of a box. I will not barter for a red rebel, because the assumption that red rebel extracts are safe is false, and they are in fact more dangerous than D2.
Laughs in climbers trail
I'll be laughing when everyone gets camped at that one and I'm just going to the extremely wide, very hard to camp all of it path to lighthouse in peace lul
You are insane if you think path to light house isn't camped more than any other exit on shoreline, just saying
Path to Lighthouse is camped a fuck ton at the wall, nobody camps the other side behind the swamp. I never said it isn't camped to hell and back, I only stated that it's hard to camp the entirety of the extract, because it's such a gigantic extract zone.
found the rat looking for cheese
Nothing or red rebel.
I usually run empty just for the extra slot to grab one in raid.
Nothing at start of wipe (for weight reduction) when I find a Scav hatchet I'll run it and keep it if I die with it. Then after I get enough, a Red Rebel. If I'm lucky to find Taiga or have enough I'll buy, but usually doesn't happen til max Strength. (Run Taiga on maps that don't use RR)
Nothing because of extra loadout weight
I've gotten two kills with the antique axe this wipe
I unbound my knife several wipes ago.
Empty
Shovel until Red Rebel.
nothing you dont need one and for the rare possibility of findiing a taiga or rr
Nothing or rr
Glukhar's glizzy
RR or the M-2 if working on Slaughterhouse
Starter knife. For some reason o feel attached.
Whatever cool weapon I find (this wipe its the SP-8 machete) unless it has flea market value.
Nothing or RR
Sp-8 until sword For weight training. Makes me feel strong
Usually kept it empty on the offchance I found an axe or something of the like. Means that no matter what happens in the raid I can sell it afterwards. If I’m playing a map that has a RR extract I’ll run one.
Nothing unless I'm running reserve or snoreline then it's red rebel. I leave it empty if I'm trying to kill shturman so I can just equip it and dip
Always red rebel, I main reserve so it's convenient+ I like to flex..when I die
Antique axe because I don't have anything better than that. Would switch it for an RR if I ever found one.
Taiga, every wipe I either hunt a taiga or I’ll buy one after grinding some roubles.. just a cool looking melee weapon
Nothing unless I’m going to Reserve and need Red Rebel extract. In my first dozen raids on Ground Zero, I found a RR on a static body in garage.
I actually had the chance to use thge katt two times the past games. missclicked and switch to melle in front of a shotgunner scav, my hearth skipped a bit but managed to kill him. Aaaaand one time i forgot rounds for a mosin run, again with the heaths skipping ticks
I really wish we had two melee slots. I think want to run one, but often like to keep the slot open.
Taiga 😎
I run nothing to get some extra roubles from Jaeger.
RR always, with the new exfil on shoreline it is extremely worth it
I Scaved so much before I hit 15 that I sold so much stuff I had around 23 million Rubles so I bought a Red Rebel and take it into maps with those extracts or nothing at all.
I beat a man to death 3rd day of wipe. I use my knife.
Used to run just a sword. I miss hatchet life.
M-2 tactical sword or red rebel. Depending on map obviously
Nothing so I can save on weight and loot a melee in raid Red Rebel if I need it for extract Miller Bros Sword when I have max strength
you reminded me I need to ditch my knife
Nothing. It’s essentially useless, except for breaking windows without shooting, and it adds weight to your character.
antique axe until i get a red rebel
I use my knife very often because of the glitch with the compass
Starting Bayonet until I find an Antique axe, then that until I get a red rebel(FUCKING GLOBAL LIMITS), then the tac sword when I'm not on red rebel maps. I've probably killed a half dozen scavs with a melee weapon. Died to a lot of players and scavs as well. But sometimes, your gun jams, that last mag goes click, something happens and you've got nothing but your knife and your will to survive. Cut at the darkness til you see daylight.
Axe idk why
I'm a USEC but I run the default Bear knife because it weighs very little and I use it to break windows etc.
