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>Version 1.1.0.0 Patch Notes
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>Where to get the latest Russian sneedware
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Also on Steam now
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>Arena website
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>Ammo charts
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https://tarkovtracker.io/#/overview
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MIA:
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First for how dare a boss spawn with anything other than their signature weapon
Kaban spawning with a M60 may as well be wasting my time
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I've noticed on every single raid for days now that this gold egg is always here. Thanks for the rubles, Nikita
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>>579786204
PLEASE for the love of god stop using an SVD on Factory.
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>>579786559
He's too pussy to just bring a Benelli M3 and dome Tagilla with flechette.
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>>579786559
He's playing pve it literally doesn't matter
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>My 7.62x51 box is full
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>>579788521
>he organizes his ammo crates
There's really no reason to unless you only have like three or four and have autism on top of that.
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>>579789569
sometimes you collect a LOTTA bullet
>>579786559
okay, I've been meaning to see how this thing feels again, took off the 3-24x scope and put on that holo i really like from arena. So far, it's pretty nice and the bullets hurt good even if I got pushed so far back in rep that I can't even buy the BCP rounds. Had some spare M80/M62 so maybe I'll go through those first.
>>579788132
yes, yes i am
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>>579790084
>sometimes you collect a LOTTA bullet
I have 22 ammo cases, 21 of which are full. There's just no reason to bother because of the search function and being able to load mags through menuing.
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>>579790084
The SR-25 is unironically one of the best guns in the game if you're trying to have a good time right next to the M1A.
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>>579790543
>SR-25
>Ash-12
>AK-50
The sound and vibes go so hard.
>>579790084
right click->load ammo
Search bar->anything
Both of those destroyed any reason for organizing
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player scavs need to spawn more often on streets i need to bathe in their blood its so fun killing them
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>>579790543
Yeah from the couple raids I used it, it was pretty fun
>>579790446
That's fair, I kinda like the sorting autism of having a box full of one type of ammo
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how are you meant to get drip-out part 1 done in any reasonable amount of time? just farm scavs for their rigs? if so, what's a good spot to kill a shitload of scavs?
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>>579790543
rsass is better than either
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>>579801503
>how are you meant to get drip-out part 1 done in any reasonable amount of time?
You don't.
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>>579801558
Is it? Sell me on it, I have one lying around I think
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>scavGODding Customs
>some PMCucks are shooting something on the main road
>put some rounds into them from my near broken SVD with a PSO on it
>one dies, other runs
>stats at extract
>one (1) hit from 10 rounds fired, 120+m
>aim was directly on target for certain, they weren't moving much
I swear the game just deletes bullets mid flight
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>>579807795
Scav guns always have dogshit conditions, the moa increases as durability decreases.
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Got killed by "Watcher" on GZ, night raid, outside Terragroup building. There were heaps of them, kitted out in the best NVGs and shit. What kind of NPC is that, BD or something?
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>>579807941
Yes
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>>579806948
It's not, he's just retarded. The main three .308DMRs (the SR-25, G28, and RSASS) are basically completely interchangeable in performance in practice. Their differences statistically are negligible.
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>>579768069
I tried it a few times and every single time the game would crash during on the transits right when I was nearing or after 16.
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Sure thing Fence, I'll get right on it.
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This season is becoming shittier by the day, why are they doing all these XP changes for the leaderboard shit, why are we nerfing Icebreaker again, why are we on top of nerfing the map itself, adding a new item that limits how many times you can go there, why is this the fucking cycle with BSG, why is Permanent Icebreaker being affected too, imagine wiping everything in there surviving the bullshit AI and getting like 15k XP because this one random leaderboard shit made BSG shit on the map, why couldn't they just exclude Icebreaker from the leaderboard xp count as much as I fucking love the game Some of these decisions that are always reocurring make me so damn mad
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JUST LET ME MAKE A FUCKING CLASS MAN
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>>579814968
pick a different helmet or none at all, pick the cheapest headset, only have one plate in ur rig, and get rid of the calok b and knife. also probably pick a different rig since i think thats the most expensive one so
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>>579808405
rsass gets better recoil, ergo, and accuracy than m1a, sr-25 and g28. the only perk over the rsass they get is 50 round mags, but if you need that much ammo in a firefight you might as well use an x-17. it also weighs less iirc.

this is my 1.0 build, dunno if it's still considered meta but it works well.
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>>579814968
You don't need a Calok and cheese kit
Replace Zagustin with AHF1M which I believe is cheaper
Ditch the back plate if you have one
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Can you get the BD intel items from the circle, or do I have to spam labs for the SSDs?
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we rich
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Finally got one, and as a bonus it's not completely busted up.
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Bump
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>>579815305
Yeah, the headset differences are negligible. But not sure why one plate? I got shot from front and back often.
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>>579834035
nta but if you're getting shot from the back, nearly always you're dead anyway
i usually put a lvl 3 plate on the back, they barely cost anything
then for meds I do cheese, esmarch, 3btg, meldonin, trimadol, perfotoran. if you like tf/bg you might want an etg or something
my kits are some versions of pic related, not sure what the absolute 'meta' stuff is in the current patch, but works for me. and like mentioned, helmet is pretty much useless, and I don't have them for every kit. only downside is the lack of mags, but I play around ammo boxes in cpt so it doesn't matter much
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>>579834996
btw great build you got there
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>>579784578
It's very mean-spirited yeah
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>screwin' around on Factory
>havin' a nice time on stream
>collectin' shit
>shootin' shit
>unloading random magazines for Mag Drills exp
>walk into room
>Tagilla appears
>sorta just lets me kill him
https://www.twitch.tv/swordbro_streams/clip/ApatheticTiredDelicataPastaThat-poF8gVWNqW_CO_wJ
Also, after the fact, I found I zero'd his helmet and both his front and back plates. I say it was me because that raid I don't recall hearing him fight with anyone anywhere and didn't even know he was on the map until we got into it there. This was with M80 bullets, but I ran out of those so now I'm using M62.

unrelated picture of loot from this current run I'm on
>>579784578
I hate that shit, first time I ever got a kill on Reshala, he didn't have his gold TT so it was a huge waste of my time since I needed it for a quest. Ended up getting it out of the circle, I think.
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>>579836120
>PVE
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The Lighthouse rework will arrive on Tuesday, or I will launch the revolution.
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>>579836120
To answer your question last thread, the RSASS has significantly higher accuracy over long ranges for sniping and lower innate recoil. Anyone saying it's interchangeable with the M1A or SR-25 is a retard, it's better by miles.
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Never ever.
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>>579842002
I decided to test that out, and it did feel really responsive when sniping from the Dome on Reserve. I spotted 3 PMCs (or what I thought were PMCs) in front of the one building near the pawns, with the sandbag cover facing them and took them all out in one shot each. Out by the Scav co-op extract on the opposite side of the map, I saw 2 dudes I was sure were guards, but each time I shot at them with it set to 300m, they'd run behind the big red shipping container. After a while, I noticed they were standing ever-so-slightly high enough to see their helmets turning when they moved back there, so I had to be patient and take a few shots, but I hit Glukhar in the top pixels of his head and now he's checked off of Relentless. Not to say I'm gonna accomplish this quest, but it feels great to even have 3 bosses down (Sanitar I nabbed sniping on Shoreline the other day by happenstance just standing in the middle of the blue fenced area). All I got for loot for this whole run was a single Abandoned Factory Marked Key out of a coat and a GPU in a duffle.
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>>579810096
Don't rogues count for this?
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>>579845615
>go to customs
>get to 3story dorms
>no one there
>not even a single normal scav
>enter marked room with last use of key
>green and blue cards and nothing else
>leave
>suddenly voice i don't recognize and explosions
>get outside and just book it
>hear PMC ai and scavs or something fighting towards Fort
>stick to the road
>new gas is empty
>almost to the opening in the wall near the end of the road
>suddenly a HAIL of gunfire rips into me and nearly zeros both of my legs and my front and back plates
>manage to just sprint my ass out of there and extract
I guess Reshala and his boys wandered up the road, judging from the red tracers and the screaming.
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thanks i guess ?
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after much consideration I have concluded that the marksman 3x30 is probably my favorite optic currently in the game
- cheap, compact, looks okay on most guns, much cheaper than LVPOs + no fumbling around spinning the slider trying to land on the right magnification
- 3x magnification seems to be the sweet spot for a general purpose fixed optic in tarkov, comfortably useable down to laser/point fire range unlike 4x but can still easily make shots to almost any distance commonly encountered on tarkov maps unlike 2x
- good fov/clarity unlike g36x 3x and similar integrated bullshit
- reticle doesn't block half the screen like ACOG dogshit AND doesn't completely blow out under NV like most LVPO reticles (and in fact has just the right amount of bloom when illuminated you can use it to help see targets easier around the reticle because nikita is very good at alpha blending lol) + can disable illumination to maintain clear visibility against very bright scenes like someone shining at you
- goes directly on the gun without any annoying ass mounts and shit to deal with unlike prism 2.5x/acogs/LVPOs
only real downside is no compact reflex mount so you'll have to use an offset mount or something if you really want it, but in my (95% night raids because I'm autistic) experience it's useable enough down to ranges where I would want to switch to IR laser aiming anyway so it's not as big of an issue as I thought it would be

anyway I think it's cool please don't start buying them and raising the flea prices until I get around to unlocking it from jaeger thanks
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okay nikita would you mind explaining why the fuck I can't actually fold any of these
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>>579853705
Me? I'm a monstrum 2x kinda guy. 3x is just too many x for me.
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>>579850386
What the hell are the Razors for? Arena skinned no less.
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So if Rogues will be gentler to USEC with the Lighthouse rework, will USEC have any definite advantages as a faction? The BTR Driver's BEAR discount is neat.
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>>579783995
would it be a good game mechanic if someone was sitting still, not making audio, they will start to breathe loud like tagilla if another player was in vicinity, moving around.
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>>579858781
ragman bullshit lol
thanks cultists I definitely couldn't have found those without you
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>>579814968
>comtac vi
>V plates front and back
>calok when he has a zagustin
>cheese
>very expensive laser
Yea man, you're doing it wrong. As others have said, drop the back plate to a level 3 or 4 depending on your available points. You don't need the cheese or calok, use stims instead. I generally use perfotoran and adrenaline for healing. While they won't get you back to full HP, they give you a quick boost of health which is usually enough to keep you alive. That combined with propital is enough. Helmets aren't really necessary as even altyns and rys-ts will get punched through in a single round with the absolutely fucked way the arena stats are, but I throw one on when I can purely for the off chance that it'll bounce a round. It never does and I watch fucking CQCs bounce multiple rounds on my enemies when I shoot them all the fucking time. Personally I always try and run 3 extra mags as well, though that one is down to whether or not you think you're good enough to use them all regularly.
>>579834996
>cheese, esmarch, 3btg, meldonin, trimadol
You don't need all this shit.
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>>579856730
the 2x is decent but it starts to suffer on anything 100m+ while not being that much more useable at close distances imo, also the housing looks like cheap boring chinese plastic instead of cool scifi chinese plastic and the reticle is not quite to my taste
however it is still better than just about every other low power fixed optic in the game if the 3x is unavailable, I will give it that
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why, hello there
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>>579858814
will no longer be*
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>>579861832
>open door
>slow walk into the room
If this had been me the bat hearing gigachad standing up top would've whipped around and instakilled me.
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would you look at that
it's even worse when you factor that most people play on the launcher
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>>579862423
the sounds are pretty shit up there, was he a bit further he wouldn't even have heard the door open
I've also gotten sneaked on while being there
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arena servers fucking sharting themselves again
I love rubberbanding every 3 steps and having half my teammates disconnected at the start of the match
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>56 rewards
I was curious and looked up previous maps, season 1 had 36 rewards (with 6 extra ones added with the winter update), season 2 had 41. I wonder if they're gonna charge more for the new one.
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>Finally got the last COFDM for pisskeeper
Feel like I was exceptionally unlucky, seeing other people run streets (maybe they were checking marked rooms?) and finding multiple.
I eventually got the last one in the Concordia 64 office.
And now I feel like I should shelve my PVE character for now unless a buddy wants to run PvE (and probably spam labs like a degen at that) with me.
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So are Bitcoins needed for any contracts now or can I sell the one I found when it breaks 100K?
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>>579863972
It'll probably stay at $15. I'm just hoping it will have shit I actually want and that the stupid fucking crates aren't rigged garbage like in this season.
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I just sit and rat all my raids, I play runescape and have the game open on my second monitor but because I'm not really paying attention I also have some cheats just to notify me when someone's coming, even the quietist footseps are turned to the max. It's just fun to camp is all , something cozy about it
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>>579865909
>I also have some cheats just to notify me when someone's coming
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Gonna just go ahead and curse myself now
>spawn
>go to dorms
>pmcs in it
>kill them
>leave because no one else around
>head towards roadblock
>find weapon repair kit (based)
>check crack house
>see doors open
>peek out back and look at Fort
>no one on the top floor
>look down
>in a bush, for no reason at all, is a random scav with a brown shirt on facing away
>pop him
>Relentless pops for Reshala
I'm much closer than I've ever been, the only boss I've ever killed consistently was Tagilla and the others less than 3-5 times each. Killa is my worst at only twice. Once so long ago I can't even remember when, but I remember it being more or less an accident because he corner slid right into my SA-58, and the other incidentally sniping him when I was testing out the BIG BOOMER AK.
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>>579859591
>cheese
good for topping up thorax quickly
>esmarch
I have perfotoran on auto-use, so esmarch is useful when its timer runs out and I haven't gone to refill my ammo yet
>trimadol
my only painkiller, but also gives me strength and endurance
>3btg and meldonin
cheap stims that give me more strength and endurance, great especially after prestiging and wiping out my skills
sure, bit redundant, but I gain nothing significant elsewhere by getting rid of them
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>>579867990
Cry about it fag
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>>579869948
>I have perfotoran on auto-use
I don't do this purely because of the health regeneration that it provides.
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if the new gas mask is only available in the tactical map, you know what im gonna fucking do? YOU KNOW WHAT IM GONNA FUCKING DO TO BSG?!?!?!


