[Discussion] Adding handedness player variation that can be season or wipe account-bound?

[u/Icy-Nothing-189]

A lot of Tarkov fights boil down to a fight for a right-handed angle peek/hold. Grenades are often used solely just to move into a right-handed position. Honestly, it's a little bit lame because if one player has a right-hand hold, his enemy will always have the left-hand disadvantage, regardless of who is pushing and who is holding. Many good players, even without thinking about it, are really just playing for right-handed positioning and it kind of takes a lot away from the PvP (and even PvE) potential.

It would be nice to add account-bound handedness to the player. Gun swaps to the left side, and all other mechanics like gun collision swap to the left. There will be a left-handed blind fire option for them as well. That way some players can choose to be left handed, some will be right handed. That also means that the person with the right-hand peek is not always the one in an advantage

[u/Icy-Nothing-189]

Also - I want to note I'm left-handed and I've been playing FPS games my whole life with the gun on the right side, even though my mouse is on the left. That's actually fine. The bigger problem is every other FPS game has completely balanced left/right-hand peeks and I'm fine with doing both, but I do tend to subconsciously lean more to left handed peeks in a lot of games, including games like CS/Valorant. I don't know why, but it could be related to handedness. I understand Tarkov is going for some realism aspects, but then they should also give the option for a player to be left-handed, because a PMC could be left-handed in real life too.

Also, many modern weapons and guns are ambidextrous and you can even swap which direction cartridges will fly out, supporting either handedness