Should I be toggling my sensitivity to be higher while I sprint? Most tarkob gigachads seem to have ridiculously high sens in general.

>>555901819
no
>Most tarkob gigachads seem to have ridiculously high sens in general
not from what I've looked, or at least I play with higher than most and my sens isn't super high

>>555901819
freelook sensitivity is all you need is that what youre seeing?

>>555902860
No i mean like when i see videos of people sprinting their turnspeed seems to be even faster than mine is while I'm just moving around.

>>555903135
you might be onto something , maybe

>>555903339
I watch Liedge a lot and one of the things he always does in dorms when going upstairs is sprint across, open the door, and sprint back. I've tried to replicate it over and over again but I can't get it as smooth as he does it. The "sprint -> open -> stop sprint -> turn around -> sprint" chain always bogs down in the transition between stopping and starting sprinting again. I think he toggles sens and just never stops sprinting.

Documents Case from a Cultist Circle sacrifice yupyupyup that's good.

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>>555900993
>OnlyScavs
glorious.

>>555901819
>>555903135
Learn to throw your mouse the fuck around
Pros seem to change sensitivity but they're just using their full arm (which makes precise movements easier than trying to slightly adjust your wrist alone)
But there are also people in any competitive scene who break the mould e.g. high sens or keyboards in fighting games, so try whatever works for you

>>555906393
>virgin "The Wiggle That Killed Tarkov"
>chad "Do the wiggle to trick Pscavs"

Pretty sad that EFT and Arena will never have another update

>>555907102
The good old days...
https://youtu.be/Slb2NJvyv24?t=19

>>555907642
I hate that we're stuck with one Tarkov video a year from him, and that's if we're lucky.

>>555907773
The wiggle arc killed his enjoyment of the game, saw a stream once and he was mentioning that "one in every X raids has a cheater" statistic that was going around

>>555908184
I've heard that he likes the game but doesn't like making videos about it because that's all people ask for and he wants to cover other games too.

Once you get through the start and middle quests and only have lame ass use this gun or go here to kill people quests its fucking gay. I left test drive until i was lvl 42 and its a fucking slog i can't even bear to just run around with killing people as my only objective.

>>555908184
I was cheating for a few raids and you've honestly got at least 1-2 cheaters every single raid.

>>555908716
I never said it was wrong

>>555909101
Is loving another man wrong...?

>>555908184
>>555908716
I still dont believe that stat but maybe. Destiny 2 cheats maker aim junkies apparently made 1-2 million off cheating that is a lot of users. I dunno though doesnt feel like that many people cheat in tarkov they never know where I am

So, that's the point of doing non-story tasks after I've gotten traders to LL4, unlocked the things I require and gotten high enough level? Don't really feel like getting Kappa anymore either.

At this point, I just want to escape from Tarkov.

>>555883268
Second and third floor of pinewood facing towards the mall. You can get anyone that kills kolontay and tries to loot a guard and camp green flare as well

>>555912470
So do the story tasks then? Only Saviour ending requires you to basically complete 90% of the game, so go for the other endings.

You just know that the rest of the day's raids are going to be complete fucking dogshit, when the first raid is me running around for 20 minutes seeing nor hearing anything and then getting sniped in the head god knows where.

>find the X-17 lower
>want to build the whole gun
>can't buy the upper receiver from traders
>they can only be bought on the flea for 150-200k
Yeah cool.

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>>555914042
+1 SBIH for me

>>555914583
Probably, yeah, lol. At least give me some SCAVS to kill before you snipe me, though. Need some early game tasks done.

>>555914042
Second raid in a row where I just get headshot with a sniper like 20 minutes into the raid without seeing nor hearing anything. What. All on Customs and I at least try to stay indoors as much as possible. Like what the hell is everyone else doing? The raid is completely silent and then I get instatapped to head from the other side of the map while switching buildings.

Here I am trying to make my way every raid to that building that requires you to plant the cameras and kill people inside. I never make it there. If I try to rush there, I get sniped to the head and if I try to just take it slow and slowly make my way there I get sniped to the head. Literally impossible to even enter that building.

>>555916379
Which way are you going? Unless I get the absolute perfect spawn, I'm only ever entering one way, from the railroad. Never ever maintain sight lines to fortress after just a few minutes. That wide open space between crackhouse and fortress is total suicide at pretty much any point in the raid. Avoid it... basically always. I can't think of a single reason why you would ever traverse it unless you're trying to make it to green flare with like a minute left.

As weird as it feels, use the main road. Stick to the wall and move between cover. Try to keep cover or concealment between you and everything behind you. At the overpass, just sprint up and over the raised causeway. If someone shoots at you, jump over the wall and take cover (unless they're shooting you from there, but they rarely are). Customs can be a pain to maneuver, but using the main road solved a lot of the pain points for me.

>>555917150
I've had a variety of spawns, but my latest one (the two raids prior to this were near dorms and new gas):
>spawn near big red
>make my way for the bridge
>see someone in front of me, so hang back, so I don't just get domed again
>someone comes from my back, decked up
>fire my SVD at him, since he saw me and took out all my limbs
>throw a nade and gulp a painkiller, so I can at least escape, since I'm in a shitty spot
>get shot in the head by someone else 2 minutes later while heading to that building
At least now I died in like 3-4 minutes instead of 20 minutes of getting nothing done. I've now drained my stash of all my money, all my weapons, all my armor and backpacks. I'm literally back to running around pretty much naked or have to rely on my scavs to get gear now.

>>555907553
Is it true they're going to leave the game on life support while they milk their new space game?

>>555917721
Maybe out of left field, but... how are your stress levels in raid? Are you constantly crushing carbon into diamonds in your butt all raid? Totally detached? Somewhere in between?

