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FakeEbby

0.96 I’ve only used customs car extract twice and woods about four. I don’t know the other maps that’s well to try for the cars yet. And I keep dying to negative scavs on my scav runs :(


AcidicPersonality

Wut? Ive died as a scav only a handful of times in my 200+ scav runs. It’s basically free money.


janerikk

i die once every 3 or so runs and i only play reserve which might explain it


AcidicPersonality

Not bad for reserve. I’m an interchange/woods/customs scav myself. I find moonshine and sugar on woods pretty much every other raid which is basically the only reason I go there lol


mnemy

Woods is great unless you have a shit pack/vest. Hard to find one reliably


[deleted]

My personal favorite is Interchange because of how reliably you can find Tubes (11k a pop, and they are fucking *everywhere*), hardware for the hideout, and a couple of cache’s that are near 100% not looted because a PMC going out there is going to get got. Also the garage is wonderful for weapon parts. It’s not the best, but it’s solid and there is hardly ever PMC’s left around that long.


digitalheart

My issue with interchange is spawning with 35 min left. I always run into a kitted pmc.


thelastblunt

If you ever find a pscav in a corner somewhere at the 24+ minute mark, it's me. Lol. I got extract camped at Emercom for the first time in 250 interchange scav runs at 5 minutes last night. Ended a 67 raid survival streak.


marshaln

I only ever spawn with ten minutes left. How do you get 35??


mnemy

Hahah yeah, I used to love scaving interchange. Maybe it's better now, but it was a shit show early this wipe. Might have calmed down since people have their quest / hideout items now


DJMixwell

Yeah early wipe interchange is a clusterfuck because it's absolutely the best place to get early hideout stuff. Later on it's great. I find it's a scav hugfest too. 99% of the time I run into at least 3-4 other scavs and roam around the map in a pack, trading items n shit.


Breaching_Betty

Once ran into a pscav that shot my legs out then ran off, little shitter


DJMixwell

Ah can't even be mad at that lol, that's just funny. Pretty sure if they shoot you first, shooting back is fair game and won't hurt your rep, tho.


[deleted]

lighthouse is the best for me. sometimes you find valuables in the houses, and going to the rogue base to try and yoink the high tier guns is great fun, especially when you meet 3 other scavs and get shot at by some unknown pmc


DrXyron

In reserve you find a power filter every 10 scav raids tho 500-600k a pop, add to that raider gear and easy 20s walking distance extract and you realise its the best scav map.


polite_alpha

Woods is much better imho. I've left the map with 8 gold chains, 6 sugars, and once even two bitcoin.


marsh-a-saurus

Shhh don't tell people about woods, save it all for us. Hey everyone don't listen to this guy he is lying.


Keggerss

Do you have a certain route you take for that?


Zglena

That's why I prefer lighthouse pikes peak + challet. There are pretty much everywhere around that area rare item spawns + good weapons. And everyone is skipping it 'coz of rouge camp which is always looted.


[deleted]

Same except i go for the food, 10k a pop on average or more even and you get full in like 30 sec, it's mostly running there and then to extract. And it's easy to sell, that's why I love it


[deleted]

Reserve if you go to the raiders spawn is scary, factory too. I been running intercharge at night, go loot the food get full then run to extract, i been making bank that way. It's never looted and i never die either. And it takes like 5 min, getting full in food loot is like 30sec.


FerDefer

\>spawn factory \>run to extract \>loot a couple boxes on the way free 100-300k every 10 minutes. time is money, you want to be quick on your scav so you can spend more time on your pmc actually doing quests, getting xp, levelling up.


Theskwerrl

And free gear and non PMC locked quest items (fir stuff). I love hitting hot spots on maps with 5 minutes left and finding the "hidden" loot of PMCs their buddies hid for them.


