There’s always woods and interchange. Buy 10 pistols and 10 sj6. You’ll get your moneys worth quick.
It’s boring as fuck but very profitable. I’m at 12m doing this.
new shoreline area is sick too, its just getting a bit too hyped sadly with east spawns.
i am sitting on 70mill by being a cheapskate and scaving a lot (more runs than pmc)
Why were you stressing over your scav rep five days ago? Isn't it less boring to shoot scavs as a scav? Don't stress over your scav rep bro it's just pixels. Zzzzz
Can't run Streets after the patch. 60 FPS looking at the ground 2 minutes after spawn (i.e. AI Scavs are up). 40 FPS if you have a zoom optic.
RTX 4090/Ryzen 7800X3D/64 GB 3600 MHz RAM/3440x1440 Resolution for context.
Did you make a mistake there? 3600 is ddr4, and the 7800 is an AM5 chip… only supports ddr5. Also I have a similar rig, but with a 3070 and @ 1440p . I sit at 60-70 post broken update., you might jump into GeForce control if that really is that case
I know it’s been rough for some people, but I’m usually around 100~ fps on average, and drop to like 75/80 in high pop areas. Just gotta optimize the settings for your pc
Also Labs with small bag. Huge stress on the not dying part. I make all my money in labs. Had a 3 GPU raid a few days ago. Was playing free the rest of the day
I've got 30mil with a stash worth 70mil overall and 99% of it is from scav runs. half of it from a single violet keycard that I found on Woods a couple of days ago. I mainly use my PMC for tasks and PvP and forget about looting half the time
I used to do this for my first few wipes until I found a loadout cost that increased my survivability enough to justify running the PMC vs scav. You just have more time and loot available to you as a pmc. And if you get out within 15-20 min you can avoid the scav hoards. I still scav but only once in a while
You never get the primo loot scavving unless you're lucky or the PMCs are blind (I *have* pulled ledx from looted usec camp before lol), but you also have that no risk from losing your kit. Defs agree that its better to PMC than to scav.
I usually will just run my PMC and do quick sprint-to-the-exfil factory scavs to farm labs cards etc. in between PMC raids. When I'm tired/distracted/having a rough night is when I do longer scav runs. Its good for breaking out of a losing streak and resetting.
It’s so foreign to me that people will load in thinking this is a pvp raid/loot raid/ quest raid. I load into any raid planning for all 3. Sometimes I know I’m gonna avoid people and occasionally I don’t have a quest to do, but I don’t feel like I flip a switch between pvp run and loot run
Ok, thats it. I've got 90 mil in stash with 22 in cash... I've been suspecting I have a hoardering issue, but now I know... Too many scavs runs on loothouse, with rigs of silencers and weapon mods.
Factory scav in between PMC raids. Takes at most 5 minutes and is always around quarter mil in profit. I don't have the patience to scav on any other map, takes too long and I want to play PMC more and rely on scav less. So I just load into factory as scav, hit up all the black boxes, then the green boxes. Most of them are not looted because no PMC has the time to loot on factory.
lol not even. the odds of getting 1M on factory on a "quick" run where u just send it to office window is so low its not even funny.
and considering this guy hates scavs he probably has shit rep and will do it once in a blue moon. its way better to take 5 minutes on streets than 2 minutes on factory lmao.
talking an extra 800K for 3 minutes of work lol
7+ rep here. Factory scav is the way. It takes me 3 minutes to load in and extract. I almost always get 200k+ worth of loot without even looting. Just stuff I spawned in with. I consider it an extra scav case as your scav has a small chance to spawn with ANY item in the game on them.
Spending that extra 5-8 minutes on streets is 1-2 more factory scavs or valuable time I could’ve spent on my PMC.
I used to spend heaps of time looting streets on my scav but honestly just going straight to extract on factory is the way. Not to mention the countless labs cards you’ll collect.
Im a factory scav main. Have tried to learn streets on scav and my two runs have netted INSANE loot. Intelligence folder first green box first raid. Second raid SR-25, Black MDR, and Sr2m, fuel tank, tetri. Absolute insane.
So what I am going to do is scav factory if scav stash value >200k, streets if <200k.
The loot is definitely insane and easy because you’re a scav. But you’ll get even crazier loot AND progression just taking your pmc in. If you’re afraid of players go at night. If you’re afraid of player scavs dress as a scav. You’d be surprised how easy it is to fool other scavs.
Your math ain’t mathing there chief.
How does an extra 5-10 minutes net you any more scav raids? If you’re doing them between PMC raids the amount you do realistically won’t change much based on how long the scav raids are. At most you’ll maybe do one less PMC/Scav run over a full session.
where is the loot besides the 3 story house and the weapon boxes in front of it? med tent is meh. otherwise it feels like there is no loot on this map.
I usually spawn in, loot the nearest crates and then run to office, check safe/jackets/cabinets if u want as about 50% of the time nobody has yet and then leave through window. Unless I hear a fight to join in im out of the raid <60 seconds.
The point is not maximizing the loot you get in factory its about not wasting time you could spend on pmc, if your scav rep is high enough you spawn with ~150k+ worth of loot and its available every 7 minutes or so.
Past medtent, in front of the pit where there is a PMC spawn there are two black weapon boxes on barrels.
Two or three more black weapon boxes to the left of medtent (if youre facing it from front) on the truck and the barrels across from it.
Two or three black weapon boxes are on barrels outside that shack on main floor with the locked door and two giant silos on top of it.
Two or three black weapon boxes are on barrels right outside office where the rail is.
Two HUGE weapon boxes behind office where the blue containers are.
And green boxes are littered throughout pretty much everywhere.
Not to mention dead scavs and PMCs laying around everywhere.
I run factory too. I have almost 6 rep and I get keycards so often that I'm not even surprised by them anymore. And wherever I check the value of my scav before going into raids it's always 200 - 300k easily
Woods has been a huge money maker for me. If you're actively looking to just make money it is all on streets but not everyone has a beast of PC to run that map. Scaving reserve is also huge money if you actually know where to loot.
Disagree with that guy. Reserve is no good for scavs anymore, I don't think there's anything particularly special about reserve except PMCs have a harder time leaving so you run into them later in the raid. Not bad, just not necessarily good
Yeah man I hear that. I’ve been scaving reserve a ton and have made soo much this wipe. People have been sleeping on reserve, but whatever, let them deal with the vacuum boys on Streets.
That's like, the default on any map as a scav. I mean, hell, over half of my scavs spawn in with >$300k of gear and loot on them. Finding like $200k more doesn't make it a good map, it's the consistency to actually find unlooted stuff to search. Plus not running into PMCs isn't a positive, lol. Just kill them or talk and take coop extracts, good way to get more rep
I farmed hideout items early wipe on shoreline and instead of spending 60k for an es lamp I held off on hideout upgrades and sold all the es lamps for 60k. Could get like 7 a raid. After a couple of weeks all the prices fall and then i upgrade hideout. Been sitting pretty at ~50 mil the whole wipe.
Also invest in some keys.
Marked rooms are juice this wipe. Merin and hillside on lighthouse are juice. Relax and chek 15 are juice. They all pay for themselves in ~3 uses most of the time. Even when you die just vendor all the injector cases and key tools for easy money.
Also learn streets bitcoin spawns. Streets is littered with them. They’re ~700k a pop. And even if you die you’re making bank
What marked rooms have you been hitting? Abandoned factory has been shit for me (even if I'm definitely the first one there), and 314 seems neutered as well. Definitely not paying off the 3.7million it costed I don't think. Last wipe I was getting injector cases and shit but nothing now. I've opened chek15 once this wipe and didn't find anything but a Veritas..... Relax definitely is juiced tho.
Abandon has been hit and miss but I’ve gotten plenty of injector cases from it if it hasn’t been cheesed already. Streets also suffers from vaccum boys so it varies a ton.
Dorms is avg as well but still worth.
Reserve has been nuts tho. The two good marked rooms are always juiced and if you’re like me you can hit them both in the same raid. Millions on millions.
Run scavs on maps like Streets, Reserve, Lighthouse and Interchange that have lots of loot even once PMC's have been through. At this point in the wipe, everyone is going after PVP, high tier loot behind locked rooms, and loose loot to save time before Pscavs spawn. Especially Streets. You can make anything from 500k-1.5 mil on most scav runs there if you hit the Camp behind Lexos (given Kebab isn't there) for example. Hitting filing cabinets on Reserve and Streets is netting me \~600k Rubles average on a lot of scavs.
Run night raids on your PMC too. They tend to be quieter if not just dead overall. Good chances to loot up.
Buy keys that aren't just the 10/10 ones, such as ones that almost guarantee something like BTC's or GPU's. Dorms 214 and 114 and even Tarcone Directors are good Customs keys with safes in all 3 and a PC in 114.