I can never find a single fucking pmc on lighthouse, how the hell am I supposed to get assessment done?

>>555907553
Wait, what? Has BSG confirmed that they won't be introducing anything new to EFT? Nobody gives a fuck about Arena, so it's actually good thing, if it dies.

>>555918251
>>555918468
You're getting baited

>>555917721
I'm level 54 and I haven't completed that lame arena quest yet. Just don't do it?

>>555918468
>>555918543
Yeah Nikita said he moved the entire development team to the new game and EFT will only get live service small holiday updates to coincide with the battlepasse cosmetics.

>>555918362
At the moment? I'm at that state of having lost all hope and I go into every raid knowing I'll just die instantly. But when things aren't going as bad as now, I tend to be somewhat relaxed, even in combat. Now I'm in full nihilism mode, though. My performance just varies greatly from day to day, some days I'm winning every fight and

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>>555914804
I just finished the Scavs on Woods while drinking Milkies quest, you have free reign bro go nutso mode

>>555918714
>some days I'm winning every fight
You're probably better at the game than I am then kek. I rarely have days where I win even half my fights. I thought you were new. Maybe it's just tarkov being tarkov

>>555917721
next raid, as the story goes:
>same spawn, near big red
>this time I took with me 5.45 BP ammo and that semi auto rifle with a scope and a silencer
>try to find a place to hide, since surviving the raid any other way seems to be impossible
>a lot of silenced fire starts happening near me
>just think to myself that as the story goes, someone will just stumble upon me
>lots of steps near by, like 4 or 5 people
>just stay silent, since I have no possibility of escaping nor fighting anyone
>eventually one of them just kinda happens to run into me
>it's a dude with a raid backpack and an altyn
>take a few shots, all absorbed by armor
>die to .300 AP to the head
I'm so very fucking tired at this point. I'll just start going in with nothing but paca and a barebones shotgun without a fucking backpack.

>>555918548
I just need that Ref rep. Tried to do that great heights task, but ended up losing like 12 games in a row and losing a lot of money, so decided to go this route instead. Though, even this is working very little in my favor.

People seem to be better at fighting than me. They rush me and shoot. I also notice I will die everytime if I W key towards an enemy.

>>555919074
Yeah, I don't know. Either my SR is 0% or close to 100%, feels like there's no in-between for me. And yeah, I'm not new, but now I'm performing worse than your average timmie, lol.

>>555919287
If you ever do great heights again I highly recommend checkpoint. Just keep capping points on the flanks and hip firing everyone you see.

>thorax'd by lapua ap from a 300 hour account
Cool

>>555919496
That 12 games of losing was in CPT, lol. Every game my teammates were just running around with bolt-actions and sawn off shotguns having like 0-1 captures throughout the match. I just kinda gave up. Prior to that ran TF, but felt like I got matched against premade groups a lot and just got crushed every match.

>>555919512
It really makes me feel good when people have no idea where I am because then I think wow this person is a bonafide legit player that isn't cheating.

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>>555919287
Found a revolver in my stash, so threw it on and spent my last rubles on some sweet sweet paca armor. Didn't have enough cash to insure any of my gear anymore. Wish me luck, lads. If I die, that's it. I'm once again death spamming until bankruptcy or success and so far the latter seems to be happening.

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>>555920016
Well, at least I got inside the building. On my way there saw a three man squad and of course they came here too. Just fucking ran as fast as I could and hid in this spot hoping that my running would drown in their own running. Now I'm hoping that they don't just walk into me while looting or whatever the fuck they are doing here. I'm going to wait here. I'm so tired to dying to literal firing squads.

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>>555921025
Well, everything went silent and I heard a scav just roaming around, so stepped out of my hiding spot eventually. Died fucking instantly to a prestige 5 PMC with 10k hours played.

That's it, lads. I'm at 0 money and my stash is out of gear.

>>555921362
>500 million roubles ending
Soulless.

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FACTORYSCAVS I'M COMING FOR YOU NIGGA!

The weekend is the worst time to play, this is the most miserable I've been in a while.

>>555922270
Can anyone explain why this is? Shouldn't it be the opposite?

>>555922597
More squads, more cheaters, more people willing to camp and rat to get a task done.

>>555921362
Play on colombia server to get your feet in the door.

>>555922597
All the kids and normalfags are at home and they squad up. Raids are packed with PMCs.

>>555923107
Even the complete normalfag that I occasionally get in a squad with a buddy of knows about columbia servers.

>final kill for sbih on lighthouse
>it bounces
Fucking kill me.

>>555923718
Should've used a cartridge with a lower ricochet probability :-)

>>555923718
>next guy that comes by no intel throws a grenade directly on me
Sweet.

>>555900993
https://youtu.be/X9kqyqswsL8
the new space game from bsg

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>>555924014
I guess I'll just play only on weekdays.

>>555923107
Sadly I live on the other side of the planet and don't really know any dead servers here in Europe. If I selected Colombian servers, I'd just get kicked out due to high ping probably.

might be video game fatigue but tarkov is really fucking boring now. i was hoping with 1.0 it would be this epic story with tons of cool missions but we never really got any of that. just more boring grind.

>>555924182
>tarkov but spaceslop
I guess Russia 2028 never ever?

>>555925723
Tarkov is Russia 2028, just switch to PvE blyat

t. niggita

>>555925723
Russia 2028 took too long to develop, it has been rebranded to Russia 2128 and turned into a space game.

>in space everyone happens to use old world guns and there are no plasm guns lasts or rail guns
Kek Russia brain

>>555927187
To be fair conventional weapons would still be very effective in space.

>>555927187
Good.

psst... the lantac blast mitigation device is way better than suppressors...

