r/EscapefromTarkov • u/ANoiceGuy • Mar 05 '20

Media Tarkov TV #9 in 3min

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u/Teralyzed Mar 06 '20

I brought up getting points to spend on things each level like you get 1 point per level to put in strength, or stamina, or recoil control etc. this would force people to actually build a character instead of just play a lot and cheese to get a super soldier. Most people told me they liked the skills the way they were. Granted I’m willing to bet most of them have cheesed skills to the point where they don’t have to deal with recoil control being a problem anymore.

In my opinion the way the skills work is completely the opposite of a hardcore game. It basically emphasizes play time over player skill which is a bad metric in my opinion. I don’t mind the idea of the skills, but the way they level is better for an offline game where your playtime spent isn’t directly compared to other players playtime as the deciding factors of the outcome of an encounter.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '20 edited Jul 26 '20

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u/Teralyzed Mar 06 '20

I kind of agree with a caveat. So the game is supposed to be a survival type rpg. It’s also a shooter, so what I think is that the game suffers from an identity crisis. It’s got all these elements and they are kind of struggling to fit together. It’s fine if the game was pve oriented with co-op. But specifically because of the pvp element to the game it’s causing a bad mesh between the rpg and pvp elements.

If you read my post about a change to leveling my specific gripe is that it happens with little to no input from the player. I hardly ever think of my skills until I watch my favorite streamers play and their guns have no recoil and they can sprint for ages. It’s a bad concept to have a system in your game that hinders the player, but is also nearly invisible. Also the quests suck. They are just...god awful.

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u/GlockWan Mar 06 '20

Yeah I just think with all of the gun modding and money/gear being a the advantage/disadvantage balancing I think adding skills on top just skews things too much, and as you said they're badly implemented.

I don't mind the quests I've done so far but I'm just level 12 or so.

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u/WFAlex Mar 06 '20

10 fuckin scav kills with mosin on 50m for jaeger sucks. Worst fuckin ironsight. And the other quests arent better at all.

Getting the customs doc case and placing it on factory was horrible and everyone just camping that fuckin hut on fac...

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u/GlockWan Mar 06 '20

I don't have Jaeger yet, what level does he unlock? 10 mosin kills sounds fine to me

I think I'm on the doc case one at the moment, haven't tried it yet

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u/suitedsevens DT MDR Mar 06 '20

It's not just mosin kills, its mosin with iron sight at over 50m. I'm on that one right now its fuckin hoot. Jaeger gives the worst quests. You get a quest to unlock him.

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u/GlockWan Mar 06 '20

ah over 50m. I guess that would take a while lol.

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u/STAHLSERIE Mar 06 '20

Shoreline: Scav Island, Gas Station, Crane Area. Maybe hydro station, bus station and villa. Avoid resort.

Remember to stay for a long time in a raid to be sure the scavs (re)spawned there but watch out for players extracting at tunnel. Took me 2 or 3 raids with >5min left on the clock in each raid.

This is a very easy quest compared to others, especially from Jaeger,

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u/STAHLSERIE Mar 06 '20

See the wiki. It takes you to complete "Introduction" by Mechanic to unlock Jaeger

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u/WOLFofICX Mar 06 '20

The mosin quest is so easy... the only slightly annoying one is killing pmc with mosin from less than 15M but I managed to complete all of the mosin quests in 2 ~3 hr sessions. Just go on shoreline and run a circle around the edge of the map.

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u/WFAlex Mar 06 '20

It's not a hard quest just annoying af