My father and I play tarkov together. He rarely pmc's but loves scav running shoreline. He currently is sitting on 55.4 Mill rouble without flea and has so far hit level 10 just by doing transfer daily's. After watching this I suddenly understand the power of a scav run. Great vid
On Saturday I unlocked the flea with exactly this strategy (I've been treating this wipe as an experiment to see if this was possible/how difficult it would be). My stash value is over 80 million with 22.5 million in cash roubles. I also have 3 slicks, two altyns with face shields, 4 ammo cases, a grenade case, 5 scav junk boxes etc It's been a lot of fun tbh. The only map I've run my scav on is Streets
Keep in mind you can see the value of your scav's loadout in the character tab. It can help with deciding whether to speedrun factory or choose another map
@@cumobama1398 It shows the "true value" of the items, but traders have multipliers which lower the amount of roubles you end up getting. Therapist is 0.63, Mechanic 0.56 etc.
Respect you for grinding the 20mill on each map, instead of extrapolating the data from a much smaller data set. You did an awesome job sharing your finding. I give the video a thumbs up and look forward to more of your content. I solely run Streets on my scav and feel like I could easily make more than the rate you are describing but just my opinion no data to compare.
Great video! I scav reserve almost exclusively for many wipes now. And this video showed I was making the right choice :) Now to make my friend watch it cause he swears streets is the way. We spend way too much time running from place to place on streets, almost always die, and have to suffer with 25 fps making combat near impossible. And almost all big loot areas are empty due to the amount of players you are racing to fight for loot
You cant loot it as a pmc lol, thats everyones mistake. I survive like 10-15 raids between each death and come out with 1 mil average and 3 mil for crazy raids
Thanks very much mate! If you can think of any mistakes I made with how I ran the experiment let me know and ill try to fix them for the 3 retests to 50mill :)
I always do streets. I almost never run into PMCs and sometimes come across like 6 bodies from some PMC fight and whoever won never took any of the loot so I just clean up and bring like 4 meta guns out.
Shoreline is pretty sweet. I usually play at 1am during the week. So you can make bank by hitting the smuggler compound as a player scav and extracting thru old bunker. It helps more if you got the 30% flea reduction.
For lighthouse, I think the beach heading to southern road is underrated for scav runs. There is 6 stashes you can hit relatively quickly without going out of your way plus a lot of good tool spawns. If I scav into lighthouse with a big bag I will try to hit resort/chalet if I'm close then head out the southern beach to southern road landslide and it's usually completely uncontested and takes about 15 minutes.
i have a similar route depending on where i spawn and if i have path. If i spawn down south by the cabins i will hit the staches and loot going south and then looping around and up to hit the chalets and the staches on the way to path. If i spawn all the way north, I loot the werehouse and then try and kill the rogues before hitting either path or the grotto
Your data-driven breakdown of the looting results on each map & explanation of the variables that are always at play in-raid was super easy to follow and intriguing to watch imho. This as well as your 28 Looting Tips video have taught me loads.. I think the community could really benefit from more folks making helpful content like yours 🙌
Thank you!! Glad you learnt a lot from the videos! I'm passionate about providing data-driven content but it just takes so long to get the data haha I'll be doing more in future!
If there wasn't any cheaters, and you have the needed map knowledge to survive on streets, I'd say streets is the best... found 2 btc in jackets in 5 scavs there, both times I immediately got killed by other player scavs that miraculously knew what I had on me. One came screaming "BITCOIN" from hundreds of meters away... they are just infesting this game and have 0 skill it even took them several shots to kill me... ^^ sadly my gun jammed
they need to increase the penalty for scav killing scav to the point that you can no longer scav for an entire day. Also yea, cheaters are all over the place, lvl 8 new account hitting me and my friend and a third party from over the wall in the dark without termals also running like meta gear. Yea sure buddy.
I found a marked key worthed 2mil I was heading to mall extract which is somewhat dangerous, then some random player scav threw a nade at me across the road then head shot me for no reason. Quite funny.
literally happened to me 2 days ago, found a gpu at the usec building, then 5 minutes later a PMC sprinted up to my building and asked for it. He killed me as I tried to run from him since I had a crappy gun lmao. His stats indicate he's a rage cheater.
Giving a thumb up here because it's so well deserved! I started playing 5 days ago, and hit level 12 earlier today, and ya boi has been STRUGGLING with what I should be doing on scav runs, even though I prefer it to PMC raids, so this has been fantastic in giving me some direction thank you
Thank you!! Yeah I prefer PMC runs as well, scaving is so terribly boring but I thought it was interesting to get some data on how efficient the scav runs actually are! I'll do another test like this every wipe to see if things change up much
I love running shoreline, almost no pmcs, I go from either cottages/village to scav island, then pier, then road to customs to finish it off, averaging about 300k profit and maybe some extra goodies
The thing with reserve is although the loot is generally bad, it’s just guaranteed to be safe because everyone is in the underground bunker. If you want to make big bucks and don’t mind the risk, I would argue there are better maps, if you have high rep and get good kits go factory.
I used to be a factory rat, and then I went to interchange. Now, I am a giga-brained Reserve scav enjoyer. Reserve has ridiculously good ammo finds, mostly in 5.45, so early wipe it's a dream. It's also not really that bad in terms of PMCs. Sometimes you get campers and snipers, but I have an 80% scav extract rate.