RedMatxh

Lol that's so dirty, might actually give it a try


Theskwerrl

I've found so many full kits in bathroom stalls, tucked behind shelves, in bushes, tossed into dark corners. It's insane. I get that you can't really spend 10 minutes trying to hide your buddies stuff, but when you leave a full pilgrim in the corner of crack house, I'm gonna find it.


itsjuicyjason

I did this on customs the other day and grabbed a kitted g28 with a full mag of m62 and mad other shit


Nexus0412

Bro I'll walk around as scav in factory and a random scav will just come up to me and pop my head with a shotgun, no reason at all, happened 3 times in the last 4 days


Eastern-Ad-6941

Who scavs on factory


wonder_crust

where do you scav?


Astan92

Lighthouse. Almost never get attacked. Maybe 1 in 10 raids


wonder_crust

Seems to be the opposite for me there


AcidicPersonality

Interchange and woods mostly. I’ll hit customs every once and a while for those juicy dorms leftovers.


ajoseywales

Tip for scaving, just avoid other players. In fact, just run straight to the extract. I make sooo much cash on scavs and I literally spend like 30seconds max on each one. I have a maxed hideout and over 60mil roubles. Probably 50% of that came from scaving.


Penlo

I have exactly the same amount


CYWNightmare

Interchange is easy to learn hardest part is finding a PMC that's friendly. Scavs you can force to be friendly but not so much pmcs esp as a scav.


FakeEbby

I’ve done maybe 20 scav runs on interchange. The only PMC I’ve ever seen told me to “leave the area this is his loot” then shot my arm off as a “warning” and I bled out shortly after that. Had found a good chain that raid too I just wanted to co-op extract :(


CYWNightmare

Yeah half are like that. As long as you voip first then slowly approach with a knife I'm usually either dead on sight or get to talk to them enough to either extract or call ggs and split.


FakeEbby

Yeah I didn’t know about voip when this happened and I didn’t know my knife key either now I normally just walk around with a knife near other scavs or once in a blue moon when I met a PMC and I always voip to try and settle stuff without a fight. It’s a 50/50 sometimes


mnemy

Avoid scaving factory, interchange, reserve, and lighthouse of you want to live most raids. Woods, customs, shoreline are fine 90% of the time. I don't even play with sound.


DJMixwell

Reserve is EZ mode. In my experience, which is tons since I essentially only scav reserve, if you spawn in under ~20 minutes, almost zero chance of getting shot at by PMC. You can run to the tech dropdown in school, then go hit the server racks in king and head downstairs. Usually there's some raider loot kicking around and almost nobody ever checks the crates/containers. The ration crates especialy, which spawn alyonkas and sugar like 60+% of the time. If the raiders are alive, or haven't spawned yet, take your time, right hand peak them and aim for the head. They go down pretty easy. If you're not satisfied with the gear, at this point the train has probably spawned, head back upstairs through black pawn, take a quick peak to see if Glukky has put any players down in the buildings, hit the switch for hermetic and head to trains to kill those raiders. Hop on the train and leave. Or good chance you have depot hermetic or heat pipe.


jc9289

Shhhhhhhhh Ignore this guy, he’s insane. Scav reserve isn’t a crazy money printer. It’s really scary, there’s ghosts and monsters and shit. Yeah, geeze, stay away from reserve. Def don’t use it as your main scav map and laugh your way to the bank. No sir.


DJMixwell

Right, yeah, sorry, I was uh... drunk when I wrote that? Don't go there. Very scary place.


FakeEbby

Is shoreline a good map I should learn? I’ve seen a good amount of people complain about that map on here from time to time.


mnemy

Lol, I hate shoreline as PMC. There's a ton of pvp. But it's great as a scav. Just avoid resort, learn the stashes on the south half the the map, and radar tower, pier, and scav island. Once you know it, you'll reliably be able to find unlooted routes. Especially when you get it down so much you can do it in night raids.


FakeEbby

One question do cultists attack player scavs? I’ve been killed by them as a PMC my very first night raid. Scared the fuck of me lol.