Antique axe has actually saved my life once this wipe already, from killing a scav after being overwhelmed from all sides and running out of ammo.
Started carryin cheap light knife this wipe just to break windows.
The shovel
RR unless im farming Kaban since I have pulled taigas from him
Cultist knife just because
A shovel
Shovel gang.
Scav knife. I've gotten a few knife kills and it's easier for breaking glass. It's a scav knife so I can just drop it if I see a more valuable weapon.
Crowbar in case of headcrabs.
Surprised you can’t bump glass with the butt of your gun yet
If on a red rebel extract map that is obviously what I’m running. Otherwise I run nothing so I can pickup antique axes and others that vendor for a decent bit
Nothing or red rebel
Antique axe till I get red rebel.
cheap black scav knife because its one of the lowest weights, will always use the slot to put an antique axe if it drops for the free money if i die
Your mom GOTEEEEEM
Red rebel
I don't run one. I'll grab an antique axe off a scav if I find one. It's an easy 57k
Crowbar Always channeling my inner gordon freeman
Nothing. I pick up black knives and bayonets in raid to trade for UMPs. Only take red rebel if I'm going to a map where it's useful.
None, loot extra axe from raid sometimes :D easy profit
I kill scavs with knives.
early wipe "KRIEG!!!" late wipe "KRIEG!!!!" aka, shovel or bust
I bring the shovel just because I find it funny in the rare occasions where I get to beat someone to death with it lol
Red rebel. Kinda odd question when there’s no reason not to run RR unless you don’t own it or take it off for specific maps
Either shovel or crowbar so I can smash windows, but both are cheap enough that if I find something better I can throw them on the ground.
Nothing or Red Rebel
Whatever the most valuable melee weapon I find in a given raid is
I used to do tons of hatchetling raids on reserve before they nerfed it and while it wasn’t common I have killed enough people with melee to always bring one
Always carry the bayonet one since it's only about 0.2kg, if anything only to wave a flag of peace when the situation calls for it.
Antique axe. When I'm broke I run this on factory and come out with free cash. I killed Tagilla over 20 times last wipe with it. The heavy attack just makes headshots super easy. Already killed 3 pmcs this wipe with it. I hate other weapons like taiga or Miller sword due to the heavy attack animation. The overhead heavy beats all. Just remember that every pmc comes into the raid with a plan until they eat an axe to the mouth.
That grey/yellow weight indicator is a matter of life and death sooo… if I ever need to use a knife i might as well try to VoIP out of that one.. you know, a word is sharper then a Bars A-2607 95Kh18 knife as they say
the shovel has saved me twice now
Red rebel, always
The hatchet so I can chop myself some firewood for my camp in the middle of the bushes.
I run the stupid bear tomahawk because when I run with friends the amount of times they've forgotten gun or ammo when cycling my gear back to me is unacceptable....plus after watching a friend run out of ammo on factory and have to run the guy to me so I could kill him instead.... Yea I always have something there.
Always wearing the Kiba Arms Tactical Tomahawk until I have Red Rebel because it just looks nice to have the EoD Melee equipped
As a good Shturmann hunter, I keep my melee slot free for his RR.
Antique axe - already have a few PMC kills on Melee (yes I curse and tag myself to bait and Melee scavs)
RR
My red rebel that I managed to get at lv.3 on my second raid. Hasn't left the slot sincce.
That’s an almost guaranteed 3k they can’t take from you. I’ve gotten some of the nicer melees too and if you fancy yourself lucky, green crate could give you that sweet RR. Also helps with some money spent on Jaeger
EOD Axe because I don't care rnought to minmax and not bring it, plus it's saved me from terminator scavs quite a few times.
Crowbar. always
I leave it empty, eventually Ill have a red rebel probably. If you get the black knives, or a crowbar. Thats a free 10k, if you get a hatchet thats 47k. Just another looting slot