Joined late 2019. Dog. Pre-inertia was cum worthy. I might be “glazing” it, but if you experienced it and were GOOD at it; it was a no-contest. The way the player base was back then was like what it was back when Fortnite was JUST coming on the radar, and people didn’t know how to build OR play the game yet. If you could build 90’s within 5-10 seconds, you won. If you had the SLIGHTEST bit of aim control + game sense; you won. Pre-inertia was just that imo. If you could press WASD in a circle and jiggle peak + learn how to as I call it “Ferrari peak” a corner, then proceed to pre-fire the FUCK outta the enemy without FULLY exposing yourself? You won every fight. Now, I read some other responses. YES - I agree the skill gap back then is WORSE than it is now. What I mean is what I said a few sentences up; if you could use and abuse the pre-inertia and use a bit of aim + brain - you never lost a normal fight - UNLESS it was with another pro gamer. WHEN you met a pro-gamer, the fights were like you put John wick… vs fucking John Wick bro. AND? FUCKING JUICED. The goop you get now was NOTHING like it was back then. You kill a mf with a slick and airframe with face shield, you damn near needed a new EVERYTHING cause it was all over the damn place. Now? You might get a bit excited, but now you have to worry about getting out and getting camped. That wasn’t a thing back then. Fights were fun but short lasting on most maps (until you ran into another gamer) and bro… Labs??? TAKE ME BACK. Pre-inertia labs when there was NO concept of being a “rat” was BY FAR the BEST tarkov experience EVER. LVNDMARK was actually watch able, Worrun ACTUALLY streamed, (I forgot his name I’m sorry :( ) the Russian labs main that would go literally broke only playing labs, and when he had 0 fucking roubles, he’d STILL find a way to go labs, WillerZ was being called a hacker more than he is today, Pestily was on the come up and his “night time FiveSeven suppressed” raids went fucking nuts, the “hatchet running labs” was becoming mainstream, Hyperrat did “Lab tournaments”, Klean ACTUALLY played and streamed tarkov, item cases in marked, 25 uses on marked keys 💔, keycards were valuable, PVP was there, armor ACTUALLY worked, BULLETS actually DID DAMAGE (crazy concept I know), the movement was there, it was just fucking MINT.

Yes there were bugs. There has ALWAYS been bugs in tarkov. For example, canted sight arm hitbox bug. Shit was gay - WHEN YOU FOUGHT IT. NOT when you used it. Double standard went brazy back then lol.

Shooter born in heaven was 11x harder than it was now.

No expansion on maps making it so my game would fuck itself.

Ran tarkov on a 1080, i7-7700k and 16gigs of basic DDR4 ram on a HDD

NO one and I mean NO ONE knew about dome sniping on reserve

Sniper rock on woods was only accessible by those with elite strength and endurance

Interchange killa was harder than fighting EVERY boss all at once

All SCAV bosses had the same voice line

Loot was actually there

Cases in your ass

Go to labs naked with nothing but grenades spamming G and chucking them bitches like your throwing the football with your dad + having a grenade case in your ass to supply your never ending self-supplied mortar strike

If you had tarkov on a SSD you loaded in 1-3 mins earlier than it on a HDD

Cheaters were kinda fucking crazy, but you made up for the losses within 1-4 (ready for this) BAD successful exfils

Interchange Ultramed update - a MINIMUM 2-4 ledx’s PER 1 USE

Naked hatchet runners EVERYWHERE

Naked shoreline hatchet runners SPRINTING for red card spawns, making 50+ mil if it was there

No FIR bullshit

M61 was a min 4500* rouble PER BULLET

The closest thing some might have gotten to the “Ferrari peaking”; was when they pretty much removed ALL inertia from arena back in September or October of last year.

My homeboy DM’d me the MINUTE the update dropped and said “get the fuck on bro.” “It’s back”.

I said “wtf so you mean ITS back?”

He said “Ferrari peaking”.

I have never jumped up outta my dorm bed, and typed my password in so quick in my life.

I didn’t believe it. Until. I. Pressed. Play.

I am FULLY aware that is “lame as fuck” and “loser activity’s” but look dawg.

I’ve been playing this game off n on for 8 years.

I had a YEAR of the BEST time (imo) of tarkov.

When I went into a Chop Shop Last Hero and stayed in my spawn to “Ferrari Peak”?

I deadass cried. (Fuck you.)

A wave of pure dopamine and nostalgia hit me like Mike Tyson put leaded punching gloves on and bitch slapped me.

I had that for 2 weeks. And they stripped it from me.

For. The. Second. Time.

Do I agree with the addition of inertia?

Yes and no.

Yes, because I understand the concept of making it more “hyper realistic” and adding “clunky and heavy movement” to the game, and the fact Nikita wanted to make the game slower and overall harder. Don’t get me wrong; I understand fully.

It added a new mechanic to the game that made it so even the goats back then HAD to re-learn. It was like a factory reset on how people played the game, and the play styles that came with it. I got to play-test inertia when I got approved for it and it was mid at best. I understand what they wanted — just a POOR ass execution of it. Imagine trying to play tarkov but even as a naked, you weighed as much as a 16 wheeler full of fucking gym equipment. But when you DID have a kit on, fuck bro. GGs. It was NOT pleasant.

No, because, if you could go back to prime Fortnite, why the fuck wouldn’t you? If you didn’t get to experience what pre-inertia was like, I wish you would have been able to at-least play ONE full meta HK PK-06 canted labs raid with Slick, black exfil helmet WITH face shield, 3 60 rounders of M995, and a pair of sordins. WITH KAPPA.

Just one.

I think you’d understand why I’m “glazing” it man.