...

i am going to purchase the tactical map..
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>>579872780
good goy
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>opened 5 BD crates so far
>1 (one) rig
Le sigh... At least it was the Siege-R and not one of the "common" ones from Icebreaker.
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>>579875047
Insulting that those don't give you a full kit per box
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>>579836120
lmfao that aim xD
now i know why you play PvE
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>>579872780
True Believer!
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>queue labs on dubai server
>hear at least 2 other people running around and looting
I JUST WANNA KILL BD IN PEACE GIVE ME A DEAD SERVER REEEE
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>>579882251
there are no dead labs servers
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>>579882635
That's bullshit, anon in the previous thread was in one.
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>>579882251
>managed to kill a group of BDs at the med elevator
>zero intel items
Are they not spawning on Labs or are the spawn rates just bullshit? When I first encountered BDs on Streets I got 2 encryption keys, 1 SSD and 1 laptop from them.
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>>579884350
the rates are lower yes, and iirc they can't have the briefcase of docs there
at least you can reliably farm them on labs
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>>579884570
I'm only interested in SSDs, I need 2 more.
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>>579884632
then stick to labs
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chat am i cute ?
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>>579888894
Not until you put a tan shemagh on.
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think i need another box for my energy drinks bros

t. ESpilled
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>>579888894
I wish the airfr*me wasnt so XBOXHUEG, goggles on top of helmet are kino as fuck, I hope they add a similar looking FAST or something in the future.
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>>579888990
I don't engage in cultural appropriation sorry...
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>some dickhead turned the lights off
Guess I'll really have to start bringing night vision for this shit...
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>>579889298
Come on, think of it as being a Lawrence of Arabia behind enemy lines rogue operative Thomas777 One Struggle White Nigga. They're pretty and the colours are nice, and they hide your PMC's fat ugly lips unlike balaclavas.
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what's the best 7.62x51 round for epic sniper kills, I guess M61?
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are there any other things you can interact with in the hideout besides gym, firing range stuff, and rest space tv/music
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>>579890138
Ultra Nosler. Blow their legs out, make them suffer.
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kinda feel like a 40mm grenade impacting before arming distance should maybe have its own impact decal or something
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>>579890138
993 has the highest velocity, so technically probably that. M61 will serve you just fine though, it's what I used for all of SBiH before it was raped
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>>579890332
trve...
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where am I dropping for this one boys
I guess reserve bunker probably works
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>>579891457
interchungus goshan
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>can't even unlock Labs because multiple BD nigger squads are always around the office
Amazing
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>>579891763
I was doing that when the event was out on perma, had to kill 12 of them in one raid to get it done
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>>579891457
Reserve tech building basement has ~4 ration crates and the bunker has another 2-3 with the heli uptop also having about 3 more.
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what are some fun cheap loadouts so I can play like a scav but without losing keys and skill xp
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>>579890886
>spoiler
Uhh what happened?
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>>579890138
Ideally one with velocity as close to the default round as possible. Yeah, M61 works as the other anon said. Don't use M80A1 unless you plan on sniping people from 600+ meters, you will very likely overshoot people at closer ranges.
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Is junkbox even worth it? intel is 300k+ and moonshine is its usual price.
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>>579893209
Junkbox hasn't been relevant since the cultist circle got added to the game.
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>>579890320
you can put posters and small valuables on some of the modules instead of just the hall of fame
they should let us shit in the lavatory
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why did nobody tell me throwables give strength xp FUCK
do you have to actually hit something with them or can you just chuck some grenades into the bushes every raid
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>killed 12 BDs so far
>zero SSDs
>one intel (died with it [didn't need it FIR anyway])
I hate this shit. On the bright side, I have at least unlocked M80slop.
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why the fuck does scav case take so long to construct, i want to gamble NOW
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>>579894814
Fucking finally found one after 14 BDs, now I just need one more...
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Where's the best place to kill sniper scavs from 350m?
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>>579898369
Woods or Customs.
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ebin bd jumpscare feature, lucky that he didn't just shoot me in the mouth
apparently if one wanders too far (i heard him at construction earlier), he teleports somewhere around where the other bd's died
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>>579899762
I really don't know how they STILL let AI walk through thin objects like fences and doors. It's fucking ridiculous.
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>>579876220
>lmfao that aim xD
the INSANE part is that he didn't kill me and somehow enough of them hit that I could manage to utterly kill his armor. He should've just blasted me for that, especially at the beginning when I was panic shooting.
Went back and looked, that entire raid (which was not just killing Tagilla of course) I did about 1500 flesh damage and had almost 1200 damage blocked by armor, and I zero'd both his front/back plate and his facemask, so I IMAGINE the accuracy on him wasn't as horrible as expected since he didn't just take me out. You should see me when I get jumpscared by anything in this game though, I jerk my mouse around like a fucking psycho during the adrenaline spike and usually I'm dead long before I can turn it into focus.
>now i see why you play pve
More or less yeah, by the time i DO interact with a player when I get spooked, i'm long dead, and if I do get the jump on them i rarely manage to land any shots before death
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>>579900407
I hate fighting AI purely because of how unnatural they move, not even in the sense of "oh a player would never walk around like this", but blatant bullshit like going through objects or how they run around in a clearly desynced way.
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whoever put this bullshit ass nigger birdeye in the game needs IMMEDIATE corrective anal rape
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>>579900629
at least you admit it
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>>579900629
>He should've just blasted me
AFAIK Tagilla's AI doesn't seem to like switching back from the hammer unless the player he's aggro'd on gets far away and breaks LoS.
That said if he turned the corner and had his RPK he might have just shredded your ass.
I always try to bring a faceshield to PVE factory just in case Tagilla appears and tries to shotgun me.
>>579900721
What really gets me is how the "better" AI enemies have a very blatant snap-to-target behavior.
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>>579902039
Oh yeah, absolutely. Tarkov has a very magnetic set of elements in it despite the fact that I completely hate how terrible I am at the pvp, so when PvE was announced, it was a godsend to me.
>>579902258
Yeah that makes sense, I got really lucky that he just let me do that. Sometimes I try to pop him in the arm or something and he'll back up and start healing so I just run up and unload as fast as I can. When he's even at mid-range he's so scary.
>faceshield
Yeah, right now I use the class 1 specs and this goofy thing since Neosteel is my favorite helmet. I'd say I'm unsure if it's ever saved my life much, but i've definitely been hit "in the head" and it's taken 1-2 points of damage while I manage to slink away. I used to wear FAST MTs with the Mandible or Airframes with the shield, or even a small stint with LShZ, but this seems to fit what I'm looking for generally.
Unrelated, but I've been sitting with the NVGs on it for a bit despite no longer doing night raids much and they came in handy with a weird visual thing on Reserve I had earlier while sniping. It got foggy but still very sunny so long distances just became this fucking blinding white, if I put the NVGs on and took them off, it was suddenly clear visuals again for like 30 seconds. Weird shit.
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>>579902936
You can do a similar thing with the Exfil, except that helmet is level 4 top and nape and doesn't block headsets that aren't earplugs.
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>>579903308
Neosteel is also level 4 top/nape, it only lists 3 because he has the level 3 faceshield on which does throat, jaws, ears, and face.
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i am going to fucking snap man
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>>579904560
3 fucking train yard spawns right next to this nigger in a row are you FUCKING I am going to fucking KILL NIKITA
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>>579904560
I have desperately made it a point to avoid those fuckers as much as possible. The other day they got my buddy when we were on Shoreline and somehow only 2 of them showed up (Knight and Birdeye). Never heard a peep from Pipe.
>>579903308
Yeah? Do the ear covers stop headphones too, or is it one of those "wear whatever with it" type helmets? I really like the Neosteel's face thingy since it's class 3 on everything but eyes and class 4 on the main helmet. Granted, I'm not actually sure how good the headphones actually are, I just love being suited up like a tank with max visibility/defense possible.
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>>579905316
You don't use the ear covers. You use the full mandibles that protect ears, jaw, and face.
And I wear Comtac VI's with them no problem.
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Do you guys fw the Arena fit?
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>>579908664
>unsuppressed sr-3 with forward mounted optic
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>>579908846
Better vision for me and the points required for the suppressor can be utilized somewhere else was my thought process
I don't like using suppressors in Arena anyway
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why is shturman allowed to sit in a bush and not be blind to people half a kilo away
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>>579906376
Hm, I'll look into it when I play next, gonna play league tonight because I'm sorta anxious about going into raids since I only need to kill 2 more bosses without dying
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>>579909925
Same reason bird eye can shoot through complete concealment; this game is terrible.
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>>579910226
>I'm sorta anxious about going into raids since I only need to kill 2 more bosses without dying
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>first cheater report ban message of the season
A factory faggot of all places
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>>579913038
Have you never needed to survive for a quest and felt nervous about it?
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>>579918831
Have you ever done escort
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>>579913038
Yes
I hear gunfire coming from down there. Let's hope it's him.
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>>579922343
HIM
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>>579922952
One left.
>daily for Jaeger
>turn in FiR Killa Helmet
The game is really tempting me to try against one of the scariest guys I've ever had the displeasure of meeting. I legit have no idea how to even approach this.
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>spawn on streets
>turn corner into nikitskaya
>4 turbo niggas dressed in black killing a random player
>kill 3 of them
>manage to loot two before the other players start sitting in dark corners waiting for people to loot the other BDs
>rotate behind the coffee shop and sort the inventory
>As soon as i'm done and move into the kitchen of the coffee shop
>A random fucking Solid snake wanna be is sitting crouched with his drum mag glock 17
>mag dump my mk17 into his chest
>More players arrive
>fat as fuck with 3 rigs and a whole Alienware laptop on my bag
>have to pop a concoction of stimulants and just speed away to car extract
You cannot fight these BD fuckers in peace, the moment the shooting dies down, a wave of big nozed jews just lurk holding angles waiting for people to loot the pinatas I hate how this is the norm.
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>>579922952
Buddy you can't pick out the sound of an SVD?
Shturman is the easiest boss to suss out: You only have to listen out for the sound of his rifle instead of looking for guards or tossing grenades and listening for unique voicelines.
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>>579927869
Not even a little bit, I'm gonna be honest with you. I hear gunfire that sounds intimidating and i assume it's either a boss or the PMC Ai since Scavs almost always have dogshit weapons.
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labs raiders are so cracked out, even when they have dogshit gear. feels like im fighting glukhar and his posse
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Uhhh, thanks, I guess...
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>>579930847
hey at least they gave you an ammo box with the armband, they gave me JUST the armband like 2 weeks ago
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to the people complaining about the lightkeeper questline last thread, rejoice!
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>>579932728
I should probably get around to finishing assessment 1 before it does something retarded like resetting once they update the line.
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>have like 8 different wiki tabs open for streets quests
>end up forgetting to do any of them whenever i go to streets
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>>579923990
>boohoo im so scawed of kiwwaaa!!!
He's the easiest boss to kill, faggot. Load up some decent bullets and just mow him down at Mantis like everyone who has ever killed him does.
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>>579934951
Do you retards intentionally try to act like you're above everything in the game? Killa is a fucking bastard at his best.
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I need a 7th junk box...
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>>579934951
>He's the easiest boss to kill, faggot
This isn't even close to true.
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>>579937278
He literally spawns in the same place every single raid and is surrounded by tight spots you can hide for him to push into and die. He's insanely weak. M856 is more than good enough.
>>579936781
Tell me you're shit at the game without telling me.
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>>579937597
Post a video of you killing him with m856. Yes, YOU yourself nigger, not some random video.
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>>579937597
I hope you mean a1, because base M856 is one of the worst 5.56 rounds.
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>>579937597
M855A1 is the minimum I'd recommend for Killa. I don't know if anyone else would like to weigh in instead of this stupid faggot, though.
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>>579938025
Imo the difficulty of Killa isn't that he's hard to kill, but that you can never really be sure that he's even spawned because he roams around in a very wide area and getting caught out is practically instant death. He's very good at ambushing.
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>>579938913
nta but yeah I agree. He's just another high damage autoaim bot like any other, but his aggression and weird roaming pattern make him extremely deadly when coupled with how open the stores are. Personally, when I did Relentless, I went for Killa first because he's inherently the most inconsistent to beat.
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>>579939546
There's been a few times where I went looking for him, didn't find anything in the crossroad (not even bodies), only to let my guard down thinking he didn't spawn. Then I find he's stocking shelves in the middle of Goshan.
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90% of my scavs are starting without backpacks and there's no bodies anywhere
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>PvP players are now a minority
lmao
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>>579942928
Because PvP now just means someone is holding a completely random angle somewhere for 35 minutes every single raid and you have to guess which window, corner or bush it is
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>first raid of the day
>forgot to bring a labs card for the transit
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>>579942990
yah i think seasonal's pvp is very bad. everyone just rats and there are still a noticeable amount of cheaters. Factor in no insurance and its just hell
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>>579942928
>le hardcore and unforgiving game
>majority of the playerbase is shitter sissies who refuse to play anything other than baby difficulty
Actually fascinating.
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>>579943109
>unforgiving
you mean getting head,eyes by a chink?
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>>579943183
>same cope every time
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>>579943208
yeah because its true, you fucking bitch
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>>579943096
No Insurance is really not all that painful imo. Running Class 3 armour is fun and it's really nice being able to take 2-3 day breaks without worrying about fucking up my stash.
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>>579943294
If it's true, then how come I have a 3 KD and 70+% SR on main PVP? Surely the hecking cheaterinos would not allow this to happen.
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>>579942990
The epidemic of ugly brownoid cheaters is what did it for me.
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>>579943313
>No Insurance is really not all that painful imo
For you maybe, and that's good. The problem is the general playerbase is absolutely terrified of the concept of not getting your shit back, resulting in everyone being afraid to move. I think no insurance should've been a character modifier that gave a lot of points so you can stack up on positives instead of a global one
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>>579943183
i just report people with the 100 BD kills achievement lol
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>>579943361
thats irrelevant if you're cheating or not, idc about ur stats but the matter of the fact cheating is still prevalent enough for no insurance to be very frustrating
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>>579943457
it should've have been a global modifier but only for squads. solos should keep insurance
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>>579945403
No insurance is frustrating to begin with, has nothing to do with cheating. People are afraid to lose their gear, that's why they don't move. A cheater knows where you are anyway, sitting in a corner won't help you.
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The AI is evolving, they now walk into impassable puddles to deny you your loot.
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What are your go to BD annihilators? I've been having success with the SCAR-L lately, thing has no recoil whatsoever.
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>>579946174
kedr klin and go for facetaps
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>>579931023
and I got just the ammo box the other day!
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>>579946382
I've had one spawn with a faceshield.
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>>579946174
The only BD kill I've ever gotten was done with a copper shotgun slug, so it'd probably be something that could melt their faces easily.
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>>579945403
This is pure fucking cope and it always has been.
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>see a player directly in front of me
>he hits me once
>never got hit by anything else the entire raid
>extract
>check armor for repairs
>only thing damaged is the back plate
Hit detection in this game is truly something else.
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>>579948037
ive seen many cheaters in seasonal, they definitely do exist and i see them every like 1-5 raids
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>>579948351
Bullshit.
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>>579948351
Of course they exist, retard. Nobody here is denying they don't exist. Every 1-5 raids is the cope part, dumbass.
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Just one tapped this subhuman on Labs.
>40 raids per day
Holy mental illness.
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>>579948953
zero cheaters in PvE btw!
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>>579949463
Zero excitement too.
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I've over 500 raids in seasonal and only died to blatant cheaters a handful of times. Sure there are probably 'legit' looking ones with radars and no walls, but I'm not too bothered by them.
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>>579949528
over 50% says over wise.
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>>579949540
ive got 500 raids in PvE and I've been killed by cheaters ZERO times!
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>>579949723
The only things you get killed by are equivalent to cheaters.
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>>579945403
>>579948351
>>579949463
>>579949581
>>579949723
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8MZBUoQt68
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>>579949912
>>579949831
pve enrages poopsocks. The future is PvE, sorry chuds
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>>579949987
>muh poopsocks
Another cope. I work full time and I can keep up in PVP.
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>>579950059
>icebreaker - PvE
>terminal -PvE
sorry, nikkita realised that poopsock whale dumps will still play pve and will buy all the battlepass slop on pve too. Sorry, but pvp is on its way out shown by stats
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>the most skilled pve player
https://x.com/EnglishwithETF/status/2096191733180907681
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Complaining on /eftg/ to manifest a BD SSD in one of their backpacks.
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>>579950901
no one cares you play 18 hours a day bro and you shit in ur bucket with no job or bitches
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uh oh, the pve cuck was unleashed from his chair again
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WHEN THE FUCK DOES MY DOCUMENT LIMIT ACTUALLY RESET AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WHY ISN'T THERE A FUCKING TIMER!!!!!!!!!
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>>579952640
am i the only one who doesnt care about the BP. It's 95% junk and one chink gun that needs unicorn ammo to be good
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>>579952640
The limit timer starts rolling once you extract with a document the first time after its been reset
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>go to labs
>hit up res area
>leave through elevator
this making me so much money and im finding like 4 documents a raid
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>go to labs
>move 3 steps
>get filled with holes by a chink or an official aimbot
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>>579953429
just had good rng and spawn near the high value loot spots.
i normally bring a hobo kit with the mono NVGs and hoover up the stims and documents. put them in ur secure container and chinks will leave u alone
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>>579953429
You're supposed to go on an empty server, I am yet to die to a player. Died once to a BD because I got caught in the open tho.
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>>579953769
this feels like cheating when i do it and its strange to see good loot
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>>579954059
some get emptier lobbies by going on a dead server and some get emptier lobbies by playing in squad
there's nothing wrong with it unless you're a squadnigger. hell, even streamers who claim to enjoy pvp do the same
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>>579954296
i think streamers go to low IQ regions because the players they fight are potatoes even the ones with good gear. The players I face are always mega dick poopsocks with 20k hours and they laser me with M995. I play on Europe which is one of the more difficult ones.

