I once ran a night Customs raid and was moving through the forested "northern" part of the map when I heard someone else running towards me through the bushes. It was completely dark and I had no NVGs. I stood still and the guy ended up so close to me that I could see a green light waving around-- presumably the LED on the back of a laser aiming module. I dropped a grenade at our feet and ran as fast as I could down the hill and didn't stop running until I got to extract lololol.
That's how I killed a Chad last week on Woods during a night raid. We came down (4 man group, but we split up) the hill right behind Dickhead. My buddy got immediately one-tapped & we kinda "guessed" where the shot came from. We peaked from that secret stash tree & I saw some sort of figure with green eyes (because he put his GPNVG up to check with his thermal to look where we are). I took the shot and head-eyes him.
When I first started tarkov I played a night raid on customs was running through some bushes and found someone standing right in front of me just a black figure. Mag dumped it and there was no body left nor foot steps
Same here. Dnt like stuff like Strafing and running and other gane mechanics exploitation killing the immersion.. I am very purist in my fragile immersion taste bubble.
@@theorphanobliterator How come how? It's purely an arcade approach. Nobody would run with that gear, nor stop and go, it's purely a way that for now in alpha testing people use to avoid getting hit to trick the terrible net code and servers\ ping.. That's all. Also the running constantly as mentioned before is not a good idea as you can't hear sound and u make a lot of them... if you have "magic powers" of strange skills unlocked and u make no sound when running. well that's another story... Right now the software is populated just by people who want to win a match.. zero interest in the immersion and concept. Just looters... no game.
Honestly, doing night raids solo works well for me as long as I have a good headset on. If I hear more than one set of footsteps, I prone in the grass or the bushes, and most of the time people blame the prone noise on the night ambience. It's probably a bit of a rat strat, but it helps me live and make profit lol
@@SwissMarksman he said he probes if he hears multiple sets of footsteps, cultists don't make any noise when they move, so he clearly is not talking about them.
I noticed the reason people leave night raids so early into the raid is because the night cycle is very short, so if you want to encounter cultists or even pvp you would rerun raids if they dont have what you are looking for to get the most raids in
Honestly night time Interchange is my go-to loot raid, Scav or PMC. Inside of the mall is lit up enough to be able to get around and still see anyone in a gunfight, even without a light or goggles, while outside is dark enough to rat around looting all of the hidden stashes, and avoid being seen by anyone without a thermal or good NVGs.
I'd point out that somehow NVGs are horrible on nighttime Interchange. They are too grainy and flat, you actually see more without them. That's my experience tho.
@@csabajtony ever since the Interchange lighting update NVG have been messed up there. I say this as an Interchange main who mainly night raids. Even GPNVG come out unnaturally grainy. PostFX can help somewhat.
@@csabajtony i have good postfx that reduce graininess with NVGs with the sacrifice of all color, turns non-nvg gameplay into film noir shit. Pretty cool actually
"I hoped my experiences helped you gain confidence to run night raids" Me, a new player who has never heard of cultists and gets spooked when more than one scav is near me in daytime: 😐😐😳😳😳 im good.. 💀
Cultists are easy to avoid since most of their spawns aren't in areas where most tasks are needed to complete. Except the Cult quest line for Peacekeepers and some parts for Mechanic and Therapist in the beginning for the Ambulances and Signal dishes. Since you need to go to the resort for them. But they spawn on the ends of the wings and you can lose their agro pretty easy by hiding in a room and closing the door. If they do chase they will open the door and try to enter 1 by 1. Making is a bit easy to kill them, and aim for their legs or face to kill them quick. Since they can sometimes run high level chest armor.
This was solid info! Thanks! This is my first wipe. I run night raids mostly, and have been able to grind out most tasks, snag loot, have some good tactical fights in the dark. Some nights I Rat, some nights I SNAKE! It's great!
I recently started last month as well. This game is nuts. I though I could sneak a night raid in and the first one I dropped into was customs. Walked along a tree line for about 60 seconds and was sniped dead by a PMC. Needless to say that was my one and only night raid. So you’re saying that was just a fluke and I’ll have better luck if I keep trying??
@@ybryfarley9 I would say keep trying. Night Raids for me are about being steathy and playing the shadows. You can still be seen depending on the weather conditions. Once I made some money, I started using cheap NVGs and had even better success.
I'd like to add that optics are not all made equal. While using NVGs, many optics can be very blurry. My favorites are the SRS, OKP-7, and Romeos (all except the H-2).
@@krabarsomeface2433 well.....in that case you can try the Valday PK-120. its the russian version of EOTechs, and the only sight with that "holograpich reticle" that can be use it with NVGs (at least until Nikita let us modify our sights)
i noticed that the Vulcan MG 3.5x scope has 0 fog whatsoever. it's caused me to become our group's sniper hanging back behind everyone, cause i can see so clearly through customs
actually the point of the night raids it is the way better chance of not encontering players, like, 80% almost sure you won't see anyone; so looting and doing quests way easier
On some hotspots, you can still expect players. Last night I went 3 night raids and I encountered a solo and a duo in 2 raids at Customs' Dorms. Also the marked room there is very often open in my experience.
Cultists sound like they just swallowed something spicy without a drink during this raid. Listen for their ghost pepper moans, keep your ass out of smelling distance, and you’ll be fine.
