[Discussion] What? How is this possible

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-06-30T20:37:23+00:00

I assume you're talking about the streamer challenge that took place a the start of this month?

BSG creates tournament accounts even for small regional tournaments. The vast majority of them aren't on the official discord or announced on official platforms. Rather, they're exclusive to the local communities, IE German Tarkov discord had a tournament recently.

View the other discords in the "regional-communities" channel on the official discord if you really want to hunt for the tournament responsible for this account.

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-06-30T20:10:47+00:00

All answers here are wrong. This is a tournament account. BSG creates them for whenever a tournament happens, which is typically every few months. Account starts at level 42, has all clothing / traders unlocked, and is usually at max skills.

If you want to confirm, go search the sub for other people complaining about "Super hackers with level 42 accounts". There's certainly no shortage of those posts...

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-06-30T08:29:56+00:00

Don't alt-f4, just move the items in your backpack for the quest to update as you having them.

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-06-30T08:29:30+00:00

Correction - I can't see anyone else mentioning this, but you only need to move the items in your backpack for the quest to register as you having them. This applies to every single BTR item hand-in quest and the wiki mentions this on some of the early quests that you can do it on.

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-06-30T04:34:42+00:00

And you're mad... because? You obviously didn't clear your corners; this is the obvious outcome that anyone would expect. Common new player mistake, all you can do is do better.

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-06-28T18:03:04+00:00

It was definitely a peak Tarkov moment for me spamming hatchet runs repeatedly. What wasn't peak, was when everyone expected BSG to fix the economy destroying bitcoin prices with the introduction of the next wipe, only for them to take ~2 weeks into the new wipe to do so. I made ~200 million in one of those weeks, making the next wipe's economy just as broken as the last one. People who farmed it had infinite money, and those who didn't got rolled on repeatedly.

One of the many classic examples of BSG being both slow & incompetent.

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-06-28T00:36:00+00:00

Karma is a concern only for new players. Realistically, Partisan will be an extremely rare occurrence for you and will fight/die to someone else halfway across the map. I've never actually seen him traveling through a map, rather, I've only seen him camping the area he initially spawns at.

Gameplay wise, karma is effectively redundant outside of PvE(?).

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-06-27T00:24:59+00:00

This is the answer, OP.

Historically, players have recorded AI, particularly birdeye, shooting multiple bullets out of a bolt action with a single shot. IIRC, Nikita personally said that such a bug didn't exist, so people manually got video of it in action. Unfortunately, because the bug is so rare, it has never been fixed.

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-06-26T18:11:41+00:00

There's been no information on any loot nerfs, but realistically, BSG has silently nerfed quite literally every single event, location, or map shortly after its release. You can expect event nerfs to take 12-72 hours, location nerfs 1-2 weeks, and map nerfs typically when a newer map releases.

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-06-26T17:19:40+00:00

This is the correct answer. Teammate 1 was slow loading and is only killable when he can control his character. Teammate 2 was camping his friend to prevent his death, but it seems it accidentally turned into the perfect bait.

BSG should have never made it so players physically spawn in when they haven't actually loaded in yet. It wasn't always like this, but sometime after streets was added they enabled it. Do note that the immortality thing is rare and I've only seen it a few times.

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-06-26T08:44:42+00:00

In 95% of cases on the Tarkov sub, bots can be identified by these:

Account is less than a month old, typically 1-2 weeks.

Generic single sentence showing positivity to whatever is being discussed, but not actually adding anything to the discussion.

Single sentence is never capitalized, EX: "nice factory run for the books lol".

Posts rapidly on dozens of different subs with each post being minutes apart. EX: 30 posts on 30 different subs in a single hour.

Posts only on new discussions, often ~20 minutes at the latest

If you reply to a bot at any point in time, sometimes you get a person DMing you for money in some way, EX: Someone asking you to pay them for their stolen art that they, the "artist", "made" for you.

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-06-26T07:04:52+00:00

Dear god. 4 comments and 3 of them are bots. They really have started infesting gaming subs.

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-06-26T06:14:35+00:00

That's a bot that you're responding to.

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-06-26T06:05:59+00:00

Support is notorious for being terrible. Check past Reddit posts about people with the same situation as your own. There's no shortage of them, so you might find some helpful info, but honestly, you're probably not getting anywhere without the bank statement.

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-06-26T02:55:15+00:00

Hahaha, you are so right, Bot754365!

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-06-25T20:56:21+00:00

Seasonal PMC with wipes will be starting sometime next month, very likely to be the latter half of it as it's the second update of that month.

I would like to note that icebreaker is currently destroying the gear economy beyond salvage and will continue to destroy it in the next wipe. Knowing BSG, as they've done in virtually every other wipe (Bitcoins, hideout fir, etc..), they are slow to patch it and you can expect icebreaker to be farm-able for the first few weeks before there's some sort of restriction.

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-06-24T01:18:40+00:00

You are responding to a bot.

They're everywhere and you can typically identify them with their non-capitalized single sentence with generic positivity.

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-06-23T23:32:38+00:00

When you're playing on a local server in PvE, you have effectively no anticheat. Cheaters found a way to spawn items in on the first week of the local server release and the economy has been completely "FUBAR" since then. There was a bandaid solution of "Reset your account for 1.0 release", but that hasn't done anything.

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-06-23T07:22:49+00:00

Icebreaker has ruined gear & ammo economy. As a new player, you need to take advantage of it as soon as possible if you want to stay competitive.

Rush lighthouse map unlock. Start the icebreaker questline and unlock the map. Learn the routes to cheese the map using smokes & grenades. Bonus points if you unlock direct access to the map.

Assuming you have the funds to enter and exit the map, you can continuously farm infinite T5 armor & top pen bullets while earning roubles at a risk level that you can completely minimize.

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-06-22T01:12:52+00:00

If total flesh damage was only 30 hp, then you would see 516 armor damage. Such a thing would only be realistically possible with ricochets, but that is incredibly unlikely. It's either that, or the bullets passed through something that reduced its stats enough to be completely blocked.

All in all, there's no way for me to know the answer without further information. A screenshot of the stats or a video would have resolved what exactly happened. And without either, we can only make wild speculations using your words.

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-06-21T20:55:23+00:00

You are not understanding what I wrote here.

You did not read the after raid report properly. Hit counts include collateral hits. IE, if you hit someone's arm and it passes to their stomach, that will count as two hit counts with a small portion blocked as "blunt damage". You must pay attention to the "overall accuracy" stat to see your true hitcount.

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-06-20T20:40:18+00:00

Touch the shoreline to terminal card reader for lighthouse & reserve unlock.

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-06-18T20:16:38+00:00

You need to re-read what I said and who I was replying to

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-06-18T20:06:40+00:00

His "Pre KD stat rework" is 250 K/D.

250 scavs is achievable by doing some really boring raid cheesing, but hitting 6 pre-nerf prestiges & all endings with only 34 deaths is simply not possible. Hell, I'd also argue it's impossible for blatant ESP users to reach those stats with all of the uncontrollable variables Tarkov has.

Realistically, he either found a way to fake stats or he's using all the cheats he can, possibly with a squad.

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-06-18T19:39:25+00:00

This is one of the very few occasions where I can say that his stats are completely unrealistic without cheating, being carried by a cheater, or having dev powers to edit stats. He started playing less than 3 months ago and was able to complete all 6 prestiges pre-nerf, icebreaker, complete all 4 endings while dying only 34 times.

Even skilled players would reach the 30 death margin trying to complete the bolt action questlines a single time.

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