Elite Crafting bonus also works for Scav Case? Nice.

>>555929415
Maybe but I'd rather alert only half the map to my presence instead of the entire map. I'll run it in Arena once they add it there tho.

>>555929415
It's not, but it's the only muzzle device with comparable stats

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>>555921362
>be this anon
>got some money by playing on my scav and got back to it
>finally a good raid, killed 3 PMCs near that camera building
>packed with loot, 2,5 minutes left, but have a green flare
>try to crawl for the exfil
>AT FUCKING 2 MINUTES LEFT A SWEATY AS FUCK PMC APPEARS AT FORT
>Of course he FUCKING DOES
>hit him like fucking 30 times with my dogshit ammo and a few times with .50 BMG shotgun slugs I got off my kill
>he just doesn't fucking die
>lob 3 nades, he takes damage from at least TWO OF THEM, but doesn't die
>he somehow manages to escape and gets inside old gas, which was active
>I go MIA just when I was about to fire the flare
This is like so fucking surreal, what the FUCK. Like JESUS FUCKING CHRIST I'M SO FUCKING FED UP WITH THIS FUCKING GAME.

>>555924182
>from the guys who brought you the worst 10-years-to-1.0 in history
>futureslop
>bwamm
lol. no.

>>555930502
And yeah, I'm once again at 0 rubles. Oh boy, what a fucking joy it is to play this fucking game holy fuck.

>>555921362
>>555930502
>>555930670
Out of curiosity, what are your stats? Even when I was new to the game I was never even close to being completely broke and I never understood how one can manage to reach such levels of poverty.

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>>555930915
Currently at a loading screen, but last time I checked my SR was 50% and KDR was like 9 or something. My average raid time used to be like 35 minutes in the past, but this wipe has been at like fucking 10 minutes.

Blew a ton of money on upgrading my stash and ended up with like ~4 million rubles. Then I failed that great heights task 3 times in a row and was left with a million. Then I just deathspammed that million into Customs by dying like >10 times today, just scraping by stuffing random streamer items into my secure container with other goodish loot. Now I'm at like 3000 rubles.

I've done like 10-15 raids today and have not survived a single one. Not. A. Single. One. All on Customs too. At first I went in with decentish gear, then I started to go full poverty mode, then scav mode and at the end like full pistol + paca-mode. Last raid I had some okayish gear with me, slaughtered most of the lobby and still got fucked by sheer shit ass fucking luck and got my first MIA in like 3 wipes.

>>555908716
how could you tell? why did you cheat?

they should remove suppressors off the flea market and severely restrict them so only the ones you need for the quests are buyable but they're on like a 1 buy per reset.

i say this because i want every raid to actually feel alive with gunshots ringing out everywhere.

>>555931396
>failed that great heights task 3 times in a row
lmao yep thatll do ya. i think i failed it 5 fucking times.

>>555930502
Gaming is shit. Videogames are bad.

>need 2 more kills at cinema
>good spawn
>watch 3 scavs go inside as im running up
>go inside
>game freezes as i bounce the first round off penis helmet
>hold the trigger and aim by prayer
>die
>13 hits
>no kill
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuckkk offfffffff

>>555924971
You can try Dubai or Nigeria or something. Or Scav on Columbia and see if it kicks you. Anything with a matching time of 5min+ will probably be dead as fuck.

>>555934587
Maybe I should give that a try, yes. I'm literally mindbroken at this point.

>turn in The Price of Independence to BTR
>blue flare barter doesn't unlock from mechanic
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH fucking hell lol, this shit better get sorted out. I submitted a bug report about it, we'll see. I've had a decent experience with their bug reporting system actually.

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What did my PMC mean by this? My "avatar" just stayed like that in trading screens.

>>555932383
some video games are good

>>555936007
Sinister ahh diddyblvd.

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I love when pscavs voip at me like "IM JUST SCAV BRO WHAT THE FUCK" after I shoot at them. Like, yea cunt, what the fuck are you expecting? That I'm gunna let le hecking innocent scaverino just walk by? I go out of my way to murder every pscav that I see

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>>555936007
I donno but it's funny

>>555936237
I tortured a pscav into literally giving up and going AFK yesterday. He submitted to my big PMC cock.

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>looting and killing scavs as a PMC inside that new building next to fort
>sorting my inventory and just going through the loot
>hear someone walk outside, but not in a ai scav manner
>he stays silent for a while, I also stop and just stay quiet
>after a while he voips something in Russian
>just say something like "Huh?"
>he proceeds to speak more Russian
>once again reply with a confused "What?"
>says something more in Russian, but also hear the word "russkiy"
>just tell him that I don't speak Russian
>says something in the line of "Oh, okay. You want some loot bro? I can show you some loot."
>"Kinda sus, bro."
>"Okay." and just runs away
Maybe he really had some loot, who knows? I wish there were more funny encounters like these.

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>>555931596
In my opinion, the issue is really twofold. It's not that access to suppressors is to high, but that there's no incentive to run anything else. There's like, one single muzzle device and one combo device that has similar recoil reduction to the higher tier suppressors. Every other muzzle device has half the recoil reduction for the benefit of, what? Ergo? You can still get 40/50 ergo on the higher tier weapons while suppressed which is more than enough. The other muzzle devices need to have both: higher recoil reduction, and for them to actually fucking DO SOMETHING WHY THE FUCK DO FLASH HIDERS, BRAKES, COMPENSATORS, ETC. NOT ALTER MUZZLE FLASH
You don't need to have every muzzle device rival the combo suppressors but they need to be higher in general.

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If BSG were really based they would add the type 89

>>555937083
This has been suggested so many times it's insane that BSG hasn't implemented this.