Once I stayed late in the evening playing and decided to try the Factory at night. To my surprise I was the only player at the server for multiple raids. I did all the quests I had for the Factory and then just farmed Scavs for fun. Probably that was my biggest discovery in Tarkov so far.
Thing is that Nighttime factory isn't really "relevant" for chads doing gear farming. Especially since the Boss spawn is wonky & the Cultists spawnrate is between 1-3%. In my experience the only time I came across one Chad was when he was carrying his mates doing the quests.
@@SwissMarksman I fucked shit up heavy surprisingly, I ran Atleast 4 night raids on shoreline all of them I escaped with Atleast 1 pmc kill and now I’m just trying to find the half masks which are now impossible to find but it went good since I made that comment 🙏
@@tacticallychallengedyt Yeah it sucks that they spawn in the area where the "most" of your quests are located at. Was lucky enough that there was allways one guy that got in engagement with them when I did my quests.
I almost exclusively run night raids. I run my scav during the day hours. In other words, quest during the night and make money during the day. If you time it right you can do this rotation almost perfectly with 2 runs each.
I've done about half my raids this patch at night. I had my highest survival rate of 65%. I only bring a flashlight. I haven't encountered any cultists though.
This is my first wipe and I do most of my raids at night and I didn’t even know cultists were a thing until UA-cam No clue how I’ve not encountered them yet
@@Galm276 If you play shoreline at night you will absolutely encounter them at the resort, probably the easiest place to kill them but the hardest to get in without dying if you don't know their spawns
you didn't mention it but the n15's have the longest range out of the budget ones but is hyper sensitive to light,its good for darker outdoors areas eg woods. the monocular may have a clearer picture but in use its range is slightly less than the pnv-10's. realistically the average (budget) player should probably really only be using the pnv-10's, maybe the n15's if they want to snipe. a good tip for better vision in light is -100% brightness in postfx settings.
More Tips for dealing with cultists: if you’re at health resort or another area where they frequent find a room close to a group of cultists. Pop one with a bullet and use the door method. Also if you stand directly in front of the door the cultist’s head will barely glitch through the door before they open it giving you a fraction of a second to pop them, it can be dangerous because it requires you to stand directly in front of the door. Repeat the process around their spawn points and you don’t have to worry about them. Be sure to count them and compare it to their average spawn numbers. In case you miss a couple loot carefully.
im the most afraid of rats in night raids, especially because bushes are almost opaque and in dorms or resort. other than that i think night raids are perfect for solo players
Dude, ever since i got into you tarky videos i fell in love w how lore heavy the cultists are and started farming them, like ALOT. I find it quite boring they never push up the higher floor or down the basement where the pool is at resort :/ As of total i've found 4 taigas, once a double taiga w a black keycard ;> Keep the good content up and can't wait 'till you do some more about lightkeeper as the story we play progress with the next expansion on streets etc. Also, i've been telling our Swedish Emissaries we need these bad boys on streets and interchange.
Found an Omega Chad with night vision level 5 helmet and armor on a scav run on streets. Might run a few practice raids on night and figure out if I can do it. He also had a meta M4.
A friend and I ran a night raid on shoreline and spawned near swamp and I heard very faint footsteps close behind us and he says he heard whispering while we were running up to resort, pretty sure we were being chased by cultists. Died to some weirdo who fullbody peeked us and knew exactly where we were in resort despite us having been still the entire time we were in resort
Earlier this wipe I encountered my first and only cultist and my experience was quite a bit different from what you're describing in the video. It was on shoreline. I joined a raid around 5:50am. I was sitting on the hill above gas station (tunnel side) looking down toward gas. I started getting repeatedly shot with laser accuracy from the hill just above the pier building. When I died, I saw that it was a cultist. I was near the Southwestern highlighted zone but I'm nearly 100% certain the shots came from the opposite side of the river. Just wanted to help add to the info. Great video brother!
Ah i didnt know about those cultist voice lines. I heard them on woods and went the opposite direction because i thought it was a group of player scavs or pmcs talking in voip
You seem liek the type of player that cares about immersion. Anyway ive found that the "feather" or "olive" settings for postFX filters make the NVG vision better and greyscale. I like to use NVGs that way, because i get a headache otherwise from the green/blue. But might break your immersion.
Immersion all the way here too and eager to create bridges. U can find on this Crag, and Vibing dusty just for FPS realistic shooters (dusty is really top, i like also Smoketv) hard to find ppl in EU like this or in general also worldwide. Everyone tries to just play, i need more instead as motivation to play, rhe chalkenge to immerse and set the game and also interpretation to high levels honing cooperation, comms etc.. All for fun of course and success. I created a small crew called "no hud team" (nht) 3 years ago and for 1 year i had to stop due to no gpu available... Looking forward for immersive friendships.
We just got a buff all the IR lasers are all IR lasers and spotlights now What I would recommend is go into raid with the IR device with your flashlight in your pockets. Activate the laser then put your flashlight on.
Woods - Heavy Rain - Nighttime turns the game into a whole different world. Especially if you haven't heard a single shot (Shturman not counting) during the Raid. They really nailed the system with all Maps.
