i started going into raids dressed as a scav using only the MP-153 with piranha ammo and no armor at all and somehow i'm getting kills far more easily than when i bring in decent gear with armor...

>hit enemy 16 times with 9x21mm
>he coinflip pens me in the head with his first round, no ricochet
Not the luckiest guy, me

>>568863390
Happens to the worst of us (me).

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Fighting the goons in the open is such a fucking pain in the ass. They spawned near the scav bunker on Woods, just heard "AMBUSH!", couldn't see any of them and then started getting shot through foliage to my right arm until I died. At that moment only had visual cover, but even though I tried to go behind trees, they just kept hitting me.

Even tried to throw some nades to throw them off, but it simply did not give me enough time to pinpoint their location or seek cover.

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>>568864869
And the next raid I got head, eyed through the foliage by this creature. Took a look at him and seemed like he was speed hacking, then promptly got insta shot in the face through all the visual clutter. Glad I took my best gear into that raid. Haven't faced a hacker this blatant in quite some time.

And I'm 100% sure that I won't even get a confirmation of his ban, when I report his ass. Just like what happened with the last obvious hacker that I report and who is STILL active.

so whats the event? just sanitar spawning at pier?
icebreaker has been a bit of a letdown. basically just 1 long hallway with a bunch of unused rooms and routes, invisible walls preventing vaulting, empty shelves and boxes blocking routes to cost you an extra minute or two each during an already short raid. BD just sit in their assigned zones and refuse to push the player or do anything interesting anywhere but the engine room, and that room sucks for different reasons. hope when the """event"""" ends they open up the map a bit

>>568863390
I fucking hate what they did to 9x21mm, it's such a cool caliber and the guns are great too. It needs to be buffed back. And they need to add a threaded barrel on the shrimp. Fuck I hate when people remind me of the state of 9x21, it makes me so MAD

>>568867056
I just want to be able to GET to icebreaker, fucking sweats are camping the hell out of it

>>568865505
He doesn't have a lot of playtime, he'll probably get banned soon enough.
My issue is the blatant esps with 1k+ hrs. I always feel like I'm screaming into the void when reporting them.

>>568868096
I'm amazed that this fuckwit actually bought the fucking most expensive version of the game only to in hacks blazing. What the fuck is wrong with these people?

But yeah, espers will be the scourge on this game until the end of time. Super hard to counter and if you aren't some 69 iq monkey nigger, you'll understand how to mask your cheats too.

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Well well well, look who came crawling back.

>need to get into the rusted bloody key room for a early-mid wipe task
why is this even a thing, cant even buy it on flea unlike like that other shit fucking quest that requires you to go to dorms marked room

>>568870425
I got it off a daily just after prestiging, but got insta head, eyed, when I tried to go there. Lmao.

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>>568871221

>>568870425
Which task? The Door isn't kappa required or anything.

>>568872634
i'm not going for kappa or anything im just seething about the task design

Is it worth coming back to the game just for the new event?
Is there any real point to it, or are there some cool rewards?
From what I understand, the main feature of the new map is easy farming of top-tier ammo and that's it - is that correct?

>>568874581
I don't know where you get your information from but maybe you should just see for yourself

>>568847720
>have to suffer through gay quests for the privilege of unlocking iceberg
>have to suffer through shoreline to get there
>have to fight sanitar and/or the retards camping pier
>have to pay 400k and flip a coin on whether or not you'll be some faggot's shooter born victim
>have to rinse and repeat the last 3 steps multiple times through the trials and errors of icebreaker
>have to make it basically all the way to the boss hallway just to be met with more tedium bullshit quests you must complete, just for the fucking luxury of being able to select the map via the menu

>>568874581
it's top tier everything and the map is great but everyone and their mother is trying to hit the same transit you need to get there. it's fucking aids and kind of a slog to just unlock it. the upside is it's a lot easier to quest now.

So just getting to the Locked door is enough to get the Map unlock?

I suck at this game and it makes me sad, I don't even get to play, the only hope I have is brute forcing quests by spawning in and partially completing what I can before dying, quests take me like 5+ tries to complete

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God, i fucking hate this fuckers so much.
He is so wrong on so many levels FFS
Nobody gives a fuck about pve in this game, it's a pvp game to the bone and pve is just a decoration for a proper pvp fight
Jesus...

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Don't go to the Icebreaker if you're a BDfag....

Idk if but there's not a lot of things that get my heart beating so fast like sitting in this fucking dock wiggling around in smoke, not even some firefights get me this fucking anxious

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I keep running out of time, i cant clear out the areas after the chain door
the area under the helipad takes up to 10mins for me to clear out

>>568888473
Why are you using RGDs over M18s?

>>568888575
OUT OF STOCK FOR THIS RESET
and i just realized jager also has m18s

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I did not bring enough ammo

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We'll run it back with the much acquired knowledge, Still need to get to the chained door, wherever that is from here

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It's kind of a fucking mess but it was cool, I thought these BD guys were actually going to be scarier, but apparently they've been nerfed?

>>568891120
They got nerfed the other day, yea.

>>568890968
door is on the left side from the perspective of this pic, just up some stairs

>>568891243
So I actually just bricked myself and I could've just went to it and unlocked the map?, I kept hearing BD below the helipad so I was kinda scared

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RUSTED BLOODY KEY WEEKLY?????

