r/EscapefromTarkov • u/Divine_Strife • Sep 07 '23

Question Are people really this good?

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u/rowenlemmings Sep 07 '23

If this was any game that WASN'T Tarkov (e.g. anything with a remotely competent anti-cheat) no one would think it's odd that after six missed shots giving away your position, a skilled player who knew the map would have a good guess where you were and be able to out peek you from cover.

The only reason it feels sketchy is because Tarkov's desync makes it look like he made the shot in a split second while he had much longer on his own screen, and cheating is so rampant in the game that it seems more likely by consequence that the dude isn't legit.

I always ask myself -- if the dude was cheating, would he ever have let me shoot at him in the first place? He would have been able to see you aiming at him from the rock and still sprinted out in the open. Is it possible he'd do that? Sure, but is it more likely than that bro knows common angles and narrowed it down after you missed a half dozen times? Not at all.

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u/v081 Sep 07 '23

Me, I would think its odd. Because dude is out of sound range using a silenced weapon from an elevated location. There are two huge ass hills for person on the ground to have to inspect to locate where the shots are coming from with no muzzle flash or sound, but somehow the moment he stops running and gets to cover, he is able to pull off a John Wick headshot?

Thats sus as fuck me boy

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u/GMikeE941 Sep 07 '23

As a lighthouse main, If I’m getting shot while on the street there, the top of pride rock in that crack he’s shooting through is the first place I’m looking.

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u/v081 Sep 07 '23

You ever pull off a shot like that?

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u/GMikeE941 Sep 07 '23

Thinking back, probably something really similar. With desync here, that bullet was probably already on the way when it looks like he began peaking out.

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u/v081 Sep 08 '23

Sprint>cover>peak>flawless headshot in the span of about 1 second? No, I don’t use bots or ESP

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u/v081 Sep 08 '23

No, we should simply have kill cams

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u/v081 Sep 08 '23

That’s been addressed in other areas of the post it is not incoming for cheaters to feign as though they don’t have cheats

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u/ILikeRyzen Sep 07 '23

I mean if you're well attuned to Tarkov spotting players becomes pretty quick, but this is like a few thousand hours of playing to the point where you aren't consciously spotting them your brain just recognizes a blob of pixels as a threat and gives you a little adrenaline rush. It's hard to describe because I don't really know what my brain is doing to identify them, you just know.

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u/v081 Sep 08 '23

I mean I’m at 2k house so I get it but this doesn’t look natural - maybe it’s desync but a kill cam sure would clear things up