I use to main Reserve for the longest time on scavs, the last couple months I’ve switched to Streets and it’s been loads better comparing them. I’d say about every other scav on reserve I was being killed by pmcs and I haven’t died once on streets besides one rogue scav.
When you were trying to work out what your strategy for reserve was going to be I did tell you I was pretty confident reserve was the way to go. what makes it work is how close you always are to an extract, so you can pull the pin at any time as soon as you fill up whatever you spawn with. and there is reasonable loot close to every spawn.
If you scav factory there are about 10-15 weapon crates that are usually not looted. I make at least 250-400k roubles a raid by selling the good stuff on the flea market. Easy in and out and you're able to hop right back on your pmc.
Night time Interchange has been the most lucrative for me this wipe. Very low pmc/ player scav count = higher chance for rare loot spawns such as the bitcoin locker and GPU's. Fair chance at finding pmc corpses around Killa spawns also for a bit juicier loot and likely a bigger backpack
Chuckles if you dont mind,I got a small request,could you make a guide for looting interchange?Aiming to fast and valuable looting and another part aimed towards peaceful looting with least chance of entering pvp.I keep checking other content creators and they usually just recommend the usual stores etc,Im sure a brilliant guy like you know a thing or two and have some advices wise for that.
My fave maps to scav on now tend to be streets and GZero. Having karma 6 on both allows you to unleash your full potential. Always enjoy setting up scav ambushes, ect and working with the bosses for big pay days.
Early wipe I'd scav Reserve for flash drives - typically hit both Black & White Knight to check the PCs and the filing cabinets, then up to checkpoint for those filing cabinets and extract. Later wipe I'd scav all of the tanks looking for a tank battery. But my main scav run was caches & stashes on Woods ending with a visit to sunken village & scav bunker if I had bunker or bridge extracts. OTOH my raid buddy would do multiple Factory scav runs each day, just running to extract. This meant by the end of wipe his scav timer was minimal and he often spawned in with valuable loot.
Reserve is really diverse too, if you have a crappy scav loadout you can just rush communications bunker (d2 power switch area) and either 1. Fight PMC's that took their sweet time getting out 2. Fight raiders that were never taken out or 3. Loot dead PMC/Raider bodies and the rest of the bunker where some of the more juicy loot of Reserve tends to be. If you have a great loadout, extracts are fairly easy to get to as long as you take back routes and stay out of the sight range of any radar station snipers. Plenty of loot on the outside ring of reserve to hit even then. Its by far my favorite map to scav on but one of the ones I rarely do a PMC run on, besides questing.
Yep absolutely, I've lately been PMC running it a lot more trying to get comfortable and it's been pretty good, maybe just the player base falling off like normal making the raids quieter and easier
This is interesting, since I always hear "Let's go to streets, because the loot is so good", but it severely lags behind here. I love ground zero, because it's fun to fight timmies with shitty scav kits. I have the experience, but they have the gear.
Yeah me too, I'm going to main it as a PMC for a hundred mill or so then once I've learnt all the gold spawns I'll try fitting in a scav test before the economy goes nuts with wipe hype
I personally love scav running shoreline for 3 main reasons: 1. I dont have to deal with many pmc's by the scav island and the pier, which is the route i take. 2. Im not competing with many other scavs on my favorite route (pray that I spawn by the blue fence, loot the stash in the barrels, then run along the beach and loot pier and any other stashes.) 3. I can get a decent amount of loot (i once got 600k roubles) for my skill level (im still level 4 after a few weeks because im terrible at this game)
No offense to you but it’s definitely about routes as well. Streets is easily number one depending how you do it. If you hit post office, the little computer room with a dead scav in the middle going from post office to astronaut building, astronaut building and navigation. Just hit those over and over and it’s easy money. Gpu 1/3 raids normally and bitcoin 1/7 roughly.
1 of the best way is to scav in Reserve then quickly rat at D2 to take out those PMCs who leave late. Then loot the buildings around the heli and get out juiced.
As a new player, this wipe I made more money than my veteran friends simply by spamming reserve on scav. I had multiple runs that got me like 2 mill plus a raid.
ground zero is the map I go to pretty often when I have a big bag mainly due to the insane of amount of dead scav bodies even though there is basically no chance of rare loot on that map the sheer amount of random loot from bodies and the occasional player adds up quick
Two requests: Could you please make a video showing what to loot on reserve? I have little to no knowledge on the map... Also, how would be this run on groundzero now that they tweaked the loot spawns on lv 20+ matches?
I drew little boxes around the buildings on the map that I loot, go to those buildings and loot everything in there. Or you can watch the full VOD I linked in the description of my reserve test and actually watch me loot those buildings. For GZ I have no idea, I'll retest next wipe and we'll see
I scav exclusively on Reserve. In my experience the biggest benefit is the number of extracts and the relatively low risk of death. The loot can be really bad if the dynamic loot system rolls badly. Entire rooom with no loot that can otherwise have 2-5 spawns in them. Very hit and miss, especially at night. But, I loot a lot of geared PMCs there, I farm the rogues, and I have a pretty good set of safe runs to do depending on spawn that equate to earning about 20 million every few days for me.
