You can buy the red masks from fence for the TacTec trade just like the manual trick for the Redut barter, which brings the cost of the barter down to around 190k. With how well it repairs (polymer) and how often you get it back on insurance, it's really slept on.
If you have fence rep 6.0+, you can buy Korund and/or Gzhel from time to time for 70-90k and repair them. I often get ~44-54 durability Gzhels out of it. For me it is the best armor right now value for money.
I was wondering why i didnt see any in his store lol I used to cheese it and buy them from fence to do the quest where i have to hide them on interchange
A 44 durability gzhel basicslly isn’t even a class 5 anymore. Not worth it. Remember armors lose “stopping power” the lower their overall durability gets, even after repair.
@SaltCitizen Same. Had to buy 2 brand new ones with the barter. Got them all planted without any issue but still. I've gotten a full 80/80 slick from Fence last wipe. Also got the Zabralo >50% from fence but can't find one now. It sucks. Gonna have to barter one and go to factory with a killa helmet and m995 and hope I don't get leg meta
From a PMC level standpoint, players can obtain the Korund from Prapor LL3 at level 26 and the Zabralo from Mechanic LL3 at level 30. Level 32 opens up all of the Ragman LL3 options for class 5. At level 36 players can buy the Korund directly from Prapor LL4 then at level 37 get the Osprey (P) from Peacekeeper LL4. But players will have to get to level 42 and Ragman LL4 to get any of the other class 6 options.
Showing how many bullets the TT SK can stop of 7.62 BP is pretty helpful, and I wonder how this would compare to some of the more high-tier class 5s like the Redut. I'm also curious to see the effectiveness of like a TT SK rig compared to a high tier class 5 when faced up against a mid-range ammo such as M856A1, just to see how much of a benefit the class 6 has over the class 5 and whether or not class 5 is even worth it. Another amazing benefit of the TT SK is that it always comes back on insurance, then you can repair it and re-sell it to ragman for like 75% of the price it took you to buy it.
Great video as always! Really happy you mentioned the trick with buying the tech manuals from Fence to barter for the Redut M for less but sad you didn't do something similar for the Tac Tec. You can commonly buy the neoprene masks from Fence for 6.8k and if you're REALLY LUCKY you can find and snipe a few gasmasks from him for 8.2k, which can bring the cost down to 82k! But if I'm unable to I usually try to buy the gasmasks for 30k or less from the flea which is still 191k! The Tac Tec is my favorite "premium budget" lvl 5 armor since it repairs well, not too heavy, and decent effective durability. I don't have max scav karma to confirm but I think Fence may sell the gasmasks more commonly as well as for less, which could make this barter an exclusive steal!
I’ve loved the osprey level 5 since last wipe tbh. I’m the guy that roots for the underdogs and my go to cqb/medium range loadout is: osprey, xcels, airframe with chops and visor, and my sub 40 vertical recoil mcx with 40 rounders.
With the Defender-2, Korunds almost always come back in insurance especially if they get banged up, so in addition to usually getting 3-5 good repairs out of them you could then use them to craft the Defender which wouldnt be a half bad way to extend the Korund's usefulness
I sure need to step up to class 5, but my strength is still lagging to carry anything but a super light load and stay in low 30s. I get gassed way too fast. Giga, dig they change things so you get only One stam bar worth on any skill then it flips to red? I keep checking and no stat resets from red in an entire long raid.
Thank you for providing useful information as usual ( car medpack gang where are you ? ). In this wipe wipe i'm quite struggling to obtain helmets 5 and 6 level more then rigs and vests. Any advice on that ? Also, in future wipe BSG promised to add plates, will it reload hole armour system or top stuff probably wil be the same?
