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Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair

Stux posted:

they should move all woods quests to reserve so i dont have to load up woods

I would like if they fixed Reserve so I could actually load the map before they do this.


(It's my fault, I need more RAM.)

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Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair

upgunned shitpost posted:

I'd rather pay the flea market fun tax for gear and poo poo in a bucket than do a jaeger quest

Jaeger doesn't seem like he sells gently caress all worth buying from him. I only care about leveling him up for hideout poo poo and it sucks.

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair

Zipperelli. posted:

The reason so many quests are on Customs is because the only maps available when they initially dropped EFT were Customs, Woods, and Factory.

Why they havent updated locations or quests to spread them out more is beyond me.

I bet a bunch of the item spawns are hardcoded in such a way that moving them is nigh-on impossible.

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair

Drowning Rabbit posted:

Is there another medication that needs to be applied to like a leg/arm? Bandage/Splint then Car/Selawa Heal Kit usually?

You don't need to use the bandage if you're applying a car/salewa kit, they will all stop bleeding. Plus the car/salewa will actually add back HP. Free up that slot for more loot!

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair

Stux posted:

also the op isnt a joke and i probably wont make any effort to update it myself for at least a month but ill add any resources people mention

I like this ammo chart: https://tarkov.ascheron.dev/

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair

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...

I desperately need you to explain how 'gear lord' is horribly racist. Please my children are dying.

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair

Ambaire posted:

I guess my mistake was assuming it was intended to be insulting.

Even if it was an insult, I still have to know what makes it racist.

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair

HORSEPORN posted:

Yep. You can also get a huge head start financially by completing private clinic for therapist and selling your THICC case for a 10+ million profit. A lot of people will tell you to play this game how you want and that’s cool but you definitely want to be questing until at least ll4 for all your vendors. I’m just listing easy ways to make money most people will have done (prapor level 4 and mechanic lvl 3 are super easy to obtain and most of the trades i listed are from them.)

You can play the market all day if you’d like but nothing is going to be more profitable than just doing your quests or doing stuff like shoreline cache runs or other relatively low-risk stuff If you still have gear fear.

This is the first wipe I've actually bothered questing and getting my Trader levels up and it really is huge even if you never play the market just because you can buy so much poo poo "at cost." And I'm only at LL3 with Prapor/Therapist at the highest!

Learning the "free" barters to get their money reqs dealt with was also very helpful. Tetriz > Bitcoin for Mech/Therapist, Cat Figurine (for 35k or under) > AKS-74UB for Prapor/Skier/Mech (remove the silencers and sell them to Skier, then sell the rest of the gun to Mech) (this one needs Prapor LL2.)

EDIT: There are also good flea market plays for Skier that will at least break even, but I'll keep that just to the Discord where I learned it.

Inspector_666 fucked around with this message at 00:46 on Mar 5, 2020

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair

Stux posted:

dont forget buying antique axes off the market and selling them to jaeger for his

Thank you for this, I've been just dumping whatever I can on Jaeger lately and it suuuuucks.

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair

HORSEPORN posted:

If you’re just pressing the default key bind to toss a nade then the grenade’s arc actually begins at your navel instead of your hand.

:tarkov: to the max.

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair

causticBeet posted:

That sounds cool as hell - I hope as they expand on the existing maps they add more of the dynamic elements they’ve added in labs and reserve - would be cool to see something you can do in customs that opens up the area between old gas and construction

Nikita says they want to go back add more stuff like that to the existing maps, so here's to hoping. Customs is next on the list.

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair
Hey if you're like me and you don't want any of the bullshit Jaeger sells and you're wondering how to hit his money reqs, accidentally buy 151 PK-06s from him because every single one will sell for 14,999 RUB each within ten minutes at midnight EST on a loving Thursday. I am only out like what, 200k for that whole misadventure and I am up to like 3.4m spent with Jaeger.


People are dangerously horny for these loving sights.

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair

Cup Runneth Over posted:

Or you could buy antique axes under trader value off the flea and sell them to him and make a profit doing it :shobon:

Yeah I mean, I recommend that over buying 10x the dumb bullshit you meant to, but also I haven't seen many axes going for under market the last couple days.

EDIT: Oh wait poo poo it's the Kiba tomahawk, not the antique axe that gets listed for under his purchase price :downs:

Inspector_666 fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Mar 6, 2020

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair

Ice Fist posted:

Oh no.

What have I done?????

You are the absolute worst.