Reserve is just drowning in filing cabinets for example. It makes Reserve feel super safe and consistent. Most PMCs try and get into the bunker area or marked rooms. So they tend to not lurk around various buildings besides the barracks. More likely to see a PMC at bishop buildings at the start of a raid. So when you scav in at middle to late raid, most are dead or underground. It also has a nice bonus of being able to get the loot of already killed raiders if you happen to go to an area they hang around. No other map has raiders besides labs so there kits are a nice snag if available. Lighthouse is super risky as a scav to get Rogue loot, so raiders being on Reserve is a nice bonus. Reserve being the capital city of the rat empire also helps scaving. Scav extracts are FAR more safe than the PMC ones and more varied. I imagine most players go to reserve for tasks and/or marked room runs and to get out asap. Being forced into either Train, bringing no bag, Hermetic and D-2 prolly makes PMCs not engage in as much general looting as they would on other maps. At least until they get a red rebel and even then it is often camped as well.
I don’t like scaving prefer doing pmc if I’m ever broke I just scav factory and run to exfil easy 100k from gear you might get labs card etc or loot the bottom from of office there’s like 3 tool boxes med bag etc just perfect for the small bags you spawn in with then hit safe and exfil usually about 300k also I get an air filter 1-3 runs from looting under medbay it’s profitable for short time raids with no risk almost
@@ChucklesTV a few wipes ago I started to run my scav on reserve and I fell in love. I didn't know how to play the map on pmc so I was afraid to run it. Now every wipe I try to get RR asap to make extracting less of a hassle. With the marked room changes, it's a huge money map for pmc money runs
In 3 wipes, since streets came out, ive found streets to be the best. Its not even close. If you're lookong for GPUs, Intel, bitcoin, streets is the best. If youre looking for barter items, then there might be other maps better but the amount of cabinets on streets is insane. My best run i got a GPU, intel, Moonshine and 2 labs cards. I rarely die on Streets, dont think i have died this wipe. But i also avoid shots completely, so much so as turning around completely if i hear them. Last wipe, i found a ton of high gear unlooted PMCs and were able to run Trooper bags without having to buy any the last month of wipe. But last wipe was short and weird so maybe that had something to do with it. 2 wipes ago, i ran scav about 90% of the time. I cant remember the last time ive ran a scav this wipe tbh. But this is the first wipe im going for Kappa so id rather complete quests than make rubles, even though i have 30 million and am sitting on 15 bit coin.
9:25 Correct formula for calculating TotalCD is: (Cooldown*TotalRaids)-1=TotalCD. To run 2 raids you only have to wait for 1 cooldown, to run 5 raids you only have to wait for 4 cooldowns, 10 raids is 9 cooldowns etc. If you run 27 raids, that’s only 26 cooldowns worth of wait, given that you begin the experiement with 0 cooldown. This is commonly known as the ”fence post problem” and one of the greatest (or worst) mistakes caused by this human error is described in this video here (fast forward to 3:30): : m.ua-cam.com/video/FAdmpAZTH_M/v-deo.html. Great vid tho, really slept on reserve. Now imma go get that bag!
These videos are good and usually i dont listen to tarkov creators but u really back it up with stats. Any chance you could do a video on ping abuse? I'm a European player and when I'm farming money (or playing late) I'm playing on servers with 200 ping and my survival rate is significantly higher, this could be because the servers are dead but i get a a lot of kills sprinting through doors like an idiot. When i play on europe i feel as though people holding angles have an advantage.
Thank you! I'd love to but it's far out of my area of expertise, I'd need to study up on networking/servers/routing to start with and my net isn't stable enough for accurate testing :(
How do you keep making it outta reserve!? I keep going in and doing your route only stay in for like 5-10 mins but I keep fuckin dying to snipers, campers, or just not having an extract thats not across the entire map. Just struggling to get out 1/5 runs and was wondering if you had any tips? Thanks
Full vod of reserve run is posted in description - assuming a 5.5min CD, 2min queue, my average extract time was 4.9minutes. Also I have max karma so i have every extract every raid, maybe work on karma first?
Shoreline is the best, it constantly has the best loot, apart from labs. I don’t think you have enough map knowledge to know where the gold spawns and high tier loot is, because your map rankings are not accurate to which one has the best consistent loot.
i feel like that was a pretty major flaw in this experiment. I get a lot of my high value items looting caches on my scav runs and i sometimes plan my route around them@@ChucklesTV
Something unmnetioned by chuckles, if you try Reserve in South America you will experience a lot of betrayals and inferior loot rates, a lot of south america players do scav runs on reserve.
What exactly did you do on ground zero to make over 2 million an hour? My friends and I scav there all the time, and usually don't make it out with any valuable loot
"I have lived on Streets for 2 wipes" 😮 I'd love to know his specs. I'm considering upgrading my battlestation. I can run all games I play in 1440p 140-180+ FPS, but my metal struggles running EfT 😭
Thank you my frens ❤️❤️ Looks like it's the same case as ARMA 3, you can't make the game run buttery smooth, you can just compensate with better hardware and optimize the settings and make it run somewhat less bad😅
@ChucklesTV I have the same GPU, maybe EfT likes AMD CPUs better? 🤔 other specs are pretty much the same (only 32gb RAM but idk if upgrading to 64gb would make a noticeable difference)
Reserve got a boost from the lack of deaths, streets and interchange are too popular to fully estimate t their value, lighthouse too prone to deaths and I'm not sure you know how to stash farm effectively on woods and shoreline. They can be the best money especially if you do night raids.
id say the only reason streets was so long was because it takes forever to get to places. it IS the best map to scav. if you run around every place looking for pmc's or just rare loot you will get either.