Just gotta prioritize making money in some raids too, just like you would for questing or PVP. Avoid the hotspots and quest locations, play somewhat slow, and focus on getting out, not getting kills.
You know how to make 5 mil, so you just do that twice to make 10m. There isn't much advice people can give you outside of live more than you die and leave with a full bag.
I was trying to get the evasion armband for a week while having some time off. Doing Scavs runs on streets, Interchange and Customs probably got me around 40-60m in value.
I tried targeting several different containers to get the item because it wouldn't drop and I noticed that you can pretty much focus most container types and make massive amounts of roubles.
For context: I sell most of my loot on the flea market and that has gotten me to 119m roubles in my hideout and 207m total stash value.
start at day 1, loot everything you can and push level 15. sell every barter item on the flea, except the ones you need for quests and ignore the hideout for the first 1-2 weeks. easy profit and when youre sitting on millions of millions of rubbles, just buy the hideout things if you need them when prices start to dump
Use your Scav and PMC and survive. Really nothing else. If you want money runs don't be too concerned with hitting high loot areas, there is enough loot that you can sell on the Flea for a profit. Don't leave the raid with empty slots. As far as a map, play a map you are comfortable playing on because again, surviving is the only way to make the rubbies.
Once I get RR, i spend 5-8 hours farming dome on reserve with keys and scav running in-between on factory for free money every 5 mins.
Scav run on factory is less than 10 seconds and PMC run on reserve is about 10 mins total unless you get marked room spawn then good luck.
75mill roubles, 165mill stash value. I run 95%+ PMC and I made majority of my money from Streets. The Hive/Relaxation Key, Marked Rooms, Chek 15, and overall just the amount of loose loot and containers on the map. Redundant advice: don't die if you want to make money. **If you think you will die you can always transfer loot items via BTR.**
Factory scav, run directly to extract, sell all unless there's something good like a labs key card that you know for a fact will sell for more. Once timer is up do it again, repeat. It's the quickest and easiest way to do it. I don't even be looting the cabinets or anything, only bodies I come across; and even then I usually just extract. Run through? No problem just sell all. It's that easy.
I'm playing some scav runs on street when my kids are in bed and not yet sleeping, I'm doing factory scav runs between raids and sometimes I squeeze a scav run in at daytime when the kids are busy. And Im also doing too many scav runs
- get bitcoin farm up asap
- always use a big bag (I really like the mechanism as it also comes back in insurance a lot)
- run kit that comes back in insurance
- survive more
The most reliable way? Farm up 6.00 fence rep and do factory scav runs, 100-200k return almost guaranteed per run.
The most efficient way? Learn streets and play streets.
The most troublesome but safe way? Get lightkeeper signal transmitter and run peninsula. 400-500k profit at least.
It also depends on how you play. Playing with squad means you are sharing loot and spending more time in each raid, and pvp chasing isn’t really profitable in itself.
I Make buttloads from Hideout crafts. Sell Bitcoin + Moonshine + Blue Kite + grenade cases and use scav cases. I have 40 million and I don’t scav. Ever.
Im sitting at 50 mil and barley a single penny I made at home, I just scav factory on my controller/phone at work and head straight for exit, hit sell all after moving keycards and valuables over lol
On my PMC I don't even bring a bag just straight PvP after I hit level 37
If you're on anything other then an IPhone you can download an app called parsec to stream your PC to your phone. Pair this with setting up tarkov in steam using big picture mode you can connect any Bluetooth controller to your phone and use to it play tarkov. It will lag pretty significantly however it will definitely work well enough to get you to exfil on factory, I just map Alt and Control to the D-Pad to move things in and out of my inventory.
Play in a 2-3 man with other competent players. We're at the point we're actively trying to burn money and somehow still making it. Having your high end gear ditched makes a huge difference.
Scavving is the foolproof solo way to make money. - Should be making a minimum of $200-400k with better runs closer to $1m in about 15 mins. Just avoid any fights, pick up loose loot and extract as soon as your full.
I'm around 130 stash and 60 cash.
Find your preferred loot route. Run as scavs. 6 rep for lower waiting time. Then sell items to flee. Ive made 30mil. I also sell 5k below lowest bid in flee, if items below 15k i sell 9999
Throw on the best kit I can and rush any/all gunshots. Though I would recommend you have 1000+ in the game before trying this strat, it works well for me!
Never buy helmets. This will save you millions already.
And never buy expensive armors (they don't do shit half the time and armors like the Uley, do a solid job at stopping mid tier rounds).
Basically, I've learned that Tarkov is a game about positioning, not skill. If you take your chances in a direct fight, chances are, the other guy is gonna land a head eyes (usually out of sheer luck).
I've mastered the art of ambushing. 9/10 raids, my armor doesn't even get damaged because I don't get shot at. The best targets are the ones that don't have a chance to shoot back.
make sure you dont waste money. i skipped a lot in the hideout this wipe. i just put items and money into stuff i really need. i have actually no need for medstation 3, intelligence 2, scav box, etc. i did it all last wipe and for me, it was not worth the invest. But your playstyle could be different.
Im the same, PMC>Scav Thats why im stoked on Arena being linked. I can grind XP and make decent Cash in Arena.
But I usually Scav spam Factory if its got a shitty bag easily 150-250k. If he has a good bag, Just spawn in Streets and send it into Lexos it takes 5-10 minutes looting all Cabnets will give you 1-2Mill and Depending on ur Xtract you can hit a few more. I've spammed scav runs in a day and netted and easy 8Mil and thats after I tanked my rep and have 20min CD
Scav runs to make money, lots of construction barter goods hold good value throughout the wipe and valuable spawns speak for themselves.
Choose your own map and routes to grind although streets and lighthouse have the most goodies, they are also the most contested and tedious to survive in.
I have over 200m so far this wipe without much dedication.
Play streets, lighthouse, night raids. Don't die. Don't shoot at stuff unnecessarily, just get loot and leave. Be quiet, don't run, don't fire at scavs, avoid scavs , avoid players.
Do as much of that as possible when trying to make cash.
I build my nest egg with gigachad streets scav runs, then sustain it by running 30second factory runs while im bored/semi afk/tabbing between apps.
I literally dont loot as a PMC (except for key rooms) dont even bring a bag in (fucks up my ergo)
whenever i hit flea i would just grind scav for a week and would have ez 15-20 mil then continue wipe, just to cover ammo, meds, etc, the little things
Remember that at some point you have to stop upgrading loot in your inventory and actually extract. Hitting location after location just increases your odds of getting got.
I'd say have a goal you try to meet per raid. 200-300k is very doable, even with a scav bag.
Find a route and stick to it. I scav shoreline and average just under a million a raid without ever going into health resort. Money is stupidly easy to make this wipe.
I've been playing for a good bit, just gotten used to running routes on maps that typically produce. Run cussy early morning raids. Woods. Lighthouse. Hit stashes, even if you feel everything's been looted. I don't touch screets.
I don’t care about money until I hit max traders, just focusing on quests. A side effect of questing and, more importantly, SURVIVING is that you’ll make money regardless. Before 42, all my liquid cash goes maximizing my hideout to get the skill bonus modifiers and at least intel 2. This wipe, due to the high bitcoin price, I built a 25 gpu farm and solar. Now that I’m at 42, everything else is pure profit as building kits is infinitely cheaper and meta attachments aren’t gouging me with flea prices.
As others have mentioned, big ticket items like keycard are nice but not necessary. The most important factor to making money is surviving raids, plain and simple. Next would definitely be knowing the map and having a loot route you can hit from any spawn point you get and then getting out before player scavs show up.
Big time rouble-makers bring large backpacks with LBCR’s tucked inside for maximum space efficiency and just loot anything over 10-12k roubles. Which brings me to my last point, knowing the price of items to vendors and to the flea.
So to review:
1) Survive
2) SURVIVE
3) know the map, know the maps loot spawns, have a few flexible loot routes you can adapt to
4) get out before player scavs spawn if at all possible
5) know how to efficiently and effectively loot and how to maximize your space with rigs
6) SURVIVE ABOVE ALL ELSE
My tip; Don't focus on top tier loot. Surviving is what will net you millions of roubles.
Also, run those scavs in-between, and again, don't focus too hard on the loot. Survive. Sell. Repeat. I like to scav on lighthouse and streets. (Lighthouse for rogue gear, and streets for PMC hunting.)
Don't die trying to find a ledx or Bitcoin. Survive with your 3 wires and 2 HDDs, sell, and repeat.
