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I was wondering wtf those banners were all about. Maybe he's doing it so the devs don't come after them? Dunno.
Maoci claimed to get DMCA take downs from battle state , but i remember those being proven to not be from BSG , but i think its a safe bet BSG told senko to put the DRM in , and senko just took the retarded path of banning those who did pirate as-well.
 
God I hate this game so fucking much but there is nothing else like it. Fucking 1hr queue times to spend 12m loading into a map to die within 30 seconds to a hacker (head-eyes while prone behind full cover). I just want to get to the flea market but I refuse to pay2win EoD and I'm down to 100k rubles at lvl 12.

How do you even climb from being broke? I could probably sell off most of my junk for another 2-300k, I've been using the VPO-136 mostly as the PS ammo seems to be the best I can do without higher level traders/flea market. The quests in this game are all focused in such hotspots I have no idea how you're expected to complete them without just going in naked with a prayer over and over.
 
How do you even climb from being broke? I could probably sell off most of my junk for another 2-300k
Sounds autistic but don't worry about the gear; if you'll run out of shit Prapor will send you a Krinkov, or you can do Scav runs.
The quests in this game are all focused in such hotspots I have no idea how you're expected to complete them without just going in naked with a prayer over and over.
I think that's the case of devs not playing their own game, especially ones with Factory that you have to stand still for 10 seconds by a quest spot with repair kits, but everyone I know did those quests indeed naked and if there was an item to be used then they tucked it in the secure container.

It wouldn't be a problem to do these quests once - you have to keep redoing this shit every single wipe and it gets me MATI. Not everyone is a full-time Cheeto-eating streamer that affords with time (and braincells) to play the game to get all quests done every single wipe, and they get progressively worse. People bitch that they should be done as a side thing and take them easy, well good luck being cockblocked from viable rounds and playing with stock rounds & ghetto rifles. The best I did was to get lv 38 and then I lost interest in the game, after I felt like playing EFT again it prompted me in picking a new nickname because wipe happened, afterwards at best I done five quests. For now only thing I've been doing is hopping on for few offline raids every few months to see new rifles/maps, but the game remains insufferable.
 
Having played Tarkov since 2017, my main gripes with it's development have been mainly towards excessive focus on appeasing streamers at the expense of gameplay and balance.
So the same problem that nearly killed Darkest Dungeon and is currently strangling Dead by Daylight. It seems like a common problem in game development.
 
I wanted to buy it a couple of years ago when a few friends of mine did, though after watching them play first and seeing the server issues they had I wanted to wait.

Hearing about the catering to streamers and plenty of cheaters/hackers going about it seems I dodged a bullet.

The game still seems like it could be fun though, but I guess I should wait even further before I buy it.
 
If nothing else I think everyone can be happy seeing Tarkov push FPS mechanics to new heights and proving how much fun a more realistic shooter can be. Hope to see those mechanics trend (mag management, limb damage and treatment, ergonomics, caliber and ammo type, etc).

P.S. I tried SPT and it's been pretty great getting to a point where I can experience all the late game gear and actually test how stuff works. Fully recommend it if you are someone with gear fear in the normal multiplayer version.

Things I learned:
- Thermal goggles do not let you see thru scopes and practically force you to use iron sights.
- AI actually has some pretty comprehensive rules about what makes them able to see you. Hard to tell without someone datamining the nitty gritty, but they definitely react to flashlights, lasers, and I think even the direction your shadow falls and your silhouette against the sky at night.
- Weapon attachments are not nearly as diverse as I thought and the glock 17 is the only handgun with fun stuff you can throw on it
- Higher end armor/ammo DEFINITELY makes a huge difference. Despite it being an obvious truth that everyone spouts I was shocked at the difference in survivability.
- Ammo velocity can greatly affect range and thereby fuck up how you are aiming if you have mixed mags (US ammo is garbage)

And more, but that's just stuff off the top of my head. Fun times.
 
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If nothing else I think everyone can be happy seeing Tarkov push FPS mechanics to new heights and proving how much fun a more realistic shooter can be. Hope to see those mechanics trend (mag management, limb damage and treatment, ergonomics, caliber and ammo type, etc).
That shit isn't really fun, nor is it new or innovative. It's just taking meter management from crafting games and shoving them into a jank ass FPS.
 
On the cheater side of things, does anyone know if this was ever addressed? Just learned of it tonight and saw it was from back in november.
 