>>555937083
You're not wrong

at least one cheater in every single arena lobby.

>>555936007
>>555936259
>Rawr :3

>>555937083
Yeah....the change to suppressors in terms of their loudness was a step in the right direction for 1.0, but there's still so many steps to take before the muzzle device system makes sense.

Is this shit just bugged? I can't find a single barrel that the new Alien Engineering suppressor system works on.

https://escapefromtarkov.fandom.com/wiki/AR-15_Allen_Engineering_SPR_Collar_suppressor_mount#Conflicting_Items

>>555941631
There's like, two, that it fits on. One of the 18 inch barrels, iirc? I have a rifle with one on but I can't be fucked to close the game I'm playing just to spend 5 minutes waiting for tarkov to open to check for you.

>>555941631
It works on the Mk12 barrels.

>go inside of the mall on interchange for a pvp task
>40 minutes of running in circles, can't hear a single shot or any signs of a pmc
>go outside
>get shot by three different lapua bullets from three different directions
crazy just how much shittier they made an already dogshit map with that expansion

is setup a retarded task for stupid nigggggers
asking 4 a friend

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>>555943846
just scav in bro
walked into the mall, saw this guy cowering in the supermarket and all it took was some buckshot to his face

>>555943992
nice loot, but how can I do chumming as a scav?

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>>555943964
No it's great now that you can use the MP-18 for it.

Freezing every 15 seconds what the fuck is this shit

>>555945047
Restart your shit

I finally understand why RPM is the only thing that matters in arena. It doesn't matter if my bullet does 60 damage and yours only does 40 if you are able to land three shots before i can land two. Not only that but your bullets will reliably track my head like a laser beam if you're flailing at me with m1 held down where my bullets might just bracket you.

Very disappointing revelation

setup was actually good when you could buy ammo off the flea earlier in the wipe. got it done with by just using ap 20's and rushing spawns. honestly if you're struggling with the task and aren't some neurotic sperg that cares about muh kd just load up your gun with the highest flesh damage buckshot rounds and go rush spawns and aim for feet. should get it over and done with quickly

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>>555924182
read this off reddit a while ago so it might be wrong but idc
>be game investor
>a company comes using Nikita's name to pitch a web3 game (some crypto jargon)
>join pitch call with them
>Nikita never shows up
>turn them down
>they get hostile in return
>get "nasty email" back from them afterwards
and after reading that originally and looking at the trademark filing I think it confirms that is going to be some crypto adjacent tarkov clone in space.

>>555924182
not gonna be open world, not gonna have space ship battles, probably just more arc raider-tier slop

>multiple backend errors daily
>constant rubberbanding
>hundreds of random other errors
I'm so tired of this game man, it's not a """beta""" anymore yet it feels like no one is ever talking about how NOTHING has improved with 1.0.

>two people with 6 kills over a full checkpoint match
>im at 30 kills with most caps in game
>we are constantly at 0 points captured
>the second i cap something unless i stay there it will be immediately recapped because everyone on my team is brainlessly throwing themselves at the bad left hander on B over and over and over again
i just want two more victories so i can stop playing this shit

>>555927187
guns work fine in spess as the cartridges are self-oxidizing. you just need to worry about heat dispersion

What's the best route to run for GSkulls and bronze lions? I've been opening safes in customs for hours and still can't get the last few I need for scav box

>>555962154
Whatever your best safe route is. It's seriously just luck.

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Oh shit. A slap across Nikita's face. The gauntlet has been thrown down.

>>555962154
I scav'd streets and hit valuable spawns, the chek building has one near the wardens corpse and upstairs in one of the cells

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Is this worth it

>>555962967
XP > roubles

>>555962967
XP > Roubles at a certain point.

>>555962967
You're not losing that much money anyway. 416s are like 100k~ on the flea as is.

What are the safest extracts on labs? Can I just take vent shaft?

>>555964139
Sewage Conduit is rather comfy

>>555964139
Doesn't that require not having a backpack? The elevator is barely much farther than that anyway.

>>555964221
Should I run straight to the basement as fast as I can from spawn? I just want to get out alive for the guide right now

>>555943846
The outside belongs to sniper chads it's their world you're just living in it

>>555964139
I ran down a flight of stairs, heard two guys coming, domed one, the other voip'd and we were both just trying to get out and unlock labs, so I took him to vent shaft and left

>>555964139
>>555964221
The transit is the safest. No one ever fucks with transit late raid and you will run into no one. Just sprint past the raiders. Every single time I successfully got off labs was transit then alt f4 when screen black.

>>555924182
This is going to fall. Tarkov is good because it started as a fan project and have a lot of passion and Russian/Soviet things in it.

>>555966740
Idiot.

What is the point of 9mm when every other pistol/pdw cartridge is not only better than pbp but also like 2x cheaper?

>>555967069
this is the same as beloved Witcher 3.
Setting that existed or made by someone else before the game and is already loved by everyone.
Creating something new is different, space whatever is going to fail badly.

>>555967995
9mm has a lot of guns that use it.

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Lighthouse is next, wish me luck.

>>555971084
Btw transiting immediately counts as survived if you want to cheese it

>finished 18 tasks across 10 hours of tarkov yesterday
Ahem. Fuck Lighthouse, fuck Snoreline, fuck Nikita and fuck Jannies.

>>555974970
>10h of tarkov on weekend
seems like Nikita won

>>555971084
Died with two left, some niggerman chased me down the whole match on shoreline

>>555977140
do shoreline earlier bad spawns and no transits

>>555977447
I spawned right next to scav camp and thought no one would go there after having done the exact same thing dozens of raids with no issues. Someone was there, and willing to not move while camping me out, then chase me the moment I run all the way around near the back of the map. I'm pissed and not attempting the guide for a long while.