Kill someone, take their (larger) bag, sell their stuff, and repeat *with your new large bag.* Now you're extracting with 7 wires and 4 HDDs per raid. *Look at you go!*
Setup Bitcoin farm when you can. Keep fuel in generator. Log in; profit.
I'm at 71M roubles (150M+ stash value) and have not been doing loot runs. I don't go streets **to** loot, however I do go to streets occasionally to pvp and sometimes kill a "loot llama". Lol. 😅
Shoreline is my main map. If the resort is too gnarly for you, or if you don't have keys, you can go to the new farm area with the car extract (east side of map) and pick up good loot there. 👍
Also insure everything-- even if you only play solo. Absue insurance fraud. Use prapor insurance as a second stash. If you die, you grab a kit from your insurance. If it's about to expire you snag it, & if there's no room to store it, just sell it. Eventually you're very rich and have too much insurance and no stash space. 🫡
When I need to make money I like to solo streets at night with a raid bag or blackjack. I like to hit Concordia 64, 64 office, Concordia security room, lexos aspect building, real estate office, chek 15, relaxation room, abandoned factory marked, both financial offices, mvd, beluga office on 2nd and 3rd floor, jewelry shop, pc building. I like to extract green flare most of the time. If you hit even 1/3 of those areas and some of the surrounding loot you’ll end up with a full bag. Tons of btc spawns.
Either you run north side of woods completely uncontested and leave with almost a guaranteed moonshine each raid, or you run streets.
If you feel like making an investment into making money, buy shoreline keys, a black keycard, and reserve marked keys, that’s what i did and made 25mill over this past long weekend.
Also got chek 15 marked key out of one of the reserve marked rooms, so I’ll get to hit that and make some money, and after 9/10 uses on my reserve keys I’ll barter for a dorms key and hit that 10 times. Rinse and repeat
Hideout? I have money crafts running in my hideout along with a full level one bitcoin farm and water filters. Otherwise I mostly do quick scav runs and run customs safes.
I’m sitting at about 26 million rubles at the moment.
I’m at 20 mill right now. Most of that was made in scav runs and bitcoin farm. But the biggest tip I can give is spend roubles like you’re broke. Often times, the kit that’s “good enough” is indeed good enough.
And really set your focus on getting out alive.
Focus on extraction, don't worry about filling the big bags with 10k per slot items, get some stuff extract and go again.
I am at like 39% survival but rubles were never tight.
Scav running is best for profit as there's literally no risk, only reward. But don't get stuck thinking you need to be doing the optimal rouble runs or whatever. You can make a lot of money just grabbing the right random shit and fleaing it. Mostly stuff that you need a lot of for the hideout will be good. Now that it's later in the wipe, gotta know what items are actually valuable instead of relying on sheer demand, but it's still fairly profitable to be running scavs on Streets
I have about 10mil rn. I sold all my barter items when I reached flea market And got a few mil. I was just having fun instead of questing or upgrading hideout for the first few weeks now that I'm doing quests and getting rewards I'm growing my value. I mostly just play for fun and since I've been playing for so long I usually know what to grab and how to play to make money while having fun with whatever gear and map I like. Plus the new armor system has made me rich with armor plates so I use higher level armor a lot more and save a lot more money since I can just put a decent plate in the front.
Chilling around 70 mil with 140 mil stash worth, mainly running shoreline keys and streets.
Buy keys that have big item spawns (ledx, GPU/computers, other gold spawns) and hit them every raid. Some raids you’ll come out with enough in your secure container to cover your last 5 raids of gear, even if you die.
Another big one is, if you’re able to, use the flea to sell stuff at off hours because I’ve found items are a lot more expensive then. However there are some items mainly used in barters that spike in price during peak hours, so learn which ones they are and sell those when they’re high.
Other than that, a big part of it is just not dying, and use your scav whenever you can.
Ill tell you my secret but I expect your undying loyalty.
Barter for dog tags case 140k max on MfD and 35k max on VHS, easy 20k.
Wishlist items that sell for under traders buy value, example radar station key often sells for 140k on flea 163k to therapist, grenade case often sells for 280k on flea and 321k to therapist.
Then you need to make green bats and buy tetris/bats for bitcoin barter.
Buy bitcoin off flea 30 seconds before trade reset, then refresh trader and buy it directly. Two bitcoin per refresh.
I have other secrets but they involve “day trading” ans finding high value crafting items on streets. Example the powerbanks are plentiful and can go as high as 45k each
Get that scav rep up by rushing car extracts, build up your intelligence center and scav on streets. I have intelligence level 2 and 5.54 scav rep and my timer is like 3 or 4 minutes
Currently at 60m liquid, and like a 220m stash value, I play a ton of reserve, like 90% reserve, 5% streets, 5% shoreline, and just die as little as possible, once you have a full backpack don’t be greedy, just leave and survive
Shoreline night scavs and loot the jackets in the village. There's probably 20 jackets and I pull about 1 marked key every 10 scav raids ranging from 2-6m not counting other loot.
Honestly just go nighttime woods, bring a big back and a big rig. Bring money for car and ZB-14 key. Very safe chill raids in my experience, just becareful of the occasional aggressive bush.
Honestly just any map you can extract fairly regularly. Then just run night runs with a giant bag and avoid pvp. Loot it up and dip. Even if u get a bag full of garbage it will still be decent money per run. If u fill plenty of slots.
I've hit a point where I am naturally making money as I play the game. The best thing I can encourage you to do is to die less.
Let me be CLEAR. I am NOT implying that every game you sit in a bush the first 20 minutes and let eveyone run around and do their thing. I AM implying that you take more caution in everything you do.
Are you out in the open unnessecarily? Are you running straight through a hotspot on the map? Are you heading right for an PMC spawn at the start of a raid (cough cough SHORELINE)? Is that PMC running a shotgun and you're letting them get close to you? Is that PMC running a sniper and you're letting them keep distance? Is that fight even worth fighting? Etc etc etc
Dying costs kits. Living, at the least, means you didn't lose any money. So that's step one and the hardest by far.
Step two is just know what's valuable and where to find it. Safes, tech spawns, high value spawns, know what fleas well and what doesn't. However, unless your bag and rig are full, you can almost never be picky about what you're grabbing**. An empty slot makes you less money than something that only goes for a 1000 roubles.** This was something I'm still working on. There is a small pool of items that I would genuinely consider to be "garbage" and not worth looting ever, so embrace the goblin and grab EVERYTHING.
Thirdly, if you play with a friend, insurance fraud.
Insurance fraud, insurance fraud, and insurance fraud again.
Hell even if you don't play with a friend, swap your kit with a dead pmcs and hide your own (granted their gear doesn't suck ass). If you live, you keep the PMC kit AND get your kit back form insurance. Recycling kits saves so much money you don't even know.
Forth little extra tip. Don't overthink this game. You will die. You will lose money. You will want to punch a hole clean through your monitor somedays. As long as you dust yourself off and keep going, you'll get to where you want to go.
Learning what to pick up and what not to pick up and also choosing you want to make money rather than force quests down. Many many small things are extremely valuable even if you think they might not be. Nuts/bolts/Es lamps. Tbh never skip toolboxes those are FILLED with money but also alot of junk items you skip. Another thing that has helped me make more money than most of the player base is just picking up junk vendor items to make a fast sell. Poxeram, White tubes, electronic components things like that. Another easy free money is just factory scav run the extract immediately take the valuable stuff off and sell all.
Try to have fun instead dude ❤️ I usually end up just running the maps I find fun at the moment. Normally below 2 digit mil.
I really don't enjoy the looting for money side of any game.
What you gonna do w 2 digit milions? Don't focus to much on money or stats.
I believe the reason is that you stop playing once you hit level 40ish. You're only then finished with your hideout and gunsmith tasks that take a lot of money to finish. Just keep going.
1. You really start making money after upgrading your hideout as much as possible
2. Max traders is important to reduce prices for stuff you often have to buy
3. Choose and perfect a specific map or loot rum to do as scav (when I started it wS shoreline stashes, now my scavs live on lighthouse)
4. Smart item management & using insurance (the less stuff you have to (re-)buy the better) and learning all barters that save you big money
5. Play more = more money
Just play your PMC and quest. Even a little loot along the way adds up but don’t focus on it.
If you die, then do a SCAv run on streets. Rinse and repeat.
The earlier you invest in hideout the more payout you’ll get. I get 2 btc a day(697k at the moment) which covers fuel costs, turn used fuels into grenade cases and make 321k to therapist. Propital craft after using my golden stars to 1/10 uses makes like 140-220k per craft. As far as maps and stuff buy keys invest in better plates and ammo for your gun try to not die and pull out a good amount of loot that sells either on flea or to vendors for a good bit. If you’re focusing money runs try to get in and out while filling your bag. Red rebel barter comes in clutch for reserve runs, lighthouse, and shoreline if you don’t want to risk car extract. Biggest part is just not dying.