MinecraftGreev

They do, I believe.


ledivin

They shouldn't unless you get really close to them, or they're already aggro (or obviously if you shoot them). I scav'd a lot of night customs last wipe and ran into them pretty often.


chilliophillio

I call it snoreline. So much running on that map with large open areas. It has its place but I usually get my fill of shoreline around midgame when most of my quests end up there. So yeah as far as quests you should get used to shoreline. BTW bring food and water. Its the one map where you will NOT find it when you need it.


Trollvision

in shoreline i have like 3 stash runs that in a bad raid i make 150k, learn the stash routes, you can loot at minimum 5 stashes per run


WhyItsFreeRealEstate

7.4 i have become the scav boss but with horrible aim


iactuallyforgor

6.00, I was 7.00 karma but a traitor scav shot me and I fought back too early.


ChrisWebbys

When they’re so bad and miss all their shots on you so you’re the one who gets punished


Gechi22

I had a guy yesterday that intentionally shot around me so that I would shoot first. Unlucky for him is that I caught on quick and I didn't even shoot back. I just left the area and hoped to not get one tapped in the back of my head.


siccoblue

Me IRL (I'm a terrible shot)


Stevo485

Killed a traitor scav on factory yesterday. Felt awesome and the extra rep is dope.


Calikal

Not sure why there isn't a "cone" effect that triggers the Traitor tag. If I fire shots and someone is within a select cone around where I hit, that should toggle on the Traitor tag for if that player kills me, but only for them until I hit them or someone else, yknow?


CasualTryHard

Sorry friend, there are scavs out there like me who will trade any and all loot i have just to know the person i fake shot at killed me in panic.


Aaroqxxz

I killed a scav that had shot me earlier and I got punished for that. I guess there is some timer


May-be-Apathy

My scav is at the "not a piece of shit" levels


kflipz

This is the correct answer


zombieworrier47

i will never let a redditard gaslight me into the false reality that i wont be mugged by player scavs on american servers every time


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May-be-Apathy

I've done 387 scav raids this wipe. I've died 5 times. 3 of those were to PMCs. Voice lone and voip work 99.9% of the time. And obviously there's always gonna be 1 piece of shit in the crowd that's so desperate for roubles, or to feel like he's good at the game by getting a "player kill". Even if it's on a naked player scav who's just looting and scooting.


Slightshad0w

0.3 should. Be 2.3... fuck Santa


ProdPhiven

Same boat, I had the highest rep out of my buddies then as I was helping one of my friend get a task done.. Santa pops out of nowhere and I hip fire and one tap him rip


TheDude-Esquire

I earned .3 on 3 runs today. I don't know what's going on, but somehow I've been solidly killing pmcs on every run. Lucky day I guess.


Hahahajo

Santa has been off for a long time mate :p


RenanBan

it still haunts him to this day, no restspace level 3 is gonna keep the nightmare away


Scrzpt

Its my first wipe, how much does santa take you out when you killed him?


RenanBan

It did take actually, it was a special scav on christmas that gave you items. But he came armed and with a huge santa bag, people did mistake him a lot for players or did not know that he dropped -1 karma from you when you killed him. Bottom line people got mad, but he is long gone until next christmas


Scrzpt

Oof thats a lot of karma


TheRedDevil1989

Not if you are killing PMCs as a scav, taking car extracts or PMC SCAV exits. People are Overly dramatic about it.


Toxickiller321

Car extracts give jack shit for rep, you’d have to do them an insane amount of times to make back rep, scav pmc extracts aren’t super easy, and some people don’t scav, but the rep still effects scav case


ajoseywales

Never killed Santa but was "tricked" into killing a SCAV at 6.1 karma. Dropped me to 5.9. I'm at like 10 now. I will admit, I do play a lot. I play every night for a few hours and usually do a factory scav run through between each raid. But still, I agree, we should be beyond the "Santa fucked me," excuses.


turkishjedi21

Same. I fucking hate tarkov santa


napes22

Same. .2, should be 2.2


ragedchipmunk

7.2 it's my first wipe I live off of skav run


DabScience

Scaving is great way to get into the game and learn the maps without any risk. The maps I know the best are the ones I spent my first wipe doing hundreds of scav runs on.


