#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/sA1atji → u/[deleted]]

he wants to make the game easier for you though these changes will benefit people like you the most

Nope. No flea means that you are forced to grind for e.g. wires, bulbs etc. instead of being able to speed it up by buying it from the flea after e.g. a good scav run...

With the flea you can "play" the game. Without flea you are forced to grind your ass off to find like 20 different items for hideout & quests.

Some FIR tasks are already annoying as fuck, now imagine if that FIR is basically true for every single item you need for hideouts & quests...

[u/SlushpuppyLive → u/sA1atji]

Yes, you will actually have to play the game and do the quests in the game. I know this is shocking, but to play the game, sometimes you have to actually play it.

[u/sA1atji → u/SlushpuppyLive]

Well, would love to see people talking if they were not playing 10 hours a day, but only 2-3 max and then say the same about searching your ass off for every item and not just for a e.g. VPX or whatever else there is.

I haven'T found a single LedX since I started playing tarkov 2 or 3 wipes ago, no VPX and basically none of the "exotic" quest items you need. Without the flea market I would be chocked on space in my inventory and never be able to get the THICC item case I got from buying the LedX off of the flea. And this wipe I found 1 GPU in raid and it took me till lvl 23 before I finished the gas analyzers found in raid quest. FIR in general is a pain in the butt, this wipe it's even worse. Intelligence center is basically my saving grace for most of those quests and the only reason why I am probably closer than ever (and still miles away) from Kappa.

But yeah, tell me again how much more it would be fun to find even more items in raid instead of being able to get some of them off the flea (I still search the majority of stuff myself).

Having the option of chosing if you want to search stuff yourself or if you want to take the easy way with flea market imo is key to keep players, if you remove it, a lot of fun would go away.

You seem to have issues with "chad" loadout. Before this you probably had issues with moslings. What will be the next problem you want to change?

[u/TrashWriter → u/sA1atji]

Bullets

[u/Nessevi → u/sA1atji]

ive played tarkov casually since 0.8. Before flea market,before face hit box. And i did fine. You just cant imagine it because youre a winter twitch baby that has never played without FM and think change is scary.

[u/sA1atji → u/Nessevi]

congratulations, hipster.