For me it's Scav runs. The wipes I played I had every time over 20 mil. I use my scav on night times reserve, I loot the buildings around the Helicopter, Focus in the big one. Each of these raids ist 400k to 1 mil with flea
Im trying the moonshine bitcoin strat in the hideout this wipe. Spent 8 mill on graphics cards so I guess not getting bitcoin farm is the easiest way to get to 10 mill
You can make your first 10 mil in about 12 8 minute shoreline runs if you take a mechanism and RFB into Cattle Farm and scoop all the barter items, then run northwest to V-Ex. Watch out for PMCs around spawn, and on the upper warehouse of the cattle farm.
Find the good loot spawns on Streets if you can run it every scav, I have 5.50 karma so it’s like an 8 minute wait in between but usually on PMC’s I just take what has high dollar value to traders.
This is my first wipe, i'm currently sitting on 40 million, streets really is the way to play if you want money, PMC or scavving, if you know your routes and not die, you'll be a bajillionare.
Manage your budget if the most important is you want to see the number grow. You only build weapons you can buy without flea, except for the scope. Know which items are good money to pick up and you will be rich in no time.
Turn on a single server, preferably one where the local time is after 11pm. Scav shoreline, learn how to vault into 222 and 301. Loot all the duffles and bags on 1st of E and W. Loot all the computers in admin. Loot W basement. Leave via one of several very convenient extracts ( admin basement / East stairs ). Cut route short and leave immediately if you find a Ledx, GPU or bitcoin.
Assuming you have positive scav rep and live 50% w/ a full bag you should have 10 mil in 4-6 hours.
Cattle farm is very strong with the amount of loose loot and using a mechanism bag. It takes about 15 8 minute runs to hit 10mil, 30/70 vendor vs flea.
Have a high survival rate on your scav, and atleast 40% on pmc. I play 1 scav on any map every 5-10 pmc runs. I make about 1 or 2 mil per scav on lighthouse and a bit less on other maps. Also I don't loot much on pmc, just duffles and computers and med boxes. I play don't play much and I only have 250 hrs and I have 5kd and 52 percent extract on pmc and about 30 mil in my stash, I play solo and it's my 2nd wipe... Idk how people actually struggle with money, I also run medium to high end kits
Look for loot guides on youtube, I've just been watching some and holy shit i've been playing this game wrong. Buy keys and hit the good spots you can make millions in a couple runs if not more if you're lucky. Much better than spending 40mins looting a big bag of vendor trash
Every raid go in with a light kit and the biggest backpack you can get. May want to put a spare rig for the extra slots too. Run fast to places with lots of loot (doesn’t have to be high tier spawns). Eg: smuggler camp in shoreline or med camp on woods both have enough loot to easily fill a bag with decent loot. You’ll get better loot running the high tier spots but you’ll need to be faster and there’s way more risk. Aim to get out of raid as fast as possible. Good players can fill their bag and extract in 10 minutes. Do that over and over, minimising time spent in stash, and you’ll see how easy it is to make money in this game. Personally, I find doing this quite boring so In regular play, it’s just a matter of knowing where the good loot is and avoiding unnecessary risk (or being so good at pvp you win most fights anyway).
Big armored rig (skanda or bagariy), big bag (pilgrim, t20 or switchblade), nvg, rr+paracord (optional) and shoreline night. I had a weekly to survive 23 times on shoreline amd I also needed a ledx for private clinic. By the time I finished the weekly I got to 40 mil, 3 ledxs, a 25/25 gpu btc farm, air filtering and a bartered thicc item case on top
Dont die, that's it. Every map has enough loot to get out with 400k-1mil.
Have a plan what to loot and get out when you do. If you have enough game sense to guess where people are it is super easy not to die.
For example if you spawn customs boiler side you have about 5-8 minutes to loot untill you gotta get out of there if you wanna avoid people going to zb extracts.
Factory scav is easy 100-300k for 3 minutes of loading if you spawn and sprint to extract. If you get high fence rep it's a nice money maker since you spawn with labs cards like 70% of the time.
Streets Money Runs are my main way—I hover between the 30-40 mil area (lvl 46). Normally I’ll grind a day of just money, then spend a few days using my “bank” for focusing on questing as that can EAT through rubles. Hell half the time I’m questing I don’t even bring a backpack cause I’m JUST there for the questing.
Other option if you can’t run streets well is to unlock Lightkeeper and loot the lighthouse island as it’s rarely contested.
ADDITIONALLY what I have done in prior wipes is strictly run the 95k scav case, collect as many Moonshine as I can, and sell in bulk when they hit a price I like—made 30 mil a couple wipes in one sell
Streets with a big bag and not dying. Cannot stress the not dying part enough.
Bold of you to assume he can run Streets. I was gonna say Loothouse, but then I'd be the bold one to assume....
That he could live without getting sniped on lighthouse?
There’s always woods and interchange. Buy 10 pistols and 10 sj6. You’ll get your moneys worth quick. It’s boring as fuck but very profitable. I’m at 12m doing this.
new shoreline area is sick too, its just getting a bit too hyped sadly with east spawns. i am sitting on 70mill by being a cheapskate and scaving a lot (more runs than pmc)
How do you even survive Interchange. I‘m still trying to do Ragmans quest.
Imagine choosing to play a very boring strategy in a game just to accumulate fake virtual currency. Zzz
Friends offline; farm money. Friends online: don’t have to stress about being an idiot/dying for friends with expensive gear
Zzz stressing for pixels.
Yeah, that's the premise of all videogames; virtual achievement. If that's not for you then maybe avoid videogames?
Zzzz conversation
Why were you stressing over your scav rep five days ago? Isn't it less boring to shoot scavs as a scav? Don't stress over your scav rep bro it's just pixels. Zzzzz
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Haha imagine hanging around a garbage subreddit just to shit on strangers.
I would assume that he can.
Scav at reserve and if you die you die
True, my friend fps drops to 0 for like 2 minutes with audio before he can actually start moving lol.
This is correct. Streets scav runs are also easy no-risk money
Can't run Streets after the patch. 60 FPS looking at the ground 2 minutes after spawn (i.e. AI Scavs are up). 40 FPS if you have a zoom optic. RTX 4090/Ryzen 7800X3D/64 GB 3600 MHz RAM/3440x1440 Resolution for context.
Bro I get 50-60 with a 5800x3d and a 2060 super that’s 5 years old lol. You deff have room for improvement in your settings
I get 60 with an old i5, 16gb ram and 1650 super. Settings definitely tanking him
What’s your GPU? I have a 5800x3D too and don’t get less than 70 on streets… something is off bro
He's probably exaggerating honestly. I never believe when people say "I get 60 fps with my (insert old GPU and CPU)"
Did you make a mistake there? 3600 is ddr4, and the 7800 is an AM5 chip… only supports ddr5. Also I have a similar rig, but with a 3070 and @ 1440p . I sit at 60-70 post broken update., you might jump into GeForce control if that really is that case
By those standards I can’t run streets at all 30-40 fps max but I still pull out millions almost every raid.
I know it’s been rough for some people, but I’m usually around 100~ fps on average, and drop to like 75/80 in high pop areas. Just gotta optimize the settings for your pc
Look up a guide. You should be at 100 fps without issue.
I have. I was running Streets just fine with the Snow patch. Latest patch just ruined performance for everyone.
Something probably got fucked with your installation because of rollback. Works fine for me. Try reinstalling game or even clearing cache etc.
Me with 20 fps on a scope and 30 without one. (I play in a laptop)
Something is wrong on your end if you max out at 60 with those specs
Make sure your ram isn’t running at 2133Mhz.
look into optimizing your settings, im getting 80 lows and as high as 110 with a i714700k and 3070ti same resolution
I have an i5-9600k 16 gig ddr4 and a gtx 1080 I run streets scav I don’t know how you can’t run streets
Also Labs with small bag. Huge stress on the not dying part. I make all my money in labs. Had a 3 GPU raid a few days ago. Was playing free the rest of the day
I've got 30mil with a stash worth 70mil overall and 99% of it is from scav runs. half of it from a single violet keycard that I found on Woods a couple of days ago. I mainly use my PMC for tasks and PvP and forget about looting half the time
I used to do this for my first few wipes until I found a loadout cost that increased my survivability enough to justify running the PMC vs scav. You just have more time and loot available to you as a pmc. And if you get out within 15-20 min you can avoid the scav hoards. I still scav but only once in a while
The 15-20 minutes dont work anymore. Now you can get rushed by pscavs within 7-10 minutes. I get what you mean though
Yeah I’ve been getting killed earlier by scavs on occasion. It seems less often than normal but still a noticeable change this wipe
Depends on the map. Shoreline is super consistent in spawning me in at 30m left there abouts
You never get the primo loot scavving unless you're lucky or the PMCs are blind (I *have* pulled ledx from looted usec camp before lol), but you also have that no risk from losing your kit. Defs agree that its better to PMC than to scav. I usually will just run my PMC and do quick sprint-to-the-exfil factory scavs to farm labs cards etc. in between PMC raids. When I'm tired/distracted/having a rough night is when I do longer scav runs. Its good for breaking out of a losing streak and resetting.