Lvl 5 and 6 helmets? Those are tricky. Altyn is virtually gone from the game this wipe, so the easiest lvl 5 to get is Tagilla's visor from farming said boss. Like a poor man's altyn with no nape coverage but easily the most obtainable for reliable headshot tanking. Stops those annoying KS23 flashbangs too on factory, where you're most likely to use a heavy-duty helmet anyway. As for lvl 6, there's only really the green maska helmet on Ragman 3. He doesnt sell the visor but killa's visor is allowed on flea for some reason lol. It has terrible visibility but it's one of the few "heavy duty" helmets you can buy on roubles alone so there's that. Then there's the bastion and SLAAP plates that just cover the top of your head. You might tank a few rounds if you turn the armored back to the enemy or put your head down to "headbutt" a bullet, but so far I haven't been saved much by them. They might be good in a sniper loadout when you're worried about getting countersniped maybe, but not for close range when most autos will just hose down your thorax and it won't matter anyway. Hope you enjoyed my 2¢
I dont quite understand effective durability and its relationship to lv class armor. Is it correct when i say that the redut m will take up more bullets from catridges below lv4 like the 7.62x39mm PS than the tasmanian tiger due to its inrceased effective durability? But the tiger will take more bullets from catridges above lv5 than the redut m due to its being a class 6 armor? And if both statements are wrong is it then correct to say effective durability is only comparable within the class itself since the class above will strictly be outright better nomatter its effective durability?
Kind of yeah. Effective durability is only properly comparable within a class. But the same bullet does less 'effective durability damage' (confusing concept, I know) to class 6 than class 5 for example. So class 6 effective is worth about 15% more, and that's not even taking into account the point at which bullets start to penetrate due to low durability.
the only thing about the hexgrid that matters is that it is SO UGLY I refuse to been seen, and killed, wearing thins. I entend to leave a beautiful corpse.
I think people like Defender 2 because it used to be one of the best 5 armors and people didn't bother with the buffs of the other armors. The situation is similar with weapon mods, which were meta 4 to 5 wipes ago and are still being played now, even though there are far better mods for less money.
@@Xalrider 40 durability is not 40hp, if bullet cant pen class6 it'll deal like 1dmg to armor durability or even less and if it can somehow pierce it starting at 52pen ammo then itll deal some damage to it like 20% of bullet's dmg, and full damage will deal only 60+ pen ammo
Zabralo is actually so good once you grind max strength. Just finish punisher 6 to get the epsilon and put a tank battery in your secure and go stash run interchange a few hundred times, walk for 5 minutes sit in bush for 5 minutes to let diminishing returns wear off. 300k level 6 armor with 120 durability is extremely good
he said the fort is trash I sprayed a guy 6 times in the chest and stomach with an svt-40 with t46m, two in the arm, and then missed two shots point blank and he lived and two tapped me with bp
One thing i dont like about Tarkov's armor system is that there are too many of them without much differance. Especially so many of them look so horrible, i literally dont wear them even if i find them (not rp'ing btw, i just dont like my PMC to look like a hobo)
Most budget is the 6B5-15 Uley barter with Jaeger (3x soap, 4x toilet paper) Others that are good are the 6B3TM on Ragman for 70k, MMAC if you can get the parts at decent prices and also sometimes the new OTV on Peacekeeper when maps are cheap for the barter there too
back when you could buy all of these on the flee market players would run insane loadouts. these days everyone running the same 3 armors and same guns and same ammunition. boring
i see a lot of chads still running rat rigs late game, why is that? is it because they know they'll just be head tapped on every interaction and saving money? i stopped even bothering with level 6 just because i get shot in the eyes anyway
The idea is everyone has high pen meta ammo anyway so why bother with anything more. Many of the chads are the same about ammo though as well, so many use m856a1 because you can buy loads of it and don't have to stockpile. At that level (especially streamers) kitting up is super boring for them so they just grab the basics and load in & use their skill to primarily carry them. And also there's always the idea that cheaters won't target you as much if you don't have a valuable kit, maybe something to that but class 5 saves me in a lot of raids tbh
why would u remove the debuffs? No, keep them. You either go in fully armored but are weighed down and not COD bunny hopping and 360ing all over the map, or you go in with less protection for more mobility...
It's just the turn speed, everything else is fine. It hurts kit diversity and punishes players that a) don't play as much and b) dont use the same kit over and over
@@Gigabeef yes, the turn speed sucks, but does going against a fully decked out Chad who runs around in full armor as if it all weighs nothing. What would be the downside otherwise? Just cost (the Uber players don't care about that, so doesn't count) and weight (sweats already exploited their strength, also doesn't count for them). But all these only affect low levels or those who don't have a lot of time to grind.