Just go the Shoreline into Resort and loot all medbags/hidden ledx spawns + computers { also if you find a loot of bodies you can find hidden gear as well ) i made 45mln in 5 days and already buy all keycards only playing resort :D goodluck
Good loot CAN spawn on GZ, but i imagine it's really low rate, one time as a scav I found a Chek 13 marked key in one of the filling cabinets in the TerraGroup locked room when it wasn't unlocked before
I've always been a reserve scav but I've literally died 10 out of 10 raids. Not sure why but somany camping rats I died to pmcs with 5 minutes of raid left insanity
I still don’t understand how people run streets. I have a $3.25k computer and that map runs at literally 35 FPS for me compared to every other map being over 100. It’s just unplayable.
@@ChucklesTV Reserve is usually my go-to if I need super fast money but Woods is such a chill experience overall, fights are fun and you can ambush people (my playstyle, so obvious bias), loot variety is nice, exploring is also nice. Woods has always taken the W for me as a map, I just wanna chill, kill and loot. Also, very good vid, nice production and info!
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My father and I play tarkov together. He rarely pmc's but loves scav running shoreline. He currently is sitting on 55.4 Mill rouble without flea and has so far hit level 10 just by doing transfer daily's. After watching this I suddenly understand the power of a scav run. Great vid
That’s really nice man.
On Saturday I unlocked the flea with exactly this strategy (I've been treating this wipe as an experiment to see if this was possible/how difficult it would be).
My stash value is over 80 million with 22.5 million in cash roubles. I also have 3 slicks, two altyns with face shields, 4 ammo cases, a grenade case, 5 scav junk boxes etc
It's been a lot of fun tbh.
The only map I've run my scav on is Streets
That's awesome! Once I get my dad a decent PC I'll also start him on scav runs! And nice work Micky you're smashing this wipe
@ChucklesTV thanks! I've been playing since 2018 and it was getting a bit stale, so I thought I'd just scav main this wipe & it's been great fun!
Legend 🔥
Keep in mind you can see the value of your scav's loadout in the character tab. It can help with deciding whether to speedrun factory or choose another map
Great tip!
Today I learned! Thanks random UA-cam commenter!
Do you mean you can see that before you enter a raid? Gotta check that out
im not sure how it calculates that value but its wildly exaggerated.
@@cumobama1398 It shows the "true value" of the items, but traders have multipliers which lower the amount of roubles you end up getting. Therapist is 0.63, Mechanic 0.56 etc.
Respect you for grinding the 20mill on each map, instead of extrapolating the data from a much smaller data set. You did an awesome job sharing your finding. I give the video a thumbs up and look forward to more of your content. I solely run Streets on my scav and feel like I could easily make more than the rate you are describing but just my opinion no data to compare.
Great video! I scav reserve almost exclusively for many wipes now. And this video showed I was making the right choice :) Now to make my friend watch it cause he swears streets is the way. We spend way too much time running from place to place on streets, almost always die, and have to suffer with 25 fps making combat near impossible. And almost all big loot areas are empty due to the amount of players you are racing to fight for loot
You cant loot it as a pmc lol, thats everyones mistake. I survive like 10-15 raids between each death and come out with 1 mil average and 3 mil for crazy raids
One of the most comprehensive and scientific experients! This helped me tons, thanks!
Thanks very much mate! If you can think of any mistakes I made with how I ran the experiment let me know and ill try to fix them for the 3 retests to 50mill :)
I always do streets. I almost never run into PMCs and sometimes come across like 6 bodies from some PMC fight and whoever won never took any of the loot so I just clean up and bring like 4 meta guns out.
Shoreline is pretty sweet. I usually play at 1am during the week. So you can make bank by hitting the smuggler compound as a player scav and extracting thru old bunker. It helps more if you got the 30% flea reduction.
Yeah time of day has a massive effect on efficiency i think !
For lighthouse, I think the beach heading to southern road is underrated for scav runs. There is 6 stashes you can hit relatively quickly without going out of your way plus a lot of good tool spawns. If I scav into lighthouse with a big bag I will try to hit resort/chalet if I'm close then head out the southern beach to southern road landslide and it's usually completely uncontested and takes about 15 minutes.
i have a similar route depending on where i spawn and if i have path. If i spawn down south by the cabins i will hit the staches and loot going south and then looping around and up to hit the chalets and the staches on the way to path. If i spawn all the way north, I loot the werehouse and then try and kill the rogues before hitting either path or the grotto
Yea pmcs know this and have extract right there too
Your data-driven breakdown of the looting results on each map & explanation of the variables that are always at play in-raid was super easy to follow and intriguing to watch imho. This as well as your 28 Looting Tips video have taught me loads.. I think the community could really benefit from more folks making helpful content like yours 🙌
Thank you!! Glad you learnt a lot from the videos! I'm passionate about providing data-driven content but it just takes so long to get the data haha I'll be doing more in future!
If there wasn't any cheaters, and you have the needed map knowledge to survive on streets, I'd say streets is the best... found 2 btc in jackets in 5 scavs there, both times I immediately got killed by other player scavs that miraculously knew what I had on me. One came screaming "BITCOIN" from hundreds of meters away... they are just infesting this game and have 0 skill it even took them several shots to kill me... ^^ sadly my gun jammed
they need to increase the penalty for scav killing scav to the point that you can no longer scav for an entire day.
