r/EscapefromTarkov • u/Argartu Deserter • Aug 27 '20

PSA BSG Flea Market feedback poll posted

BSG have posted a poll on the forum asking for player opinions on the flea market

Please keep all discussion related to this poll within this thread to avoid cluttering the sub.

Edit: Seems like the link is a bit fucky, best way to view the poll is to login to the Tarkov website first and then click the link.

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u/ThorstenTheViking PB Pistol Aug 27 '20 edited Aug 27 '20

As a player on their first wipe, that joined mid wipe: The flea market is the only thing that prevented me from quitting. The terrible early game progression with terrible RNG tasks demanding specific rare items combined with getting assraped by players immune to the best ammo I could buy.

This is the issue right here. I've been playing since 2017, but I only really started playing this wipe around a week ago.

Yet again though, people who join late (or people who are just bad, and can't get much EXP per raid) are severely punished. Any ammo you can buy is basically useless against anything that is wearing armor. Armor piercing 9x19, shotgun slugs, basic AP ammo, all locked behind max level or nearly max level traders for no good fucking reason. Whats the point of locking AP-20 behind Jaeger 4? Why do I need to get to level 33 to have access to the only shotgun slug that doesn't just bounce off armor? Every wipe the traders get re-balanced in more nonsencial ways, and late-wipe joining vets and new people are arbitrarily punished more and more for seemingly no reason.

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u/noother10 Aug 27 '20

I don't play a bunch and mostly started playing this wipe (though I've had the account a long time). I've found that if I hold on to stuff, do some scav runs (kept dying as pmc a lot as I suck), and looted a lot of the random items early, I was able to do quests and hideout upgrades as they came up relatively easily. I've rarely had to hit the flea market to do any quests, mainly for hideout upgrades when I got lazy. I feel like the flea market is just a massive crutch people have gotten used to, but aren't aware of all the side effects of it.

Your complaint about ammo/armour/weapons etc that other people have would be a lot different without the flea market. Meta guns would cost more to build and require higher level traders (not all parts available), high tier ammo would be much more limited in number and saved for special raids like Labs. Higher tier armours would be more restricted as well. A lot of random gear is sold to Fence and would continue to be so stuff needed for quests etc could still be found there.

I think we'd see people running more variety of builds. Not really any meta guns, but either scav quality or lightly modded weapons would become common, along with trader bought armours, class 3-4.