Arena Season 1 WHEN edition

>0.16.8.0 Patch notes
https://www.escapefromtarkov.com/news/id/347
>Where to get the latest Russian sneedware
https://www.escapefromtarkov.com
>Arena website
https://arena.tarkov.com/
>Ammo charts
https://eft-ammo.com
>Gun Builder Website (Overswing calculator included)
https://db4tarkov.com/gun
>For the newfags
https://pastebin.com/a9eHz03X
>Written guide for the newfags
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j_fZzhBmvKCDJEaqFBNlX0IjVyu6ZZu8ipNbfP5tT7k/edit
>Quest tracker
https://tarkovtracker.io/#/overview
>All your Tarkov needs website
https://tarkov.dev/
>Cultist Circle Calculator
https://www.cultistcircle.com/
>Change list
https://tarkov-changes.com/changes
>Discord
/eftg/ has no discord, any discord links posted are from tranny or homo grooming servers.
>SPT
SPT is gay

Ragequit the hardcore wipe: >>530550375

Transits take a ridiculous amount of time to happen, why the FUCK would they make it wait for a full lobby, you should be rewarded for bothering to use the mechanic with an easy raid

>>530799501 (OP)
Season 1 battlepass needs the following
>GPNVG (black)
>Multicam pants
>FAST MT (Multicam)
>weapon paint (black)
>jeans for BEAR

kek

>>530799716
I kneel...

>>530799716
Based.

>>530799716
Based Nigita, I am waiting for the Steam release which will blow up bigly in player numbers.
t. True believer

reddit got so insanely mad at this wipe it's beautiful
nikita is a genius
wish he held out with unlocking quests for a little longer

>>530799716
it's so refreshing to have the head of a larger game in the modern era that isn't some passive pissbaby '''professional''' and has the balls to say no to player requests or will tell whingey cunts to shut up
fuckin hate his gun tastes but he's a good lad

how's that early wipe drip going

>Preparing the game... (35:26)
Transits, am I right fellas

>>530800391

>>530800604
You are an unheardnigger, you have no right to call anyone a pussy.

>>530800150
>fuckin hate his gun tastes but he's a good lad
that's every russian dev, it's already a miracle Nigita added things such as the Uzi, M60, Deagle etc. we were one bad timeline away of getting endless AK slop

>"an error occurred during matching, please try again"
>during transit
hooooooooo boy

Great, I will try out China server today.From EU that should probably be at 150 ms or slightly more.
Maybe I should change my name to GwailoHater or something too.

>>530800150
i agree even though he has caved to the community about a few things that pissed me off

>>530800901
That .15 patch definitely feels like a miracle as far as weapon content goes, it's like he finally locked in and went 'time for some gun staples everyone loves' and this year it's just been the lamest fucking additions ever. Here's a .338 Sako rifle that you can't get your hands on unless you farm Birdeye or do a task that will take 100+ hours. Here's a full-auto Saiga 12 that jams in two mags and costs a gorillion dollars despite barely being faster than spamming the semi auto version. here's a prototype integrally suppressed .300BO AK that's harder to unlock than the MCX and way worse. here's a Leviathan Group fagtuber .50BMG AK that's going to have its bullets deflect off the head of some metasweat in a gimp mask

Why is desmond such a whiny bitch lol

>>530801652
he's the quintessential example of the average Tarkov streamer. 10 million hours in the game, uses nothing but meta gear, sprintjumps around like he's playing a parkour game, personality of a wet fish, seethes whenever someone interacts with him and isn't sucking him off, going to die at age 40 with no friends

>>530800047
The steam release is as real as the linux release they promised

What? Og tarky back then was bare bones as fuck, did these people even play the game??
>2 days in
>already wanting normal gameplay loop back

>>530801939
t. not a trve believer

>>530802261
When he says "progress at their own speed" he means "I should be able to nolife to level 50 with our solved routes day 1 and enjoy complete domination over everyone I encounter via trader and flea gear"

new to tarkov, i've been watching videos of people to kind of understand more, they say shit like "i heard him breath" how in the fuck do i obtain hearing like this shit

>>530803512
first you clean your ears and then use a decent headset (both irl and ingame)

>>530802261
>"at their own speed"
Translation: I was able to progress faster than everybody else and dunk on them with good gear.

>>530802261
OG tarkov didnt have progression outside getting slightly less shit guns. Now there IS progression the fat retard decided to disable all of it on wipe. It doesnt stop the nolife fucks at all it just means they nolife some other aspect.

>>530803512
they probably have cheats and need an excuse to go in that direction

>>530800150
hes actually a fuckwit who hides behind bravado and being "stronk" so he doesnt have to fix the fundamental issues with the game

>>530801848
sounds like an awful lot of projecting but yes he comes across as a narcissist like most streamers

>>530803885
you have to go back

>>530800391

>>530803512
Some streamers are using cheats and that's more common than you'd like to admit.

>>530803512
the easy part is play with headphones or IEMs, you can't really play Tarkov with speakers
then you have to learn what are the noises your character or the environment makes, what are the noises of scavs, and what are the noises of other players, which is way harder
there's also other skills related to sound like judging what specific location a gunfight is at based on the direction of gunshots and how loud they are combined with full map knowledge
sound is huge part of tarkov which is why the playerbase gets so mad whenever the devs try to have realistic bounce sound instead of having it come directly from the direction of the source

>>530803512
You dont because the devs fuck sound up every 3rd patch so you can only become like gay streamers by spending 50 hours a day in game.

>>530802261
b-but I can't play without poopsocking for 2 days so I can shit on normal people with my overpowered ammo and weapons!!!!

>>530803512
Covering up cheating mostly, but also extreme sound compression. Windows Loudness Equalisation is honestly a decent solution for anyone who doesn't want to go dead or bother with a fancy compressor, or spend thousands on the kinds of headsets they use. In ear monitors are cheap and are tuned for the tinny bullshit frequencies Tarkov loves sitting in, but sound like ass and I hate in-ear earbuds.

Also you won't hear the same things jewtubers do because youtube compresses the shit out of audio

>>530804530
-dead
+deaf

>>530799716
>he's already backing down
It's over.

>>530799501 (OP)
love this game but i wish we could somehow have procedurally generated versions of these maps (that werent dogshit), so that it felt less like going through the same routine, checking the same corner, ratting at the same spot.

idk, i just killed 2 pmcs on my last run but it was because i heard them and just stood still until they walked by and then a quick burst with an auto just walks right up their torso into the head. dead. but they were forced to walk through this chokepoint basically.

and then i get back to my stash. god im so tired of sorting my stash.

Oh I thought you can't get these anymore.

>play customs
>90 fps
>look in the direction of fortress
>50 fps
okay, it's about time for me to upgrade
any cpu recs?

>>530806387
no it's about time for them to optimize the fucking game, customs runs like dogshit since the expansion.

>>530806387
the best x3D you can afford probably

Why so?

>>530805862
How did you get that anon?

>>530806589
Basically, your problem is that you're only looking at Twitch stats, but the thing is, Twitch is a dying platform. Because of its crazy rules, censorship of 'undesirable' countries, and favoritism toward certain streamers, everyone is bailing on it.

For example, in Russia, you can't even watch Twitch in 1080p.

Because of all these reasons, Twitch's audience is scattering to other platforms. Americans are moving to things like Kick or even YouTube, while we’re massively shifting to platforms like VK Video.

You can see that in 2024, there was a drop precisely because VK Video became a serious competitor to Twitch in the CIS, and Tarkov has a HUGE audience in the CIS.

So, Tarkov’s viewership is STILL THE SAME, but it’s now spread across a bunch of platforms instead of being concentrated on one like before.

>>530806760
I just logged in to see if I got new daily quests and it popped up.

>>530806842
nyooooo the game is le dying!!!

OH NO NO NO

>>530807350
what's going to release first?
Tarkov on steam
Arena breakout on steam
GTA VI

>>530807469
probably arena breakout

>>530807350
Impressive that goofy shit even has a tenth of the views

>>530807469
ABI on Steam, but it dies before Tarkov hits Steam
I'm guessing Tarkov will release on EGS with 1.0 and then Steam 6 months-1 year later

>>530808129
i gave it like 5 hours and i was still i fighting against bots
plus the maps are nowhere near as intricately detailed as tarkov's

>dang, Chinese server is 260 ms
Where the hell is it, in Beijing or something?

[Feedback] I love hardcore, it should become the new standard. This is how the game should be experienced. People have gotten too comfortable. I like that I had to completely change how I play in wipe. For the past few years, all players have been doing the same thing. It can be tough, but honestly, it was getting boring, repetitive, and felt like everything was figured out. Hardcore has really changed things for the better. All those little joys we took for granted, like meds and ammo up the butt, are gone. It’s a struggle just to make it to the woods. Gear feels valuable again, and having to worry about using up all my good ammo/meds makes every moment even more significant. Having bosses at 100% is also working great. It provides an opportunity to get better gear not through random quests or keys, but by fighting for loot from a boss in a raid. And the payoff, as it should be, is huge. If you extract with boss gear, then yeah, you should feel like a boss using it in subsequent raids. Early in my career, I was collecting Tagilla gear. I have quite a bit of it, and I use it for quests; the armor lets me survive fights I otherwise wouldn’t.

I felt compelled to share this because it seems like I’m in the minority. There’s a lot of negative feedback. I think you guys are too attached to a certain experience, and any threat to that causes some panic. I urge you to be open and embrace the challenge boldly, don’t worry about the “game as a whole,” that’s not your job. Just try to have fun, because, as I said, this is the most fun I’ve ever had in Tarkov. Stop worrying about what it should be and experience what it actually is.

>>530800391
I FUCKING HATE GROUND ZERO
70% of my deaths are on that shithole map, people always joke about rats not moving in the game but on GZ people literally sit in one spot for 15 minutes.

>>530809781
I like scarsity but they need to balance out this thing more. It should be even more scarce and there should be some way to eliminate le streamer mindset completely.

>>530800391
>>530809812
forgot pic

>>530809781
a step in the right direction for sure. but they have to iron things out. feels like an spt mod lol

>>530809781
The boss loot is a bit too OP, should be 50-65% spawn rate. Running class V and VI plates with BP/BT a day into wipe is retarded.

>>530808576
Timmy doesn't do exclusive deals anymore and Nikita won't allow Arc Raiders to release on Steam before EFT 1.0 unless he's retarded or they're way behind on schedule.

How's the game nowadays
Haven't played the wipe since they added going from map to map
Did I miss any kino guns getting added like the MP18?

>find the GPU and kappa items within 30 seconds of each other
Lord Nikita blesses us True Believers™
Finding an Aquamari is my lucky charm in a raid
Finding an MP7A2 is a sign of misfortune
>>530809781
Much agreed, anon
If this wipe had a vitals hitbox/plate hitboxes and some extra non-meme gear content it would be literally perfect and a fantastic sendoff to the Tarkov pre-release dev cycle
As it is, it's still the most fun with the game I've had since release .14 (and just behind release .12)
>>530810194
All they need to do is nerf the plates and rounds a boss spawns with early wipe and then bring it back up over the course of a wipe
Bosses should always be near-guaranteed imo, especially if they make the maps any larger and/or add any more grindy kill achievements with rewards, even if it's like a 30% chance on raid start and then you can do something that spawns them if they weren't already there (Killa comes out of a bathroom or locked door when Kiba is opened, Glukhar spawns when both D2 + Hermetic are active or when train arrives, etc.)

>>530809781
https://www.reddit.com/r/EscapefromTarkov/comments/1lx5d8d/feedback_i_love_hardcore/

>>530809781
>>530811080
You know what? Maybe not all redditors are bad
...
NAHHHHHHHHH

>>530811080
>RemindMe! 170 days

>You should make 4th prestige if you really like it. If you are not - this is just hypocrite
Amazes me how smug redditors manage to be while making the most fucking dogshit asinine retarded arguments. Especially noticeable with this game's communirt.

>>530809781
>gear feels valuable again
gear has always felt valuable 2 days into wipe. not being able to secure ammo and meds is interesting but not a huge change up.
agreed though that transiting feels cool. the long loads people are getting is a problem but i like that it feels like youre getting deeper into tarkov, feels more like an adventure.

