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Being this my 3rd wipe, I've gone through all maps doing quests and, more importantly, trying to make a living in ₽₽₽ having fun without being a loot delivery meatbag.

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Why Shoreline?

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First things first: I won't tell shit or anything about other maps, everyone has his main or favorite and it's awesome, in fact, if you also want to do a guide of your favourite map, please do! This game guides are made of people like you, people that wanted to share their knowledge about something in this game and made the wiki bigger and reliable. So, after reading a bunch of guides and playing the maps feeling their natural course these years, I've noticed that Shoreline feels like the best map to show a starter to get the ropes on. It has everything:
You want PVP and high tier loot? Resort.
You want to explore? It's a beautiful, big ass map with a lot of visible landmarks that help you get a rough idea of where are you going.
You are an old MF like me and sometimes you just want some chill gameplay? OR!
You want to get some roubles actually seeing what you're looting and your surroundings? Stash runs!

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With that being said, Let's start.

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The first thing I want to share you is the wiki page where you'll have the maps, the extractions and a brief description of the map. As I stated before, it's a big map, but you have visible landmarks to guide you through the place, so the very first thing to do is trying to do to point A (spawn) to point B (extraction) watching the landscape, not worrying about scavs, PMCs or loot, so you can focus on learning where you are and where are you going. First the skeleton, then the details. Two or three offline raids of a few minutes will do the trick, don't worry. That is something you can use on every map you want to learn.

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Second and most important thing: Have an objective before going into raid, 2 things to do max. Being big map like woods, If you don't focus you'll run short of raid time.

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Third: Shoreline is the map with more hidden stashes at the moment, 40 of them, AND being a "medical" map like labs, they can spawn LEDx and ophtalmopscopes in them, and in the duffle bags scattered around the map. So a really good thing to do is learning them. You'll be surprised how many you can check in a few minutes, so if you learn them, every time you are passing by com,pleting missions or being a sadistic killing machine, you can add some spicy loot to your runs, even make routes just for loot. Here's good map with pictures so you can find them more easily, try to learn a few, and then add more gradually. Keep in mind that you don't need to learn all 40 in two runs, hell, I main the map since a few wipes and I'm still learning (or re-learning) one from time to time. They can have ALL the loot available in the game, and you don't need a damn key to open them, They're free for you to get them.

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Next thing you'll love: The village. Boy, oh boy. You can get the components for the hideout the first days of the wipe only from the village, along with high value barter items, weapon parts and with the ammount of jackets there is you'll get the roubles and keys you need in no-time, AND you don't need keys for any door inside the village

The sweetest thing about this is that you have stashes over there too, so it's a really nice loot place, and now with patch 12.30 it's EVEN better with the "path to lighthouse" exfil, which it's always open and doesn't matter on which side of the map you spawned, you always have it, so loot runs are now quicker.

The only key I've used before going into resort is the HEP key for the building in the middle of the map, it costs 50k and have 3 weapon boxes, loose weapon loot and a potential intel folder spawn on the table inside, 1 run trough it and you are already profiting. There's the cottage back door key and cottage safe key, but the first one it's absurdingly expensive or barter only 'cause it's needed for a quest, and there's only 2 safes and a jacket worth, so unless you've found one or you already got it for Colleagues 2, they doesn't worth the hassle.

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So, now you have a learned the stashes, the crates and jackets to look in the village, you shot those MF scavs down but you want a higher challenge. Let's go to resort then!

Here's a list of interesting rooms to check, keep in mind one important thing: Resort was a hatchling paradise, you went in, shove some high tier loot in your ass and die or get out, didn't matter. Now, I'ts been nerfed, REALLY nerfed, but still a nice play to go to get medical loot and a chance to high tier items, because loose high tier items are really rare, but they still spawn with the same chances as always in duffle and med bags, and there are a lot of them. It's not secure loot as a few wipes ago, but it's still cool, and if you happen to go there be it for a mission or scav runs, you can get lucky and be a freaking pharmacy with legs in 15 minutes. Being that clear, here's the route and rooms I check:

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West (red keys)

(Coming from the side) 103, 104, 107, 108, 109, 110, 112,

(Going up through middle) 203&205, 216, 220, 222, 227,

(Going up from fartest side) 325, 324, 319, 313, 311, 301&304

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Don't forget to check the ambulance in between!

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East (blues)

(Coming from middle) 113, 110(tape), 111, 107, 104, 102, 103

(Going up from fartest) 228, 226&222, 220 to 219, 218, 213&209

(Going up from middle) 308&306, 313, 314, 315, 328

The ones in bold font are the ones that require a key to enter, and those rooms that i've put together (like 308&306) are both accesible with only one key and going through the balcony, so you don't need to buy the two keys, just one.

Personally, I don't go resort unless I'm doing a mission there or Punisher pt4, the loot from stashes and/or village is more than enough to pay my chad runs and collect the items I want, UNLESS I need medical supplies like syringes or drugs, there I go full resort.

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There are a lot of videos out there thay may be helpful to get a better grasp at it, but I think that going and seeing how easy it is to get some really nice loot without risks and having fun with PVP in resort, you'll grow some love on this beautiful map.

Almost forgot! Besides being a large map, the better option for you loadout will be middle-range. Rifles with a 4x at max, and a red dot for close encounters. SMGs for resort are a ton of fun, and if you want to add some sniper kills, there are a lot of sweet spots to sit with your beloved pee flasks, you bloody skilled monsters.

One last thing: PScavs start spawning with ~20 min left, so if you're bored of ratting the shit out of lighthouse or tired of the pscavs getting the loot before you enter there as a PMC, you're always welcome on our coasts!

Come to Jersey Shoreline, we have money for you baby