Looting Tips

## Introduction

**Looting** is one of the core features of Arena Breakout, and is an important skill to master. Running blindly into a raid and not following some basic looting guidelines ensures that one wastes not only their gear, but also their time. Below are some tips which may alleviate some frustrations regarding looting, and other tips to help secure higher value items.

## Looting Tips

* Bring plenty of storage space. Bring at least a decently sized backpack, as your Chest Rig will be used for carrying mags, ammos, and medical supplies.
* **Be cautious around bodies, and always clear the area around one**. In most cases, the assailant will likely still be in the general vicinity. Be wary of actual human players hiding away in ambush that are accounting for curious individuals or plan accordingly to deal with a wounded player who may be more than happy to shoot away,
	+ Consider going prone when looting bodies, and preferably behind some sort of cover. This provides some camoflauge, albeit a morbid one, and a chance to fire back safely if spotted. To ensure a greater degree of safety, use smoke grenades on an area that you intend to loot - leaving opponents with only their compass to refer to.
* **Only take what you really need when looting. Ain't nobody has space nor the need for 3 more empty AK mags found on every body.** Take items that could be used to immediately refill or top off current equipment, and only take weapons if one's current weapon(s) are depleted, or if one is presented with a direct upgrade of a weapon. Be sure to also have plenty of ammunition for said upgrade, because even though the cool shotgun is cool, without it's respective ammunition, it might as well be a glorified crutch.
	+ On an additional note, **get good at math and memory**. Knowing the values of generic items you come across will come in handy for when you come across additional loot while you're full, and you can decide whether or not you should throw out that Rust Remover in favor of a VGA Cable.
		- In terms of common items, be aware that **bigger is not always better**. Items such as the aforementioned VGA cable can be only worth 1000 Koens in comparison to a single-slot item like a Broken Phone or Golden Phone - which are worth up to three to thirty-five times more than the item that takes up two slots.
* **Pick quickly**. When looting, the player has no visibility around them and can only really rely on sound. As such, don't ponder and haggle with loot options, as somebody else will invariably profit off both a live and a dead body.
	+ There are several settings that should be considered to possibly streamline or ease the looting experience -
		- "Close Backpack When Hit" - A setting that does exactly what it says on the tin, and can help give a few precious moments to react to a would-be attacker.
		- "Drag to Move Item" can help allow to simply drag items into your bag, removing the necessity of tapping incessantly to both loot anything and even when out of an active raid, such as when organizing storage.
* **Skulk or lurk** by hugging the walls near buildings/points of interest and slow walking to minimize one's profile and get into a better position.

## Tetrising

* Tetrising is a term in Arena Breakout that means maximizing the carry load by managing the backpack spaces and chest rigs' spaces.
* This is a method used for carrying a lot of items, often overloading, to extract when all the fighting has been done as tetrising can take a lot of time and make you vulnerable to enemies.