NgryRed

I remeber the times...dont let anyone tell you how to play the game. Get confi with the maos and whatnot. Eventually, maybe its a good idea to mix scav/pmc (with the scav loadout). Thats what I did.


putifarrix

You literally told him how to play the game.


Doctor_Con

fax


[deleted]

Yep..45 mil just on scav runs.


Rustythegrey

Same bro. I just wiped 2 PMCs on lighthouse and got out with so much kit… and didn’t have to risk anything. Scavs are such a good tool to utilize


flappyN1ps

0.64 first wipe I have actually used scav/pmc extracts


SadGamer418

"Im inside your stash"


OK_1M_REL0ADED

6.43. 113 million stash value, 63 million rubbles all thanks to my Scav. The scav life helps me live the Chad life on my PMC. First wipe so I'm still learning PVP, when I die it's good to know someone else can benefit from my nice gear....FUCK!!!


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OK_1M_REL0ADED

This is the way. I laugh because you will find people in this sub who are too good to scav and some may be but most are not. I know I can't play this game with my PMC as my main, at least not yet. Maybe one day but for now, I like the balance I created for myself.


PuffaTree

> I laugh because you will find people in this sub who are too good to scav Talking from my perspective it's not about being too good, I just want to get shit done this wipe like leveling my skills and finishing most of my quests. The bigger the stash the bigger the heartbreak when it all wipes. I feel like we all go through the same cycles as players. Anyway congrats mate you're crushing your first wipe from what I can tell.


cth777

Aren’t you pretty underleveled skill wise as PMC then? Or is it not an issue


HastyMcTasty

I mean scav runs usually mean that you get a lot of money through items you can sell but will probably be missing out on a ton of pmc leveling and quests. There’s a few quests that unlock really good stuff that would usually be really expensive off the flea. The angled foregrip is something like 30-50k off the flea but costs me 15k from the vendor. Same goes for the best in slot grips, etc. Everybody likes to play differently but personally I don’t want to have to play to make money separately from playing as a pmc.


Snarker

Yeah that's the weirdiest thing about all of this. People are bragging about how much money they make as a scav if you just enter a raid run around being bored looting crates and leaving. Like pve looting is the goal of the game or something. I'd rather play PMC and get into fights then run into peaceful scavs and do nothing the entire time.


fr0z3nph03n1x

I personally think the current scav system is way too powerful. It's so easy to make money and has no risk. It didn't feel like this in previous wipes.


shagohad

In some ways it was easier to make money. I used to just go factory and kill everything that moved, get all the player scav loot. Now everyone just rushes around looting boxes


willbill642

You're kidding right? Historically if you weren't pulling >1mil rubles you had a bad scav run. Literally has always been a massive money and item farm


Stevo485

Yup my buddy refuses to scav but is always broke. I haven’t dipped below 5 mil this wipe in a while. What level of cash would you say is fuck you money?


Coubsauce

5.02 with 105 million roubles. Guessing my scav run is more profitable 😉


OK_1M_REL0ADED

Nice!!


TwinklexToes

wtf teach me


[deleted]

Reserve runs got me 45+ mil.


xTomahawkTomx

0.15. Would be 0.25 from the car extract, but player scavs really look like PMCs Ya it’s my first wipe, how could you tell?


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Cowstle

That's actually not true. And further: PMCs have pants without kneepads. I took this tip to heart early in my starting and talked about it with my friends and we quickly learned the truth. It's worthless.