Also yea, cheaters are all over the place, lvl 8 new account hitting me and my friend and a third party from over the wall in the dark without termals also running like meta gear. Yea sure buddy.
I found a marked key worthed 2mil I was heading to mall extract which is somewhat dangerous, then some random player scav threw a nade at me across the road then head shot me for no reason. Quite funny.
literally happened to me 2 days ago, found a gpu at the usec building, then 5 minutes later a PMC sprinted up to my building and asked for it. He killed me as I tried to run from him since I had a crappy gun lmao. His stats indicate he's a rage cheater.
Giving a thumb up here because it's so well deserved! I started playing 5 days ago, and hit level 12 earlier today, and ya boi has been STRUGGLING with what I should be doing on scav runs, even though I prefer it to PMC raids, so this has been fantastic in giving me some direction thank you
Thank you!! Yeah I prefer PMC runs as well, scaving is so terribly boring but I thought it was interesting to get some data on how efficient the scav runs actually are! I'll do another test like this every wipe to see if things change up much
I love running shoreline, almost no pmcs, I go from either cottages/village to scav island, then pier, then road to customs to finish it off, averaging about 300k profit and maybe some extra goodies
Nice safe way to make a small bit of money for sure
The thing with reserve is although the loot is generally bad, it’s just guaranteed to be safe because everyone is in the underground bunker.
If you want to make big bucks and don’t mind the risk, I would argue there are better maps, if you have high rep and get good kits go factory.
I used to be a factory rat, and then I went to interchange. Now, I am a giga-brained Reserve scav enjoyer.
Reserve has ridiculously good ammo finds, mostly in 5.45, so early wipe it's a dream.
It's also not really that bad in terms of PMCs. Sometimes you get campers and snipers, but I have an 80% scav extract rate.
I use to main Reserve for the longest time on scavs, the last couple months I’ve switched to Streets and it’s been loads better comparing them. I’d say about every other scav on reserve I was being killed by pmcs and I haven’t died once on streets besides one rogue scav.
dude if you loot the ration crates by bunker hermatic, helicopter and black bishop you find so much alyonka and sugar. free money tbh
When you were trying to work out what your strategy for reserve was going to be I did tell you I was pretty confident reserve was the way to go. what makes it work is how close you always are to an extract, so you can pull the pin at any time as soon as you fill up whatever you spawn with. and there is reasonable loot close to every spawn.
Haha I had 10+ people swear by every map mate, nothing helps without evidence.
wish my pops was still alive he would of loved to play this with me. he loved borderlands and all the top games on xbox 360
If you scav factory there are about 10-15 weapon crates that are usually not looted. I make at least 250-400k roubles a raid by selling the good stuff on the flea market. Easy in and out and you're able to hop right back on your pmc.
During the run I was hitting a lot of weapon crates but so many were already looted, there were heaps of other p scavs
Night time Interchange has been the most lucrative for me this wipe. Very low pmc/ player scav count = higher chance for rare loot spawns such as the bitcoin locker and GPU's. Fair chance at finding pmc corpses around Killa spawns also for a bit juicier loot and likely a bigger backpack
Night inter on my servers (oce/asia) is filled with randoms camping dark corners
Shoreline isn’t the greatest raw mil per hour, but I find it so much more survivable as a scav, when that’s taken into account it’s all I scav
This is something I noticed with my PMC runs as well, survivability on shoreline has been a huge factor for me getting lots of rubles
Chuckles if you dont mind,I got a small request,could you make a guide for looting interchange?Aiming to fast and valuable looting and another part aimed towards peaceful looting with least chance of entering pvp.I keep checking other content creators and they usually just recommend the usual stores etc,Im sure a brilliant guy like you know a thing or two and have some advices wise for that.
Yeah! Will do but it'll take a while
My fave maps to scav on now tend to be streets and GZero. Having karma 6 on both allows you to unleash your full potential. Always enjoy setting up scav ambushes, ect and working with the bosses for big pay days.
reserve is better but streets and gz are more fun
Early wipe I'd scav Reserve for flash drives - typically hit both Black & White Knight to check the PCs and the filing cabinets, then up to checkpoint for those filing cabinets and extract. Later wipe I'd scav all of the tanks looking for a tank battery. But my main scav run was caches & stashes on Woods ending with a visit to sunken village & scav bunker if I had bunker or bridge extracts.
OTOH my raid buddy would do multiple Factory scav runs each day, just running to extract. This meant by the end of wipe his scav timer was minimal and he often spawned in with valuable loot.
Reserve is really diverse too, if you have a crappy scav loadout you can just rush communications bunker (d2 power switch area) and either 1. Fight PMC's that took their sweet time getting out 2. Fight raiders that were never taken out or 3. Loot dead PMC/Raider bodies and the rest of the bunker where some of the more juicy loot of Reserve tends to be. If you have a great loadout, extracts are fairly easy to get to as long as you take back routes and stay out of the sight range of any radar station snipers. Plenty of loot on the outside ring of reserve to hit even then.
Its by far my favorite map to scav on but one of the ones I rarely do a PMC run on, besides questing.