Ergonomics penalty, move speed penalty and general weight penalties that affect ergo and movement mechanics I believe are enough without the turn rate piece. Even the super sweats can't ignore weight completely, max str only makes weapons weightless now, so you can't wear the biggest armors and still be underweight even at level 70@@phantomtr1
Yep let out the secrets to make.running raids for the casual players more of a pain... Sitting sub 10mil roubles makong my kit costss 100s more is just not affordable anymore gun parts go up, armours go up ammo goes up ends up being best psrt of 1 mil to run a a non maxed loadout so i csn only do a ohew raids geated before i have to do bolty vpo runs to make back my.loses if j have one those tarkov bad days wheres ots a day of just death 😂😂 stop these videos!!
I like the breakdown. Now just to champion bsg to put these higher teir items in the game. Im on constantly and the higher end guns and armor are not existent. I feel as if everyonce and while i should stumble across some armor not found on a dead thing (player, scav, raider, boss, ect.) The mall should host some better items in the clothing stores. Just a small grip its either no armor spawns, im extremely unlucky or players are cheating vacuuming up any and all good items. Im lvl 38 so im not playing small amounts of tarkov and i just never find armor WHERE IS THE ARMOR??
High tier armor does spawn, for example in stashes among other places. High tier guns do spawn too, in weapon crates and stashes. I can assure you cheaters aren't vacuuming random rd-704s and m1as with no attachments.
Can’t even lie. Desperately need streamers to stop making these videos and making the barters just be stupid expensive. Tactec going for 480k with the mats lmao. Let people use their own brain 😭
right?? now everybody's gonna be running gzhels, tactecs and TT rigs, not to mention the prices are gonna skyrocket. my kit is gonna be more expensive than it should be just because people who dont do their own research watch videos like these.
@@stevehenderson3432 I mean it’s not even difficult… when I say research I don’t mean actually researching. Just click around in the barters traders offer and add up the prices of the barter items needed for the trade using a quick flea market search and see if it’s worth it.
Such and underrated comment. I love his informative vids but the videos pointless now because all these batters have Fuxked barter economy now. Wtf, sick of it
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Gigabeef should have more subs.
This beast is always pushing out more and more great videos
You can buy the red masks from fence for the TacTec trade just like the manual trick for the Redut barter, which brings the cost of the barter down to around 190k. With how well it repairs (polymer) and how often you get it back on insurance, it's really slept on.
If you have fence rep 6.0+, you can buy Korund and/or Gzhel from time to time for 70-90k and repair them. I often get ~44-54 durability Gzhels out of it. For me it is the best armor right now value for money.
I was wondering why i didnt see any in his store lol I used to cheese it and buy them from fence to do the quest where i have to hide them on interchange
A 44 durability gzhel basicslly isn’t even a class 5 anymore. Not worth it.
Remember armors lose “stopping power” the lower their overall durability gets, even after repair.
@@cha0ss0ldier-4 please tell me when the threshold is
I have 6.0+ rep and the extra tab to his store never has much wtf
@SaltCitizen Same. Had to buy 2 brand new ones with the barter. Got them all planted without any issue but still. I've gotten a full 80/80 slick from Fence last wipe. Also got the Zabralo >50% from fence but can't find one now. It sucks. Gonna have to barter one and go to factory with a killa helmet and m995 and hope I don't get leg meta
From a PMC level standpoint, players can obtain the Korund from Prapor LL3 at level 26 and the Zabralo from Mechanic LL3 at level 30. Level 32 opens up all of the Ragman LL3 options for class 5. At level 36 players can buy the Korund directly from Prapor LL4 then at level 37 get the Osprey (P) from Peacekeeper LL4. But players will have to get to level 42 and Ragman LL4 to get any of the other class 6 options.
Showing how many bullets the TT SK can stop of 7.62 BP is pretty helpful, and I wonder how this would compare to some of the more high-tier class 5s like the Redut.
I'm also curious to see the effectiveness of like a TT SK rig compared to a high tier class 5 when faced up against a mid-range ammo such as M856A1, just to see how much of a benefit the class 6 has over the class 5 and whether or not class 5 is even worth it.
Another amazing benefit of the TT SK is that it always comes back on insurance, then you can repair it and re-sell it to ragman for like 75% of the price it took you to buy it.
Shhhush dude.. :D
CPC is also an armored rig so it's the best buyable armored rig for red rebel extract maps.
