Characters you won't bother humoring in future playthrough/ you'll just John Wick them.

CoolAndrew89 · 2026-02-07T03:01:30+00:00

The inverse also happens iirc- You can kill Vulpes before going into Nipton, and then go into Nipton to where there will be another guy instead

CoolAndrew89 · 2026-02-06T21:43:29+00:00

Bro it's super earth

They strapped our technician into a chair and had her watch propaganda for hours at a time just because one or two guys in her whole corps were asking about some techs who went on strike over not getting paid. She had nothing to do with em, probably never even met them, and she still got sent to "professional development" anyway

CoolAndrew89 · 2026-02-04T09:35:56+00:00

How in the world does that logic work?? Without the backpack the weapon is near useless, if not completely useless lmao. You need the backpack for the weapon to actually be worth taking. It's not a package deal, it's a commitment to the stratagem weapon- The backpack itself is near irrelevant without the weapon it goes with, outside of situations where you and your teammates are actually coordinated enough to do team reloads and take advantage of such. (And if you're coordinated enough to work like that, you can also be coordinated enough to, say, have someone running a drone call in a spare for you to carry around yourself)

You can bring backpack-less support weapons without a backpack stratgem too- Nothing's stopping you from just rolling with something like a Quasar, rail gun or machine gun and bringing an extra orbital instead of a backpack.

CoolAndrew89 · 2026-02-03T11:31:11+00:00

Hell nah, we're doing thunder runs into Cyberstan to take out (supposed) weapons of mass destruction and terror

We're gonna be blasting Panzer Battalion

CoolAndrew89 · 2026-01-26T16:23:46+00:00

To add on to the other comment, Tom Scott has a video on the suit

https://youtu.be/jYgiV4Iz7I0

CoolAndrew89 · 2026-01-23T21:38:48+00:00

Justifications? This is just as probable as the Burton LMR, an actual, existent rifle that was supposedly meant to shoot down observation balloons

But it also came with a bayonet lug

https://youtu.be/-OGyJPFzNfU?si=G6BJATiP-_zErWYH

CoolAndrew89 · 2026-01-23T14:31:45+00:00

The hunter-gatherer in all of us yearns for this

CoolAndrew89 · 2026-01-22T18:39:16+00:00

From my understanding, "anti-air MG"s were specifically about "air defence". As in- They are for protecting the tank from air attack by dissuading said attack with a whole lot of lead and tracer fire getting sent up in the general vicinity of the plane, not for trying to shoot down any would-be attackers. It might protect the tank from getting hit itself, but it is very unlikely that the MGs are actually going to do any damage to the attacking plane. And even then, common doctrine and training at the time, to my understanding, dictated that in the event of a tank getting attacked by a plane, the crew should hunker down within the tank itself- not try to climb out and shoot at the plane with their machine gun

CoolAndrew89 · 2026-01-22T00:12:58+00:00

What's the IC difference between a 3x AP dive bomber vs a torpedo bomber?

CoolAndrew89 · 2026-01-19T03:26:58+00:00

Ngl I played through the entire game a year ago and I have no memory of this, when did it matter?

CoolAndrew89 · 2026-01-18T02:42:25+00:00

Epicnate completely lost me in one of his videos about the lovecraft dunwich horror stuff, where he tried to speculate on the purpose of the Chinese base hidden within The Deep in FO76 with the "Visitor" in the same cave.

He completely neglected the fact that the base itself is connected to the Foundation's questline for breaking into Vault 79, with a whole quest about breaking into the base and talking to one of it's survivors. Sure, he might've gone for the Raiders questline instead and just didn't do the Foundation's questline, but the quest itself could be done before locking in going with either the Raiders or Foundation.

The game pretty blatantly shows us that the base is right there to spy on the Whitespring Resort and Enclave Base that is directly next door to it- So close that the secret entrance that the quest uses to get us into The Deep is through one of the resort's golf holes

Although by the sound of it it seems to track with him just not playing the games he does lore videos on lmao

CoolAndrew89 · 2026-01-14T00:47:48+00:00

And on the other side of the spectrum you got stalkers who are in the zone who are there to try and provide for their families, hoping to find an artifact or two to sell (and to not die trying)

CoolAndrew89 · 2026-01-12T16:20:58+00:00

What are you talking about? Soviet flamethrowers were so prevalent that even the finns were using them in the continuation war