>>568891290
there might be like 2 more BD below the heli pad that you have to fight but yeah you were close to the door

>>568892191
I see, I kinda don't want to look up videos of people playing it, but I might have to I did get quite lost at the start and was just looking around a lot

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The drip isreal minus the 100 rounder but we really got to whip out the wacky things for this icebreaker thing

>>568892727
I run the beta drum mag when I want to run 100 rounders. The long one just looks stupid

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>need 3 more kills for punisher 6
>hear shooting at fort so hop into crack to take a peek and see if i can bop someone
>hear multiple sprinting footsteps coming to crack
>webm related
>took me a second to realize that i didn't complete the task
>the second guy in line killed his buddy in the front because he strafed to his right directly into his line of fire
>shot a timmy in the head 3 minutes later from crackhouse window on ruaf side
Definitely a hilarious raid to finish punisher 6 on

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Ive only made it out of icebreaker TWICE out of my 4 runs today
First i managed to kill the boss but i ran out of time to extract ( 60 secs timer in PvE lol)
Second i got out with boss gear
third knight 180 one tapped me (why are the rogues more cracked than bd?)
fourth i spent 15 mins at the helipad trying to do the skip jump but gave up after timer went red
Cba im getting tilted

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>>568897696
>also fucking FINALLY finish SBiH tonight
I find it so fitting that my final shooter born kill is this timmy on his first real raid after coming back to the game after who knows how long. He took a single step outside of BSG and I blew his shit smoove off. I can't even feel bad with how fucking miserable bolt action tasks are.

>>568897879
Seems a bit stupid to have this bigass ship with the hardest pve encounters in the game on a 40 minute raid timer. Definitely one of those times where players are being cucked by server costs. There's absolutely zero fucking chance that anyone is extracting on their first raid.

>>568898861
They need to cut down the amount of rogues in the first section in half

>>568886924
Other way around. PVP adds next to nothing to Tarkov. Players only serve to impede task progress for other players. There isn't even an in-game explanation for why ex-USEC and ex-BEAR PMCs working to uncover Terragroup's misdeeds should be fighting each other in the first place.

>>568876378
I've noticed a far lower concentration of sweats the past couple days since they're all doing icebreaker. It's amazing how much better this game is when bitchless jobless faggots aren't shitting it up.

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>>568899528
>PVP adds next to nothing to Tarkov. Players only serve to impede task progress for other players.
Entirely incorrect. PvP is a core aspect of why tarkov is as good as it is. The Pve aspects of Tarkov are it's weakest points. The tasks are there to facilitate PvP, at least to some extent. Short of something like icebreaker PvE offers almost no challenge whatsoever. The game is at its best when you're getting a mixed bag of players to shake up the raid.

>>568899954
If PVP is the core of Tarkov, why did Arena fail miserably?

>>568901112
Because bsg can't balance the game worth a fuck and they had the wrong idea from its inception, you fucking retard. Arena is not anywhere close to the same game as Tarkov. Trying to use arena as an argument against pvp in the base game is unfathomably fucking stupid.

I don't understand how the streamerfags are at the point of farming the map right now when even the first wave rogue zerg rush is kicking my teeth in half the time

>>568902046
same
im spending up to 10mins due to the amount of rogues at start

>>568901680
Or maybe because PVP is actually shit in Tarkov, and Arena only further highlights core issues such as desync and insane peekers advantage. Gunplay in Tarkov is carried solely by the visual side of things, pretty weapon models and their audio design, the netcode is awful and we've had to put up with a terrible recoil system for the majority of this games life.

>>568897696
flashlights are so powerful in this game haha

>>568901680
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you!

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>>568901112
Arena is just not worth 40 bucks, there's like five maps and the most uninspired game modes possible, it's like it's made by another team in Lahore and they were forbidden to use all the existing stuff from EFT to make the blandest corporate game imaginable.
if it was 20 or had twice as much content it'd be fine but there's no reason to buy it unless you just want the perks in Tarkov, on it's own it's kind of shit.

>>568912473
>Arena is just not worth 40 bucks
Okay but most players got Arena as part of EOD/Unheard.

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I cant get past the helipad anymore, i give up
ill just clear till heli and leave

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>>568912545
>Unheard
Sure but those guys are what, 10% of the playerbase, and while they're the exact sort of unemployed sweats you need to keep a game running, they're all just doing one or two games a day and going right back to Tarkov with the million roubles and GP coin it got them instead of staying around for a bit, because in the end they're EFT sweats, not Arena sweats.

Now maybe the plan was for Arena to forever be that secondary game you farm for GP coins and it's all a clever plot to stop me from buying shit from the chinese but if it isn't they should really think about what they're offering.

>>568869943
Shart Raiders losted bigly

>>568914628
>but those guys are what, 10% of the playerbase
lol
lmao even
dare I say rofl

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>the player in my match named just "Skeleton" is not wearing the skeleton longsleeve shirt and a skull mask
This is unacceptable

>>568881735
If it makes you feel any better, I felt the same way in the past and still kept on improving. It's a rocky road, especially nowadays, when all the shitters have permanently evacuated to PvE and PvP is over saturated with sweats.