I switched to middle east and you'll see like one PMC every 6 raids and it's normally a timmy doing the same as you
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>>579953769
>>579954059
>>579954296
>>579954392
When I go to low population servers I just never actually get a game. I'm currently sitting in an 11 minute queue and counting for an estimated time of 4 minutes
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>>579955019
when I go to middle east, I normally have to wait around 7 mins. I think the matchmaking just gives up finding players and shoves you into a low pop lobby
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>>579954392
yeah true, and less squads.
currently I'm hunting BD on central Asia, the raids are quiet, but not completely empty, usually seeing one or two duo/trio a raid, but they aren't very good. last weekend I played on europe north servers and they were full of super sweaty squads, at least on streets.
>>579955019
the longer you wait the emptier the raids are, max wait time is like 13 minutes then it'll just put you into a game.
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>>579955073
>>579955142
Funny you should say 13 minutes, because it just popped at 13 almost exactly. Guess I'm on Customs solo today... I hope. I want that Reshala
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>>579955230
always expect at least a few players on the server
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>>579955703
There were definitely a couple of them out there, didn't see anyone though. Dorms was unfortunately one of the places I did hear shots from though so RIP to Reshala hunting. Cucked again
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>>579952795
I like the backpacks, if the trade persist thru seasons it will be useful
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>>579958759
>if the trade persist thru seasons it will be useful
The unlocks are permanent, that's kinda the point.
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>>579958759
>>579958804
Not a fan of the idea of having to run memebreaker even more for tags
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>24 hits on one zavodskoy, many of them headshots
>0 kills
So much glass flying out of his face and yet not a single penetration, I think I'm just going to vendor the massive stacks of AP 6.3 I have
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Gib prestige update for PvE now nikita so i can reset my shit and go again
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>>579958759
the mystery ranch one is terrible. its 7kg
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>>579961792
Who cares about all that, it's all about the drip, baby.
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>got over 1000 rounds of M855A1 from BD + their dogtags
>still no SSD
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>>579932728
Sounds good, but where/when is the Monkey's paw curling?
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Does anyone have any experience using Kernaim's cheats, are they trustworthy?
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I'm 35 hours in. I've learned Ground Zero, Customs, some of Interchange, and a bit of Woods. I've just been trying to do quests but I am terrified all the time and hide and stop moving a lot, and I haven't won a single firefight. My KD is like 0.03. I'm trying not get discouraged and I don't wanna give up but there's so much to learn and idk where to start. I want to stop being so scared but everyone is so damn good at firefights.

I'm only level 13 so I can't use the flea market and idk what armors or helmets are even good I just die instantly.
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>>579966141
I'd stick to low level ground zero and try to learn it thoroughly before bothering with else, there's plenty of loot on the map as well, and you should be able to win some firefights there
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>>579966141
>My KD is like 0.03. I'm trying not get discouraged and I don't wanna give up but there's so much to learn and idk where to start. I want to stop being so scared but everyone is so damn good at firefights.
Blame pve. Everyone at your skill level is fighting braindead AI in their hugbox.
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>>579966141
>I'm trying not get discouraged and I don't wanna give up
Find solace in the fact that you're playing PVP, meaning you're automatically better than any PVE sissy. You'll get there, champ.
>I'm only level 13 so I can't use the flea market and idk what armors or helmets are even good I just die instantly.
You may wanna try to avoid other players until you get access to some better gear, early game armors are more for stopping Scavs from one tapping you with hollow points. Class 4 armor/class 3 helmet is the bare minimum for fighting players, though ideally you want to run minimum class 5 armor/class 4 helmets when possible. Avoid helmets that block headsets, even if their armor class is higher than what you currently have, hearing is very important.
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>>579966438
Okay maybe I'll stay on GZ until I hit level 15?
>>579967218
PVE only in this game sounds really lame!
>>579967304
Okay so I'll just keep avoiding fights unless I have to fight until I hit level 15.
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>>579967652
>until I hit level 15.
Probably need more than that, unfortunately. You unlock the flea at level 15, but the stuff you can buy/sell gets unlocked gradually every 5 levels until level 40. Focus on leveling your traders in the meantime, you'll be able to get better gear from them as well.
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>>579967849
Okay, I've been doing quests but I have a few that require PMC kills and I literally cannot. And a bunch where I have to go to dorms, but I'll keep trying. Thanks, bwos...
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>>579967652
>>579967980
Just stick with it, anon. The learning period for tarkov is extremely rough, especially solo, but eventually it'll click. You can do it, believe in the me that believes in you
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>>579968623
Wait shit wrong gif I thought that was the thumbs up version lmao, heres this one instead
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>>579968623
Thanks, bwo! I don't wanna give up it's a really fascinating game, and the more complex something is the more addicted I get to it.
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>>579968784
There's a fair amount of new player guide videos, it wouldn't hurt to give a few a watch. Especially with combat there's a few little things like circle strafing that new players really won't get on their own.
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>>579967652
The thing about Tarkov is that it's literally one of the most knowledge-dependent games out there. No-lifers play this game, know every spawn on the map, and know what spots are best for holding angles and picking off the unsuspecting. It's a brutal new-player experience and the "safe zone" of Ground Zero before level 20 is not really enough to bridge that gap.
The other thing is that tasks tend to funnel you into hot areas like Dorms, the mall interior, and Resort. It's pretty much on you to be able to either
>Win PvP fights against players with better equipment (difficult but not impossible, leg meta with SMG's works and isn't expensive, but is hard to do against players holding cover and impossible if they're far away)
>Avoid other players altogether while doing tasks (mostly luck, but you might get lucky and get passed by by other players that didn't notice you)
The one positive (assuming you're on permenant PvP and not seasonal) is that other players aren't going to give a shit about your gear. You can insure whatever and almost certainly get it back.
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>>579968784
remember to scav on cooldown if you aren't already. don't stress about getting harder tasks done or anything stat related like kd, they'll come with time.
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>>579968972
Yeah I've watched a few and I was just watching some. It's silly but I have to mentally prep to play this game sometimes I forget to breathe when I'm playing.
>>579971715
I've watched the game for a few years before even trying it but finally got to it so I was unfortunately already aware of the insane skill ceiling but I don't wanna give up. I wasn't aware of the lower level GZ so that gives me a bit of hope that I can win some firefights. I'm also playing on seasonal. Did I mess up?!
>>579972656
I am! I've essentially put the PMC kill tasks off for now hehe.
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>>579973046
>I'm also playing on seasonal. Did I mess up?!
I wouldn't say you messed up, but this season has no insurance meaning you never get stuff back when you die. On perma servers you can insure your gear, if nobody has extracted with it by the time the raid ends, you will get it back.
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>>579973243
I played a tiny bit before 1.0 and did insurance a few times but never got anything back so I guess I don't mind. I should also mention that I bought the Unheard version because I'm a maniac but I wanted the benefits. I know I'm probably not even getting the real beginner experience since I have insane stash benefits.
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You guys told me this is some herculean task impossible for a mere mortal without paying for it.
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>>579973641
That's because it was, before they increased the document spawns after like a week.
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>>579973046
Playing solo in general takes a lot of guts, you're all alone there and the sounds you hear everywhere feel super threatening. When you learn to distinguish scav/ai sounds from player sounds it will get much more tolerable because if you know a scav is on the other side of the building and he isn't yelling and shooting at someone, there shouldn't be players on that side.
In general, scavs usually just walk or run in a mostly straight line without alternating the two. Scavs will never jump, and when they stop running they like to make that sliding stop and keep turning around making that shuffling noise. They also like to blurt out random voice lines in Russian.
I used to play only duo for like 1500 hours, and when my friend took a break and I was left alone, it took quite a while to get rid of that anxiety of going in all alone.
>>579973420
Most people just buy editions as their stash fills up, so your experience won't differ from theirs in that sense.
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Mismatched adidas fit, yay or nay?
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>>579976074
>needs unheard
It's dogshit by default.
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>>579976676
>he's not a trve believer
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>it's another episode of footsteps are heard somewhere completely else in relation to where the PMC producing them is
Is it really such a hard task to make a porperly working audio system?
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Bros...money is so fucking hard when you took no flea and nothing sells for shit to traders.
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>>579977760
for some reason my friends keep struggling with directional sounds when they seem to work fine for me most of the time
vertical sounds however are always fucked
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>>579978724
my over-ear headphones work great, but every in-ear i've tried always fucks up the directional audio and makes me have to echolocate with freelook just to tell where a shot came from.
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Man shotguns are so fucking fun when you're working within their limitations

