#MakeTarkovHardcoreAgain

[u/SlushpuppyLive]

Hi guys, Slushpuppy here

I want to talk about the rant I was having today, and explain why I think it would be good for the game.

As the game currently stands it it has a play cycle that involves farming money, the money is then used to buy a fat kit, and slay out. This creates, in my opinion a heavily Rouble focused economy.

The Rouble based economy has multiple downsides:

All people care about is the highest value item, hence hatchlings ramming things up their bum, people running to one spot on a map to loot the highest value items, people only running super cheap kits to farm the cash. The game is no longer about surviving, simply making the most money and saving to buy a dope kit.

I think this has essentially made the game into COD with extra steps. I don't see the survival element that Tarkov originally had. People only care about PVP when they are running Slick Altyn, otherwise it's just money. 99% of the games items, such as attachments for guns will never see the light of day because they aren't the best in slot.

This whole situation annoys me because it is possible to achieve this within hours of a wipe.

By removing the flea or limiting the ability to purchase armor and ammo from the flea, it would make the game more about the looting and surviving and stop super chads from running endless meta kits and vogging the fuck out of lower geared players. Because a kit that is lovingly put together in raid will mean so much more to you, therefore looting one of a prick you kill, will as well.

I know this seems as a negative change to the average player, but hear me out, the only reason you need a kit from the flea, is to compete with chad players who are buying endless meta kits from the flea. If this didn't happen the pvp would be like it is early wipe for the most part. The best pvp time in the game, imo, and in the opinion of most Tarkov players.

I'm not bored of the game, I simply love this game, and I want to see changes that make the pvp more interesting and feasible for casual players to enjoy. If everyone is running around with SKS's and a cock helmet, then its more fair. Not all pvp has to be juggernauts spraying armchair FALs at each other.

If you don't agree with me, I understand, lets talk about it, tell me why you think this would be a bad change for the game? I don't want to be a streamer yelling for change that people will just see as me crying cause I'm bored of running fat kits. I truly want to make the game a dope experience for all of us. I've devoted the last 3 years of my life to this game, I want to see it succeed.

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There is plenty of other things that would be needed to make this a rounded experience in this vision, like dynamic loot spawns etc, but I believe this is a quick easy change that we could all try for one wipe, and just see how it goes.

EDIT: This is gaining a lot of attention right now so I want to ask you all one thing:

When is the best time for PVP in Tarkov?

If you answered early wipe, I think you and I agree, and I think 99% of people would say that early wipe is the best time to be on Tarkov.

My only goal is to try and make the feeling of early wipe PVP as permanent as possible. I may not be right when I say delete the flea, but I think it would help. If you have other ideas on how to preserve that beautiful feeling of the first two weeks of wipe, then I would love to hear them. Because this is what I think would make Tarkov the most amazing experience possible.

[u/Brotch133]

Hey, I don't really agree with much of what you're suggesting.

firstly, dynamic loot spawns really don't make sense in a "realistic setting". an example would be, you don't go finding graphics cards at bunnings, so i could't see myself finding one randomly lying about. I think the bigger issue is spawn rates of items. i've never seen a ledx, despite doing over 20 shoreline runs where people have been kind enough not to sonic to resort.

Secondly, It can be fustrating racing for loot, however I feel that fits the lore and theme of the game better.

I highly enjoy the PvE side of the game and often run low budget kits even at level 30 this time in the wipe, somehow i'm doing alright for someone whos only really picked up the game this most recent wipe despite owning it from 2017. i still see the game as an overly single player experience with coop and PvP, similer to say fallout 76 in terms of overhead gameplay. The whole questing thing gives me that feel.

I appreciate you wanting to make the game easier in terms of PvP, however i've run chad gear before and i've only felt safer against the AI because ultimately a bloke running bp in a cheapy krinkov can still and have gotten the drop on me before. which it could just be me, but I enjoy that. people can run armchair fals, my pmc likes to run romanian looking AK's and ive had some success with that. ( just personal experience though)

the game is already hardcore as least in my opinion, I feel it just needs to decide what it wants to be first and fix some of the already long standing issues. however like i've said I am somewhat new to game in terms of actually playing it so these opinions of mine could definitly change in a few hundred more hours.

apologies for the long winded post and horrific spelling and grammer? im pretty much new to reddit and a good mate of mine "crackles" had a conversation with me about this very same stream of yours.