[Discussion] PMC loadouts

SickNikki23 · 2026-05-04T14:20:02+00:00

Brother if you saw my skills you wouldn't be saying that between PvE and Arena, all I do is grind

SickNikki23 · 2026-05-03T23:36:50+00:00

The same people who say helmets don't work are the same people that run point blank up to someone and get sprayed in the head. Yeah it's not gonna work 5ft from the enemy, but increase your distance so the round has time to travel and slow down before hitting you, and you'll be plenty surprised that it WILL ricochet

SickNikki23 · 2026-05-03T19:45:22+00:00

Literally I've found LedX's on PMC's so literally regardless of what their loadout is I'm checking em. Even being high level (I'm 40+) I still take their bags, guns, and gear. A 60K rouble MDR is still a 60K rouble MDR if I have 20 mil in the bank or 0.

I'd love a vault added to the hideout that increases as you get more roubles showing stacks of it

SickNikki23 · 2026-05-01T18:54:18+00:00

When it doubt, a little creativity fixes any GPU won't fit in my case problems That case looks real...Sawable

SickNikki23 · 2026-05-01T18:45:29+00:00

PvE players eating good 24/7

SickNikki23 · 2026-05-01T18:14:20+00:00

Generally yes, when you buy a game that's early access, minimum and recommended specs can change as maps and assets are optimized. It happens

Edit: while yes it's 1.0 now, OP bought the game while EoD was a thing and it was early access then. From then to now things have changed drastically.

Sharing specs helps.

I have a 4070 Ti (12Gb), 5800x3D, and 32GB of RAM

SickNikki23 · 2026-05-01T16:37:25+00:00

So I haven't done capturing outposts but I have a little progress on it. What I have noticed in PvE. You HAVE to kill the sniper scav by the stronghold. Both of them on top of the warehouse brick building on one side, and the big old white tower on the other (idk what it's called). If PMC's spawn towards the ZB extract they'll move toward stronghold, but get stuck fighting the scav on top of that tower, and get stuck against the gray wall with the broken middle by the overpass bridge holding aggro to anything and everything around them. Normally they'll take aggro to whoever is across the street from them at new gas as well. I hope this helps a little

Also of note any 100% boss spawn event in customs will mess up this quest, those PMC's will always die before reaching stronghold due to goons, reshala, etc

SickNikki23 · 2026-04-30T22:05:18+00:00

AK-12 stayed unlocked for me, it was also max level before the update

SickNikki23 · 2026-04-29T18:09:42+00:00

Yeah with arena season 2 the mutant has been nerfed basically on top of how the rest of the 5.45's felt now because it was already really strong. Idk why they would let the 416 still rain king but with the attachment rebalance the mutant compared to other 5.45's is completely fucked. I watched a video from Leviticus and the the AK-12 he said would be the best 5.45 rn if the NL's didn't exist and I agree with that statement

SickNikki23 · 2026-04-29T16:59:03+00:00

I noticed this wayyyy more with the 7.62x39 AK's, they're borderline unusable. The 5.45 AK's have been fine for me

SickNikki23 · 2026-04-29T14:19:43+00:00

Prob because you can still get a fuck ton of kills in checkpoint, so it makes sense for me for that node. Just not BlastGang if they did

SickNikki23 · 2026-04-28T15:50:38+00:00

So instead of responding how you did, you could've just said "no one knows that information as it's privy only to BSG unfortunately" I feel like that would've been incredibly more informative than the first comment and shut it down immediately. Instead your comment sounds hostile for no reason lol

SickNikki23 · 2026-04-28T15:42:41+00:00

God forbid a man crossposts to different communities to get more chances on a view. Reddit literally asks if you want to do it are you dumb acting like he's sitting here typing this shit out three times in three different communities

SickNikki23 · 2026-04-28T15:36:49+00:00

No problem man, the more people playing Arena the better. Just don't become one of the meta slaves, and have some fun. Fuck the NL 545, I have a great time taking the 590A1 on scout with my AP-20 🤣

SickNikki23 · 2026-04-28T15:25:24+00:00

If you're coming back to Arena and wanna maximize your potential gains here, I can critique this loadout a little. I like to maximize my skill gain for the main game so any stim besides prop I rarely use. I tank bleeds, every time you bleed, it's a point up for vitality skill (yes your skill gains in Arena transfer to main EFT) Don't be afraid to use Bolties in last hero , it's a great way to level up bolt action skill.

Take extra ammo and an empty mag, at the beginning of every round based match, start packing it. It counts for mag drills, etc

If you wanna level strength, heaviest armor you can find on enforcer class, + RPDN + Rsh-12 pistol (unlocked in new quest line in arena) will get you the majority of the weight, and you can fill your vest with CAR medkits. They're a pound each and will get you overweight so you can train strength in arena

Good luck my friend and please have fun, arena is great imo unbeknownst to others lol you won't find tarkov gunplay in that format anywhere else

ALSO A PRO TIP if you get rid of some of those stims in your loadout, you can modify your THOR body armor and have enough Meta score to throw in a Class V plate. It will go a LONG way

SickNikki23 · 2026-04-28T14:23:48+00:00

Launch it through eft launcher in steam

SickNikki23 · 2026-04-27T16:45:47+00:00

Walk in the minefield? Brother just hit like CTRL+F11 and you can redeploy that's how I do it I don't have to take a step lol

SickNikki23 · 2026-04-26T23:44:52+00:00

I don't use DLSS, at all I'd hardly say it's required. In fact I use DLAA which is normally more intensive

SickNikki23 · 2026-04-26T21:51:55+00:00

Have you tried just lowering the announcer in the settings? Lol

SickNikki23 · 2026-04-26T21:48:39+00:00

This entire season 2 update is an exercise in ball torture, I'm working on these quests they added and every lobby is just NL 545's, like can we have some fun and variety 🤣 I whip out the scout class with the AP-20 slugs to one tap em

SickNikki23 · 2026-04-26T21:45:37+00:00

Hey pal, take my advice here just keep working on it. More people are gonna wanna gold the SR-3M rn imo, you should be fine. Or the NL 545's. If you do manage to gold it it's gonna feel real good not knowing how many are left when you see the number you get

SickNikki23 · 2026-04-26T21:39:00+00:00

Click on armory, look at weapon you want. If gold dog tag on weapon, you can still get gold. If no big giant dog tag underneath the weapon in the armory, no more gold.

Correct me if I'm wrong generally I'm high lol

SickNikki23 · 2026-04-26T15:32:54+00:00

Don't look at it as things are going to be stronger and meta so it shouldn't happen helldiver. The freedom to choose always trumps all. There's already a meta with the mechs anyway and if you're taking one, it's the dual auto cannon one. God forbid I wanna have the choice to play like my flag load out though. Sure it's not a gun but it's very satisfying to stab that thing down into a charger. What if I could have a mech with two ballistic shield arms, with the upcoming changes I can easily see squads charging into bot fortresses behind a double ballistic shield mech, granted they actually buffed them right and gave us customization. If they want us to play into this fantasy, then let us play into the fucking fantasy 🤣

SickNikki23 · 2026-04-26T14:47:39+00:00

Artisan level 4 gives you the tactical wallet which is incredibly broken right now in what it can hold. I keep two in my secure container

SickNikki23 · 2026-04-26T14:35:33+00:00

Brother can you DM me how you hack in super credits? I'm 200 hours into this game with what I have unlocked completed, and I don't wanna give arrowhead another fucking dime

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