>>568886924
He has a point. I like it that there's actual PvE content too, but the problem is the AI in this game. As of now, Icebreaker's loot is way overtuned, while streamers are already doing joke runs there with shit like pistols. You get insane xp per run and the loot in bonkers, and we have gone from streamers getting insta head, eyed to streamers just farming the place. In terms of money, it's the best place to farm when compared to places like Labs or hotspots on other maps (like the Resorts etc.).

>>568891524
Got one too, but then realized that I can't put the fucking key in a secure container. Took the key with me to a raid, got the worst possible spawn and got head, eyed like 30 seconds into the raid.

>>568899535
This. Doing tasks on Shoreline has been a breeze, since I've only run into other low level players and even newbies. Though, had to visit the pier once and got molested by a trio all wearing sofas, mashka/altyns/ryst and the most sloppiest of metaslop guns in the game.

>>568898536
Psycho sniper is the sole reason why I kinda stopped tasking after getting my traders to LL4 and unlocking all the worthwhile shit for them. SBIH is bearable, but pyscho sniper is either a ridiculous pain in the ass or a complete slog that requires you to camp the ever loving shit out of woods.

I just don't understand it how some people were willing to go through psycho sniper over and over again prior to the prestige system getting reworked. It's fucking insane.

>>568914628
I feel like fucking 90% of the people I kill or get killed by in PvP have a blue or a yellow name. All other editions of the game are like this paid demos and if you truly want to play this god-forsaken game, you'll have to drop the ~200 € on it.

>>568922138
>I just don't understand it how some people were willing to go through psycho sniper over and over again prior to the prestige system getting reworked
Because the thing about SBIH and Psycho Sniper is, no matter how many hours you have, no matter how many times you've done it, getting a kill for either of them is ALWAYS satisfying.

>try to sell large batch of an item
>price immediately tanks to half the value despite being stable for days
i fucking hate this rerun

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i think i've seen 1 skull ring in 300 hours and i just got the second through a ragman quest...

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>spawn in
>goons are shooting us immediately, oh shit
>kill big pipe
>MGL
>ohfug.gif
>get down to pier
>hear trio
>muahahaha
>bomb deck
>check 20 seconds later
>dead body with one in water
lol

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I'm so fucking hard right now

>>568927372
Cag maxing

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>>568927372
Kino.
>tfw still no Multicam FAST MT

can you still bypass the streets factory marked room key by jumping out the floor above and vaulting in?

>>568927969
Of course not, the game is out of beta, all the bugs have been fixed.

>>568927969
That hasn't been a thing for years.

>>568922459
SBIH, yeah. For me, the worst thing about psycho sniper, is the sheer frustration of dying at like 3 or 4 kills. It takes a lot of time to even get to those kills and then getting offed due to sheer bad luck is something else. Then you get it done, complete Collector, prestige and know that soon you'll need to get through it again. If your luck is bad enough, it could take you 100 tries.

So, do items retain their FIR status, when I use prestige transfer? Last time transferred bitcoins, but didn't check whether they were fir or not before selling them all for dosh.

Did they nerf the ultra medical's loot after they fixed the door? Have gone through the trouble of flipping the power on and then making my way there only to find fuck all inside. Have done like 20 runs after the fix and haven't found a single ledx, when prior to the fix I kept finding ledexes constantly there.

>>568930934
Yeah, FIR stays.

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What if instead of running to the pier potentially a dozen times to unlock direct map access to Icebreaker, you just get it automatically after your first visit? Because I'm not interested in playing it otherwise.

>Have a great day, feeling good
>Boot up EFT, time to do some comfy Woods tasks
>5 raids in, not one of them lasted for more than 2 minutes
Well, I'm not feeling so good anymore. Now I'm just fuming.

>>568932934
Your mistake was not going AFK in a bush and not doing anything for 15 minutes in your first raid, you see

>>568931981
Yeah at the very least the ability to unlock the BTR's direct access quest should be easier. Like make it to the engine room or something.

>>568933116
Well, next raid I found a hiding spot:
>finally get the three unmedicated scav kills
>no vexfil
>make my way through the whole map
>scan around the flare extract, nobody in sight
>pop the flare
>get immediately killed after popping the flare
I'm so ready to put my fist through my monitor at this point.

>>568934413
I had like 20 big backpacks yesterday, then went on a such a fucking magnificent dying spree that I've quite literally ran out of backpacks and my low level ass can't even buy anything bigger than scavbp.

Holy fuck I hate this game so much.

>>568933474
just extracting from the location should be enough

>want to do icebreaker
>sanitar spawns in my way every time
guess I'm looting...

>clearly hear only one set of footsteps sprinting to me
>peek and there's 2 of them
hahah great stuff, fucking great audio

>>568935870
>he doesn't sync up with his homie's footsteps
are you even an operator?

>get my final FIR LEDX from a twitch drop
>find one in a random medcase a few raids later
Of course man...

>>568935331
woah bro this is super exclusive new content we're talking about here.. you need to jump through hundreds of hoops and die to stankrat viewers just for the fleeting chance to play a new map.

FINALLY made it into icebreaker for the 2nd time. Time to die to some horseshit in the engine room! Brought a few impacts this time at least

>>568940263
You WILL get insta head, eyed by the AI and you WILL die to transit campers on your next try, anon.