100% boss is a bit too "rich get richer" imo. Fun for a bit but the standard should be more like 33% imo

>>530810194
I like it lol. Farming Reshala with Tagilla shit is peak. Scrubs trying to tickle me with their shit ammo is hilarious

>>530803885
>he comes across as one of the worst types of people that you should avoid like toxic waste
>Sounds like awful lot of projecting
Which one is it anon?

>be at forklifts
>hear Tagilla shooting at med tents
>cool I can stash my toolset in glass hallway in peace
>10 seconds in
>Tagilla walks into me
FUCK OFF YOU TELEPORTING CUNT

GZ is so fucking annoying, nothing but exfil campers and other faggots. Jesus christ.

LMGs need to be more accessible, they aren't this big game changer BSG thinks they are.

do you guys rat? chad?
any tips for playing faster?

>>530814168
Well if you die you get into more raids.

>>530813317
I am fucking baffled we still don't have an M249, classic RPK/RPK-74 or even something like the newer RPL-20

>New Wipe
>Only new gun is the guntuber memegun, despite only one of it existing
>Groza will never be added because it's too rare, BTW
Are they saving the dozen of "upcoming" guns for 1.0, or are they going to be released as paid DLC/ season pass unlocks sold by Ref?

>>530814168
By those definitions I'm 90% chad at this point, but I wouldn't describe myself like that at all. I think I'd call myself 'indifferent'. I don't care what I lose most of the time so I just charge in and hope for the best, sneaking around never helped me at all anyway.

>>530817007
How often you get ambushed by some tard who heard you coming? this happens on GZ more often though because it is an elongeted rectangle shaped map, regardless of the game this kind of map shape is always a problem in terms of choke points.
Do you almost always just run and don't even bother to sneak?
I think rushing is a great strategy because most players are pussies but I'm not very good at it either...

>>530813317
>LMGs need to be more accessible, they aren't this big game changer BSG thinks they are.
Every time I've gotten my hands on the belt fed gun I had the time of my life.

>need to go to woods
>have to queue factory
>10 seconds in two light bleeds, heavy bleed and blacked out arm because spawns are dogshit
>forced to reset because 80% of my meds are gone
This is so cool.

>>530817439
Occasionally, though the faster you go, the less opportunity they have to set up somewhere, unless they've been sitting there for ages. The other thing with going fast is you become a surprisingly difficult target. Obviously pre-medding is harder now, so you can be fucked over by leg shots, but c'est la vie.
Crossing obvious chokepoints, especially if you have reason to believe someone's in there, is always a challenge. It's why streamniggers always run past doors a few times before going through them. Liberal application of grenades can help if you know someone's on the other side, otherwise you just have to treat dangerous corners like there's someone there and bait out some kind of movement or shot, or get a quick glance, for example by running past doors, or making it seem like you're about to cross the corner but then not, or popping out for just a nanosecond (unpredictably, don't just waltz up to the corner at a steady pace, and never run straight forward, always zigzag).
As with everything in Tarkov a ton of it comes down to map knowledge and knowing which angles you're exposed on, where best to move from A to B, and alternate routes in case something comes up. You feel it more than think about it eventually.
Also sneaking just plain doesn't work. Minimum encumbrance, slowest crouch walk, I'm ALWAYS still heard anyway from any distance. People claim it's silent, it's not, and apparently it's more like a jet engine exploding than anything.

So is no meds in butthole just a temporary thing for this wipe or permanent?

>>530818168
Cool post, appreciated. Well yeah this is what I have noticed especially now, even without in-game headphones I can hear people really well. It's impossible to avoid footstep sound at least on concrete surfaces.

>>530818549
>no money
>no meds
>no ammo
food and random shit is all it takes now, secure is becoming worthless

>put fourty five rounds into a guy wearing a paca
>he's fine and kills me
>FOURTY FIVE
they're never gonna fix the hitreg and I will never stop getting mad at this game

>still can't afford a junk box
>can hardly go over 1m roubles

>>530819668
lol, just play arena nigga
no one cares other than some no life neckbeards

>>530819787
>implying I don't
I already transferred 750k

>>530818698
I was running out but then found bitcoin on some dead scav. Now I have 800,000 rubles.
Still haven't been able to upgrade anything in the hideout yet even.

>>530819883
massive skill issue, holy shit.

>Have 20k roubles
>got nothing to sell only 1 m9
>buy ai2
>play gz cuz need to quest and maybe kill some scav to loot
>die to a guy camping in the emercom
>mfw cant fix myself
>whatever lets play scav
>20 min queue to play custom... oh ok
>load in try to loot
>die to a another scav player while trying to loot dead scavs on dorms
>need to wait 45 minutes to play scav again


Guys, as a standard account player, this wipe is so shit. I'm level 6, played on the first day of the wipe, killed Reshala a couple of times and died a bunch to the rats camping transits. Got like 10k roubles. There is nothing hardcore about this wipe it's just plain dumb. Nikigay just overpriced everything and that's it.

HOW THE FUCK DO I UNLOCK REF AAAAA

>>530820628
you dont

>allow up to 40k in ass
>surviving a map after transiting unlocks the map for normal queueing
There, I fixed it.

The wiki saya sending stuff back to your PMC through transits is free but it ain't :c

>linked video is cvntmark playing cowadoody on labs 5 years ago with no inertia + full meta MDR with M61 + insta throw grenades and stuffing all the loot in grenade/item/weapon cases his boyfriend brought for him
I hope this wipe permanently filters out streamerniggers, but they'll very likely all come crawling back once it's over unless Nikita is based enough to keep 1.0 hardcore.

GZ is almost always what makes me want to stop playing the game, absolutely awful map

the one thing I don't like about transiting is that everyone has to take the same route every time
it should be random maps unlocked instead, and different for different people, changing every hour or so

>>530822184
This is literally what got people to buy the game in 2020, they don't give a shit about survival and realism, for them it's just CoD but different enough to stand out among their madden and FIFA-playing friends

>>530822201
just needs an expansion, one more ring of streets/buildings around and we're good

>>530822184
Holy fuck, fuck this guy lmfao

>>530800047
I'd pay double to see VAC Bans on profile screen.

arena enjoyer here
im seeing a lot of people using the default presets. which means fresh arena players (either bought it or already eod)
seem like hardcore wipe is propping up arena

>>530825960
this was his plan all along...

>>530826371
daily 750k to eft from 1h of play is not bad. this is like 3-4 successful raids?

>>530826567
or I can play EFT for an hour and have fun instead

>>530826895
the choice is yours

>>530824582
it needs a major overhaul, rotation paths are very limited.
i'd say the terragroup building needs another entrance as hell, on the side where the vehicle extract is.

now this is neat

>>530827542
Bro, your smooth lean?

>>530827542
>>530827602
I noticed in battlebit that people would bind both lean and sidestep to A/D. I wonder how many of the players do that

>>530827602
oh right... im smooth brain haha

>>530827602
Smooth lean is for pussies.

>>530827602
wait what are you talking about its binded alt+A/D. i barely use it anyway. you have me tripping

>>530827351
It's really weird that it doesn't have one over there. That little corridor with the dead USEC with the knife in his neck could just continue further down and pop out on the other side from Tarbank. Put a staircase in there as well so that upstairs area isn't a super defensible choke too.

>>530822184
AAAAAAAAA
KILL ALL STREAMERS
fuckers got into the game for the wrong reasons

>>530822184
it made for higher octane pvp which is the only thing tigz plays the game for. All he does now is rat on labs
I think he's right but I also think that the old EFT is so far removed from the current one that they should just add a 0.10 server skew so the no-life streamerfags can play it 24/7 instead of moaning and trying to get nikita to revert to the old ways

>>530828924
Do a firetruck with a ladder going to the second floor. place the truck right next to vehicle. Easy fix. Gives route in and out. while retaining risk.

what a fucking nigger

>>530829687
I'm subbing to him

>>530829687
Funny, can't find anything with that moniker. Maybe his streamer career didn't take off after all...

Shit.

>>530829424
objectively, they overdid it with many of the changes in the inertia patch. stamina is still too low. levelling it takes 1000 raids.
stuff like sens multi 0.1 during prone is just retarded. inertia itself is too much, your character feels less realistic and more like a truck with an underpowered motor.

they just need to tone it down a bit and add more fluid animations. and remove any static animation that makes the game unfun

Okay my strategy is to run factory marked, kill a scav, then extract and sell his gun. Not much but its a living

>>530830836
finished with GZ yet?

>>530831359
I still need the wine bottle.

>>530831446
Not too bad. Get it done and escape the cqc meat grinder!

the hideout is coming along nicely ;)

>>530831969
noone asked you 2kd npc

Can someone confirm this please, I'm about to make some bad financial decisions.
Does therepist's healing still cost 10k max, or did they increase it? I'm about to run Ground Zero pistol runs and just rat out the raid, not sure if my money will handle it.

>>530832176
you VILL read my blogposts and you VILL like it

Woke haters gonna hate
Based enjoyers continue to enjoy

>>530831123
My strat is to run scavs as often as possible and sell all their shit for cash, then turn that cash to weapons and ammo to run customs stashes with

>>530832480
It's free until level 5 so get your ratting in now, afterwards it depends on how badly you die, I've seen $50k bills

What the FUCK did they do

>>530832480
It's like 33k

HOOOOLYYY
I'm on fire today, got a 2 kill and a car exfil for a quest. So much better than yesterday where I died 7 times

>crashing during transit now counts as extracting
neat, but it shouldn't crash at all

>>530832589
let's see the player count one week from now lol

>>530833975
it was a thing before, that's how I cheesed the guide. Weird that they haven't fixed that

>no money to heal
>scav on cooldown
Amazing experience.

>>530835031
just buy arena and transfer roubles you fucking chud

>>530835084
I already did and I can't do it for the next 24 hours.

>>530835175
oof, isn't it like 1.5M per transfer tho?
also
>just go naked with no heal and bleeding from every orifice
also also
I think they fucked up the economy, if you get several bad raids in a row there's not much you can do until your scav is up

>>530835479
It got nerfed to 750k

>hear some stomping in the water near me
>thick-voiced russian screaming
>"Is that tagi-"
>BANG
>no arm
>bang bang bang back, running a trash build bc I just wanted to get to woods transit
>he fucking drops dead
>rush to extract with the loot b4 other PMCs realize what happened
Holy shit I didn't know he could spawn down there, and no guards?

i keep killing 3-4 people on GZ and always end up dying. i fuckin hate having to carry my perpetual noob friends through this map

>>530810735
EGS now does a thing where they take a 0% until 10 million or 100 million revenue, I don't remember.
Anyway if he actually does an EGS exclusivity and misses a 2025 steam release he's clinically retarded.

>>530835834
He can spawn anywhere on the map. And what do you mean no guards? He never has any guards

>>530836082
That's my first time killing him, I thought all bosses spawned with their guards

>>530836082
Doesn't he usually have a couple of scavs following him around? Definitely remember scavs swarming me whenever he runs after me.

>>530836221
>>530836235
nah, he and killa don't have any guards. If you happened to by jumped by scavs after killing him they came on their own, probably lured by gun shots

I kinda like the wipe because I get to roll over cucks in boss gear and quest for free, but this is evident that they're trying to mask all the problems the game has prior to 1.0 and save on resources to push 1.0 before their money run out.

>>530832589
this is 100% a lie. Pure cope at best. They haven't touched their infrastructure or netcode in any significant way. The instabilities that were associated with high influx of players are gone, because there's just not a lot of people playing.
>inb4 noooo they fixed it i swear
yeah no... They haven't done shit. The same cheats and exploits are still possible.

>>530801652
has he been getting shit on this wipe?

>>530809781
bro really labeled his post like it's reddit

>>530835834
>Drop Turnikmen
Love theses names.

>>530836526
whined about getting throated by a duo while wearing tagilla gear in interchange after jiggle peeking the same angle over n over
also called one chatter a retard when he was asked why he kept re peeking lmao

bsg are the best game devs out there. reddit and twitch crying pissing and shitting themselves. love it

>>530836436
agreed i dont buy that its way more.
this wipes gonna be fine though, especially as they tinker shit in the coming weeks.

i dont get why ppl are saying streamers hate it. what's to hate? losing ammo and meds? if you dominated other wipes this isnt really much harder

>>530838097
Retards like me suffer because I can't insurance fraud and I keep hovering around 100k rubles. Poopsocks are always gonna be poopsocks so this is only hardcore for people like me.

