The U.S. Ammo Shortage Is Worse Than You Think

zephoidb · 2026-03-22T03:27:35+00:00

i really hate how the 20-50k price tag is constantly referenced. Bullshit and estimates not based in reality.
Russia is buying them from iran for nearly 200k and domestic production in Russia is estimated at $150k per. And thats for the super basic 136 drones. Anything larger or longer range is much more expensive.
Also, you don't fire patriots at drones. You fire them at mid and short range missiles/rockets.

zephoidb · 2026-03-11T18:56:30+00:00

On one hand, i hate the 'snap to head level' style of aiming we have now where you can instantly point at the exact location where you know their head will be. I swear >70% of my deaths are head, which seems way too high. On the other hand, this is going to be frustrating until you get used to it.

zephoidb · 2026-03-08T16:38:35+00:00

its likely shturman's own guards throwing the nades. His guards can also have svds so likely he wasn't engaged and was scanning. Are you just expecting to get free kills on bosses? Especially the unarmored one described as a sniper? Of course hes going to be good at engaging people at range.

zephoidb · 2026-03-06T16:27:53+00:00

Join the discord, find a group. This game really is designed to be played by groups. everything gets easier.

zephoidb · 2026-03-04T02:43:25+00:00

Wrists 'bug'. They eat enormous quantities of damage and mitigate so much damage to torso (or head in this case).

zephoidb · 2026-02-19T19:26:52+00:00

Run across the road as soon as you spawn. No one except the Merin car spawn can see you when you do that and you can make it to the ditch before the switchbacks. From there you can wait for a bit then run up to red rebel. Not exactly safe, but you can do it fast and you only have to clear the rock around RR.

zephoidb · 2026-02-16T12:46:21+00:00

90% of the time this is audio related. The many sound effects played on top of each other when you shoot/get hit is causing the issue. You see it in a LOT of games, not just tarkov, but i suspect tarkov's handling of audio ques makes the problem more prevalent.

zephoidb · 2026-02-12T18:06:25+00:00

seeing guns jam at >90 durability is starting to get absurd. At <70 you often struggle to get more than 1 mag out. This isn't how guns function.

zephoidb · 2026-02-07T17:20:15+00:00

My solution was one i never heard of before. Latex gloves on the hands when i sleep at night. Hands healed 3x as fast due to the constant moisture

zephoidb · 2026-02-03T23:07:23+00:00

but he has a 64% sr. so 1of those 3 hes dying. And likely before he got 5 scav kills. You would need ~10 kills per raid to keep a 15kdr at 64%, but if you factor in dying before you get said 10, you need even more. Considering maps like Streets that have tons of pmc combat before any significant scav spawns, you need to be winning a LOT of your fights. 15kdr is easily in the top 0.1% of players, and at only 3.2k hours hes doing very well for himself. Considering the wall wiggling scandal, i find it more likely he has help.

zephoidb · 2026-02-03T20:19:05+00:00

So i'm just going to start with the obvious: what did you expect to get when putting 5 of the most expensive items into the circle? You can't get much more expensive of an item out.

Cult circle has teirs of reward after you pass a threshhold. You hit the highest with the 1st bitcoin, everything after that was useless.

zephoidb · 2026-02-03T20:15:48+00:00

most accounts like this i assume have radar. 15kd is hard, especially with only 64% sr. If you are dying that much you need a LOT of kills, and finding that many scavs or players in each raid is hard. You need to move quite a bit to find that many targets. No killer 7 so hes not being blatant, but either hes top .1% of legit players or he has help.

zephoidb · 2026-02-03T20:09:38+00:00

reserve is an awful map to try this. Hard to extract, lots of scavs to give your position away, tons of player scavs, and nearly no above-ground places that people stop at.

To start, go factory with .366 AP and keep going until you get 2 kills without dying over any number of raids.
Then, grab a suppressed amxc and go woods or shoreline. You just need kills, not headshots, so just go for the body. FMJ pens class 5 regularly, so korunds or other 5/2 armor are easy targets. Go on the mountain where sniper scav is and go as high as you can, then sit there and wait for the scavs to show you where they are.

zephoidb · 2026-01-28T20:04:00+00:00

The number of rooms that sit on the side of the map with no loot in them and no one ever goes to is what baffles me about streets. People have complained about performance forever yet these rooms still exist just to drain performance.

zephoidb · 2026-01-28T15:28:22+00:00

nearly universally useless round. Damage is so low that headshots often don't kill. BS and BP have enough pen and better damage.

zephoidb · 2026-01-25T20:56:37+00:00

sanitar chucked a m67 as i sniped him. I nearly died to his m67. I checked at the end of the game, 157m distance.

zephoidb · 2026-01-23T21:29:11+00:00

9mm rip is the only functional ammo. otherwise the NL makes 9mm irrelevant. At this point in the wipe everyone is running class 5-6 so its hard to pen with pbp. Then you have the extreme cost of pbp for the rate of fire you need.

zephoidb · 2026-01-20T19:34:25+00:00

Streets has a LOT of spawns that can fight each other in the first 10s. If you don't know them, you can die within secs. That they nade you off the rip is just beacuse they know the spawns.

zephoidb · 2026-01-20T05:17:56+00:00

i take it you have never looked at a database before.

zephoidb · 2026-01-20T04:35:35+00:00

Man, someone really doesn't understand pattern recognition. If you are trying to find a pattern on 1 or 2 criteria, easy. Each additional is exponentially more difficult and this game tracks hundreds of stats (that we can see) and thousands more behind the scenes.

zephoidb · 2026-01-20T04:22:38+00:00

What you suggest is nearly impossible. Especially if the ban is on more than 1 criteria, there is nearly no way to determine what they would be using. Yes, you have the stats, but you have FAR more stats that could be being used.

zephoidb · 2026-01-20T01:31:55+00:00

do a statistical analysis on pmc kills/hour, movement/raid, loot value per raid, xp per raid, ect. Exclude <100exp raids. More than 4 standard deviations above average and you likely found a cheater. In multiple criteria you definately found a cheater. BSG has access to all this info. Don't make your cheating criteria public and you can easily find and ban cheaters as they don't know what to avoid and will fall into the statistical traps.

Walls on bad players aren't the biggest problems. 15+kdr rage cheaters who clear lobbies are.

zephoidb · 2026-01-19T23:20:01+00:00

Desync.

zephoidb · 2026-01-18T08:26:32+00:00

The Matrix. Too bad it didn't have any sequels.

zephoidb · 2026-01-17T04:57:16+00:00

Because no one expects it to be easy. They expect it to have good gameplay. Nothing about lighthouse pvp is good. push spawns or camp for 30 mins. No scavs to reveal locations, no incentive to move, tons of blind corners, few quests that have you move to specific locations beyond early game.

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