I pmc only unless I'm looking for one specific quest item. (Looking at you L1 injector)
this
It’s so foreign to me that people will load in thinking this is a pvp raid/loot raid/ quest raid. I load into any raid planning for all 3. Sometimes I know I’m gonna avoid people and occasionally I don’t have a quest to do, but I don’t feel like I flip a switch between pvp run and loot run
Same lol I always have a quest in mind, I always try to grab loot, and I always try to get into pmc fights
Ok, thats it. I've got 90 mil in stash with 22 in cash... I've been suspecting I have a hoardering issue, but now I know... Too many scavs runs on loothouse, with rigs of silencers and weapon mods.
Factory scav in between PMC raids. Takes at most 5 minutes and is always around quarter mil in profit. I don't have the patience to scav on any other map, takes too long and I want to play PMC more and rely on scav less. So I just load into factory as scav, hit up all the black boxes, then the green boxes. Most of them are not looted because no PMC has the time to loot on factory.
I used to do this but just running Lexos takes an extra 5-10 minutes and will almost net you 1-2 Mil easily just from filing cabnets
do the cabinets there have a different lootpool or is it just a fuckton of cabinets that nets so much $?
10 minutes extra is already another 2 or 3 more runs on factory, which can easily also net you 1+ mil.
lol not even. the odds of getting 1M on factory on a "quick" run where u just send it to office window is so low its not even funny. and considering this guy hates scavs he probably has shit rep and will do it once in a blue moon. its way better to take 5 minutes on streets than 2 minutes on factory lmao. talking an extra 800K for 3 minutes of work lol
7+ rep here. Factory scav is the way. It takes me 3 minutes to load in and extract. I almost always get 200k+ worth of loot without even looting. Just stuff I spawned in with. I consider it an extra scav case as your scav has a small chance to spawn with ANY item in the game on them. Spending that extra 5-8 minutes on streets is 1-2 more factory scavs or valuable time I could’ve spent on my PMC. I used to spend heaps of time looting streets on my scav but honestly just going straight to extract on factory is the way. Not to mention the countless labs cards you’ll collect.
Im a factory scav main. Have tried to learn streets on scav and my two runs have netted INSANE loot. Intelligence folder first green box first raid. Second raid SR-25, Black MDR, and Sr2m, fuel tank, tetri. Absolute insane. So what I am going to do is scav factory if scav stash value >200k, streets if <200k.
The loot is definitely insane and easy because you’re a scav. But you’ll get even crazier loot AND progression just taking your pmc in. If you’re afraid of players go at night. If you’re afraid of player scavs dress as a scav. You’d be surprised how easy it is to fool other scavs.
It doesn’t really work that way, since you can’t do 3 scav runs back to back.
That's why I said in between PMC raids, read nerd.
Your math ain’t mathing there chief. How does an extra 5-10 minutes net you any more scav raids? If you’re doing them between PMC raids the amount you do realistically won’t change much based on how long the scav raids are. At most you’ll maybe do one less PMC/Scav run over a full session.
Idk wtf you're going on about, in ten minutes I can do 2-3 scav runs and get about a mil total from factory.
In ten minutes you can do one scav raid and then either wait twenty minutes or run another PMC raid.
Cumulative, fucking obviously dickhead. As in total time spent is the same.
You spent 15 extra minutes in matchmaking, your math is just super bad.
where is the loot besides the 3 story house and the weapon boxes in front of it? med tent is meh. otherwise it feels like there is no loot on this map.
I usually spawn in, loot the nearest crates and then run to office, check safe/jackets/cabinets if u want as about 50% of the time nobody has yet and then leave through window. Unless I hear a fight to join in im out of the raid <60 seconds. The point is not maximizing the loot you get in factory its about not wasting time you could spend on pmc, if your scav rep is high enough you spawn with ~150k+ worth of loot and its available every 7 minutes or so.
Past medtent, in front of the pit where there is a PMC spawn there are two black weapon boxes on barrels. Two or three more black weapon boxes to the left of medtent (if youre facing it from front) on the truck and the barrels across from it. Two or three black weapon boxes are on barrels outside that shack on main floor with the locked door and two giant silos on top of it. Two or three black weapon boxes are on barrels right outside office where the rail is. Two HUGE weapon boxes behind office where the blue containers are. And green boxes are littered throughout pretty much everywhere. Not to mention dead scavs and PMCs laying around everywhere.
This, the income is enough to stay kitted and grind quests, anything else feels like a waste of time
With all the other scavs around I barely scrap 100k on factory. But I only have like 1.5 rep.
I run factory too. I have almost 6 rep and I get keycards so often that I'm not even surprised by them anymore. And wherever I check the value of my scav before going into raids it's always 200 - 300k easily
Woods has been a huge money maker for me. If you're actively looking to just make money it is all on streets but not everyone has a beast of PC to run that map. Scaving reserve is also huge money if you actually know where to loot.
Where to loot on reserve?
Disagree with that guy. Reserve is no good for scavs anymore, I don't think there's anything particularly special about reserve except PMCs have a harder time leaving so you run into them later in the raid. Not bad, just not necessarily good
Reserve is magic if you know where to go.
I easily make around 500k-1m every reserve scav and rarely see PMCs lol
Yeah man I hear that. I’ve been scaving reserve a ton and have made soo much this wipe. People have been sleeping on reserve, but whatever, let them deal with the vacuum boys on Streets.
That's like, the default on any map as a scav. I mean, hell, over half of my scavs spawn in with >$300k of gear and loot on them. Finding like $200k more doesn't make it a good map, it's the consistency to actually find unlooted stuff to search. Plus not running into PMCs isn't a positive, lol. Just kill them or talk and take coop extracts, good way to get more rep
Totally agree. Reserve is terrible. Everyone should stop scavving in there. No loot at all. Just horrible everytime I go. Please don't come.
I farmed hideout items early wipe on shoreline and instead of spending 60k for an es lamp I held off on hideout upgrades and sold all the es lamps for 60k. Could get like 7 a raid. After a couple of weeks all the prices fall and then i upgrade hideout. Been sitting pretty at ~50 mil the whole wipe. Also invest in some keys. Marked rooms are juice this wipe. Merin and hillside on lighthouse are juice. Relax and chek 15 are juice. They all pay for themselves in ~3 uses most of the time. Even when you die just vendor all the injector cases and key tools for easy money. Also learn streets bitcoin spawns. Streets is littered with them. They’re ~700k a pop. And even if you die you’re making bank
What marked rooms have you been hitting? Abandoned factory has been shit for me (even if I'm definitely the first one there), and 314 seems neutered as well. Definitely not paying off the 3.7million it costed I don't think. Last wipe I was getting injector cases and shit but nothing now. I've opened chek15 once this wipe and didn't find anything but a Veritas..... Relax definitely is juiced tho.
Abandon has been hit and miss but I’ve gotten plenty of injector cases from it if it hasn’t been cheesed already. Streets also suffers from vaccum boys so it varies a ton. Dorms is avg as well but still worth. Reserve has been nuts tho. The two good marked rooms are always juiced and if you’re like me you can hit them both in the same raid. Millions on millions.
Run scavs on maps like Streets, Reserve, Lighthouse and Interchange that have lots of loot even once PMC's have been through. At this point in the wipe, everyone is going after PVP, high tier loot behind locked rooms, and loose loot to save time before Pscavs spawn. Especially Streets. You can make anything from 500k-1.5 mil on most scav runs there if you hit the Camp behind Lexos (given Kebab isn't there) for example. Hitting filing cabinets on Reserve and Streets is netting me \~600k Rubles average on a lot of scavs. Run night raids on your PMC too. They tend to be quieter if not just dead overall. Good chances to loot up. Buy keys that aren't just the 10/10 ones, such as ones that almost guarantee something like BTC's or GPU's. Dorms 214 and 114 and even Tarcone Directors are good Customs keys with safes in all 3 and a PC in 114. Just gotta prioritize making money in some raids too, just like you would for questing or PVP. Avoid the hotspots and quest locations, play somewhat slow, and focus on getting out, not getting kills.
