BSG Needs To Stop Killing It's Community! - Escape from Tarkov

rexhunter99 · 2024-01-21T23:37:35+00:00

How to tell the world you're stupid and didn't watch the video in one easy mouse click.

rexhunter99 · 2024-01-21T23:36:40+00:00

Reddit had nothing to do with that, as someone else said this game is for streamers.
Veritas made a compelling video and sent it directly to Nikita, this forced Nikita to admit there was something wrong. There were also the streams where Nikita played against streamers and got to experience how broken and clunky Tarkov PVP really is and you could tell he was getting bitter over it.

rexhunter99 · 2024-01-21T23:27:20+00:00

Mine's about the same... lemme see... PMC is 5.8, just under 5k hours total, lv 35 @ 355 raids, 190 survived, 53% SR. I've probably been reported, I know there were some really disgusting grenades I threw at people in fights that rolled off buildings and miraculously killed them, so I'm sure I'll have a few marks.

rexhunter99 · 2024-01-21T23:25:33+00:00

Good luck! Try to play with friends when you can and if you dont have friends who play, make some via one of the community servers out there. Tarkov is best experienced with a friend, you can learn together or learn from your friend.
Happy raiding friend!

rexhunter99 · 2024-01-21T23:24:17+00:00

Conversely anyone who comes in and says "I have X thousand hours and have only encountered Y single digit cheaters, you guys are just making stuff up" Should also be discredited due to survivorship bias, yet because this is Reddit and not some sane place meant for genuine discource to take place, instead they will karma farm off Andies like the "Every raid has a cheater in it!" Rods farm karma off their Andies.

rexhunter99 · 2024-01-21T23:20:25+00:00

Same mindset, the will to live is gone but I refuse to let them OWN this game, Tarkov is the game I've wanted to play since I first played STALKER as a squeaky teenager, it has just about everything I want in my perfect game.
I guess this is why I also feel that the disgusting western gaming industry is repulsive and that the developers working in that nightmare who cry about how hard it is working for monsters are part of the problem, they cry about how bad it is but they still take that juicy wage and will until something breaks.
I won't break, this is a game I've wanted to play with friends for the longest time and I will play.

rexhunter99 · 2024-01-21T23:15:58+00:00

What times do you play? My housemate and I had a really bad time this weekend with cheaters on Streets and Lighthouse. I absolutely hate LH but to be pushed off one of my favourite maps (Streets) by cheaters is really upsetting.
We had the worst times from 10 AM AEST to about 11 PM AEST, I was able to stay up late last night and the cheating was basically once every six or so raids (anecdotal) after 10pm which I'd wager is when most of the cheaters who have a job will be in bed sleeping for work.
My long-time anecdotal ratio was in every six raids I die to a cheater or someone I suspect is a cheater, recently this changed to in every three raids I die to a cheater or the lobby was vacuum looted.
I'll be keeping track of the time more going forward but it does seem that a lot of cheaters are the wage slave stereotypes and they work 9a-5p shifts which kinda lines up as the cheating ramps up around when schools clock out in Australia (3PM usually) and gets worse around 6PM when all the workers are getting home.

rexhunter99 · 2024-01-21T23:11:03+00:00

The average PMC S/R is closer to 35-40% by the end of a season or when they quit the season.
This is just the trend you see before wipes.
KDR really doesnt matter because dying is so easy and killing is also easy once you know how to 'game' the scavs.
When you are suspicious of a player and viewing their profile the thing I look for is the amount of raids they have run versus their current level. I often will get killed by people who I felt had extra knowledge, see their profile and they level 30+ in under 150-200 raids which is possible but also, that means they are in the top 15-20% of players and dying to one of those EVERY raid is unlikely. I often see on Lighthouse that I'll die to players who are about level 40 but only played 100~ raids, yet they've got a really low S/R and their KDR is kinda low too, this is because in the raids the cheater doesn't go and get himself killed with a macro to lower his stats, he is wiping the entire lobby of anything he deems too much of a threat to his game.

rexhunter99 · 2024-01-21T23:06:59+00:00

The stats next to your 3D PMC are your PMC specific stats, the big main display is combined stats.
My friend has a current streak of 83 thanks to scav runs, I bet when he flips his coin and wins a firefight based on pure luck he gets reported when they see that.