Also the Fort-T5 (Aka the Samurai Armor) can be now crafted I believe after Sew it Part 3 but I could be wrong.
The craft is like 120k rub as well lmao
Great video as always! Really happy you mentioned the trick with buying the tech manuals from Fence to barter for the Redut M for less but sad you didn't do something similar for the Tac Tec. You can commonly buy the neoprene masks from Fence for 6.8k and if you're REALLY LUCKY you can find and snipe a few gasmasks from him for 8.2k, which can bring the cost down to 82k! But if I'm unable to I usually try to buy the gasmasks for 30k or less from the flea which is still 191k! The Tac Tec is my favorite "premium budget" lvl 5 armor since it repairs well, not too heavy, and decent effective durability. I don't have max scav karma to confirm but I think Fence may sell the gasmasks more commonly as well as for less, which could make this barter an exclusive steal!
Great mention, I've also been trying to snipe the gas masks, but I have 6.0 scav rep and I've never seen it on the max tab
Redut T5 can be crafted in hideout
Great video! Super chill dude ✌🏻
I’ve loved the osprey level 5 since last wipe tbh. I’m the guy that roots for the underdogs and my go to cqb/medium range loadout is: osprey, xcels, airframe with chops and visor, and my sub 40 vertical recoil mcx with 40 rounders.
With the Defender-2, Korunds almost always come back in insurance especially if they get banged up, so in addition to usually getting 3-5 good repairs out of them you could then use them to craft the Defender which wouldnt be a half bad way to extend the Korund's usefulness
The only problem is that defenders are expensive asf to insure
tbf the thor is the budget lv4 amour so i have done the hpc barter quite alot
TT SK was my secret. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
All of this will get shuffled around, when the new hitboxes drop next patch. Solid vid.
I sure need to step up to class 5, but my strength is still lagging to carry anything but a super light load and stay in low 30s. I get gassed way too fast.
Giga, dig they change things so you get only One stam bar worth on any skill then it flips to red? I keep checking and no stat resets from red in an entire long raid.
It never updates in the UI. You have to time 5 minutes and then get some exp, only then does the red go away on skills
Great content and great video! Very helpful
samari armor is one of the best crafts in the hideout
Thank you for providing useful information as usual ( car medpack gang where are you ? ). In this wipe wipe i'm quite struggling to obtain helmets 5 and 6 level more then rigs and vests. Any advice on that ? Also, in future wipe BSG promised to add plates, will it reload hole armour system or top stuff probably wil be the same?
Lvl 5 and 6 helmets? Those are tricky. Altyn is virtually gone from the game this wipe, so the easiest lvl 5 to get is Tagilla's visor from farming said boss. Like a poor man's altyn with no nape coverage but easily the most obtainable for reliable headshot tanking. Stops those annoying KS23 flashbangs too on factory, where you're most likely to use a heavy-duty helmet anyway.
As for lvl 6, there's only really the green maska helmet on Ragman 3. He doesnt sell the visor but killa's visor is allowed on flea for some reason lol. It has terrible visibility but it's one of the few "heavy duty" helmets you can buy on roubles alone so there's that.
Then there's the bastion and SLAAP plates that just cover the top of your head. You might tank a few rounds if you turn the armored back to the enemy or put your head down to "headbutt" a bullet, but so far I haven't been saved much by them. They might be good in a sniper loadout when you're worried about getting countersniped maybe, but not for close range when most autos will just hose down your thorax and it won't matter anyway.
Hope you enjoyed my 2¢
sometimes you can snag a zabralo for 250-270, with the PAE going for 100-110k each and the relays going around 10k.
Looks like I’m gonna horde trade parts for Ghzel and camp that timer, lol. Couple in the stash and off we go!
I dont quite understand effective durability and its relationship to lv class armor. Is it correct when i say that the redut m will take up more bullets from catridges below lv4 like the 7.62x39mm PS than the tasmanian tiger due to its inrceased effective durability? But the tiger will take more bullets from catridges above lv5 than the redut m due to its being a class 6 armor? And if both statements are wrong is it then correct to say effective durability is only comparable within the class itself since the class above will strictly be outright better nomatter its effective durability?
