u/Inside-Performer323

Rep reset?

I beat the game with the max rep ending - had all at 1000 except bandits. Then I went to Army to buy something and immediately after first purchase it fell to 599 rep!? huh?

Is this a bug?

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u/Inside-Performer323 — 6 days ago

TL;DR - lost against a 15 hour timmy in a fair fight while somehow dealing 634 armour damage ?!

Him

How I did

What I was wearing (level mostly from Arena)

Yoooooo! That was horrible. I didn't know he was wearing 100 points worth of armor, let alone 634!!! wtf!

I didn't fight anyone else, just the one guy..

Bro.

Multiple years into trying to _git gud_ by the way!
>1k hours (mostly coward life, stash flea, - but trying to get better)

And it wasn't like he ambushed me, we had a proper shootout - I shot at him, he shot at me, I repeaked and unloaded, then fled around a corner to reload, jumped in a bush - he heard me and chased - and unloaded on where he thought I was but missed a ton - I came back out of the bush so I could see him, shoot him more, he shoot me more... I die.

Even in terms of loadout we were quite evenly matched (I found helmet and ears in raid).

Send it again or hire a personal trainer? :D

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u/Inside-Performer323 — 9 days ago

I get my ass kicked, even on the beginner ground zero - so I want more time to practice there, but playing Arena to do Ref quests on PvE boosted my level, it's 20 now, despite barely any progress on PvP account (19 survives, 16 not - 0.47 kd)

I only have 23k xp remaining for access to beginner ground zero, trying to make the most of it... - but it's making me play differently (i.e. not hand in completed quests and making me feel a bit stuck).

By buying things that sell well on the flea (like Mosins and VPO-136) I've been recycling the same 600k ish into a lot of spend with traders (level 2 except Peacekeeper and Skier) - so I have some options for buying gear (if I had money - which I guess I could get with scav runs without bumping my char level accidentially)

What would you do for optimizing _real life xp_ against folks that I stand a chance against (gear and skill wise)? Just get unstuck and play normally or try to milk level 20?

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u/Inside-Performer323 — 11 days ago