I don't want to get in fights with players when I'm doing some stupid fucking quest, but once I'm out of quests what will I do? Fighting people is worthless because I don't need their guns, armor, or loot because making money is so easy. It's just annoying to have to justify if a fight is worth engaging in or if I should just run away to get a quest done when I feel like the game should have more in place to encourage me to fight

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What's the community's thought on Labyrinth?

>>555982026
Probably positive overall. It's a cool map and was super fun pvp when it wasn't 5 guys waiting for one of the other 4 to walk in front of them.

>>555981572
Just go for pvp, always. The only time I would ever avoid it is if I found an extremely high value item, but now that shit doesn't need to be FIR to list on flea market I just shove everything up my ass and Shift + W to gunshots if they're close by. To me personally there is nothing more satisfying in this game than dropping people and taking their shit, task progression is fun and all but it's very one-dimensional (90% are just fetch quests).

>run up to cinema
>watch relax
>take my shot and miss
>run opposite way
>some guy still in his starting store spawn
man, this map and game is truly terrible. Level 45's just sitting in spawn for 10+ minutes to do test drive why even bother opening the game

>>555982340
I don't find the pvp to be very fun because I'm not very good at it. It's the kind of thing where engaging in it just feels like getting my ass beat without learning any lessons at all. I don't feel like I'm learning and getting better at it, I feel like I'm at exactly the same amount of skill I had at the start of the wipe

>>555982489
Pvp in this game is mainly a gear check and rng

>>555982489
Just use flechette shotgun rounds barely even have to aim. Use tripwires. But if you cant find any fun things to do then just stop playing I guess

>>555982652
I have worn class 5 only for the past month straight and it still feels like I am wearing paper. The few times I did wear class 6 I still got my shit melted by m80 from garbage guns anyways. It's so fucking tiring

>>555982840
Yeah I'd rather have 855a1 and a paca than class six and SOST

>fighting someone on the edge of the map
>hear the border sniper go POW
oh dear someone made an oopsy

>>555982489
pvp in most situations is more about awareness and knowing spawns/pathing than anything else. Get good at these and you'll find yourself getting the drop on people most of time.

This of course does not apply to certain areas like dorms or resort in which pvp is absolutely degenerate and enjoyed only by sado-masochists and Lvndmark viewers.

>>555984438
>know where to sit and camp people and you can be GOOD too!

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I've noticed the times I hit moving targets are when I move my dot in front of them and let them walk into my shot instead of tracking them

Last raid I missed 4 shots on a trio spawning near chopper. Then a literal repeat happened again the next raid so I got another chance, one of this guys trio got me after again but who cares. Almost done SBIH!

Man interchange is really spawn dependent. The spawns on the sniper side facing the river fucking suck. Emercom fucking blows.

>>555984535
Being aware of where people might be moving around the map does not mean that you sit and camp.

>>555986234
>>555984535
it lets you avoid the campers too
>know sniper spot exists
>hug walls or cover and never stop in the kill zone
I rarely die to shit like that now that I 1) know spawns 2) know camp spots

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>>555987351
There are no camp spots on interchange

This "lost connection" bullshit never happened before, what did they break this time? 4 times in one weekend when 0 times before this. I also killed some guy it happened to as well I think

>>555987449
For me it's sitting on top of power

sniping is like deer hunting you just wait for the animal to stumble into view and pow right in the kisser

>>555987805
I feel like there's too many sightlines there. I used to always get fucked by people on the second story of the mall above the parking garage. Is it better now?

>>555987958
you can control where you peek to check each angle at a time, then after that you just watch whatever you want

INSOMNIA IS IMPOSSIBLE WHERE THE FUCK IS EVERYBODY

>>555988158
Hunting cultists. You will PVP out the ass at fortress/arena building on customs

>PvE
>Fence mission before giving codes to terminal
>PMCs literally do not spawn, spawn in single instances in PoIs and die to scavs at the start of the game or afk next to scavs that don't agro on them so I shoot all of them and fail the mission

has to be deliberate with the frequency to which this happens when I get kill ___ missions

>>555990880
if you queue with people more PMCs spawn so if youre not terrified of making the game have players in it you can try that

>decide to make a real kit this time
>put on armor and get a sidearm with nades
>spawn in across the park at the shop
>get killed in under 10 seconds of raid time despite not moving at all
I actually think this map has the worst spawns out of all of them

NL45 with 45 round mag is stupid fun.

The game sucks and I almost wish that I regret the time I put into it.

I have more fun organizing stash in Tarkov than playing modern videogames

>guy almost killed me with m855a1 ppsh ammo but it left 1hp on my head
the dropoff in this game is ridiculous I was only like 30m away laying down

>kill pmc
>scav horde arrives
>finally get me
>it was a level 5 that claimed me in the end
happy for you bro enjoy the loot and high from the kill

I can kill 23 scavs inside IC mall with Ash-12, loot ultramed, run to power and back, and swipe the saferoom keycard before first PMC gets the courage to come further inside and kill me while I'm opening Kiba door. What an embarrassing frightened nigger, enjoy absolutely nothing.

>>555997014
That's why I hate interchange, it's such a fucked up and rattable map

>>555993557
it sucks and yet it's still miles ahead any other extraction shooter
sad innit

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I wonder what that guy thought of me after this

Punisher part 1 is super annoying. Keep spawning across the map from any scav spawns and bumping into pmc teams clearing the map.

