Why are scavs shooting me. I spawned with SVDS so I started to shoot at them.

Why are scavs shooting me 3 times now i have had ai scavs be hostile to me as a scav. The green flare shot was a standard shot up at the center of the 2 round glass buildings as always from inside the signal area by the sign for extract. He suddenly snapped to my position, didn’t shoot, just looked at a bush. Turns out friend had killed the SCAV who fired first and he lost 0. My scav rep is like 1. I spawned with SVDS so I started to shoot at them. I shot the flare and waited for stamina about 5 seconds then ran out to the road as always. I killed him, left the building after looting both PMC and the Scav. 99/100 times player scavs are friendly and even work together, because its much more profitable/safer. I am just tryin to loot. TBH idfk on that, scav karma and boss aggro is such a hot mess of inconsistency, had reshala shoot me on sight, had him be chill for a min then get mad, mixed bag of mess It should be like I said but random things like that do me a derp as I have no follow up explanation If others know better or can correct me then please do peeps Yeah you started playing while there was a huge ongoing bug. ~~Npc scavs don't carry random loot, but ~~NPC scavs never have good loot for me, but player scavs always spawn with something. This time I literally didn't even shoot. Not even 30 seconds later another AI Scav came running through the warehouse, but ran right past me without even so much as blinking an eye. The bosses won't ALWAYS attack you the second they see you. Can i shoot back then or is this just bugged and i would loose scav karma? Archived post. They esp+aimlock at you. 03 not that bad, few survives. 1, you'd have to successfully extract from 10 raids as a scav. As I moved onward confident that I was in the right and would not be targeted for killing my aggressor, all of the AI scavs proceeded to ventilate me. . 0 rep or just want to take a chance. Im pretty sure it was not a player since i only saw the name of the scav on my death screen. after walked past them and doing nothing to them they turned around, pulled out their sledge hammer and killed me. The bug was that usec pmcs would not get aggroed by scavs until you've shot at them. I had one raid where I was heading over to the shoreline expansion, walked up on the hill above the shooting range, scoped in and saw a scav way down by where the drop is to the second TL;DR: Me player scav got shot by (probably) other player scav, no NPC reacted to it, my mate (also player scav) revenged me and instantly got shot by the NPC scavs. Honestly once in Interchange in the dark i shot twice at a scav who I thought was a PMC, (he had looted headgear and vest from a geared corpse). Scavs and pmcs should still be shooting at each other if they all shoot us on sight, as the spawns aren't changed at all. I’ve had some on interchange where I’ve talked to a guy the entire time. Also if you attack a scav that didn’t attack, other scavs in that immediate area will agro you. scav misses you but you shoot back and hit first. alright that why i stay away from bosses. Used to camp in close proximity of some bosses and farm pmcs who failed at killing. But yea sniper scav is insane, they killed me the most this wipe out of everything that could possibly kill me. Like i had cover on me and no line of sight from myself did i see this dude. After that I have scav ai shooting at me on sight and my scav rep went from . 0 finally releases scavs and rogues/ raiders won’t have super human eyes Why do I lose scav karma if playerscav starts shooting me 1st, and I kill him. Go down by the 3 by the heli. Killed the p scav then the A. If you shot someone in the face and it didn’t kill them you would be screaming bloody murder (or why didn’t I bloody murder them?!) Usually scavs react to noise or vision (don’t get me wrong those 180 no scope head / eyes hurt but it’s usually the players fault. Happened to me earlier. All of the player scav that have killed me have 3k plus hours in game. Same applies for bosses, I have over 6 karma so bosses don’t usually bother me. Or maybe the guy they were next to was actually the scav that was talking. 72, never shot Santa, even hanging out with Raiders near Armoured train no problem. Because the there really isn’t any downside to killing a player scav. It was on customs by the new gas station where i walked close to a scav that all of a sudden started shooting me. On maps like woods and shoreline they usually shoot me from a distance. Load into streets as scav and the 2nd ai scav I saw started shooting at me and I killed him. Once Tagilla is hurt, he will never de agro and will attack all players, including scavs, my guess is that him being present affects the scavs and target enemies like him In all my scav runs yesterday and today, the first scav i saw killed me. Why even try to get positive karma when you HAVE to be a pacifist and just die non stop for hundreds of scav runs to The scav had, (scav name)(Deimo5). That was a bit surprising to me, as I don't have negative scav rep. That sums it up, just extracted (not thanks to the AI) from factory, i found a PMC on the stairs of the offices, 3rd floor closer to Gate 1, killed him, and then after looting at one point out of the blue scavs started shouting at me (which at first i tought it had to be another close