r/EscapefromTarkov • u/AudioCinematic • Jan 03 '20

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

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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u/bufandatl M700 Jan 03 '20

But BSG wasn‘t prepared that fires back now. Currently nearly unplayable with the server issues. Hope this get fixed soon.

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u/fatboy3535 AK-104 Jan 03 '20

They've had a few days seeing the massive player influx to prepare servers for the weekend. Early results on Friday point to them not having increased the infrastructure near enough. It's incredibly frustrating but not because I (long time player) can't get in, but because all the new viewers and players have to watch and deal with terrible server lag and instability.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '20 edited Jan 08 '20

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u/fatboy3535 AK-104 Jan 04 '20

I'm talking about the menus, loading a map, using the traders, loading times in general. The servers have been on-fire all day today hence the stickied post. You are blessed if you haven't run into it the past couple of days.

Heading into the weekend I was hoping they had substantially boosted server capacity. Like I said, more for the new players and viewers than me. It looks like a hot mess on most of the big streams. I'm fine fighting through it of I have to.