Yep absolutely, I've lately been PMC running it a lot more trying to get comfortable and it's been pretty good, maybe just the player base falling off like normal making the raids quieter and easier
As a pmc its the best map to get meta kitted guns, you just go in with mp9n and cheap kit and if you kill a player in bunker it will likey be meta
@@ChucklesTV Good point! IIRC we are in 6-ish month wipe cycles now, only at the tail end of month 3 and folks have fallen off hard...hate to see it
That saddens me. I typically strictly play Reserve as PMC and always scav there as well.
Damn dude you litterally revealed my go to scav run :D
oof sorry
Very interesting video and very well put together, the spreadsheet bit dragged on a little long though :) Liked and Subscribed!
Thanks! Yeah maybe I could have put that explanation in the actual spreadsheet
This is interesting, since I always hear "Let's go to streets, because the loot is so good", but it severely lags behind here.
I love ground zero, because it's fun to fight timmies with shitty scav kits. I have the experience, but they have the gear.
Your voice soothes me like nothing else. Love your content, keep up the great work!
Haha thanks
I'd be very interested to see the difference now with the new ground zero loot tables... now you can actually get rare spawns
Yeah me too, I'm going to main it as a PMC for a hundred mill or so then once I've learnt all the gold spawns I'll try fitting in a scav test before the economy goes nuts with wipe hype
Absolutely smashed it out of the park yet again!
Amazing work Chuckles!
yeeeeeeeeeeeep me tooo mate i hope i dont get boolied too much by pmcs next time
I personally love scav running shoreline for 3 main reasons:
1. I dont have to deal with many pmc's by the scav island and the pier, which is the route i take.
2. Im not competing with many other scavs on my favorite route (pray that I spawn by the blue fence, loot the stash in the barrels, then run along the beach and loot pier and any other stashes.)
3. I can get a decent amount of loot (i once got 600k roubles) for my skill level (im still level 4 after a few weeks because im terrible at this game)
I think those are valid reasons, hope you keep enjoying the game! There is sooo much to learn
No offense to you but it’s definitely about routes as well. Streets is easily number one depending how you do it. If you hit post office, the little computer room with a dead scav in the middle going from post office to astronaut building, astronaut building and navigation. Just hit those over and over and it’s easy money. Gpu 1/3 raids normally and bitcoin 1/7 roughly.
Reserve is my favorite all around raid. As a scav theres lots of loot, lots of pmcs to fight, even fun raiders to fight in bunker and in trainyard.
Reserve is amazing if you know it well. Very easy to get gear and items.
1 of the best way is to scav in Reserve then quickly rat at D2 to take out those PMCs who leave late. Then loot the buildings around the heli and get out juiced.
As a new player, this wipe I made more money than my veteran friends simply by spamming reserve on scav. I had multiple runs that got me like 2 mill plus a raid.
Yep reserve scav is crazy
ground zero is the map I go to pretty often when I have a big bag mainly due to the insane of amount of dead scav bodies even though there is basically no chance of rare loot on that map the sheer amount of random loot from bodies and the occasional player adds up quick
Two requests: Could you please make a video showing what to loot on reserve? I have little to no knowledge on the map...
Also, how would be this run on groundzero now that they tweaked the loot spawns on lv 20+ matches?
I drew little boxes around the buildings on the map that I loot, go to those buildings and loot everything in there. Or you can watch the full VOD I linked in the description of my reserve test and actually watch me loot those buildings. For GZ I have no idea, I'll retest next wipe and we'll see
I love these In-depth videos, You've definetly earned my sub. Keep it up.
Thanks for the sick map
I scav exclusively on Reserve. In my experience the biggest benefit is the number of extracts and the relatively low risk of death. The loot can be really bad if the dynamic loot system rolls badly. Entire rooom with no loot that can otherwise have 2-5 spawns in them. Very hit and miss, especially at night. But, I loot a lot of geared PMCs there, I farm the rogues, and I have a pretty good set of safe runs to do depending on spawn that equate to earning about 20 million every few days for me.
Reserve is just drowning in filing cabinets for example. It makes Reserve feel super safe and consistent. Most PMCs try and get into the bunker area or marked rooms. So they tend to not lurk around various buildings besides the barracks. More likely to see a PMC at bishop buildings at the start of a raid. So when you scav in at middle to late raid, most are dead or underground. It also has a nice bonus of being able to get the loot of already killed raiders if you happen to go to an area they hang around. No other map has raiders besides labs so there kits are a nice snag if available. Lighthouse is super risky as a scav to get Rogue loot, so raiders being on Reserve is a nice bonus. Reserve being the capital city of the rat empire also helps scaving. Scav extracts are FAR more safe than the PMC ones and more varied. I imagine most players go to reserve for tasks and/or marked room runs and to get out asap. Being forced into either Train, bringing no bag, Hermetic and D-2 prolly makes PMCs not engage in as much general looting as they would on other maps. At least until they get a red rebel and even then it is often camped as well.
I don’t like scaving prefer doing pmc if I’m ever broke I just scav factory and run to exfil easy 100k from gear you might get labs card etc or loot the bottom from of office there’s like 3 tool boxes med bag etc just perfect for the small bags you spawn in with then hit safe and exfil usually about 300k also I get an air filter 1-3 runs from looting under medbay it’s profitable for short time raids with no risk almost
does it mean we should reverse results cause you were playing on australia?
with current loot tables
for money - streets
for valuable technical loot - lighthouse (and also gears from rogue USECs)
fair - but did you see the data?
