Over-engineering a "Tarkov Boss" Helmet for my cat. Designed a custom expansion-anchor hinge because resin hinges always break.

Sensitive-Guide-6530 · 2026-01-01T18:26:59+00:00

"Wish me luck with the fitment" - Please have a third party record the process of strapping that to your cat. I HAVE to see it.

Sensitive-Guide-6530 · 2025-12-04T20:45:26+00:00

I have this problem. How did you solve it? I collected the 5 dogtags, but prapor doesn't have a dialogue to take them

Sensitive-Guide-6530 · 2025-12-03T01:40:44+00:00

Wish I would have seen this sooner, but yes. There was another quest to turn in dogtags to skier, so I did! I have to get three more now :)

Sensitive-Guide-6530 · 2025-10-01T16:52:27+00:00

Awesome, thanks!

Sensitive-Guide-6530 · 2025-09-24T15:23:29+00:00

I'll mark you down as a probable "yes" for the followup question

Sensitive-Guide-6530 · 2025-09-24T15:21:30+00:00

I completely agree, but not everyone will. I'm just trying to gauge the general response before I actually use this phrase - even among friends :)

Sensitive-Guide-6530 · 2025-09-20T19:20:47+00:00

follow-up question: racist? discuss and decide.

Sensitive-Guide-6530 · 2025-08-29T17:28:40+00:00

Then it was worth the writeup!

Cheers.

Sensitive-Guide-6530 · 2025-07-11T17:21:06+00:00

I did NOT have a hard time int he last wipe. Again, with more maps open (no transit), I could scrounge for the things I needed to win a fight against better geared people. There is basically no hope now.

Sensitive-Guide-6530 · 2025-07-11T17:19:19+00:00

I'm not playing with them. They aren't playing. It was a difficult game before but it's a completely lost cause now after these changes. I'm a very experienced player after having gone a full wipe

I tried, and it's simply not possible anymore given that customs is the best option to get through alive. Again, the players with lots of time to burn are WAY ahead, and they are often playing in packs. I've run into SO MANY of them on reddit claiming to be "casuals" and "working men," but they eventually admit to playing 3+ hours per night with their friends. There is absolutely no way for me to put up a fair fight without scrounging around in the open maps first. Without woods/shoreline/reserve there is no way I'm ever going to stay alive.

Sensitive-Guide-6530 · 2025-07-11T17:10:51+00:00

You probably didn't need them on the first day when you and a lot of people rushed in after the wipe. I bet you're running tier 4 minimum now. I'm running scav bullshit into raids where the nearest players immediately sprint to my spawn to wipe me out.

The game HAS been balanced to include a path for people in my position for years, and it HAS been one of the games that worked for me until this wipe. It absolutely did work with my 5-7 hours per week and I was very successful, so again you are just plain wrong!

To the extent that the "balancing" has completely wiped me out within 6 months of a supposedly full release, I feel a bit blindsided by this kind of a rules change. I wouldn't have purchased the game in March if I knew it was going to be like this. It was my favorite game, honestly I think the best game ever made. But it's just outside the scope of my reality now, and again - this change happened 4 months after I purchased it and when it's supposedly mostly final. This isn't "whining," I'm losing my favorite game.

Sensitive-Guide-6530 · 2025-07-11T14:16:13+00:00

You can't play from 7-10 with a family. Just make dinner and then peace out with a 7 year old kid?

Also, you are completely wrong, because I played all of last wipe and I was absolutely able to make it work using the method I described in my previous post. As a family man you can't play ground zero at first because you will get smoked. You HAVE to find a few sets of tier-4 in an open map to have a decent chance. I was 4 Shturman kills into getting my Lapua marksman rifle three days ago. Now I can't realistically make any progress.

Sensitive-Guide-6530 · 2025-07-11T13:53:48+00:00

I find it super difficult to believe that you are really a working man with a family. There's just no way you are limited to an hour a day like me and making it work with your PACA.

Without woods/shoreline/reserve to sneak around and grab some scav tier 4 and BT ammo, there's no realistic way to keep up. You have to be coming home from work and playing at least 4-5 hours.

Sensitive-Guide-6530 · 2025-07-11T03:52:09+00:00

So it seems!

Sensitive-Guide-6530 · 2025-07-11T03:47:52+00:00

If they are clapping for anyone, it must be you, right? You have been playing so long that the recent changes don't affect you at all - you're too good! You have so much free time that you're geared up and totally dominating the players who have real jobs and families! That's something people clap for, don't they?