It's a great game. I just do not have the money to buy it nor the video card to play it seamlessly.
I bought it a year or so ago in hope my 1060 gpu would manage the game.
Tsk, nope. :story: Well that about to change this month, with a new gear.
Christ it become ridiculous that gaming laptops are cost less than PC game rigs... bruh.
 
If nothing else I think everyone can be happy seeing Tarkov push FPS mechanics to new heights and proving how much fun a more realistic shooter can be. Hope to see those mechanics trend (mag management, limb damage and treatment, ergonomics, caliber and ammo type, etc).

P.S. I tried SPT and it's been pretty great getting to a point where I can experience all the late game gear and actually test how stuff works. Fully recommend it if you are someone with gear fear in the normal multiplayer version.

Things I learned:
- Thermal goggles do not let you see thru scopes and practically force you to use iron sights.
- AI actually has some pretty comprehensive rules about what makes them able to see you. Hard to tell without someone datamining the nitty gritty, but they definitely react to flashlights, lasers, and I think even the direction your shadow falls and your silhouette against the sky at night.
- Weapon attachments are not nearly as diverse as I thought and the glock 17 is the only handgun with fun stuff you can throw on it
- Higher end armor/ammo DEFINITELY makes a huge difference. Despite it being an obvious truth that everyone spouts I was shocked at the difference in survivability.
- Ammo velocity can greatly affect range and thereby fuck up how you are aiming if you have mixed mags (US ammo is garbage)

And more, but that's just stuff off the top of my head. Fun times.
The US ammo for 7.62 and 5.45 guns is subsonic ammo which is it's own specific niche is that it should be used with a suppressor and it is pretty bad against all non-soft body armors. The main benefit of that ammo is it has low recoil and makes finding where you're being shot from a bit harder. It is only good for eliminating scavs and ambushing players. Now PRS is the real hot garbage round that only should be used when nothing else is available. PS is at least capable of defeating basic body armor and PP is the bare minimum of "Do I have a chance at dealing with anyone with real armor?"
 
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On the cheater side of things, does anyone know if this was ever addressed? Just learned of it tonight and saw it was from back in november.
No way probably. They barely address the paid for cheats. They'd be better making a co-op or SP mode with bots. They refuse to do this because they know that people who don't want a sweaty experience would leave in droves and only the cheaters/hardcore crowd would remain. That's why I only play Tarkov with SPT-AKI, the single player mod. Fuck these devs.
God I hate this game so fucking much but there is nothing else like it. Fucking 1hr queue times to spend 12m loading into a map to die within 30 seconds to a hacker (head-eyes while prone behind full cover). I just want to get to the flea market but I refuse to pay2win EoD and I'm down to 100k rubles at lvl 12.

How do you even climb from being broke? I could probably sell off most of my junk for another 2-300k, I've been using the VPO-136 mostly as the PS ammo seems to be the best I can do without higher level traders/flea market. The quests in this game are all focused in such hotspots I have no idea how you're expected to complete them without just going in naked with a prayer over and over.
The problem that you're facing is that pretty much everyone playing Tarkov now has played it religiously and have done the same quests over and over ten billion fucking times. So you're going to encounter that a lot. The real key if you are a new player is when you spawn in to wait 5-10 minutes or so and then move. But if you don't know the maps religiously and the best routes, you're toast anyway. When I was getting back into Tarkov and I was new, this is what I did.

And yup, that's the Tarkov experience. 1 hour match making during prime times, load in for 5-10 minutes, die in a minute or two.
 
God I hate this game so fucking much but there is nothing else like it. Fucking 1hr queue times to spend 12m loading into a map to die within 30 seconds to a hacker (head-eyes while prone behind full cover). I just want to get to the flea market but I refuse to pay2win EoD and I'm down to 100k rubles at lvl 12.

How do you even climb from being broke? I could probably sell off most of my junk for another 2-300k, I've been using the VPO-136 mostly as the PS ammo seems to be the best I can do without higher level traders/flea market. The quests in this game are all focused in such hotspots I have no idea how you're expected to complete them without just going in naked with a prayer over and over.
Scav Interchange.
 
I made a beginner rant post and I want to follow about my comment concerning insurance. I played on Christmas Day (stuck alone with COVID) and died twice with insurance. I played a little bit on the afternoon of the 26th and never got my gear. Was away from computer for two weeks and I just logged in for the first time. Saw I had a message from Prapor and he had my stuff on the 27th but on January 1st, ceased holding it because it timed out.