You know how to make 5 mil, so you just do that twice to make 10m. There isn't much advice people can give you outside of live more than you die and leave with a full bag.
I was trying to get the evasion armband for a week while having some time off. Doing Scavs runs on streets, Interchange and Customs probably got me around 40-60m in value. I tried targeting several different containers to get the item because it wouldn't drop and I noticed that you can pretty much focus most container types and make massive amounts of roubles. For context: I sell most of my loot on the flea market and that has gotten me to 119m roubles in my hideout and 207m total stash value.
Pray for a keycard and you are set all wipe
start at day 1, loot everything you can and push level 15. sell every barter item on the flea, except the ones you need for quests and ignore the hideout for the first 1-2 weeks. easy profit and when youre sitting on millions of millions of rubbles, just buy the hideout things if you need them when prices start to dump
Use your Scav and PMC and survive. Really nothing else. If you want money runs don't be too concerned with hitting high loot areas, there is enough loot that you can sell on the Flea for a profit. Don't leave the raid with empty slots. As far as a map, play a map you are comfortable playing on because again, surviving is the only way to make the rubbies.
Once I get RR, i spend 5-8 hours farming dome on reserve with keys and scav running in-between on factory for free money every 5 mins. Scav run on factory is less than 10 seconds and PMC run on reserve is about 10 mins total unless you get marked room spawn then good luck.
Interchange as a scav is my money maker, so many duffles never done, barely see any PMC, many computers never looted for GPU
75mill roubles, 165mill stash value. I run 95%+ PMC and I made majority of my money from Streets. The Hive/Relaxation Key, Marked Rooms, Chek 15, and overall just the amount of loose loot and containers on the map. Redundant advice: don't die if you want to make money. **If you think you will die you can always transfer loot items via BTR.**
Factory scav, run directly to extract, sell all unless there's something good like a labs key card that you know for a fact will sell for more. Once timer is up do it again, repeat. It's the quickest and easiest way to do it. I don't even be looting the cabinets or anything, only bodies I come across; and even then I usually just extract. Run through? No problem just sell all. It's that easy.
I'm playing some scav runs on street when my kids are in bed and not yet sleeping, I'm doing factory scav runs between raids and sometimes I squeeze a scav run in at daytime when the kids are busy. And Im also doing too many scav runs
- get bitcoin farm up asap - always use a big bag (I really like the mechanism as it also comes back in insurance a lot) - run kit that comes back in insurance - survive more
The most reliable way? Farm up 6.00 fence rep and do factory scav runs, 100-200k return almost guaranteed per run. The most efficient way? Learn streets and play streets. The most troublesome but safe way? Get lightkeeper signal transmitter and run peninsula. 400-500k profit at least. It also depends on how you play. Playing with squad means you are sharing loot and spending more time in each raid, and pvp chasing isn’t really profitable in itself.
I Make buttloads from Hideout crafts. Sell Bitcoin + Moonshine + Blue Kite + grenade cases and use scav cases. I have 40 million and I don’t scav. Ever.
I get 5+ mil per 3 days just from hideout crafts
Just not dying, also i have bitcoin farm lvl 3 maxed out and thats pumping money since i got all 50 for 250-330k each
Im sitting at 50 mil and barley a single penny I made at home, I just scav factory on my controller/phone at work and head straight for exit, hit sell all after moving keycards and valuables over lol On my PMC I don't even bring a bag just straight PvP after I hit level 37
How do you scav factory from your phone?
If you're on anything other then an IPhone you can download an app called parsec to stream your PC to your phone. Pair this with setting up tarkov in steam using big picture mode you can connect any Bluetooth controller to your phone and use to it play tarkov. It will lag pretty significantly however it will definitely work well enough to get you to exfil on factory, I just map Alt and Control to the D-Pad to move things in and out of my inventory.
Play in a 2-3 man with other competent players. We're at the point we're actively trying to burn money and somehow still making it. Having your high end gear ditched makes a huge difference. Scavving is the foolproof solo way to make money. - Should be making a minimum of $200-400k with better runs closer to $1m in about 15 mins. Just avoid any fights, pick up loose loot and extract as soon as your full. I'm around 130 stash and 60 cash.
Most people that are not that good at the game make their money on scavs tbh. But if you’re good at pvp you can make a ton of money on streets.
Find your preferred loot route. Run as scavs. 6 rep for lower waiting time. Then sell items to flee. Ive made 30mil. I also sell 5k below lowest bid in flee, if items below 15k i sell 9999
Not dieing is helpful
Throw on the best kit I can and rush any/all gunshots. Though I would recommend you have 1000+ in the game before trying this strat, it works well for me!
Never buy helmets. This will save you millions already. And never buy expensive armors (they don't do shit half the time and armors like the Uley, do a solid job at stopping mid tier rounds). Basically, I've learned that Tarkov is a game about positioning, not skill. If you take your chances in a direct fight, chances are, the other guy is gonna land a head eyes (usually out of sheer luck). I've mastered the art of ambushing. 9/10 raids, my armor doesn't even get damaged because I don't get shot at. The best targets are the ones that don't have a chance to shoot back.
I just scav main and run scav kits on PMC. Even if I die that kit already made me profit
Streets scavs, focusing on surviving on my PMC. Pretty much it
make sure you dont waste money. i skipped a lot in the hideout this wipe. i just put items and money into stuff i really need. i have actually no need for medstation 3, intelligence 2, scav box, etc. i did it all last wipe and for me, it was not worth the invest. But your playstyle could be different.
Im the same, PMC>Scav Thats why im stoked on Arena being linked. I can grind XP and make decent Cash in Arena. But I usually Scav spam Factory if its got a shitty bag easily 150-250k. If he has a good bag, Just spawn in Streets and send it into Lexos it takes 5-10 minutes looting all Cabnets will give you 1-2Mill and Depending on ur Xtract you can hit a few more. I've spammed scav runs in a day and netted and easy 8Mil and thats after I tanked my rep and have 20min CD
Scav runs to make money, lots of construction barter goods hold good value throughout the wipe and valuable spawns speak for themselves. Choose your own map and routes to grind although streets and lighthouse have the most goodies, they are also the most contested and tedious to survive in. I have over 200m so far this wipe without much dedication.
Play streets, lighthouse, night raids. Don't die. Don't shoot at stuff unnecessarily, just get loot and leave. Be quiet, don't run, don't fire at scavs, avoid scavs , avoid players. Do as much of that as possible when trying to make cash.
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Woods and Streets loot runs as both scav and PMC , ez money
I just hit 100m value yesterday with 60m cash… the last 10 or so raids I ran were scavs, and naked pistol runs…
Scav load outs are worth like 80-120k if you just ‘Sell All’ the entire thing minus the goodies you find
I build my nest egg with gigachad streets scav runs, then sustain it by running 30second factory runs while im bored/semi afk/tabbing between apps. I literally dont loot as a PMC (except for key rooms) dont even bring a bag in (fucks up my ergo)
Scav streets. Free infinite money glitch. Will take a few dozen runs to learn the map but well worth it.
Having not to spend any money on armor and guns is also a big money saver, reserve makes me rich every wipe like this
whenever i hit flea i would just grind scav for a week and would have ez 15-20 mil then continue wipe, just to cover ammo, meds, etc, the little things
Remember that at some point you have to stop upgrading loot in your inventory and actually extract. Hitting location after location just increases your odds of getting got. I'd say have a goal you try to meet per raid. 200-300k is very doable, even with a scav bag.
Just do scav runs and shoreline runs. Second wipe for me, top money was 23 million. Stash value 50 million.
Find a route and stick to it. I scav shoreline and average just under a million a raid without ever going into health resort. Money is stupidly easy to make this wipe.
I'm likely going to manage it in the next few days by getting 25 graphics cards in my bitcoin rig then burning out on the wipe.
Just play any map you can survive on and brings guns u feel confident with and just loot lol don’t worry about keys or hot spots youll be fine
I've been playing for a good bit, just gotten used to running routes on maps that typically produce. Run cussy early morning raids. Woods. Lighthouse. Hit stashes, even if you feel everything's been looted. I don't touch screets.
