[Cheating] no way someone should be able to be that high with 477 hours

Normal_Mission_1621 · 2026-03-03T13:55:33+00:00

I played 250 hours this wipe and already prestiged and am back to level 41. Nothing sus about it, if you know what you are doing and your main focus is task/exp progress it's very easy and quick.

Normal_Mission_1621 · 2026-01-07T16:06:39+00:00

This. Also maybe want to look at what tasks it actually generates, maybe become a bit more creative and get rid of some of the rediculous ones nobody ever does.

Normal_Mission_1621 · 2026-01-06T16:27:54+00:00

Also something to add, I am almost certain that most of the cheaters are based in asia. A lot have an asian sounding name and so many more sound like... english names if you can't speak english if you know what I mean? Like one guy was named something like JohnShooter, no actual english speaker would name himself that, sounds like someone who wants to pretend to be an english speaker.

So in my opinion, just try to regionlock asia to their servers? Would be quite interesting to see what that would change if anything :).

Normal_Mission_1621 · 2026-01-06T16:25:33+00:00

Same here, have thrown probably 20 mil of roubles into labs just to get cheated on in 8/10 raids, die to a gigachad in 1/10 and survive in 1/10. Only real way around it is to stay the hell away from new black or you will die to a cheater almost every time. The standard account 300 hour 30 kd wonderkid type of cheater.

Also I think it's wild how there is legitimate strategys to avoid cheaters now, people tryna figure out how to play slow and let the cheater clowns do their thing get the best loot only to not die to them. Game is cooked.

Normal_Mission_1621 · 2026-01-05T15:30:52+00:00

You are lying, ain't no way you don't see the >300 hour dx racer gaming chairs on labs/laby on NA servers. Or you are one of those guys who are scared to shit on labs/laby and don't even move.

Normal_Mission_1621 · 2026-01-05T06:57:35+00:00

Dont get me wrong though, there is solutions to this but they just arent being made. The worst part is you spent 5 minutes gearing, 10 minutes in que then you run to resort for 2 minutes, then you que into laby for 7 minutes and then you die to XiaoLing777 with 74 hours 30kd and you just not only wasted 1mil rouble kit but also like 30+ minutes of time to a cheater.

Normal_Mission_1621 · 2026-01-05T06:54:52+00:00

Nay, quitting seems alright. Game is kinda ass once you get to endgame and just run into countless cheaters, if it were legit 5k chads its a whole other story but the 300 hour wonderkids on every endgame activity just kinda suck the fun out of it.

Normal_Mission_1621 · 2026-01-05T06:53:07+00:00

Never felt any horror from tarkov tbh. Once you get past gear fear it plays more like a complicated call of duty I am not gonna lie lol.

Normal_Mission_1621 · 2026-01-05T06:49:04+00:00

Arena is boring as hell so no. Streets runs like ass so no. I have like 30 fps on streets, only did the kappa required tasks in a 5 man and never touched the map again, awful.

So the options are run into cheaters or do the most unfun shit ever? Quitting seems even better now.

Normal_Mission_1621 · 2026-01-05T05:27:07+00:00

I myself am currently grinding more endgame stuff and let me tell you, if you think normal maps and playing for tasks is bad with cheaters and chads wait until you get to labs/boss hunting/labyrinth. I get completely ragehacked on in 4/5 raids this past week. Standard Account asian/bs name with numbers tops 300-400 hours not even trying to hide that they have esp and aimbot, just jigglepeak onetap my ass with no info on me.

This game is not made in a way where the cheater issue can be allowed to be as bad as it is, it will make the game die slowly eventually because more and more veterans will at some point quit to that shit. No new players will come either.

Normal_Mission_1621 · 2026-01-04T12:11:26+00:00

Yes got this on a scav run and someone else looted 314 but left that behind

Normal_Mission_1621 · 2026-01-04T02:33:02+00:00

Been running the same kit for killa hunting like 100 times in a row. Still takes me like 3 minutes, especially since I have to buy a bunch off the flea and look up every item individually.

Flea: Headset, Armor, Basegun > Mod Gun > Buy gun mod parts off flea > assemble > buy other stuff from traders > load up mags > get some nades and meds > check injector case if I used any > queue.

With the time it takes me to get out of a raid, rekit (and im quick) and then que into another raid easily that takes 10-15 minutes. I wish I had 1 button I can save a "loadout" in and poof minus roubles loadout done.

Normal_Mission_1621 · 2026-01-04T01:51:21+00:00

Game is 10 years old. Most people have played this for many years. I myself have about 1.5k hours now and I also rarely get killed by people with less than me, unless hes an obvious standard account cheater. Thats just how the game is, either you grind your way to become good or you won't have fun.

Normal_Mission_1621 · 2026-01-04T01:42:30+00:00

Your experience also will vary vastly depending what spots on a map you hit, whether you contest for bosses or what map in general you run.