by pmc or scav), then tagila showed up "chasing me" from all the way from the tunnels that lead to the Scavs are pretty cracked and have been for a long time. This is a very common issue, that should be fixed (removed because it's intentional) because it's not fair. At this point, I'm tempted to just kill every player scav I see on customs. Did 5 raids today on scavs on lighthouse and everytime they arggoed on me and i never even shot at them and they let me walk in, then came up five minutes later and killed me. If they succeed they see you they don't well they don't. It will happen every once in a while. He came once I told him I was bleeding out and he stood right in front of the scavs that shot me without a problem. Scav players don’t have dog tags. Killing an ai scav is just what . Boss scavs will shoot at any and every player scav unless their rep is above 6. A scav with a SKS insta-double-tapped me in the chest WHILE I WAS IN FULL SPRINT from well over 170 METERS away. Not sure if that's how it's i only run raids with friends, and for some reason scavs always focus my friends. I have a friend who is an ass and just shoots everyone, but I never shoot at anyone unless they shoot at me first. 3 However if that player scav you hit has already shot another innocent scav (whether AI or player), then hes already seen as an enemy to AI scavs. They targeted me. tagilla treats all the scavs as a type of guard in the way that if you aggro him even just by getting too close as a scav he can mark/curse you and every scav on the map will rush you, I'm pretty sure the only way to avoid that is reaching 6 on fence rep Have each scav type have a visual skill then have the math run the value against the scavs visual skill. do NOT stop to shoot a scav unless you are highly confident you will kill them in a single shot, two at most. And if you have high enough rep. Edit to say that bosses and guards will shoot player scavs below 6 fence rep if you get too close to where they're at. 29 fence rep and found a pmc holed up in office so I was waiting outside to kill him, and Tagilla just randomly starts shooting me all the way from gate 0, I hadn't shot a single bullet that raid, yet he was still hostile to me from that distance. Most of the time I just try and run by and ignore them. When I kill them after they shoot me Some say the AI scav gets aggro when they kill a PMC or raider. Other times they blast me. But others are confused and wondering why this is happening even though they did not trigger them in any way. Anyone else experiencing this? I was at Customs, a group of 3 Scavs were walking around When I am in factory I sometimes get randomly shot by a scav that I’m pretty sure are just AI. Scav Karma provides the following benefits which increase in strength as your karma score climbs with maximum benefits at 6. Scav karma atm only means u earn karma and CAN earn that scav bosses are friendly. They seem to be on a shoot first ask questions later basis. 08 after I had to kill 3 other scavs that were shooting me. I'm getting around 140fps but I shoot and my game freezes up for like 2 seconds, got into a gun fight and died because my game locked up lmao Went through all my settings nothing changed anything it's just when I shoot, everything else is perfect. 35 and i feel like i am avarage, so why do scavs hit me instantly with the first shot, and miss no shots I’ve ran into gluhar a handful of times on my scav and he never shoots me but one of his guards will randomly start gunning me down. After that they all aggrod. Either they're completely oblivious to my existence or they start shooting the logs inbetween us, that cover 95% of their sight. All the other scavs after that were friendly but he legit started firing for nothing. We already know who is an NPC. I was shot this weekend by Reshala however but I noticed another dead scav in the construction area, so I assume another player scav shot him and that’s why he aggro’d me. I. -Sometimes Gluhar and his buddies are cool with me. I seriously run behind cover anytime I see any AI during scav runs just in case now. Just this weekend I got shot in the back by sniper scav while sneaking into dorms and had to make a rush entry that got me killed. Had way to many p scavs kill me in the first week of wipe, when you could get in a scav, to have some asshole try and troll me. You can also co-op extract with a friendly scav, but that's not recommended as there's currently a quest for Anyone else have an issue with scavs shooting you on streets scav runs? For the past few days it's happened like 80% of the time to me. In groups, Scavs will pose more of a threat, but are still bogged down by their Killing a Scav while you’re also a Scav will hurt your reputation with a Trader, and it will have consequences (more on this in the last section of this article). Why is it that player Scavs keep killing me or trying to kill me as a fellow scav! I dont loot steal i try to avoid other player scav so i dont get killed. Out there it's you or me, simple as that. 9 of fence rep. He gets negative karma unless you had killed a good scav previously. No i didnt shoot any scavs. Ai scavs will shoot player scavs if and only if you've killed another scav. 72 Scav Karma but bosses usually shoot me on sight, even follow me. Literally every single scav will shoot on sight when I talk over VOIP and uses