new map is not bad but not great either

>>546586235
it solves the mechanical component bottleneck i've been having, assuming i go alone, because it's a bloodbath with friends

>>546587026
yeah its great for that. but im having trouble finding anything else lol

dont wolfpacks work on the new map?
i threw 3 at a bastion but they didnt explode

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>playing alone is a boring snoozefest of running into friendlies and not wanting to attack out of courtesy
>playing with friends is a material grind that will set you back 2 games if you lose an expensive kit
>haven't seen a new blueprint in 3 days
>friends only want to do trials when night raiding
>every other teamfight is venatorslop
i might take a break until expedition. new map is cool and got a lot of exodus modules on it, but the magic is dying and im just not good enough at this game to maintain the momentum required to get decent gear, nor do i have the stomach to inflict the pain of losing stuff on someone that doesn't shoot first, especially when solo.

it might be over for /arg/ bro...
love you guys.

Does anyone know of a good place for looting damaged heatsinks? I need one more for my utility station. The spot that I'm trying to search right now is a barricaded room on the NW side of the spaceport arrival building. It contains a lot of breachable server racks, and the KOSniggers seem to mostly avoid that place since there are no weapon crates in there. But RNG keeps spawning me on the wrong side of the spaceport, on instances where fuckall servers spawn.

Does anyone know of any better locations to look?

>low on chems to feed my adrenaline addiction
>decide to recycle some defibs since I mostly play this game solo
>the defibs contain moss instead of chems
What???

tfw no simple gun part blueprint

This new map is making me so jaded to the game, honestly. Massive maze with almost zero threatening ARC and minimal loot and nothing but friendly people running around with their heads cut off. Played five matches and didn't find anything of value and every place was already looted through. Find some guy trapped in a room by two Shredders and get KOS'd by a freekit trying to help. Yeah, back to night raids it is.

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>>546597192
I found the fucking heatsink.

Do you think the devs will cave in to demands to keep blueprints after expeditions? I know I'll never wanna do any of the quests again, at least.

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How many players have you KOS today?

Stop counting threads, it's embarrassing. WHERE ARE THE FUCKING VAULT SURVEYORS EVERY TIME I SPAWN THERE ISN'T ONE

Nerf venator, buff epic gun drop rate. Game fixed.

>>546597192
just go to the new map

What is a logical reason the devs haven't nerfed the venator? What are they thinking? What's their plan?

>>546604431
they haven't done any gun balancing so far, which is crazy
the game needs it

>>546604526
but why? what's the hold up? What's the problem?

>>546604640
who knows

>>546604431
My best guess it that the legions of gamerdads haven't even found the anvil yet, so they don't know that it's an issue.

What do you run in your arc destroying/xp farm kit, besides hullcracker and a pvp weapon for defense?

>>546604640
gathering data takes time when the game has a progression system, most players probably haven't even held a pink weapon

>>546604526

Cope more shitter lmao. Just shoot peoples heads, everyone is basically walking.

I haven't heard a single voice in solos in 50 hours. I thought turning VC off only prevented me from using it accidentally.

I really do wish that the TTK was higher in this game. I like extending the olive branch to players if I can, but it's gay as fuck that one split second can basically shred you.

God I got sent to the nigger lobby. Five fucking different KOSniggers were taking potshots at me.

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>go to help some dudes at the hospital getting shot at
>they lose the guy, said he ran when they shot back
>we turn to kill a wasp outside
>suddenly, a leaper pulse out of nowhere
>all three of us get rocked
>roll away and dump a Venator mag at the guy
>noob I'm with keeps shouting "friendly!"
>tell him we're gonna have to unload on a nigga
>one guy is down
>KOS homo turns the corner with a fully kitted Torrente and unloads
>I manage to bust his shield and do a bit of damage before I get downed
>last guy is still back in the corner saying "friendly!"
>in a Father-Son Kamehameha moment I tell him it's his only chance
>downs the dude with a Rattler
>other guy that was with us dies
>no defib
>I have Survivor on my kit
>noob escorts me crawling to the extract like a bro
This game is fun sometimes :)

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This guy killed me while I was playing the flute in Stella.

>>546608526
Sounds about par for the course

>>546608603
EU btw.

>just trying to get olives from the lush bloom in bluegate
>some nigger with an osprey is taking potshots at me from 100m away
fuck off. Go fight in the high loot zones or some shit.

The freekit weapons should be rattler and hairpin. Prove me wrong.

Finally got security breach, which map is the best for pussy run in the high lvl area(close spawn) and run out?
>>546608762
space port and buried city are the best for that. buried city, go the west and north low level areas, the basket near the train weapon room, on the tracks, and on the round silos nearby never get looted.

>>546608927
>Finally got security breach
It's been nerfed. Nobody cares about it anymore.

>>546608927
I wish, but spaceport and buried city aren't in bloom.

