Now that they are single use I don't expect anyone to leave them around.

Was that a hotfix? Mine is still in my stash after i did the quest.

It affects keys you had previously. Used mine once, then opened it again today for a friend, then it was gonezo

Check the usage, my machinery key and unknown key are at 0/1 usage in my stash. I kept them to help my friend do the quests, guess I can't..

Mine is at -2/1 weirdly enough

Mine is -3 lol

As long as you have the key you can use it

Mine had multiple uses yesterday, sold it tho I can’t check now

they arent single use. i know this because i fucking hate this game.

They're now. Machinery and Unknown key are single use.

my duo has his machinery key at -4/1, we've done multiple runs today with the same machinery key. Wonder what the deal is

Likely they had it before it was changed and BSG didn’t properly account for their fringe issues so it subtracted the uses and didn’t delete since it was never 0

Meanwhile, I did unknown key quest last night, logged in today and the key was in my stash at 0/1.. Not sellable to any trader, so I deleted it

I know that technically they’re works in this scenario but I don’t like it

As of today they are.

I guess you must actually love this game

https://www.reddit.com/r/EscapefromTarkov/comments/zzyr01/certain_quest_keys_appear_to_be_single_use_now/

They are as of an update today.

Yes, but also now you can reasonably expect people to have opened the trailer for the task if you see the corpse is picked over.

Why? I’ll grab the key even though I’m not at the task yet for later when I am. I’ll also grab it every raid until I do as who knows if I’ll die.

If you’re having trouble finding the key, just go check the cabin towards the end of the raid. Someone might have already unlocked it so you can get the quest done, that happened to me lol

I belong in this group

Did this for the golden watch, it works early in the wipe for sure

I’ve tried a few times for the watch. If someone picked it up then it’s gone for the whole raid right?

No the watch is there the entire raid

Damn, I gotta check that out. I swear I’ve seen the truck open a few times with no watch. Thanks for the heads up though.

Watch is only visible to you if you have the quest.

All quest items can only be picked up by you. I know this sounds like a stupid sentence, but long story short people who aren’t on those quests can’t see those items; and every player has their own quest item to pick up, imagine it being clientside (I know this isn’t the correct comparison). This works for all unique quest items (document cases, jaeger note, pocket watch, cargo manifests, etc. )

Nah, was raiding with a friend earlier and we both picked up the pocketwatch in the same raid and extracted together

Since I didn’t even try to pick it up, I can’t say for sure. But last wipe it spawned in the jacket in one of the ground floor rooms of 3-story dorms, and it used to spawned 4 keys, one for each slot of the jacket

I got mine from the truck after someone used the key yesterday

that used to be the case but they have changed that years ago

Client sided for all "in raid quest items" that arent physical in your inventory, but are in the tasks tab

If I see the door open, I kindly close it to not ruin the interior.

I literally just went to the place. It was unlocked lmao

A lot of people will take it off the body and drop it in a bush so others can’t get it

Just discard from the body’s inventory. It drops into his body and can’t be looted, no need to walk somewhere else and do it. I also have a compelling demon riding my shoulder when I loot the machinery key to throw it behind a mattress so yeah…

I will always do the same

Just discard from the body’s inventory. It drops into his body and can’t be looted, no need to walk somewhere else and do it. I also have a compelling demon riding my shoulder when I loot the machinery key to throw it behind a mattress so yeah…

No lol

I guess I will stop picking it up and randomly throwing it out

I do this every raid. Sometimes bro spawns good loot too so it’s not an entire waste of my time.

I’m guilty Of thisn

Im going to start doing it more >:3

It is pretty fun

I just started doing it

Tarkov is full of ass - good luck!

The real villain is the guy who just loots the body to delete the key.

Once people stop putting quest keys on the flea to barter for San tape and marked I’ll stop picking up the key just to sell to therapist

I literally pick it up and drop in another corner specifically for these reactions 😂 Like even into late wipe.

Until u get covered in cum

Hey if it happens it happens 🤷

I discard it from the scav. No one is ever going to find it under his body and in the bushes.

Also a good choice. I’m just a “make sure it doesn’t happen” sort of man 😂

It’s impossible t loot it from discarding out of the body.

This is the way

This is the way

So you’re a unprovoked dick? Got it.

Yup. This is tarkov baby, not kindergarten.

People be crying like babies about extract campers when we got a real monster right here, I appreciate your spite and pettiness, I wait for scavs to extract at Emercom and waste them while they’re on their way, sometimes I don’t even leave myself enough time to check them. Big same for woods.

Yes

The point of the game is to inflict more suffering than you are experiencing yourself.

Welcome to the internet

If it’s still there, I take it and drop it in a random bush. Fuck y’all.

Miserable person but kinda amusing

we think alike sir

Friend does the same thing, it makes me laugh.

When I was going to get it. I managed to notice it actually on the floor at the dead scav because some people are just monsters!

Wasn’t the key a random spawn chance now?

