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Escape From Tarkov “Is This a Reference?” Quest Guide

Place 27 WI-FI Cameras across eight maps, including one behind a locked Factory door.

Is This a Reference? requires 27 WI-FI Camera placements across eight maps. One Factory objective is inside a locked room, so bring the Factory emergency exit key as well as the cameras. Fence also requires level 25 and at least +1 Scav karma before you can start.

Requirements and objectives

Requirement Details
Character level Level 25 to start the quest.
Scav karma At least +1.
Objective Install 27 WI-FI Cameras at the listed locations across Streets of Tarkov, Ground Zero, Lighthouse, Reserve, Customs, Factory, Woods and Shoreline.

The map-by-map checklist below groups all 27 placements by location.

Equipment

  • 27 WI-FI Cameras. Mechanic can barter them at Loyalty Level 1. Mechanic also sells them at Loyalty Level 1 after you accept Informed Means Armed.
  • One Factory emergency exit key. It opens the locked third-floor room in the Factory office area for the conspiracy theorist’s room placement.

How to complete the quest

Install a camera at each named target. The objective locations are spread across eight maps, so use the checklist to keep track of the full set.

Streets of Tarkov

  • Burned girl’s sickroom: Second floor of the children’s polyclinic.
  • Really scary hole in the wall: Inside the Chekannaya Street 13 building, in the bathroom to the right after entering.
  • Barbed wire body: Inside the Chekannaya Street 13 building, near the marked room.
  • Amphibian pizza lovers’ hideout: Inside the Sewer River extraction. Most of the placement spot is in the extraction zone. A small area allows placement without extracting if you stay close to the left wall.

Ground Zero

  • High rise where one die-hard guy kicked ass: Behind the reception desk in the Nakatani building.
  • Computer with a joke for programmers: In the Kyshperski office, on the first floor in the southern part of the Fusion building. Look in the glass room with forest wallpaper.
  • Little chair surrounded by big black chairs: In the conference room on the third floor, labeled 5, of the Tarbank building.

Lighthouse

  • Ominous welcome sign: By the construction worker cabins in the north, along the main road.
  • Kindled rest place: East of the western houses directly on the shore.
  • Your friend Wilson: Near the western houses directly on the shore.
  • Megagenius scientist’s seat: Find the isolated toilet on the coastal rocks west of the chalet, north of the Hideout Under the Landing Stage area. Install the camera at the toilet.

Reserve

  • Two chair riddle: Beside the watch tower near the train depot.
  • Every tank driver’s first videogame: On the south-side wall of the medical building, White Bishop.
  • Place where conscripts did a very important task: In the southwest corner of the parade ground at the barracks.

Customs

  • Bucket-head villain: In the bathroom in the southern part of the second floor of Warehouse 6.
  • Anvil 3-4 crew member’s execution site: In the northern part of Warehouse 6’s second floor.
  • Every indie developer’s worst nightmare: In room 212 on the second floor of the three-story dorms.

Factory

  • Stairway to the skies: Inside the Gate 3 extraction.
  • Conspiracy theorist’s room: In the locked room on the third floor of the office area. The Factory emergency exit key is required.
  • Room where the firefighter burned the books to become happy: In the office area on the first floor.
  • Dangerous Russian chocolate beauty: In the locker room beside the Gate 0 extraction.
  • Place where some valve technicians couldn’t finish their third project: Underground, next to the tank containers.
  • Mother of all strategy games: In the second room on the laboratory’s second floor.
  • Where someone thought he’d get transported to the magic school: Next to Gate 2.

Woods

  • Bear who sat into a flaming car: South of the dilapidated village in the north, below the power lines.

Shoreline

  • Upside-down chair: In a room inside house No. 1, in the eastern part of the west village. The door to the room must be breached.
  • Not-so-lonely bathroom: In the bathroom of the office building at the pier.

Rewards

Reward Amount
Experience 30,000 EXP
Roubles 200,000, or 210,000 with Intelligence Center Level 1, or 230,000 with Intelligence Center Level 2
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Escape from Tarkov

Escape from Tarkov is a hardcore and realistic online first-person action RPG/Simulator with MMO features and story-driven walkthrough.

  • Genre Shooter, Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Tactical
  • Platforms PC (Microsoft Windows)
  • Perspective First person
  • Modes Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)
  • Release November 15, 2025
  • Publisher Battlestate Games

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