>doing shitty bolt action rifle quest on Factory
>run into 2 other bolt action players on stairs
>someone kept flashing us
this was so funny and retarded

>it's another wait 30 minutes but the other guy waited 35 in a random building episode
I am so close to buying radar so I can play the game normally

>>556000669
just go pve lil bro it was made for people like you

>pvelette
>decent nvidia gpu
>dsr
>smoothmotion
>dlss 4.5 performance recommended model override
>165 fps 4k looks sharp af
>input delay dont matter

fuck yeah.

>>556002501
scavs dont even shoot back I could melee scavs to death and complete the game probably

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is this rare? I just found one in labs. never seen them before.

>>556003003
Very rare but not worth that much. You need them to craft a ledx but you can't flea them and you need the book from labs which is also fir only and fucking STUPID rare.

>>556003087
so itll just sit in my hideout forever, gotcha
at least i found something cool

>>556003225
cultists are always grateful for sacrifices

>play on europe servers again cuz lower ping
>immediately killed by some sub 300h unheard Xong Xina
Back to NA I go.

>need last kill for bolt action
>nobody fucking moves except tagilla in my direction
oh come on

>>556012494
I don't bump into too many cheaters with Europe North, East, and Russia West

>>556014351
Less cheaters on East and Russia? After China I believe Russians are the most likely to hack.

>>556014553
Can't really compare as I never play on Western or Southern European servers, but I've heard people complaining about them.

>meeting someone in the back rooms of the streets mall
always hilarious when two rats collide in the most unlikely of places

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Task from Skier: kill 20 babies

>>555982026
It's high risk, high reward for a solo player. I like it.
I especially like that it feels like a hidden stage within Tarkov that you can't find just from looking at the map. Pretty cool if you can get to it without looking everything up online.

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>ready to prestige since last week
>still want to finish the main quest
>needed to find the stupid MCC box
>spend a few days looking for it
>finally find it
>need to wait 72 hours to build solar power
>afterwards need to wait almost 7 hours to craft a keycard to even enter Terminal
I'm so tired of artificial timegates.

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>>555999053
HOLY SHITTERS

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i think the pve ai is cheating too much when i play on local servers

i got lazered by some pmc ai standing around the go kart area of interchange with a kriss vector because it saw a pixel of me running around the train tracks area

>>556016876
Go get em, hero.

>>555931554
You can see peoples stats, can watch them watch you or others through walls, watch them bolt it straight to some loose gpu/ledx, wiggling. Most people try to ignore others and just loot, do objectives, kill bosses and ignore players. Just got frustrated with the game, saw it as a waste of time and thought it would be a blessing if I had gotten banned also I like cheating anyway, it gets me off. You quickly find that when you're cheating, there is absolutely no purpose to playing the game. I was still dying quite a bit as well just because the sound-whoring in this game is so bad that you don't even need esp to track someone perfectly through a wall.

>>556025041
>also I like cheating anyway, it gets me off
I don't understand that at all. I've never cheated at anything since typing "black sheep wall" into warcraft 2 when I was like 7 years old. I don't lie, I don't cheat, and I don't steal. I just don't understand why anyone would cheat at something so inconsequential as a video game instead of just... getting good.

>>556025684
he's brown

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>>556025684
The Honest Man literally cannot comprehend the hollowness of the soul within the Cheater Fag

>>556025041
was there a toggle to see if they were on 4 out of 5 kills for Psycho Sniper? because I've been suspiciously killed at 4/5 EVERY TIME for the last two weeks

>>556025041
I hope you get mangled in a car crash

What are the hotspots in Interchange? I only know about not staying outside if you don't want to get your head blown off.>>556027003

>>556031740
Didn't mean to reply to that post there.

>>556031740
ultra medical and tagilla's hideout

>>556025684
it really is impossible to understand, at least for someone with critical thinking skills.
A normal person would simply stop playing a game they didn't enjoy.

It's just so unbelievably petty. It's like not liking candy floss anymore, and then instead of simply not buying it, hanging around the store and stealing it from kids who walk by.

My friend just entirely stopped playing after we got kappa and savior ending, and now I'm left alone. He of course had ambitious plans about prestiging afterwards and stuff, but during the last week he hasn't played a single raid in tarkov.
Solely pvping and hitting hotspots solo isn't that fun, so I'm leaning towards prestiging, despite the rewards being rather worthless. I know I will despise playing with shit strength and stamina, but at least I would have something to aim for again. Currently I've been working on Lightkeeper questline, and I'm near the end, but the rewards aren't great and it gives no achievement, so might as well not finish it. While working on it, I've been thinking more and more about what's next after I finish it. If it prestiging is the only choice, why not do it before finishing it?
However, my stash value is over 400mil, and I have too many Altyns, t6 plate rig kits, ammo, and guns hoarded and not using them would be too much of a waste, so I guess I have to start spamming Labs.

I feel quite cornered now, any suggestions on what to do?

>>556033073
Prestiging is the only option, unfortunately this game unironically does not work without forced wipes, but this community is not yet ready for this conversation.

>>556034257
Never saw any opposition to that, but regardless there's not much point to any such conversation anymore anyways. Game's dying and will never have as many players as it did in November/December ever again. BSG thinks that people want scav life and another pve map lol

>>556034257
It barely even matters anymore. Sweats are geared up within the week regardless. It's 100% player perception now.

>>556033073
What lvl are you now?

>>556037884
Nearly 58, most of the xp coming from arena dailies

>>555962407
i've been saying that bsg don't play the game for years
good call

>>556017040
This is what I hate about Tarkov's quest system.
It's like they're designed around needing to refer to a wiki.

>>556041490
Yeah I don't want big quest markers everywhere but it needs more than the vague shit the tasks give you to work with

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>>556041490
Some tasks should be rewritten. The descriptions for some tasks seem fine without going overboard. In this one, for example, I wouldn't expect Prapor to know exactly where in the post office the letter is, but it's still a good enough lead to narrow it down to a building.
This task doesn't have it, but it also helps when you have a subtask that gets checked when you're in the right area.