Me and my teammate only run at night, I don't remember the last time we did a day raid Night only, and I gotta say, night raids are way way better than day raids
Slightly unrelated - One of the main benefits in real life of running mono nvg's was to run them on your left eye and keep your right eye available for reflex / holo sights, ACOGs etc. You'd then shoot with both eyes open and the image your brain process was the red dot being overlaid on your NVG eye's image (you'd hit a little off to the right under 25m, but nothing that would make you miss center mass). Tarkov doesn't really model this, but there's no way you can use NVGs with optics other than laser designators, they just don't align, bump onto the optic or fail to pick up the reticle / projected red etc.
Biocular Night vision covers both of your eyes while only providing a single image of NV at the center of the FOV. it only helps getting both of your eyes night vision for cheap and nothing else. Real monocular is one tube for either left or right eye. You can do the one eye closed for bright area thing, but it'll be annoying in game since the vision will never be centered.
Im a Solo player who prefers close range firefights over long-range ones so night time raids are a no brainer for me. Way less populated servers and easier to slip away from a fight and run if you start to feel like you’re going to lose. Also, I never get sniper by some dickhead high up on a perch, God knows where, 250m away when I’m playing night raids.
Love this content, light and filled with info and passion. I d love to play with u onr day, maybe with the immersive style Vibing Dusty has in his videos of ex Task Force Neptune (check videos of Operation Phantom, tunnel rats Night Gooning etc). That is a style, cinematic and truly qualitative that I fijd almost impossible to play in, as few engage like this in gaming. Anothrr one maybe is Smoketv in Eft old videos and Dayz, some how... I love no hud and 'no hud team' is the name of the grouo i try to create to play games in the small time available by with high quality of immersion standards and I tried for 2 years to gather a small crew of like minded... Not just for fps games. For now we were focused on GRWildlands campaign... Very light game. Thanks for your video, it is a mature type of content that is hard to find and leaves you with a smile at the end of the experience. Controlled pairs gaming isn t bad either. Also he seems focused on quality gaming and immersion but not as much as Vibing dust videos I found about few months ago. My decision to start this in GRW came after I saw FIST team 79 videos GRWildlands no hud serie, despite noe they just commercialized thrir effort into something that is nor no hud nor inmersive... But de gustibus non disputandum... Night was one of my first love with this game.i have no money for nvg, sometimes i found it on ground... I just love night as it reminds me of Operation flash point in 2001... What an incredible game it was.
well'p after NVGs were reworked this wipe Id say running the cheapest NVGs is acutally better now. Much more accurate colors and not super grainy anymore.
About cultists, from my own experience from last night, I was running in-out of bush and they were still trying to rush me with knife instead of gun, they havend done a single shot at me, just tried to throw nades
They should do the PVS-14 how ACE in arma did it. Instead of the outside just black it's the normal background just tinted and the middle has the green
Not that anyone asked. In my experience the only benefit of one tube is its a lot cheaper if you're not on government payroll. The "one eye for light, one eye for dark" concept sounds good in theory, but in practice you just end up with a headache and the worst of both worlds. In my opinion the best way to transition between dark and lit areas with nods without flipping them up and down is to have them sit just above the center of your eyeline so you can just slightly tilt your head up or down to look through or under them. I only mention this because I think that it would be cool if bsg made it to where areas of the maps had different lighting conditions where switching night vision on/off gave you the most clarity. And say that there was night vision skill that when leveled up made it to where you could instantly switch night vision on/off without having to go through the animation of putting them up or down. In real life you can still see fairly well in the light with night vision, and flashlights don't combat night vision like they do in video games but I think that those features would add immersive gameplay.
More night raid advice: Use NV compatible optics. Anything that's illuminated--by nature of NVGs amplifying light--will have significant bloom and noise. The XPS3 line of optics from EOtech are NV compatible, meaning they have extremely low brightness options. It just so happens that all of the EOtech holo optics in EFT are XPS3s; the XPS3-0 (standard circle-dot reticle) and the XPS3-2 (circle+2dot reticle, this is also the model in the HH1 hybrid combo). There are a few other NV compatible optics in EFT, and you should find the ones you like. When I farm Rogues at night, I roll PVS14 and a Vulcan with a canted red dot, with a DBAL on the handguard. This combo gives me magnified NV, CQB NV, and unaided visual CQB capabilities. The Vulcan is cheap, and while the image is noisy, it's better than dealing with LPVO bloom under NV.
Tip for you rats that arent worried about ethics: If you extract Camp Car on woods at night in West Coast Servers, theres a ton of timmies who run with Raidpacks or Attack 2's looting everything and taking car extract, you know, some loot delivery, in 50 raids i came across 34 of them with clueless players bringing good gear or no armor timmies with big backpacks and ton of loot, also some of them will have Scav Boss loot if you camp Outskirts
Only thing I was hoping to see that was excluded would be which sights are preferable with NVGs. I've heard some are nearly unusable with NVGs and some are great for it.
@@cheemsburmgerm7631 I believe SRS is one of the best, no? I think the dot doesn't react to the night vision at all. That could be the delta point though, I don't remember haha
@@Murasame13 Yeah the SRS is clean as heck in game with NVGs currently. None of the other red dots are quite as clean I've found but the Romeo's get close :)
IRL, the best sights for nods are holographic sights and red dots, specifically those made by Sig, Holosun, Eotech, and Aimpoint You can't use zoom scopes typically because since scopes work by concentrating light into their tube, and there is less light at night, when you look through a scope with night vision, the picture is quite dark! In tarkov, this is modeled pretty well, which is why if you don't have a night vision scope or thermal scope, you are better off using a 1x red dot or optic. Night raid fights are always in close range as a result of this. The best optics in tarkov are basically any red dot or holographic. It's personal preference. Just be sure to pick an optic that gives you a clear sight picture, like the comp4, aimpoint micro, or one of the eotecs. I run the aimpoint comp m4 on my western guns and the pk-120 on russian/soviet guns when doing night raids.