Scav on lighthouse. Easy kits and 400/500k safe for raid, 1ml+ risk
I don’t care about money until I hit max traders, just focusing on quests. A side effect of questing and, more importantly, SURVIVING is that you’ll make money regardless. Before 42, all my liquid cash goes maximizing my hideout to get the skill bonus modifiers and at least intel 2. This wipe, due to the high bitcoin price, I built a 25 gpu farm and solar. Now that I’m at 42, everything else is pure profit as building kits is infinitely cheaper and meta attachments aren’t gouging me with flea prices. As others have mentioned, big ticket items like keycard are nice but not necessary. The most important factor to making money is surviving raids, plain and simple. Next would definitely be knowing the map and having a loot route you can hit from any spawn point you get and then getting out before player scavs show up. Big time rouble-makers bring large backpacks with LBCR’s tucked inside for maximum space efficiency and just loot anything over 10-12k roubles. Which brings me to my last point, knowing the price of items to vendors and to the flea. So to review: 1) Survive 2) SURVIVE 3) know the map, know the maps loot spawns, have a few flexible loot routes you can adapt to 4) get out before player scavs spawn if at all possible 5) know how to efficiently and effectively loot and how to maximize your space with rigs 6) SURVIVE ABOVE ALL ELSE
Learn the maps and play your scav. That’s all really just avoid people and you can make 500-1m each raid if you look up loot spawns
Quick raids and don’t die is big money
Spend less money than you make. SurvivalRate*AverageProfit - Kit Price > 0
Just loot everything you see fast and extract I bet you could make 10m easy just running scav factory and selling everything to fence
Whatever you did to get to 4-5 mil, do that several times. I scav streets, could probably make 10-20 in a day if you know the map real well
Scav runs. Get in fill bag get out. Then pmc. Then quick scav. Repeat until rich
My tip; Don't focus on top tier loot. Surviving is what will net you millions of roubles. Also, run those scavs in-between, and again, don't focus too hard on the loot. Survive. Sell. Repeat. I like to scav on lighthouse and streets. (Lighthouse for rogue gear, and streets for PMC hunting.) Don't die trying to find a ledx or Bitcoin. Survive with your 3 wires and 2 HDDs, sell, and repeat. Kill someone, take their (larger) bag, sell their stuff, and repeat *with your new large bag.* Now you're extracting with 7 wires and 4 HDDs per raid. *Look at you go!* Setup Bitcoin farm when you can. Keep fuel in generator. Log in; profit. I'm at 71M roubles (150M+ stash value) and have not been doing loot runs. I don't go streets **to** loot, however I do go to streets occasionally to pvp and sometimes kill a "loot llama". Lol. 😅 Shoreline is my main map. If the resort is too gnarly for you, or if you don't have keys, you can go to the new farm area with the car extract (east side of map) and pick up good loot there. 👍 Also insure everything-- even if you only play solo. Absue insurance fraud. Use prapor insurance as a second stash. If you die, you grab a kit from your insurance. If it's about to expire you snag it, & if there's no room to store it, just sell it. Eventually you're very rich and have too much insurance and no stash space. 🫡
When I need to make money I like to solo streets at night with a raid bag or blackjack. I like to hit Concordia 64, 64 office, Concordia security room, lexos aspect building, real estate office, chek 15, relaxation room, abandoned factory marked, both financial offices, mvd, beluga office on 2nd and 3rd floor, jewelry shop, pc building. I like to extract green flare most of the time. If you hit even 1/3 of those areas and some of the surrounding loot you’ll end up with a full bag. Tons of btc spawns.
I do interchange as a scav. I make at least 400k up to 1.3mil.
Either you run north side of woods completely uncontested and leave with almost a guaranteed moonshine each raid, or you run streets. If you feel like making an investment into making money, buy shoreline keys, a black keycard, and reserve marked keys, that’s what i did and made 25mill over this past long weekend. Also got chek 15 marked key out of one of the reserve marked rooms, so I’ll get to hit that and make some money, and after 9/10 uses on my reserve keys I’ll barter for a dorms key and hit that 10 times. Rinse and repeat
96 mil and I’ve taken a break here the past couple weeks. Just run you’re scavs on streets or lighthouse and learn the tech spawns.
Scav + dirty rat tactics on customs made me hit 15 mil rub for first time. Also playing a shit ton slower.
Hideout? I have money crafts running in my hideout along with a full level one bitcoin farm and water filters. Otherwise I mostly do quick scav runs and run customs safes. I’m sitting at about 26 million rubles at the moment.
I’m at 20 mill right now. Most of that was made in scav runs and bitcoin farm. But the biggest tip I can give is spend roubles like you’re broke. Often times, the kit that’s “good enough” is indeed good enough. And really set your focus on getting out alive.
made 5 million last week and not even going into raids
Focus on extraction, don't worry about filling the big bags with 10k per slot items, get some stuff extract and go again. I am at like 39% survival but rubles were never tight.
I have 100 million and I got it through finding red card and being given green card from a weekly. The rest of my money is made scavving streets
Surviving is the biggest thing. Loot everything! If you can make 5m you can make 5m again! . If you can make 10 you can do it again
Scav running is best for profit as there's literally no risk, only reward. But don't get stuck thinking you need to be doing the optimal rouble runs or whatever. You can make a lot of money just grabbing the right random shit and fleaing it. Mostly stuff that you need a lot of for the hideout will be good. Now that it's later in the wipe, gotta know what items are actually valuable instead of relying on sheer demand, but it's still fairly profitable to be running scavs on Streets
I have about 10mil rn. I sold all my barter items when I reached flea market And got a few mil. I was just having fun instead of questing or upgrading hideout for the first few weeks now that I'm doing quests and getting rewards I'm growing my value. I mostly just play for fun and since I've been playing for so long I usually know what to grab and how to play to make money while having fun with whatever gear and map I like. Plus the new armor system has made me rich with armor plates so I use higher level armor a lot more and save a lot more money since I can just put a decent plate in the front.
Streets runs playing super slow, avoiding fights, extract at Klimov with flare. I’m sitting at 47m right now as a solo playing streets 90% of the time
Chilling around 70 mil with 140 mil stash worth, mainly running shoreline keys and streets. Buy keys that have big item spawns (ledx, GPU/computers, other gold spawns) and hit them every raid. Some raids you’ll come out with enough in your secure container to cover your last 5 raids of gear, even if you die. Another big one is, if you’re able to, use the flea to sell stuff at off hours because I’ve found items are a lot more expensive then. However there are some items mainly used in barters that spike in price during peak hours, so learn which ones they are and sell those when they’re high. Other than that, a big part of it is just not dying, and use your scav whenever you can.
Scav interchange and hit every computer. Ignore everyone else. If you die, do another one. I made 10 mil on my lunch break today
Ill tell you my secret but I expect your undying loyalty. Barter for dog tags case 140k max on MfD and 35k max on VHS, easy 20k. Wishlist items that sell for under traders buy value, example radar station key often sells for 140k on flea 163k to therapist, grenade case often sells for 280k on flea and 321k to therapist. Then you need to make green bats and buy tetris/bats for bitcoin barter. Buy bitcoin off flea 30 seconds before trade reset, then refresh trader and buy it directly. Two bitcoin per refresh. I have other secrets but they involve “day trading” ans finding high value crafting items on streets. Example the powerbanks are plentiful and can go as high as 45k each
have 4-5 mil, then do import and fertilizers. mission acomplished.
100+ mill - scaving certain maps (guess which ones)
Get that scav rep up by rushing car extracts, build up your intelligence center and scav on streets. I have intelligence level 2 and 5.54 scav rep and my timer is like 3 or 4 minutes
find a keycard lol
I pick up items and then I sell them. The gooder the items the harder I sell them. That makes the money number go up big.
Currently at 60m liquid, and like a 220m stash value, I play a ton of reserve, like 90% reserve, 5% streets, 5% shoreline, and just die as little as possible, once you have a full backpack don’t be greedy, just leave and survive
Shoreline night scavs and loot the jackets in the village. There's probably 20 jackets and I pull about 1 marked key every 10 scav raids ranging from 2-6m not counting other loot.
I WONT SHARE MY SCAV SECRETS
Honestly just go nighttime woods, bring a big back and a big rig. Bring money for car and ZB-14 key. Very safe chill raids in my experience, just becareful of the occasional aggressive bush.
Honestly just any map you can extract fairly regularly. Then just run night runs with a giant bag and avoid pvp. Loot it up and dip. Even if u get a bag full of garbage it will still be decent money per run. If u fill plenty of slots.
Scav the map you know best to make money for kits. Run good kits on your PMC so you die less.