>>530838097
>i dont get why ppl are saying streamers hate it.
I think a lot of people will have different reasons but streamers are probably worried that this will kill the casual playerbase and fuck with their income

>>530838097
It's not that it's more or less difficult, it's just pointless tedium that isn't fun to overcome.

>>530836048
>8 copies

Alright hardcore bros, i've been doing a few raids. I think I'll stop actively playing until they address transits a little bit, do an event, or just update the game a little bit.

Hobo fights were fun but the raids aren't really fun right now because everyone is just camping their spawn and waiting 25 minutes until they can move.

>>530838097
>this wipes gonna be fine though, especially as they tinker shit in the coming weeks.
Pretty much what I'm about to do, just wait out till they mess with shit to not be cancer, maybe in like a week once they open up tarkovdotcommunity back up so we can atleast give some directives
>>530839474
>streamers are probably worried that this will kill the casual playerbase and fuck with their income
Probably? These faggots can just not be retarded and create content for more than one game and probably still thrive. Actually have a personality other just being a mongol bhopping adderral jumping streets or labs

I'll be on the board checking shit out as they tweak the game though, anyone still on I hope y'all have bountiful raids

>>530836526
hes literally one of the best players in the game, he had a 37 kdr for the entire first day
>>530837520
too bad he has vods and clips off i couldnt confirm if he actually did repeek that like a retard or if the chatter was the retard

>>530840650
>everyone is just camping their spawn and waiting 25 minutes
this is the shit that weirds me out so much
timer is red and suddenly I'm being pushed by PMCs, like what the fuck?

>>530841561
Spawns are the problems, too many PMCs per raid and spawns are too close to one another, raids are predictable.

>>530841561
That's the logical consequence of a hardcore wipe, everything is worth a lot more, people will play extra slow for survival

>>530840650
Well in any case the fact that game is almost always creating controversies one way or another is a sign that BSG is a shit dev. Always was and always will be.

the kit cuck fears the pistol chud

>>530836048
>8 copies
kek
>unironically implying that EGS has 70% of steam's paying userbase
lmfao those shills are so blatant, they used to be all over /v/ but it seems they've scaled back their shilling campaign over time
nobody uses that piece of shit storefront, nobody cares about the publishers getting more money because it will never translate to a better product and nobody with a lick of sense will buy an EGS exclusive game because it screams that the developers have absolutely no faith in their product
looks no further than Darkest Dungeon 2 which I think was the latest of the EGS flops.

I like ground zero

>>530846037
>pve

>>530843740
I really need to get a better PC, no wonder I keep dying when I'm up against people who play this game with this smooth of a framerate.

Getting some HARDCORE progress right now!

>>530846165
I know the feeling. I used to play the game with 8 gigs of ram and a 2500k. Which was "fine" back in 0.9 but holy shit did it lead to some frustration like this webm every now and then. Interchange was the worst by far
no this is not my webm being broken this is 1:1 how it was on my end.

>>530846140
retard

>>530847025
you can't get the khorovod armband on pvp anymore, dumb pvenigger.

>>530847113
you get it at the start of every wipe. now sit the fuck down, retard.

how do u open the p2w stuff>?

>>530848152
workbench 1 + hand drill

are you guys also struggling not going dead broke right now?

>>530848646
86 mil in the bank in spt

>>530848697
i kneel

flipped my monitor and look at this kek

>>530848646
Yeah it's fucking rough out there. The worst part is every time I have something relatively expensive on me I keep finding shit I need for the hideout/task/gunsmiths and I'm forced to drop stuff.

>24
FUCK OFF

>>530850040
>>530848646
how do you guys play even? healing costs 40k

>>530850348
I've been playing more carefully so im not dying as often. It's still very expensive

>>530850348
i don't heal

>>530850267
>it's fine because it's hardcore and tarkov's main gameplay loop is looting 222 es lamps
>if you disagree you are a fucking nigger and shouldn't play this game

Being Scav main is pretty comfy. Plaing once every hour or so.

>>530850267
jesus christ lol

I don't understand this profile at all.
I emptied couple of clips to him and he didn't even die. Goddamn this is getting frustrating.

>>530852975
I see nothing unusual.

WHERE'S THE FUCKING WINE BOTTLE?

>>530853275
Put your textures to Medium or High, that helps a lot.

>2 raids in a row where I just want to transit to Woods from Factory and I encounter a trio
this is so fucking stupid

>>530850267
enjoy the stash space tax tovarish)))

>>530852975
>clips

>>530852975
shit ammo against decent plates or cheating, take your pick
you're calling your magazines clips so it's probably the former

>>530853275
Pro tip: the top is always red

>>530854362
i had a full clip of eagle neck though...

so are the other maps empty because it's all transits except for GZ, customs and factory or do you guys actually encounter players?

>terminal shown on the map but no other location
bros? could it be happening?

>>530854802
it's been there forever

>>530854540
When i transited interchange on day 1, a bit over half the lobby would spawn on the customs transit and die right away, so the rest of the raid would be empty. I havent played interchange since so im not quite sure if this has changed.

>>530854879
well yeah but they've intentionally removed every other map but left terminal in

>>530855028
they probably don't know how to remove it for UI

member dis

>>530855308
LOL we wished so hard

>>530855308
I have a feeling that they are going to milk pay pigs with cosmetics come release only to completely abandon the game as soon as they've squeezed it for what its worth one last time.

>>530854151
>>530854362
>>530854469
I'm so sorry if I offended you.

>>530855308
weren't they going to merge towns + suburbs with streets?

>>530848787
The most I've ever gotten was 167mil but that was when I was abusing locked cases and I didn't have my loadout costs nailed down yet, now to get that high again I'd have to really work for it

>>530857563
it's okay we forgive you but if it happens again the consequences will never be the same

>>530854469
>eagle neck
do you mean igolnik lmfao

>you are forced into a night raid after transition
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOW
I KNEEL, BEST WIPE IN THE HISTORY
At least I've unlocked jaeger

>>530859907
that's what he said

>>530860046
Should've brought NVGs, silly.

>>530860046
In Russia some days are very dark.

>>530860224
>>530860227
say it to his face

>>530860363
shoulda brought nvgs dummy!

If they just fixed the retarded load times I don't think people would have an issue with the transitions. Also if you're hurting for some easy cash grab like 50k and go to woods, use BTR to get to train station. Nobody else can get in so it's uncontested chill looting and there is and extract right there. Picrel what an average bag looks like (picture from last wipe)

>>530860845
Does the BTR always go to train station? I've tried using it a couple times but it hasn't had the option to go there.

>>530860948
Every time I have entered the BTR I have had that option. It costs like 15000-ish, rest of the money is for loot transfer in case you picked up something on the way. Also here is a map on how to get out on foot if you do not find the mines code map to use the extract there.

>>530860845
>ornament
nigga is a time traveler
>>530860948
btr interface is fucking broken, you have to have your cash in pocket OR if it doesn't work in your rig

theres no way im getting kappa this wipe and i dont like this game enough to just fuck around so i wont even bother

dying to rat every single time
i think i'm done with this shit once again, this game is just not for me
i need a medication in order to keep going or otherwise i'll turn violent irl

>locked traders
>""hardcore"" wipe
>oh but also - here, enjoy our 100% spawn rate bosses

stomped 2 arena lobbies for dailies and sent my welfare check
scavved in to kill 3 other player scavs and disconnected
done for the day

>>530862437
you are a fucking cocksucker? huh
enjoy killing friendly scavs ? fucking pig

>>530862292
I have seen exactly 2 people running boss gear. One of them was just using Reshalas AK and the other one was my friend after tagilla suicided with a grenade. It's not that big of an issue.

>What if players had to queue for three minutes just to queue another three minutes to reach the target map/location?

>>530861102
lmao what, you literally just follow the tracks? that seems super lazy and way too obvious. I figured it'd be some minor puzzle where you line up two specific points and walk a straight line between them or something like that

>>530861893
Every raid on GZ i die to a rat fuck. Pic related, check this dude out.

>>530862292
I got killed by a prick camping Jaeger's letter with Tagilla's armor and AK, and Factory is full of boss farming squads

yeah I don't feel like playing anymore

>>530862437
unspeakably based

>>530862437
lol i was probably one of those pscavs, happened around noon today.

If I had a 5 man right now, id just have us run into factory over and over again, and have each person take turns for looting tagilla

>>530862732
I died to a guy wearing tagilla/killa armor a few times in the last two days. It's not a huge issue, but it definitely doesnt need to exist. watching my ammo bounce off these dudes is ridiculous in the context of things.

>>530862437
just incredibly based but next time make sure to kill at least 4

>>530863857
you have to be autistically precise in how you follow the tracks unless you want to step on a mine, it's not as simple as that image indicates

>>530861102
>take more than 2 seconds to run across the train roof
>magical explosion happens near your feet, scav snipers magically hit your leg or thorax
It's so retarded, not to mention that you have to break your legs everytime you want to leave and there's a high chance of some rat nigger camping in the nearby building where you jump down.

Doubt it's worth going there this wipe anyways

any other pso users with the op sks right now? I got some pp off partisan and loaded it in, works really well i find

>>530864989
been doing that since day 1. very hardcore strat.

So what part of this wipe is "hardcore" exactly?

>>530865514
as a standard account solo player, if i have multiple raids that end in death I'm basically praying for lucky scav runs. It was fun at first, but now its just getting in the way of me wanting to play the game. The insane trader service/item costs coupled with the devalued goods is cock blocking me from doing more raids.

If you play with a group you just farm factory and after your finished you can run around shit stomping people like me. This part probably doesnt feel hardcore, but is probably fun.

>>530864989
>>530865432
This game would be so much better without bosses it's unreal.

>>530866018
>It was fun at first, but now its just getting in the way of me wanting to play the game
geg, I figured this would be the case

reminder everyone itt asking for nerf to boss spawnrate is a braindead niggerfaggot and should kys

>>530866267
I'm not asking for a nerf, I'm asking for complete removal because they bring nothing good to the game and only create problems.

>>530866262
oh and another thing thats fucking insane that i think they are going to have to nerf are the hide out requirements.

I think lvl 3 lighting required 24 LED bulbs...

Thats A LOT of fucking time face down ass up in tool chests and supply crates. I'm already sick of sifting through bags hoping to find toilet paper/tooth paste and I havent even managed to build my med station yet.

>>530866497
>I think lvl 3 lighting required 24 LED bulbs...
Before the wipe you needed a total of 111 ES lamps for the hideout, it's fucking 222 now, it's so fucking retarded.

>>530866497
As a standard acc I don't have even have every module on lvl 1 and my stash is already full of junk. I may play a little longer for a couple of days since I don't have anything better to do, but I don't feel it. I guess I'm not hardcore enough

>>530867003
It's fucking ridiculous they still haven't implemented partially turning in hideout items.

>>530866705
It's retarded, but i don't mind it too much, at least until we find out how much you have to do to get the hardcore achievements.

>>530867335
Yeah, that'd be massive, but there are still a few things I'd like them to change, namely transits and economy. The cost of everything has been overtuned to the point where people run out of money. I honestly don't give a fuck about flea or lack of insurance, but dying right now is so punishing that people are crab walking 5min before the raid ends

>>530867003
This is my first wipe in many years, i started out running customs because its the map i know like the back of my hand, the new additions don't complicate it, but that said I could not find any fucking loot on that map....

Started playing on GZ which is brand new to me, there is loot every where on that mother fucker that seems intentionally designed to keep your PMC fed and hydrated and to progress your hide out. You just have to get comfortable with the idea of fighting another pmc 30 seconds after spawn. The spawns are fucking retarded as always.

Oh yeah there is a room that just kills you btw, found that out today. Avoid fucking around in the first floor of tarbank (i think it was).

>>530867961
By how much did they cut the sell prices to traders? It's been a good while since I played but I can barely break even and if I lose a kit or two I am seriously fucked. I just hit level 5 and I am already dreading having to pay for post-death healing.

>>530866705
Yeah, I'm done with this wipe. I think i'll keep playing until i run out of cash and then wait for release.

Maybe they will fix stuff, but it seems like BSG cant fix something with out breaking 30 other things.