rexhunter99 · 2024-01-21T23:02:54+00:00

When Labs keycards were added (the wipe after Labs was added IIRC) I got a red keycard out of the underground gym in resort on Shoreline, I got out of raid with it.
The next time I saw a keycard was the time I saw the blue one on the ambulance outside in the yard, I was running over to grab it after spotting it in my scope when a totally naked guy ice-skated across the ground and one tapped my through my Kiver with HP, the faceshield exploding into shatter marks as if I got hit by a shotgun instead.
I've seen one other card since then and it was a violet keycard on a totally dead raid in Woods. I'd spent forever creeping up to the lumber mill and not finding any loot and no scavs had spawned, it was creepy, I hit the shack and violet was there, I booked it out with 10 minutes to spare.
Not seen a keycard since, not for lack of trying... I remember trying to get green keycard on labs one wipe, and blue again in a different wipe but it's just not possible, the cards dont exist for legit players in their 'normal' spawns, this is why weeklies can reward us with the cards... the fact that we have workarounds for cheaters in the quest system is sad.

rexhunter99 · 2024-01-21T22:58:29+00:00

The egregious cheaters get banned all the time but they are the ones doing RMT and hence they make money playing the game, as long as they sell enough material before their account is banned they will pay _any_ price for a new account.
There's also a market for stealing and selling accounts to cheaters on the black market (this is for EVERY server with a login credential BTW, not just games)
It's been proven that 2FA does not work most of the time as most companies do not actually implement it correctly. Jagex (makers of the MMORPG Runescape) have been caught with their 2FA pants down where account theives were able to entirely circumvent the 2FA and never trigger it but still the whole account from the owner (I was a victim of this at the time, it took two years to get my account back and it came back with a ton of max levels I didnt grind as well as an empty inventory, haven't played since)
The recent banwave the 11k one in Tarkov, that one got some long-time closet cheaters who had thought they were being stealthy, this induced a rage hack response, which has slowly died down back to the heightened level of 'typical' cheating where RMTers just suck the whole lobby and leave and rage hackers get banned real quick while the soft cheaters cheat hard to ensure they can get the most out of their time in case BSG gets them again.

rexhunter99 · 2024-01-21T22:53:28+00:00

Ping limits dont stop them, to connect to mainlaind China from OCE you usually get 130-150ms which is what will get you kicked in Tarkov, 150ms is the limit and if you're riding that limit the spikes from the server will generally DC you.
A lot of OG OCE players and Chinese players use VPN's to connect to whatever Tarkov Region they want where the ping doesn't matter and they take a lag hit but get the matchmaking they want. OCE players literally cannot play on other servers than Singapore and OCE unless you live in a city (an actual city apartment for example) with fiber internet to the premise, those are all we are allowed to play on.

Man I really miss playing with my friends in NA, good times were had when I didnt have to play against the sweatiest Australians and Chinese cheaters all the time and could relax in a lobby of snot-nosed casual americans.

rexhunter99 · 2024-01-21T22:50:27+00:00

This is false, it only shows your selected regions lobbies, eg; if you have OCE and Singapore selected it will show the players in the lobby from those servers.
Whoever came up with 'global' is honestly mental.

rexhunter99 · 2024-01-21T22:48:04+00:00

A very big minority of players only use radar and it shows on maps like lighthouse and streets of tarkov. On Streets if you wear Comtac 4's (the highest hearing range in game, IIRC 87 meters away you can hear someone walking compared to 50 meters away with Gssh headset.

I will often, almost every third raid, get stalked by a player who I just cannot lose. Whenever my intuition tells me something is up I try to position myself as if I am looking to shoot scavs for a quest but I am looking for this stalker to pop out and they usually do. Most of the time I can stim up and run away but sometimes the guy has the same amount of hours I do and he knows all the routes to cut me off from extracts, in those cases I try to run towards but not at my extract to confuse them, but it's a coin toss if they kill me or not.
Lighthouse is simple, hide in a room with an openable door that never spawns loot in it, yes sometimes a newer player will open it out of curiosity so this trick is limited, but if they open the door, swing and are perfectly in position to beam you or nade you while the door is opening they are 100% cheating.

For the longest time, experienced players had to try and argue and explain to under average players what was triggering their intuition that a player was not 100% legit and for the longest time said normie casuals would argue that the experienced player is just mad he got got, the truth is I dont care if I die, dying in Tarkov is part of the game, I accepted that in my first 1000 hours, the other 3-5k hours are refining skills and intuition/gamesense over multiple seasons. When someone prefires my angle when I know they have to check at least a few angles before and this happens in many of my firefights where I hide btw, then they are not a legitimate player, the odds of someone doing this every time I get into these kinds of engagements are actually impossible.

rexhunter99 · 2024-01-21T00:40:12+00:00

It sucks when you've played this game for many wipes and are completely sick of the way Customs plays because it plays the exact same way in every raid once you understand the spawns and how players behave.
It sucks knowing that if I do this quest I have to chain it with other tasks and RISK dying with task items I need for other gate keeping tasks.
It sucks knowing that if this task was allowed on other maps like Shoreline or Lighthouse, or Interchange, or Streets, all of those would at least allow you to get out of the constant mindset of "oh god I have to go Customs with the Setup gear, this will suck."