I have always fucking loved reserve, I love this
I've always hated it but this test somewhat made me enjoy it a little more
@@ChucklesTV a few wipes ago I started to run my scav on reserve and I fell in love. I didn't know how to play the map on pmc so I was afraid to run it.
Now every wipe I try to get RR asap to make extracting less of a hassle. With the marked room changes, it's a huge money map for pmc money runs
In 3 wipes, since streets came out, ive found streets to be the best. Its not even close. If you're lookong for GPUs, Intel, bitcoin, streets is the best. If youre looking for barter items, then there might be other maps better but the amount of cabinets on streets is insane. My best run i got a GPU, intel, Moonshine and 2 labs cards. I rarely die on Streets, dont think i have died this wipe. But i also avoid shots completely, so much so as turning around completely if i hear them. Last wipe, i found a ton of high gear unlooted PMCs and were able to run Trooper bags without having to buy any the last month of wipe. But last wipe was short and weird so maybe that had something to do with it. 2 wipes ago, i ran scav about 90% of the time. I cant remember the last time ive ran a scav this wipe tbh. But this is the first wipe im going for Kappa so id rather complete quests than make rubles, even though i have 30 million and am sitting on 15 bit coin.
Good guide, no click bait. Gaved you a sub.
9:25 Correct formula for calculating TotalCD is: (Cooldown*TotalRaids)-1=TotalCD. To run 2 raids you only have to wait for 1 cooldown, to run 5 raids you only have to wait for 4 cooldowns, 10 raids is 9 cooldowns etc. If you run 27 raids, that’s only 26 cooldowns worth of wait, given that you begin the experiement with 0 cooldown. This is commonly known as the ”fence post problem” and one of the greatest (or worst) mistakes caused by this human error is described in this video here (fast forward to 3:30):
: m.ua-cam.com/video/FAdmpAZTH_M/v-deo.html. Great vid tho, really slept on reserve. Now imma go get that bag!
Yeah! Make sense, thanks for the correction
Where do you find these maps that show you all the extracts, loots, n stuff?
I have 11k+ hours so I just brute force learnt most loot but you can try: tarkov.help/en/
Lighthouse for best loot. Reserve for times sake
What map would you like retested to 50 million? ua-cam.com/users/postUgkxmijZKc4iMHEF1Dm4ZyK8Q-Xh_3iGqhjR
Do you think queuing factory gives you a higher chance of spawning with access card or do u think it is a coincidence?
@@Krombop.M The items you spawn with are determined before you've even queued for a raid, so no
Reserve pls
Probably coincidence, but that's just a guess
id love to see you try different routes on lighthouse and to incorporate the hidden staches
Insane level of work and attention to detail went into this video. Thank you for that! Wonderful production
Thanks ben !
These videos are good and usually i dont listen to tarkov creators but u really back it up with stats.
Any chance you could do a video on ping abuse? I'm a European player and when I'm farming money (or playing late) I'm playing on servers with 200 ping and my survival rate is significantly higher, this could be because the servers are dead but i get a a lot of kills sprinting through doors like an idiot.
When i play on europe i feel as though people holding angles have an advantage.
Thank you! I'd love to but it's far out of my area of expertise, I'd need to study up on networking/servers/routing to start with and my net isn't stable enough for accurate testing :(
How do you keep making it outta reserve!? I keep going in and doing your route only stay in for like 5-10 mins but I keep fuckin dying to snipers, campers, or just not having an extract thats not across the entire map. Just struggling to get out 1/5 runs and was wondering if you had any tips? Thanks
thats my experience as a pmc for reserve. usually scav runs on reserve are risk free, i never run into pmcs maybe 1/10 raids i died to pmcs
Full vod of reserve run is posted in description - assuming a 5.5min CD, 2min queue, my average extract time was 4.9minutes. Also I have max karma so i have every extract every raid, maybe work on karma first?
@@ChucklesTV @agamer4891 Thank you guys both out!! Ill try again tonight and thank you ill checkout the VOD.
Shoreline is the best, it constantly has the best loot, apart from labs. I don’t think you have enough map knowledge to know where the gold spawns and high tier loot is, because your map rankings are not accurate to which one has the best consistent loot.
Insane amount of work, respect man.
How come you never loot any buried caches? Especially on the new shoreline?
I did loot a few but caches have a much larger variety of loot, I'd prefer more guaranteed value/slot of toolboxes/duffles etc
i feel like that was a pretty major flaw in this experiment. I get a lot of my high value items looting caches on my scav runs and i sometimes plan my route around them@@ChucklesTV
fine work
Thank you
Something unmnetioned by chuckles, if you try Reserve in South America you will experience a lot of betrayals and inferior loot rates, a lot of south america players do scav runs on reserve.
Good to know!
Great work, subbed!
What exactly did you do on ground zero to make over 2 million an hour? My friends and I scav there all the time, and usually don't make it out with any valuable loot
I outlined my basic strat in the video but also the full vods are in the description
Reserve if you have 6.01 rep and want that gear. For rubs I'm keep watching your video.