Loots are not automaticaly better, but you theoreticaly get on players less. On Woods, Sawmill is the place you might wanna avoid due the players with Insomnia or Chumming quests normally camp or search there. But it also depends on the place you spawn & if they have the spawn nearest you (USEC CAMP for example).
I did a night raid on woods and found a dead PMC with amazing armor and night vision. However, I realized I was taking a small amount of damage, and I was hearing footsteps. I eventually turned around very fast and saw a guy wearing weird armor that I hadn’t seen before or since stabbing me with a knife. I shot him a bunch of times with my Saiga-9 but he kept running into the bushes and coming back out and stabbing me when I wasn’t looking. He eventually ran off and I extracted successfully. The knife barely did anything, but that might be because of the armor that I got from the dead PMC. Still no idea what was happening there. This was at the area with a fence and an SUV next to a small metal building near the scavenger house. This was a few months ago so I don’t know how accurate the memory was. Does anyone know if that was some sort of weird cultist NPC??
@@SwissMarksman that knife will 100% poisons you, just that not all of them spawns with the cultist knife, some are just a regular knife, but really rarely they spawn with a taiga
Yeah, that was a cultist. Not all cultists spawn with the poisoned knife though! So what happened was you encountered a cultist with a regular knife, and you managed to live because of it.
Cultists mostly one or 2 tap most of the time if you aggro'd them & you are in their vicinity. Because they use most of the time High-End Ammo. My ass got saved one time because I used the expensive head plate protection & it bounced a BP ammo.
I once ran a night Customs raid and was moving through the forested "northern" part of the map when I heard someone else running towards me through the bushes. It was completely dark and I had no NVGs. I stood still and the guy ended up so close to me that I could see a green light waving around-- presumably the LED on the back of a laser aiming module. I dropped a grenade at our feet and ran as fast as I could down the hill and didn't stop running until I got to extract lololol.
That's how I killed a Chad last week on Woods during a night raid. We came down (4 man group, but we split up) the hill right behind Dickhead. My buddy got immediately one-tapped & we kinda "guessed" where the shot came from. We peaked from that secret stash tree & I saw some sort of figure with green eyes (because he put his GPNVG up to check with his thermal to look where we are). I took the shot and head-eyes him.
green light probably the light from the NVGs on the PMC's face
When I first started tarkov I played a night raid on customs was running through some bushes and found someone standing right in front of me just a black figure. Mag dumped it and there was no body left nor foot steps
I like Tarkov at night a lot more, it feels more like a tactical game, even people play more like a Swat, while at Day they play like its Warzone
Same here. Dnt like stuff like Strafing and running and other gane mechanics exploitation killing the immersion.. I am very purist in my fragile immersion taste bubble.
@@DNH17 how does running break immersion?
@@theorphanobliterator How come how?
It's purely an arcade approach.
Nobody would run with that gear, nor stop and go, it's purely a way that for now in alpha testing people use to avoid getting hit to trick the terrible net code and servers\ ping..
That's all. Also the running constantly as mentioned before is not a good idea as you can't hear sound and u make a lot of them... if you have "magic powers" of strange skills unlocked and u make no sound when running. well that's another story...
Right now the software is populated just by people who want to win a match.. zero interest in the immersion and concept.
Just looters... no game.
Its my more tactical till you get tapped by the cock stroker 6,000 hour player level 40 with his thermal sight
Man, the ambient you guys achieved in the cultist part was superb!
Honestly, doing night raids solo works well for me as long as I have a good headset on. If I hear more than one set of footsteps, I prone in the grass or the bushes, and most of the time people blame the prone noise on the night ambience. It's probably a bit of a rat strat, but it helps me live and make profit lol
Easy tarkget for cultist)
@@rousrouslan4023 only if I’m in their area :)
@@rousrouslan4023 Cultists don't care if you are prone in a bush or not
@@SwissMarksman he said he probes if he hears multiple sets of footsteps, cultists don't make any noise when they move, so he clearly is not talking about them.
I do the same thing as I’m not the greatest with the PVP it allows me to ambush a higher gear player than me
I noticed the reason people leave night raids so early into the raid is because the night cycle is very short, so if you want to encounter cultists or even pvp you would rerun raids if they dont have what you are looking for to get the most raids in
Honestly night time Interchange is my go-to loot raid, Scav or PMC. Inside of the mall is lit up enough to be able to get around and still see anyone in a gunfight, even without a light or goggles, while outside is dark enough to rat around looting all of the hidden stashes, and avoid being seen by anyone without a thermal or good NVGs.
I'd point out that somehow NVGs are horrible on nighttime Interchange. They are too grainy and flat, you actually see more without them. That's my experience tho.
@@csabajtony ever since the Interchange lighting update NVG have been messed up there. I say this as an Interchange main who mainly night raids. Even GPNVG come out unnaturally grainy. PostFX can help somewhat.
