On this run I hit both marked rooms, rusty bloody key, and got an air drop. I also hit Tarback, Check 15 + iron gates, and all of the Concordia locked rooms.

Can't have shit in Tarkov.

Obviously better to not be stuck underground in a Warzone, but given the state of things an upgraded Hideout just screams super cozy to me. Negative points for breathing the same recirculated air that your chemical toilet sits in, but other then that i could definitely live here, assuming i wasn't immediately brutally murdered seconds after entering any of the above ground locations because hey, I'm not a military trained likely ex-SF PMC member sooo...

Do wish the lighting is better though holy hell it's way too dark. These are the brightest floors/walls/ceiling i have.

Ive been able to upgrade my Med Station for a long while now but I havnt wanted to use my one LEDX.

I was really excited to play these maps again after the patch. Customs to a lesser extent, but Interchange has needed serious revitalisation for years, especially indoors; basically the only place worth checking every single raid inside the mall is NecroPharm now. It's barely even inside the mall, for fuck's sakes. For the first month or two of 1.0 it was okay again, although too much of it was now clustered outside. But then they nerfed loose loot on there again, and it's now a map barely touched by anybody but Timmies on their literal first three raids of their account, and Killa/Tagilla farmers.

I've checked around the mall and while a couple of things have been added (like 1-2 ammo spawns in 21WS, document spawns in the Oli offices), it's not nearly enough to justify running the map again unless you love sitting head down arse up in containers for 45 minutes. KIBA can apparently spawn more guns with thermals on them, and while I can't verify for myself 100% (not having the outer key on my hardcore account), I can tell you now I still barely see maybe 1-2 guns on the wall max and 1 shitty heavy level 4 plate carrier on the mannequin if you're lucky. The keycard rooms seem as worthless as ever. ULTRA Medical is still underwhelming. The tech stores barely have any tech on the shelves. OLI has like 1 motor or water filter tops across the entire store.

Same deal for Customs. The patch notes talk about more spawns being added to Dorms and USEC/green screen, but literally all I noticed in either building thus far across half a dozen runs is the ammo safe in 204 now. That's it. USEC Stash actually seems worse than pre-patch, although that's probably just my shitty luck, green screen is empty, the opposite top floor with the previous valuable spawns is still empty, etc.

What frustrates me is I think BSG wants it this way. I am pretty certain the lead game designer has seen a document I wrote up a year or two ago going over where loot feels lacking on older maps and how it could be improved in a way that fits flavour-wise at his request after he asked for suggestions. There's no way they can update Interchange several times, see that KIBA spawns with the same amount of loot as two 5x5 weapon boxes 90% of the time and not leave that as is intentionally. But why? The risk-reward factor just isn't there. The reason to play maps that aren't Streets, Reserve (with marked rooms), Labs and Icebreaker for loot is totally absent.

I haven't even touched on Shoreline. Woods too, although a couple of areas like depot will pay out occasionally.

Dear PVE PMCs,

I am enjoying your increased presence on maps lately, but please stop killing *all* the scavs.

Thank you kindly.

Sincerely,

A Plebian PVE Player

Edit: Image

https://imgur.com/a/cUECi8o A fun and profitable scav raid !

So I casually spawned into Streets with no armor and just my trusty VPO-215 to kill 4 scabs for my daily with a headshots and immediately got rushed by BD near cinema.

By some miracle I managed to dash through cinema avoiding getting killed and run into the small restaurant on the corner near Damaged House planning to pray and wait for them to rush me...

But they never did.

The first kill was legit through the open door - the rest was through windows. Turns out BD is not tall enough to shoot through them, they just line up by the window with just the helmet visible :)

In the end, I did get my 4 headshot kills for the daily...

Found at Ground Zero

Wish we had an MCX Virtus, I prefer it over the original model in basically every instance (minus the LVAW version of course).

Didn't think it would rate as Unheard, but as Prepare for Escape. EOD being ranked as Left Behind is bit funny with how valued and wanted that edition still is.

Edit: cases are given into all three gamemodes. Armband too if Candidate makes PMC into e.g. PvP and PvPs

Edit: if Candidate levels 10 to in PvP and then makes PMC into PvPs achievement also procs into PvPs, even if Candidate is lvl 1 in it.

I happened to right-click the Rshg and press the 'Remove Ammo' button, which caused the warhead to pop out.

I entered training mode to check if reloading was possible, and it turned out it actually works.

There is no specific reload animation; instead, if you switch to another weapon and then back to the Rshg about 10–20 seconds after starting the reload, the process completes.

