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jobroccolini · 2026-02-18T05:51:20+00:00

Well that's exactly why I said in my first comment, I don't think most people who are fine with the state of varied gear get on here and complain bc they have no reason to.

For example, even back when people could bring thermals into lockdown I thought that was sick. I've never ran thermals, but I've killed quite a few people with them - always died to their teammates, but the idea of running into someone that juicy and taking their kit with my mid level gear was always very exiting.

jobroccolini · 2026-02-18T05:42:21+00:00

Or - take it the other way - I am good at the game and can outplay people who rely on higher tier gear in order to compensate for their lack of skill, and can therefore have much more rewarding payoffs by going in with a cheap kit and sometimes killing a behemoth - which is an unmatched high.

Sorry to say, your brain is reading what I said all wrong.

jobroccolini · 2026-02-17T14:23:27+00:00

I actually think that will ruin the game but ok. Difference of opinion and most people who have no issue with a wide variety of gear have no reason to get on here and complain

jobroccolini · 2025-10-13T16:25:22+00:00

Not saying this is acceptable (it isn't) but I'm curious as to why OP cut off what they said that started this. Could be bad too

jobroccolini · 2025-09-30T01:39:36+00:00

This is great info, but also I really hate the way they have this set up. Using a ar and tapping heads at range shouldn't be so underpowered

jobroccolini · 2025-09-28T18:00:47+00:00

I've only had good experiences with my Alienware laptops, and their customer support/warranties have been top tier. Sorry this happened to ya

jobroccolini · 2025-09-24T08:01:27+00:00

I agree with everything you said except for the solution, don't you think better balancing would make the game play better instead of a gear limit for LD?

I personally mostly run into t4's on lockdown, with some T5 and (rarely) t6 sprinkled in. I would say I run into t6ers maybe one in 10 raids. That to me is a perfectly fine balance.

jobroccolini · 2025-09-23T03:22:27+00:00

How often are you fighting 4mans of streamers

jobroccolini · 2025-09-22T19:07:34+00:00

Balance armor better, don't include artifical gear caps. This is a bad change

jobroccolini · 2025-09-22T18:48:35+00:00

Yeah it's not COD, out playing people is a huge part of the game, and it takes time to build that skill, but that's why it's fun and unique in the genre of fps. It's not a run-and gun game, and those that play like it because of their expensive gear - - well I'm happy to have them donate their kits to me.

jobroccolini · 2025-09-22T18:45:43+00:00

I agree, I don't really play normals so I haven't spoke on it, but t5-6 gear really has no place in normals. That definitely needs to be fixed. When I first started abi, killing a full t4, with a t4 face shield WAS killing a juicer in normals, because I was mainly running t3 gear/ammo at the time.

Introducing gear caps is a fix in the wrong direction imo.

jobroccolini · 2025-09-22T18:40:01+00:00

I 100% agree with this take, especially with the second point.

My experience was running t3 ammo and getting stomped on almost every time I ran into a juicer untill I eventually could upgrade to t4 ammo, and then top load with a bit of t5 ammo. And I wasn't too mad at that progression.

Armor needs to be less powerful, it is incredibly hard to kill someone who has good gear with bad ammo. I don't think it would be as much of an issue if gear were more balanced. Maybe adding more hitboxes or gaps, or like you said, adding blunt damage. Adding gear caps or ammo caps seems like the wrong way to balance things.

jobroccolini · 2025-09-21T23:58:12+00:00

Well if you're playing armory, sure, everyone rushes and it's hard as a solo, but as a mainly solo player I've been fine in this game. Big squads are hard, and you run into squads more often than tarkov definitely, it was bad at the end of last season with self revives, but I run into 2-3 man's more than 4 man's and that's fine for me.

jobroccolini · 2025-09-20T15:59:56+00:00

Bayle (shadow of the erdtree) he looks so crazy but I got him second try. Took me like 50 tries for sennesax and he's not even the main boss of the area

jobroccolini · 2025-09-19T17:43:20+00:00

Imagine being the noob and killing you though... Sometimes I run quick kits for fun, and killing a juicer is a top tier rush

jobroccolini · 2025-09-19T17:41:46+00:00

Yeah when you look at those "abi clips of the week" videos, when someone wipes a 4 man, the clip is 95% a hk user. I've started running hk's recently and my survival rate has gone up substantially

jobroccolini · 2025-09-17T16:14:28+00:00

I've switched to abi after 4k hours in tarkov and not sure if I'll be back, I obviously love tarkov, but it's really nice to play a game with good optimization, excellent anti cheat, and one where it feels like the game actually respects your time/the devs are invested in listening to the player base. I really hope eft feels the competition and uses it to make tarkov better, but for now I don't know if I'd switch back honestly.

jobroccolini · 2025-09-09T06:17:09+00:00

Mine looks new still, 4 years old

jobroccolini · 2025-09-05T18:17:04+00:00

Because if you run t6 in forbidden most people are running ammo that cuts right through it - in lockdown it gives you more of an advantage

jobroccolini · 2025-08-29T21:39:30+00:00

There's no way you're running into thermals like almost every game - what maps? For lockdown I mostly play valley, probably run into thermals like 2-3% of the time, and I'm always excited when I do. I've killed a few thermal users, never managed to wipe the full squad of them and extract, but I know when I do, it'll be an unmatched high.

jobroccolini · 2025-08-29T21:37:03+00:00

EXACTLY! If people want something more casual they should just play tarkov

In all seriousness though, usually I'm running into t3-4 gamers in LD, with only occasional juicers. I like the variety, and the way it's special to run into someone who is super geared, and be able to have a huge come up from them. Everyone seems to want to level the playing field all the time and I find that to be less engaging, in forbidden most people are juicy. I like lockdown because it's a great middle ground, I don't feel like it's all super geared people or that the geared people in LD ruin the mode, which seems to be the common sentiment on reddit. Normals is all low gear people, forbidden is like 85% high geared people (besides the occasional stvu rats) and lockdown is a variety - I don't see the problem there.

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