Kind of yeah. Effective durability is only properly comparable within a class. But the same bullet does less 'effective durability damage' (confusing concept, I know) to class 6 than class 5 for example. So class 6 effective is worth about 15% more, and that's not even taking into account the point at which bullets start to penetrate due to low durability.
the only thing about the hexgrid that matters is that it is SO UGLY I refuse to been seen, and killed, wearing thins. I entend to leave a beautiful corpse.
Brilliant video as always keep up the great work.
I know that statwise the Korund is the worst of the armors, but I'm in love with mine. I'm on an 11 raid survival streak with the same set of armor
I think people like Defender 2 because it used to be one of the best 5 armors and people didn't bother with the buffs of the other armors. The situation is similar with weapon mods, which were meta 4 to 5 wipes ago and are still being played now, even though there are far better mods for less money.
The TTSK is based af, especially since M80, 55A1, and 7.62PP are so common rn.
Super light, good enough durability, and c h e a p
“Good enough durability” it is literally the least durable armor in the entire game, and repairs like ass too
@@Xalrider i swear the tarkov community is so misguided.. ^^
@@Xalrider 40 durability is not 40hp, if bullet cant pen class6 it'll deal like 1dmg to armor durability or even less and if it can somehow pierce it starting at 52pen ammo then itll deal some damage to it like 20% of bullet's dmg, and full damage will deal only 60+ pen ammo
is the zhuk 6a even like... an armor anymore? i never see it
As val rotor grip on thr flea for 110k but you can barter it for 1 milk carton at skieer xD
TTSK is good for shturman kills for hunter, it probably caught 4 double taps from him this wipe because that bug still exists :)
The TT SK has been a staple favorite of mine this wipe whilst pushing for Kappa, I hope the price doesn't go up for it because of this video 😂
Idek about TT SK. Literally got one tapped in the chest by a geska round
Cool rings 🙌
also beef the price of the redut t5 can be entirely avoided if you're a dedicated crafter.
Tasmanian tiger is perfect for sniping with bolt action rifles
Ive found 4 tgilla rigs so far and just have them sitting there untill that fateful day when i bring a good gun with it.
No gear fear
Feeding the algorithm, thanks again
The best armor in the game is not to be seen, striking first and using leg meta, to get the Chad's armor pristine for more roubles 🤡
I'm more of an SVT to the head kinda guy myself but for the same reason 🐀
You've been encountering people running lvl 5-6 armor? All I've gotten were mmac users
@@SubchesireReserve at night camping RR
you rat.
You should mention that the Redut-T5 can be crafted, materials around 180k total, can be repaired often
Korund my standard 😊
Ty fpr video sir
Zabralo is actually so good once you grind max strength. Just finish punisher 6 to get the epsilon and put a tank battery in your secure and go stash run interchange a few hundred times, walk for 5 minutes sit in bush for 5 minutes to let diminishing returns wear off. 300k level 6 armor with 120 durability is extremely good
he said the fort is trash I sprayed a guy 6 times in the chest and stomach with an svt-40 with t46m, two in the arm, and then missed two shots point blank and he lived and two tapped me with bp
I like the defender 2 because I have that vest irl :y
Me when i will be forced to run nothing but M1 and M2 rigs because the armors shown will be ungodly expensive
Nah just bring some sick sunglasses the scav mustache and a ketter youll be fine
You stopped showing the internal storage....
redut t5 is cheap for craft and some of my friends have full stashes of samurai armor.
-rep gigabeef
I craft the Samurai in the lavatory for about 240k
Wear the best armor 🙅♀️
Still got head shot 👌
the craft for the REDUT-T5 is cheaper than the barter
One thing i dont like about Tarkov's armor system is that there are too many of them without much differance. Especially so many of them look so horrible, i literally dont wear them even if i find them (not rp'ing btw, i just dont like my PMC to look like a hobo)
Ceramic plates w
Best armor in the level 20’s? Feel like I’m just dying instantly in a fight
Most budget is the 6B5-15 Uley barter with Jaeger (3x soap, 4x toilet paper)
Others that are good are the 6B3TM on Ragman for 70k, MMAC if you can get the parts at decent prices and also sometimes the new OTV on Peacekeeper when maps are cheap for the barter there too
I have run the OTV a lot and it works rly well and it's slept on by most people. you can also also snipe ANA M2 rigs for less than 100k on flea.