>>568940506
>get into the first fucking room
>killing some rogues
>knight was apparently hiding in some closet that I walked past and just decided to stay completely silent
>walks out and shoots me in the back of the head
kek welp that lasted about 3 minutes

>>568940680
I-I was o-only joking here, anon.
>inb4 anon gets stankratted next

so satisfying killing some geared death shadow faggot while using a cheap shotgun, not even wearing any armor or vest/backpack, must be so aggravating seeing that on death screen

>>568931981
You can't even put Boreas keycards in your secure container. Ho-lee fuck.

>endless whining and crying
Tiresome and boring, really.

>>568942552
I've been playing Streets for 150 hours, and I'm still finding new interiors. What an impressive map!

>>568942552
the game is literally designed to be frustrating in multiple ways (largely because the devs are trolls) so it's not exactly out of place

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Unlocked some neat Arena achievements lately.

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everyone just fucking uses elite strength to jump past everything after the helipad so i have no clue how to clear the faggots after there to get to the chained door

Would be really cool if there was a profile setting to what range you want to default all your sights to. Defaulting to 100m instead of 50m would be a near QoL thing.

>>568942552
Complaints about unnecessary tedium and hardships that the designers of the game are never going to subject themselves to are valid

The things you find on the "civilian body" containers are pretty funny when you think about it. This guy was brutally murdered in the shoreline village, and for some reason had toothpaste and a DVD player in his pockets kek. Image if in any other scenario a detective found that at a crime scene. Would be completely baffling.

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>first time i've had 6 fence rep
Next 100% boss event I'm goin nuts

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what's the purpose of the single sleeve? this is apparently based on the "Arc'teryx Sphinx Halfshell Combat Shirt.", and there are photos of that worn with a single sleeve as well (though they might just be for promotional purposes)

>there is no craft to spend 6 hours in the lavatory to combine 2 vibin sneakers to make a more space-efficient pair of sneakers

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what

We're transiting to icebreaker again! Waiting until ~15 minutes left in raid seems to work well. This time, 3 bodies were looted on the pier boardwalk near the transit kek

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Not the spawn kill I was expecting, but I'm not complaining.

>>568946903
There had to have been a better place for them to place the transit than "butt fuck nowhere in front of half the map"

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Put applique armor on the Caiman and you end up with a helmet that has 5 times higher ergo penalties than the ULACH, and no ear protection, at the same price. Something is amiss!

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Is the TKPD actually worth it?

>>568947135
I died in the control room this time...the fucking rogues pinched me. And holy fuck grenades are so hard to toss in there, the geometry is so fucked they're bouncing right back at me

>>568948053
What else are you going to do with 2 Red Rebels? Sell them for 2m roubles? Who cares, 2 million is chump change.

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>>568948827
Yea, it's not like I actually need the money. I've never seen anyone using this thing so I assume it's complete fucking dogshit.

>>568948956
Okay, I see why. Huge recoil for not a huge amount of benefit vs .308 and you can't suppress it.

>>568949474
>vs .308
If you go by that, there's hardly a reason to use anything other than .308slop in this game.

>>568948053
i used it in arena. the FMJ ammo doesn't one-tap thorax reliably. if you hit arms or if they have class 5 it just becomes a worse SVD

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>>568949751
Eh, I wouldn't say that. While .308 isn't as dominant as it was during .15 and .16 there's plenty reason to use other calibers. They actually gave the .308 rifles recoil again, it's just that 7N33 is FiR only and I can craft as much M80A1 as I want. The extra flesh damage with the 1 tap potential isn't super worth it. I can even buy nearly 3 times as much M80 as I can 9.3 FMJ. It's a really cool rifle but way too niche. Even with the 1 shot potential I'd rather use an ash-12 which has surprisingly controllable recoil, 20 round mags, and full auto while still being able to 1 tap dudes to the thorax.

>>568945304
Does BD gear show up on max Fence? For some reason some Terminal stuff used to show up (not sure if it still does, but it did snipe a helmet with PVS-31As on it twice), I wonder if you can get stuff from the Icebreaker.

>>568945304
lexos is pretty funny with 6 karma, people don't expect you to be hanging around when they're going in following the flowchart to kill the guards
https://streamable.com/tbytng
how that guy survived a vog from that close I have no clue

>>568950594
I haven't seen any so far, but I've only looked a couple times.

>>568948053
It's a shit meme and only worth running with the 7n33 unobtainium rounds which one tap cl5. It does generate profit bartering for it and selling the shit off of it and then the gun to ref, though.

better to look for tank batteries on lighthouse or reserve? i'd assume it to be reserve but i feel like loot on lighthouse is much better than reserve

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>sitting by outskirts with an AXMC
>hear loud SKS by scav house
>move over to rat outskirts
>hear a guy fall to prone
>blast him with my vector filled with pbp
>level 5 with FiR scav gear
I can't believe I did this

>>568955352
Don't look for them anywhere. Get the old house toilet key by putting a tank battery into cultist circle and then going to woods and putting it in the btr fir from the train depot. Woods is also an actually pretty good option with the big tech crates in medcamp. I've gotten 3 in one raid.

>>568956758
battery is flea locked to 40 iirc so i can't do that yet (lvl 37 atm)

>>568957097
You can also do a few quest for the btr to get the key as a reward. Most of his quests give a fuckton of xp.