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>>556043953
Then you get tasks like this that could take quite a long time to get done without more information. Of course people will get frustrated and look it up online.

>>556044282
>Subtask:(Optional) Find the place where the messenger hid the cargo
Alright, not the best example since it would have given you a hint when you're close to the spot.

>>556044282
>just trial and error all the keys for the dorms and resort tasks
The game is impossible without looking up information on the wiki.

Peacekeeping mission on streets kicking my ass kek, keep running into people who just beam straight through my thorax

prestiging would be admitting youre a mentally ill loser not me sorry

i fucking hate arena so fucking much. SMGs are so fucking ridiculously good and there are so many fucking hackers its just fucking luck whether or not i do well in any given game. my skill is totally irrelevant because some dude with a HEHE I BOUNCE EVERYTHING mask on is going to come around the corner prefiring my exact angle with 18907234987 RPM SMGs that all have the same pen and damage as my assault rifle. its just such a fucking clusterfuck. even though i know that peekers advantage is a thing, its not actually because everyone has ESP.

>>556049690
I dont play arena but makes sense that SMGs are basically the best. All the maps are perfectly within the SMG's engagement range, they're basically built for that shit. In EFT they're balanced by the fact that a guy with an AR or DMR can totally outgun you at 100m+, but that situation just doesn't exist in arena.

>>556049690
I suck donkey shit and I can still do good in arena. In Tarkov my kd is only 0.13 in tarkov. In 933 raids I have killed 126 PMCs in my entire Tarkov career. In Arena you just need to listen real good, prefire, and hip fire. You can at the very least get top 1-3 for your team and it's better than nothing. My main class is enforcer with sometimes scout because you are correct SMGs are OP for headshot fishing.

>>556050181
its actually ridiculous how much better scout is than every other class when you think about it. not only do they get t5 plates and not only do they get the very best ammo for all SMGs but ARs are restricted to worse rounds and the class that can use them gets t4 plates. its just fucking stupid game design and nikita needs to DIE for this transgression REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>556050429
>nikita needs to DIE
TL note: DIE is difficult to translate from autistic screeching into english. its best english language parallel is absent from our language

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no helmet as well

>>556054295
bro like maybe ONE of those shots was actually on target

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>>556054381
TRVKE

>>556054295
its okay that little faggot bled out immediately after anyway

>>556054295
Shots 1-5: Clearly missed.

these lighthouse quests are going to massacre my kd rate

>>556060754
The people I'm running into are prestige 5 trying to finish THEIR 5th or 6th run of lighthouse quests. Those weirdos probably know the map perfectly.

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3 raids of no cultists, can't wait for more of this. At least I'm getting insomnia and capturing outpost kills.

>>556062000
How is that different to just playing for 5 or 6 wipes?

>>556062079
Try Woods, I had better luck there and didn't have to deal with as many players.

>>556062091
thousands of hours of playing the worst maps in the game vs people who avoid dogshit maps

>>556062091
Nta but pretty sure that historically, most players quit either when or before they ever get to lighthouse. 5th prestigers are absolute degens, and so is anybody past 3rd prestige really

It keeps spawning me on the beach nearest lighthouse

reserve is spooky

>>556063485
I also believe most normal people avoid the map so you get lighthouse questers, rogue farmers, and poopsocks. Normal looters don't go there as the loot isn't worth the squeeze. It's an environment for aids.

Lighthouse isn't even that bad...

>>556065148
It has been voted the worst map in the game. If it didn't have a reason to be there no one would run it.

The 5.56 MDR is bad right?

>>556067873
wrong

>>556067873
I got killer7 with it (at least a bunch of kills until I ran out of ammo) so I declare it a good weapon.

>>556068704
The MDR might be nice... but nothing beats the power of friendship! I've always thought (You) were the best weapon in the game.

>>556069247
It turns out the real best weapon was the friends we made along the way...

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>>556062079
Like 8 raids of no cultists, one death to a cheater.

>>556068496
>>556068704
What about the Mk16?

>>556071035
Same firerate therefore same effectiveness, but has worse ergo.

>>556071182
Gotcha. What about the AK-105?

>>556065148
Yes it is. It's the worst map in the game by a mile and is fundamentally flawed.
>>556067873
It's quite good, especially with the new 20 inch barrel and handguards. You even get an in built bipod. Just make sure you're running decent ammo. You can't make up for shitty ammo with high rof while using it

>>556071320
5.45 AKs suck and I think the short AK-100s fire even slower so it's probably bottom of the barrel shit tier.

>>556071501
Is the 102 better?

>>556071596
Probably not.

>>556071501
I find them comfy to use but yeah they're fucking garbage. You have to spend a huge amount of rubble to get them above 50 ergo with a can and the can options all fucking suck... except the waffle, which costs like 60-100k reliably. It's a bummer because I just want to run 7N40 out of a decent gun but the NL545 is the only actual fully viable option for the cartridge.

>finish raid
>find out one of the hail mary nades I threw at a guy killed him
Goddammit.

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>>556073238
Hardcore, realistic, bug free 1.0 release, please be of understandings and buy cor3.

>>556073238
I can't believe they still haven't fixed these things. I took one point blank in the kneecaps and took 0 damage right after they were first added.

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i hate test drive part 2

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what the hell am i doing wrong bros... my adrenaline didnt screencap his loadout but he had a fuckin blue vest and i had 545 bp

>>556082838
I started camping green flare on gz and it went a little more smoothly

>>556083150
>blue vest
If you mean the kiarasa, it can take class 5 and 6 plates

>>556083150
The press vest or the UNTAR vest? BP is mid 40s pen so he had level 5/6 plates for sure.