>>530868326
I got kappa last wipe, had lots of fun but right now it's not it. There's just too many things that bend you over and to top that off I get to play tetris every fucking raid.
>>530868343
Fuck, I can't tell you. I feel like some items sell for like a half the price? OScope sells for 30k I think? Previously it was 55 or 60k. Some items are literal garbage that sell for less than 2k, I don't think prices are slashed evenly across the board.
>I just hit level 5 and I am already dreading having to pay for post-death healing
Yeah, look right there >>530864206. Got a bill like I'm from US, 10% of my stash kek

>>530869090
>quadrupled healing costs
come on now

Peanutkeks our response?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LmBQNX4KLOg

>>530868343
Most items seem to sell between 5 and 9k rubles, something like soft body armor from ragman is 40k+ rubles.

If i fully kit up in lvl 1 trader trash I'm spending close to 200k.

>>530869665
then maybe don't do a full 200k kit? its hardcore. you don't need to go no armor, pistol + headset but you can definitely skip out on a backpack, skip out on a helmet, etc, figure out where you can cut the budget and maybe pick up that item in raid.
ur just not cut out for the hardcore experience

Im kinda shocked at how poor everyone is
I thought I was "ok" with my T4 and AKSU but I'm somehow more geared than 99% of the people I meet

>>530867617
>at least until we find out how much you have to do to get the hardcore achievements.
Yeah, I don't think Kappa is going to be part of the hardcore achivement, the acheivement is also partially the reason i'm still playing

>>530869353
Only fun tarkov streamer

>>530869873
if they added cute anime girl PMCs I'd forgive nikita for this wipe

>>530869794
nta but I'm tired of hearing that shit. If I wanted to play like a beggar I'd play scav all the time. Actually no, scavs seem to spawn with better gear than what I use

>>530869948
>IM LOUD AND I YELL AT PEOPLE AND REACT TO THINGS IN A HYPE BEAST WAY
you're 12

Reminder we're getting all traders to be shown in-game with no menus

>>530871121
It's just one faggot repeatedly posting about this annoying retard. Ignore.

>>530869794
>then maybe don't do a full 200k kit?
Please link me a kit that isn't essentially a naked pistoling. I'm excited to see what you cook up for under 100k.

Right now the prize of victory is absolute hit or miss, but the penalty for losing is always fucking brutal regardless of what kit you brought in.

>trying to do introduction
>1st attempt arrive in woods at night get blown up by landmine
>2nd attempt get the paper, camped by outskirts
>3rd attempt camped at factory transit
>4th attempt camped near the paper itself
Amazing

>>530871121
I'm sorry you're a boring oldfart who can't find anything funny. Staring at a wall is more fun than watching serious tarkov streamers.

>>530871121
screaming at things is also Gen X humor, remember Sam Kinison?

are there any tolerable tarkytubers whatsoever?
the only one I know of is fairtx but that's all i've got

>>530871680
I did 3 runs just to finish that shit. First two I was fully kitted out and died trying to transit, 3rd was a pistol only raid and actually did it during the night.
Imagine doing shit like punisher 4 or any fetch quest on shoreline. Fuck I'm getting mad just thinking about it

>>530872349
Sam's old videos hold up pretty well

>>530872532
I like the new videos when he doesn't try to distance himself from the past. Idubbz energy.

finally, a good cultist circle

>>530872349
SwampFox
AquaFPS

>>530872821
I like his new videos too mostly because his sense of humor hasn't really changed at all. Even if he isn't playing tarkov he's still funny.

>duo
>duo
>trio
>duo
xDDDD

I have survived 18 raids in a row. Best wipe ever apart from the spawns.

>What's your loadout
Tank helmet with nvgs, a benelli I got off a dead raider, green lvl 4 rig that prapor gives you, a berkut, food and water in pouch as well as a propitol.

Once you get to a map that isn't factory or customs it's very hard to die.

>>530873710
Can you stick the nvg hat in the secure container? Im thinking about going on an expedition as well.

>>530872879
holy s##t is this real?

>>530874329
SPT

>>530874329
yes (:

>>530872879
> PvE
Play the real game, faggot

I do like the "slower" progress but so far I cant help but think hardcore wipe failed to fix the issue of previous wipe
The best way to progress/make rubles right now is still to spam scavs and arena, aka do anything but play the main game, pmcs run are barely worth it

>>530879270
unless you're good at the game.

>>530879020
no

>>530879308
You'd think so but not really, even for good players a quick scav raid/arena dailies are super worth it
The one niche PMCs run have right now is to rush tagilla non-stop and murder him for his helmet/plate/ammo, this way you can skip the "progress" part of the wipe entirely and run around in endgame gear while everyone has a pistol/shotgun
Shit is pretty retarded, I personally am on a roll but I cant imagine how the timmies feel right now

no one is playing scav in SA lol

>>530880894
I exclusively play SA (I fucking live here); zero idea how dead the servers are or how people are playing. I played a little bit yesterday and lobbies were still packed

>>530881414
lobbies are indeed packed but entirely of pmcs
i usually go for a scav run after a pmc run but i still haven't been able to play as a scav
i don't really know how it works.

My operational tasks aren't resetting :c

how do i make my game not so fucking dark with an amd card??

>>530884128
amd has no gamma slider?? you can use third party software then that lets you increase gamma

>>530884128
surely adrenaline has basic gamma settings

i fucking hate blastbang

>>530884128
I dont know how AMD work but you could always try tweaking your monitor settings

>>530885810
I just played arena and had fun, just transferred my daily amount of money. Fragged out a little bit, didn't tilt at garbo teammates.

Take the arena pill anons, the game can be kinda fun sometimes.

>just play arena bro
>an infinitely inferior version to pretty much any team based multiplayer shooter ever
>bad performance
>horrible netcode
>wierd clunky movement
>wierd shooting mechanics
>non fluid gameplay
>30 bucks for all that

No, I don't think I will.
Unless you plan on using it to hone your skills in EFT there is precisely 0 reason to play this garbage

>he doesn't have EOD
oh nonono...

a scav just spawned behind me apparently and killed me
very fun

>pump 4 flechette shots into the face of a mask faggot in arena
>doesn't drop
was it always this shit or did they make it worse?

>>530888259
I've never had good experiences with memechette in Arena. I either use buck and go for legs, or slugs and go for legs

>>530886962
>Unless you plan on using it to hone your skills in EFT there is precisely 0 reason to play this garbage
pretty good argument in its favor considering how important being able to shoot is
though i wouldn't pay for it in the same sense that I had already bought EOD ages ago.

>>530888259
Try piranhas, it kinda fuck

>>530809781
I like many of the changes but they really should get rid of bosses period. Like, completely. They're the one part of this game that make it worse without anything positive to add.
Scav should also become a completely separate mode with own stash and larger restrictions on what you can get but maybe shitty gear that's possible to buy once and keep using forever akin to how Arena presets work.

>>530889636
All my Arena shotguns are mixed flesh damage slugs and some buckshot or w/e pellet ammo. First shot takes the leg off, second finishes them off - pellets so I don't get cucked by the slug missing by a milimeter.

I kind of feel bad killing pscavs now that the timer is so long and matching takes forever.
Kind of.

>>530891870
im inclined to install the game JUST to kill player scavs once an hour. fucking worthless NPCs

Can you still alt+F4 in a transit screen and keep the loot?

>>530892915
try it and see (^:

>dead broke from my first two raids because i unknowingly insured
>just got my insurance back
>1(one) singular AK mag

>>530893905
that's one more AK mag than you would have gotten otherwise, be grateful

1.85 mil for a junk case is too damn high

>>530890325
other people seem to get by just fine without playing arena
i personally significantly improved after playing arena. it really gives you a good idea of how absolutely fucking retardedly broken the peekers advantage is

>is he getting rekt
yes hes getting rekt, only at 84% SR and 32 KDR right now, truly getting fucked by this hardcore wipe

>>530895769
That includes scav, which l o l he must be using a lot. Look to the top right of his PMC model to see his PMC-only stats. Though that KDR seems completely wrong considering he's apparently got a 51% SR at 133 raids

>>530895769
>>530896047
Wait hold on, looking more those numbers just straight up don't make sense. His overall raid number is the same as his total so he hasn't scavved at all. Why does he have two completely different SRs?

>>530896171
its probably because transits are bugged and literally dont count as survived or something.
cant see any other viable explanation. but yeah his actual SR is 84% and he never scavs or plays arena

>>530896545
Whatever the case, death to streamniggers crying rivers for even potentially losing an advantage over everyone else, they're actual children

he literally just plays the game tho

>>530850267
>>530850551
Literally not an issue even if it's illogical
a gorillion bulbs and lamps spawn a raid, just hit toolboxes on Interchang/Woods/Reserve when the time comes

>>530897805
Adding to the anon, who the fuck told you that you need to MAX EVERYTHING in the hideout.
You don't even need to max actually everything for Prestige even, like, using that as a benchmark is actually fucking meaningless and you're just bitching for the sake of bitching you retarded faggot

you dont need to use your hideout like ever.

>>530885614
>>530885654
>>530886367
thanks guys i remembered i had this same issue a year ago and i had a custom ICC profile set up which does wonders

>>530898965
you do if you're standard

>>530899128
probably not strong enough, get gammapanel while playing https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/gamma_panel.html

>>530899574
For like stash upgrades yeah, but ngl nikita probably intentionally just cucked them into buying unhinged atp, not even surprised

the one good thing about the container update is the ammo.
being able to put hundreds of high tier bullets in your container with no risk of losing them was dumb.

>>530899682
I remember upgrading my stash to 3 years ago. I also had a Gamma I bought off Fence when that was still possible. I thought it was pretty neat I could get to the same level as paypigs, even if it took lots of grind.

What's the easiest boss to cheese as a solo player?

>>530901013
None are 'easy' to solo but Reshala generally spawns in areas that are easier to get close to (since long distance is where bosses laser you to death) and they're a pretty cowardly bunch

>>530901013
hold corners and let them push you

Starting to get the hang of things. Once I unlocked Jaeger I can now run the toz all modded out for only like 30k, then I sell any good guns I find. Ive made 1 million rubles net today even with spending 30-50k on healing, and I have killed 4 pmcs with my tricked out toz

>>530901013
>>530901146
Oh actually it's worth remembering also that you NEED high pen rounds for Reshala because his guards frequently wear high tier face shields

>>530901013
They're all relatively easy if you get lucky with spawns and your approach. Reshala guys often clump up in one room on dorms and can be flushed out with a grenade, much more dangerous on gas or construction. Goons are also really easy on Customs if they stay near the RUAF side. Glukhar is really easy inside Black Pawn or underground. Kaban you can sneak in from the back or kill them one-by-one from distance and abuse the mounted gun magnetism they have. Kollontay is really easy in every location he is in. Killa is a bit tarded because I don't think I've ever fought him uncontested but middle of the mall is when he can be snuck up on the easiest. Tagilla caught in the tunnels is easier than taking candy from a baby, there's a reason why he's so popular to farm. Sanitar is easy in Resort unless you manage to get into the villas before aggroing him then they'll just line up for headshots when entering the room you are in. Shturman and Lightkeepeer guard you just click from far away but bring big gun for Lighthouse and make sure to kill the main guy first. It's all just abusing cover to click them before their instant-kill headshot beam charges up.

>buy arena
>It's the most toxic shit ive played since Halo 2 on xbox live
>team mates are purposefully crippling limbs, standing in way of shots, preventing movement
>i payed 35 dollars for this
Fell for it again award goes to me.

>>530902965
If you are zen and ignore them they will usually recover their sanity. Also just carry your team
t. personal experience

>>530902965
this seems to be the americlap experience mostly
the only time i hear someone speaking (in unranked at least) is some faggy american crying about something, everyone else is just dead quiet

Oh yeah we opr8in

>>530902965
>payed

>niggers still cheat in a game that has p2w and no market to sell shit on
idk how people can be that down bad to cheat like wtf are you even playing for anymore.

>>530903435
This, burgers are sociopaths

>>530904678
you understood what i was saying, get fucked nerd.

>>530904738
I win, you lose. I live, you die. I am good, you are bad. I am god, you are slave.

>>530904738
they sell accounts now, not items
>>530905404
>winning in a game requires same rules
>you live as a slave to a machine that does your work

>>530905404
genuine psychopath behavior

>>530905995
>they sell accounts now, not items
who is dumb enough to buy the account

>>530865225
I've never gotten shot at by sniperscav running on the train. I did try the landmines thing in offline and it seems like unless you stick to the centerline of the train when crossing you might trigger them.