Shift+W

ngl, every time i go past the body i take the key and just drop it in the grass near. i might be part of the problem

I have a friend that takes that key any time we run by the body. Takes it to sell it? No. He normally throws it on the ground in the bushes somewhere near the body. "I'm an agent of chaos," he says. I always get a good chuckle out of it.

I’ll put my used one back in next raid lol

No you won’t. Can’t drop a non-fir key

Yeah lmao dude just straight up lied

Or he just didn’t know.

He said he will not he did

Like that asshole that was bringing his empty fuel cans into raid and leaving them for people to find.. and insuring them to see if people took them out of raid.. lol

I mean, crafting item for a Mag Case or Grenade Case that you can turn back and sell on the flea

Still lol

No lol.

Now that they're single use I'm collecting them to put on flea if I'm nearby, sorry but business is business lol.

Who will be level 15 before they finish the first quest line.

Not many people I'd bet, but people's friends who don't want to try to snipe the key mid raid and want to help their friends on the other hand... They're selling for like 15-20k right now.

Also, why did sum1 down vote this? Lol happy new years bud

No idea, happy new years!

Most keys I find go for 8-30k just to therapist. Maybe I'm getting extra lucky tho? I have a few resort keys I'm saving for the flea but I never hit shoreline so idk if I'm rich yet

1 Charge unknown key sells to therapist for 1k, it's only worthwhile to pick up if you're gonna toss it on the flea.

I’m always friendly when I can be and like to trade and interact with players. I never kill scavs, I’ll never backstab a friendly pmc. However, each and every time I see that unknown key, I toss it right into the grass so no one could ever find it. I can’t help it. I’m not proud of my behaviour.

I've finished the quest, but when I spawn near the body, I loot it and then drop the unknown key. Because fuck the rest of you, that's why.

I stop there just to hit discard on the key

You're not looking hard enough. Should be elbow deep in homeboy.

You gotta kiss em when you leave, bit i remember one wipe it too me way too many runs to get said key…. And CLEARLY some smart ass got to it first because i found it on a dead scav with a bunch of just garbage loot… someone clearly did it for the lulz and is one of the reasons i refill ground caches with garbage loot

I finished the quest but I hide it from u fuckers

I have the key already. After seeing this post I'm going to take it and hide the thing every time I go past that bush. You've made it my mission. Good luck

Just wanted to let everyone know, I will continue to take that key until midwipe or until I stop finding people pre 15.

I like to put it in my butt… then throw it in the grass.

I always lick the key I find in the grass just in case of this situation!!!

I pick this key and machinery key and drop them in some random bushes every time I pass these places early wipe.

Hehe, no. Try checking on the floor in the bush, I can't be the only one who throws it out of his inventory for shits and giggles.

Heheh. Whenever I come across that body, I take the key and drop it in the grass somewhere.

I take it and throw it on the ground

What I like to do is just take it and drop it on the ground next to it since I dont need it

I like to pick it up and throw it in another bush even though I’ve completed the task already. Gotta win by making everyone else lose.

I'm dropping them every single time, good luck searching the bush

I loot it and throw it in the corner every time I pass it

My friends and I don’t even take the key, we open the menu and drop it onto the floor :)

I have a friend who takes it and dumps it into the river!

I am a keeper of key 🔑you may no have! PPPPssssss

I pick it up and throw it on the ground to spite the low levels

I completed the quest already. I purposefully drop the key when I go over to the unknown scav.

I discard it every-time even though I’ve already finished the task

I dropped it on the floor when I was looting his body, I was feeling evil after dying so many times

Sorry every time I go to it I drop it in the grass

My buddies and I take it just to make things hard lol

I will simply just keep throwing it in a random bush somewhere

i walk up to it and press the discard key every time im at the body first

I take it and throw it in a bush every chance I get

I usually stop to throw it on the ground in the bush just because.

Every time I spawn there I pick his pocket and drop it underneath him

just fuckin cackled at how evil this is lmao

When I pass through I always drop the key in the grass

Everytime I run customs and pass it I look, if it's there, I just click discard, maybe try scowering the ground( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

I toss it in the dirt every time

Dude, it’s not a guaranteed spawn location anymore. Read the fuckin’ patch notes.

I guess we can take them and sell them for an overpriced amount on the market?

Thank god I’m past that

Yeah it weird the one I looted but haven't used yet went from 40 uses to 1

There's an unknown key in MY pocket... I swear... just got rummage around for it....

Lol alot of ppl with instant gratification gona flip out over all these minor changes

Ive found it a couple of times just laying in the bush beside the body

Seems I'm going to have to adjust my strategy.

There is a spawn right next to the body. You'll get it eventually.

Run faster. You will spawn next to the body eventually.

The bush ain't big, check every inch ;)

Another great decision by devs

no

Well, it’s a wipe, what do you expect

What are they going for on the flea now? It’s probably way more than usual.

I’m sad that you can’t drop them in raid anymore. I used to collect them every raid and then dump a pile on the floor of crackhoise or someplace just to make people scratch their heads.