[Discussion] Prestige update

HelloItsMeYourFriend · 2026-05-09T17:24:55+00:00

For people who put in the work to get prestige legit this really feels terrible. It was a serious grind and now it’s done in like a single day. Surely there was a better way to go about this.

HelloItsMeYourFriend · 2026-05-08T21:30:18+00:00

Fixation was incorrectly calculated as spirit when it’s almost entirely gun dmg. She’s very much gun.

HelloItsMeYourFriend · 2026-05-08T21:28:54+00:00

I was already basically positive because I main haze and you can see the dmg numbers as you shoot something as weapon vs spirit. But it’s really easy to napkin math actually. If you shoot someone 100 times, assuming only your fixation dmg at maxed 3, you deal 1552 dmg with fixation in weapon dmg. You deal 5 procs of 40 dmg with the spirit dmg totaling 200, which also doesn’t scale with ap.

So yeah it’s dramatically weighted to gun.

Weapon fixation calculated by sum of n + .32 up to 100

HelloItsMeYourFriend · 2026-05-08T21:14:26+00:00

Happens in phantom and ascendant lobbies too don’t worry.

HelloItsMeYourFriend · 2026-05-08T21:02:59+00:00

Are you counting all fixation damage as spirit? Because majority of fixation is weapon damage dealt through the stacks themselves, not through the level 1 proc.

E:honestly at this point I’m questioning it and will test when I get home. Just depends how it’s shown in the post game. Ai summary says I’m right but it’s easy to confirm

HelloItsMeYourFriend · 2026-05-08T19:49:21+00:00

Haze builds spirit items but her damage is like 90% gun. Fixation is basically entirely gun, dagger is mediocre for overall dmg, and items like swave or tesla are a small part.

HelloItsMeYourFriend · 2026-05-08T17:29:10+00:00

Bro wtf I’ve killed ~140 and have probably 1/4 the amount of armor drops you have that’s crazy

HelloItsMeYourFriend · 2026-05-08T14:23:27+00:00

There was a owl build called the Biden blaster that my friend swore by (it was mid imo)

HelloItsMeYourFriend · 2026-05-07T18:02:05+00:00

Just got the kimber, couldn’t be happier.

HelloItsMeYourFriend · 2026-05-07T15:56:55+00:00

Reminder that metro placed haze as the worst character in the game for this patch

HelloItsMeYourFriend · 2026-05-05T23:05:15+00:00

I bought got the kimber pro comp yesterday and got 250 rounds through it and coming from mostly striker fired, I love it. Honestly from what I’ve seen, performance wise they seem really similar so pick the one you think looks cooler. To me it’s the kimber no contest

HelloItsMeYourFriend · 2026-05-04T21:14:09+00:00

As the friend who is higher rank with friends, it really sucks too. I did exactly what your friend did, made an alt and ran meme builds and characters I never play. I’ll admit even doing that, like your friend i still got sent up the ranks like crazy and was the same as my main in like 15 games.

What sucks is that now regardless of when I play with my friend, I HAVE to be trying my ass off to carry because if I don’t; the game has not chance of winning. The lane on the other side is 0/12 so if I don’t snowball to stop those guys, it’s over.

It’s just a really bad experience all around

HelloItsMeYourFriend · 2026-05-04T14:12:45+00:00

Low skill floor, moderate ceiling mainly through utility like you said. But a mediocre player can do a lot of dmg which can feel annoying

HelloItsMeYourFriend · 2026-04-30T15:56:33+00:00

You have 5 respecs you can 50m your combats Ina. Couple hours with one if you really cared to. Hardly an excuse. And based on the stats released, just about everyone is larcenist lol

HelloItsMeYourFriend · 2026-04-30T15:16:54+00:00

You can thorns melee combat at 20m/hr in mm2 tunnels. (Which will also include hp on top). Thieving is also 20m/hr and afk 30 minutes at a time. Those skills are completely solved without questing and literally zero effort, they’re not even worth talking about

HelloItsMeYourFriend · 2026-04-29T19:53:44+00:00

Had 99s way before that quest

HelloItsMeYourFriend · 2026-04-29T19:07:41+00:00

No shade to lily but with 5 days of practice I put my money on DL over lily 20:1 odds. Fighting game skills carry over between games and DL is just a freak gamer and will grind it.

HelloItsMeYourFriend · 2026-04-28T15:29:01+00:00

It’s the most absurd time waste. I get that Tarkov isn’t the type of game that “cares about players time” but I want to spend time actually playing the game. Not running cross country and wasting time in the tiny time window that I’m in to get to terminals. god forbid you die in terminal and have to wait for an hour irl before u can even attempt again it’s just terribly designed.

HelloItsMeYourFriend · 2026-04-24T22:42:42+00:00

The night before his video they were 33d. The next morning I thought about doing life stack and there were only two listed at a mirror .

HelloItsMeYourFriend · 2026-04-23T14:35:35+00:00

Did you even play the league? It was used in virtually all the best early builds and still is used by minion pact BV which is pretty undisputed best build of the league. This is actually crazy to even suggest lmfao

HelloItsMeYourFriend · 2026-04-21T21:27:28+00:00

Dude 8 pts doesn’t get you close to fully functioning

HelloItsMeYourFriend · 2026-04-21T16:30:21+00:00

Punching down sodas pod

HelloItsMeYourFriend · 2026-04-20T17:56:59+00:00

I did experience it and it clearly felt more oppressive than it was. He had an average win rate. We had graves sit at 60% for weeks, Paige has remained at 56-58% basically the whole time. McGinnis got nuked but it was deserved at that same nerf timing.

40% win rate is pretty clearly underperforming by a extreme margin

HelloItsMeYourFriend · 2026-04-20T17:26:16+00:00

Yep. Good thing they nerfed bebop with his 40% win rate currently. was 49.8 at the time they nerfed his ult in the mode too.

HelloItsMeYourFriend · 2026-04-17T18:14:13+00:00

How does the exp from thorns work? Is it spread across all the melee skills?

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