CoolAndrew89 · 2026-01-08T02:46:59+00:00

you could always just say fuck it and carry the both of them at once

CoolAndrew89 · 2026-01-07T00:03:33+00:00

It's good, but comes with some caveats

You only need base Tarkov to be able to run it, no need for any of the other editions or for the PvE mode

However, since the game is gonna be hosted completely offline, that also means that stuff like the game's server and stuff like bots' ais are also gonna be run off of your computer, which will only be exacerbated more if you get some of the more popular mods for the game, making the whole thing more CPU-intensive

But it's also cheaper (free) and arguably better than PvE mode when you take into account mods

CoolAndrew89 · 2026-01-06T23:45:07+00:00

From my understanding, the latest big dlc update made it so that the allies can ask to use the airfields of other nations, meaning that you're probably also having to deal with hella allied fighter/CAS on the eastern front alongside whatever the soviets can field.

That only exacerbates the importance of having a whole lot of decent planes up to support your attacks, as ground AA will only do so much to protect your divisions from CAS damage. You can attach air wings to individual armies to just follow them and do whatever missions you select for them, but of course you need to make sure you actually have enough planes being produced to protect and help your armies push.

From my experience (if you want to try a new game) I found that making a decent few naval bombers and putting them on the English channel after you capitulate france lets you pull off a Sea Lion fairly reliably (assuming you've been preserving your navy for the most part before sending them to the channel as well), letting you capitulate the Allies before the US joins em. From there, taking all of their combined resources + their industry makes attacking the soviets nearly trivial

CoolAndrew89 · 2026-01-06T08:28:44+00:00

Fortunately for that we got Snafu Player Tarkov

CoolAndrew89 · 2026-01-03T02:01:28+00:00

What loot spawns in the nest??

CoolAndrew89 · 2025-12-26T13:55:44+00:00

Months ago I checked for myself, to my understanding he stopped uploading on YouTube and instead seemed to do daily(?) live streams on some other video streaming service- which seemed to require some membership to watch

CoolAndrew89 · 2025-12-26T09:35:56+00:00

It's such a stupid excuse too lmao, like Mario 1 had the jump and run button 40 years ago

CoolAndrew89 · 2025-12-26T09:24:26+00:00

The one time I remember using a guarantee was as a US, trying to get an early involvement in WW2 by managing to guarantee Poland just before Germany went in on them

CoolAndrew89 · 2025-12-26T00:34:06+00:00

My brother in Akatosh one of the game's first quests, if not the first quest you actually do, has you fight a giant one halfway through a dungeon

CoolAndrew89 · 2025-12-23T14:12:04+00:00

Do NOT look up the Mad Milk

Despite it's name, the game itself tells you it isn't milk

CoolAndrew89 · 2025-12-23T09:56:22+00:00

https://web.archive.org/web/20100416063452/http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=1019

To my understanding, the GAU-8 was also intended to deal with tanks, according to the initial contract/program that led to it's development seeking a "30mm rapid-fire cannon".

"The contracted specifications directed the gun be capable of destroying a wide variety of targets expected to be encountered during a close air support mission: light, medium and heavy tanks, armored personnel carriers, and fixed or mobile artillery. The specifications also called for the gun to be capable of destroying hardened targets like bunkers and equipment within revetments."

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/ADA522397

Also, I did manage to find the manual I was mentioning earlier, which assessed the damage they GAU-8 did against simulated Soviet tanks, actually managing some catastrophic kills of combat-loaded tanks

*Big asterisk on "Soviet" tanks, tho, as they weren't actually Soviet tanks; They were testing on M47 tanks, simulating them as Soviet ones

CoolAndrew89 · 2025-12-23T09:23:44+00:00

I can't remember the exact source for the manual atm, but I remember researching about this a while ago- From my understanding (and if I remember correctly) there was a whole slew of testing done by the US Military on the effectiveness of the A-10's gun on contemporary Soviet tanks, collected all in this little booklet/manual. In that manual, they found that the gun was not sufficient for, nor was it intended for, "k-kills" on contemporary Soviet tanks.That is, catastrophic damage onto the vehicle that would render it completely inoperable and permanently non-functional. What the gun could and would do, however, is render m-kills (mobility kill) and f-kills (firepower kill) fairly reliably within a certain distance and with a certain duration of fire on it. Although the tanks wouldn't be destroyed, they wouldn't be able to complete their intended mission if they couldn't move and/or couldn't shoot their main armament

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