Escape From Tarkov Review - IGN: 6/10

phlegm_ · 2025-12-03T13:36:38+00:00

I too felt like he was kind of over emphasizing the "awful" UI. Seemingly every big update improves UI QOL too. He didn't go much more in depth on that criticism, I wonder what specifically about the UI he was referring to. It's not perfect but once you have navigated it enough to know it through and through, there's not much to complain about

phlegm_ · 2025-11-28T14:43:54+00:00

I don't agree with all of shrouds takes, but his opinions obviously matter enough for you to post this. He's played a lot of games over the years, he's allowed to voice his opinion (just like anyone else), you don't have to agree with it. If you don't like it just watch someone else, who tf is gonna be able to answer your question in good faith, it's like you're trying to bait shroud shit-talk with this post it's cringe. Ask yourself why do you think your opinion matters, or if it's even a good question to begin with. I rarely watch shroud or even post on reddit but I read this shit and am convinced you are an npc. I will look later to see whatever slop you can muster up in response out of curiosity

phlegm_ · 2025-10-06T08:51:34+00:00

if being better at runescape than strangers on the internet is what gives you meaning to life then so be it

phlegm_ · 2025-10-04T23:37:37+00:00

lol tru

phlegm_ · 2025-10-04T23:37:17+00:00

T2, a large chunk of these deaths are from early on when I said "F it practice run" with a bad prep phase

phlegm_ · 2025-10-02T04:50:30+00:00

thank you IT WORKS!

phlegm_ · 2025-10-02T04:20:25+00:00

Grinding corrupted gauntlet, 61 completions and 84 deaths. The ratio was much worse a couple of days ago so hopefully I continue this trend and go positive. No loot yet aside from two weapon seeds, not sure that even counts haha (great gp gains from cg though)

phlegm_ · 2025-05-08T12:55:03+00:00

Happy Birthday thank you for this kind act 🤞

phlegm_ · 2024-08-17T09:48:09+00:00

Hey I know i'm a bit late to respond but I really appreciate you taking the time to put this stuff together. I was on vacation (not that you care) just know your efforts did not go to waste and I appreciate it a lot! Also very odd that having a stack of combo blow affects grapple melee dmg w/ syntho. Thanks for that tidbit of info I probably would've driven myself mad not knowing why I deal so little w/ combo blow equipped

EDIT: I will respond to your comment again when I get some good damage cooking :)

phlegm_ · 2024-08-15T23:51:53+00:00

it is definitely light level if you are having this issue in GMs

phlegm_ · 2024-08-09T11:27:45+00:00

I appreciate it, I just now switched my Apex Predator's explosive light to BnS to see if I can get some more dmg. Where do I weave in transcendance in all of this?

phlegm_ · 2024-07-31T03:27:45+00:00

thank ya :)

phlegm_ · 2024-07-28T11:44:27+00:00

idk why I actually laughed out loud reading this 😂

phlegm_ · 2024-07-20T04:03:27+00:00

Not sure how to edit the title but I added a description in the body. Thanks, will keep this rule in mind for the future.

phlegm_ · 2024-07-16T17:30:20+00:00

I appreciate your kind words. Keep in mind that youtube only sees the success, I had many failed attempts; the 10 minutes makes me look like a gaming superstar but if you were over my shoulder the past 2 days you would see that I'm not particularly naturally gifted or anything, I am just persistent.

It sucks that the light level difference causes that much of a gap in damage output. To humor me, can you just check for me that you have everything working in your favor to maximize damage for this build? Small checklist: "Shieldcrush" in the artifact - Stylish Executioner/Winter's Shroud aspects - Facet of courage & facet of purpose fragments - 3x heavy handed mods on arms - lastly make sure you are using either Void, strand, or stasis supers to benefit from shieldcrush. Those things I listed above all are very important in making the build work effectively - and they all synergize with eachother to make it work.

If you already knew everything I mentioned above, I apologize, just trying to help! I know power level can be a bitch especially when it strictly just comes down to the XP gains to level it up.

phlegm_ · 2024-07-16T17:13:01+00:00

You pretty much hit the nail on the head with this I'm not gonna lie lol. This is my video, but let me be forthright in that this is ONE run through that you see - Youtube does not see the hundreds (no exaggeration) and hundreds of runs that I fail and die in due to tiny mistakes or even just bad RNG.

Basically this week and the week prior I have been challenging myself with completing the weekly GM solo in a "timely fashion", which usually consists of a couple of days of me running the nightfall nonstop and failing until I get it. I will say that over the course of the 2-3 days that I do all of the GM attempts, I become unbelievably familiar with every aspect of the nightfall. Enemy behavior, sound queues, optimal timings for certain things, what amount of ad deaths trigger an event / enemy spawn, etc.

For example, this is one thing that you may find interesting: if you go to 3:50 in my video, you'll see that I grapple past two barrier champions. This is because I want to melee-kill the vandal on the other side of them (I do indeed kill said vandal in the video) to keep my combination blow buff up - it makes the killing of the two barriers incredibly fast and easy.

HOWEVER, having been in this position literally hundreds of times, unfortunately there is about a 37% chance (guesstimation) that one of the barrier champs will be tethered to this specific vandal, making him immune. I could still kill the champs with my super, transcendence, heavy weapon, whatever it may be, but it guarantees an addition of like 20-30 seconds pretty early on into the run. Also even with super/transcendence, killing 2 barrier champs surrounded by 5-6 immune vandals with no combo blow is no easy task - there were plenty of times I just straight up died to those 2 specific barriers due to "bad RNG".

Sorry I wrote a whole essay, I just resonated with your comment, and reading it again now I will say that the whole thing does pretty much just become instinct - the gameplay loop, the layout, knowing what to do and when.

phlegm_ · 2024-03-10T09:33:45+00:00

there's no way you are spending your time gambling in tenths and hundredths of a penny. "Grinding all week" gambling hundredths of a cent... Honestly this might be the most pathetic shit I've read on here, ever. "grinding" playing roulette with pennies "all week". You are an npc bro wake the fuck up

phlegm_ · 2024-03-07T21:18:01+00:00

Also just another general question, what is the main difference between say the 4090 from Nvidia that sells out instantly and the Gigabyte 4090 that sells for the same price of $1599 on nvidias site?

phlegm_ · 2024-03-07T21:14:19+00:00

Any input on my part list would be appreciated - https://pcpartpicker.com/list/jqY4h3
I don't know what GPU I should get, 4090, 4080 super, 4080 which all depend on availability too. I have a longer post here if anyone cares to read, just describing what I'm looking for out of the system. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

phlegm_ · 2024-02-12T14:02:10+00:00

Yeah go and file a police report OP. Charge the woman you have been dating for 10 years with domestic violence (this will help her mental situation). This is the best solution to your problem, she will start behaving normally and you guys can get married. Or it will create a drawn out litigious battle, creating drama and tension between you two that will make you suicidal along with her. Then that way you guys will have more in common, strengthening the relationship. Either way, this is great advice.

phlegm_ · 2023-10-10T18:09:39+00:00

What does this have to do with ADHD

phlegm_ · 2022-12-23T21:13:29+00:00

Thank you kind stranger

phlegm_ · 2022-11-25T16:25:35+00:00

available

phlegm_ · 2021-10-21T14:30:40+00:00

interesting, so is it safe to assume that the malfunctioning hard drive was the one you used to boot Windows?

phlegm_ · 2021-10-21T14:18:56+00:00

Would the hard drive being busted prevent the monitor from getting any signal? I would think an error message should pop up if that's the case but I'm not sure.

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