https://streamable.com/hawd56
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>it's another episode of engage a guy only for his buddy to come up behind you 30 seconds into the fight and box you in
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>3 labs raids in a row
>haven't seen a single black division
This is so cool I love mindlessly searching for bots and pray they have the RNG Mcguffin on them.
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Somehow I've avoided all the super geared folks on NA west until today, every encounter has been lvl5 plate dudes with BP/M855A1 ammo. My lvl2/3 trader gear and lvl3 armor just don't cut it kek. Haven't survived the past 4 raids on streets but I'm still having a good time, every encounter I'm just thiiiiis close to bagging those freaks with my trash kits.
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>>579966141
>>579967652
Ground Zero is a fucking meat grinder, it's not all that much better in the <21 lobbies. It wasn't too brutal when I was new and being wrung through it (3 months after 1.0), but it's been nonstop slaughters and camping in Seasonal for me. Don't worry, Shoreline's next in the main story after Woods and it's a far simpler map to learn navigation and routing for than the others.
Have you gone through your keybind settings and unbound/rebound things to your liking? Chamber checking being on Shift+T will massively fuck you over once you start feeling comfortable with weapon attachments and aggressive pushes, quick melee can fuck you over too if things ever come down to that. Then, I'd suggest tuning in-game PostFx (post-processing/ReShade). I disabled it when I was starting out because I personally didn't like and didn't believe in ReShade bullshit, but PostFx makes such a huge difference in target identification. You pretty much can't see dudes lurking in dark corners without it. Watch a YouTube video or two on properly setting it up. And lastly - I'm really sorry to say this, but watching YouTubers/streamers playing the game will teach you a lot about how the game works on at least the micro level, even if they're basically playing an entirely different game than you are after a couple days of progress. People here will give you some recommendations on good series' for beginners if you are willing to do that, 1.0 series' are generally applicable while also giving a glimpse into what the old contracts system which you narrowly avoided looked like and just how hard it funnelled noobs into the Customs baptism by fire.
It took me a little over 300 hours to properly see Nikita Buyanov's vision in Escape From Tarkov, I expect it will take other sensitive people quite a bit longer than that, but there is more to this game than arenas for thousand-hour death squads to play Evil Counter-Strike against each other for eternity in.
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>>579979240
yeah could be caused by variation with equipment
I've sennheiser hd600's and a topping dx3 pro+ that I've used for like 5 years now
I tried some in-ears with the same dac/amp, but they just hurt my ears so I stopped using them
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>one tapped by the 4th black division sitting in a corner
And I'm willing to bet good money at least one of their backpacks had an SSD in them.
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>>579966141
The other folks have good advice, mine is just to stick to 1-2 maps and really learn those. My vote would be streets and customs because they can be pretty lucrative and teach you a lot about the game.

Just know that any difficulty you're having now is totally normal and doesn't mean that you're bad, nor does it mean that you're not capable of learning the game. Big thumbs up for giving pvp a shot right away and learning the game the real way, through hellfire, so you can get the same experience that so many other people who love EFT have gotten. There won't ever be a game like this again, it's fucking cool to live it while it's around.
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>>579981852
>Chamber checking being on Shift+T will massively fuck you over once
somehow this bind hasn't fucked over me once
then again, I don't bother with flashlights and if I play with a laser I only turn it off when holding an angle
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>>579981852
It's both cruel and unwise to make Ground Zero an eligible map for Prapor's MP5SD kills task, which unlocks before level 20.
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Does turning off power on Labs actually do anything, ie. spawn more BD/Raiders, or are people just doing it because they're fucking annoying?
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>>579983897
Personally I hate it, GZ does not need camping in the noob zone any more than it already has. True GZ kino was when ever lobby was just rushing the hard drive, gun encampments, ETC.
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>>579983978
just the latter afaik
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>>579984437
>True GZ kino
never existed. map was fucking faggot aids right out the gate
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>get my hands on that giga heavy BD armor
>throw it on and go do some tasks on Customs
>need 1 more Reshala guard and see one
>the guard fucking insta kills me to right armpit
Whoever finds my corpse is going to have a laugh. Cl 6 plate at the front, Bastion with that extra layer of armor etc. and I get shot in the armpit by AI of all things. Oh man.
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FUCKING FINALLY AAAAAAAA ONLY TOOK TWO FUCKING REAL LIFE DAYS OF PLAYING
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>>579967218
>Blame pve. Everyone at your skill level is fighting braindead AI in their hugbox.
Yep, that's me. I'll play pvp once I unlock Night Patrol upper on my char, 2 levels left
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>>579984937
Managed to stockpile 11 BD plate carriers from Labs so far + 3 green dogtags for the FCPC barter, I wonder how many I'm going to burn through for this shit.
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>>579984437
Heck, a player sitting within the green circle chokepoint with a good headset can hear anyone passing by.
The underground ought to be given an additional entryway near Nakatani, and there ought to be an additional corridor and TerraGroup HQ entrance east of the Empire building.
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>>579985332
>he didn't get it for free
Anyway, good on you for not paypigging for it on the website at least.
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>>579984937
i've only seen one. the spawn rates are fucking retarded
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>>579985524
I was tempted to get it with tarcoins you get from BP, but I'll save those
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>>579985832
Good call, you should never spend Tarcoins on shit that can be unlocked through gameplay.
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>>579983897
I mean, I had fun fighting with and against it on noob GZ, but I camped that stairwell a looooot too. I think that mission gets balanced out well enough on the Bike Cuck Global Happiness Index, think of the new players on Main PvP who would otherwise have to kill people on Interchange who've been nolifing the game since 1.0.
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>>579985940
The clothes cost like two hours of minimum wage salary at most, don't they? If you really just want them and don't care for setting obtaining them through in-game quest rewards/obtained tarcoins as a personal challenge, I don't see why paying for them would inexorably be dumb or EVIL.
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>>579985541
I've looted probably 25-30 BD outside Labs and gotten like 7 SSD's, so 1 per squad pretty much. Not too bad as they buffed the spawn rates again (27% now)
The drop rate on Labs is probably like 1/12 or something, maybe a bit worse. However, in all of these kills, not a single briefcase with documents has dropped, and my duo who opened his briefcases from the circle and quest still can't complete his kord breach quest.
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>>579987021
It's about giving BSG as little money as possible.
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>>579934951
I am *terrified* of Killa, yeah
>Mantis
Maybe if he was ever there and not in the front of Idea/Oli waiting for me to step inside into an insta-headshot lmao
I'm currently just setting up a build to go to interchange later, I had this M4 sitting around and have multiple excess stacks of M855A1
>>579938025
>>579938913
I really hope this goes well when I finally do it. I might have to try and tackle him first next time since the others were various flavors of easy with a bit of luck. Maybe something like
>Killa
>Sanitar
>Shturman
>Reshala
and then the rest should be easy because I'm not also dodging potential Gooning in the middle of it.
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>>579984759
UNBASED opinion, GZ was always super fucking fun. I loved the chaos that would ensue every wipe day on that map. Great times. I still remember lots of my first wipe kills on that map, lining up dudes with my irons as they run across the street, or blasting someone's head off with an unmodded 870.
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>>579987206
Fuck you.
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>>579988605
Hi Nikita.
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>>579988713
I almost wish I weren't NEET so that I wouldn't feel like such a miserly kike about forking over 30 for PVE. Another hundred billion yachts to LORD Nikita. Battlestate Games singlehandedly bankrolling Global ZOV Reich
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>>579989214
TRVEST of Believers...
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>>579989326
I remember when shoreline was a new map and it was the only one that had real loot spawns.
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Are there maps for where the docs spawn?
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>>579990060
https://perofunyang.github.io/battlepass_interactive_map/en.html?map=factory
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>>579990060
not for every map, people make only if its useful like these 3 are best cause small maps and no overlapping docs
>https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/escapefromtarkov_gamepedia/images/d/d7/BP_Documents_Ground_Zero_S01_Map.webp/revision/latest?cb=20260816204726
>https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/escapefromtarkov_gamepedia/images/c/c4/BP_Documents_Factory_S01_Map.webp/revision/latest?cb=20260816205020
>https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/escapefromtarkov_gamepedia/images/9/97/BP_Documents_Woods_S01_Map.webp/revision/latest?cb=20260827134840
maybe some hardcore dedicated guy will make a map for every map but you dont really need more than this
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>>579989726
Bro is unc.
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>>579990060
It's only in the fucking OP
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>>579990329
>>579990274
Thank you friends!

>>579990643
Never scroll up
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>>579990329
Retard
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>have a fuck ton of tasks on Customs
>spawn near big red every time
God, I hate this side of the map so much.
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>>579987563
glukhar and his men always give me and my friends trouble whenever we run into him, do you have a cheese strat for him or something?
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>>579990997
? nigger
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sako my beloved..
first three were a trio trying to go into sanitars room
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>>579992610
How fucking stupid do you need to be to think that every spawn wouldn't have been mapped out by now?
also
>woods
>small map
Genuine retardation
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>>579992582
So 99% of my raids on Reserve consist of me trying to quickly get my ass to dome and just exp farming on sniping. Not super often, but you can catch Glucose and the Sugar Squad hanging around various buildings and pop them from far enough away to not get shot back. Last time I found them at the Scav extract building and shot them at like 300+m, the other 3 guards were in front of the building leading to pawns at the sandbags. Scavs don't go into the dome ever, in my years sniping up there for exp and DMR skill I've never seen one come up all the way.
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>>579993562
huh, ok
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cultistbros...
too bad I don't play Reserve
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>>579993248
yeah dude they are all on the wiki, he asked for an interactive map or better yet a static png where you can see the map, the spawns drawn on it and a little picture indicating where they are
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any tips to do these boss hunt quests? I never see them and when I do, it's too late or there's another party doing the quest also.
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>playan pve
>get labs arsenal storage room key out of cultist circle
>check wiki to see where the door is and what's behind it since i barely ever play labs
>door is behind a keycard door and has some valuables and meds spawns and one file cabinet
>go to check its price on the flea to see if it's even worth selling
>sells for like three to four million roubles
wat? why??? do people on pve labs of all places really need another few valuables spawns that god damn bad that they'd drop that much money on it?
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>>579993972
Yeah, sometimes you get lucky. Lots of raids all I get is the loot in the dome building, so if you have those keys it can be pretty decent. PMC AI will come up to the building sometimes and VERY very rarely I've seen them either in it already or had Glukhar in it already. Circumstances like that usually warrant a quick extract in the back of the building and a lot of prayer.
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>>579994997
Yea man that's cool, one of the two sites for that has been in the OP for like 7 threads now, I'm calling you retarded because
>not for every map, people make only if its useful
>maybe some hardcore dedicated guy will make a map for every map
are just utterly fucking baffling statements.
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>>579995208
Aren't pve prices insanely inflated because everyone has a billion rubles?
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>looting dorms
>hear something, probably
>quickly run upstairs and bait, nothing
>keep looting
>kill a bunch of scavs
>loot some more
>once again hear something really minor, like the sound of someone taking a single step in crab-walk mode
>find no one and can't be arsed to open all the doors, so just blame my schizophrenia
>suddenly hear a scav shoot at the building
>run upstairs and throw a nade all the way to the other side of the hallway
>running
>explosion
>cries of agony
Man, it feels so good to kill someone with a nade, especially some giga rat.
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>>579994775
Does the VO spot still spawn 17 guns at a time?
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>>579998117
all of them do I think? idk, I haven't done any reserve markeds in a while, but I remember also getting COFDMs and some good valuables last time I did VO
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>>579998354
I usually get 2-4 in most marked rooms but the VO key the last few times has generated far more than I could carry out.
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>>579996546
yes because every lobby is pretty much free
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>>579966141
When I started playing I had a 13% survival rate but I identified 3 things that really helped me survive. Maybe they will help you, too.