>>568957428
oh shit thanks,i've already done his tasks up to finishing hot wheels so i should get that one next time i speak to him

>>568950725
>tan ulach
I hope he learned his lesson.

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>tfw your gun jams mid-fire

>>568950725
VEKTOR jacket and Tan ULACH? This eyesore will get no sympathy from me!

>doing Discombobulate so I can get to Icebreaker
>BTR Driver no longer has an option to ride to Junction
huh

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>>568886924
He's just coping, in reality nobody gives a fuck about Icebreaker, the game would be much more popular right now if we got an actual pvp map and everyone knows it.

>>568976264
He has multiple routes and spawnpoints so sometimes he doesn't have a certain stop as an option some raids.

>>568976547
>unironically posting steam charts

>>568977236
>getting butthurt because Icebreaker was a flop
Sad!

Why is doing tasks on interchange so much more stressful than any other map
that map makes me so paranoid

>>568976547
>posting a steam chart of a game that has been out for 10 years outside of steam and has an absurdly high pay-gate for existing players to migrate to steam
come on

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Can cultists spawn part way into a raid, or do they ONLY spawn at the start? Because I swear I've done like 30 fucking runs of customs and have yet to see one while checking all the spots I know to around the fort.

>>568982029
They can spawn partway in, I try to record when it happens on the occasion I see it happen. I've definitely gotten 2 spawns at around 15-20 mins left in a customs raid at fortress. I think I've even seen 10 mins left once.

What the fuck I do to not get head eyed, I fucking hate this dogshit game

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>>568982219
Thanks Anon. I've just been
>Run to fortress
>Check a few spots
>Fuck off
And repeat all as fast as humanly possible, I think I might try hiding in the fort itself for part of the raid to see if that helps.

Icebreaker raid time needs to be at least 20 minutes longer.

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>>568923523
lol, a few hours after i hand a bronze lion in for living high is not a crime, now i need one of those ffs

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where are we finding oscopes bros? I'm on my 7th interchange run (I've found 3 LEDx so far but no oscope....)

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this a scav or a rogue? why is it on the LMG lol

>>568986536
it was a rogue, never seen a rogue wear clothes like that desu

has anyone done a transit chain icebreaker run? even just to the helipad? you get a ton of experience just from a normal clear so it'd be cool to see how it would stack up

>>568987893
there's probably some freak trying it right now and he's going to post a 150 kill 2.5 mil xp run

>>568857769
it's sad what they've done to tarkov. used to be a white mans game. now it's for disgusting non's like you guys

>doing Price of Independence
>Letter spawn on Customs is bugged
>run into cultists and some people in the building regardless
>get 2 marked keys and the last power filter I need from the building regardless
well, couldn't do the quest but that's not bad. Kinda wild that when they fucked with that room this patch, they didn't, you know, make sure the capstone quest required for their big update questline didn't have a bugged spawn.

>>568990959
Pretty sure it's not bugged, just on a shelf that you need to climb on the desk to grab.

>>568986536
>>568986974
I think they changed the AI behavior. I used to never see scavs using the LMGs but now whenever I fight a scav near the interchange power station they almost always beeline it to the roof to try and use the thing.
Though that might be a PVE thing.

>>568991028
It was the same a couple years ago. It was hilarious spawning in Customs and hearing the HMG near the Background Check truck start firing less than a minute in at some retard crossing the bridge without shooting the scav up there first.

>finally get to the chained door
>black division niggers spawn right below the staircase next to it but this never happens on any footage you see because they all do the jump exploit
>they sit idle, no voiceline and ambush me after i trigger the quest progression
>kill all but one as my mag runs dry and the faggot plants one (1) last bullet in my shoulder as i round a corner to finish my reload
fuck off i've had enough with the goddamn shoreline runs. Thank GOD the quest progress doesn't require you to live afterwards.

>>568991012
it's in the power box and it isn't reachable, they moved how the doors are aligned so the letter is on the left side behind a non-interactable panel door. You can't open it, you can't go from the backside. The next time I ran it it spawned in a different location and wasn't an issue.

how do unique sacrifices work exactly? do they only work once and then never again, or does it reset after a certain amount of time? only asking here because i cant find any info about that

>>568993740
i found this on the cultist circle calculator page
>Note: Some recipes may only work once per profile or have specific conditions.
so i guess the one i tried was once per profile

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>>568993740
Yea all the uniques one work once per profile or wipe I think

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thought he was missing me on purpose and baiting me into shooting him first as a scav, but with a KD and SR like that I guess he's just dogshit

>have basically only ran into timmies and normal players
I guess the solution all along was an end game mmo raid like map to attract all the sweats.

>>568995248
Where they can't fight others since it's PVE, and they also cheesed pretty much 99% of the encounters in that raid

>>568995592
Yea, it's funny seeing all of them cheese the AI. Granted, that's partially because BSG can't design AI that are challenging in an organic way.

>>568995793
I don't think we'll ever have like Normal Ai like idk the Division or any cod game from the last 20 years, it seems impossible for them to hide behind cover and etc with proper animations, maybe bsg is a small studio and doesnt have the money

>>568996104
They've experimented with improving the AI in the past, but for whatever reason the game can't handle AI running more advanced behavior without the game shitting itself. It's like how you can sometimes tell when a boss is on a map because your FPS is lower.