Are you kidding me? What kind of grindy ass mechanic is this? I have to login frequently to make sure I can get my stuff back in time? Why is this game trying so damn hard to become a lifestyle? It’s like this game wants to be the next WoW 2006 era when people would just sit on their computer for hours on end and play nothing else. That would only make sense if it were free to play and had a micro transaction economy or a subscription service.

This game is so grindy like it is an RPG but attracts the FPS crowd. I don’t see how they will have longevity once word of mouth finishes spreading about how unfriendly it is to get in.
 
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This game is fucking nuts man. On one hand, I love going in with a 5 stack and fucking shit up. On the other hand, 90% of the time I play, I'm alone, and getting splattered by some guy camping extract really just gets old. (Thanks Gen sam)

Like someone else said, there's nothing quite like this, and I've never felt the urgency or stress from any other game I've played. It's definitely a love hate relationship.
 
I tend to have a lot of fun but there's some genuine issues with the game, mainly cheaters.

When you have a grindy game like this, people can make enough money selling items they get through cheating to just buy a new account when that one gets banned.

A lot of cheaters are in it for the money, so they just end up sucking up all the loot on the map and using radar to avoid other players. Can't report someone if they don't kill you.
 
If nothing else I think everyone can be happy seeing Tarkov push FPS mechanics to new heights and proving how much fun a more realistic shooter can be. Hope to see those mechanics trend (mag management, limb damage and treatment, ergonomics, caliber and ammo type, etc).

P.S. I tried SPT and it's been pretty great getting to a point where I can experience all the late game gear and actually test how stuff works. Fully recommend it if you are someone with gear fear in the normal multiplayer version.

Things I learned:
- Thermal goggles do not let you see thru scopes and practically force you to use iron sights.
- AI actually has some pretty comprehensive rules about what makes them able to see you. Hard to tell without someone datamining the nitty gritty, but they definitely react to flashlights, lasers, and I think even the direction your shadow falls and your silhouette against the sky at night.
- Weapon attachments are not nearly as diverse as I thought and the glock 17 is the only handgun with fun stuff you can throw on it
- Higher end armor/ammo DEFINITELY makes a huge difference. Despite it being an obvious truth that everyone spouts I was shocked at the difference in survivability.
- Ammo velocity can greatly affect range and thereby fuck up how you are aiming if you have mixed mags (US ammo is garbage)

And more, but that's just stuff off the top of my head. Fun times.
I never tried actual Tarkov, I imagine it's infuriating, because I did try to the single player mod and while when it works it's fun, it's also a game that seemingly just tries to be as annoying as it can be. Like why the fuck is it possible, if you lose, to end up totally lacking in any sort of weapon for the next match unless you play as a scav, and then why is it that if you die as a scav you have to wait 20 real world minutes before you can play again? It's like the game is consciously trying to stop you from playing it.

Just get Stalker Anomaly, it's free and people have modded the mod to such an extent that everything that's in tarkov can be in it now anyway. And is. Pretty sure somebody actually did recreate the tarkov gameplay in it.
 
Got this game a week ago and I am now completely addicted. It combines so many elements that I love from different games and I'm getting the bonus of learning about guns and ammo. Not that I am going to stop doing it, but is it cheating if I have my monitor crosshair on for precision shoulder firing? Getting way more kills now that I am doing that. It makes me feel so much more secure knowing exactly where my gun is pointing whereas before if I wasn't aiming down sights I felt essentially unarmed. It takes Tarkov from feeling like a hardcore sim shooter to an arcade shooter from before the time ADS was commonplace.
 
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Got this game a week ago and I am now completely addicted. It combines so many elements that I love from different games and I'm getting the bonus of learning about guns and ammo. Not that I am going to stop doing it, but is it cheating if I have my monitor crosshair on for precision shoulder firing? Getting way more kills now that I am doing that. It makes me feel so much more secure knowing exactly where my gun is pointing whereas before if I wasn't aiming down sights I felt essentially unarmed. It takes Tarkov from feeling like a hardcore sim shooter to an arcade shooter from before the time ADS was commonplace.
I wouldn't consider that cheating but I also wouldn't go around telling people you do that.
Tarkov players are the fucking worst and will 100% report you for something like that. Even if the report is meaningless, people will still shit on you for something as simple as a crosshairs.
 
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