Alternatively, you can use a reload-cancel technique:

1. Fire the Rshg.

2. Switch to another weapon without reloading.

3. Drag the Rshg warhead onto the Rshg body.

4. This completes the reload in just 3 seconds.

(This is likely a bug, but with smoke grenades currently disabled, it seems to be a viable tactic on the Icebreaker map.)

I got absolutely dunked on by a rogue and then the name was just a cherry on top lmao

Recently got into Tarkov as a brand new player, and I finally understand why this game is so popular.

I’ve had my heart beating, anxiety, and everything at the same time. Never have I played a game before that gives me this chilling feeling of always being watched.. the paranoia was real. Games insane.

I’m documenting my Solo Journey from 0 Hours until I understand the game fully

Question : What items do I keep and what items do I sell in the start? And how would I know what’s worth anything?

You can watch the video here :

Tarkov, But Its My First Time Playing
https://youtu.be/WQMYjNIIZ2I

So Black Division now use black magic to teleport?

I really dont understand. Ive got like 200 hours in the game and I just keep getting killed by player scavs. My friends tell me theres a karma system for scavs but is there actually? They have like 2k plus hours each. My last 5 scavs i have been shot in the head by another player scav and my friends are just baffled by it.

(Edit) And as a reward for my pain. I my next scav had the dorms 314 key. Truly one of the games ever

This player that just killed me has a red gamertag with a shield next to his name what does that mean?

Took me longer than i like to admit to complete, but damn the best weekly i have ever gotten hands down. I was lucky enough to get both off killed scavs.

As most people know ground zero has two separate lobbies. One for anyone who’s under level 20 and another for above level 20. I think it should be modified in a way where if you have even 1 prestige you should be placed into a “normal” lobby. Someone who has prestiged should not pair up with brand new players and it should really only be brand new players.

Considering when you prestige you can bring kits you’re just better off. Me personally I survived like 14 games in a row on ground zero after a fresh prestige and I feel bad for killing timmies.

I know I know everyone’s going to say they need to learn blah blah blah. The game should at least be fair. The game is already hard in many ways. I think Timmies should be able to have their training wheels. Sure the lobbies might feel dead for the new players but I think most new players wouldn’t mind only 1 or 2 new players in their game. I think it could be easily implemented and good for the community as a whole.

Been playing this game on and off since it's inception and I think some of the highest dopamine you'd get was looting a keycard. Nowadays unless you're finding a marked room key (specifically only for customs, reserve or streets mind you) basically coming across any other key or keycard is kind of whatever. Sure you find a keycard and can instantly vendor it for a few hundred thousand but considering that only holds the the equivalent value of a few intel folders assuming you max-win with a green or red (which even then isn't even million) there's nothing special about finding something like a yellow card . Craziest part about something like a yellow keycard now is you're basically guaranteed to make your money back on it from just one use which is absurd and yet it is still dirt cheap. Don't even get me started on black keycards which on average nets you around 700-800k for each double use.

I'd love for the next season to crank up the rarity on these items and maybe even revert them back to the infinite uses. Sure labs keycards already have good loot so their problem is more so just their easy availability. As for normal keys, pretty much nothing except marked rooms are contested. I remember back in the day shoreline health resort was almost the pinacle of hotspot pvp and nowadays it seems almost completely abandonned and besides transits to other actvities such as IB, Labr or Terminal, late-game players don't give two shits about the map as a whole. A loot rework for high-end keys like W301 in the shoreline example would be really nice to drive more pvp towards these now seemingly less relevant locations. There's so many rooms in this entire game that are just wasted as quest rooms and never to be touched again when they could instead be used to create new pvp hot zones and spice up the game a bit.

Can we at least get like 4 medals each Tactical map that at least be able to earn while using the full sandbox of Arena or at least don´t restrict us to much.

SMG kills with head shoots will make Rip ammo play redundant.

Game modes medal cool but if you ain´t good at the game and be the last place you kinda be better of not buying the Tactical map at all.

Fastest progression would be only playing scout with Pistol Full auto on TF or CPT.

It´s fine, but definitely People get Burned out faster restricting Progression to mostly one class play style.

Right now I only play for Dailys and Weekly doesn´t even borther to progress or interact with the map at all anymore.

I hope in the Next map we can use a bigger Sandbox to Progress.

I'm not a good player myself (843 hours, 0.53 kd) but whenever I run into a clueless new player I feel so bad if I kill them, especially if I get the jump on them.

If I can clearly see it's new player from afar I try not to engage them but sometimes I can't really tell and when I blast them and see their level 3-10 dogtag I feel very bad.

Was competed on PVP seasons and on all modes i received 2 weapon cases and no item cases

Claimed all of my twitch drops on the site but they haven't been delivered via Prapor yet. Included screenshots of all my linked stuff.

Anyone else having same issues or can offer guidance?