the scav phrases to prove that I'm a scav. Share Sort by: My guess is that a pmc walked into the area in front and to the left of him and the scavs to his right Due to factory being so small the scavs just all run to the first noise they hear, that's why if someone is rushing office and shooting there right at the start by the end of the raid the staircase will have like 100 corpses Reply reply The people sure love to complain about scav karma, don't pay any attention to those brain dead players. And yes, I know players can mimic scavs, but my issue isn't a single scav attacking me when I do a scav run my issue is that groups of AI scavs will target me and attack me like I'm a PMC when I haven't attacked or killed another scav (or even The other day I was in factory, Tagilla was there and he didn't aggro me for about 10 seconds, I ran away and after about 2 minutes I stumbled into him again. After i kept looting, Killa showed up again and onetapped me in the head. One died before another one started to return fire. I have had so many bears kill me because they are speaking Russian like scavs. I actually followed the "instructions" to not kill scavs as scav, but after being killed by 1 and having another one shoot next to me (now i know he was baiting me but as a noob you think this is part of the game, maybe some bots are bad or something), i started killing them pretty much on sight until i was at -1. This isn’t quite accurate. Last round on interchange I just talked to him and used voice lines and he even responded. So you can shoot him without making regular scavs angry. That's not how the game is supposed to work. Things to watch out for: -if you’re in raid and you even touch a dead rouge body, you’re aggro’d. I assume, lore-wise, its something like (sub 6 rep) “You’re just a random scav, nothing special about you. There’s no reason for the AI to go agro when you shoot the goons. Then once their scav karma is so low that they have like a 2 hour respawn on it they stop playing. I kill him and receive an -. Saw two guys running alongside of the another pawn building, don’t remember was it black or white. Also I could imagine that killa is a boss that won't be effected by any Scav auto aim can be pretty insane this wipe. I have over 4. I scav. Scav is where most of the warfare happens for me. I always get confused by raiders and guards because I’ve had guards near bunker hermetic doors extract and raiders in the same spot some games before so I hesitate to shoot or just will evade them. I was around the corner and based on what my friend said on Discord I thought he had died. I think there is a mechanic where one player scav There is almost no reason not to shoot other scavs. I'll randomly walk out into an area, a scav will see me from 40-50 meters away and instantly one tap me. ” (Plus 6 rep) “you’re a scav veteran who’s name precedes you, reshala and his guards sweat a little bit less when you walk into dorms” There's a chance for a group of 4-5 wandering AI scavs that will shoot player scavs who get too close. There is nothing preventing you from doing so, there is just negative consequences in the moment and later on. I've bumped into all bosses who shoot me on sight and other raids just ignore me. It takes them a few seconds to fully spawn in. i have actually found a use for that, my friend had to okay cool, works for me - I saw the patch note of "rogues will respond to player scavs at a greater distance" but didn't see anything that said rogues will shoot player scavs on sight - given that I literally was able to bump into them as a player scav with nothing happening. Lost karma too, that was some BS fr. Tons of games make use of a basic spotting system for AI not Heard ai scavs shouting and shooting someone. For me it’s like 1 out of every 10 voip encounters ends with a scav shooting me. I thought I would not be kos with positive 3. I think there are multiple reasons why it happens but, correct me if I'm wrong guys, it mostly depends on if you've attacked other scavs/playerscavs in the last few runs you've done as a scav. Scav rep only applies to your scav runs. The higher it is (by using car extracts, not killing scavs as a scav, and a successful exfil as a scav) It helps to have cheaper car extracts, better gear as a scav, and at max karma (6. They'll run up to you, stick the finger up then begin shooting. Reply reply Either a boss was nearby, or it was actually a bear. I think that it should. (7. Met a scav who had just become a dad and could only play like an hour a day. Then the other scav that was right next to me while looting Also, these are 100%, not boss scavs. Go woods and they just aim at you all the time, as soon as you aim at them they instantly start Hey you've maybe figured it out by now but other than the shooting rogues and avoiding them for 5 or so raids if you go into any of the minigun and sniper towers they seem to consider you hostile and when you cross the south bridge towards the water treatment plant the minigun rogue on the smallest of the 3 towers (right side as you're looking I had just spawned into factory as a player scav and i was just walking around exploring the new update the the map when I saw another scav. If you feel like someone is suspicious shoot them in the head and ask questions later, I'm a good scav with 4. Share At 0:04 the scav began to lock onto the OP, 0:11 is the kill shot. I ran away and later found 2 dead scavs at the same position that got killed by Killa. The real question is, why do AI scavs kill you if you shoot the goons as player scav I killed one of the goons one time, and a fucking AI scav on the grenade launcher destroyed me. 09 and 0. For no reason the raider next to me goes "i SeE tHe EnEmY!!!". One f'n player scav shoots the boss and they go into a go f everyone mode. Not killing a player scav is likely to get you killed. Why would i not shoot you? A bad scav is a player scav who's killed other scavs. The reason why I would give it a random chance is like you said difficult to implement with a 100% accuracy. Last wipe scavs would shoot you through walls if Tagila was present. 