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NaanViolence
Mar 1, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo
I thought Rust was buggy and had iffy servers, but holy poo poo Tarkov is so much worse. I'll check back in six months and see if they've fixed their poo poo.

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Rent-A-Cop
Oct 15, 2004

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!

NaanViolence posted:

I thought Rust was buggy and had iffy servers, but holy poo poo Tarkov is so much worse. I'll check back in six months and see if they've fixed their poo poo.
LOL look at this post from 6 months ago.

NaanViolence
Mar 1, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo
I hope you keep playing and giving them money so they can fix their poo poo, it has the potential to be a good game

DaveKap
Feb 5, 2006

Pickle: Inspected.



Dunno if anyone else updated the news about the "banned for asking for a refund" thing but...
https://www.reddit.com/r/EscapefromTarkov/comments/fhx6nt/regarding_the_bsg_stole_topic_turns_out_they_didnt/


They put in a chargeback before asking for a refund. If you don't know, chargebacks are brutal on companies and it's very common to ban people from your service if they try to commit one.

Stux
Nov 17, 2006

wow im shocked

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

DaveKap posted:

Dunno if anyone else updated the news about the "banned for asking for a refund" thing but...
https://www.reddit.com/r/EscapefromTarkov/comments/fhx6nt/regarding_the_bsg_stole_topic_turns_out_they_didnt/


They put in a chargeback before asking for a refund. If you don't know, chargebacks are brutal on companies and it's very common to ban people from your service if they try to commit one.

Anytime someone makes a whiny reddit post I assume this is the case.

Babe Magnet
Jun 2, 2008

to be fair this rebuttal has the exact same amount of evidence as the initial complaint (none) so it's probably safe to assume that they've both wrong lol

realistically though it doesn't matter at this point, the first guy who posted the initial thread rode that poo poo around every sub-reddit he could and a ton of people spent money on giving his post awards (lowtax put this feature in SA so we can buy you more spines), if he was lying for karma is sucks that it worked

Babe Magnet fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Mar 14, 2020

NaanViolence
Mar 1, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo
It's a poo poo feature and should never come to SA.

andyf
May 18, 2008

happy car is happy

1001 Arabian dicks posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9esGDenJBQ

max your skills before it gets patched boys


or idk just play the game?

hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel

DaveKap posted:

Dunno if anyone else updated the news about the "banned for asking for a refund" thing but...
https://www.reddit.com/r/EscapefromTarkov/comments/fhx6nt/regarding_the_bsg_stole_topic_turns_out_they_didnt/


They put in a chargeback before asking for a refund. If you don't know, chargebacks are brutal on companies and it's very common to ban people from your service if they try to commit one.

A :reddit: making poo poo up for attention and all the gullible :reddit: believing him? I am just shocked.

LGD
Sep 25, 2004

andyf posted:

or idk just play the game?

the problem is that, unlike pretty much all the other passive skills in the game, "just playing the game" does not actually result in leveling up your strength skill

while the adjustments they made yesterday made playing with low strength a lot more bearable they also made it even harder to level strength in a remotely natural manner

at the moment if you want to level strength you either need to do extremely obnoxious deliberate grinding or be prepared to spend a lot of roubles and time throwing grenades

Wallrod
Sep 27, 2004
Stupid Baby Picture

NaanViolence posted:

It's a poo poo feature and should never come to SA.
Someone give this epic post 5 golden manbabies

Major Isoor
Mar 23, 2011

Stux posted:

[resheathes katana] so you have chosen life

drat, HORSEPORN needs to rethink their life, but I'm also kinda glad the discussion occurred, seeing as the end result was me getting a chuckle out of reading your conclusion to it. :D

But yeah I dunno, I played with a stack of gear earlier, and neither myself nor my friend noticed any issues re: str/end. I mean, we're not exactly gearlords who love to roleplay as some kind of Russian/Tarkov portrayal of the god Atlas, but we were still pretty well-equipped. v:shobon:v

I suspect all this complaining will die down in a couple of weeks, when someone finds the 'Next Big (No)Thing' to whine about, personally. Could be wrong though, I guess

Great Beer
Jul 5, 2004

NaanViolence posted:

It's a poo poo feature and should never come to SA.

