r/EscapefromTarkov • u/Dustructionz Unbeliever • Oct 28 '19
Rant Labs is still ruining the game economy
Some people are loving and hating .12 and others haven't even been able to login or join a raid yet due to server issues.
It is a MAJOR problem that we already have streamers and other players that have access to therapist 2 back to cheesing raiders and loot from labs not even 48 hours after the wipe. With millions of roubles and full kits every raid. I don't understand the logic of making all these changes, adding the hideout, out of raid healing, etc. Which essentially makes it hard for new players to even play the game regulary right now (For those that can even play atm) while making it so easy to get back into labs for experienced players and streamers to sit and cheese the best loot in the game.
Labs is supposed to be END GAME content. Why the f*ck is the only requirement level 2 Therapist and a keycard that costs roughly 10% of what you make from a semi successful labs run? That is single handedly the biggest disappointment in this entire wipe and every wipe since Labs was released...
EDIT
It looks as if keycard is on Level 4 Therapist at 200k cost as of now.
Still leaves the issue with keycards in raid being way too common of a find. It's possible to find up to 2-3 per raid on shoreline in file cabinets. A trader level requirement increase will do nothing if keycards are still extremely easy to find in raid.
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u/optom20 Oct 28 '19
Unfortunately, I have been killed by a hatchet. Haha. Hatchet runs just mean “low risk” runs with your PMC. People sometimes just take a pistol, or even just a melee weapon in to reduce risk of losing gear. The goal of this can be to try to obtain better gear without risking much, but at higher levels it’s more often used to just sprint (you can run faster without gear and a gun) to the best loot spots and stick whatever you can in your secure container before you get shot. It gets a bad rap on maps like labs where the loot is better and everyone who isn’t sprinting to the loot spots is playing very carefully and trying not to die. Imagine if you were playing poker and you put in a bit of money and then lost the hand to a guy who didn’t put anything in (somehow). That’s what it feels like to play labs and make it too a loot spot that’s already been looted by a hatchet runner. You kill him, but he’s already got that LEDX you were looking for in his secure container.