9) I still get killed by Killa, Tagilla and the Zavodskys? Related Escape from Tarkov MMO Action game First-person shooter Gaming Shooter game forward back. I am a good scav boi, I accidentally passed tagilla too close and He intantly aggrod me, now, I didnt shoot at him, I just started to run away, but all the other scavs on the map also started shooting at me and even started running at me as, if I was tagged and cursed. In my person opinion scavs should have their stats derived from the average player base. A guy came up and started shooting at us (assumed it was a PMC at first, but know now he was a scav), didn't hit me, the scav next to me shot back (pretty sure AI). Scavs and bears are russian why can scavs run into the compound without worry but since im a bear i can breath wrong and get shot from 300 meters by a KORD Archived post. Get tons of lab keycards. 1 rep isn’t shit to get back. When I take my PMC out, I'm killing things, not looting. 2 to -. I guess BSG doesnt want scav players killing bosses for the FIR items for tasks. This has been tested, yet a Scav can one shot you easily. The only player scavs I’ve killed were guys acting sus af. 1 fence rep Had the same yesterday, ran into the back side of idea where I heard gunfire. upvotes I don't get this. I did not shoot once, nor aim at them or give them the finger. So you could have killed that player scav and just not shot any of the others and you would have been fine. No time for nonsense. Player scavs will shoot near you to get you to think they're gonna kill you, then when you shoot them to defend yourself you are now a traitor scav and they can kill you for karma. Instead, you need to use the car extracts. Yesterday I saw a player scav shot an A. im gonna start farming clips of them, but they have been repeatedly fucking me today with two taps to thorax, 75 meter headshots with a second to react and other bs events like that. 0+ rep scavs. they didnt react ot me at all so i assumed it was an AI. At least 3 of those were ai from their movements. Cleared cache, changed everything, checked for updates it's just something on BSG's end. Broken scav sks had a MOA accuracy of like 15 or so. If you kill a scav player who hasn't shot any scavs you'll lose rep, if you kill AI scavs you'll lose rep, unless they're a raider (not boss or bodyguard). Streets is the map that made me understand the complaints about the amount of scavs, I don't feel it on any other map but I went through 3 stacks of butt ammo last week trying to clear the area around the school to hit Chek 13 and do Pet's Won't Need It 1, now I just avoid the scav hotspots completely if I can help it I have a guess at what it might be that's all, scavs used to never need to reload or run out of ammo, which was weird and eventually changed so that they do have use ammo, but every once in a while they can bug and spawn without ammo like in a sks or sagia 9, and in those cases you see them check chamber a lot more often but can't actually shoot I swear, I've tried to talk to player scavs twice on customs today, and they've not replied on VOIP and started shooting straight away - and of course they head,eyes me somehow. Brand new character, did a scav run for the very first time, and im getting attacked by scavs. I know Scav karma is a thing, but I have never shot a scav since the new updated a couple days ago. I've also had scavs in woods lose me in the trees/grass and they'll walk right up to me, clueless im even there. I did kill a NPC Scav 5 second prior to running towards the BTR> As the title says. Go back to building 2 or 3 whatever it is. Scavs investigate gunfire. Other times they act as if I just murdered their brother and you guessed it BLAST ME. As i have not played one scav run today without getting shot in the face by another player scav, i do the wiggle, they shoot me, i do the wiggle and they do the wiggle, they still shoot me. One time was even after i killed like a lvl 46 with some nice loot and was about to leave at the entrance. If he did then you gain some. You need to get that karma first. I didn’t shoot a single round that entire run. That something could be a can of paid, or a intelligence folder - but we can't check until you're a cold body and your pockets are lootable. That scav was locking onto them the whole time. good to know raiders don’t affect me at least Having a backpack full of croutons and bolts is not considered loot and that's also not the point. 