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Nah
Comments for the comment gods
Ridge Wallet in Tarkov?
Pretty sure the keycard holder is a ridge wallet
its still pointless late wipe. might as well not wear any armor until they nerf or completely get rid of the meta ammo.
back when you could buy all of these on the flee market players would run insane loadouts. these days everyone running the same 3 armors and same guns and same ammunition. boring
You have a very Soylent green aura about you.
i see a lot of chads still running rat rigs late game, why is that? is it because they know they'll just be head tapped on every interaction and saving money? i stopped even bothering with level 6 just because i get shot in the eyes anyway
The idea is everyone has high pen meta ammo anyway so why bother with anything more. Many of the chads are the same about ammo though as well, so many use m856a1 because you can buy loads of it and don't have to stockpile. At that level (especially streamers) kitting up is super boring for them so they just grab the basics and load in & use their skill to primarily carry them.
And also there's always the idea that cheaters won't target you as much if you don't have a valuable kit, maybe something to that but class 5 saves me in a lot of raids tbh
Meanwhile SVT/AVT with LPS......hah poor chad. These devs dont know wtf they doing 😂🤦🏼♂️
The arse armor
why would u remove the debuffs? No, keep them. You either go in fully armored but are weighed down and not COD bunny hopping and 360ing all over the map, or you go in with less protection for more mobility...
It's just the turn speed, everything else is fine. It hurts kit diversity and punishes players that a) don't play as much and b) dont use the same kit over and over
@@Gigabeef yes, the turn speed sucks, but does going against a fully decked out Chad who runs around in full armor as if it all weighs nothing. What would be the downside otherwise? Just cost (the Uber players don't care about that, so doesn't count) and weight (sweats already exploited their strength, also doesn't count for them). But all these only affect low levels or those who don't have a lot of time to grind.
Ergonomics penalty, move speed penalty and general weight penalties that affect ergo and movement mechanics I believe are enough without the turn rate piece. Even the super sweats can't ignore weight completely, max str only makes weapons weightless now, so you can't wear the biggest armors and still be underweight even at level 70@@phantomtr1
Well I disagree! But I do want to take this opportunity to thank you for the videos! Good educational material and fun to watch.
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Yep let out the secrets to make.running raids for the casual players more of a pain... Sitting sub 10mil roubles makong my kit costss 100s more is just not affordable anymore gun parts go up, armours go up ammo goes up ends up being best psrt of 1 mil to run a a non maxed loadout so i csn only do a ohew raids geated before i have to do bolty vpo runs to make back my.loses if j have one those tarkov bad days wheres ots a day of just death 😂😂 stop these videos!!
I like the breakdown. Now just to champion bsg to put these higher teir items in the game. Im on constantly and the higher end guns and armor are not existent. I feel as if everyonce and while i should stumble across some armor not found on a dead thing (player, scav, raider, boss, ect.) The mall should host some better items in the clothing stores. Just a small grip its either no armor spawns, im extremely unlucky or players are cheating vacuuming up any and all good items. Im lvl 38 so im not playing small amounts of tarkov and i just never find armor WHERE IS THE ARMOR??
High tier armor does spawn, for example in stashes among other places. High tier guns do spawn too, in weapon crates and stashes. I can assure you cheaters aren't vacuuming random rd-704s and m1as with no attachments.
I find slicks in hidden caches all the time! I do a few woods night stash runs and usually come away with several high tier armors for some PVP
Can’t even lie. Desperately need streamers to stop making these videos and making the barters just be stupid expensive. Tactec going for 480k with the mats lmao. Let people use their own brain 😭
>me watching my budget kit blitzkrieg it's way to 2.2 morbillion rubles because everyone wants my barter items
right?? now everybody's gonna be running gzhels, tactecs and TT rigs, not to mention the prices are gonna skyrocket. my kit is gonna be more expensive than it should be just because people who dont do their own research watch videos like these.
Long past the age of people doing that 😂
@@stevehenderson3432 I mean it’s not even difficult… when I say research I don’t mean actually researching. Just click around in the barters traders offer and add up the prices of the barter items needed for the trade using a quick flea market search and see if it’s worth it.
Such and underrated comment. I love his informative vids but the videos pointless now because all these batters have Fuxked barter economy now. Wtf, sick of it