@@cd7up just use nvidia settings
@@csabajtony i have good postfx that reduce graininess with NVGs with the sacrifice of all color, turns non-nvg gameplay into film noir shit. Pretty cool actually
"I hoped my experiences helped you gain confidence to run night raids"
Me, a new player who has never heard of cultists and gets spooked when more than one scav is near me in daytime: 😐😐😳😳😳 im good..
💀
Cultists are easy to avoid since most of their spawns aren't in areas where most tasks are needed to complete. Except the Cult quest line for Peacekeepers and some parts for Mechanic and Therapist in the beginning for the Ambulances and Signal dishes. Since you need to go to the resort for them. But they spawn on the ends of the wings and you can lose their agro pretty easy by hiding in a room and closing the door. If they do chase they will open the door and try to enter 1 by 1. Making is a bit easy to kill them, and aim for their legs or face to kill them quick. Since they can sometimes run high level chest armor.
I’ve been doing a lot of night raids this wipe. I was Army infantry so I did a lot of it in Iraq as well
This was solid info! Thanks! This is my first wipe. I run night raids mostly, and have been able to grind out most tasks, snag loot, have some good tactical fights in the dark. Some nights I Rat, some nights I SNAKE! It's great!
:D
I recently started last month as well. This game is nuts. I though I could sneak a night raid in and the first one I dropped into was customs. Walked along a tree line for about 60 seconds and was sniped dead by a PMC. Needless to say that was my one and only night raid. So you’re saying that was just a fluke and I’ll have better luck if I keep trying??
@@ybryfarley9 I would say keep trying. Night Raids for me are about being steathy and playing the shadows. You can still be seen depending on the weather conditions. Once I made some money, I started using cheap NVGs and had even better success.
I'd like to add that optics are not all made equal. While using NVGs, many optics can be very blurry. My favorites are the SRS, OKP-7, and Romeos (all except the H-2).
Thats because we dont have contrast settings for the scopes yet. But nikita allready stated its in planing. Like it is in RL.
@@ottonormal3354 Yeah, I can't wait for that, it always bugs me that EOTechs don't work well with NVGs but for now the SRS will do :)
@@krabarsomeface2433 well.....in that case you can try the Valday PK-120. its the russian version of EOTechs, and the only sight with that "holograpich reticle" that can be use it with NVGs (at least until Nikita let us modify our sights)
@@doncoria9505 It works with NVGs? I'll have to try it out. Thanks for the suggestion!
i noticed that the Vulcan MG 3.5x scope has 0 fog whatsoever. it's caused me to become our group's sniper hanging back behind everyone, cause i can see so clearly through customs
I play almost exclusively at night. Moving around in the day feels super vulnerable.
actually the point of the night raids it is the way better chance of not encontering players, like, 80% almost sure you won't see anyone; so looting and doing quests way easier
On some hotspots, you can still expect players. Last night I went 3 night raids and I encountered a solo and a duo in 2 raids at Customs' Dorms. Also the marked room there is very often open in my experience.
Cultists sound like they just swallowed something spicy without a drink during this raid. Listen for their ghost pepper moans, keep your ass out of smelling distance, and you’ll be fine.
this felt like a military training video with the formality of it, i dig it 👍
Once I stayed late in the evening playing and decided to try the Factory at night. To my surprise I was the only player at the server for multiple raids. I did all the quests I had for the Factory and then just farmed Scavs for fun. Probably that was my biggest discovery in Tarkov so far.
Thing is that Nighttime factory isn't really "relevant" for chads doing gear farming. Especially since the Boss spawn is wonky & the Cultists spawnrate is between 1-3%. In my experience the only time I came across one Chad was when he was carrying his mates doing the quests.
Jumping into a night raid right now for shoreline gotta get those half masks wish me luck bois. Thanks for the amazing video
How did it go?
@@SwissMarksman I fucked shit up heavy surprisingly, I ran Atleast 4 night raids on shoreline all of them I escaped with Atleast 1 pmc kill and now I’m just trying to find the half masks which are now impossible to find but it went good since I made that comment 🙏
@@Stealthy_y Hehe Godspeed. Just go on Woods & kill the scavs. I found all mine over there.
@@SwissMarksman woods sounds scary for cultists, especially the village
Man that was on of the most outstanding intros I ever listen to. Beat every book I read and movie I watched.. damn
Started out with night raids. Its a terrifying time. Cultists were the most terrifying getting just rushed by a squad of Chads.
Unless you have to go to Resort on Shoreline you can absolutely avoid the Cultists.
@@SwissMarksman Cultist spawn mostly in the swamp town and around/in resort.
@@tacticallychallengedyt Yeah it sucks that they spawn in the area where the "most" of your quests are located at. Was lucky enough that there was allways one guy that got in engagement with them when I did my quests.
I almost exclusively run night raids. I run my scav during the day hours. In other words, quest during the night and make money during the day. If you time it right you can do this rotation almost perfectly with 2 runs each.
What start times do you shoot for to hit this 2/2 cycle best please?
I've done about half my raids this patch at night. I had my highest survival rate of 65%. I only bring a flashlight. I haven't encountered any cultists though.
This is my first wipe and I do most of my raids at night and I didn’t even know cultists were a thing until UA-cam No clue how I’ve not encountered them yet
@@Galm276 If you play shoreline at night you will absolutely encounter them at the resort, probably the easiest place to kill them but the hardest to get in without dying if you don't know their spawns
you didn't mention it but the n15's have the longest range out of the budget ones but is hyper sensitive to light,its good for darker outdoors areas eg woods. the monocular may have a clearer picture but in use its range is slightly less than the pnv-10's. realistically the average (budget) player should probably really only be using the pnv-10's, maybe the n15's if they want to snipe.
a good tip for better vision in light is -100% brightness in postfx settings.