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair

LGD posted:

yeah that’s actually a really bad change

e: like I see what they’re thinking with hackers and RMT accounts, but that is *brutal* for any new player joining late in a wipe and makes things they previously did like the current implementation of out-of-raid healing way more unpleasant and punitive at low levels

Yeah it is a very bad way to go about trying to fix the problems they're probably trying to resolve. If they make the quest keys a 100% spawn, instanced type of thing it could be OK but I doubt that'll be the case.

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair

LGD posted:

yeah the thing is at this point I'm not remotely worried about my ability to power through it even if I stopped playing and started again midwipe

but I think back to how I was when I first started playing and it would have been a huge pain in the rear end and might have legitimately put me off the game for good

The game is difficult enough at the core that these kind of arbitrary gates seem like a bad idea in the long run.

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair

Mae posted:

Without the flea market, and stuck on quests required to get level 2 traders, the best gear that you can feasibly buy is a paca, a penis helmet, and an SKS, and that is frankly dire up to level 15. Every once in a while, you'll get a uley and an ADAR (with what ammo?), and of course you'll have scav loot, but compared to someone with flea market access, your ability to buy your way into raids is so much poorer

The main thing is going to be keys for quests. Leveling to 15 solo without being able to complete a bunch of quests because you can't find or purchase the key to the loving water room in dorms would absolutely suck, and it's not like there's really any in-built way to build a base of players who will help you out.

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair

Moonshine Rhyme posted:

Give them no starting items at all, force them to do naked runs

Encouraging hatchet runs?! You monster!

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair

DeliciousPatriotism posted:

Get a load of the guy who doesn't remove every sight off of his gun

:hmmyes:

The smoother the gun the better the raid.

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair

Kikas posted:

Get your gear, buy 2 empty fuel cans and walk through the raid. Just casually walk - running will level you endurance and walking slow will level covert movement.
It's slow as gently caress, but reliable and still faster then grenades.

If you do this in groups though, let the other people know since you'll be falling behind constantly.

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair
My Vitality is low because when I get shot I tend to just die immediately :smith:

Metabolism is also kind of annoying but you don't have to really "cheese" it so much as just make a conscious effort to remember to handle your steez in-raid.

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair
I mean, we're only worried about "grinding" skills out right now because we want to max poo poo out and cruise until the next wipe, theoretically eventually we won't always be racing a clock that will set us back to Level 1.

If you just want to shoot mans and pick up trash, you don't need to do any of this since the only really in-game appreciable differences seem to happen if you seriously max stuff out.

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair

ShowTime posted:

I just want the hideout maxed out and will try to do it quicker in the future because passive income is great. Bitcoin farm and scav box are mainly what I want. That and the ability to craft some things.

Yeah I put off the hideout for a while when I came back because "Oh there'll be a wipe" and it's not nearly as much work as I thought it would be, especially if I know I gotta get a few skills up from day one next time.

Plus Workbench 3 doesn't need anything other than money and trader rep (the only pre-req is Stash 2 which itself has no reqs.)

Inspector_666 fucked around with this message at 22:26 on Mar 10, 2020

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair

hakimashou posted:

They should have banned everyone that cheated up their str/endurance.

They'd have to take the game out of Beta status for that.

Which yes, we all know that's a bullshit fig leaf but still.

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair

ShowTime posted:

Edit: Also forgot about the new backpack, which takes fleece and alpaca and poo poo, plus a paracord. Its a no reduced movement 35 slot that looks like a medic pack. It's great but it's only gonna get used by super try hards. It was already on the flea for 1mil+

You can only put medical items in it, right? It seems pretty useless except as a MedCase replacement.

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair

ShowTime posted:

I didn't think that was the case. I just assumed it was the S-Tier bag since it requires a ton of rubles to purchase. It mentions "various specialized tools and medicines". It doesn't seem to have any indication it only holds meds. That would also be incredibly weird, but maybe in the future. When you can heal other people in a squad and someone is the "designated medic" and holds/gathers all the meds. Might be cool to see implemented later on.

Edit: also, yes, it appears servers are back up (for now). I wouldn't recommend really playing though, at least for an hour until things seem to stabilize. Last run I did on a scav before it went down made me lose everything, including a pretty profitable key.

Nikita said on Twitch it would only hold medical items but maybe they didn't actually set that flag up or something yet?