>>530906385
There are so many retards in the world it's beyond human comprehension

Tired of all these homosexual buttbuddies. Solos should be prioritized with other solo players but still have a chance of running in to a duo or squads. Similar to how arc raiders is doing it.

>spawn by woods transit on factory
>then spawn by jaeger's hut
>stroll through the map to outskirts without seeing a soul
>jaeger unlocked first try
comfy

>>530862437
tarkov hardcock@!

>>530907806
I went all the way from customs to reserve to woods to do it, ended up taking well over an hour because of the matching times

>found the GZ utility room key and GZ cash register key
LOOT RUNS ON GZ LETS GO

genuinely amazes me how many people are supposedly fully broke this wipe and have no way to make money/get gear
what the fuck are they doing? insuring all their gear? taking helmet/vest/headset/assault rifle with 5-7 mags every time? not looting anything that doesn't have a high liquid ruble value?

>>530909504
I'm just 6 raids in but I've only died twice. Gotten good "loot" and I'm gear rich but cash poor. Nothing really sells for shit, I don't really find treasure but I do get lots of mods/weapons or junk/food. All of its useful so I'm not going to sell it for like 50% of what it normally sells for, just doesn't make sense. So despite doing quite well from the start my cash on hand is 400k rn, down 100k from the start. I'm not worried about becoming dead broke but until tasks start giving some better roubles just selling the shit I find in raid just lets me break even.

>tired of fighting PMCs to see the machine gun on GZ
>grab some night visions
>load into a 21:30 raid
>it's broad fucking daylight
>i cant afford to lose this night vision
>sit in tar bank watching PMCs and player scavs run past me
>I'm in the middle of a fire fight right now
Please let this raid end.

>>530907314
I like to imagine there was very little room for people who lacked common sense when the pioneers settled the west.

>>530909504
Maybe they heal after every raid instead of using their meds hoard

>>530909504
I'm stuck at around a million rubles, I've been focused on building my hide out and not farming money.

I usually take around 2 to 3 extra mags with spare ammo, since im a solo i have to do all my fighting. I typically wear a lvl2/lvl 3 vest with back pack and rig with a ski mask. I won't play with scav weapons since they are prone to jamming.

nearly all of my weapons have come from barter or discovery. Back packs have all been looted.

My absolute biggest money sink is healing kits and body armor. I'm struggling to get the barters for them, but I've got AKs, UMP and MP5 coming out my ass.

>>530912273
You and I are playing the same way except I'm up to 2mill now, make some room in your ass or backpack for attachments, those sell really well at the mechanic.

Everything about this wipe is kino and I'm enjoying it but they gotta do something about the transits or open the maps back up.

>>530912909
sounds like not everything about this wipe is kino then

>>530912909
Transits should just grab whoever's around in a ~5 - 8 minute window (starting from the first person), not wait hours for a full lobby.

>>530912983
>>>/r/eddit

>>530913257
you got smoked nigger

>>530913401
stay filtered

>>530912810
any other tips for good loot?

Everything im picking up is either less than 1k or about 10k, no inbetween.

>>530913632
If you can take the flashlights and sights off of scav weapons, and also before you sell weapons you can disassemble them and sell some pieces to the mechanic and others to fence, but that's omega poverty strats

>>530913463
>wipe is kino!
>except this

sounds like you are getting filtered little faggot

>Shoot 5 slugs into an unheard of fucker on spawn in ground zero
>he doesn't die
>shot in the back of the head by the other spawn
>1:06 life
>death screen says 5 shots 6 hits

I'm so ass mad at dying on spawn. Its either I die in less than 2 minutes or live the whole raid and don't see a single soul.

>>530909275
The utility room has netted me several nice weapons and even a few rigs. Its a legitimately good loot spot on GZ when the spawns don't fuck me

Wish 74s other than the U were available at LL1. Sick of that little bastard

>>530911621
>meds hoard
do standard accounts even get that?
im sitting at 2 mill but i can absolutely imagine how someone could blow through their 500k starter pack with a bad day of raids

>>530909504
it costs 200k to go in with piss-poor gear
with cumheard you start with 1m
that's 5 deaths
simple math

>>530915131
>it costs 200k to go in with piss-poor gear
krink: like 30k
3 mags: like 10k
5.45 US: like 20k for 150 rounds
type 56 rig: like 10k
meds: like 10k
loot scavs and stop fucking dying 24/7

>>530914494
>make a single exception
>HAH U JUST COUNTERED UR OWN POINT xD
just admit you're softcore, bud.

>>530915257
not a single number you just dropped is right

>>530915496
I'm gonna drop my balls on your face

>transit to Reserve as a scav
>Waiting Simulator 2025

>>530915701
I'm gonna chew them off

>>530915081
>do standard accounts even get that?
lolno we start with some cheese, a couple of cars, an unnecessary number of splits, and bandages.

>niggas are AI generating posts about how they hate the wipe now
https://www.reddit.com/r/EscapefromTarkov/comments/1lxunhy/discussion_nikitovsky_why_do_you_make_us_waste/
lol, lmao

>>530915386
maybe you are the softcore one buddy the transit system aint bad

>>530915257
>loot scavs and stop fucking dying 24/7
Anon, scav loot isnt worth shit. I'm not risking a bullet to the head so i can go digging through some dirty hobos pockets. It's not worth it, outside of your personal enjoyment, to do anything other than farm tagilla and safe in a 5 man.

>>530917134
>he genuinely doesn't know

People are still falling for the same single guy trolling every single post as though they're actually replying in goodwill.

my stash is full

>>530916886
lol so blatant. also really lame points
>the economy is ruined
yeah it's not supposed to be a robust healthy economy dumbass it's supposed to be hardcore and people are ripping you off because youre desperate and have no other options.
>scav timers are too long
oh noo you cant get risk free profit back to back all day

also honestly are any of you getting 40 minute transit queues? are these people goldish brained retards who stay in raid for 37 minutes and then transit and think they waited 40 minutes?

>>530917978
speaking as someone who plays primarily OCE/JP/KR most of my transits pop within like 5 minutes max

>>530918256
i'm east coast NA and yep same. I'd say 3 minute average.
also pro tip, transiting will get your blacked limbs above 0 hp so you can heal.

>>530872349
Smoke is comfy. he doesn't main this game though and he's not a pro. but I relate to him a lot, he tries to play immersively, self imposes rules on himself, is generally a nice dude.

>night time factory
>nvgs and a really, really shitty loadout
>trying to head to woods
>open door to bottom floor of office to see 3 dudes in medium kit ALL looting a body
>almost completely in sync all stop looting and look/aim at me
>shout "SORRY I DIDN'T REALISE IT WAS OCCUPIED" into the voip

Laugh my way into the basement

yeah I died trying the same joke next raid but it was still really funny

Keep in mind you can just transit to another map if you don't find anything good on your chosen scav location

tarkov is a gacha game and every raid is a roll

>>530922392
no it's not, it doesn't have cute anime girls (big downside)

https://www.reddit.com/r/EscapefromTarkov/comments/1lxwd8n/screenshot_looks_like_you_can_spawn_on_woods_now/
Woods is accessible now
>already some retard crying that BSG 'DoEsN'T cOmMuNiCaTe'
lol
damned if they do, damned if they don't

>>530923097
>Woods is accessible now
ye ill just wait until every map is accessible

transiting to another map is a humiliation ritual

>>530923632
based

>>530923632
Low T energy.

>kill 4 pscavs on Customs
>die to a 5th
This is absurd

>>530923745
there's always a bigger pscav

I'm okay with most of the changes for the wipe, but they need to bump the value of items when selling to traders.

>>530895769
>66 raids per day

>>530922759
It actually does, but they're a SSSUR pull

EFT players need to be studied.

"Stockholm syndrome in gamers: How do game developers keep making unreasonable changes and still get praised for it."

>>530925332
>keeps playing a game he doesn't like
>talks about stockholm syndrome
pottery

Scavs being drawn to automatic gunfire like mindless zombies is bad from a gameplay perspective and a lore perspective. They should sooner shit their pants and run away from it

>>530904678
He doesn't buyed boughted... How new are you?

>>530926984
*blasts your kneecaps with lead slugs*
>heh, nothing personal kiddo
They are calls CHADscavs for a reason

>>530926984
They are also drawn to their dead comrades. SPT is a great way to test out some stuff by enabling scav/pmc/boss markers on DynamicMaps mod to see how they are actually moving around.
It's very simple really but always easy to see because maps are pretty convoluted.
AI just magnets/bee lines to people regardless.

>>530927567
*not always easy to see because maps are convoluted

i love night raids so much.
did they fix night raid gamma abuse? i'd prefer they do something like Rust where no matter what you do you can't see shit.

I like how the wipe is going. Everything feels a lot more personal now that people just can't rush to level 15 and unlock the flea. At this point, Nikita should go full speed and ignore whatever his fans want and just listen to his intuition. If people leave, fine. That's less load on the servers and he could probably cut back on costs for said servers..

>>530928752
>THE GAME SUCKS BUT IT'S FINE BECAUSE MUH REDDITORS ARE SHIDDING AND FARTING AND CRYING ANS PISSING THEMSELVES

>>530928994
just say you got filtered

We are so back

some guy shot me very accurately while somehow strafing very quickly to left. he was 8 meters away from me.
did he just hipfire and kept pressing A/D or is there something else what I'm missing? I couldn't see if he was ADSing because of the lighting. Wish I had a video because it looked pretty drastic. Maybe it was lag, idk.

>>530929042
have fun picking up 200 lamps and wires

>>530930090
8m is easy hipfire (with a device) territory. Sometimes lag compensation can make it look like people are moving faster than they are.
Could have also been a hacking piece of shit, always possible.

>>530930090
CQB in this game used to be entirely hipfire and strafing based, a lot of people got good at headshotting with it.
they nerfed the accuracy of it heavily but yeah its still very doable

>>530930620
>>530930483
Yeah because when I strafe and hipfire it looks really slow from my perspective but when I see others they look like they're on meth.
Need to investigate this more.

This is going to be so fun to experience in the HARDCORE™ wipe.

>>530932305
Should actually be easier now that everyone has shit armor and ammo.

>>530932672
You may be right, actually. I should probably just run a Mosin with SP BT because it will one shot through a PACA.

>>530932305
I'm just not going to do it

>>530932305
if you can't take the heat you are not a true believer... tarkov should be hard, every movement should be clunky and difficult, every action... i thank Nikita every single day for making this game.

>>530931704
that's because they're circle strafing to get around intertia. You need to go from A(left strafe) to either W or S(forward or back) before pressing D (right strafe).
Done very quickly it just looks like strafing back and forth but you are now circle strafing

>>530932305
you guys let this early of quest filter you? just go to factory with a vpo bolt action and click on someones head. it's okay to die 40 times while doing it, you'll get it eventually.

i used to just hang around factory naked with a vpo for fun. back before the factory update you could just get on the rafters and be guaranteed to get a couple shots off on someone

>about to leave Woods at 4 minutes left
>1 million in loot and 2 task items in my inventory after outplaying 4 players
>a 5th player, a player scav who spawned in with class 4 armor and gun (which would cost a player more than 200 000 roubles) shoots at me from behind and turns both my legs into hamburger meat
>kill him back but end up MIA because i've expended my CMS and all 4 analgins i brought with me
Guess I just need to get good!

>can go to woods without having to go to factory and compete with Tagilla farmers and other transitfags
Finally, holy fuck.

>Nikita: We are experimenting some techmological difficulties

>>530857597
>make the map run so badly that no chinaman could play on it
that would be a dream

>>530924572
>getting to play a game for a living is mentally ill
you are definitely mentally ill, yes. and old. and you have arthritis. and you come here from reddit just so you can say the n-word.

>>530940232
NTA but what is your guesstimation about him using cheats?
Surely he has an ESP overlay on his second screen or something.

>>530940232
Being parasocial is also a mental illness, kill yourself.