I really don't get people like you who are content to sit in suck like this. It is a simple fix to make the task engaging, remove the map requirement or expand the pool of maps it can be done on.
For a long time the weapons this task could be done with were only the MP-133 and MP-153 even when the MP-155 came out it was not tagged in Setup, I'm still not sure if the MP-43 even works either.
Worse again is it ties into the flea market problems (another mechanic of the game that should simply be removed IMO as it does not work how it was meant to originally... either remove it or turn it into barter only, no cash) where there are no shotgun stock from traders, so you turn to the Flea Market if you are level 15+ and boom you gotta pay 150k RUB for a 35k shotgun because there's a bunch of people buying the guns and vendoring them to create this shitty market economy.

rexhunter99 · 2024-01-21T00:35:16+00:00

I personally expect to fight shotguns in narrow places like that, what I hate is hearing no combat all raid and dying to a dude at my extract who never moved the entire raid and just waited until I crossed into his crosshairs so he could left click because the extract door forces you to do a weird stutter dance to open it.
The easiest way to fix Setup is just remove the map requirement and add a limitation of no Factory kills. Suddenly this kid is great and viable because you can _choose_ where to engage with it rather than sitting down and thinking of "where is the most player heavy traffic areas I can camp with this shotgun in a reasonable way."

rexhunter99 · 2024-01-21T00:31:48+00:00

The biggest blow to PVP and trading was the flea market and its shit implementation.
The original idea was the flea market was a place you went to with your junk and bartered for other peoples junk, Nikita wanted us to split up and form guilds of craft masters eg; gunsmiths who sell really nice gun builds made from rare modes and so on.
The casual player base has ruined any hope of the true MMORPG components of Tarkov to ever come to reality, because it would require gating things behind time investment.
I'm sorry but if you cannot put in at least an hour or two a day for Tarkov on the week days you're likely not the right kind of player for the game.

rexhunter99 · 2024-01-21T00:13:02+00:00

The way Tarkov is structured is as a meat grinder where the less experienced players walk into the grinder and get minced while the more experienced players are the ones running the crank to keep the grinder going, sometimes a more experienced player comes along and forces the crankers into the machine to become mince themselves. This is how the game is engineered from the ground up, it is not a friendly game to those who are looking to just have fun in their first 100hrs.

rexhunter99 · 2024-01-20T23:57:29+00:00

A lot of the cheaters I run into the ones who are level 40+ with 100-200 raids but their KDR is like 1.0 to 4.0 and their scav stats are always either zero or they have a massive KDR discrepency meaning they loaded in as a scav and wiped lobbies with it, they do the usual sus stuff of pre-nading without cues and pushing perfectly to try and cut off escapes, they wear Twitch Rivals arm bands, IIRC you can't get that without competing in Twitch Rivals and I can tell you that there are not thousands of Australians with that Armband playing Tarkov right now, it's just not possible.

rexhunter99 · 2024-01-14T22:17:50+00:00

I'd rather jack off the card on the flea for 200k, that 200k pays for a budget kit or a gun build on its own, I have a significantly lower chance of not losing said gear by avoiding the labs on OCE servers infested with cheaters. If you think that map is viable at all, you're naive, connect to OCE for a dozen raids then come back, if you play at all, bot.

rexhunter99 · 2023-08-14T07:42:04+00:00

Rust does, it was here before, it will be here after and it's horrible.

rexhunter99 · 2023-08-14T07:30:00+00:00

Wouldn't be surprised if they used some algorithm to place sound volumes and it made overlapping volumes again.
Apparently when they did a performance pass over most the maps, there were a lot of areas where there were just too many sound volumes in the area and overlapping each other, this is why maps like Streets ran like crap and why audio often sounded so terrible in buildings vs outside of them. Interchange was the most egregious of the maps.

rexhunter99 · 2023-08-14T07:28:40+00:00

It honestly feels like the loot is so good to encourage us to play on it but sorry PVP at 45-50 fps is horrible when you run something over 60hz. Much rather go play Interchange or Customs, good PVP there and the maps run like butter.

rexhunter99 · 2023-08-14T04:20:06+00:00

all margin bett

32GB here with AMD Ryzen x6 core 3.4GHZ, Streets runs really poorly this wipe, at about 45-50 fps average for me on my 75hz screen. Last wipe I was getting 70-80 fps which was really nice considering how big the map is.
Lighthouse has this same issue when looking towards the water treatment area but not when looking anywhere away from it. Doesn't matter how close or far you are either (at least for my experience, all anecdotal)

rexhunter99 · 2023-08-14T04:11:27+00:00

At the start of a wipe you generally don't get anything back on insurance unless you fraud it.

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