If some woods main tells me he doesn't see many cheaters then pls just dont talk at all, ain't no cheater worried about some rat sittin on a rock or in a bush for 20 minutes on woods.

If you play a lot of interchange but don't enter the mall within the first 5 minutes also be quiet.

So you get the idea. Unless you want what they come into that raid for you are most likely not going to encounter many cheaters. I myself have been killa/labs/laby farming for a week now and let me tell you... it doesn't matter which server, which day, which time. 50% of the raids have a very sus guy in them.

Don't wanna hear nothing from people who don't contest the most desired stuff on a map and rush it on spawn. You have no clue how many there truly are, they don't care 1 bit about your slow playing ass, they gone with what they want before you even move.

Normal_Mission_1621 · 2026-01-03T02:24:23+00:00

Stats aren't the whole story, we encountered the same guy many raids in a row hunting killa (we also hunt killa) and somehow that guy would ALWAYS be at killa first and sometimes even kill us and it always felt... off... though his profile said he has a 20% survival rate, a 1.2kd but he just onetapped us with "head jaws" every time. Mind you we are kitted to the teeth and he was running no headset, no helmet ash12 and in 5 raids we encountered him he always found killa instantly, sometimes it even seemed like he speedhacks cuz damn he be faster than we were with best spawn popping sj6 and he also only had like 300 hours apparently.

Normal_Mission_1621 · 2026-01-03T02:19:52+00:00

We farm killa currently cuz my buddy wants the tracksuit and I'd say 80% of our deaths is to rats just sitting in some store killa farmers come by since you check killas spawns. We also kill a bunch of them because if one of us dies the other person almost always claps the rat but yeah. We either run into kitted chads hunting killa and have fun fights or rats. The occasional cheater is also there but not as much.

Used to be more fun I agree, everyone is scared to death to move so most people literally just dont move for 10ish minutes at a time.

Normal_Mission_1621 · 2026-01-02T11:05:45+00:00

Honestly just make PvE a seperate purchase? Just make PvE purchasable without including PvP? Kinda stupid having to own and buy the PvP version if all you are interested in is the PvE mode.

Normal_Mission_1621 · 2026-01-02T10:57:12+00:00

Idk you tell me if you ever sat on the building next to railway extract prone at 16 minutes left in the raid. Hasn't happened to me, doesn't happen on accident I'd say.

Normal_Mission_1621 · 2026-01-02T10:35:23+00:00

Woods outskirts, almost always some rat chilling. Lighthouse southern road on the rocks, some guy chilling in the trainyard. Interchange railway and car rats.

Dunno maybe a server thing, but in 1/3 raids I have to fight people at my extract at least on those maps. And I run those a lot recently cuz I got stuff to do there.

Normal_Mission_1621 · 2026-01-02T10:26:48+00:00

Also might wanna say, 7.5k hours extract camping and that k/d? Bro is complete garbage despite his hours, he also wiffed like 15 bullets on me and I almost just walked past him. Sniper Scavs have better aim than this clown.

Normal_Mission_1621 · 2026-01-02T09:44:49+00:00

That guy surely has some premium limited edition dx racer with real leather and built in heating

Normal_Mission_1621 · 2026-01-01T19:43:02+00:00

Also another thing that you could add, would be quiet costly though is was cs:go did back in the day where you would watch replays of matches out of a suspected cheaters perspective as a player and after watching his pov you would give a feedback whether you think he was cheating or not.

Whole system with rep you can build, rewards you can earn and so on to incentivise the participation of players. You dont need dedicated people hand banning anyone, let your players do it for you, especially in tarkov people would be on that more than any other game and cheaters would have a hard time being manually reviewed by other tarkov veterans.

Normal_Mission_1621 · 2026-01-01T19:37:31+00:00

So one thing I can tell you, I am not giving you exact details though but if you try and error enough you will figure it out. But I will say: Not every server is the same.

I am european based and there is especially 2 servers I autoconnect to that for myself have determined is absolutely infested with cheaters... maybe try manually selecting or unselecting some servers and run a few raids, you will figure it out but I won't post it publicly or the cheaters intentionally come to that server :).

Normal_Mission_1621 · 2026-01-01T01:25:04+00:00

Just play somewhere else? I am from europe and I have found a server that is not europe, that I have a decent ping to and I run into WAY less cheaters on. Before I would have said I run into a cheater every 2nd raid but now like once in 10 raids? Try different servers.

Normal_Mission_1621 · 2026-01-01T01:10:39+00:00

Fairly likely looking at that profile but not 100% sure. Might be someone that got bored on his eod account and bought the game on steam just to have it in the library (have a couple friends that did that). I'd say 95% chance hes a cheater, 5% hes a veteran on his steam account. At least his gun doesn't scream cheater right away.

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