3 seconds later a 2nd scav shoots once and one taps my left jaw as I'm running full sprint I can easily make $300k-$500k on a decent scav run so it's not worth it to me to run my PMC like a scav. Locked post. I tend to find them on Streets around the Klimov Mall. So, scav karma is a thing now. 09 fence rep Another case about 2 days ago another player scav try to kill me and shot me in the chest and when i finish the raid i won 0. He aggroed me and as I ran away, a normal ai scav shot and killed me. should their be harsher punishment It's tempting to go in and leave, but pmc's farm scavs, and worse player scavs will farm other player scavs for free guns and armour. And obviously if another p scav shoots you. Some scavs must have pissed them off while i was in the base. For example, I got Peacekeeping Mission done on customs in one raid when I went into the building with the mannequin with a toilet on his head and shot at some scavs out the windows and scavs kept coming up the back stairs all raid. 02 Fence standings from killing them. Player scavs shoot. As long as you don’t shoot a scav they won’t shoot you. It was a Scav Boss. 03 fence rep. yeah scav karma isnt intuitive at all and isnt explained anywhere in the game. I have 2. I rarely trust player scavs anymore. I have positive fence rep and haven't even fired a also shooting near AI scav, shooting near friendly scav, even stuff like AI scav being outside of the building and you shooting somewhere without even knowing he is there, it would get triggered because you shoot in his "intent" range. Find a spot in a scav spawn zone, fire off a round or two (even suppressed works) and they will come. What puzzles me, is the frequency that other PC scavs kill me. But once again, they will not stop firing until you crouch or prone (preferably prone since they won’t be able to land hits that way). I dont harm, or shoot any scav, they just instantly shoot/kill me if im close, they arent Boss scavs/boss guards. The point is that just the one kill is -. 0. I think all it takes is one player scav to shoot them and it's GG for all even 6. scav hits you first, you shoot back and hit him, he kills you. A lot of people think the scav AI is stupid but there’s actually more to them than we scav hits you first, you shoot back and kill him. With a solid backpack. Share Sort by: Best. Which Has anyone else run into random SCAVs shooting you unprovoked. All things considered, I don’t think this system is all that bad. I tried to see where On reserve. At the end of the raid, i killed 3 scavs whom all shooted at me in the first place and I received -0. why are player scavs like this? yes i have voip on, no one ever talks. Was sniping scav Island on shoreline from the hill along the road. Does anyone have definite information on why even though I have good scav karma (1. Anyone else have this issue? Is this possibly to be realistic since player scavs on the live game are still killing scavs? Help please! lmao you have to have SCAV karma above 2 to not be killed on sight by scav bosses. Friend has a . If you were SHOT AT and never hit by other scavs, they're players and they're trying to trick you to shoot them so they can kill you for karma. At least this is how I had it explained to me in a less toxic thread lmao. A scav shot me in my back, I turned and killed him in response. Anyone know why this is? My Fence rep is +0. I don't think they broke sightline completely and for long enough with the tree, which is why the first shot doinked the OP. I move through the bushes myself like im walking through cement, desperatley trying to see him to shoot him before he can kill me. 1 and assuming you kill no other scavs thereafter and you don't get rinsed by the time you get to your extract. I missed both times. Proximity chat is what it is needs. I highly suggest not tanking your scav Scavs with 10 round veprs and vpos moving and shooting you with perfect accuracy from 100m+ makes no sense. Why would you kill a scav in interchange and get the entire mall to aggro you One last question - if I kill a PC scav shooting me/other scavs, will the other Scavs still aggro me despite my self-less act? Archived post. 5. r/EscapefromTarkov. Reasons why Scavs don’t shoot my PMC Didn’t think he saw me, lowkey thought he was a player till he just kept his eyes on one place. NPC scavs shoot. 0, which you're basically Can someone explain to me why the ai scav randomly started shooting at me and killed me . Did a pmc mission repairing power boxes on factory and killed a couple scavs and a pmc. For guns, go USEC in woods, or rogues on lighthouse. No idea why he shot at me. 50 fence reputation and they are still shooting me. i decided to walk past them in the tunnel they were in. Everyone is your enemy on a pmc run. 04 for killing him. Sometimes i can have 3 shooting at me and barely hit my arm and sometimes they insta tap my head. i heard someone running in and it had a scav voice line. When i get killed i just see the typical random Load into a scav raid, get chased and shot by a duo of play scavs, manage to just barely off them both with a toz and 2 mags, now I'm hobbling towards extract with a bleeding, broken arm and I come across an obvious player scav. 5: Scavs seem to just get an accuracy penalty if you are moving. A keyboard smashing moment for sure. I honestly thought it was a cheater, and in a way, it was even more dangerous. 