Better idea: pay money to probate other users. Pay enough and ban them.

Ambaire
Sep 4, 2009

by Shine
Oven Wrangler

Great Beer posted:

Better idea: pay money to probate other users. Pay enough and ban them.

Inb4 a millionaire pays enough to ban every single user on the site.

K8.0
Feb 26, 2004

Her Majesty's 56th Regiment of Foot

Great Beer posted:

Better idea: pay money to probate other users. Pay enough and ban them.

Nah. The feature should be you pay :10bux: to make 90% of new posts by a user hellbanned for a week. That way they don't even know they're being hosed with until it ends, when they get a notification and rage about their lost week of wonderful and important posts. Also there's a :10bux: account feature that lets you optionally see hellbanned posts (in a different color and with no reply button so you're reminded not to reply to them).

Babe Magnet
Jun 2, 2008

keep all of the hellbanned posts and make a special subforum where it makes a new thread for each user and it just spits the posts out and locks the thread

ShowTime
Mar 28, 2005
I've been having an absolute blast running around with just a pistol on Reserves. It's such a good map and has so many good places to surprise someone with a pistol. Most of the other maps are outdoorsy and it's harder to get kills. I imagine Shoreline could be decent and I actually am gonna try running that tonight since I also have all the keys for it. Customs has some areas but you can basically insure you are gonna find someone at dorms, so the surprise factor isn't there. Interchange is just too much for me. I only want to do Interchange with a squad.

But Reserves is perfect for running in with a silenced pistol and getting a bunch of loot in your secure container.

Armadillo Tank
Mar 26, 2010

https://old.reddit.com/r/EscapefromTarkov/comments/fiey61/labs_items_disappearing_hacker_pov/

lmao, hackers can strip maps of items from any spot, and without keys

Pussy Snorkel
Sep 12, 2008

With the Pussy Snorkel, any man can be a dive master.


This was supposed to have been patched.

Welp.

HORSEPORN
Oct 7, 2008

Pussy Snorkel posted:

This was supposed to have been patched.

Welp.

They said they fixed the looting living players issue. Unfortunately they never said they fixed the thing where people can teleport loose loot.

This guy isn’t even particularly apt at cheating. There’s a video on YouTube from a week or two ago where a cheater just teleports every high value item directly in front of him inside the ledx tent on labs. He then just kinda picks and chooses what he wants before he runs a lap and murders the whole map before anyone can even fight back.

HORSEPORN fucked around with this message at 23:12 on Mar 14, 2020

ShowTime
Mar 28, 2005
Well I guess i'll just hang out in my Hideout and play on the flea market then, until (if) they ever get a wrangle on the hacks. I haven't really been affected by them though. It always seems to be other peoples problem.

In about an hour I get to start level 3 bitcoin farm building and I just spent 7.5mil on the last of the graphics cards I need. After it's done, i'll have maxed out the Hideout. I can say I at least did something this patch.

Babe Magnet
Jun 2, 2008



lol

ChesterJT
Dec 28, 2003

Mounty Pumper's Flying Circus
What should I be doing with the GP coins and Bitcoins?

Great Beer
Jul 5, 2004

Sell them for money.

TTerrible
Jul 15, 2005

Great Beer posted:

Sell them for money.

Sell everything. Get rubles. Buy bullets.

The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the earth with a plague of USEC, as once it was. But the Mosin shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of PMCs. Go forth and kill!

aniviron
Sep 11, 2014


ChesterJT posted:

What should I be doing with the GP coins and Bitcoins?

Sell them for money, specifically to Therapist. She will pay more than any other trader, and the lower bound fleamarket price is almost always what her buy price is.

ChesterJT
Dec 28, 2003

Mounty Pumper's Flying Circus
Fair enough, didn't know if there was something worth trading for or if the hideout used them in some way.

Kazvall
Mar 20, 2009

TTerrible posted:

Sell everything. Get rubles. Buy bullets.

