At least as far as loot concerns.

Long story, short. I found a labs keycard and Streets marked room key within the first few levels of my account.

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So i've started pretty late this wipe, only a week ago. The first 6 raids were very succesful and i got lucky with a lot of quest items. But also nothing special as the previous wipe went pretty smooth and efficient as well, even better probably. So after a great i got a bit unlucky and started to struggle a bit from level 11 to level 15..

So i finally got level 15, unlocked flea market, sold some items i had saved up for this moment to make a bit of rubles back and went to sleep, logged on the next day, did a scav run got killed, went to woods on my next PMC run and this is were the luck began.

I tried to do 2 quest at once, place 2 iskra and 2 water bottles on woods and the quests which wants you to be dehydrated for 5 minutes. I guess i was still half asleep since you unlock the dehydration task only after finishing the iskra water bottle quest. Obviously i only noticed this after 5 minutes when the quest did not complete. That was some time wasted but still i went along to do the Iskra/Water bottle quest.

Just seconds before i arrived at zb-014 i encountered a PMC. I went prone into the grass, the guy started shooting the scavs 1m away from i was laying prone and they shot back at him. So i shot him twice in his tier 4 helmet with FMJ rounds from a Mosin. The helmets stopped both bullets, by the time i tried to shoot my 3rd shot, this time a bit lower so i did not hit the helmet, my gun jammed...

At the same time he killed the last scav and started running towards outskirts extract. He litterally ran against my body since he moved my entery character and somehow he still did not notice me. By the time i finally fixed my malfunction, key wasnt bound yet to inspect my weapon lol, he was already out of sight.

After that i did my thing in zb-014 and wanted to go to zb-016 where i could extract as well. I wanted to take the safe way, but after some fighting with some scavs multiple solo PMC's came together and started fighting each other. I tried to chase the last remaining PMC as he probably did not notice that there was one more PMC alive which was me. He ran towards the lumber mill, so i thought i could kill him with my Mosin when he started crossing past the lake. Somehow i could not find him anymore, i guess he did not cross there or at all. So i just followed my way to ZB-016. But at this point i no longer wanted to take the safe route since i just could not bother walking all away around the lumber mill. So i went thought the lumber camp, not caring about the loot since this raid already took way to long without getting anything done.

So the only place i stopped for loot was the wooden building where the violet keycard can spawn. Not because i wanted to check that spot for the keycard but just because i practicly ran against the shed so i might as well. And there is was... The Violet keycard, i;ve never found any labs keycard except for the the one you need to entry it. The first time in 4 wipes, finally some luck. I got even more hyped when i realized you could sell keycards again this wipe without ridiciously fees which made everyone putting theirs up for barter trades.

Literarally 2 raids later, if found a Street marked room key. So in a timespan of - an hour i got 10 mil richer. And this was right after i unlocked the flea market. So i had enough money to upgrade my hideout to where i needed it and get some good keys for looting and quests. Usually i am scraping the barrel early wipe because when i start making some money i spend on hideout or quests. I finally can do all this without getting worried about going broke and running some sh*t ass gear.

Sorry for the long rant, im just hyped. i can just put together some "good guns now with help from flea market.

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