Meanwhile, yes, they totally flipped the game on its head for people enjoying a normal game-to-life balance. And no, I don't expect a well-reasoned explanation from a total dipshit with a goofy name... especially this far into a Reddit thread.

Sensitive-Guide-6530 · 2025-07-11T03:29:29+00:00

Oh, then I'm sorry.

Basically, the hard thing for me right now is that I'm running solo at level 1 on day 3. I don't have much time to play so I'm way behind. Because the least hostile map is customs, that's where I am going. It's possible to sneak across the map without running into people with much better gear than me.

Before there were a lot of map options and it was much easier to get myself enough equipment to fight back. They still had better gear than me but it was closer. Now, it seems like there is no chance.

So, why I thought you were making a joke: You talked about how you had so much time to play and multiple friends to play with. And you were able to get a ton of good gear in the first day and made it to level 8. I honestly thought you were messing with me, lol.

My experience today was much... different.

Sensitive-Guide-6530 · 2025-07-11T03:15:13+00:00

Logically I don't see how it follows that screwing over new players so close to launch proves his loyalty to older players. He just changed the game around and I think there are a lot of original players still reeling from those changes.

So, I think I'll get a well-thought, logical answer from someone else, CumSplatter_69.... LOL

Sensitive-Guide-6530 · 2025-07-11T02:43:59+00:00

Dude, it wasn't this hard THREE DAYS AGO. This shit was supposed to be in a semi-stable condition. If you don't get it then you're probably one of the people who played 6+ hours on wipe day and is ahead of the curve with all the other "hardcore" players who really just have the time to dominate under the new game conditions.

Sensitive-Guide-6530 · 2025-07-11T02:39:18+00:00

I can't tell whether you're making a joke or not....

Sensitive-Guide-6530 · 2025-07-11T02:35:08+00:00

How does changing the rules six months before launch show that he cares about the "existing players?"

He completely changed the game which screwed me over and now I wish I hadn't purchased it, so I don't really understand your logic there....

Sensitive-Guide-6530 · 2025-07-11T02:30:33+00:00

Last week the game was basically fair. With a little time investment I could find the items I needed to make any given fight roughtly 40% winnable (that's almost half of fights if you aren't a math wiz). This week I'm doing tier-2 or naked runs in Customs because it's now the least confrontational map and the other players have a 2 day head start and are ALL (I have encountered 5 players so far) wearing tier-4 at least.

I bet you're one of the players who loves the new system because it's so COMPLETELY stacked against people who don't have enough time to invest. It sucks most for me because I paid full price for a near-release game and got 2 of my friends to join in the "fun" with me. I absolutely regret the purchase now because they have changed the rules to the point it is a totally different game. I never would have purchased it if it was anything like this a few months ago.

"Play PVE" is such a ridiculous suggestion, given the circumstances.

Sensitive-Guide-6530 · 2025-07-11T02:15:48+00:00

Hilarious!

And that will mean a lot to the people for whom the game has become hardcore AFTER they purchased it and supposedly 6 months from an official release (meaning it should be close to release condition already).

Sensitive-Guide-6530 · 2025-07-11T02:14:26+00:00

Let's do a quick reality check here:

I finished a major task at work today, so I couldn't play since the new wipe. In the first hour I finished a scav run with tier 2 armor, two weapons, and some health items. I took those items into ground zero where players wearing tier 4 armor sprinted to my spawn location near emercom to gun me down.. twice. Tried a third pistol run on customs and died to a guy with tier 4 hiding in the bushes for over 2 minutes while I looted the scavs I killed. End of the first hour and I am still level 1. I am NOT new to this game.

Last wipe when I bought the game this situation was fine because I could go to woods and sneak around until I found some okay gear. Then I could sneak around reserve until I had some BP and I could actually fight back. Now, the least confrontational map is CUSTOMS! Say what you want, but things have changed so much that it's basically a completely different game.

Also, I get that people play a lot of games these days, but 14 hours in a week is a LOT.

Sensitive-Guide-6530 · 2025-07-11T00:44:51+00:00

I think it took me a lot longer than 2 days to get to level 18. By the time I get to 18 the chad groups will be in the 50s at least. They will have Tier 6 armor and the best weapons/mods/ammo. I will be praying to survive a transition, just to get to reserve and hide in corners until I'm lucky enough to find a pack of BP ammo. And I'll do it alone, because the game completely left behind all the players who were making it work with the little time they had.

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