>always wear a headset no matter which
Sound is insanely powerful in this game and headsets boost your hearing range and amplify quiet sounds like footsteps

>learn where players and you spawn
The wiki has maps with all player spawns. Knowing the spawns and how players move from their spawns through the map allows you to avoid a lot of pvp or set up ambushes n shit

>ammo
Ammo is THE deciding factor in any gunfight. Ideally you want to always have something that can pierce lvl 4 armor on the first shot. Most helmets in the game are lvl 4 and a headshot is almost always lethal. You can't buy this ammo at the start but there are lots of ammo spawns on every map that you can check with your scav.
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now I can finally play seasonal
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>>579997419
The problem I have with those tiny sound cues is your own steps will FREQUENTLY ghost somewhere slightly displaced from yourself and sound like someone else. I'm always jumping at my own footstep shadow and it makes it impossible to tell when one's real or a hallucination
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>>580005472
The game creates echoes off of nearby walls. Sound propagation seems overengineered for how shit it still is.
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>>580005631
Still happens even in the middle of a featureless field, game bad
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>can't put BD tags on the trophy shelf

what's the point of them then?
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>>580008905
Bartering or turning in for tasks
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crazy how much better of a pvp map is factory compared to nu labs
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>>579998484
>>579998354
Yeah see look at all this shit
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>>580012408
lol, yeah that's a bit excessive
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>>580012408
Only guns? That's kind of dogshit.
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>>580012754
you can see the blue keycard there
and often there are more key cards and other valuable stuff under the guns so you want to discard them into some corner
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>>580012901
Oh, right. Didn't look hard enough.
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>>580012408
it's a lot
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>assemble scav case
>feed it a spare intelligence folder i had
>gives me an entire RPDN and a bunch of random medium-value shit
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>>579995335
I wanted to follow up on this with more screenshots since I decided to do another Reserve run for fun. Spawned at the co-op extract, took the widest way I could towards Dome around the pawn buildings, and just set up for comfy times. The shot I was talking about on Glukhar was over the red shipping container where I spawned and I could just see the top of his head, pictured here (obviously he isn't there, I just spawned there).
This raid all I did was shoot like 20 scavs, collect DMR and Mag Drills exp, and left. Usually Reserve tends to be one of those maps I just go to for that now instead of going for Party City in the underground. I remember when I got those keys for the first time ages and ages ago, I would rush that spot every single raid.
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What do we think of the osprey mk4a (p)?
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>>580024354
The arms are nice for blocking scavs from blacking out your arms on the first shot. Other than that it's not very good.
The thing is that there are better armors that do the same thing. The Osprey is only class 2 soft while there are others that offer class 3.
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>>580025984
I like to use it for red rebel extracts but I was wondering if there were better armored rigs for that.
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>spawn in as player scav
>see another player scav
>we both say russian stupid lines to each other
>walk past him and pick up a gas analyzer off of a table
>he shoots me dead
What the fuck?
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>>579966141
Walk everywhere. Only sprint if you're out in the open and need to get to cover. You'll hear players sprinting around corners before they hear you walking, then you just stop moving and hold the angle for free kits
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>live in southern US
>ping is 19 on Mexico and 40 on US South
I'm coming for your culos, cabrons
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>>580032163
i think there's still a quest that needs two found in raid gas analyzers and it wouldn't surprise me if he'd been looking for one for like a week at that point, that's probably more valuable to him than the scav rep hit he got from executing you
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>>580032163
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>accidentally ate my FIR baguette in the stash
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>>580039961
you idiot
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I own a G28 for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended.
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Estimate how long I will live on night streets looking to kill Kaban
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>>580047230
82 seconds
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>AK-103
>pull trigger
>bounces like your mum on my dick
I hit the first headshot but of course it was a chink with an altyn
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One tapped by faggot division through a pixel gap while running award.
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>>580038880
>>580036646
It's just so fucking niggardly.
>>580039961
Go into settings and do what I did, turn off the double-click = eat on food/drinks in stash. Do this and you'll never even accidentally make that mistake again and it still works in raid for when your tumtum is empty.
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>>580047257
Well I got him but I died to his buttbuddies immediately after because I cheaped out with a lvl 3 plate on my back
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>>580048897
Just like pvp
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Best place to look for them/fight them on Shoreline?
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>>580049965
https://tarkovdocsmap.com/maps/shoreline
You can toggle BD paths on the right
Looks like an absolute shitshow on snoreline
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>>580050776
Jesus, that's pretty fucked. I looked at it and thought about camping HEPS, but then I realized how many windows there are, probably not a great idea. I guess I'll just have to camp inside the weather station and hope the Goons aren't there.
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>>580050930
pop stims and run around the map
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>>580051108
Nice try, but drugs are for losers, if I do drugs Black Division is gonna one tap me in the open, I'm sure.
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> BD themed season
> making BD rarely spawns on only 3 maps
> thus unattractive new barters
These retarded devs hate fun. No wonder 15% just go back to play permanent PVP.
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>>580051427
I dunno, 27% seems reasonable now, I've ran into them three times already today. The bigger problem is the barters requiring BD dogtags, but on one hand I can see what they were trying to do, they want to keep BD gear somewhat rare I assume.
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>>580051151
they seem to shoot very inaccurately in the open during longer range battles
killed one pack of them with a mere boltie
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>>580051535
they seem lost between making bots fun to fight, create a reason to fight them and attract people to grind seasonal rewards without overpowering them. The endstate is experienced players with too much free time stay, while the timmies leave since they don't know how to get good gears consistently.
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>>580051885
Interesting, where did you fight them?
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>>580053758
around here
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>>580054778
Alright, neat. Thanks.
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Any ideas on who the next Boss is going to be?
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>>580056637
Povodyr
On the new location "End of Line" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlfLsI21F7A which looks like some unholy fusion of labs and labyrinth
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>go to interchange
>kill some scavs outside
>try to go inside the back of Oli
>get a little bit in
>kill a couple more scavs
>fear creeping up on me in the silence
>it's dimly lit so I'm struggling to get very clear vision so I use my NVGs on and off
>just can't get over the jitters and anxiety about Killa
>turn around and leave
>kill some PMCs outside on my way to Railway
I am way too fucking scared to do this quest, so I think I just have to accept Relentless is outside my grasp. Interchange is a map I literally skip playing entirely these days because of him.
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>>580057575
>able to kill Glukhar and Tagilla
>scared of Killa
You don't make any fucking sense to me.
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>>580058084
>admits he uses the office window explot on tagilla
>only "hunts" glukhar by rng and sniping from the other side of the map
>showed that he "hunted" shturman by sniping him from a mountain
Guaranteed he didn't actually fight a single boss he killed on the list. How much you wanna bet he spotted Sanitar standing in the open and sniped him too? Being too scared to engage with any of the bosses is a pretty solid reason to uninstall because you clearly don't like the game.
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I accidentally picked up one of the quest documents for Ice breaker instead of reading it (yeah I didn't really bother with any story quests except for tour until now) and now the game wants me to read it.
It is not in my inventory, it doesn't spawn anymore and I am locked out of the story quest. Is there a way how to unfuck this?
A friend of mine has the same problem where he picked up one thing for story quest instead of reading it and now he is locked out as well
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>>580059390
You can find another copy of the thing in the spot you picked it up in later
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>>580059390
Handbook -> Info items.
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>>580059741
Based anon
thanks a lot
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>>580060190
Same shit happened to me when I was trying to unlock icebreaker with the document on lighthouse. I transited there 2 more times from woods to get to the train station and didn't find it after picking it up while the servers were closing once before.
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what are some things to be stocking up on every vendor reset besides m203 grenades
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>>580062282
Why would you ever stock up on dogshit long fuse 40mm grenades?
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>>580062529
suffering
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>one tapped by BD through a wooden fence
Yeah the village is not a good place to fight them on Shoreline it seems.
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Fuck my life.
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just a quick docs run on shoreline
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>>580063224
I just got my last one there
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>>580057575
Pussy.
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I survived labs and killed 7 BDs
I got 4 BD keys but not a single SSD which is what I really wanted
I fucking hate labs man, absolutely everything about it is specifically designed to cause maximum anxiety
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>>580064760
I spent my entire Saturday looking for the SSD on Labs, today I'm doing the follow up quest on Streets/GZ/Shoreline and I got 2 or 3 already. You may wanna skip Labs and just look for them on normal maps.
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>>580064880
I just constantly get screwed over by the unpredictability of BD spawns on the normal maps. They're only there sometimes, and they'll ALWAYS pop up out of nowhere the instant you're sure they haven't spawned. At least on Labs you know they're there and approximately where they're likely to be, and they won't laser you from across a city block.
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>>580065107
You're not wrong, but you should look up a map of their patrol routes and try to intercept them, that's what worked for me on Streets. Get their attention and try to funnel them through a doorway, preferably with the door closed. Just make sure you have another doorway to fall behind on in case they swarm you too fast.
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thanks rapist
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pill me on M855 vs SOST
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>>580065637
Dogshit vs garbage.
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>>580065703
trve...
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>>580065637
You should never run either on pvp. I use m855 to fill 2 mags for icebreaker to clear rogues and that's about it. It's not worth running a 5.56 gun without at least 56a1.
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my stash is hell on earth
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>>580065946
mine's been great ever since I started dying all the fucking time
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>>580065637
Both bad
M855 has the benefit of being cheap and having +0 recoil stats
SOST has a bit more flesh but that rarely come into play
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This is like the 5th fucking time this piece of shit has given me JUST this.
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>>580057575
>I-I got so scawed I ran away from interchange
>I won't play an entire high-quality updated map because da boss scawes me
Second hand embarrassment so strong I can't even imagine how you survive the firsthand version.
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>>580067606
SOST has one point less damage thoughever
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>>580068375
yeah but it has +light bleed and +heavy bleed so in practice it's a better flesh ammo
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you will never guess who gets the mvp for most captures!
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I'm so fucking glad I found BD on Shoreline on the very first attempt pretty much right off spawn and choked like a retard on the 4th. It's been several hours and I have not seen them since.
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why do I only ever get the losing side spawn on fort
????
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i stopped playing not long before terminal released
since coming back and reaching level 30 on normal pvp OCE - i have seen a total of 2 solo players
are literally all the solos on pve? is this a strictly squad game now?
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>>580057575
I skip interchange because the loot sucks.
At least, the loot sucks inside the mall. You can still find intel, moonshine, and electronics in the smugglers' camp.
It's no longer the only map with large concentrations of PC's so it doesn't have that going for it either.
The best area to loot in the mall is Tagilla's hideout and that's barely inside the mall at all.
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>>580070283
I refuse to play fort in any game mode. Fucking terrible map
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>>580070878
I reenabled it because I thought maybe I would get put on the free win side at least 50% of the time??? lmao not a single fucking time
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>>580071067
It hasn't been like that for a while. They sorta fixed the spawn camping situation. It's still just a fucking horrible map
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>>580070241
think I spent like 20 hours there and saw them four times
most of that was with the old spawn rates, though
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>>580070810
You don't have to samefag and pretend that it's a common opinion to "skip interchange". You're just a bad looter with shit prio and dogshit aim.
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>green eagle refuses to go up to the threshold where i usually sell it
This craft is always really good profit no matter what, but I've gotten spoiled selling these things at 68k-70k per
I sell these things in packs every single time and I always wonder if people buy them on purpose or not.
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>>580071686
I had very good luck with that, first try on Streets, two tries on GZ, seen them in my first two Shoreline raids, but now that I need fucking ONE I can't fucking find them anywhere.
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>>580071708
>You don't have to samefag
Wrong. Not samefagging.
>and pretend that it's a common opinion to "skip interchange".
Zero worthwhile locked rooms and a dozen tasks that send you in there to risk your neck surrounded by loot you could just as easily find on Customs or Streets.
>You're just a bad looter with shit prio and dogshit aim.
Again, not a samefag.
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I'm mad they still haven't put this balaclava in the base game after like a fucking year.
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>>580072608
A cutscene RUAF on Terminal also wears a green Momex balaclava I'd like to have
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>>580072728
I mean, we have the green CFs but they were in the last arena BP I think so you can't get them anymore.
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spent all my arena goypoint on swampfoxcoin and now I don't have enough left for thiccs it's over
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>>580073013
You spend your hwat on hwat?
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>>580072532
>n-not samefagging
We've all seen f12, swordbro.
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>>580073704
it's over! I will never recover
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>>580073704
he was buying swampfoxes with GP and selling them for roubles
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I wish the boypussy doc spawns were random or had a lot more spawn points placed to encourage exploration or at least not having to run through the same route to the same 15 spawns every raid
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>>580069951
I once had the most kills, captures and assists, but the game gave the MVP to someone else, it happened in reverse one time as well. How the Arena MVP system works shall remain a topic of philosophical discussions.
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>>580072728
>>580072909
There is one in DNC in the current battlepass, it's not the same but it's quite close.
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>>580074985
I just fucking detest some of the map choices for certain documents. I hope as the season progresses they add new doccy types to new maps
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>>580076945
What I find extremely funny is that what documents you need for your pass is random, which means that you can get a lot of documents for maps you absolutely hate.
Of course, I need a ton of documents from lighthouse and reserve, which are my least favorite maps
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>>580057575
Leave this thread and never return. Being failure-averse in a game like Tarkov is pathetic and I hope they remove PvE so fags like you uninstall.
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>>580057575
why did you leave killa for last???
i did him and tagilla first lmao
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found the golden cock I need on scav and then fucking died 20m from the exfil
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>>580078328
He's a dumb fag
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i'm sure bsg will remember to reenable the bed any patch now!
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>>580078328
If I'm reading his older posts right, each boss was done incidentally instead of purposefully until he went after Shturman. Killa is the last boss anyone kills by accident since he just jumps cares you with silent tracers in your skull.
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>>580078651
>scavving in PVE
The game really has bigger problems than a missing asset in a random room.
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>>580078757
Why wouldn't you have a fun run with random junk once in a while?
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>>580078883
What's stopping you from doing that on your PMC in PVP?
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>>580079259
Nothing, you can do either. I prefer pve as well for a much comfier game.
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I don't understand why they're gatekeeping this so hard when you can buy VOGs and short fuse F1s on the flea market.
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>>580078757
god forbid a guy get a little fence rep
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>>580079494
No fun allowed, unironically.
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>>580079340
Why play a competitive shooter to remove the competition?
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>>580080240
>Tarkov
>competitive shooter
Fuck PVE, but lmao.
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Tried SPT with sain AI, wtf is this trash the PMC bots all throw homing grenades, aimbot you and just start sprinting at you. I really don't get it, it's worse then any bad PvP raid I've ever had how is this comfy? Did I get memed? You PVE fucks need to take a cold shower and get out of your comfort zone and get back on PvP
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Im making a BOLD guess that i mog other PvE andies in this thread stat wise
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>>580080953
Adjust your settings, retard. You can fine tune your ai to your liking.
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>>580079494
You can buy short fuse F1s on the flea? That's apeshit news
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>>580081753
You can, but they're way too expensive. A VOG is good enough and costs a fraction of what the F1s cost.
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>>580081290
No these are the recommended settings for this great sain AI in all its glory, what a surprise PVE fucks lying about great the is AI "it's just like PvP"
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>collat'd the pair of bd on icebreaker
i'd like to thank the cocksucker at bsg who posted the clip

