Farming beginner town and missions and making little to no progress

[Jtanco]

As the title says i'm struggling to keep a profit in the beginner town, ill go in mop the floor and extract and the weapons and items sell for very little cash. I use the scrounged AKMs to save on money as well. Do other areas offer more cash flow? I would like to utilize the M4's with scopes but the price to replace is cost prohibitive when all of my found items even premium ak's sell for max 300 dollars?

I found a scoped fitted ak-74M and vendor wants to give me only 365 bucks....that's not even half of the cost for a simple iron sights m4?

[Kitty Katyusha]

You have to do tasks.

[Nex]

Kitty Katyusha původně napsal:

You have to do tasks.

So this isn't an extraction game :O

[HawkensEnigma]

Every item you sell to a trader will mostly be less than 40% of what any of them will sell the item for. Items worth grabbing are vases, watches, credit cards, laptops, etc. that are in the game for the sole purpose of generating money for the player. Also AI should have small collections of money on their person, which does increase in the later areas to a point where one mission can net the cost of the rifle in use, or a full kit.

At the end of the day it's about $$/slot in your inventory and looting meaningful items, as well as staying alive as much as possible.

[Jonathan J. O'Neill]

Nex původně napsal:

Kitty Katyusha původně napsal:

You have to do tasks.

So this isn't an extraction game :O

Kinda but not really. You can extract with loot, sure, but tasks are the primary means of progression. Once you get to high tier areas, you can walk away with 8-10 grand per outing, easily.

[Kitty Katyusha]

Tbh the pve mode kind of feels like a FPS mmo lite to me. Also if you do want to gather weapons to sell, go for higher durability weapons. (the little tool icon in the bottom left of each weapon) the higher the durability = the more money. I also found that certain weapons are just worth more than others, I usually stack up on sks and ak74us while avoiding normal Aks as they are usually worthless. Lastly remember you can dissemble weapons to to try to make everything fit into your bag.

Also im not sure which m4 iron sights you are buying but I've been able to build weapon a full m4a1 for a roughly 1k each.

[Agent X ™]

Hitch a ride with random players and fight in higher tier spots like midnight sapphire. There you will find AKs that sell for 1k each. Faster than doing tasks. That is what I did.

[Jesus_Guy]

"So this isn't an extraction game"

Not in the looter-shooter sense. It's going to be a milsim/sci-fi/horror with looting elements.

This isnt tarkov. While having a similar looking UI, that's where it stops. The devs didn't want people running around collecting batteries and matches, having to play tetriis mid match to decide between the bullets or a bobblehead.... even though that seems to be what a loud minority want to do. Sure you can load yourself down with items to sell... but they want the game to revolve around missions, not how many watches, bottle of liquor you can find.

[ReDemoN]

Jonathan J. O'Neill původně napsal:

Nex původně napsal:

So this isn't an extraction game :O

Kinda but not really. You can extract with loot, sure, but tasks are the primary means of progression. Once you get to high tier areas, you can walk away with 8-10 grand per outing, easily.

One guy in the official Discord showed a screenshot of $84,500 in single run

You can loot AK Ratniks and MP5s as they cost about 1000 each, and there's jewelry, expensive liquors, phones, laptops, cameras, credit cards and cash registers and more that you can find and sell. Most of the good stuff is in high tier areas

The weapons from the bosses from Pha Lang Airfield (CQA1) and Sawmill (AK-74M) have ACOG scopes, which add some value to them though

[Zourin]

Missions will progress your level and work towards tiering up your vendors. They also pay fairly well early on

Equipment collection is a secondary objective. There are (well documented) equipment and weapon crates scattered around the map. You can collect a few spare weapons and armor or upgrade your backpack from these. Holding onto keys that unlock caches is pretty important here.

Picking up weapons to sell isn't going to help you financially early on. It will score you a few extra bucks if you can bring a weapon back from deployment that's in moderately good condition, or a pristine weapon from a crate, but it is still treading water compared to running missions. This isn't tarkov where you're scrounging for toilet paper, so 99% of what you are going to find will be bandages, painkillers, splints, and food (all worthless unless you need one)

When you start poking the tier 3 "army" guys, they drop ratniks and your financial problems go away once you have the ability to take on a bunch of them in one go. If you're trying to punch above your weight, be aware they use armor piercing rounds, so scrounge some of that russian 6b armor before trying. ~$800+ per ratnik can bankroll replacement gear, but what you find in crates is usually going to be better.

[Jonathan J. O'Neill]

I posted this yesterday which shows how you can get money from normal play. No relying on high value loot and takes maybe twenty or thirty minutes.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2479810/discussions/0/603018200150508513/

[CRiTiCaL]

ReDemoN původně napsal:

Jonathan J. O'Neill původně napsal:

Kinda but not really. You can extract with loot, sure, but tasks are the primary means of progression. Once you get to high tier areas, you can walk away with 8-10 grand per outing, easily.

One guy in the official Discord showed a screenshot of $84,500 in single run

You can loot AK Ratniks and MP5s as they cost about 1000 each, and there's jewelry, expensive liquors, phones, laptops, cameras, credit cards and cash registers and more that you can find and sell. Most of the good stuff is in high tier areas

The weapons from the bosses from Pha Lang Airfield (CQA1) and Sawmill (AK-74M) have ACOG scopes, which add some value to them though

Theres no way... 8,400 maybe 84,000 no way.

[CRiTiCaL]

I have over a million dollars in the bank, you just have to dedicate yourself to looking for stuff and bringing back worthy items. You learn as you go, whats worth something and what isn't. If you just bring back guns stacked, you can make a profit on every run. Just do missions and fill your back pack up with guns and ammo from the people you kill. Take their ammo, don't buy it. Ammo is one of the biggest drains on wealth in this game and you can stack it from bodies. When I started, I used guns I could readily get ammo for, from AI.

My advice, get out of starter town, advance your tasks so you get out to Sawmill, or a better spot to loot, as new tasks will you give you new landing zones. You can also spend hours walking them out, if you are so inclined. Dedicate yourself to looting, I have spent hours making just loot runs, to stack ammo, guns, and money for my team. It also helps to advance Gunny tasks asap, so you can buy better guns and attack stronger POI's, for better loot. I watched a group of level 5's get murdered at FN yesterday, which they had no business being at in the first place. Take on things you can handle without losing your gear.

[Jesus_Guy]

$84000 is only 14 titanium watches, i think i iv seen that screen shot is was a bunch of watches and jewelry, from a MS run. There is a loot all over the place, iv watch 4 man team murder face everybody, take all the guns and cash and miss the 4000 bottle of liquor and the 3000 ring sitting next to it.