>>568995793
I don't think there's anything that BSG could do to stop jobless autists from optimizing ways to avoid engaging with the game

>>568996104
division only works because AI enemies take forever to kill, so they can show off their cool cover and repositioning
cod, on anything below veteran, it's pretty much impossible to die, so you can tank shots and see the enemies run around

have you guys seen the way people play this game? no AI stands a chance without cheating

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man

How much can i sell an EOD account for? I'm not going to play Tarkov again if all they are going to do is release pve slop

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The LARP never ends, I must enforce the SAW role until they decide to add a Minimi

>>568999269
>waaaaaahhhh

>>568999379
Didn't they tease the model recently?

>>569001502
They've also teased the Glock roni kit at least 2 years ago and there still nothing in game, so idk, they just tease for the hell of it cause they only add retarded shit and whatever obscure wacky gun nikita spun at a wheel at their offices

>>568999269
If PVP is so hecking good why aren't you maining Arena??

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.... didn't kill him bros....
atleast his armor is ruined right? haha....

Whoever decided to make the transit be in the most easily campable spot in the game that is also an essential quest location for timmies should be made to roll around on hot coals while naked
What an incredibly retarded decision

Why is the M4/416 still gimped with the fucking zoom cycle animation that tips the gun, when literally no other gun does it

>>569008279
on the other hand, it must make doing quests at resort much easier if less people are going there

>>569008279
I'd say most players are already going into icebreaker from menu. just run night raids and wait for the last 10 minutes.

>>569008295
Not sure about the 416, but the M4 actually didn't have it, at least not as bad as it is right now before they updated the animations on the M4.

Friend just made a paint drawing about the smoke trick, I shall do that tomorrow

>>568982219
Wiki says they also dynamically despawn with the sunrise

>>569009008
Post it

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>it's another twitter post of a D-tier streamer begging for Arena movement in the base game
Can these stupid niggers fuck off already?

i wish you could mute the hideout noises separately, the intelligence center is so loud (im assuming its the intelligence enter that beeps as well as having radio chatter)

what they fuck they actually optimized the game
even streets is now playable on my mid-tier PC, i didn't think this would ever happen

Anyone found any good camping spots to rat chads tryna transit to icebreaker?

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why is this a thing
i didn't know this could even happen to the VAL
died cause of it btw

>>569020378
Someone removed your rear sight...?

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i heckin love funko pupperinos in eft
hope they add custom paint for weapons soon so you can have people running around with pink weapons
aswell as an unlockable micky mouse costume with face tattoos for prestige 10
heck yeah awesomerino

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>>569013039
is movement that different in Arena or is it just that the base game has you carry a lot more weight and use less optimal gear. I can't be bothered to check but I'm sure the cold war stuff I wear in EFT because I'm a broke bitch comes with something like 15% penalties in movement speed and ergo even before I stuff my rig full of pineapple juice while the top tear operator larp Arena gives me has 3%.

And also I'm constantly on meth instead of half the time.

>>569031519
Pretty sure arena has nearly zero inertia
Hence why the gameplay is full of niggers strafing and lean spamming with zero malus(dogshit)

>>569032616
they completely removed it around 8 months ago
streamers want to use zabralo, altyn, and a loaded sofa backpack while keeping complete mobility
like, they already have max str and endurance, equipped weapons weigh nothing, are cracked on stims 100% of the time and drop the backpack before every encounter
at some point you gotta say "this looks kinda stupid"

>>568994979
what's with the cultist outfit??? what happens if he puts armor or helmet on

>run into geared player as scav with double barrel
>take two optimistic shots
>can't hear him move, not sure if he's hiding or ran away
>run up and find him in some bushes
holy shit haha, genuinely one of the most satisfying things in gaming

>>569034870
it's the unhinged outfit, it goes under your gear and hides the hood if you equip something

>>569035368
cool

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Saw this video and decided to try it out myself, actually WILD how you can spiderman up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVKiSA3rdI4&t
BUT you have to trigger the cutscene in order to call in the chopper lol

>>569036060
seems realistic... Nikita is gonna be mad we aren't blocked by a neck high box..

>>569036060
Honestly fucking embarrassing how modern gamers feel the need to skip content in every game they play and optimize the fun out of everything. Just play the game you fucking faggots.

>>569042161
No anon, you're the embarassing idiot wanting to police how others play pve content. You can make your own fun however you want.

>>569043724
>erm ackshaully it's fun to exploit and skip half the level
You're a retard and your idea of fun is fucking stupid.

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>>569043724
Not him, but
>I'm having fun by playing as little of the game as possible

>>569043906
>>569043997
It is fun sometimes to limit break things, yes. You're being autistic and thinking everything is black and white: because you saw 1 guy do it 1 time you think they and everyone that does it, will do it every single time.

>>I'm having fun by playing as little of the game as possible
If you don't enjoy a game, not playing it all is funner, so yes, that is a valid pov.

>>569044117
>If you don't enjoy a game, not playing it all is funner, so yes, that is a valid pov.
No it's not, you retarded ape, if you don't enjoy a game then the only valid move is to simply not play it to begin with, anything else is genuine mental illness.