>>580080240
>competitive shooter
haha
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>>580082225
>No these are the recommended settings for this great sain AI in all its glory
Who cares? Just adjust them to your liking you sperg. Yes, it's a lie that it's just live pvp, but only the most retarded have ever said that and I've never seen that said here. The more common statement is that it's better than pve, exactly because you can adjust the settings so the AI act to your preference.
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>>580082354
*the first pair
fak
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>killed someone to Lexos with my cheeky M67 that I threw as I went from jail to loot another PMC I killed to the sausage store
oh well, at least he had a duo as I heard jumping there afterwards
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Do BDs light up AI Scavs too, or just PMCs and player Scavs? I know they are neutral to 6 rep PScavs.
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Can I PLEASE find ONE motherfucking Black Division on Shoreline, for FUCKS sake?
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>>580087484
they seem so easy to miss there
the last time I saw them, they were coming from south of resort to power where I hadn't ever seen them before (see image)
once I spotted them on the open field west of smugglers camp when there were only 10 minutes left on the raid
think the optimal way is to run around the map twice in clockwise direction, checking pretty much everything but resort and the edges of the map. well, not literally check everything but run on top of hills from where you can scan the open fields where you'll easily spot them
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>>580089268
I've encountered twice in shoreline, once at the bridge to pier and once inside east side of health resort
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guys, I am broke af. I have been buying guns with cash and I think that's why. Can you please suggest some great gun barters?
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my stash is FUCKED because I am unable to vendor anything that I could get another 4k rubles for on flea
I suffer with jewish admixture...
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>queue dubai servers
>die to some nigger extract camping the car on shoreline
I can't dude...
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>>580084172
they kill everything that moves that arent bosses
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can I kill BD's as a scav (6 fence rep) without it costing me any rep?
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>>580094283
Yes. You may also kill rogues, Partisan, and the Goons as a scav
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>>580094538
cool, thanks
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>6 hours of shoreline
>zero BD encounters
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>>580092762
I have overflux of guns, so only barters I use are the BD dogtag as val mod4 and ak308 ones
if you genuinely think that's draining your money, consider buying cheaper guns. something like kedr with flesh ammo
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which trader do you think is the sluttiest

ragman ?
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>>580084172
>I know they are neutral to 6 rep PScavs.
I thought this too, but I went to test it just now and they were shooting me on sight
Fence rep 6.045 if that matters, perhaps I need 6.1?
https://litter.catbox.moe/rczbtupuektjaa2v.mp4
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>>580099408
I dunno I'm not a scavnigger I just saw a clip of it online, maybe they patched it until then because it was objectively retarded.
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how did all those sniper scavs get up on the inaccessible rooftops??
this is very important for my immersion...
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why is ragman always DEMANDING I haul him back mountains of absolute garbage
please stop man
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>>580098653
absolutely, niggas into clothes always fruity
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>>580100983
There's a spot on woods where the entrance to the roof is blocked off and there's a sniper scav on the other side. It's not like there's no way up, we're just not allowed up there and the ways up are blocked off.
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>>580102057
>woods
I mean streets. It's in the apartment where ballet lover is, the name of which is currently escaping me.
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>>580100983
scavs, like most russians, are more ape than man and can climb things very efficiently
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>>580101903
he's also armenian...
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>>580100983
ladder hax
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>>580098653
Ragman is probably the biggest whore, but Jaeger is the gayest. He and Partisan spend all their free time sucking and fucking each other in the woods, the old faggots.
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where the FUCK do i find adrenaline injectors man
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>>580021148
>third or fourth time feeding it an intel folder
>gives me a MFD and another fucking RPDN along with some other junk
i love gambling
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I remember condensed milk being a big thing years ago but I have no fucking idea why anymore
I guess the kiba key barter unless there was something else for them back in the day?
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>>580103342
I stopped with intels completely, you might get a marked key every now and then, but otherwise they are useless. Moonshine is the way, especially if you need some lvl 5/6 plates.
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>>580103659
Cdmilk is only used for the trooper bag barter
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>looting sanitar at the pier
>fresh scav walks up from dockside

where do these fucking rats keep coming from?
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>>580104974
they can smell bodies from a kilometer away
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do different suppressors have different levels of sound reduction or are they all the same
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>>580106098
different
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>>580106098
Check the suppressor, there's a loudness reduction on all of them that is numerical
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Does BD on labs keep spawning
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did i just see a fucking meteor
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very cool fact: the parts you can modify while having a gun equipped in the hideout actually do NOT match the parts you can modify in raid!
time for a stockless run I guess
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>>580103728
i'll probably switch to moonshines when i have my booze generator built then
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so I'm on Prapor's quest to use the flare exit on customs
where the fuck is the flare supposed to be shot?
I shot it out almost directly in the air, it landed in the sniper death zone but ziltch
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>>580109246
Walk up until you see a "signal flare area" notification in bottom right corner.
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imagine how good it must feel to wade through the shoreline swamp and get your boots full of mud for the rest of the raid
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>>580109246
make sure you're using the GREEN flares
t. died twice trying to use white flares lmao
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>>580109246
aim like 50-70 degrees in the air instead of straight up, it's weird
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>GPU is thermal throttling in the hideout
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>>580109246
Walk forward enough so that the metal railing/arch above doesnt block the flare
Look slightly up and fire it strait at the railway
If it work, you'll get a message and a confirmation flare
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>>580110338
repaste it big dawg
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>>580106873
I thought the loudness stat doesn't do anything?
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>>580105740
it walked out of the water like a fish man
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i am going to KILL your bitch ass !
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just realized the faction armbands actually cover up the shirt patches for cross-faction clothing if you are an ultimate paypig
actually based I will now wear armbands

>>580112801
where do you think little scavs come from...
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add actual season mechanics and let me play winter tarkov more than 2 weeks per year PLEASE nikita
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kinda wish insurance was a bit less reliable in PVE because this shit is NOT helping my hoarding disorder
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>it's another birdeye waiting on top o fweather station to aimbot nigger my ass if I approach within 500m episode
can someone please put a different one one
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>>580113664
Winter sucks a fat cock and always goes on for a month too long.
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>>580115030
imagine if we just had actual seasons every week or whatever following the ingame days for enjoyable variety... what a concenpt...
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do I gotta haul this out
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>throw a flashbang
>it explodes 4 feet from a pmc
>headshot
>doesn't count towards progress
i hate this FUCKING quest so much
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>>580115354
You don't need it for anything, but at least take the scope and check the box, it can have M61s
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>>580071958
:*)
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>>580115713
>and check the box, it can have M61s
I think the M60 spawns with either M80 or BCP. Weapon spawns have set ammo inside them, but loose magazines can spawn with any type.
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>>580116250
Damn, really? I assumed that the gun can spawn with the same boxes as the ones you can get from loose loot.
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>no living high pt. 2 after the first part
>check wiki
>huh, guess they removed that quest
>sell all the shit i had saved up
turns out the quest still exists they just fucking renamed it.
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>>580115713
I did NOT fucking enjoy hauling this bullshit all the way across shoreline, but at least it came with a full box of delicious M80...
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>>580117092
Nice, M80 is nothing to scoff at
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>wandering around labs basement level
>carefully checking every corner
>for a reason I cannot explain to myself, don't check one corner even though I've been autistically carefully checking every corner slow peeking shoulder switching etc
>THAT'S the corner some motherfucker is around
I have no idea what brain disease I've suddenly contracted but I hope it kills me
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why is 4.8x30 so much better than 5.7x28
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>>580120049
there's only 1 gun chambered for it
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is there a Gamer Technique to get into the shoreline gas station without nuking half your hp or do you just gotta yolo it
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finally
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>>580121414
*beep*
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Now that you have to shot locks sometimes, they should add the R-92 compact 9x18mm revolver, as a quick, easy "key" for them.
it should only occupy one slot, so if you have to move it out of the holster, it wouldn't take much space.
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want to level covert movement
don't want to move slowly
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>>580121410
there's a specific path you gotta take. have a look on youtube there's probably a video out there
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>>580122570
just buy a makarov you hipster
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just unlocked the fun tube. what should i blow up first?
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>>580123131
okay I tried a different path and got myself instakilled
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>>580123490
killa/tagilla
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>>580123231
No, but I would take a tiny 5.45x18mm PSM pistol that goes in the special slots.
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your actions?
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>>580121410
>>580123641
my brother taught me this
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>>580057202
Don't the Tarkov books have the main character discovering some secret underground base with auto turrets an shit?
maybe it's the same place.
Hell, maybe this Povodyr fella is the character from the books.
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>>580124629
keep masturbating
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>>580124678
yep that's the path. gotta line up with the shelf gap >>580123641
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died to fucking sanitar nigger aimbotting a grenade on my ass again award
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>>580126204
shoot and scoot nigga
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>>580124678
They really oughta just remove this shit entirely. It's not like there's any skill, and this isn't something that you're gunna find organically
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>>580126356
excuse me sanitar please come out of the fucking building
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>8 and a half minute estimated time
>on pve interchange
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>>580126204
He did this to me for the first time in ages last week. Lobbed a perfect f-1 at me that exploded the instant it was above my head.
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>>580125198
isnt the tarkov book mc a TG employee that's being hunted down by the cult?
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>>580128189
might have been a short fuse f1
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>>580129981
I think it tells you when it's a reduced delay one, it just said F-1 so dunno
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died to sanitar nigger cock AGAIN
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60 round mags make literally all the difference when boss killing.
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>>580128019
>going there with a friend
>run into killa and both of us die horribly
>both of us equip shit gun kits with the strongest armor we have and go back in
>blow his legs off with a ppsh this time
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how come EFT has a gerneral but arc raiders doesnt
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>>580133206
no gunz/milsurp autism there i think, idk i dont play that game
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>matching for 5 minutes on bsg servers