Thanks! Now everyone is going to do night raids and I won’t be able to do quests ever again! :,)
More Tips for dealing with cultists: if you’re at health resort or another area where they frequent find a room close to a group of cultists. Pop one with a bullet and use the door method. Also if you stand directly in front of the door the cultist’s head will barely glitch through the door before they open it giving you a fraction of a second to pop them, it can be dangerous because it requires you to stand directly in front of the door. Repeat the process around their spawn points and you don’t have to worry about them. Be sure to count them and compare it to their average spawn numbers. In case you miss a couple loot carefully.
if you are going for cultists, insure all of your gear, especially on woods
agree 100%
im the most afraid of rats in night raids, especially because bushes are almost opaque and in dorms or resort. other than that i think night raids are perfect for solo players
(Just joined the game last summer) I never knew that cultist could be so damn scary
"it becomes even more frightening" me speedrunning max traders without seeing other players
NVG's were updated this wipe, so even the cheaper ones are viable now (although still not as good at the best).
I got 6k hours, always loved the night, even before big nvg and the thermal was in.
Cannot do a task? Pistol, lamp and there you go.
Dude, ever since i got into you tarky videos i fell in love w how lore heavy the cultists are and started farming them, like ALOT. I find it quite boring they never push up the higher floor or down the basement where the pool is at resort :/
As of total i've found 4 taigas, once a double taiga w a black keycard ;>
Keep the good content up and can't wait 'till you do some more about lightkeeper as the story we play progress with the next expansion on streets etc.
Also, i've been telling our Swedish Emissaries we need these bad boys on streets and interchange.
(I'd love to play w you someday btw. I have like 2500 raids, lvl 67 w no Kappa or lightkeeper. I went hard this wipe hahah)
so underrated, being a new player u have helped me become a way better player
Customs cultists were excluded are likely the most prevalent to fight. 20% chance and near crackhouse.
8:04
Found an Omega Chad with night vision level 5 helmet and armor on a scav run on streets. Might run a few practice raids on night and figure out if I can do it. He also had a meta M4.
Augmentin also functions as an antidote
cultist hunting is too fun tho, great loot and typically a fun fight
A friend and I ran a night raid on shoreline and spawned near swamp and I heard very faint footsteps close behind us and he says he heard whispering while we were running up to resort, pretty sure we were being chased by cultists. Died to some weirdo who fullbody peeked us and knew exactly where we were in resort despite us having been still the entire time we were in resort
Just a better gaming chair ya know
The cultists reminds of the Whisperers in Walking Dead.
Truly creepy but good content 😁
2:20 cultists can also spawn on customs near crackhouse
Earlier this wipe I encountered my first and only cultist and my experience was quite a bit different from what you're describing in the video. It was on shoreline. I joined a raid around 5:50am. I was sitting on the hill above gas station (tunnel side) looking down toward gas. I started getting repeatedly shot with laser accuracy from the hill just above the pier building. When I died, I saw that it was a cultist. I was near the Southwestern highlighted zone but I'm nearly 100% certain the shots came from the opposite side of the river. Just wanted to help add to the info. Great video brother!
wtf that's an odd place
@@SwissMarksman that's what I said when the bastard murdered me 😭
Ah i didnt know about those cultist voice lines. I heard them on woods and went the opposite direction because i thought it was a group of player scavs or pmcs talking in voip
Fun right?
lmao
I love running nightime factory.
You seem liek the type of player that cares about immersion. Anyway ive found that the "feather" or "olive" settings for postFX filters make the NVG vision better and greyscale. I like to use NVGs that way, because i get a headache otherwise from the green/blue. But might break your immersion.
Immersion all the way here too and eager to create bridges. U can find on this Crag, and Vibing dusty just for FPS realistic shooters (dusty is really top, i like also Smoketv) hard to find ppl in EU like this or in general also worldwide. Everyone tries to just play, i need more instead as motivation to play, rhe chalkenge to immerse and set the game and also interpretation to high levels honing cooperation, comms etc.. All for fun of course and success.
I created a small crew called "no hud team" (nht) 3 years ago and for 1 year i had to stop due to no gpu available...
Looking forward for immersive friendships.
We just got a buff all the IR lasers are all IR lasers and spotlights now
What I would recommend is go into raid with the IR device with your flashlight in your pockets.
Activate the laser then put your flashlight on.
I love night raids. Tbh in every whipe when I can I do prefere night raids than day one.
Woods - Heavy Rain - Nighttime turns the game into a whole different world. Especially if you haven't heard a single shot (Shturman not counting) during the Raid. They really nailed the system with all Maps.
Me and my teammate only run at night, I don't remember the last time we did a day raid
Night only, and I gotta say, night raids are way way better than day raids
Good video , thanks
Nighttime customs is my bread and butter. Stay out of Dorms still unless the lights are all shot out
Your explanation about cultists:) I encountered them two times on woods, they had zero chance:)
Slightly unrelated -
One of the main benefits in real life of running mono nvg's was to run them on your left eye and keep your right eye available for reflex / holo sights, ACOGs etc. You'd then shoot with both eyes open and the image your brain process was the red dot being overlaid on your NVG eye's image (you'd hit a little off to the right under 25m, but nothing that would make you miss center mass).