>>569044117
Nigger I've been watching people cheese icebreaker as much as possible for a week, get over yourself you fucking sperg. If you don't enjoy a game you don't fucking play it.

>>569044341
>if you don't enjoy a game then the only valid move is to simply not play it to begin with
Again with the black and white perspective. You can enjoy a part of the game while not enjoying other parts.

>>569044406
Like I said,
1) limit breaking can be fun.
2) YOU make your own fun, yes, even in tarkov.
3) There's some content that's just not fun, and if it's pve I don't give a shit what people do with thier own time.
4) the proper way to play the map is to cheese the AI with see through smokes, or cheese them in other ways.

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I actually got tilted by the Rogue ai and the cancer that is the under side of the helipad, so ill forgive myself for spidermanning up to c-1 to get the story task items from there

>>569044875
>the proper way
>is to cheese

>>569044916
But have the 2 anonymous in this thread forgiven you...?

>>569045012
May as well be, given how poorly designed the wedge fight was

I don't forgive you, anon.

>reconnecting into a raid takes longer than searching for a raid + loading into said raid
Make it make sense.

>>569051882
nikita needs to make sure people have time to kill you

>queue streets
>spawn at the interchange transit 4 times in a row
Remove this nigger faggot spawn from the game already

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>icebreaker raid timer increased to 50 mins

>>569059192
Should've increased it to an hour.

>>569060382
If streamers can manage to finish the map in under 6 minutes, why can't you?

>don't make any noise
>STOMP STOMP STOMP
>prefired
>check profile
>some kind of gun required for a pvp quest
Every time.

>>569060474
Because I'm not a fag who skips the entire level

>find 13 items from the drinks category and extract with items
>4 transits and i only found 10
fence tasks are so shit

>>569064981
>playing scav

>>569065079
scavving is fun

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I made it outta Streets with 50 seconds to spare and 5 rounds in my last mag. Completed Big Game Hunting and Your Car Needs a Service, killing all of Kaban's guards. Kaban did not spawn with his PKP tho

>>569066014
I haven't seen that thing in months. Last time I saw it while on a scav I fucking died.

>>569066014
>>569066591
I fucking LOVE quests that rely on pure RNG to complete.

>>569066664
I dislike them when they're essential, but gunsmith is supplementary anyway. That being said, rhe pkp should be a far higher spawn chance than it is. It's nice picking up 150 rounds of m61 when he spawns with the m60 though

>>569042161
If only there wasn't a gay time limit you wouldn't have to play like some minmaxing faggot.

>>569066858
Actually anon, his 100rnd boxes were full of BCP FMJ in my raid

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Ghillie suits when?

saw my first gameplay of this today
>lure the ai bot and shoot
>repeat 3-4 times
>item management
>unstock their ammo tediously
>run around empty rooms
>more tedious item management
>repeat several times then wait for a helicopter
????????????? how is this fun

>>569070968
It's more fun than labs and labyrinth I can tell you that much.

>>569067134
Skill issue mayhaps

i forgot about tarkov until just now. what is new an exciting? since 1.0 i guess

killed a bytch with the blaster
both times i've tried to do shooter 3 since 1.0 i've killed someone from farther than 25m in factory
probably should just put a sight instead of a scope and run around

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>>569076275

>>568857769
hello am newfag, what are alternatives to mule stims for hauling loot that i should be grabbing?

>>569078207
Obdoldos 2 and 2abtg.

>>569078207
sj1s and l1s increase your strength, the latter doesn't last long and kills your hydration/hunger though
unless you find a tank battery or something it's pretty rare to have to pop one anyway so don't worry about it i guess

>>569078207
>mule
Enjoy getting killed quicker

>>569079032
>>569079056
aight thx lads
>>569079283
can't i just pop a prop to counter the health drain and be fine? i already got like 10 of these things anyways so doesn't seem like much of a waste

>>569080905
>can't i just pop a prop to counter the health drain and be fine?
Yes. As >>569079056 if you're new and poor SJ1 and L1 is how you get strength boosts.

got the 10 survives in a row achievement without realizing, i guess with everyone focusing on icebreaker the game is more playable when doing other shit

>>569076496
WHAT THE FUCK IS THAAAAAAAAT
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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I don't understand how ammo pen works sometimes, a pscav almost oneshotted me through the thorax with his sv98
he was facing me directly and my torso was 11hp after I got shot, did he shoot me from the side somehow?

Neck shots count as thorax.

>>569094398
He probably shot your neck
Which is rarely armored and part of the torso

>>569088773
that's the most fun you'll have with .366 AP-m

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>>569094543
>>569094698
ah, so the neck thingy saved me then
alright

Streets has been weird today, found two ragehackers. I thought they would be annoying the icebreaker people at shoreline.

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>>569096763
Icebreaker access require talking to the BTR, and it's easiest to find on streets
I assume normies are paying 3rd worlder to rage escort them so they can get the task done, as is tradition every time BSG release any event

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>>569099396
SNIFFFFF .. ah... sorry you were saying?