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair

Jarf posted:

So can I still level strength by just taking two big empty jerry cans into a raid? I just want my hideout upgrades :negative:

Yeah but apparently it's gonna loving suck now. You used to just get tired faster, now you're gonna move at a crawl and lose stamina just slow walking.

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair

Ice Fist posted:

Every time patch notes are released it's always "Nikita has gone too far this time!" and every patch the game gets more popular.

He might yet ruin this game. But he hasn't yet. He's actually managed to build something with an interesting gameplay loop that people want to play even if they have to put up with some bullshit mechanics or features that don't make any loving sense.

I think there are some specific changes in this patch that uniquely screw new players between now and the wipe but I guess after that we're all in the same slow, lurching boat full of tank batteries.

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair
Head bob can't be tied intrinsically to gameplay though, because some people just get violently sick trying to deal with it.

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair

Lemon posted:

I finally managed to get up to Level 10 and unlocked the Flea Market; is it worth me bothering levelling up the traders at all any more?

Yes, getting the trader rep up means you can buy a lot of good poo poo at cost, which will both save you a lot of money and offers up avenues for "passive income" if you want to bother with it.

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair

Lemon posted:

Nice, thanks. I'll take a look at doing it, but those quests just seem so tiresome...

Most of them aren't so bad, and you can stack them to take care of multiples at a time.

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair

TheTofuShop posted:

Both of you, come play with goons in the discord. Running the second half of Delivery from the Past is a real common quest to do in a group.

Yeah, get in a 5 stack and knock out every Factory quest at once.

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair

Cup Runneth Over posted:

Half a mil from that, half a mil from the SICC case, and 250k or so from the grenade case. Guaranteed 1.25mil every hour.

Doesn't the RR stock run out really quick? Or did trade demand die down as the listing fee shot up.

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair

ShowTime posted:

What's everyone's favorite bitcoin barter? I could just sell them but I have enough money and honestly, that stack of money just takes up another inventory slot. I'd rather spend them on something. I've got two money cases full of them and just want to get rid of them.

Edit: Actually, the Mechanic lvl 4 barter of 35 for a THICC weapon case is probably what i'd do if I had mechanic at lvl 40. I'm only lvl 32 and need to get to 40 to trade it in. But I could use the case and it actually sells for almost 7mil while the bitcoins only sell for 5.25mil. So, there is a good way to make an easy mil if you have bitcoins and the right rep.

You could also just trade them for the ridiculous/wonderful spaceguns Mech has.

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair

willie_dee posted:

What’s with all the hacking on reddit being showcased?

I get hacking in PubG and stuff because there was a real world economy where you could make actual money. But that doesn’t exist in Tarkov so what’s the point?

RMT is a thing with Tarkov. I'm just amazed that anybody can make a profit given how expensive all of the hacks seem to be.

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair

ShowTime posted:

I cannot wait for the scav revamp to happen.

What is the revamp supposed to be? What pisses me off is that I can't kill a pscav who I can see is killing scavs without getting flagged as a killer myself :mad:

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair

Cup Runneth Over posted:

every trader aggressively asserts that scavs are less than human, except maybe skier, whom everyone hates

Fence loves him some scavs.

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair

ChesterJT posted:

I swear to god this loving game. Been trying to do this gilded zippo poo poo for a couple of days. Keep getting killed close to the trailer. Then I finally get to the trailer and realize I have the wrong key because there's two loving keys labeled cabin key. Then I get the right key, random scav headshots me from nowhere right next to the trailer. Then I get to the trailer, get in, and am holding the button and of course a random rear end pmc decides this would be a great time to come in this random trailer. I kill him. Then another loving pmc comes by. The one time I get in there and am ready to finish the thing two people decide this is the hot spot of the map. I shoot enough to scare him off and try to get my hold down until I have 5 seconds left and the moron killed me and himself with a grenade.

That quest is karmically bugged or something. When I was trying to do it the other week with a full goon stack it took like 9 tries, we kept spawning on the non-Big Red side, would lose at least one person getting into/out of dorms, then get murderized at the train when we crossed the river. When I finally did managed to complete the drat quest I was the only person still alive, disconnecting every ~5 minutes, and had like 2 minutes on the raid countdown by the time I had finished hiding the drat thing.

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair
Listening to the commentators it was obvious nobody actually had any idea what the hell was going on, and also hearing them try to figure out if Trevor May was still a baseball player was hilarious. (He is.)

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Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair

Phobeste posted:

You missed the most important note

I assume there will be a new skill you have to train in order to make the English phrases available.

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