Tarkov doesn't really model this, but there's no way you can use NVGs with optics other than laser designators, they just don't align, bump onto the optic or fail to pick up the reticle / projected red etc.
Mannn BSG sure is blessing all ya people with NVGs. That depth perception isn’t fun when going over and under hills!😤
Biocular Night vision covers both of your eyes while only providing a single image of NV at the center of the FOV. it only helps getting both of your eyes night vision for cheap and nothing else. Real monocular is one tube for either left or right eye. You can do the one eye closed for bright area thing, but it'll be annoying in game since the vision will never be centered.
Im a Solo player who prefers close range firefights over long-range ones so night time raids are a no brainer for me. Way less populated servers and easier to slip away from a fight and run if you start to feel like you’re going to lose. Also, I never get sniper by some dickhead high up on a perch, God knows where, 250m away when I’m playing night raids.
The CULTIST part was made sooo Good!
naked night raids are the only way I get tasks done on Lighthouse
The issue i have with night raids is being blasted by a thermal almost every single time i play one
EUL you have grown so much over this year, you deserve it man
The pvs14s is realistic af i used them as a 240 gunner on some night time ops
Love this content, light and filled with info and passion. I d love to play with u onr day, maybe with the immersive style Vibing Dusty has in his videos of ex Task Force Neptune (check videos of Operation Phantom, tunnel rats Night Gooning etc). That is a style, cinematic and truly qualitative that I fijd almost impossible to play in, as few engage like this in gaming. Anothrr one maybe is Smoketv in Eft old videos and Dayz, some how...
I love no hud and 'no hud team' is the name of the grouo i try to create to play games in the small time available by with high quality of immersion standards and I tried for 2 years to gather a small crew of like minded... Not just for fps games. For now we were focused on GRWildlands campaign... Very light game.
Thanks for your video, it is a mature type of content that is hard to find and leaves you with a smile at the end of the experience.
Controlled pairs gaming isn t bad either. Also he seems focused on quality gaming and immersion but not as much as Vibing dust videos I found about few months ago.
My decision to start this in GRW came after I saw FIST team 79 videos GRWildlands no hud serie, despite noe they just commercialized thrir effort into something that is nor no hud nor inmersive... But de gustibus non disputandum...
Night was one of my first love with this game.i have no money for nvg, sometimes i found it on ground... I just love night as it reminds me of Operation flash point in 2001... What an incredible game it was.
This content is fantastic. I'm a huge fan of your beginner's guide to Tarkov and the getting into and out of the firearms business.
I do all my tasks at night w night vision. I use the monocular lol. It's like playing the game looking thru a straw lmao
well'p after NVGs were reworked this wipe Id say running the cheapest NVGs is acutally better now. Much more accurate colors and not super grainy anymore.
About cultists, from my own experience from last night, I was running in-out of bush and they were still trying to rush me with knife instead of gun, they havend done a single shot at me, just tried to throw nades
I need to do more night raids. 💯
Forgot to mention IR flashlights they actually work pretty well if needed
Excellent, informative video. Keep 'em coming, plz!
They should do the PVS-14 how ACE in arma did it. Instead of the outside just black it's the normal background just tinted and the middle has the green
Not that anyone asked. In my experience the only benefit of one tube is its a lot cheaper if you're not on government payroll. The "one eye for light, one eye for dark" concept sounds good in theory, but in practice you just end up with a headache and the worst of both worlds. In my opinion the best way to transition between dark and lit areas with nods without flipping them up and down is to have them sit just above the center of your eyeline so you can just slightly tilt your head up or down to look through or under them. I only mention this because I think that it would be cool if bsg made it to where areas of the maps had different lighting conditions where switching night vision on/off gave you the most clarity. And say that there was night vision skill that when leveled up made it to where you could instantly switch night vision on/off without having to go through the animation of putting them up or down. In real life you can still see fairly well in the light with night vision, and flashlights don't combat night vision like they do in video games but I think that those features would add immersive gameplay.
More night raid advice: Use NV compatible optics. Anything that's illuminated--by nature of NVGs amplifying light--will have significant bloom and noise. The XPS3 line of optics from EOtech are NV compatible, meaning they have extremely low brightness options. It just so happens that all of the EOtech holo optics in EFT are XPS3s; the XPS3-0 (standard circle-dot reticle) and the XPS3-2 (circle+2dot reticle, this is also the model in the HH1 hybrid combo). There are a few other NV compatible optics in EFT, and you should find the ones you like.
When I farm Rogues at night, I roll PVS14 and a Vulcan with a canted red dot, with a DBAL on the handguard. This combo gives me magnified NV, CQB NV, and unaided visual CQB capabilities. The Vulcan is cheap, and while the image is noisy, it's better than dealing with LPVO bloom under NV.
People that run TAC-30 on a night raid 😩
Hey man how do you farm rogues?
Tip for you rats that arent worried about ethics: If you extract Camp Car on woods at night in West Coast Servers, theres a ton of timmies who run with Raidpacks or Attack 2's looting everything and taking car extract, you know, some loot delivery, in 50 raids i came across 34 of them with clueless players bringing good gear or no armor timmies with big backpacks and ton of loot, also some of them will have Scav Boss loot if you camp Outskirts
LOL
i only run nightraids, it pretty fun lazers feel nice and helps getting hipfire down
7:45 holy shit
Only thing I was hoping to see that was excluded would be which sights are preferable with NVGs. I've heard some are nearly unusable with NVGs and some are great for it.
