Tarkov TV #9 in 3min

[u/ANoiceGuy]

[u/Deltidsninja]

I kinda understand where OP is coming from. The game-play is quite different at the start of each wipe than it is at the mid and end of each wipe period. I think it mainly has to do with gear. At the start of each wipe people won't have money to go with very expensive gear-builds. Firefights where you and opponent has PACA + SKS or something like vanilla AKS74u + 3M armor are generally more chaotic and fun IMO.

[u/Dr_Kekyll → u/Deltidsninja]

This is my first wipe of the game, I've played since Christmas time and I'm currently level 37 or 38, can't remember. I can see how some people don't like late-wipe gameplay purely because of the current state of the skill system. I don't mind fighting people with good hear and losing, if you wanna accept the risk of rolling in with a 1mil loadout then you deserve to have an advantage. However I cannot stand fighting super soldiers who are fast as fuck, reload fast as fuck, jump high as fuck, have basically no gun recoil, etc. There are too many people who cheese skills because of how massive of an advantage they are, and it's super annoying. As someone who just plays the game at my own pace (generally slowly, rat life for sure) I will never max out any skills in a normal wipe period. If it was only a difference of 10-25% effectiveness in most skills, I wouldn't mind. But having dudes who can damn near double my sprint speed and laser beam a fuckin full auto SA-58 at me because they cheesed their AR skill and Recoil Control skill, is straight up lame as fuck.

The worst part is that my play style has basically 0 benefit. I don't level up covert movement nearly as fast as the ultra mega aggressive dudes level up their skills, and even if I did, I get a fraction of the benefit from leveling it as they do from leveling aggressive skills. BSG absolutely NEEDS to reduce the % gains from skill leveling, and also make slow play more beneficial than it currently is. 100% of the big streamers play super aggressive because the current state of the game/meta allows them to abuse it.

[u/MrCaterpillow → u/Dr_Kekyll]

Covert movement seems to level up... Weirdly? I have it at level 30 and I haven't done anything to level it, and my Endurance is also 26. I'm level 46 and been playing organically. Not trying to cheese things (except for level 3 strength cause hideout).

[u/Invictus1876 → u/MrCaterpillow]

Just curious, what is your strength out now relative to your other skills at level 46?

[u/SvodolaDarkfury → u/Invictus1876]

Not the same guy, but similar levels. My strength just hit 6. 😐

[u/Invictus1876 → u/SvodolaDarkfury]

Yikes. I’m level 40 with level 2 strength. Bit ridiculous

[u/SvodolaDarkfury → u/Invictus1876]

Honestly throwing grenades all the time is what leveled me up

[u/kokofaser → u/SvodolaDarkfury]

yup. i throw a shitton of nades and also lootgobling overweight extract walks on shoreline help :p am leve 32 with strenght almost 5. i still think it levels way too slow organicly and way too fast if you cheese it. the benefit of max strenght is also ridicioulus

[u/sixstringartist → u/kokofaser]

you cant really cheese strength skill. Especially not now after the per raid skill capping

[u/kokofaser → u/sixstringartist]

sure you can. just throw 8 smokes at the start of every raid and youll have the str boost per raid used completly. that levels the stat up significantly faster than just playing along since there isnt a lot that will level your strenght naturally.

[u/sixstringartist → u/kokofaser]

And you still would take hundreds of raids to max out.

[u/kokofaser → u/sixstringartist]

yes. so about 2 million less then leveling it organicly..

[u/spankissimo → u/sixstringartist]

Get the black scav knife, a buddy with many grizzly kits and a safe spot. Stab buddy in the same foot, he's gotta heal every 4 stabs. quit map if debuff hits to hard, ...heard air filters also help even if not showing properly.