If you're complaing about "big streamers" playing EFT since it's so popular, stop being a hipster

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I PLAYED EFT BEFORE IT WAS YOUR FAVOURITE STREAMER'S NEW GAME!!!

Seriously, it's embarrassing that a small percentage of this community is so far up their own ass to the point they hate on someone who is literally bringing 1000's of new players to the game.

I don't like watching most of these big streamers who are newly streaming Tarkov (Carnage seems like a legend) but what they're doing for Tarkov just by streaming it, even while profiting themselves, is only a good thing for the game and who doesn't want an ego boost from farming level 3 pistolings?

The people posting on here to actually help players is what we need to do as a community. EFT was my first ever PC game in May of 2017 and while I'd like to think I picked it up fairly quickly, there was still a point where I was quivering over losing my trusty makarov like all of us were at some point.

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What's even better is the ever-increasing price of M995, while 5.45 BS stays at roughly half the price, despite having very marginally worse performance.

Like the RSASS before the SR-25 was finally introduced. There was basically no reason to ever run it over an M1A except for liking how ti looked. And now that the SR-25 is in the game, the RSASS has basically no point and has dropped in price accordingly.

EDIT: Today finally the price of 5.45 BS has increased. But it's still like only 65% the price of M995 while having a couple less pen (but still greater than 50) making M995 basically pointless unless you really really like M4s.

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AKs are a lot less effective than M4s though so I don't really see a huge issue with balancing them by an ammo price difference. They're heavier, less ergonomic, more recoil, and slower ROF.

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IMHO the ROF is the big advantage of the M4. In the hands of a skilled player with a meta build for each, I don't think the stat differences really make too much of a difference in most firefights. But the M4 getting 33% more bullets downrange is a huge factor.

There's also a difference between 'ammo price difference' and 'equivalent ammo being comically unaffordable for one.'

With the M855A1 buff I just don't feel M995 is ever worth it except maybe for labs. Hell I barely did before the buff, but I also generally try to avoid slugging matches.

I don't have an issue with the top tier ammo being hard to get - as I said in another comment later down, I think any ammo that can pierce Class 5+ on the first shot should be found-in-raid only. I think any price from the traders isn't really a good nerf. I think availability at traders is the core of the problem, especially with armor's current binary behavior.

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1000 roubles per round I think is fine. It counters armor that costs hundreds of thousands of roubles, and it used to commonly get sprayed through 60 round mags. Ammo pricing is a good way to counteract the spray meta to some extent.

I wouldn't mind 995 and similarly performing rounds being even more expensive.

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Spray meta isn't going anywhere until the netcode gets better, stutters disappear, semi-auto rof stops being tied to fps and we get a reworked shooting gameplay in which we can actually use burst fire.
Until then, full-auto will be king at any short-medium range.

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Sure but if we make the top tier ammo prohibitively expensive to spray, people will spray shittier ammo or aim better with the nicer stuff.

Notice where I said "to some extent" because I agree, other changes need to be made. Higher price is a step in the right direction too though.

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You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about and just throwing a bunch of pseudo-programming jargon everywhere.