>>546608628
Can't trust anyone on EU servers, anyone could be a slavic rat and nobody uses a mic

>>546608379
sounds kino

>trying to get olives
>taking fire from every fucking direction from like 5 different people just seconds into the game.
>disengage, cut my losses, and extract since I'm running out of medical supplies
>successfully get away in large part because the swarm of assailants devolves into attacking each other
>check the after action report
>every aggressor is a euro
>every aggressor was plinking at me with freekit grey 1 weapons
Completely dishonorable. Something must be done about freekitniggers.

>>546608762
also I think you need mushrooms after olives, do not sell until you have 12.

at this point im exclusively playing on NA.
also, theres another, more active thread thats missing the /arg/ tag

>>546609798
run a medium shield and any decent upgraded weapon and freekits are lunch

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>>546610274
The way the damage model works in this game I'm not keen to be taking on 3v1's.

farewell my torrente IV

>flute playing acts friendly
>pulls out his vulcano and goes ham

Game got boring fast.
Well, back to Hunt.

>>546610465
I just found a Torrente on Stella while freeshitting. Then I died in the same open area where the Bastion is. Fuck that map man I don't understand its layout at all.

Freekits need a cooldown.

freekits needa buff

>>546610696
if you don't have good weapons don't bother going to 4+ diff maps. it has more stronger bots, besides the op players.

dude the scanner relay spawning shit right on top of itself is bullshit. they should come from 50m away, not be birthed into being right there.

>>546603885
Try searching courrier husks aswell..
>>546607668
Agreed. A kettle or stitcher can down you in one magazine, even if you have best shields, while you looting bastions and queens. Simply whats the fucking point of getting all that gear, i rather just go freekit next game and camp in bushes with a stitcher.
>>546610389
Don't hoard grey resources in more than 4 stacks, it helped me a lot.

This set of trials are absolute dogshit and I would not be shocked if they're going to continue to benefit slop streamers queuing up together for 16 hours a day

>>546613563
that's how they've been since day 1

>find rare items like Cooling Fans, Cracked Bioscanners, Laboratory Reagents etc. that people need for their workshops or expedition
>salvage them so nobody can loot the actual item
Anyone else here devilish?

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>POV: the orange jumpsuit black woman camping the extract three minutes into Hidden Bunker

>>546614216
this isn't reddit, faggot

>>546614001
The other trials had stuff like looting that made it a lot easier to do on any map without too much issue. This set is fucking abysmal because two of the trials (deliver carriables and download data) are basically capped. The other three challenges are all farming ARC which is nearly impossible because every single person has the same trials. You might get lucky to get two Bastion kills on a night raid before some free kit with a balaclava tries to kill you, and even then you only get like 5k points. Wasps, if you do a safe and easy farm from beginning to the end of match, you can probably get anywhere from 10-15k. Fireballs are effectively luck dependent because they're in high loot areas in small batches and are typically shot on sight. So you would have to really struggle to get even 5k on that.

Add all that up and you're maybe at like, 40k on the high end. Check the leaderboards and it's nearly 50k minimum to hit double promotion, and half the people are at 60k+.

Add up carriables and data download at that's about 12k. Add the 8k from if you REALLY farmed for good Fireball runs and you're at 20k. That means you have to have 15k in both wasps and bastions as a fucking solo to qualify for the double promo.

I'm not even that mad because it's just cosmetics that look like shit anyways, but it sets the precedent for an entire section of content of the game being bricked for the average player because fags grinding trials in a team as their full time job will always find a way to score more than you.

I'm only so pissed about it because I know, I just fucking know that in a month when the season ends I'm going to be trying to get trials done for the three star levels just for the blueprints and some dude in the top 100 poopsockers skin is going to be scalping everything in the lobby I'm going after.

>>546614916
>(deliver carriables and download data) are basically capped
Data is not capped. When someone presses the button and the download finishes multiple people can get their score from it. You just sit inside the bunker doing all the data downloads and leave once you're done with it. It's not particularly engaging but it's not difficult. The carriables also have multiple spawns per field depot per game.

Fireballs trial is also not group shared.
>Add all that up and you're maybe at like, 40k on the high end. Check the leaderboards and it's nearly 50k minimum to hit double promotion, and half the people are at 60k+.
This is because of bell curve, not the trials. If you're tryhard 2 you're just far ahead of everyone else. My bracket had people at 45k+ early in the week while my friend at tryhard 1 was at 30k himself and everyone else in his bracket was 20k or lower.

This isn't even close to being the shittiest, the bunker is boring but the raider flares last week was actual abysmal dogshit trial. Field depots are only better because there are multiple spawns of them instead of 3 per map total.

Your entire post is not understanding that this is just a normal ranking system from any game, the higher you go the more difficult it will get to hit promotions and nothing to do with the trials themselves. If you want to complain about the trial system being favored towards groups since day 1, sure, but you specified this week and this week's trials. It was literally the same shit last week and the week before.

