Great tips! For field cleaning, one thing I wish I’d known earlier is that you can clean your longer firearms while they’re mounted on your backpack. Would have saved me some awkward stretching!
Always good to see another upload! That “keep one pouch empty” trick has saved me a lot, but the main tip I could offer would be to keep the small ammo boxes on the left side of your pocket (in the same way the meds are but on the opposite side so that they don’t interfere with them). If you do this then you can top off your mags without the need to open up your bag. It’s a lifesaver.
You can have all 4 magazine pouches filled on the chest rig and simply put the empty magazine in the side pouch. You don't even need to grab the magazine, if you eject it with the gun just above the pouch, the magazine will stay in the pouch (same can be done with the backpack)
On top of the meds I take for my excursion I also put one of my regen artifacts in the pouch. The order is med at bottom left hanging out sideways, then a lighter over the top of meds, then a detector to the bottom right. And early game before headlamp I put a flashlight over top of the detector aimed up or down depending on if I am looting or need it to clear black grass ahead of me. Learning the where the random caches spawn helps also for getting good loot, especially the large ones that can have a gun. I find if you need regen artifacts Podeba anomoly fields always yields one or two. Specifically the one at the bottom right where you meet Katya talking about her mother, then the one to the far left where you receive the first mission going into Podeba. I rarely ever get regen artifacts elsewhere. Corner shooting is a must-learn skill. Learning to peek super quick and then use that to blind fire your sidearm or main gun to preserve what health you can. In tight spots I carry sidearm and then in left hand a regen artifact to fill in missing health midfight. For magazines I tend to slap the empty mags into my pouch until the fighting is over.
IIRC I think I heard it's better to sell regen artefacts and buy meds, since overall you get a bit more healing Though tbh it's probably not a major difference x3
I really need to adopt the toilet paper and a rod trick. Jams are a lot more frequent in the current version than they were before I feel like. That or my trigger finger has gotten itchier haha
2.6 reworked the jamming to allow for malfunctions even when weapons are in the blue, this makes weapons like the M4 or G17 more prone to jamming than ever while also making guns such as the AKs or PM more powerful due to their reliability. On my recent Makarov only run I only jammed TWICE, I fired thousands of shots from that thing and it just never failed. Making the starting pistol very reliable was cleaver game design
@@Quaera oh no way... that makes a lot more sense! Just yesterday I had a nearly full durability gun jam. Can't remember which one off the top of my head. Thanks for letting me know
@@RadiusRick1 love your videos, Rick. And yes, it’s saved me so many times, I’m not surprised to see that you have the brains to keep some TP and a ramrod in your bag. It’s also sometimes worth bringing WD-40 and a toothbrush for your mags for if you’re going on long expeditions.
Good tips! And I didn't know we could take those pictures between zones, is that a new thing? Or did I just miss it somehow. What I do for cleaning weapons is I bring the rod with me, but over time early on I'll leave toilet papers scattered in my main hotspots. Visually I don't like how much room the rolls of paper take up in the backpack (and I don't wanna carry a bunch of pieces of paper in my bag, though that's a solution some use), and since I have the general similar spots I like to hit for combat and loot I can usually find paper early on while exploring and then just drop it off at a hotspot. Like making myself a cache, but mainly for cleaning weapons. Your way is more consistent though, for sure.
Great tips! For field cleaning, one thing I wish I’d known earlier is that you can clean your longer firearms while they’re mounted on your backpack. Would have saved me some awkward stretching!
Always good to see another upload!
That “keep one pouch empty” trick has saved me a lot, but the main tip I could offer would be to keep the small ammo boxes on the left side of your pocket (in the same way the meds are but on the opposite side so that they don’t interfere with them). If you do this then you can top off your mags without the need to open up your bag. It’s a lifesaver.
You can have all 4 magazine pouches filled on the chest rig and simply put the empty magazine in the side pouch. You don't even need to grab the magazine, if you eject it with the gun just above the pouch, the magazine will stay in the pouch (same can be done with the backpack)
Huh, never knew about that TT-33 stash, that's pretty neat
If you look on the ITR wiki, there is a list of every stash, it’s contents, and their locations
On top of the meds I take for my excursion I also put one of my regen artifacts in the pouch. The order is med at bottom left hanging out sideways, then a lighter over the top of meds, then a detector to the bottom right. And early game before headlamp I put a flashlight over top of the detector aimed up or down depending on if I am looting or need it to clear black grass ahead of me.
Learning the where the random caches spawn helps also for getting good loot, especially the large ones that can have a gun. I find if you need regen artifacts Podeba anomoly fields always yields one or two. Specifically the one at the bottom right where you meet Katya talking about her mother, then the one to the far left where you receive the first mission going into Podeba. I rarely ever get regen artifacts elsewhere.
Corner shooting is a must-learn skill. Learning to peek super quick and then use that to blind fire your sidearm or main gun to preserve what health you can. In tight spots I carry sidearm and then in left hand a regen artifact to fill in missing health midfight.
For magazines I tend to slap the empty mags into my pouch until the fighting is over.
IIRC I think I heard it's better to sell regen artefacts and buy meds, since overall you get a bit more healing
Though tbh it's probably not a major difference x3
I really need to adopt the toilet paper and a rod trick. Jams are a lot more frequent in the current version than they were before I feel like. That or my trigger finger has gotten itchier haha
2.6 reworked the jamming to allow for malfunctions even when weapons are in the blue, this makes weapons like the M4 or G17 more prone to jamming than ever while also making guns such as the AKs or PM more powerful due to their reliability. On my recent Makarov only run I only jammed TWICE, I fired thousands of shots from that thing and it just never failed. Making the starting pistol very reliable was cleaver game design
@@Quaera oh no way... that makes a lot more sense! Just yesterday I had a nearly full durability gun jam. Can't remember which one off the top of my head. Thanks for letting me know
it really is worth the few extra grams just from a cost stand point not to mention the combat impact.
@@RadiusRick1 love your videos, Rick. And yes, it’s saved me so many times, I’m not surprised to see that you have the brains to keep some TP and a ramrod in your bag. It’s also sometimes worth bringing WD-40 and a toothbrush for your mags for if you’re going on long expeditions.
My grippy knuckles tend to make the side pouch dangerous, I keep dropping things
Good tips! And I didn't know we could take those pictures between zones, is that a new thing? Or did I just miss it somehow.
What I do for cleaning weapons is I bring the rod with me, but over time early on I'll leave toilet papers scattered in my main hotspots. Visually I don't like how much room the rolls of paper take up in the backpack (and I don't wanna carry a bunch of pieces of paper in my bag, though that's a solution some use), and since I have the general similar spots I like to hit for combat and loot I can usually find paper early on while exploring and then just drop it off at a hotspot. Like making myself a cache, but mainly for cleaning weapons.
Your way is more consistent though, for sure.
Huh, I actually already do the chest rig mags.
And the cleaning rod and toilet paper, I never leave without them
very nice video, but how did you get the game to run so smooth for the video?
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