>>530941663
serious answers only?
he has 14000 hours. basically a tarkov"pro player" and of peak age. demonstrates flawless mechanics frequently (have you seen his tracking drills in firing range) and still dies once in a while to rats or bushwookies. plus lets face it the average tarkov player is not 22 and good at vidya. I don''t think he needs ESP to win. he just takes the game way too serious but hey can't blame him, he once revealed he makes over 10k in a good month. and thats with only averaging 1k viewers

>>530941790
there is a difference between knowing a little about streamers and being parasocial you mentally ill jealous seething old retard. kill yourself before you end up as that grumpy gramps down the streets whos trying to ruin the fun for everyone else

>>530934413
You outplayed 4 players but not the 5th one, he got you in the end

>7th shotgun scav run in a row
i want of this wild ride

>>530942470
?

Can you please get the girl to give me back the money she asked me for. She said she wanted sex and asked me for 155 euros and now she wants another 150 for car repair. I'm a student from Ukraine I don't have money to pay you, but I really ask you to help me solve this problem

166 dmg and 64 to armour in 4 hits with m80. how HOW?

>>530945512

>>530943396
>3 kedr scavs in row
my legs are fine

>see a clip of a streamer doing Kaban/his guards
>all the npcs kinda just stare at you and barely fire on you
>do Kaban on PVE
>the second you poke a limb out they're lasering whatever is visible
Is the AI this bad in PVP?

>>530946493
throw nades. all AI will not shoot at you while a grenade is active in a big area around them. throw nade over their head, pop out and shoot. it can be a shitty flash nade.

>>530946493
I've had guards and bosses that laser me from 300 yards away, I've had the same guards and bosses basically stand in front of me and do little of anything.

>need to visit the MG on GZ for prapor
>every time I spawn in with a shit kit and immediately lose the fight to the nearest PMC.
>every time I spawn in with a decent I win the spawn fight, but die to some rat fuck camping tarbank in new and unforseen ways
>im approaching 12+ runs just to get into the razor wired stair well.
The people responsible maps design and spawn locations need to nailed to a fucking cross.

>every time I enter the building I get ratted in a totally new and unexpected way.

I ran out of stash space... again....

>want to play SPT
>realize my game version is too far ahead for the good 3.x version where a number of the best mods are currently locked to
I guess I can... do fuck all on regular PVE, like wait for them to add the AK-50 to the game...

>>530949610
collecting trash yeah?

>>530950212
>wait for them to add the AK-50 to the game
guess what anon

>>530950395
How am I supposed to not collect trash if hideout upgrades look like this? Half of my stash is garbage needed for upgrades

did anyone see the rocket launcher last wipe? i remember people saying its not even in the game but i didnt play much

>>530950603
It isn't available. The Ammo is from Peacekeeper L4, but the individual parts for the gun are all barters locked behind tasks that aren't currently available from different traders.

So is PvE just broken?
If I go in geared to the gills with a 6B43 and a 1 mil gun I get either insta killed by Partizan appearing behind me and one tapping me or I spawn next to AI PMCs that just spray me down through any cover.
If I go in barely equipped the boss of the map starts hunting me down and kills me as soon as he sees me.
If I go in with everything mid-tier nothing spawns and I can't get progress on my kill quests done.
What the fuck am I supposed to do?

>>530950651
They did this so you'd be almost forced to pay pig.

>>530950651
get a scav junk box (with arena money ofc >>530950823)

>>530950804
play spt

>>530950823
Trvth nvke
But I will not yield, I just need 2M for a stash upgrade. And another 2M for junk box...
>>530950965
Fuck arena, I'm not playing that shit

>>530950651
Yeah nah mate the decision to make hideout items FIR only is the worst thing for all low skill and medium players. Only the sweats benefitted from that choice.

>>530950798
They added it later as a quest reward for getting 35 grenade kills (unlocks after grenadier btw). I didn't bother unlocking it but I did kill two players with it.

>>530951136
FiR isn't a thing anymore, I"m talking about hideout upgrade bloat. They've increased needed items twofold. As a standard acc it wasn't easy before, but now it's a fucking nightmare

>>530950804
Skill issue ngl

WOODS BROS WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK

>>530951326
Why is it still the case in PvE then?`Haven't played PvP in months when 90% of my deaths are to obvious cheaters.

>>530952513
idk man, maybe it will be a thing in 1.0 and they just turned it off for this wipe to lessen the impact of no flea

>>530951671
>wants to brag about being good
>posts obviously cheated stats
Are you cheaters really that dumb? You really want to brag in a singleplayer mode where there is no PvP?

>gonna just relax and enjoy the game win or lose
>cool and collected, having good raids
>dropping pmcs and owning a few lobbies
>new raid
>find a salewa off spawn
>heart starts pounding
>if i die in the game i die irl
>fuck fuck fuck fuck
>hide in cuck shack until 15 mins remain

>>530952780
Is he actually doing this hardcore wipe thing? Nikita really trying to kill this game. There already barely is a low-skilled playerbase. This wipe will turn all the middle-skill players back into beginners and to cannon fodder for the sweats and that'll kill the game... holy shit Nikita must be really fucking braindead.

>>530953808
Idk it's pretty fun so far, everyone is running around in scav gear trying to loot bolts

>>530953808
I don't mind most of the changes, I just want transition gone, healing cost to go down a little bit and introduce partial hideout garbage turn in. That's it.

>>530954029
Except all the sweats that are already running around with meta kits killing full lobbies and cheaters that fly everywhere and teleport all good loot to them. The only thing they have to do it keep patching out the meta so that sweats can't play and are forced to be equal with the playerbase average. SVT-40 gave us low-tier players a chance and suddenly its been moved up to where only the sweats would ever get it.
>>530954073
Majority of them are bad or worse do nothing.

>>530954446
>Except all the sweats that are already running around with meta kits
There's not really meta kits right now, the best you can hope for is tagilla gear, so 545 BT and his armor
Most people I face are gigabroke, like pistol and no armor broke

>SVT-40 gave us low-tier players a chance
Lolno, it was the best weapon in the game when it came out, everyone including sweats were running it 24/7 because every other weapon was obsolete

>>530953738
It's so strange but I know why it happens - time is an investment. As soon as you enable a 'goal' in your mind, you will become mindful of your potentially wasted time(at least if you are an adult with a job).
Crapov has been designed to waste people's time in the first place so...

>>530953738
Typical USEC sissy behavior.

>farm bosses
>sitting on 2 marked keys
>open marked room a couple of times out of curiosity
>it's empty
cool thx

whats your interchange hideout loot runs

>>530929941
give it to me straight bro, how much does it sell for?

>>530955998
680k

>>530942319
>I don't think he needs ESP to win
this has never stopped pros from cheating in the past

>>530954871
>There's not really meta kits right now, the best you can hope for is tagilla gear, so 545 BT and his armor
Just to test this statement I ran 4 raids on all maps available to me rn. On all except Ground Zero I died to a guy with a meta kit. The guy that killed me on Ground Zero was still extremely kitted out and not really "gigabroke, like pistol and no armor broke" so funny how reality don't align with your statements.

>>530956051
so around 300k less than usual (compared to pve at least)
not too bad but that still stings. Nice find, though. Better than my GPU going for a whopping 89k

>>530940232
>just so you can say the n-word
HAHAHAHA GET A LOAD OF THIS NIGGER

>queue up for GZ with 40k rubles for the v-ex
>spawn in
>whoops I accidentally hit woods I guess
>we got money lets go to the train depot
>spawncamp the BTR
>get inside
>shortly after some other guy gets in
>voip him to be friends, there's more than enough loot for us both
>he doesn't have a mic
>communicates with wild headbobbing and voicelines
>we somehow strike a deal
>loot together in peace then go our separate ways after we leave the depot
kek this wipe has been heckin wholesome chungus

everything i die to is meta

>>530955087
yeah i think that's exactly it. someone is about to steal my time. it suddenly becomes real

>1.5mil rubles
On my way to get my first junk box. I've been just selling stuff instead of collecting them. Sold all my standard account starting weapons too because fuck that shit I am homeless.

desu desmonds stats are less impressive when you consider the fact that literally all he did was farm timmies with boss gear for 2 days

>>530957292
i got killed by this metafagging rat running a makarov earlier. Absolutely disgusting player, I made sure to double report him to maximize the chance of him getting rightfully banned.

>if you have someone on your friend list who hasn't logged in for a while you can use their gym and shooting range
top fucking kek this is great, im gonna be END level 10 by the end of sunday

>>530956214
You ran 4 raids in 25 minutes?

>>530957592
Yes. Mathcing took plus minus 2 minutes each. GZ was like 30 seconds. Running around and getting killed was pretty easy and quick.

>have a mission to survive factory
>spawn in right next to a two man team
>die
Very hardcore.

>>530953024
>posts obviously cheated stats
Im no cheater, im just bad at PvP so i get satisfaction from killing the cheesable ai in PvE
Once you know the ai quirks its piss easy, only thing fucking you over is your own retardation

>>530956214
I wouldn't say meta but yeah I've not been seeing these supposed hobos. The good players have just been stocking up on BT from bosses.

My hot take that makes everyone angry is that they killed hobo fights when Nikita caved and lowered the recoil across the board.
It's instantly more gratifying to have low recoil, but with any automatic gun, someone can just left click at your torso and kill you in half a second.

hobo fights were because we all had unmodded m4s/aks and needed to semi auto(or spray and pray, hit arms legs, etc, instead of torso and head instantly)
this resulted in 2 things. not dying the second someone spots you, and also fights resulting in both parties getting wounded. Both going into cover and desperately stopping bleeding. Talking shit. Contemplating limping away and letting them have the loot, etc.

Those were the hilarious hobo fights. Currently you can put a red dot on an m4 and you're not a hobo anymore, so that phase is gone. You can seethe, or you can just say you prefer the way it is now (I'm indifferent, still my favorite game) but you know it's true. Hobo fights are dead and they're never coming back.
A scav gun today is more deadly than an early wipe pmc was a couple years ago.

you know you are retarded when you try advocating for trash old recoil back

>>530959367
i agree with this anon.

>>530959753
I want enough recoil where good methodical shot placement is rewarded over sprint jumping and holding down mouse 1 over the slightest hint there could be a peaker.

>>530959367
This is true.
I don't miss hobo fight. Shooting an ak at a target literally 10 meters away and somehow not hitting a single shot was dogshit. The hobo fights were infuriating most of the time because you weren't even fighting against players you were fighting against your own gun and getting it to shoot in a general area.

>>530959983
good thing noone cares what you want

>>530959773
i agree you are both retarded

wth since when are dogtags incompatible with the cultist circle?

>>530959773

>>530959983
>good methodical shot placement
this is the same fag that will bitch about "muh realism" btw. It already does that on anything outside of close range combat. You're just too braindead to realize what you even want. What the fuck does good methodical shot placement even mean when you're not even 30 feet away from the target?

>>530961231
why are you putting dog tags in the cultist circle

>>530961389
How else would I free the souls within them?

>>530961231
>not keeping dogtags as trophies for the whole wipe
Soulless.

>>530961072
unless this uniquely transfers to regular tarkov i dont give a crud

the game gets worse every wipe
it's always 1 step forward 4 steps back
fix 1 thing break 10

>>530959367
Nah. Old recoil was absolute fucking garbage. Never want to return to that shit.

>>530959367
>>530959773
>trying to argue for more recoil again
we've been through this multiple times. we had the laser meta, then we had multiple wipes of retard-tier recoil control where your PMC couldn't even shoulder his rifle because people like you bitched and moaned on reddit. now we're finally at a happy medium so shut the fuck up.

>>530962138
You get XP, Lega medals, GP coins and roubles too.

>>530962958
I'm just stating facts.

>>530961305
worthless retard npc thats dogshit at FPS

>>530963109
fine i'll do the fucking event im desperate

the only fact is that you are worthless scav main npc niggerfaggot loser trashcan redditor and the reason the game is trash

>>530963520
I was born wealthy, high IQ and naturally talented at fps.