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>>569011068

>>569106648
nice

>>569076496
have any other star wars gun builds? that looks fun

>queue on shoreline
>spawn right next to the transit for the icebreaker
>go there with friend
>Not letting me transit
>see that i brought 40k instead of 400k
>Say we just restart
>another duo comes running in
>They just ignore us and just run to the pier
>Kill them
>3rd dude just randomly runs in too
>kill him aswell
>4rd guy runs down the road spamming nades
>pin him down and kill him
>Leave the raid with 88kg worth of Icebreaker kits
What an unfortunate series of events that led to a very hectic raid

>need 1 more scav kill in new gas for rite of passage
>just camp up in the storage room ontop of the boxes on my phone waiting for scav spawn
>timer starts, getting ready to leave
>hear someone running up
>player scav walks in and I spray him down, quest complete
>check what loot he has before scurrying off
>has a reserve marked key on him

Dam bruh thats tarkov I guess. Question is what should I do with this key? I'm not chad enough to play reserve and contest for marked room so I doub't I'd even get to loot it

I've unlocked queueing straight into Icebreaker and oh my god this is a pisstake. Skip rogues, use smoke to clear engine room, mortar the helipad scavs, extract, you probably just got out with 1.5m+ worth of gear with no risk to yourself.
Honestly makes me think on top of removing cheese (but making them slightly less prone to laserbeaming you) they probably shouldn't include a direct queue. Just add 2-3 other locations to transit from.
that being said I'm also afraid they'll nerf loot too heavily on top of adding PvP and it turns into Labyrinth 2.0

>>569124670
>mortar the Helipad scavs
What? just lob nades 90 degress up?

>>569125517
Yep. They wom't move any further than the middle of the helipad, so lob like 6 nades left, right middle and there should be 1-2 max left.

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as a CAGfag this map is legit heaven. I think I'm going to have enough gear to last me until the end of the year once they change up the map, easily

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>>568977236
>>568980926
Have you ever heard about such things as trends, dynamic, and correlation?
Even if this audience makes up only 10% of the total mass, it still follows the overall trend.
It’s impossible for there to be a surge of interest in the game, but for it not to show up on the graph from a 10% sample.This works perfectly with Overwatch, which was also outside Steam for many years and serves as an excellent example of the sampling concept.

>>569128812
go away /v/tard no one gives a fuck about your charts.

>me and bud on our way to the transit
>clearing out the last spot for snipers
>Guard aggros on us
>throws a nade
>Airbursts over me
>still fine but almost dead
>pop ETG and AHF1
>Tell my friend to stay on cover as I kill the two guards
>Things calm down and I start to perform surgery
>friend decides to just attempt a jumpshot against something
>Aggros the remaining guards
>Sanitar throws a nade
>literally on me feet
>Deaded.
It was too good to be true

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>failed 20 times as trio
>did it solo, first try
insane

>>569129298
well there's more enemies with 3 players so as a solo it IS easier

>>569122773
use it until it's 1/10. All three reserve marked keys are used in a trade for Dorms marked key. Even if you don't want to make the investment of time for all three, it still retains good price even at 1/10 for that reason.
Also, there are spawns that are right next to each marked room. So if leave 3 spots open in your asscase for the keys/RR/Taiga you'll come out on top no matter what...at least when you get those spawns closest.
>marked room runs are fun and exciting. If you get jumpy bring some extra cash and use a transit nearby to send some of it home.

>>569129471
there's not that much more. never counted but seemed like there was only 2 or 3 more per group of enemies as a 3 stack.

>they fixed the gym QTE
I can't believe there were retards unironically claiming it was an intended change and not blatantly bugged.

Please add:
PMM pistol
Bizon smg
PPS-43 smg

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Tarkov getting "Mixed" reviews on Steam is the best thing to ever happen to the game. Talk about lighting a big QoL fire under BSG's ass!

had to use AP lapua for shooter 3 award

>>569138952
>pragmatically used the correct tool for the task
You should be proud instead

>>569128812
The only trend here is you being a brown bitchless retard.

Happy Pride Month to all CQCM and Death Shadow users.

they should have used ai learning to make wedge and crew invincible

>>569127436
what's CAG

>>569153207
Synonym for Delta Force

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>>569106648
For all the tactical autism in this game you unironically should be able to casually lob a grenade sideways around a corner without peeking it instead of having to do random bullshit and trigonometry to bounce it off ceiling fans like it's counter strike.

I'll admit it makes that faggot camping corridors with impacts even worse but on the other hand the other faggot camping corridors with a leg melter gets nerfed so overall it'd balance itself eventually

He will make the map even worse than it already is

>new Multicam/A-TACS still not in Arena

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Absolute dogshit
https://x.com/nikgeneburn/status/2061802455269257499

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>>569138824
>steam reviews
Lmao who cares

>>569156413
your complacent fanboyism on the other hand is the worst thing that can happen to a game

>>569155742
There is no saving shithouse. When will Nikita get this through his thick fucking skull?

>>569156652
Are "fanboys" in the room with us right now?

>>569155742
It's not bad but it wont do shit to adress the problem of the map
It's a giant corridor with a bunch of "kill pmcs" quests, everyone is camping and you can never move

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VDWpuDHaj0

>>569156740
What if you extended the tunnel where that coop extract is and have the other end near the train or something with emergency exits to hotspots, kind of like the lower part of ground Zero. You can put some BEAR convoy and ambulances for loot, and maybe a transit.

It does turn shithouse into a 3 lane map which is incredibly Reddit but I don't know maybe it works.