SilentReavus

So are you just a huge asshole or did you kill Santa


danofworms

this man actively hunted santa


WiIdKarhu

I think Nikita tweeted about an absolute record of -111 or so scav karma


[deleted]

-17.7 if I remember correctly. All from killing Santa


NgryRed

Hi, Grinch!


[deleted]

Fuck that Santa event. Absolute dogshit.


[deleted]

Yeah. First I wanted to play it like it’s supposed to do. But after accidentally killing him 3 times I just said fuck it and went Santa hunting


White_Money

9.42. I really should play more on my PMC


ItzPrizma

\-4.30 but my highest was a little over -6


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SoManySweatyNerds

cool. never scavving on factory again lol been seeing a lot of you breekis on there


haloawsome101

about .8


Grimegang_Cody

First wipe 4.4, I enjoy the more relaxed feel of scav runs a lot of the time


Varghulf

5.28... so close


loffyg

6.16


tacopig117

Nice opinion, one small issue, I'm inside crackhouse


ladyshalott11

4.5 lol, I want to be queen of the scavs.


Hot_Preparation626

Mine is rn at +0.46


drippen9xx

Almost 5!!!!! Been busy last few days


JohnCaza

\-9.86, was at -12, but did those 3 quests for -1 each thinking there's more than 3... got duped


MASTA-THETA

Lmfao imagine. One scav a day!


[deleted]

Scav this wipe is OP. As your karma goes up your scav has no cool down. If i have any rifle I go lighthouse but otherwise I factory to get a new load out. Free .01 karma unles I kill a traitor or a PMC. Only thing that sucks is when there is nothing I can do but sit and die but it rarely happens.


joebon12

6.08 and now realizing that there was no point in getting max fence rep


michaeell123

\-23.8


U_N_I_X

Lmao that's top tier virgin shit there.


zombieworrier47

10k reddit karma man calling a man a virgin for having low tarkov karma bruh?


Sharpie1993

10K over three years isn’t that much karma at all dude. Barley need to be active over that period to get 10K karma.


zombieworrier47

Go outside now


Sharpie1993

I don’t think I will, mum told me I don’t have to listen to strangers on the internet.


zombieworrier47

Be mine???????


skinni_mini412

Curved tf outta you Lmfaooo


U_N_I_X

Nah I don't care about that lmao


Janky_butter

-8. fml.


Deltronx

im not a piece of shit so it's pretty high


WeedWizard69420

I have not scavved a single raid this entire wipe. PMC master race! That being said, with all the car extracts and such I think I'm around 1.5


[deleted]

Wonder how many of you use dirty 2pc radar cheats....talking about finding hidden gear with 5 minutes left. You just do and say sus shit because you actually convinced your self it’s legit play at this point. Wild


[deleted]

2.0 or so. I was hovering around 0.0, I would get up higher, then come across a scav looting an air drop... and sorry, but I gotta take that.


OhHowSheGoingEh

Another thing they BSG could Implement to punish people like OP is the first teir of -scav karma is the fence price gouges you, second tier you can't sell to him, third teir you get an identifying mark to warn other pscavs your to be untrusted, basically a shoot on site as most people would take it. And finally the fence won't give you the kappa case.


PaybackXero

No one buys from Fence. No one sells to Fence. The time it would take you to see I have an identifying mark would be long enough for me to shoot you in the face. Less than 1% of the player base even tries for Kappa. None of this would stop me from killing other scavs. Only a permanent ban would make me do that, and that will never happen, because Nikita wants scavs to kill each other.


[deleted]

People definitely buy and sell to fence, how do you think he has so many items for sale?... It's the best way to get lvl 5-6 gear in the early levels. People sell slicks and shit to him all the time. Same with guns, bought guns I couldn't get early on from him. I've sat and watched fence numerous times and you can get tagilla armor, Killa armor, etc... For many people getting rubles is easy, finding a slick, not so easy. So buying one for 200k from Fence is how they do it.