Great content, subbed ❤
Thanks
"I have lived on Streets for 2 wipes"
😮 I'd love to know his specs. I'm considering upgrading my battlestation. I can run all games I play in 1440p 140-180+ FPS, but my metal struggles running EfT 😭
I have a 4090 i13900k 64gbs ram and i play at 1440p, with max settings im getting 90fps to 120fps. Streets just runs poorly for every system
Averaging 80fps with CPU: 5800X3D | GPU: 3070 | RAM: 64gb 3200mhz | MB: B550 | Storage: M.2 3TB
Thank you my frens ❤️❤️ Looks like it's the same case as ARMA 3, you can't make the game run buttery smooth, you can just compensate with better hardware and optimize the settings and make it run somewhat less bad😅
@ChucklesTV I have the same GPU, maybe EfT likes AMD CPUs better? 🤔 other specs are pretty much the same (only 32gb RAM but idk if upgrading to 64gb would make a noticeable difference)
@@RaineErasmusWalker i have max settings so my ram useage may be higher then normal but im not kidding when i say streets can use 40gbs of ram
Don’t know if they’ve changed the loot in ground zero recently but I’ve found 2 GPUs in 3 days of occasional scav runs in capital insight PC Blocks
It's been pretty good for gpus since the high level version of the map was added
Reserve got a boost from the lack of deaths, streets and interchange are too popular to fully estimate t their value, lighthouse too prone to deaths and I'm not sure you know how to stash farm effectively on woods and shoreline. They can be the best money especially if you do night raids.
at the converter you meant to say "how much time it would take you (the creator) with our cool down time to make just as much"
If i look at my scavs worth, and its a lot, ill run factory, if not ill run customs or shoreline
Love to Scav ground zero, hate to PMC it
yeah scav runs there are pretty great, so uncontested
wow, real data for once, thank you
You're welcome!
Witch option do yo use to this color game ?
imgur.com/t7rFldl
Cool. Glad you did this!
Thanks !
Ground zero. Nothing better than spawning in the 35 minute mark, with other player scavs as we rush quest areas and demolish little timmies.
Shhh, don't tell people about interchange pcs. Great video.
Customs for pvp lighthouse for rouges and streets for big money
Excellent video, thanks.
Thanks for watching!
on interchange, make sure yo include the small lockers in Idea/Oli/Goshan i find bitcoin and gold chains there frequently
Yeeep I forgot to mention I was checking those when possible too
I've always scav'd streets. It's an easy minimum 300k a run.
So happy I had EOD before they removed it so I have PVE progression
Really want factually to get retested when I scav there I get every single spawn that’s not in office to myself
If you check the factory vod of my scav runs you'll see just crazy numbers of other p scavs almost every raid, maybe your servers are quieter?
@@ChucklesTV I generally have a bunch too, but they all seem to be idiots. Also the pmcs lately have been brain dead and fully kitted. Loot for days
id say the only reason streets was so long was because it takes forever to get to places. it IS the best map to scav. if you run around every place looking for pmc's or just rare loot you will get either.
Just go the Shoreline into Resort and loot all medbags/hidden ledx spawns + computers { also if you find a loot of bodies you can find hidden gear as well ) i made 45mln in 5 days and already buy all keycards only playing resort :D goodluck
Good loot CAN spawn on GZ, but i imagine it's really low rate, one time as a scav I found a Chek 13 marked key in one of the filling cabinets in the TerraGroup locked room when it wasn't unlocked before
ooooh okay good to know thanks ! i just got maaaaad unlucky
I admire your videos and ideas
Thanks cloud
all my hommies love nighttime woods stashes (nobody loots woods at night)
My friend said interchange is the best, let's just say I'm not doubting him anymore
Especially with btc prices now inter is sick
i usually have the most success in lighthouse, huh, interesting
Could be differences between regions / map knowledge, if you mainly play LH I bet you can farm it more efficiently than me.
@@ChucklesTV Probably, scav runs there almost never result in death and it has some pretty good lootspawns the pmcs dont check
I think you shouldn’t have looted air drops for the test because they introduce way too much variability for such a small sample size
The ability to safely loot airdrops is a strength of a map though, no airdrops on factory/ground zero
I've always been a reserve scav but I've literally died 10 out of 10 raids. Not sure why but somany camping rats I died to pmcs with 5 minutes of raid left insanity
didn't watch, but the answer is factory and anyone who thinks otherwise is not playing optimally
ty for coming to my ted talk
=]
Streets. Next question
did you see the data?
this is a great video
Some people play Tarkov.
But nerds *p l a y* Tarkov 🤠
YEAH! :D
I still don’t understand how people run streets. I have a $3.25k computer and that map runs at literally 35 FPS for me compared to every other map being over 100. It’s just unplayable.
its pretty bad :-(
Lots of work damn, for the algo
yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep hahahaha
Pretty interesting outcome, I think you got unlucky with your lighthouse raids
Yeah they were cooked xD
woods.
Yes
@@ChucklesTV Reserve is usually my go-to if I need super fast money but Woods is such a chill experience overall, fights are fun and you can ambush people (my playstyle, so obvious bias), loot variety is nice, exploring is also nice. Woods has always taken the W for me as a map, I just wanna chill, kill and loot. Also, very good vid, nice production and info!
Reserve
So scavs have their own skills?
Yep during a scav run check the skills tab
Ground zero best map cuz easiest pvp. I can kill pmc and get free kit and usually it comes with loot.
spoiler does not make 2 mill each run
Roubles/hour is all that matters, roubles/raid is a distraction