nigga its pve literally what is the holdup
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>required search doesn't work on BD Keys
>wiki doesn't list barters using them
for fuck's sake
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>>580135536
is it not on the seasonal section?
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>>580136938
Not that I can see
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Just started playing again havent played in like 5 years so what are we playing persistent pvp vs season? im finding persistent alot more fun the fights feel better also the servers feel alot better, i made it to level 20 on season and just started persistent
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>>580138436
pvp season and pve
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>>580138436
Permanent servers have had a way higher number of lower skilled and low hour players. Like 90% of the guys I've been killing recently have had a sun 1.0 k/d.
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fat nigga
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>>580139230
Oh, BD are spawning with the type 20? That's neat.
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okay now that I'm back from taking dinner to my stupid beasts may I please have one (1) shoreline raid where I can do colleagues without getting fucking gaped by sanitar tonight PLEASE
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>>580139398
BD spawns with just about any 5.56 rifle in game, the Mk-17, the M60 and the QBZ
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>>580139968
I'm not playing seasonal so only familiar with them from the few icebreaker runs I did early on. Makes sense that they'd run lots of 5.56 though
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>>580140175
Yea the Icebreaker and Labs BD got classed as Raider versions, so rifles and SMGs, the Seasonal ones have boss Ammo 90% of the time, lvl 5 and 6 plates and bastion plates, while the raider ones get lvl 4 plates and lower HP pool
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>>580140462
>and bastion plates
BD with bastion slaap plates sounds fucking terrifying.
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>>580140573
Yea the seasonal ones on top of having 70 head HP can spawn with bastion plates on top
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>The grenade launcher can hit you inside the truck on streets

what horse shit
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>get shot by Fagban Sniper with sp5
>lose all my stamina
>start healing up
>using a grizzly
>hear 4 footsteps coming my way
>cancel heal and strut to cover
>turbo nigga with a Scar-H
>"Tower, Objective sighted"
>"STILL ZIPPING MY FUCKING GRIZZLY UP
>Hide behind a corner
>BD walks up to me and mag dumps me right next to a dumpster with m993
I AM NEVER USING GRIZZLIES EVER AGAIN
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>>580142248
grizzlies are for saving 30k each time you limp back to hideout after getting blown out
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>>580142334
Just so mad that it was the 3rd raid back to back with BD I could've finished the Streets task, if I didnt get mag dumped with SP5 from 160m
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jesus christ FINALLY
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>playing scav
>go on reserve
>exploring the top of the knights building
>one of gluhkar's guards run up and corner me on the roof
Does he expect me to jump off the building?
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this game has a notable lack of ~8x scopes that aren't fucking awful in some way
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anyone else get stuck on loading objects for an oddly long time?
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what the hell does gyepka mean
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Augh
found second one right near extract
>>580145562
It's "kepka" and it means "cap" as in headwear.
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>>580140462
So that's why the labs and icebreaker ones always have worse stuff huh
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>>580138783
yeah only good thing about seasonal pvp is taking all cheaters and streamers wannabe away.
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>>580140462
>>580150172
You can still get a shit ton of black tip 5.56 from Labs BDs, and their LV-119s can have class 6 plates.
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>>580151239
Yeah I'm swimming in M855A1 now just from two successful Labs visits. Like a ridiculous amount. No wonder everyone I come across is running 55A1 and 995 exclusively now.
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I played SPT like 2 years ago for like 30 hours and it was fun but also extremely stressing. Should i buy the gaem now that it's on steam, if it's on sale? do i get used to the stress and hyperventilating?
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>>580151682
Don't forget that you can trade 2 grey BD dogtags for 100 M855A1 too. Twice per reset on Peacekeeper.
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>>580151709
>do I get used to the stress
haha no
well actually in PvE yes, in PvP no
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>>580151947
you can also buy it off flea for ~1.2k rub per bullet
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>>580152264
Why would I do that then when I can get it for free from BDs?
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>>580152418
there are better barters
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>>580152517
For the grey dogtags?
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>>580152632
actually just the T30 barter, three per reset for one dogtag each, and they sell for 80-100k during non off hours
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>>580153215
idk man monopoly money is not hard to get, I'd say good ammo has more utility.
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What's the chance for cultists to spawn on night factory?
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>scavving for docs
>kill some poor level 9 Timmy who's using a Frankengun with a PSO scope and HP rounds
>feel bad
>his name is HentaiChrist69
>don't feel bad anymore
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Is the vidya good yet? I kinda miss taking my collection of M60s to factory while wearing the heaviest plates possible.
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>>580078328
So I sorta never considered actually doing Relentless for a long time (scared of Killa, Sanitar, Shturman, etc). Since I was hunting that stupid Sheef piggy bank on Customs, I ended up killing Reshala, so that was just part of that raid. Later I was doing Shoreline with a friend learning the game and I spotted/sniped Sanitar, and after that I felt like it was starting to take shape. Went to Reserve and sniped out Glukhar, and then Woods (praying no gooning) to kill Shturman. Now I'm alone with the guy I hate the absolute most in the entire game.
Thankfully, I can just scav on like a 5 minute timer until I feel like taking the risk or just not bothering.
>>580070810
I feel you, and last time I was there I learned about that cool camp out in the outskirts of the map so it just gives me even more reason to avoid the mall entirely. I much prefer Factory for all of my loot-related needs and general gameplay.
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>>580159216
Good changes are being made; I think Tarkov will be good by December 18th
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https://x.com/nikgeneburn/status/2096932704290009258
Lighthousebros...
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>>580164623
hope we'll have BD spawning in the map
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>>580129594
At first, by the last book it's revealed he's some sort of spy, but we don't know who he's working for and what exactly he's looking for in Tarkov
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>>580164623
Thoughts?
Hopes?
Fears?
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> 4 mins left in the raid
> server connection lost
fuck this broken piece of shit game. The devs could have implemented something to compensate people in cases like this but they won't because THEY ARE FUCKING RETARDED.
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I'm starting to dread seeing this item in my raids but i love money
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>>580164623
So they're gonna gut the absolute fuck out of the water treatment loot, right? It'll probably be dead space after this
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>>580163518
I hope it's at least not gonna run like absolute ass.. I can't play some of these maps like streets cause fkn 15fps.
>>580166340
Good thing I play offline.
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>>580166945
It's already been gutted once. You used to find GPNVG's and lots of other miltech on the rooftops.
>>580163518
>Next time it will be good!
Can't fool me niggita
What it will take to make the game "good" are making the game run well and the servers not drop packets all the time
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Well I found BD on night Streets
Literally within 0.5 seconds of seeing me (they were all huddled around the fountain thing just next to Zmejskij Alley, they were obstructed by bushes from my angle), 995 straight to the head
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Anyone know how to get the paramedic task from therapist? My duo has it and I don't, wiki seems to think the only requirement is to have loyalty level 2 with therapist which we both have. Only difference between us is that he has completed Aid Stations and I have not, but that task supposedly does not lead to anything.
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>>580171606
You need to complete X amount of quests at a specific loyalty level to unlock additional ones at that loyalty level, at least I think that's how it works.
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>>580171606
some anon in the thread said tasks are tied to how many you complete in the loyalty tier, so once you finish enough tasks in tier 3 new tier 3 ones pop up
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>>580166574
>like 10k per slot
>45+ kg
I'm tired of pretending every post of yours isn't blatant bait.
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>>580173321
Sorry bud, when it comes to being retarded and hypergreedy, I'm the genuine article.
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>>580175458
I'm utterly terrified of what junkboxes you own would be filled with.
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>>580175781
Looks like this
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>CAGfag dev gets promoted to game design
>the mall ninja masks are instantly nerfed for next patch
my knees... they're bending by themselves...
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The update tommorow better have the Siege-R seasonal quest in it.
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No way in hell I'm finishing the Arena BP before the season ticks over. Oh well I guess, not much shit worth anything in there this time
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>>580167024
>>580168205
Additional optimization and an engine update is in the roadmap, and the recent optimization patch did increase my frames
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hope we'll get better balaclavas and other head related drip in the next season
those are the only items I bother buying with gp coins apart from one or two thiccs and ronin respirators which I use to reward my duo whenever he gets 4 or more kills in a single raid
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>collecting goypass docs on factory
>tagilla mearly spots me
>run away but someone else is also shooting me
>its a scav, mind you I havent fired a bullet so far
>they swarm me but I think since I havent betrayed anyone its fine if I fight back
>-0.13 rep
infinite nigger bullshit today it seems
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>>580179247
I've done that before, I believe you can only shoot back and kill them if you've actually been hit by one of their bullets, not that I test this much, but considering the wording and the negative rep from shooting them first either way, I assume so.

went to labs, hit Blue, Black (one PMC just standing in the stairway going up from Black), Green, and Orange. 4 Raiders were standing on the basement elevator below Black that's always my main escape.
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>>580179247
>they swarm me but I think since I havent betrayed anyone its fine if I fight back
The only time you can kill a scav as a scav is if it's a player who's shot you. You just gotta accept death if a boss, their guards, or the scav gang that follows tagilla around shoots you.
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>open BD crates
>Mystery Ranch Blackjack 50 backpack (MultiCam)
>Crye Precision CPC plate carrier (Goons Edition)
Fascinating.
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>>580181317
>goes to the lab
>with no insurance
>using his mid-tier ammo
>but too scared to fight Killa
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>>580183401
>goes to the lab
>with no insurance
Retard
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>>580183520
I was making the point that the coward is going somewhere where he is at much greater risk because of no insurance. I'm not trying to imply that Lab has insurance and he didn't buy it.
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>>580179247
If you get too near any boss scav or their guards and they aggro, all scavs on the map will try to kill you even if you run away from the boss/guard. This can happen through walls and floors on factory with tagilla.
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>>580183401
I have a general path and mental layout of Labs, but when I'm on interchange I just have to pray that the psycho isn't around any corner or on the other side of a massive room to instakill me without any chance to react. I hate Killa because he's like going into a haunted house attraction, you know full well that a jumpscare is coming but that doesn't make it not 'get' you, you know?
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>>580123080
want to level strength/endurance
don't want to move fast
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FUUUUUUCK FUCKING FINALLY, from now on it's easy peasy.
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QUICK MY FRIENDS!

For the woods BTR, once I reach the train depot what's the stop that I can send the BTR to afterwards so it just comes right back to me?
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>>580188034
Old sawmill.
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>>580188069
thank you habibi

>t. eating snacks in the BTR on my way to the depot
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Excellent tip on the BTR, I love how you can just cycle it endlessly back to yourself for 7.5k a pop kek. Gave me plenty of time to get everything I needed from the depot and a safe exit to boot. Crazy how this isn't super common knowledge yet, as I STILL see plenty of people getting out via the train roofs.
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>>580189791
Well there's always the chance someone takes the BTR at old sawmill.
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>>580189894
Yeah, but I like to think that puts the guy already in the depot (me) at a big advantage compared to getting camped on your way out via the rooftops. As long as you take a bit of time to set up when the BTR arrives each time to make sure no one gets out, it seems like a good deal.
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I'm confused as fuck. why EFT-but-in-space needs to exist? I was expecting Nikita's new game to be truly revolutionary, not just EFT in space
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>>580164623
>was going to go to lighthouse on pve for my first time ever the day of the rework announcement
>saw the announcement and decided to put off playing the map until the rework comes out
>now at the point where like 75% of my uncompleted quests are on lighthouse and the rest are mostly shitty transit quests
just in time
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>>580196368
he wants to capitalize on the success of marathon clearly
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>>580196902
>marathon success
what? when did Marathon ever succeed?
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>>580196902
>marathon
>success
Not sure about that one
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>>580196368
I'm liking the lore desu, but i can't understand why he made 190+ years of lore only for us to play in 2170 or whatever. what's the purpose of all of that alt-history lore
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>>580198063
i think russians just like doing that
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>did some sniping
>one of the bodies was hard to find
>barely made it into the extract
>MIA
fuck you nikita, i refuse to sprint around and pew pew
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>>580156981
8% on pvp and 12% on PvE according to
>https://eftboss.com/
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>>580198063
tarkov is lowk gimped because of realism-tism
in irl everything is ARs and for other guns its hard to compete, but in space tarkov you can just make stuff up and make everything work
Im not talking about gun design but how these guns play ingame, like the qbz is very unique and all but it plays like any other AR
you can see them adding stupid stuff like the ak 50 and the deagle bull rounds just to do something different, but these things are just not viable against an ar with 60 rounds but in space tarkov you could balance it out because you dont have to add the massive drawbacks the fun stuff has irl
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Thank god I did many lighthouse quests today. It's gonna be a crowded shitshow with new map tmr.
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>>580203994
Provided assessment hasn't changed I'll be excited for it. I need another like 6 kills. I've been putting it off because I fucking despise lighthouse.
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It'd be really cool to see a breakdown how which bosses get the most pmc kills in pvp each wipe/season. Who do you think? I'd vote knight/big pipe, but tagilla probably catches TONS of timmies.
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>>580204735
BD squads in open fields are deadlier than any bosses. Well they are even more dangerous than sweaty pmcs because they got wallhacks and laser beam accuracy.
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now that's a raid
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>>580214728
You can't use a mod like that! You have to sit in your stash, looking up the price of each individual item on the flea for 20 minutes if you want to sell your loot for optimal gains!
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>>580215012
I even get a little tooltip that tells me who pays the most, and I can press one button to instantly list it on the flea for that price :)
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>>580215520
what is an ak-102 speedy
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>>580215847
there's a mod that adds weapon variants to the game that you can find randomly or that enemies can have on them, speedy means it has higher fire rate and recoil
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patch time dropped
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kinda surprising how basic game mechanics are so poorly documented in tarkov given the popularity and number of other tools
I blame nikita being too cheap to host a wiki anywhere other than godawful f*ndom slop
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when we getting the next twitch stimmies
I don't want to haul out the stupid fucking dumbells for collector...
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>>580223513
but i still havent opened most of the old ones yet
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can we have some bolt actions or meme caliber rifles that aren't FDEslop please
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>>580215520
This should just be how the game is normally (other than stuffing ammo into your secure container, kys)
Imagine Tarkov with an auto-dump button that transfers all your loot (i.e. all non-consumables, worn items, and filled magazines) into appropriate containers or empty spaces (if no containers are available) with one click.
Instead we have to deal with the absolute dogshit of clicking and dragging each item where it needs to be.
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>>580224682
I think you should have to go into the hideout and play a 3d item placement minigame actually
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I think if you take damage fragile items in your backpack like light bulbs and electronics should have a chance of breaking
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>>580215520
is SPT worth playing?
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>>580225131
it is if you accept that it's a different game than real tarkov and put the time in to mod it how you want it
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>>580224981
I think there should be a very small chance every time you take a step that you twist your ankle and it acts like a blacked out leg for the rest of the raid but you can't surgery it
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>>580098653
More like cumragman amirite?
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>BTR killed both guards and left me the shturman kill
blessed
>AI scav tried to loot n scoot with his svd then double legged me
blursed
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>>580223513
can't you just chuck one in the cultist circle alone and it'll give you a found in raid one out of pity
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>>580224981
true
batteries for electronics when
seasons + temperature mechanics when
multiple types of batteries with different temperature performance/weight/rechargeability (with durability mechanics for rechargeable batteries) WHEN