>>530963109
wooow so many hecking rewards LOCK IN BOYS WE GETTING BREAD TONIGHT WE EATING GOOD TONIGHT

how come so many twinks play this game

>>530963932
>22k xp and 200k roubles for 30 headshots (1 game[2 if youre bad])
This but unironically

>50 kills in gangbang or teamfight
VGH...

wow i looooove le HECKING rewards where is my battalpass carrot on a stick plz give me somethjing to do i dont have any braincells or agenda of my own plzzzzzz

>>530963349
If we really want to look at facts we never had a true hobo fight phase
Recoil was so gamebreakingly bad that people entire objective was to solve it asap, thus we had the mosin meta, the RFB meta, the SMG meta, the SVT40 meta and more
Very few fights were actually two retards actually engaging with the dogshit recoil, it was mostly metaslaves dunking on clueless timmies

luv me arena
i dont even play the main game

very weak bait

>>530963883
this post was fact checked by american patriots
FALSE
op is a blatant liar
only the shittiest of shitters want gunplay where your own gun is the enemy

FYI you can still do burning rubber off a run-through

>>530964387
follow up post:
glorifying bad shooting mechanics in any way and referring to it as "HOBO FIGHT" and also glorifying the "HOBO PHASE" in a progression based game is typically done by low IQ individuals, bad players and redditors

>>530964226
>Very few fights were actually two retards actually engaging with the dogshit recoil
Lol
>>530964707
Every shitter on reddit screeched about the recoil being too high non stop. You don't have to like it but don't be delusional.

Did the remove the level 20 limit for GZ? I am level 5 and got killed by a meta UZI dude with a 13+ K/D from half-across the map.

>just looked at PK's gun prices
HOLY FUCK $474 for a fucking pump shotty? $491 for an MP5? Doesn't look like you can but dollars off him right now but the listed exchange is 218r per $1. That's over 100k rubles for a fucking mossberg pump

>>530965373
I mean that's how much those guns would cost in USD irl so I don't see what the problem is?

>>530965286
what level was he?

>>530965683
25

>a stock ak kicking up to the roof was le good because it just le was ok
shut the fuck up retard

>>530965554
The problem is I can't use my favorite pumpy, I'll have to settle for the MP133 which is a third of the price. The price discrepancy between these two shotguns doesn't reflect their difference in performance at all. That's just nitpicking though, I know tarkov is supposed to have supply issues and w/e. I just really like the 570A and enjoy using it early wipe a lot.

>>530965182
>Lol
You can lol all you want, it's still true
These wipe had the most rigid meta of the history of the game
You had brand new guns added to the game and 0 people playing them because it simply wasnt viable compared to the current metaslop

>>530962958
>Lead lasers
>or
>absolute spray and pray
Can there truly be no inbetween?

>>530966746
this

>>530956214
So I played 4 more raids after this test. All played properly with guns and everything. This is the first guy that obviously cheated. 5 raids, has an MP7 with AP SX ammo and he one-shot headshot me while I was running sideway from him.

>>530965870
this anon is right

>>530967003
he's not cheating look at that survival rate and low kd
t. reddit pro detective

>>530967094
He likely does raid rotations. First raid cheated, then 4 raids quick deaths and no kills, then cheats again the next raid. The stats point to that.

>>530966262
I was laughing at you saying no one engaged with early wipe spray fests, just pure fiction.
Yes they could have done things to improve the meta. Homogenizing everything works too, it just changed the way the game is played.
You can tell Nikita senses this but people scream and piss when he shows a bit of exaggerated recoil footage.

>>530961505
Oh, I do, I only toss the ones I get from scav kills because I don't like killing PMCs as PScav and only kill them in self defense

>>530966746
we're at the in between right now. you can tap and short burst with relative accuracy but the longer you spray, the bouncier your aim gets.
>>530967003
>>530967323
you got shit on by someone running his unheard edition MP7 with a couple rounds of AP he found. it's okay, it happens. no need to embarrass yourself further by calling cheats.

>>530967893
>Homogenizing everything works too,
Yeah as opposed to the meaningful choice of usable guns vs unusable guns

Honestly, I'm having way more fun in Arena than in the main game (Arena fucking blows btw). The last dozen raids, I've been taken out by some bush wookie or rat camping in a corner. I'm completely fed up with digging through crates and bags looking for toothpaste, only to get killed by someone wasting both my time and theirs just to loot torn-up soft body armor and an AK-74U loaded with garbage ammo from my corpse.

>>530969063
I've killed waaaaay too many people hiding in dark corners by just holding down M1.

I still think it needs to be toned down just a little more.

>people die when I aim at them, this cant be happening
holy retard

>>530970082
rat spotted

>>530969687
i'm having fun but it does feel like "hardcore" is just making people camp even more than they already did.

if dey remove all footsteps .wav files da game would slap

Running around is too rewarding.
You should be unable to shoot your gun for up to 3 seconds after sprinting and if you sprint any longer than a couple seconds, your gun is ultra wobbly and unstable for at least 20 seconds. This is a tactical shooter, not call of duty.

>>530970920
That's really my only complaint. I dont mind the extra difficulty of progression, but every one is scared to move and desperate to hold onto the most shit gear on the planet. It's the only gear they've got.

>>530971305
>tactical shooter
It always means that the "operator" is 70 years old geriatric patient doesn't it.

Am I dreaming but after they reduced that scav timer they are now spawning with less gear. Often without armor too.

>>530971880
shut the fuck up scav main npc suck my dick broke boi pussy

>>530971991
18% Survival Rating typed this babble

I miss Starsiege:Deadzone.
It was basically like CSGO with sprinting but in space and the goal was to loot.
Want a more lighthearted, pvp heavy extraction game like that. Fuck tarkov and its endless Q times and le realism tedium.

>>530972586
i enjoyed both S:DZ and The Cycle Frontier but both were killed by incompetent retarded devs
shit sucks

>>530971991
Grow up.

>>530971991
post stash

>>530972467
200 raids played, 3 of whcih are on PMC typed this babble
>>530972853
>>530972992
brown scav main hands typed this babble

So whats the meta for Arena classes?

>>530971991
kys

>>530973391
1v1 and i'll bust a cap in ya ass

>bring good gear into raid
>raid time: 1:21
XDDDD
nigger faggot shit game

>>530973971
m4 meta 60 rounders and full auto head level if you are goated like me

>>530974614
you got smoked nigger

>>530974614
awww is lil babby mad? first death? did you come here from reddit so you could type the epic gamer word?

>>530973971
Assault: Spear
Enforcer: Saiga
Scout: SR3 or MCX
Sniper: 338 bolties

>>530970082
>people die when i point my weapon at their general vicinity and hold down m1
Are you actually retarded or just pretending?

>>530974837
Yeah and what armor, head gear, attachments and the other stuff?

>>530974905
nooooo my hecking guns should be uncontrollable i shouldnt be able to kill what i aim at your own gun should be the real enemy nooooo

Assault: M4
Enforcer: M4
Scout: M4

Is Lossless Scaling software allowed in Tarkov (online)?

How far along is everyone?

>>530975360
try it and see (^:

>>530975440
Lel, trying to find answers right now but I'm not going to trust some plebbit posters with this.
In most cases Lossless Scaling will probably get flagged by the anti-cheat and I suspect it's the case in Tarkov too...
Latest LS is surprisingly responsive in Windows 11.

>>530975371
Lvl7, just finished all my GZ tasks. Had the easiest time ever this wipe, literally every time I spawned into GZ with a certain task in mind I got the best possible spawn. Now I'm just going to run the map till lvl15 because my other tasks arent location specific and it's got good hideout loot

>>530975325
literally not possible anymore

>>530975360
lossless scaling essentially just captures the window and scales the content up with whatever upscaler you selected and applies frame smoothing to it. You won't get banned because it doesn't hook into the game.

PSA TO SAVE YOUR APOLLOS, 2x CAN BE TRADED FOR NVGs WITH BRAPHOG

>>530976837
>tanker nods

Ok, now that they've introduced summer clothing, when do we get short shorts?

>>530975149
So actually retarded and not pretending. Thanks for clearing it up.

>>530976675
Okay yeah the dev himself said it's only capturing data. Well fuck it then, I'm going to use it.

>>530977702
>>530970082

>>530978414
>(you)
lol no shit retard

>>530977470
Ever used them fucko? The picture is actually really good. And there is no alternative, so its a massive advantage against people who have nothing in night raids.

>>530976837
holy shit good call. did they fix the gamma abuse? I assumed people were just all seeing clear as day during night time. but i will never stoop to that.

>>530980275
Night time in Woods for example is pretty crushed, you can still see somewhat with gamma fuckery but it's far from optimal.
Maybe it's different on HDR screens.

Best quest in the game unlocked. I hope it won't be too annoying without access to good scopes.

when youre running one step above a shit kit, what kind of meds do you guys bring? like how many esmarchs, heals

>>530980007
Let hum think they are shit, you gain nothing by helping him

>>530980007
the entire drawback is the fact you have to wear a tanker helmet to use them. you're cucking yourself with the deafness of an altyn and the protection of the airsoft helmet.
>The picture is actually really good
no better or worse than PNVs
>there is no alternative
crank your postfx up or be a man and run a light.

>>530980765
1 bandy, 2 esmarches, 1 analgin
no cheese or cms. just need to be able to stabilize yourself and gtfo. if i can't do that, i'm probably already dead.

RICH... MILLIANAIRE

>>530981398
>retard thinks he's gatekeeping

>15 seconds from spawning in and I'm dead
Nigita should eat a big log of shit.

>>530980765
If im running shit kit I bring 1 of everything except a splint. If the kit is good enough to win a fight and I'll take engagements then I bring additional bleed protection amd an additional healing consume. Otherwise just run it back like you would a shit kit.

fuckin hell getting the little messenger key has been difficult

>>530981453
>trading sight for sound
Mileage may vary by map.

>>530981683
Ok faggot

Is there a reason why you can't buy dollars from PK?

>>530983178
Yes this is Hardcore(tm)

>>530978901
>>530970082
>>530975149

>>530983178
removing content is considered hardcore

>>530980765
currently
>car medkit
>green bandage
>2x esmarch/cat
>2x splint
>morphine in ass

so is the tarkov.dev player section just down forever?
is there any other way to look up players without logging in

I can't move out from the spawn at all on GZ, 5 consecutive deaths now and I didn't even do anything. I guess the only way is to hide somewhere for 10 minutes before even moving out.
Maybe I should change server, I don't know.

>>530973971
As Sniper, use the Arena-unique 1-hit thorax kill .308 rounds

>>530973971
Literally zero reasons to use anything other than scoutnigger with 9x39/45 AP and CQCM.

>>530973971
Only bother playing Assault or Scout if you wanna sweat, though Marksman is still alright if you're good with a SR-25 or RSASS. Meta M4 ideally or meta AK74 if you prefer lower RoF. HK might be just as good but I never tried it. MP9-N, .45 Vector, MCX or SR3 for Scout.
If you think your aim sucks you can use some high recoil guns that randomly hit people in the face half of the time, try the SA-58 for that.
For Assault just wear an ULACH and whichever armored rig that covers the most hitboxes. I don't remember if you can still change the plates to level 5, but do that if you can. Doesn't matter much.
For Scout you can do pretty much the same, though I don't bother with an helmet and wear small armor cause again it doesn't matter a lot, people will instantly kill you no matter what in Arena.

>just killed a duo on customs
>check tags
>each have less than 3 hours on their accounts
kek welcome to tarkov biiiitch

>45 ap
yeah use 45 ap anon. its so good.

>>530988596
>66 damage/38 pen @ 1100 RPM
Yes retard

wow le hecking 1100 rpm and 38 pen wow
you wont even pen a t4 without the entire mag and the gun sucks donkey dick.

low skill retard

>>530988574
They might have thousands of hours in other videogames.

lmao all maps back on
nigkita caved in quick

>>530989641
You still shoot at thorax, retard?

тaк тaк тaк

A little disappointing honestly

>>530989641
>38 pen
>you wont even pen a t4 without the entire mag
you don't play tarkov

>>530989759
>>530990228
Good.

>>530989641
Kill yourself you stupid nigger you don't even play the game.

>>530990228
What will he cave on next?

45 AP is fine on scout
But PAB9 and CBJ are clearly superior if you want to metafag

>>530990526
AP is the cheapest out of the 3 meaning you can bring more ammo, and .45 doesn't suffer from overheating issues as much as 9x39 does.

>>530990228
>>530990516
To be fair transits are more annoying than hardcore.

What do you think he's gonna change next? My bet is on enabling LL2 traders.

T E E M I N G

>>530990431
>>530990327
>just use le 45 bro
low skilled reddit rejects

>>530991651
Pro tip: you can still insure an empty plate carrier for relatively cheap.