5 fence rep) , though sometimes the goons will give you some leeway and tell you to go away (in russian obviously) and after a bit start shooting you if you ignore the warning. I honestly don't know. Then when I walked away he shot me in the back of the Im new to the game and a bit confused as to why a scav killed me as a scav. Hes shooting at me, I cant see him,but he sees me with laser like vision. Ive had a scav kill me exactly ONE time while I was walking or running, all my other scav deaths have been from me being a dummy and just standing in the open to exchange I entered as SCAV with my buddy, found a 3rd SCAV who ended up shooting my friend. When playing as a scav im immediately targeted by other scav AI and they shoot on site. they shoot me like raiders and bosses do. What is the purpose of Scav karma of the AI scavs shoot you for killing the "bad" scavs? Why did this AI scav kill me? Question Archived post. Then they will cut you down. I kept still for a minute, eventually building the balls to crouch and move slowly behind a bush. 10 karma Like the fuck is this BSG, fix your fucking game or playtest it before installing a new patch Reply reply When do boss scavs attack you as a player scav? I dropped into a scav run on factory at 4. Tarkov is about survival of the fittest, not holding hands and pretending we're all friends. An AI Scav came in, so I came out of cover then he immediately started shooting at me. In Escape from Tarkov, there’s You would have to do 84 successful runs right now just to get your karma back to zero. Thing is they need to make It punitive enough to actually dissuade people from just mindlessly Killing other scavs but not too bad that a single mistake can completely fuck you, I I’ve done it successfully once out of 4 times. This separate hitbox would bring more unintended scenarios than it would solve Scav in factory, I see some raiders locking down office stairs, I see a couple of them dead so I looted a weapon and a vest and hold the corridor next to one of them. I go to the results screen and its an NPC Scav. You can scav 25 times a day on lighthouse if you want, that doesn’t make them aggro you. They are mentally unstable, I'm gonna shoot all of them on sight now. I later found out that Shturman was dead but at least 1 of his body guards was alive. They did a global buff on all AI instead of just specific enemy types. Could be a bug. Found it kinda funny the way he did the whole communication before slaughtering me. i played on woods all 90% of my raids, shturman will usually say something when you get too close as a scav, if you dont back off he will shoot you, and of course he doesnt wiggle, he crouches in a single spot and turning around all the time until someone shot him, if it hits he will run away 100% of the time, if he keeps getting shot he will stop and shoots back, currently Rogues did not aggro on me for like 5 scav raids. See a scav player over another dead scav, and he turns and hits me in the chest twice before I open fire and drop him. Second time now that A. Scavs are the enemy, they shoot on sight. Think it’s a mixture of RNG and the percent chance to hit increasing per shot fired. Any situation I’ve tested in which a Scav can shoot me through a bush is one that a PMC would’ve been able to as well. More loot for me. Lower than mine. I have lost so much rep due to self-defense I don't know what to do. On 2 of these, i never even shot. The other scavs will shoot on sight oooooo wow. It all depends on your playstyle. I think for many people, shooting scavs as a scav is the only way they can kill anything and so that's what they do. I have positive Fence rep and didnt fire a Idc the few times a scav baits me I'm killing them idgaf. As someone who has played since 2016, the karma system is waaaaaaaaaay better than the wild wild west scav runs used to be. Boss scavs will aggro towards you if you stick to close to them for a prolonged period of time below a certain karma level, if that happens all of the guard scavs turn as well. Best way to find pics as a scav is listen to a battle and try to sneak and observe them killing scavs, then they are free targets regardless of what they are. -kill a rouge as a scav and they’ll aggro for the next couple of raids. I realized my mistake and stopped firing and was wiggling at him, he continued to shoot at me, so after he hit me i shot back and managed to killed him. Wtf you might either shoot me or have good shit. 13 fence rep? The sniper scav just randomly decided to shoot me this time for seemingly no reason. Unless he previously killed another scav no karma change. Even sniper scavs are shooting at me. im gonna be honest with you, i definitely think scavs have boosted accuracy now. The unofficial subreddit for the video game Escape From Tarkov developed by BattleState Games Yesterday 10/04/2022 i kill 1 player scav that shoot at me and almost blacked my leg and when i finnish the raid i lost 0. But recently he's shot me on sight (and I'm at 2+). Just don't kill player scavs. If a PMC shoots another PMC in the head, point blank with a shotgun and they are wearing a Tier 1 helmet or better, they do not die. I am aware it was a player scav, I am a victim of player scav on player scav violence. However this would give the scavs a lower visual accuracy. I heard the A. --> Got into Custom as Scav --> Check the lucky tree (PMC Spawn behind Old Gas) and got Red Keycard --> Run through Stronghold and met a Raider (maybe Scav but he is an AI) and he shot me --> Run away but some AI still got me Just how? My Fence's Rep is 0. which makes sense They will give you a warning shot or yell as a warning. Some initially thought it was a random The Tarkov Scav Karma (Scav Rep) system encourages co-operation when playing as Scav with reduced cooldown, stronger gear and exclusive Fence items. 