t. special interests haver
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>>580226335
I unironically quit the game for a while when BSG foisted that awful cold event last winter.
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>>580224981
actually this would unironically be cool because it would give the hard case backpacks that are currently just heavy as fuck for no benefit a reason to exist...
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god I just want a proper autism simulator
fucking pissed star citizen spent all their money on boring generic slop instead of making a game perfectly tailored to MY special interests
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>>580226748
Haha the cold event was fucking funny, I loved it. The only part I hated was that they added that fucking stupid arena cuckmask that let you still wear a helmet.

Event that introduces mechanics that change how players play the game: good
Event that takes those mechanics and lets sweaties bypass them entirely through paypig/arena gear: lame

The comments during that event were so fucking funny, hundreds of absolute troglodytes who can't IMAGINE entering a raid without a fucking helmet. Just bizzare.
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>>580224981
eh nah this is just lame and unfun. But I agree with >>580226778 that backpacks could use additional mechanics that make some of the heavier ones more worthwhile.

Maybe like an efficiency stat, so like some backpacks could have lower capacity but reduce the weight of items inside of them by a certain %. So you can't take as much out of raid, but you're travelling much lighter than someone taking the same shit out in a larger capacity bag. Could create a fun playstyle where you zip around the map then zip out quickly because you've hit capacity sooner and aren't bogged down by weight.
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does the game ever explain what the fuck the cultists are on about if you actually play the main quest

t. still haven't gotten through more than 25% of it
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>>580228004
>>580226778
just make the backpacks armored (^:
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>>580228264
I ain't taking that bait, dawg! They HAD a great armor situation a while back when plates first got introduced. Better to go back to that instead of fucking shit up more kek
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is this good
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nikita would you mind fixing the goddamn daily task locations already
and WHILE YOU'RE AT IT: how about making tasks that involve multiple specific maps actually show the relevant maps instead of ""Any Location"" like tasks that actually can be done anywhere???
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bad day for my stash
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>>580228582
Kek I have this one rn too, extracted from woods twice and got no progress. It would net me a goldenstar too...
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>>580228582
figure it out tovarisch, is hardcore game xaxaxaxa ))))))))
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>>580228248
I never finished it but it's heavily implied that the cultists are mentally fucked up by-products of Terragroup attempting to make chemically-enhanced supersoldiers
There is no supernatural shit going on
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>>580228248
They seemingly want to make sacrifices to an eldritch deity similar to Azatoth or Shub-Niggurath in order to bring about some transformative/apocalyptic event. I don't think the game elaborates further.
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>encounter a guy in woods
>exchange shots
>reposition
>learn he has a buddy
>dome the buddy through the foliage
>reposition
>pack mags and wait for things to quiet down
>move to flank
>catch the first guy with his pants down
>kill him too
>fuck yeah
>go to loot my kill
>THIRD buddy is camping his corpse
>he sucks dick and misses most his shots
>only my thorax is alive
>manage to sprint away
>loop all the way back to car extract and make it out alive

Feels fucking GOLDEN to finesse a squad like that. I don't care that I got zero loot from it, I am a golden god rn.
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wow
thank you
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>>580230563
>100% profit
Yes, thank the cultists you ingrate.
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playing arena is a great treatment for low blood pressure
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The woods train depot has solved my money issue...for a bit there I was getting worried considering I have bad charisma and no flea market. But thanks to BTR abuse I think I'll be ok.

Gonna need to get my scav rep up though through car extracts, my btr "send home" capacity is real shit right now.

>t. 0 scav raids
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frankly it's very impressive how matchmaking manages to find players somehow worse than me exclusively for my team when I'm playing checkpoint
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SLAP with a random chance to send your gun to 0 durability when?
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what does no3op mean?
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>>580235024
I'm not russian, but pozor means "beware" in my slav language
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>>580234018
and kill your PMC
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>>580235171
10hp head + heavy bleed
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>planting my toolkit on fagtory
>as I finish a duo voips me
>"hey man I want to plant my toolkit are you friendly"
>I say "sure, I just planted mine, you stay there I'm about to leave just do it afterwards"
>guy keeps saying "I chose YOU!" while circling the corner
>wtf is with this guy
>"I chose...YOU!"
>he throws a fucking impact at me and misses
>clip begins with me blowing his head off
>kill his buddy afterwards too
>there's probably a third but fuck it I got great gear off the second guy so I leave

https://streamable.com/aaylg2
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>>580235024

>>580235123
Which one is that?
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>>580236449
oh damn, so it's different in russian
in czech and slovak it's beware
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>>580236649
Oh, I see why now, that's pretty cool.
In Russian there's "дoзop"/"dozor" which means "watch" as in "standing watch", guarding something etc. Can trace the similarity
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>>580237227
Oh yeah, we have dozor too, but it means more like "oversee"
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Do the extra editions ever go on sale or are they turbo jewish about that too?
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I will surely unlock good ammo crafting recipes any day now
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>>580241005
I didn't use any of my gunpowder until I unlocked m80a1. The blue powder is useless.
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im scavvin
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>>580241169
nice to see thermals are still dogshit useless in tarkov
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>>580226224
Yes
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>>580241354
Using dogshit thermals will often lead to dogshit visuals
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>>580241354
>has the worst thermal in the game
>erm thermals are dogshit useless
You're a retard
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>>580241928
let's see that 30hz refresh rate buddy
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>>580242085
Who gives a fuck? It doesn't make the actually good thermals useless.
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>someone other than me popped a mortar flare in raid

uhhh based?
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>>580242192
Always carried one around but never actually fired them
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cigarettes should be counted as household materials
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heh...maybe in your household...
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What do you guys do when you're out of rubbles?
I'm always permanently broke.
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>>580243784
I never run out of roubles. If I ever feel like I am getting poor, which is just below some arbitrary threshold, I hit a few scav runs on streets or reserve. I also will just play streets and rush tarbank for a free 300k+ and some usd/euros.
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>>580243784
I sell some shit, I'm down to 900k from just trying to do the seasonal quests, I am having a really hard time making money on seasonal
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>>580243784
play a few hands of poker and double my money easy
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>scav run
>extracting out of ground zeroes
>see a fully kitted out scav, clearly killed a pmc
>he looks like he's about to shoot me
>chuck out a voice line
>he's okay
>he starts looting a crate
>ehh fuck it
>put a mag into his head
>take heaps of loot and battle pass docs he had
>extract
>see this
hehehehe
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>>580243784
i vulture up shit for way under market value on the flea and then put it back up there for market price or slightly higher, you can do this with stuff like power cords, gas mask filters, or packs of sugar i think, this of course requires some starting capital but it's an excellent zero-risk way to make roubles if you're too busy/lazy to scav on streets
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>>580244230
as much as i shit on spt and pve fags, this is pretty neat
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>>580246692
there's also blackjack, roulette, and slots
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Easily the most pathetic loser I've ran into in my time playing this game. Genuinely the biggest mouth breathing no life subhuman I've ever seen.
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>>580247268
There is nothing behind these eyes. Nothing but a soulless homunculus on auto pilot.
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>>580247658
>$0
fuckin lmao
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>>580247268
he's got some good tags tho
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>>580243784
play last season of arena to unlock swampfox/earbuds and sell them on flea
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>>580247268
back when they did periodic wipes i had a full case full of streamerfag tags as a little trophy box
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>>580243784
buy a klin with sp7 and go shit on some retards in fagtory
if you're a shitter just do the same thing at an extract
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chat is this good
maybe I should have brought a fresh surv12 this raid
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what the hell was sanitar doing all the way out in the field by the smuggler base by himself
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This standard edition storage is fucking brutal. I feel more like I'm F2P than when I played ABI.
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>>580253534
he took too much obdobolos and woke up there
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>>580247268
>>580247658
He 100% spams "remove inertia" under every BSG post on social media.
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>lighthouse patch tonight
well boys it looks like I can finally start the season
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shoul di make my first montage in 3 years
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>>580257934
240p with linkin park or offspring for music
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found the minefield award
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It's patching.
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Deathshadow niggers on suicide watch
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>>580258724
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ms9R-7Zm94

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91yUbj8KESA
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>>580257934
yes but kedr/klin only and only factory clips
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>>580260662
two factory style videos r boingo and toripiyo

ive too many ideas in backlog cuz im mentally ill
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>>580260785
>ive too many ideas in backlog cuz im mentally ill
just cram all ur ideas into one video with no cohesion
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SATAN DIED TODAY!
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>>580261705
shattered didn't deserve this
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>>580048897
just nade them retard
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>>580057575
>playing PvE
>being scared in PvE
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>>580109246
look straight up, then like 15-30 degrees down from straight up and fire it
never had one fail this way
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I'm about to play tarkov for the first time, I know the game is pretty complicated with a lot going on so I appreciate any tips if you guys can give any.

Also if there are any good newbie friendly youtubers for this game I'd love to check that out if you guys got any recommendations.
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>>580057202
I think it's a fallout shelter
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>>580263649
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>>580263649
spend 60% of your time alone on factory PVP
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>>580261705
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>>580125198
>Tarkov books
Kinooooo. The Russian/Ukie industry of semi-official pulp fiction books based on the Stalker games is awesome, it's cool that these became a thing for Tarkov before the game even left beta.
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>>580263649
you're going to die a ton get over gear fear asap.
every streamer is fucking retarded.
half of the streamers are togglers.
if you continue to visit these threads you will become a doom poster talking about how nikita is ruining everything.
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>>580266307
I honestly don't think this general is that bad. People are also willingly helping no matter how retarded questions one might ask.
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>>580263649

>>579967304
>>579981852
>>579983550
>>580001085
>>580033016
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>>580263649
>newbie friendly youtubers
When I started out I learned a lot by watching SwampFox, mostly because every time he uses a med item or a stim for example, he displays in text what the item actually does, or which key opens which door, value of a rare item, etc.
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>>580263649
>>580267321
Gigabeef also has a ton of good videos, mostly around weapon builds and progression. Definitely worth checking
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>>580263649
Take your time
Use the wiki
Yes, you did hear something
Double check quest items before returning to raid
Double check accepting quests
Double check completing quests
Double check rewards for said quest in your mailbox
Take note of bullet penetration (lower=shoot legs, higher=shoot center mass/face)
Take note of meds (what heals what)
You will die alot
It's not your gear, it's just your turn
Ratting/crabbing is an effective way to play and learn
Sprinting around with just a melee (zero-to-hero) is a viable way to learn maps and hotspots
Timing and flow of a map is very important
You will not be able to grasp what you don't know. Time will fix this
Don't double-peek
It's okay to run away
Pain is learning and learning is fun
>Welcome to Tarkov
>>
>Fixed an issue where, with the Fresh Wound effect active and the Dr. Jekyll modifier selected, bleeding effects would open too frequently;
about time
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>>580266307
whatever time spent in raid is a bigger loss and scarier than gear fear.
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>>580264094
>>580264859
>>580266307
>>580266814
>>580267321
>>580267605
>>580267963
Thanks guys appreciate it.
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I'm suffering tarkov withdrawal, I need the game to be up already.
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>>580275685
>>580275685
>>580275685
EP LOCATED
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>>580243784
mosin naked my bro



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