>see a guy KoS in Stella
>he downs the other guy
>chase the killer and down him with my freeshit Kettle
Feelsgoodman

>>546615423
You can do a max of eight downloads which is 6,400. I dare you to get more than 5,000 or 6,000 on the carriables one solo when multiple people in the match are doing it. You would have to get ridiculously good RNG at two different field depots to have three field crates spawn.

>>546617794
Just like how you could get only 3 supply drops per game, both are shit. The downloads one is a freebie while all the biggest points come from killing things, which is a good thing.

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Eyyy! I dunno what that is, but I've heard /arg/ talking about it.

>>546617910
Supply drops wasn't as bad because you didn't even need to be the one to call it or loot anything. You just needed to interact with it and it gave way more than just 1,000 points. Also, having the challenges reward people who are able to skillfully kill more ARC would be great, but without any of the points between squads and solos being weighted I fail to see how it's even possible for someone to compete solo, which is my entire point.

I think I've finally figured this game out.
There's a ton of loot in the "Crafting Materials" category, and I didn't know what to loot, what to keep, what to sell and what to recycle. It took me some time, but I've finally noticed that some of those items say "used for crafting" and lists the items it can be used for. And some don't. And I'm assuming all of the latter can be safely recycled, unless needed for a quest or an upgrade.

>>546618164
>Also, having the challenges reward people who are able to skillfully kill more ARC would be great, but without any of the points between squads and solos being weighted I fail to see how it's even possible for someone to compete solo, which is my entire point.
You literally did need to loot them. They also had 3 spawns per map. You also do not need to loot the carriables, you just need to insert it. They could make a solo "ladder" but nothing would change, you seem to not grasp the idea that the people who grind will always be ahead, which is literally the case with every game. Bell curve type ranking system is always going to favor people who spend the most time grinding.

>>546618851
This is jewish level obfuscation. You did not need to physically loot items, meaning as long as you and another solo teamed up, or you found the drop, you just had to interact with the pod. The carriable one was fucking worse because every single match you were fighting at least one other person also trying to do the trial at water towers in Dam Battlegrounds. I'm convinced your entire experience of this game is through watching streams

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>>546619402
What obfuscation? You click on the box as in you loot it, it's literally the same shit.
>The carriable one was fucking worse because every single match you were fighting at least one other person also trying to do the trial at water towers in Dam Battlegrounds.
Then don't do it on the map every retard is doing it on.
>I'm convinced your entire experience of this game is through watching streams
What's your next cope going to be? The system is inherently anti-casual and will always be, curious how you still seem to not understand it.

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>play solo
>my gear is stable
>play duo and trio
>i almost have no gear and freekitting in those queues is suicide
friends keep me poor

>if I give other players benefit of the doubt, I basically leave myself and the mercy of PK niggers
>but I attack first, I become a PK nigger myself
What a dilemma...

are there even probes or arc carriers on the new map?

>>546619662
I don't know how you seem to not understand that walking up to a drop pod that has already been called in by someone else to earn 1,600 points is in any way comparable to finding an unmarked field crate on the map and then taking it to a similarly unmarked field depot while encumbered for 1,000 points and then repeating it four to five times. Which map exactly should I have been doing it on? Blue Gate doesn't even have any field crates on it. Buried City has a grand total of 11 possible spawns, and you're lucky to maybe get 3 at any of the locations around a field depot. Then you better have good luck getting through the city or extracting alive. The only comparable one was Spaceport, which people were also rushing to Jiangsu Warehouse and Maintenance Hangar on. Also:
>has the same or less points than me on download data and deliver carriables, the two challenges you assured me I was dead wrong about effectively being capped out at 4,000 points

hows night raids on NA?
KOScentral or nah?

>>546622929
I didn't bother doing more than 4k on those because you only need 4k for all the rewards, what are you even talking about you colossal retard? You most definitely can get more than that. So no, they are not capped at 4k points. Why the fuck would I waste time playing a retarded fedex delivery man when I can shoot at things and have actually fun in a shooter game?

I'm done replying, keep coping about not understanding how a ranked system in a video game works in 2025. I'm sure it will change if you cry about it enough on 4chan of all things.

>>546623279
total carebear central. night maps means more arc and since its darker if you see someone it's most likely inside where you can speak with them. all of that pushes people to be more friendly.

>>546623717
based

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uuuh bros?
whats the aphelion?

>>546624469
>he doesn't know about aphelion

>>546623279
Sometimes it's friendly around the extraction points. But I've been on night raids where it was July 4th with all the raider flairs popping in the sky.

Losing on stella montis feels bad cause youre guaranteed to get thirded but god does winning feel amazing

/v/ros is tarkov eating our lunch...?

How do you deal with people just crouchwalking in a compound with a shotgun? A lot of times you can't enter without making noise, and there's some angles you simply can't clear without putting yourself in a position where you can't fall back.

The general is so slow today, it reminds me of day 1 when people didn't know about this game.

>>546629576
the other general is more active.
theres one without /arg/ in the OP.
we will recycle this here thread after that one dies