01 karma for a successful run and -. Maybe when 1. They look like regular scavs, ie gas mask, no armour, and a revolver shotgun. 90% of the time at least. I have high SCAV Karma, have not done any negative acts and had just spawned into this raid be My tips for surviving scav raids is first to never spend more than a few seconds around other player scavs that know you're a player scav. you can only get pos karma if the other guy lands a hit, even if its just one. The guy kept shooting at us, didn't hit me, then I took one shot and killed him (otherwise I might have been dead soon). Full disclosure though, I shoot every AI scav on sight on my scav runs. Then at one point, I go in front of treatment in between the two gunners. PMC comes from Sawmill and kills 2 of them and I kill him, loot his dogtag and run by the other AI scav. I'd rather have a scav run up every 20 mins vs killing scavs that generally have nothing of value on them. ) A lot of bodies. Why does AI Scav kill me, when I play as a SCAV, Related Escape from Tarkov MMO Action game First-person shooter Gaming Shooter game forward back. The second my crosshairs crossed over the scav it turned and started shooting at me. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. You encounter a lot of them so it might seem like it happens a lot. It may take some time. Just did it 20 minutes ago and it did not work for me, waited for “signal area” to pop up, shot it at an angle, waited about 5-10s, then proceeded, died to sniper scav while having 2 quest items on me. 3 as this is my first wipe. Just spawned in as a scav, a random player scav shoots at me, hits me twice, i drop him as he kills me Yet i still lost 0. Share Sort by: One time i loaded into an offline raid without knowing FLIR should only work through light fog but, scavs without any sort of thermal imaging should also not be able to see through fog (or trees/ bushes). i didnt But if you have the radio and kill scavs it will hurt your rep, just as killing a scav as a scav. Feels kinda unfair when you're trying to kill scavs when the scavs, some usecs, rashala, some scavs, a couple bears, more scavs, a rouge, Nikita, some scavs, and god themselves pushes around every corner at once. Tagilla's AI is fucked. This is an issue because, currently, teams can set up other scavs and if one member of the team shoots the scav, the status does not apply to both members of the team. Had 3 found in raid quest items from the resort on me with 2 killed players gear (first time ever surviving and killing players at the resort) and as I'm running past those scavs one starts shooting an AK and misses like 5 shots from 75 or so yards away. Gunner up top does not shoot but the 4 rogues on the ground lay me out. When you are playing as a scav, do not shoot other scavs because you will lose Fence reputation by a lot. This is another obscure and complicated Tarkov In combat, lone Scavs are practically a non-threat, generally requiring one precise shot to the head or a few shots to their typically unarmored bodies to dispatch. Killa in its nature is not friendly to Scavs. I all of sudden get lit up, and by no where mind you. . If they recognize me as a good guy, they shouldn't shoot on sight, but I shouldn't be let too close, eventually they should never shoot me first, then they should be able to be commanded as you eventually reach 6. I get hit so I shot back at the P scav. There's nothing wrong either way. For money, go any map except factory. scavs are shooting at me when I didn't shoot anyone yet. -Sometimes I’ll kill a scav who damaged me or just opened fire on a scav and other AI Scavs are cool with me. Definitely not a reliable extract. It SEEMED like it was AI. This is becoming frustrating upvotes Pretending to be an AI Scav, as a player Scav is one of the things I enjoy the most in Tarkov. it happens almost every time i take my eyes off them and start looting. 0 fence rep) when you play as a scav you can just walk up to the bosses and they won't shoot you, it'll also determine the chance of a scav accepting coming along with you. This is my anecdotal evidence. My buddy killed him a few seconds later and checked the gun on the scav. all i Adding . 15 for killing a hostile pscav seems like it’s got the snowball part on lock. My understanding is when they are aggroed they kinda shoot at anything near them. I ran around the corner and shotgunned the SCAV in front of me. If they shoot at you first then you can retaliate without losing rep, as long as they hit you before you hit them When you are PMC, shoot everyone! I’ve seen a sqaudie get one tapped in the head by a sniper scav a few wipes back, and I’ve had sniper scavs shoot multiple times without hitting anything. Question For context, I was at factory and looting minding my own business and I heard shots on the other side of the fence. they have never been like this for me, i rarely ever died to a scav unless i was Wasn't sure if a player was just really dead set on flushing me out or if maybe it was a scav being weird. My last raid 3 player scavs shot and chased me across enitre streets map trying to kill me thankfully i made extract. Unsure if a bug or part of the event. Pretty sure it was a A player scav started shooting at me but missed their first shots, I was purposefully waiting for him to hit me so that I could fight back, once they did I killed them, and then the AI scavs killed me. 5 In most scav runs this doesn't really bother me, but anytime I come across a boss scav their goons just start shooting at me out of nowhere, it says they're supposed to give a warning before shooting me if my fence rep is low enough but most times they just start shooting. Open comment So I waited for the BTR to show up, and when I ran to the BTR, it shot me instantly, no body got in or out of the BTR, but it shot me down the moment I peaked the corner. To recover that -. He immediately starts screaming at me and shoots at me. Basically you still want to avoid Scav boss and their minions unless you have 6. its making the game a lot less fun not being able to do anything as a scav without getting killed. The way that all scavs on the map turn hostile if you kill a player scav who is attacking you is obviously a problem, but I don't see why player scavs should be friendly to each other at all, let alone be forced to be friendly through punishment/reward systems surely one of the most infuriating mechanics in the game. Scavs use the same weapons, ammo, ballistics / stats as we do. mightve been a player scav baiting you. I'm fairly new to the game, but I've watched quite a bit of gameplay and understand how to tell an AI scav from a player or player scav. It's been Schrodinger's scav for me on Woods. And he shot at me as I tried to look a dead PMC up by the wood piles. Then next raid while leaving he and a rat pmc shot at me Scav are shooting me even though I'm a scav Question I know they turn on you if you kill one of them, and I know player scavs will kill other player scavs, but sometimes the normal scavs will just shoot me, maybe they are player scavs, I cant tell the difference, Anyone have any idea why this is Killing scavs will lower your scav karma, which will result in a longer scav cooldown and shittier gear on your scav runs. 0 scav karma and my kits are consistently pretty good. I do not know what, and if BSG is even tracking certain stats but they should just be "average". we habe tried it with different equipment, like both only pistol or only me pistol but still only they get shot at. Im at 1. Archived post. And i killed third one who was shooting to other scavs. But running scav runs helps too. Just ran a quick woods run to test out the new DLSS settings and was in Med Camp looting with 3 other AI scavs around. to clarify, I never shot a single time as a scav within the raid until an AI scav shot me The second time, one scav shoot at me i killed him and another came (scav player) and shoot at me when i was looting the first one i killed him. So you can study what scavs wear by getting close. 62 btw Had my RSASS barrel dissappear on me mid-raid while shooting at a sus guy. Can anyone explain what that shit was? xD Edit: Riddle solved! In case this happened to other new players before and you are also wondering what was going on. Bosses can also be set off to kill anyone on sight. My rep is 5. I of course shot him back and killed him, thinking that would be fine, But afterwards all the other scavs started shooting at me and killed me and I lost rep with Fence?? My Rep with Fence is 0. As a player scav the Scav Guards do not KOS and will instead flip you off and shoo you away but when the Scav Boss see's you that's when the dice roll happens on whether or not they attack. -Sometimes Raiders are cool with me. But you can always tell by the clothes they wear. No issues right. New comments cannot be posted. -if they’re already aggro’d on scavs who have killed them or they’re on high alert, you have I heared Killa yelling and shooting, then when i got sight on him he instantly shot at me. All the times I've been killed (barring airdrops) the person spent around 30 seconds near me, probably weighing pros and cons on my murder. Be careful who you are shooting at when in raid, Santa ran at me during a firefight in a I rarely get killed by other scavs. I domed me as well. On the other hand. but the scavs. My accuracy is . Get mad at the scumbag Scavs who wiggled and shot people in the back haha. 3 fence rep. 90 and I never had this issue yesterday when doing scav runs. Reply reply It's just another sad fact of the scav life brother. But it doesn’t make sense why they shot me before he even came to my building. 5+ karma but I don't I had a guy come to me, both scavs, voiped to me his gamer tag, said that he is running around killing all the scavs he sees for lulz since he did not care about the scav rep anymore this late of a wipe, did a cute little wiggle and shot me in the face. I went to loot 1 up by the wood piles (not in the lower area where the boss spawns). Cooperating with scavs and doing special scav tasks while in raid will raise your scav karma, letting you scav more often and granting rep with Fence, who will be reworked to offer benefits to players with high scav karma. Following me around and not responding to voip or voicelines. The only way to tell if they're bad is to witness them killing other scavs. yix woxa ayrtwng zeeay qrgd qmb aptsip pzbajd laqnp nvff