>>556083168
didnt wanna rat but oh well

>>556083291
fucks sake

>>556083556
We live in an "aim for head or legs" world, thorax is extremely unreliable

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Not fucking worth it

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>>556083750
this is what a 6.00 scav loadout looks like

>>556084242
damn i should scavmaxx

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bro no one is playing ground zero
doing test drive anywhere else sounds like a pain

>>556084774
Interchang is kino for it

>>556084774
Play on your regions servers?

>>556084880
how do you even know i'm not playing in my home server?
anyway, no one does SHIT
no one moves
no one shoots
its like the lobby is empty
>>556084851
will try

>>556085212
GZ on the us is packed with people doing nothing but test drive and sbih, with relatively short queues

FUCK PSYCHO SNIPER

>>556085460
Queue factory and camp from rafters with an axmc or snipe on woods for a few hours.

Lost 0.5 KD queuing lighthouse today. No other map is that bad. Even fucking labs is better than that abortion of a map.

To the duo that didn't push me for 22 minutes on customs and then missed all of their shots when I left to extract, fuck you for wasting my time.

I'm so fucking tired of dying to squadniggers.

>>556021161
PVE is boring for that reason, you are clearly playing against bots

When I use a laser I can see the entire blue laser beam all the way to the destination. Can enemies also see this or do they only see the dot?

>>556094791
They see the whole thing too, don't use lasers unless you are peaking

>>555900993
>take a peek at reddit tarkov
>they all use death shadow mask and extract camp
why are plebbitors like this

>>555908716
Retard alert
>I was cheating BUT ONLY FOR A COUPLE RAIDS THEN I STOPPED (trust me bro)
>dude everyone else is cheating i saw it myself so that means cheating isnt that bad for me to do (trust me bro)
>dude i tested it myself theres a cheater in every raid bro
You are a retard.

>>555916379
>"Like what the hell is everyone else doing?"
Ratting.
I feel your pain anon, 80% of this games playerbase is comprised of complete pussies now.

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>got a sbih with 2:30 left on raid timer
>took sj6, grabbed the dogtag and ran for it
Holy fuck

>>556096231
he's definitely full of shit I cheated for a single week during pre battleye days and barely even saw wallhackers on labs, I had a single guy wiggle at me while I was in the bathroom lol.

it's also exactly what he said too, you die a lot while cheating anyway and you feel like a retard so I stopped since knowing where people are removes all the fun out of the game anyway

>>556025041
>sprinting straight to a ledx/gpu
nigga hatchlings have been doing that since the start of the game to check if they spawned, that's like the least suspicious thing ever

>>556025041
>cheaterfag still got absolutely dumpstered by regular gamers with headphones
kek, what a pussy.

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seems legit
https://tarkov.dev/players/regular/10746372

>>556102636
Did you ever think to aim in? He clearly was

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>>556103351
he isn't aiming down sights, though

>>556103430
looks like he was to me, you died. Also, lower your dpi retard

>>556102636
guaranteed cheater

man this gay zoomer lingo like BET etc is too much for an old person like me I'm old enough to be their parent

when a team is slowly cornering you from two-three different angles the move is to push one of them for a kill and hope the confusion means the guys in the other directions either kill their buddy or don't fire when you push?

>>556110125
you definitely need to push and not hide versus teams after they figure out where you are

anything else is situational based on cover and stuff

>>556110125
when a team is cornering you from two-three different angles, the response is to corner them back from six-seven different angles

I got attacked by an insanely strange player. It sounded like he was making scav voicelines and he shot at me from a weird area with no view.

>>556114464
Could he have been using a scav voice board? He was a USEC player and moving and acting like a scav and making scav noises so I let my guard down and rushed him. He two shotted my head afterwards.

>buy new bideocard
>scope in
>-40% FPS
lel

>>556115143
>disable DLSS
>+10% FPS
cursed af

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>Getting poor as fuck
>quick 5 min scav run to replenish some monies
old reliable Reserve it may be garbage but my PMC needs to eat!

>>556114464
are you sure that wasnt partisan?

>>556115489
naw he was a bonafide player. At first I thought he was a raider that pathed onto the lighthouse road. Sprinting at me with a scav voiceline or two. I was like cool this is totally a scav that picked up some gear or something. Stupid scav pathed into a building I'll go finish him off.

Experience gain rebalance
Increased the experience gain by up to 40% across all game modes.

For wins, draws, and losses;

For kills, headshot kills, double kills, and kill streaks;

For successful device activation and deactivation in BlastGang mode.

Hahahahahahaha arena gives 40% more XP! More XP!

Assault now has access to all armor vests and armored rigs that don't protect the neck area;

Enforcer now has access to all armor vests and armored rigs that apply minimal mobility penalties;

Scout now has access to all armor vests and armored rigs that don't protect the groin and/or stomach area;

Marksman now has access to all armor vests and armored rigs without additional armor elements;

Rebalanced the damage calculation parameters to stabilize ammo behavior and eliminate the armor "bullet sponge" effect.

Increased the blunt damage for all ammo types;

Reduced the built-in armor of class 3 armor vests and armored rigs to class 2;

Adjusted the blunt damage reduction parameters for all armor types.

Increased the meta score for most ammo types;

Reduced the meta score for class 4 and 3 plates;

Reduced the meta score for all helmets and masks;

Reduced the meta score for all weapons;

Increased the armor penetration value of 7.62x54R Tungsten Carbide AP to 62;

Reduced the overheat buildup speed by 30% for weapons using 9x39 ammo, including: