Drowning Rabbit posted:

Ok, thanks, that makes sense. I've seen the SURV12 kit, but never had one. I'm still someone who mostly only runs Customs as I know where things are, and am too afraid of all the other maps still.

I need to practice and figure out where stuff is on other maps, like Woods ( Even though I have 0 desire to, due to of course, quests ).

ShowTime posted:

I've stepped away from this mentality. My mentality as a scav now is to go directly towards a fight and see what happens. I've gone the route of looting as much as I can and then you die, giving the loot to someone else. Why not be that someone else? Yes, i've had runs where I loot a ton of stuff and get out. But far more often, I get killed in an ambush or by a far outgeared PMC. So now I go after the quickest chance of loot or a fight, then see what happens. If its enough loot to be satisfied, I leave (or try to). If it ain't poo poo, then I keep going. Eventually you just have so much money in this game that a run needs to be worth half a mil to make sense strategically. If my scav run can't pay for a run with my PMC, then why don't I just run with my PMC? Yea, scav runs can be fun, but you are so out-geared that it usually ends in a loss. This isn't necessarily the case early-wipe, but we are basically late wipe now and even the new players are getting better gear because everyone has it. I've seen level 10's with spec'd out M4A1's because they can loot them off anyone else.

Ambaire posted:

What level was he? And why do you call him a 'gear lord'? It sounds horribly racist in my head. Also, he might not have known about the durability mechanics...

Flavahbeast posted:

Ice Fist posted:

I should be dead. But thankfully, the bad guys hosed up more than I did. Sometimes its better to be lucky than good. When I started healing I had 25 health and 3 bleeds.

https://streamable.com/rdsfo

Kikas posted:

Uh wow the changes! https://forum.escapefromtarkov.com/topic/120814-preliminary-patchnotes-for-0124-patch/

Flea Market from level 15 is gonna make some of the early key quests hell.

Wallrod posted:

We can only guess wildly, but they seem like relatively inexperienced but enthusiastic devs making a lot of naive mistakes and are probably well behind in technical debt, so fixing this type of stuff, just like the server architecture, is a big interruption to regular running that they've been trying to implement with as little impact as possible.

It's really disheartening to see them put such glaring holes in the structure of their game though. It would have been a really stupendous coop or single player game with some changes, but it's going to sit in early access limbo for a long long time while they juggle popularity spikes, technical obligations and feature aims. I have some sympathy because anticheat at a certain level is probably a very deep subject with a lot of practical knowlege and experience involved in structuring a game, and they've probably been putting rails down just in front of the train, wallace and gromit style, for most of the 4 years, but holy poo poo, sometimes you really wonder. It can't have been super special wizard knowledge that i gained when playing half-life mods and talking to server admins and modders about the whys and hows of keeping certain key gameplay stuff server-side.

Rent-A-Cop posted:

A fun game

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.

ShowTime posted:

When I want a gun I usually go on the flea market and look for ones that are super expensive. Then I go from there. I took an M1A build I found, mostly kept it intact, but changed a couple odd thing to make it how I want it. Now I have a great M1A build I can just piece together super quick. Start on the flea market and just play around with weapon modding. I used to hate it but now I understand the parts a bit more and kind of love it.

Cup Runneth Over posted:

It's point shooting and in Tarkov the gun shoots where it's pointing at all times, there's no forced spread.

Great Beer posted:

Try using the SV98. It has a weird trigger delay that makes it nearly unusable against moving targets.

Bucnasti posted:

Thats why they're upgrading the sound engine.

Ihmemies posted:

Player encounter survivals: 0.

Now my only weapon is a knife and I'm out of money. I have been doing scav runs when they're off CD but it doesn't help when I always die to players.

Game is hard for me. Hopefully I'll learn!

Stux posted:

mosin sucks i hate it awful gun

edit: if youre going to use the mosin take off the rear sight thats my genuine advice cos the iron is garbage i hate it i will not use the mosin u cant make me

idiotsavant posted:

OP-SKS with the FD stock for a military filter from Mechanic will cost you less than Mosin + Grach; Tapco SKS for a GP Coin same. Can’t remember trade levels tho.

