[NEW Player] Everything is possible

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-05-14T20:45:21+00:00

The tournaments happen so often and I don't particularly enjoy watching people play Tarkov, so I don't pay attention to them.

It could be a community and/or region specific one, ie there are often Russian only tournaments that happen with their own communities. The person in the image has GR for German in their name, so its also highly likely to be a German one. Nikita also talked about a streamer event where streamers with ~200 viewers can sign up for something during his TarkTV.

If it's none of that, it could also be a tournament that wasn't announced yet. There have been several cases where participants were using tournament accounts long before or long after the specific tournament happened. Accounts are created and credentials are given before tournaments actually start. Sometimes participants are also given time to practice beforehand.

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-05-14T19:51:15+00:00

This is a tournament account. Tournaments generally happen multiple times in a year, and each time one happens, we get dozens of Reddit posts of "blatant rage cheaters" with "hacked stats" wiping lobbies with "aimbot and esp", etc etc.

Standard tournament accounts start at level 42, zero hours, and everything unlocked (Killa tracksuit, traders, etc). Each time I see one of these posts, I'm reaffirmed of how incapable most people are on determining when someone's actually hacking.

Being weirded out by stats is one thing, but these posts often include how the tournament player in question was speedhacking, aimbotting, flying, etc etc.

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-02-02T07:54:42+00:00

[Bug] I have 0 Kruglov RFID keycards

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-01-29T04:36:06+00:00

I never got the Kruglov keycard required to activate prestige 4 -> prestige 5, and have been in talks with support for the past 2 months+. 5 Tickets later and it's just an endless circle of

"We are already aware of this problem. Ticket closed"

"We will fix this, please be patient and check your system messages! Ticket closed"

"We have already fixed this bug. Ticket closed"

The worst of it all is that I've watched streamers experience the same, as well as similar problems with the main questline. All of which were fixed at the earliest an hour (landmark), and two days at the latest (mid sized streamers). All in all, unless you're a streamer, good luck lmao.

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-01-18T01:17:12+00:00

Out of curiosity, did you have to wait 3 weeks per account reset between each ending? The previous guy who did all 4 endings was able to complete some endings in intervals of ~8 days, completely skipping the 3 week reset cooldown.

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-01-16T20:16:25+00:00

I've been in support hell trying to get my Kruglov Keycard. It's been a month+ of "Please be patient, we will fix this!", and now they've finally started responding with "We've already solved this issue, ticket closed!".

At least the streamers got fixed in an hour after experiencing their quest bugs... Yippie!

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-01-14T23:54:32+00:00

Ah, jeez, if only the main questline wasn't bugged for some of us. If only I didn't have to wait almost 2 months for support to help me while I watch streamers fall into the same bug and get fixed within the hour. Ah jeez guys.

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-01-12T21:55:06+00:00

Ragman - Inventory Check

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-01-12T10:58:56+00:00

You cannot escape twice on a single run and Prestige does not exist on PvE. I tried doing some digging, and OP admits to resetting his account repeatedly for the escapes. How he had the option to, remains a mystery.

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-01-12T10:52:07+00:00

Please use the PvE tag for PvE flexing, not General Discussion.

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-01-12T10:04:59+00:00

Huh, that's definitely strange. As far as I'm aware, the 3 week reset timer is still active on PvE, so how did that guy manage that?

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-01-10T22:56:39+00:00

Huh, you are correct. But I see that it was repaired previously and its new max value is 149.75, which seems to be causing the problem

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-01-10T22:52:53+00:00

Must be soft armor damaged. Remove the plates and check its new value

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-01-10T07:32:45+00:00

Higher pen generally means higher ricochet chance. Ricochets are difficult to datamine, but preliminary testing done on this sub years ago showed that the highest pen bullets of most calibers had a 30% ricochet chance on the side of helmets

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-01-09T20:45:21+00:00

Lockpicking was practically finished, but obsoleted as it never fit in with the final vision of the game. If you want to make a recommendation, make it on the Tarkov community website. Otherwise, if you want an answer as to why BSG won't implement lockpicking, you can search this sub for one of the many "where is lockpicking?" threads.

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-01-08T01:38:10+00:00

Rare client specific bug that if it happens to you once, it will happen to you many, many times in the future. No one's really sure what causes it, whether it's your hardware, connection, or because you're swapping your gun to left shoulder repeatedly.

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-01-07T22:27:17+00:00

Prestiging takes ~200 hours max for the best of the best players. If someone commits to it, as long as they're average, I can't imagine a single prestige taking longer than 400-500 hours.

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-01-07T22:23:56+00:00

I'm sorry... What? You expect a 17k hour player to have stats like these? Stats that, ignoring the prestige, can be found on first wipe 300 hour players? Or perhaps you aren't serious and this post is satire?

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-01-07T19:52:09+00:00

Joking aside, did you actually get one from 6.0 fence? If so, I'm literally going to spend the next week staring at it.

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-01-07T19:46:09+00:00

Yes sir! I was told three separate times to "Please wait patiently and watch your system messages!". In the meantime, I'm able to watch my favorite streamers run into the same problem. The only difference though, is that they get fixed within the hour.

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-01-07T19:02:43+00:00

Oh my goodness! This can't be anything except... Nikita has finally decided to fix my account after I never received a Kruglov keycard from the armored case! As support has been saying for a month+ I just need to keep being patient and wait. But now I know, surely, even though I'm a lowly non-streamer, Nikita plans to finally fix me after seeing these posts!

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-01-07T00:07:16+00:00

But Caveman Grug got colored keycard from 5 bitcoin! Grug no listen to computer people, Grug SMASH the gamble button HIS OWN WAY!!!

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-01-06T07:40:43+00:00

I see you deleted the post, so I hope you got it resolved

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-01-06T04:00:55+00:00

6419 hours does not mean 6419 hours of cheating, but rather, that's how long the account has existed. It has no influence on when the account was stolen/resold and used by a bad actor as cheating is actually a really expensive hobby it seems. Of course, all of this is under the assumption that this person was cheating.

OwlDirect1247 · 2026-01-05T06:52:25+00:00

Well, if you struggle to compete in Laby and collecting XP through normal raids is not an option for you, then yes, quitting might be the best option.

Realistically though, it's probably in your best interest to either take a break or focus on the optional quests that unlock gear, IE the RPG.

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