SRS and Romeo's are good red dots for NVG's currently :)
@@cheemsburmgerm7631 I believe SRS is one of the best, no? I think the dot doesn't react to the night vision at all. That could be the delta point though, I don't remember haha
@@Murasame13 Yeah the SRS is clean as heck in game with NVGs currently. None of the other red dots are quite as clean I've found but the Romeo's get close :)
IRL, the best sights for nods are holographic sights and red dots, specifically those made by Sig, Holosun, Eotech, and Aimpoint
You can't use zoom scopes typically because since scopes work by concentrating light into their tube, and there is less light at night, when you look through a scope with night vision, the picture is quite dark!
In tarkov, this is modeled pretty well, which is why if you don't have a night vision scope or thermal scope, you are better off using a 1x red dot or optic. Night raid fights are always in close range as a result of this.
The best optics in tarkov are basically any red dot or holographic. It's personal preference. Just be sure to pick an optic that gives you a clear sight picture, like the comp4, aimpoint micro, or one of the eotecs. I run the aimpoint comp m4 on my western guns and the pk-120 on russian/soviet guns when doing night raids.
Good shit man
Fear the night? Boi, I am the night!
No, I’m gonna run around with a shotgun with a magnum bucket with three flashlights
Could you make an updated video on this in PvE mode? It would help us 9-5 people who can’t compete in pvp mode lol
Night time raid = GOATED
Amazing spooky video!
Are loot better at night? Been sticking to day raids because I've thermal Scopes at night scares me lol
Loots are not automaticaly better, but you theoreticaly get on players less. On Woods, Sawmill is the place you might wanna avoid due the players with Insomnia or Chumming quests normally camp or search there. But it also depends on the place you spawn & if they have the spawn nearest you (USEC CAMP for example).
im pretty sure they only spawn on the river side of fortress and have very static spawns over there. I've never seen em on the other side of fortress
I’ve run into one or two on old gas station / train tracks side
@@mangoose3569 damn, shit's crazy
I've seen one right on the fence outside old gas, so it's a pretty big area that they cover.
Unless I'm doing shooter born in heaven or factory, every raid is a night raid.
Same. Do you go in geared or what's your approach?
@@SwissMarksman Yes, I play solo a lot so I am geared up lvl 4 and above and also heavily armed with good ammo.
I did a night raid on woods and found a dead PMC with amazing armor and night vision. However, I realized I was taking a small amount of damage, and I was hearing footsteps. I eventually turned around very fast and saw a guy wearing weird armor that I hadn’t seen before or since stabbing me with a knife. I shot him a bunch of times with my Saiga-9 but he kept running into the bushes and coming back out and stabbing me when I wasn’t looking. He eventually ran off and I extracted successfully. The knife barely did anything, but that might be because of the armor that I got from the dead PMC. Still no idea what was happening there. This was at the area with a fence and an SUV next to a small metal building near the scavenger house. This was a few months ago so I don’t know how accurate the memory was. Does anyone know if that was some sort of weird cultist NPC??
Cultists at the Checkpoint. The Knife doesn't allways poison you but my guess is that he got shot to pieces by a Cultist.
@@SwissMarksman That makes sense. I’m glad the knife didn’t do anything, because I would’ve been mad if I lost all the equipment that I found.
@@SwissMarksman that knife will 100% poisons you, just that not all of them spawns with the cultist knife, some are just a regular knife, but really rarely they spawn with a taiga
Yeah, that was a cultist. Not all cultists spawn with the poisoned knife though! So what happened was you encountered a cultist with a regular knife, and you managed to live because of it.
Wait what cultists on factory?-
I have the feeling that the PVS14 has a better "ranger", I allways take those when sniping at night
I've seen a few people say that the N-15's have better range than the PVS-14 but I haven't tried it out yet. I am too a PVS-14 gamer lol
How to raid at night = Craft a FLIR. Job done.
Forgot to mention Customs when you bring up spawn first time
I love nights!!!!
I will say, from personal experience, running into bosses at night is a pants shitting experience.
bro i play tarkov for the milsim experience not for horror xD cultists are scary man
Which night vision you play the most? :)
turn your gamma up XD factory is still a bit too dark though.
"Only use your flashlight in well-lit areas." 5:41
Ummm.... Ok
What happened to mechanic’s story part 2
It is being worked on - takes a long time!
@@EULGamingYT does that include ya review of Escape from Tarkov book 3?
@@pyeitme508 I'm currently reading the 3rd book. Review will be up as soon as I'm done - Jeff
Only needs use nvgs at night flashlight ftw
the music tho
you should do scary video commentary
For some reason, using PNV with painkiller makes the screen extra grainy and pale.
Lol
Putting the name of the game in the titel is allways good....
are they more accurate than rogues?
Cultists? I'd say they are the most lethal AI in the game.
@@EULGamingYT also great video! Really well made
Cultists mostly one or 2 tap most of the time if you aggro'd them & you are in their vicinity. Because they use most of the time High-End Ammo. My ass got saved one time because I used the expensive head plate protection & it bounced a BP ammo.