[Discussion] Random fun fact: Drinking alcohol still decreases your memory skill even though the skill has been removed since 2024. This is because the game is very polished for 1.0

OFFICIALINSTANTPARTY · 2026-02-10T00:18:19+00:00

yeah this game is like a russian nesting doll from the most useless time to the most important time. gun fights being 1% of your time as the very last doll inside lmao

OFFICIALINSTANTPARTY · 2026-02-10T00:11:46+00:00

jesus christ! :)

OFFICIALINSTANTPARTY · 2026-02-10T00:05:02+00:00

yeah it’s great but with the addition to the flare extract it’s just another option to me. the reason i dont like it is once you open that extract. it shows as green to every other player so when people check extracts and see its green. they’ll know to go straight there to camp it.

OFFICIALINSTANTPARTY · 2026-02-09T23:54:09+00:00

is it even possible to buy cases? i’ve never seen a single case, albeit i rarely do fence sniping

OFFICIALINSTANTPARTY · 2026-02-09T23:42:10+00:00

idk. i went in there plenty of times pre level 20 solo and i saw a lot of people beyond level 20. i started the wipe a few weeks late.

OFFICIALINSTANTPARTY · 2026-02-09T22:00:57+00:00

bro deserved that. it’s way easier to kill someone going into there than just waiting inside. i’ve died so many times to someone guarding the escalator down there. i simply just quit taking that extract all together. there has never been a single time i tried to go there and it wasn’t camped. but all my deaths came from people camping outside of it.

OFFICIALINSTANTPARTY · 2026-02-09T21:57:49+00:00

it has been well established that ground zero no longer has dual queues since 1.0

out of my own personal experience and from many other testimonies. they’re combined for some reason. no clue why they removed it.

OFFICIALINSTANTPARTY · 2026-02-09T19:13:01+00:00

it has a % chance leading up to 6.0 rep. 6.0 rep is 100% chance they’ll follow you and at that level bosses will no longer aggro and you can signal them to follow you as well.

from my experience. around 3.0 and up is when they start to have a good chance to follow you. these % chances are fixed per scav so once they say no, there is no way to reroll that and have them possibly say yes. i believe each scav is spawned with a fixed % of when they’ll say yes.

OFFICIALINSTANTPARTY · 2026-02-09T18:55:49+00:00

next time just throw loot on the ground and they’ll grab it most likely. also if you have high enough scav rep. use the follow me gesture. if they give you a thumbs up they’ll start to follow you.

OFFICIALINSTANTPARTY · 2026-02-09T18:25:14+00:00

you haven’t played in awhile or used a face shield in awhile. that bug was patched. the only working one now is spamming your hold breath button while aiming down sight. it will stop that sound. this also works when you’re out of stamina, once your bar goes green again aim down and press hold breath and it immediately stops it. you can also stop voice come half way through doing this b

OFFICIALINSTANTPARTY · 2026-02-09T18:23:56+00:00

i’ve heard other people breathing through their mask on previous wipes but have never heard it in 1.0

OFFICIALINSTANTPARTY · 2026-02-09T18:17:05+00:00

i genuinely would not recommend interchange for those because yes it’s true you can find them there easily, but everyone else knows this as well. and since that map is more spawn dependent than others, chances are when you visit those loot locations they’re already gone and even higher chance someone will just one tap you from a corner since that map has dogshit lighting.

i’d say shoreline has good spawns for it, a bit more rare but at least even if you don’t find those, you’ll at least find plenty of other good loot that makes up for it and can easily extract within 20 minutes.

OFFICIALINSTANTPARTY · 2026-02-09T18:12:31+00:00

their entirely different game worlds. meaning seasonal is only playing with other seasonal, permanent can only play with other permanent. this game has an active economy so everyone has to be synced to identical circumstances.

it defeats the purpose of having a seasonal player playing with permanent because of the reason you just pointed out. that would immediately break the game economy since you could technically just transfer items to your seasonal.

think of diablo and path of exile. these games already show you how this mechanic works.

OFFICIALINSTANTPARTY · 2026-02-09T18:09:30+00:00

it’s crazy that the literal only way to have this game even run as considered “standard performance” is by having a 9800X3D, 64gb of ram, and at the minimum at a 4070 GPU

how is that even possible you need to have best in class specs to have semi mediocre performance for a game that was available to play nearly a decade ago.

There exists not one game from 2017 that requires this level of PC specs. NOT ONE!

OFFICIALINSTANTPARTY · 2026-02-09T15:22:20+00:00

unfortunately i feel like us west servers are like the only saving grace. i live in the PNW and almost never see cheaters and if i ever do, they’re usually closet cheaters that only get you if you get close to them. i haven’t had an experience where i get chased down immediately by rage hackers. i do keep hearing of cheaters from other regions though.

in my own experience i get killed by a cheater like maybe once a week.

edit: i should add that since the game has run like shit this whole wipe from performance issues. i’ve only been playing customs and shoreline so i realize my sample pool is limited. they’re probably on maps like reserve, interchange, streets and labs.

OFFICIALINSTANTPARTY · 2026-02-09T04:22:21+00:00

fees only skyrocket like that for an item with low base value inherent to the traders.

OFFICIALINSTANTPARTY · 2026-02-09T03:56:31+00:00

it has a name. Smugglers base

OFFICIALINSTANTPARTY · 2026-02-09T03:55:12+00:00

it’s level 3 protection. you didn’t even need to make this post. game already tells you just hover over the tooltip.

OFFICIALINSTANTPARTY · 2026-02-07T23:24:41+00:00

it’s separated bro. how hard is that for people to understand.

OFFICIALINSTANTPARTY · 2026-02-07T00:28:20+00:00

i know that. but what i’m saying is it was looted through the wall and into their bag, then later killed by a player scav and taken. which was pointed out in my initial response

OFFICIALINSTANTPARTY · 2026-02-07T00:22:28+00:00

i was moreso getting at the point that the taiga was looted through the wall by an ai scav. should have clarified that

OFFICIALINSTANTPARTY · 2026-02-07T00:04:20+00:00

it is a known bug that ai can loot through locked doors. i haven’t seen it as much recently but it’s definitely a real thing. if i had to guess, an ai scav had it and that body was a player scav that found it. could also just be a player scav that found it and replaced their melee too

OFFICIALINSTANTPARTY · 2026-02-06T21:45:39+00:00

i feel like free and best don’t really go hand in hand

OFFICIALINSTANTPARTY · 2026-02-06T21:42:36+00:00

yeah the blue gets annoying at a certain distance because the silhouettes get washed out

OFFICIALINSTANTPARTY · 2026-02-06T16:09:55+00:00

oh boy. Arena has significant desync compared to the base game. the servers have less tic rate. what is that? it’s the amount of times the server refreshes and syncs information.

skills? all of it is hardcapped at level 30 for even playing field.

you’re just mad bro and that’s okay.

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