Return the Favor in Escape from Tarkov: How to complete, and rewards

Contents

• Complete guide for Return the Favor in Escape from Tarkov
  • Tips to lure players in the kill zone on Woods
  • Where to hide the Blue Folders and how to find it?
  • Rewards of Return the Favor in Escape from Tarkov

Return the Favor in Escape from Tarkov is one of the Lightkeeper tasks that you must complete to progress his questline. You will be able to acquire this task after 10 hours of completing Snatch, another Lightkeeper quest. While most Lightkeeper tasks are known to be moderately difficult to complete, this one is rather easier to finish as you just have to kill some enemies in a specific area on Woods and stash Blue Folders in the same map.

In this article, we will be discussing how you can complete Return the Favor in Escape from Tarkov easily and detail the locations where you need to stash/hide two Blue Folders.

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Complete guide for Return the Favor in Escape from Tarkov

Return the Favor in Escape from Tarkov is the fourth task that you will get from Lightkeeper. The objectives you need to complete to finish the task are as follows:

• Eliminate 15 PMC operatives in the mountain area on Woods
• Hide/Stash a Blue Folder inside the black SUV in the USEC camp on woods
• Hide/Stash a Blue Folder inside crates near an antenna in the USEC camp on woods

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Tips to lure players into the kill zone on Woods

The mountain area where you need to kill 15 PMCs (Image via Battlestate Games and Map Genie)

While you can wait for players to come inside the kill zone which is the mountain area on Woods and eliminate them, it can be a quite lengthy and boring process. Since you have to kill 15 PMCs in the area it's best to use something to bait the players to the kill zone.

The best way to do it is to use grenade explosions as a lure to bait PMCs towards you. This can also feel quite monotonous as players tend to avoid the mountain area on Woods. Many also tend to push fights to secure some kills. Therefore, you can catch these players off guard and potentially secure some kills.

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Where to hide the Blue Folders and how to find it?

To hide the Blue Folders, you have to go to the USEC camp located on the northern part of the map. The USEC camp is divided into two parts, and the spots to hide the Blue Folders are located in each of the camps.

The black SUV in the first USEC camp (Image via Battlestate Games)

As explained in the quest objective, you must go to the black SUV in the first camp, open its door, and hide the item inside.

As for the second one, you have to go to the second USEC camp and go to the middle part of it near the tent where you can see the satellite antenna and hide it near the big boxes behind it.

The satellite antenna and the boxes behind it in the second USEC camp (Image via Battlestate Games)

Since finding the Blue Folders while playing can be a tad bit difficult as the spawn locations are quite scarce, we recommend that you just outright purchase them from the flea market. While it may cost a little, it's best to do that instead of searching all over the Tarkov territory.

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Rewards of Return the Favor in Escape from Tarkov

After completing Return the Favor in Escape from Tarkov, the rewards you will acquire as listed in the following section:

• Lightkeeper Reputation: +0.03
• Silicon Optoelectronic integrated Circuits textbook: 1x
• Unlocks the VPX Flash Storage Module craft at Intelligence Center level two.

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This is all you need to know to complete Return the Favor in Escape from Tarkov.