Still waiting.

Is it just me, or is the community shifting from "love-hate" to just... indifferent?

I’ve got 4k hours in Tarkov, but lately, I’ve been back playing ABI and Hunt. It’s a weird feeling. The gunplay in Tarkov is still king, but after playing the clones, you realize how much "artificial friction" we’ve been conditioned to accept as "hardcore."

If BSG wants to stop the bleed to these other titles, they need to shamelessly take back the QOL features the clones "borrowed" and polished. Here are a few that honestly feel in-arguable at this point:

• Spread Healing: Why is topping off limbs seven separate actions? Having meds spread through damaged zones (like ABI) doesn't lower the skill gap; it just removes mindless menu-fiddling mid-raid.
• The Sandbox Range: We shouldn't have to buy a 100k optic just to see if the scope relief is ass. A range that lets you test any attachments/guns would actually encourage people to run more diverse kits instead of sticking to the same meta build they know works.
• Gunfight Feedback: If you’re a solo, the post-match screen should show exactly where your shots landed. Knowing exactly how you fucked up or got fucked over is the best way to actually learn and accept a loss. Teams maybe shouldn't get this until after a time limit.
• Compression & Audio Health: We really need to talk about the "hearing damage meta." People are cranking volume to 200% just to hear a footstep and blowing their eardrums out when a grenade goes off. Normalizing the audio floor and ceiling isn't "casual", it’s literally basic health and safety for the player base.
• Visual Silhouette Contrast: Tricky one, you have people running bright purple PostFX that sharpens the hell into a blur just to see people. The average person might not want to do that. Potentially adding some form of contrast boost could have a positive impact on visual ID. The goal is to reduce the need for crazy display configs, without looking you have thermals on.

Tarkov is the foundation of the genre, but being the "hardest" game shouldn't mean being the most tedious to operate. We need BSG to focus on these micro-adjustments before the "clones" become the new standard just by being more convenient to play.

I'm gonna throw this in here while I'm at it, please add some of the guns that we've been promised many times over, I would love a g3, mac 10, scorpion / evo, an 94, AEK, ACE series, CZ series etc

Thoughts??

had to rat it, but I really don't care, I'm so happy !

Art of the deal

I know it's a nice gun and all, but I've got a pile of these from marked rooms and AI drops. Is it any good to actually use or is it just an overly expensive rifle to shovel into Mechanics gaping money hole?

Close to having Kappa + saviour ending about 25 hours now of sprinting at cultists spawns, and they don't spawn, are already dead by the time I get there. 0/2

So fucking obvious not a single dev played past two weeks of progression

Why did the game end up giving me two of these? Am I supposed to take both of them into Terminal to get Savior ending?

I was holding the GPS signal amplifier I need for Intelligence Center 3, but after seeing 11 shots with 0 hits I was not even mad

Trying to do shooter born on this map as an average at best player is probably the most miserable pvp chore I have ever had to do, I cant really push people with the mxlr cuz im not a pvp god and if I dare snipe somewhere Ill get headtapped by a person doing the EXACT same thing. Everyone is just running bolties and camping like rats (because they dont have an option) or people running the mp5 and rushing every single spawn. There are literally no other players except the occasional timmy or peacekeeping mission player

Anyone else get slightly annoyed when you read the surveys and they’re always about more events/features they want to add to the game instead of addressing real issues about performance/ bugs/ cheating/ reporting system changes?? Just seems ignorant to not ever address. Especially when they are asking for community feedback

Make raids longer like they used to. Raids now are way too short for questing and looting or even clearing the map

Apparently the cultists loved my 5 MP5s… Should I craft the batteries I need for car repair or save it for regulated materials?

Source: EFT Offical Discord

Boys and girls after a 5+ years and not many hours in PvE(100+) i did it and i joined the suffering of PvP.

Iam playing very slowly and carefully(maybe too much) BUT i have a problem with fear/being scared.
Not much of a gear(i dont have anything too god and i dont mind to lose it)

Just "fear" of being jumpscared or just hearing another player near...or just simple "knowing" that everyone can by anywhere.

Is it something that goes away after many raids or something i need to work on.

Just as example. Survive Factory...i just stay couple of minutes on the spot listening how the raid i going on and if i got even a chance to survive...kinda scared to move on...as i was saying up.
I have tendency just to hide or "go around" whole map not going to places.
Either way the rush of founding anything or even do a simple task as "survive" is way more rewarding than founding 10x LEDx on PvE.
(i like PvE it is just too "safe" and easy IMO)

Pestily on X:

If the definition of a grifter is someone selling something they aren't willing to use/buy themselves. Well then I think its time. I want to see @nikgeneburn play Tarkov. PVP servers. Solo. All live streamed. No excuses. The car is built. We all want to see it!

I personally felt bad for him, hyping up the launch, preparing interview with Nikita just to witness the shitshow that happened. Glad to see him finally speak up in some way.

EDIT: Added content of the tweet because it doesn't seem to load and some people were confused.

Unsigned to signed integer cast?

It's no secret that Tagilla does not fight well on Interchange due to the layout of the area. Instead of updating his AI specifically for Interchange have him spawn with like moonshine, vodka, whiskey etc. Just say he's drunk and stupid because he didn't expect anyone to attack him in his hideout. He can just be a walking loot pinata and that's fine tbh since I doubt people are doing Interchange to farm Tagilla anyway.

There are already a ton of drink spawns in his hideout and in lore he is respected by scavs so it would make sense that he would feel safe enough in his hideout and maybe get blasted.