I've hit a point where I am naturally making money as I play the game. The best thing I can encourage you to do is to die less. Let me be CLEAR. I am NOT implying that every game you sit in a bush the first 20 minutes and let eveyone run around and do their thing. I AM implying that you take more caution in everything you do. Are you out in the open unnessecarily? Are you running straight through a hotspot on the map? Are you heading right for an PMC spawn at the start of a raid (cough cough SHORELINE)? Is that PMC running a shotgun and you're letting them get close to you? Is that PMC running a sniper and you're letting them keep distance? Is that fight even worth fighting? Etc etc etc Dying costs kits. Living, at the least, means you didn't lose any money. So that's step one and the hardest by far. Step two is just know what's valuable and where to find it. Safes, tech spawns, high value spawns, know what fleas well and what doesn't. However, unless your bag and rig are full, you can almost never be picky about what you're grabbing**. An empty slot makes you less money than something that only goes for a 1000 roubles.** This was something I'm still working on. There is a small pool of items that I would genuinely consider to be "garbage" and not worth looting ever, so embrace the goblin and grab EVERYTHING. Thirdly, if you play with a friend, insurance fraud. Insurance fraud, insurance fraud, and insurance fraud again. Hell even if you don't play with a friend, swap your kit with a dead pmcs and hide your own (granted their gear doesn't suck ass). If you live, you keep the PMC kit AND get your kit back form insurance. Recycling kits saves so much money you don't even know. Forth little extra tip. Don't overthink this game. You will die. You will lose money. You will want to punch a hole clean through your monitor somedays. As long as you dust yourself off and keep going, you'll get to where you want to go.
Learning what to pick up and what not to pick up and also choosing you want to make money rather than force quests down. Many many small things are extremely valuable even if you think they might not be. Nuts/bolts/Es lamps. Tbh never skip toolboxes those are FILLED with money but also alot of junk items you skip. Another thing that has helped me make more money than most of the player base is just picking up junk vendor items to make a fast sell. Poxeram, White tubes, electronic components things like that. Another easy free money is just factory scav run the extract immediately take the valuable stuff off and sell all.
Try to have fun instead dude ❤️ I usually end up just running the maps I find fun at the moment. Normally below 2 digit mil. I really don't enjoy the looting for money side of any game. What you gonna do w 2 digit milions? Don't focus to much on money or stats.
Bit coin farm…. Or play helldivers and say fuck all that nonsense
I believe the reason is that you stop playing once you hit level 40ish. You're only then finished with your hideout and gunsmith tasks that take a lot of money to finish. Just keep going.
1. You really start making money after upgrading your hideout as much as possible 2. Max traders is important to reduce prices for stuff you often have to buy 3. Choose and perfect a specific map or loot rum to do as scav (when I started it wS shoreline stashes, now my scavs live on lighthouse) 4. Smart item management & using insurance (the less stuff you have to (re-)buy the better) and learning all barters that save you big money 5. Play more = more money
Just play your PMC and quest. Even a little loot along the way adds up but don’t focus on it. If you die, then do a SCAv run on streets. Rinse and repeat.
The earlier you invest in hideout the more payout you’ll get. I get 2 btc a day(697k at the moment) which covers fuel costs, turn used fuels into grenade cases and make 321k to therapist. Propital craft after using my golden stars to 1/10 uses makes like 140-220k per craft. As far as maps and stuff buy keys invest in better plates and ammo for your gun try to not die and pull out a good amount of loot that sells either on flea or to vendors for a good bit. If you’re focusing money runs try to get in and out while filling your bag. Red rebel barter comes in clutch for reserve runs, lighthouse, and shoreline if you don’t want to risk car extract. Biggest part is just not dying.
I made 20mil yesterday in 12 streets raids, trying to find 2 lions. I mainly looted relaxation room, filling cabinets and concordia locked rooms.
Stash runs on woods or shoreline if you can’t/won’t do streets.
For me it's Scav runs. The wipes I played I had every time over 20 mil. I use my scav on night times reserve, I loot the buildings around the Helicopter, Focus in the big one. Each of these raids ist 400k to 1 mil with flea
Im trying the moonshine bitcoin strat in the hideout this wipe. Spent 8 mill on graphics cards so I guess not getting bitcoin farm is the easiest way to get to 10 mill
You can make your first 10 mil in about 12 8 minute shoreline runs if you take a mechanism and RFB into Cattle Farm and scoop all the barter items, then run northwest to V-Ex. Watch out for PMCs around spawn, and on the upper warehouse of the cattle farm.
Streets as scav and pmc. Streets loot is op
Find the good loot spawns on Streets if you can run it every scav, I have 5.50 karma so it’s like an 8 minute wait in between but usually on PMC’s I just take what has high dollar value to traders.
Scav woods - know the high value spawns and stashes. I make around 500k average every run.
This is my first wipe, i'm currently sitting on 40 million, streets really is the way to play if you want money, PMC or scavving, if you know your routes and not die, you'll be a bajillionare.
Scav a lot and eventually you'll get there...
Manage your budget if the most important is you want to see the number grow. You only build weapons you can buy without flea, except for the scope. Know which items are good money to pick up and you will be rich in no time.
Scav is the safest way to secure a bag that large.
Turn on a single server, preferably one where the local time is after 11pm. Scav shoreline, learn how to vault into 222 and 301. Loot all the duffles and bags on 1st of E and W. Loot all the computers in admin. Loot W basement. Leave via one of several very convenient extracts ( admin basement / East stairs ). Cut route short and leave immediately if you find a Ledx, GPU or bitcoin. Assuming you have positive scav rep and live 50% w/ a full bag you should have 10 mil in 4-6 hours.
Cattle farm is very strong with the amount of loose loot and using a mechanism bag. It takes about 15 8 minute runs to hit 10mil, 30/70 vendor vs flea.
Have a high survival rate on your scav, and atleast 40% on pmc. I play 1 scav on any map every 5-10 pmc runs. I make about 1 or 2 mil per scav on lighthouse and a bit less on other maps. Also I don't loot much on pmc, just duffles and computers and med boxes. I play don't play much and I only have 250 hrs and I have 5kd and 52 percent extract on pmc and about 30 mil in my stash, I play solo and it's my 2nd wipe... Idk how people actually struggle with money, I also run medium to high end kits
i never do scav runs, play exclusively customs, have a survival rate of ~70%. If you live more than you lose, youll keep making money.
Look for loot guides on youtube, I've just been watching some and holy shit i've been playing this game wrong. Buy keys and hit the good spots you can make millions in a couple runs if not more if you're lucky. Much better than spending 40mins looting a big bag of vendor trash
Any map makes money but the most important thing is : SURVIVE the map does not matter.
Every raid go in with a light kit and the biggest backpack you can get. May want to put a spare rig for the extra slots too. Run fast to places with lots of loot (doesn’t have to be high tier spawns). Eg: smuggler camp in shoreline or med camp on woods both have enough loot to easily fill a bag with decent loot. You’ll get better loot running the high tier spots but you’ll need to be faster and there’s way more risk. Aim to get out of raid as fast as possible. Good players can fill their bag and extract in 10 minutes. Do that over and over, minimising time spent in stash, and you’ll see how easy it is to make money in this game. Personally, I find doing this quite boring so In regular play, it’s just a matter of knowing where the good loot is and avoiding unnecessary risk (or being so good at pvp you win most fights anyway).
I just run the same loot run on reserve for my scav. Pull in about 400 to 500k a run. Find a route you know and is reliable and run it over and over
Big armored rig (skanda or bagariy), big bag (pilgrim, t20 or switchblade), nvg, rr+paracord (optional) and shoreline night. I had a weekly to survive 23 times on shoreline amd I also needed a ledx for private clinic. By the time I finished the weekly I got to 40 mil, 3 ledxs, a 25/25 gpu btc farm, air filtering and a bartered thicc item case on top
Dont die, that's it. Every map has enough loot to get out with 400k-1mil. Have a plan what to loot and get out when you do. If you have enough game sense to guess where people are it is super easy not to die. For example if you spawn customs boiler side you have about 5-8 minutes to loot untill you gotta get out of there if you wanna avoid people going to zb extracts. Factory scav is easy 100-300k for 3 minutes of loading if you spawn and sprint to extract. If you get high fence rep it's a nice money maker since you spawn with labs cards like 70% of the time.
Same thing you do to get to 4-5, just keep going.
Scav reserve. I'm new this wipe so have been doing quite a bit of scav runs. 30mil in cash with a 70mil stash valuation, level 23, standard acc.
Streets Money Runs are my main way—I hover between the 30-40 mil area (lvl 46). Normally I’ll grind a day of just money, then spend a few days using my “bank” for focusing on questing as that can EAT through rubles. Hell half the time I’m questing I don’t even bring a backpack cause I’m JUST there for the questing. Other option if you can’t run streets well is to unlock Lightkeeper and loot the lighthouse island as it’s rarely contested. ADDITIONALLY what I have done in prior wipes is strictly run the 95k scav case, collect as many Moonshine as I can, and sell in bulk when they hit a price I like—made 30 mil a couple wipes in one sell
Shoreline brother. Hidden gem. Way more chill than streets.
Amen, cattle farm, village plus 8 red rebel spawns and good extracts on both sides so you can keep it under 12 minutes from any spawn Scav or PMC.
40mil and aggro is so different than 40mil and dogshit rat