LGD posted:

yeah it is, no joke, maybe the biggest disaster of a streamer tournament I think I've ever seen

which is really saying something

ShowTime posted:

One thing to note about drops for the future: drops are based off who is doing well. The more squares you complete, the better the loot drops in your channel. Kind of a weird system, but if you watched the person in 1st place you'd get better gear than watching the person in 2nd, 3rd, etc. We'll be doing the bingo system in the future it sounds like. Apparently the drops for a streamer completing their whole card were nuts.

ShowTime posted:

This rain is getting ridiculous. Seems like the past week has been raid about half my matches. I like the idea of seasons, but a monsoon season is not something I think i'm in for.

causticBeet posted:

They should just pull a SCUM and add a radial poop and pee menu and if you don’t poop when the poop meter is full your character enters a non-cancellable poop animation

tokenbrownguy posted:

Using the 9x19 SMGs is really just fishing for headshots, right? I was doing factory runs with the MPX and MP9 and was consistently dying having put 12 shots into the torso. Was using the blue tipped semi-expensive rounds? Luger-something? Around 350 rubles per.

Lemon posted:

As the wipe's coming up I figured I'd put together a little highlights package; I feel this gives a nicely rounded impression of my experience with the game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcZc_dWSTK0

TheTofuShop posted:

Rebind Throw Grenade to double tap G. It will save your and your friends lives a ton.

fennesz posted:

After our raids last night, quoting this for visibility. Especially for you all y'all butterfingers out there.

ShowTime posted:

Finally played around with a REAP IR yesterday and they are pretty fun. On one hand, I don't see what all the fuss is about. On the other hand, yea they can be pretty drat good on maps with lots of foliage. On Interchange it didn't really do much and I often found myself using my red dot on a backup mount. You can just see clearer with any other sight. But outside on a map like Woods or even Customs, with lots of bushes you can hide in, it could do a lot of damage. All in all, kind of glad they are being made rarer next patch. I don't really see it as an attachment i'd use often, but I can appreciate that I won't have to worry about them as much in the future.

If you have a chance, i'd definitely give one a try before the wipe happens. Just to see what it plays like.

ShowTime posted:

Anyone running all raids with like, infinite drugs in their body now? At least the good ones. I bought up Goldenstar when the wipe was announced and have been using them since. Taught me the value of prepopping pain meds and now I basically only run with pain meds in my body. I haven't found any other drugs without adverse effects, but if they exist, I wanna take them. I've tried a few runs with SJ6 to start and run to a spot (like Resort) and just didn't like the tunnel vision that came after. Goldenstar is amazing and i'll never go back. I don't care if I go broke after the wipe on just buying Goldenstar.

In case you didn't know what Goldenstar does, here is all it does:

10 minutes of pain relief. That's 7 minutes longer than just normal pain killers.
Slight energy gain. Slight hydration gain. Other pain meds reduce your hydration.
Slight amount of hp gain (only a few points).
Removes contusion, toxicity and radiation (whenever those are implemented).

Yea, Goldenstar takes a few extra seconds to use, but it's so worth it. Pop it at the start of your raid and every 10 minutes after.

TTerrible posted:

Finding phenazepam in Woods and using it in a recipe in your hideout should be the only way to spawn as a player cultist.

Kikas posted:

Haha, "non-balistic replica" At least now you can put a flashlight in the "Gear" slot of a helmet, so this does have it's use. And of course it will still take a faceshield, so it's not as useless as it might seem.

Stux posted:

i mean the hachet runners are still going to do that the difference is going to be theyre going to then run to extract after. if you kill them you still wont get anything and theyll justt vendor whatever it was. i dont think its going to stop it in the long run at all, its a pretty pointless change. just spawning scavs in at round start in the spawns around high value areas wouldve been a better "fix".