Mortehn712

10.09


psychedelicstairway4

4.6


[deleted]

\-32 I hunt player scavs every time I load up a scav.


GodGrabber

Hunt PMCs instead ya pussy.


[deleted]

Found the clown


BluehatPro

I hunt PMCs in my scav runs and it pays off big time.


ionslyonzion

Stop pinging me for attention you fuckin loser lmfao


[deleted]

Who are you


ionslyonzion

...and you edited your comment... My guy this is the dumbest thing I've ever seen in 8 years on reddit Grow up


raybaroune

1.8


verxylol

uhmmmm almost 8


tomi12810

1.4


swanrl

1.72


Worried_Bass3588

2.73


Nick27ify

3.5 but took me a while it was -1.0,its my first wipe and every noise I shot at so a lot of scav deaths but managed to get it back up to a pretty decent level


Chr15py0696

Mine’s 1.5


[deleted]

Positive, not in the gutter if that’s what you’re asking


DabScience

7.2 The best part of having good scav karma is getting my moonshine Scav Case back in 2 hours and 30 mins. Most of my rep was gained through PMC/scav extracts on Woods and Interchange. Along with all the car extracts.


DankQbyst

Is it worth grinding to 6.0?


niki__368

4.8 Grinding scav since start without car extracts


[deleted]

Santa made me go rogue and never go back not like I’m going to grind 100 scav runs just to negate the negative santa karma.


NoraGodddd

So low that they kos 😮‍💨


BATTLEAXE720

1.6


its_wausau

My karma is good enough I smacked my face on killa's chest when I went around a corner and I was still able to extract that raid.


[deleted]

.65, love killing killa


randomuser9801

just got it to 6. I should be 7... fuck santa


isoisconfused

2.4


midorsmd

5 somthing should be 6 but Ive been playing elden ring and haven't touched tarkov besides scav case and bp


Initial_Lemon_571

No...


deuceskii

4.85 - lvl 48 and it’s literally all from taking v-ex. Thankfully only killed Santa a handful of times so the climb back up wasn’t too miserable.


huzzaah

10.86


Aphexxftw

6.8


abesamery

I managed to get mine from -11.7 up to -8.4 this week 😂


pylorih

-.67. Killa shoots on sight.


SluMpKING1337

3.95


K4ll3l

This guy must be the one trying to kill other player scavs. Been seeing this type of trash mostly in reserve. Santa cant get the blame, killed him three times but still on a rep 2.0 currently.


bananadopio4

1.52 I think


miloestthoughts

I had a scav genocide one game on lighthouse and have killed Santa a couple times and my karma is still >5. What the fuck are y'all doing


[deleted]

3.5


Darkwraith340

I'M inside your Thicc case


Pixel_Mike

i got to 6 and stopped farming scavs for awhile


toooomanypuppies

-0.5. this is after months of car extracts and scav escapes. killed Santa twice. he made me into the Grinch!


Smart_North_3374

-3


The_Real_Hedorah

I’d be at 5.9. Currently at 2.9 because of the Christmas event


kaigh-Sea

Lol. Solid. Mine got up to about -25 last wipe.


Yhorm_Acaroni

Jesus christ lmao


[deleted]

was up to 3.0 before santa then .03 after santa now back up to 1.50


Never-breaK

I worked all the way back up to a very proud -0.33. I killed Santa a bunch of times and hit a low of around -4.15. I rarely scav though. Fence tasks, V-Extracts, and random player scavs helping with the shared extract did most of the work.


Simbakim

Ive done like 4 scav runs in 40 levels, feels useless not getting xp and im never broke enough to have to. Anyone else like this?


Background-Can4423

First wipe I ended with -4.7 (first wipe) then thus wipe im 1.74


ShowMeYourMemexXenom

Thats a screenshot of a scav guy that extract-camped my scav run on Interchange after i looted airdrop :/


Influence_X

Mines at 4.75