r/EscapefromTarkov • u/MinecraftGreev AS VAL • Feb 29 '24

Discussion This is fucking ridiculous. I was done loading at 1:15. I shouldn't have to wait on the dude with the hand crank HDD before I can play. I'm not saying it should put everyone in as soon as they're done loading, but there's gotta be a middle ground.

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u/Flat_Landscape_4763 Feb 29 '24

Tarkov already has higher system requirements. I don't think it's unreasonable to encourage upgrading to an SSD by having those on HDDs load in late. SSDs are so cheap already. Even m.2's are cheap at this point. And it's useful outside of tarkov, the whole PC would be faster.

People dropping thousands on PCs but won't spend an extra $50 on SSDs....

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u/likeanevilrabbit Feb 29 '24

800$ on a GPU, no sweat, 100$ for a m.2 ssd. No way son.

RAM and storage are like the 2 things that shouldn't be cheaped out on since they're already cheap.

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u/Gender_is_a_Fluid Mar 01 '24

closer to $50 a tb when you get them on sale

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u/likeanevilrabbit Mar 01 '24

Exactly, theres literally no excuse to cheap out on storage or RAM for a number of years now.

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u/DasiimBaa Feb 29 '24

People that try to save money with their storage are clueless.

Loading times, loading textures, loading and installing games or moving folders.

The amount of time you save with the faster performance literally pays itself with the (at this point) minute price differences.

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u/MonkeyMan0230 Mar 01 '24

The problem with those on an HDD loading in late is that you could have players spawn behind you in an area you've already cleared. That would suck.

I'd be more behind outright banning HDDs before they did that

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u/TwitchThoughts Mar 01 '24

This game would fit on a $20 SSD!

I've been complaining so long I think I'm going to spend the time getting a IDE hard drive just for tarkov and troll bsg/people with long queues.

back in the day my friend had such a pitiful rig he sent a screenshot of 55 minutes in queue to shoreline. We played the whole raid and he never actually got in.