>>530989742
First one actually had some moves, after we heard each other I was moving to flank them both but he fucking pushed on me hardcore. Sprint jumped out from around a corner to attack, but turns out he only had a pistol kek. The balls on that 2-hour guy to just do that despite being basically naked was commendably. But after killing him I tracked down his buddy who was paralyzed in a corner, pushed on him and killed him ez because he forgot to put his pp19 on full auto

>>530991780
post stats
i know u won't

>>530991824
I think it only works with normal armor, not armored rigs, even if they don't have soft armor. I've checked insurance after taking out plates and it's still 250k

>>530990324
based, ak105 is so tasteful

>>530991450
>this wipe is going to end up like all the others because stupid fucking redditors and streamers seethe at the idea of not being able to fit 250k of meds and ammo into their arse or having to physically travel to a map that's like one transit deep
god fucking DAMMIT

are high hours ppl not cheaters? I dont normally call cheats but this guy had 3k hrs and unheard and it was one of the more sus deaths ive had in a while(while not being a blatant 20 hr rage cheater)

>>530991450
I think the problem with forced transition between maps is that they had to increase player counts on maps since some players would leave immediately if they wanted to go somewhere else. It only worsened the early pvp and made later stage of raid feel more empty (some pmcs died early and some used transit)

>>530990516
He can bring back literally everything except flea and I wouldn't care. I'm gonna be seething when flea comes back though, we need a whole fucking wipe without it

HARDCORE BROS. WE'RE GETTING ACTUAL AN ACTUAL RAID OVERHAUL!!!!

PREDICTION: ALL MAPS ARE ON ONLY TEMPORARILY TILL THEY ACTUALLY REWORK THE RAID SYSTEM. ONCE THEY'RE BACK, WE'RE GETTING TARKOV DAYZ BABY

i'm typing like a fucking mongol but, alas, it's confirmed atp; hardcore wipe is still kino as fuck

>>530992449
Even if they undo every "hardcore" change you can still apply these rules yourself anon ;) Nothing's stopping you from using transits or forcing you to shove meds up your ass

>>530992126
I'm suffering because I'm dying so much on GZ.
But at least I have a junk box now...

>>530992813
these are the same people who called others NPCs for not liking the day 1 no tasks change btw, because they cant create their own fun or something

>>530992569
But won't random spawn times encourage spawn camping even more - or this could be catastrophical when some group spawns next to you out of nowhere...

They should just randomize the initial spawns more and keep them all X meters away from each other.

>>530992924
GZ is actually a little easier this time around because pscavs can't spawn in there. Try your best to get down into the underground and spend the first half of the raid casually looting hideout items down there. The second half of the raid will be super quiet. It's not like previous wipes where pmcs had to race to get tasks done because pscav hordes would show up within 10 minutes. Not sure why but the underground has been super dead for me this wipe, it's just free shit down there.

>>530992813
>ummmm you can just put yourself at a disadvantage to everyone else anon, it's definitely worth doing if everyone else is doing!
Jesus Christ you're such a passive aggressive faggot. It's a PvP game with perceived high stakes, you cannot expect people to individually balance the game for themselves with restrictions because it's NOT THE SAME THING. Yeah I can restrict myself to hobo trader gear and not taking meds/ammo in the container, and then what happens? I get rolled over by endless waves of gigasweats wearing gimp masks and T6 plates with ARs/battle rifles with LPVOs and a gorillion rounds of M61 up their arse that they never risk losing.

>>530994045
sounds like you're not hardcore enough lol

How do I become less trash at gunfighting? I tried arena but I'm also trash there :c

>>530993417
I expect this to happen, yeah. Like probably day 1 and 2 of the new raid overhaul will be cheeks and they'll mend it along the way. Classic BSG

But it will be really good, I trust

>>530994176
kill yourself

>>530991989
ladies first
i know u wont

>>530994313
Uhmmm actually I won't

>>530992569
I fucking hope they don't cave and enable traders anytime soon. Changing the economy a little bit wouldn't hurt though

>>530994361
>ladies first
exactly. i'm still waiting.

>>530994427
that's class III helmet, what ammo were you using?

>>530994045
you dont know what you want, if streamers can do it so can you,stop being a pretentious retard

>>530994427
>4 headshots before death
lmao

>>530994427
Was that even an emergency reload, brotha?

>>530994427
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zhnSySZid4

>>530994234
what specifically do you have trouble with? CQB? medium range? long range fights? Whats your best/worst engagement range

>>530992449
I think i would like the transit system if it wasn't "hardcore", unknowingly spawning into a night raid like woods with out NVGs or a flash light is fucking aids. I cant stick that stuff up my characters ass anymore, its too expensive to just keep it all on my PMC when I'm still a lvl 6 murder hobo. Some maps, like customs, i rarely find food. During long plays with transits I've died half a dozen times already due to dehydration from the pain killers. Also ammo becomes an issue after a couple of raids, I have to either bring it in with me or pray I find it in raid.

If i could stick some of this shit in my secure container and if the item values returned to normal I'd be fine with the other elments of the wipe.

I dont need quests, i dont need fast transits, i dont need insurance, and i dont need lvl 2+ traders.

>>530990228
l*bs should've stayed transit only tbqhwyf

>>530993832
Yeah I did that first, I was hiding somewhere out of sight and I actually completed the hard disk mission in my first raid because apparently someone had killed everyone else on the server or at least it looked like it. I couldn't even loot everyone.

But yeah...

>>530995198
Best is probably medium and long range, CQC is what I'm worse at and some of these arena maps are kicking my ass because of it.

>>530995102
Why would I emergency reload? I had everything under control.

>>530995472
In CQC remember the bullets come out the end of your gun, not your eyeballs. So when you want to prefire around a corner start shooting as soon as your barrel goes around the corner. If you're waiting to see your target that's too late.

Arena is fucking cracked though, people are crazy good at it. It's good to get some basic skills but cqb in tarkov isn't handled the exact same way as arena.

>>530994842
>if streamers do it so can you
The hardcore ruleset they play with is different to this wipe's, they have thousands of hours more experience than me and they STILL STRUGGLE against other players because it's a severely unequal playing field. Which is why most of them do hardcore on quiet servers at night (looking at you Pestily)
This is like someone complaining about severe wealth inequality causing issues with education and housing and then some other retard saying 'well uhh... YOU can choose not to acquire millions!' Thanks, really solved it.

>>530989886
>>530990327
>>530990431
pipe down lil scav mains

>>530995883
Isn't pestfaggot from Australia, he has very limited selection of servers? Aren't them all in the same timezone even (China or whatever else there are).
I don't know/remember.

Single-handedly killing Tagilla gave me no XP just now

>>530995883
I just don't give a fuck about hardcore wipe, most of the shit they've introduced is simply not fun for me. Sorry I don't enjoy having my balls crushed every raid

>>530996721
from where he lives (which is 400km south of me) he should be able to hit:
>AU
>NZ
>Singapore
>China
>Japan
>Korea
>NA West
Most of them are pretty similar timezone wise other than NA but there's enough variance that he can always hit a dead server, not to mention he mainly streams at like 4am our time anyway so OCE is dead regardless.

>boss spawns reduced
>transits removed
Nice """"hardcore""" wipe, retards.

>>530996936
Why the fuck did you buy this game then?

>>530997165
Korea hits 220 these days and kicks you from memeborne anyway, I don't know where he actually is

>>530997247
Last wipe was fun, it was right amount of difficult

>>530997165
That's quite a lot actually.
More than me in terms of different locations as I'm from EU. Well there's always East Coast US with 8h time difference, that's still accessible for me with ~100ms latency or whatever.

>transits removed
>boss spawns reduced
oh so now that every no job nigger got their loot it's time to turn it off. great hardcore wipe.

just fuckin undo the stupid restrictions on secure container at this point. nothing about this is hardcore.

>>530997179
>>530997487
>>530997491
go cry on reddit, maybe they'll turn it on again just for you

>>530997623
I'm not a streamer so my words have no power.

>>530997623
get a job nigger

>>530997672
that didnt stop you from crying on reddit before

If (when) they do add flea it should be later into wipe and you should have limits of how much you can use it or something idk

>>530997757
I don't use reddit but thanks for letting us all know you use it.

>>530997623
I mean yeah they probably will have you been paying attention. That's more my point, if he's just gonna keep bitching out just get it over with.

How are people level 20 already?
I don't understand this game.

>>530998296
Famous streamer and best player in the game, Desmondpilak, is already level 33.

>>530997252
it's 170 from South Australia, so well within ping limit
>>530997420
everything outside of like AU/Singa is 100ms+, but it doesn't kick you and netcode is shit enough that it doesn't matter regardless so
>>530997387

>>530998532
How the hell is it FIFTY lower from Sexual Assaultstralia? That makes no sense, STOP THE COUNT

>>530998712
there's a good possibility your ISP has shit routing by default and if you use a VPN you get a more accurate/faster ping

>>530998532
How does it relate to my post? If I wanted something borderline impossible to beat I'd play elden rings with a dancing mat. Tarkov has steep learning curve, but if you sunk 5k hours into it like a jobless nigger then it shouldn't be a surprise you find it easy.
Put on one of these and wire it to your pmc if you want a hardcore experience

>>530999474
>NOOOOO WHY WOULD YOU MAKE ME ACTUALLY HAVE TO TRAVEL AROUND THE MAPS WITH FOOD AND DRINK THAT'S NEAR POINTLESS OTHERWISE OR ACTUALLY USE SHITTY TRADER GEAR INSTEAD OF IGNORING IT IN FAVOUR OF THE FLEA SAVE ME NIKITA!!!!!

>>530994427
god i hate those awkward moments in a gunfight where you're just staring into each others eyes and it kinda feels a little gay

>>530999701
cope
we are getting back traders, flea and meds in secure container next

>prestige 1 grey name with a scope, spidey senses and MAI AP

>>530996719
sit down lil bro

>>530999820
>the game is being made worse! I will quit wipe after a month saying it feels boring and unfulfilling without saying why! I will denounce anyone who actually understands the reason why the game's playerbase dies off so quickly into a wipe as a jobless faggot! I suck cocks for a living!

>>531000306
Thanks to those changes players now quit after a few days rather than a month. I mean, what could be the reason why they've cucked out so fast?

>use GammaPanel (shortcuts for night/day time settings)
>night time woods
>kill some guy who had nv goggles
>finish up Introduction
Well at least ffeels better

I've had it with the fucking audio, everything sounds like it's coming from within my own character, I can't tell up/down and left/right apart at all, this shit was figured out decades ago

>>531001086
a curse upon ye cheater

>>531001350
Check your walls bro, I'm inside them and I'm the one making the noise you're hearing

>>530990228
already? that's so fucking gay

>>531000961
better to have a smaller, more consistent playerbase that stays the entire wipe than watering the game down for a larger mainstream audience who lose interest once they've played with the new shiny toys

>>531001619
It was simply an accident... usually it's easy to avoid any contact unless it's an AI scav.

>one last run through to the end
>a cool hardcore wipe at last, right before 1.0
>it's cool for three days
>and then suddenly
>you just cant shove meds, ammo and money up your ass
>healing is 3x as expensive and things vendor for less
>everything else is the same
nice wipe, thanks streamerfags. I certainly hope each of you DON'T get home invaded on and get to be strung up by your entrails live on twitch

>>531001697
If I find you I'm going to touch you

>>531004057
Sleep tight anon, I'm gonna watch over you ;)

maps are back

This game is dead and streamers killed it

>>531005186
can't blame everything on streamers, sis

Are (You) currently playing Escape from Tarkov?

>>531005634
kind of
I think I'm just gonna drop the wipe if I die in this raid, I'm not feeling it right now (not because of the HARDCORE WIPE stuff)

>>531005634
Honestly? Not really.

>>531005831
Heh, kiddo, unless you have 15,000 hours played you're a loser and noob.

can't even scav for some bolts and beef stew in peace without running into these cocksucking cheating paypigs all over the place

>>531005634
uh i think so

>>531006230
20,000 hours is the new benchmark

>>530990228
Kind of grim, bros

>>531006437
it is time we start hunting whales.

i have queue anxiety for this game

I can't wait for 1.0 in 3 months time when BSG try to radically transform the game and then streamertards and redditors start crying endlessly that they don't have access to meta gear on day 3 and then Nikita pisses and shits the bed once he realises he might not be able to buy a fifth Bugatti and rolls everything back so it's 'past five years of wipes but with a story line'
Oh well, it was fun while it lasted. Total normalfag death