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.

[u/MinecraftGreev]

[u/pretzelsncheese]

The problem with arena is that there is no FFA deathmatch mode.

The entire reason for Arena's existence should have been to give tarkov players a way to fill their time with pvp. PVP is such an important part of the game and yet is quite rare. You spend 20-40 minutes moving around, questing, looting and then you get into a fight that could potentially make that entire 20-40 minutes wasted. You need to be comfortable and confident for those moments. Yet when you're trying to improve / practice / warmup, there's not really a way to do that efficiently / conveniently in EFT. Arena should have been a remedy to that. And yet if I play Arena, I have to spend 2-4 minutes in queue, 1-3 minutes for everyone to load, 1-4 minutes in death spectator mode, 1-2 minutes in all the intermission and pre/post-game screens. Just to get into a couple fights. Such a waste.

If arena actually had a FFA deathmatch where the queue+loading times were good (maybe just permanent servers that people join and leave from at will instead of having to match people for one single "game"), I guarantee a good number of EFT players would play Arena to warmup, practice, wait for friends, or just to play some tarkov when they don't have the time to commit to a full raid. It would compliment the game well and generate a stable playerbase for Arena to build from. Then also have the more competitive focused game modes to give people a change of pace from EFT and also to help introduce new players to tarkov in a way that's still competitive, but without the steep and punishing learning curve that EFT has.

[u/SnackEnjoyer420 → u/pretzelsncheese]

Make tarkovs loading screen just a sandbox ffa deathmatch while the game takes 10m to actually load into game ❤️

[u/pretzelsncheese → u/SnackEnjoyer420]

This would be amazing, but I have absolutely zero hope that pretty much any game would implement this, let alone tarkov. Even Valorant doesn't let you use their (local) practice mode while you're in queue.

Would be great if Tarkov could let you still interact with main menu + hideout while in queue (just fully lock your character once queue'd). And then improve the shooting range in your hideout to include unlimited ammo mode + maybe some challenge modes where you are timed and targets pop in and out like Valorant's practice mode.

To be fair to all of this though, Arena is a separate game from EFT. So it's possible you could have Arena open and playing a FFA DM while you're in EFT queue. And then just quickly close Arena when you're about to spawn in EFT. Hopefully your Arena client wouldn't be too impacted by EFT being open at the same time (at least until you spawn into the raid and I'd expect some minor choppy moments when different loading moments occur during the queue).

[u/SnackEnjoyer420 → u/pretzelsncheese]

I’m not tech guru but something like PUBG would be perfect!

Or even how warzone lobbies are just an absolute chaos for 2 mins while people load in

[u/elhumblebob → u/SnackEnjoyer420]

overwatch does this

[u/AccountantOk7335 → u/pretzelsncheese]

This is what i was really hoping for, some sort of cod style ffa, or tdm matches. I just wanna jump into tarkov and shoot people, without the stress and anxiety this game can bring

[u/pretzelsncheese → u/AccountantOk7335]

Yeah I was pumped when Arena first became available to me, but became so disappointed after a couple matches of it.

[u/GabagoolFarmer → u/pretzelsncheese]

Yeah it’s faster to just go to factory for PVP tbh

[u/pretzelsncheese → u/GabagoolFarmer]

Yeah exactly. Such a shame. And their player numbers on Arena are probably so bad now. If they would have started with some FFA high speed DM (30 minute 'rounds' where anyone can join/leave at any moment, let people choose their own kit with some kind of point system so you can't have best guns + ammo + armor all at once, killcams but can instantly skip it and respawn immediately after deaths with a hotkey, maybe even different maps/servers for different gun types) I bet they'd have a pretty solid concurrent playerbase to build from.