The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the earth with a plague of USEC, as once it was. But the Mosin shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of PMCs. Go forth and kill!

If you're not dropping with just a bandoleer and an ak, you're doing it wrong. Zardoz.

Shannow
Aug 30, 2003

Frumious Bandersnatch
The AK 104 with the FLIR on it was a worthwhile trade when bitcoins were down under 100k, now they're pure sale value.

twig1919
Nov 1, 2011
I am an inconsiderate moron whose only method of discourse is idiotic personal attacks.

ChesterJT posted:

Fair enough, didn't know if there was something worth trading for or if the hideout used them in some way.

THIIC Items cases, but only save for those if your pretty rich already.

ChesterJT
Dec 28, 2003

Mounty Pumper's Flying Circus
I've got about 17mil and a good assortment of poo poo in my stash. Honestly I don't feel a great desire to do a lot knowing there is a wipe coming in X months, and probably more in the next X years until this thing is done. It feels like a lot of what I'm doing is pointless.

I think I get Tarkov now.

upgunned shitpost
Jan 21, 2015

I like two lines of bit/gp coins to keep the rubles, dollars and euros from touching

causticBeet
Mar 2, 2010

BIG VINCE COMIN FOR YOU

ChesterJT posted:

I've got about 17mil and a good assortment of poo poo in my stash. Honestly I don't feel a great desire to do a lot knowing there is a wipe coming in X months, and probably more in the next X years until this thing is done. It feels like a lot of what I'm doing is pointless.

I think I get Tarkov now.

With the hideout, now more than ever, you will basically reach a point where you have a passive income and enough liquid that you can consistently run whatever gear you want. Start loving around with more cool guns, run a higher baseline of armor/meds. Focusing on PVP is cool and fun, making money is only half of the goal, and the “taking other people’s money” part has always been more fun.

SquirrelGrip
Jul 4, 2012
always be shooting the bad men with whatever dumb gun tickles your fancy, the other poo poo is secondary to this

ChesterJT
Dec 28, 2003

Mounty Pumper's Flying Circus

upgunned shitpost posted:

I like two lines of bit/gp coins to keep the rubles, dollars and euros from touching

This game has scratched two big itches for me, loot hoarding and my organizing ocd. My cash box was nice and lined up.

live free or dont
Apr 13, 2012
Had a weird desync happen to me and my buddies on reserve when a player scav jumped us: I shot him point blank in the thorax with a mosin and saw sparks flying like I hit concrete. He proceeded to miss 30 shots with a looted M4 and switched to a pistol while warping around. He got me in the end and ran into a room where my buddy was healing and he got him. The weirdest thing was that my 3rd buddy who was with me in the hallway never saw the guy and even his corpse was invisible. He just saw me freaking out with a mosin but no player scav. I confirmed it on discord stream when my other friend was looting and on his screen he was just looting nothing. Then the friend who was looting said he is going to extract but on the other guys screen he was stuck in the room in a healing animation even though in his game he was already running outside

Orv
May 4, 2011
Both of the experiences used to be relatively frequent in the first couple years of the game but I haven't had them happen in a long while. I think my 'best' on was over fifteen minutes of desync between me and a friend.

ThePineapple
Oct 19, 2009

causticBeet posted:

With the hideout, now more than ever, you will basically reach a point where you have a passive income and enough liquid that you can consistently run whatever gear you want. Start loving around with more cool guns, run a higher baseline of armor/meds. Focusing on PVP is cool and fun, making money is only half of the goal, and the “taking other people’s money” part has always been more fun.

I'm definitely at the point where I'm feeling this a bit more. Any recommendations for a good loadout that's a step up beyond the penis helm / 6B3TM budget default? I'm thinking either a Tactec or the Zhuk that ragman sells or Killa armor, plus some sort of helmet with a faceshield? If anyone has nice gun builds I'm all ears too, want to start playing more with VSS's and low recoil M4's / AK's

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Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


Tactec/Killa plus Lzh with faceshield is standard.

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