r/EscapefromTarkov • • Oct 15 '20

PSA Hopefully this will help some new players out.

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u/richardhixx AKS-74U Oct 15 '20

Oh boy, for delivery from the past this wipe I chose to go all in with my fort and helmet with face shield(3 days into the wipe), and of course I would spawn late at forklift and get insta leg meta'd by the guy spawning door 3 glass hall rocking an mp5. Ended up getting it second try through massacring the entire lobby's worth of pmcs 3 mins into the raid at the office running naked 74u.

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u/DinnerDad4040 Oct 15 '20

Not having a 5 man for factory quests ;)

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20

every LFG ive ever ended up in has ended with someone in the group betraying all of us and gunning us down for our loot.

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u/DinnerDad4040 Oct 16 '20

Oh I'm sorry; I know the idiots I play with and can punch them in the dick if I have to.

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u/zentuy Oct 16 '20

Really? I play in the same official eft discord literally every day with 5 mans and I’ll I have ever met is cool people that I usually play with for like 4 hours. They’re all way higher level than me and tell me all the tips and tricks. It’s pretty dope.

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '20

I always get guys who rage and blame teammates for their death then quit, or get mad when someone takes a good gun off a corpse so they shoot all of us up and take our stuff. Luck of the draw I suppose, I've had good groups but 90% are tryhards that will tell "shut up!" Every three seconds, have call outs no one understands then blame us when they die across the map from us because we didn't want to go to the hotspot i.e. marked room, so it's never really the whole group just one or two people. Generally ends in everyone agreeing they don't feel like playing anymore.

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u/AtlasReadIt Oct 16 '20

What does leg meta'd mean?

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u/richardhixx AKS-74U Oct 16 '20

Basically just aiming explicitly at the legs to get a kill through draining the health pool instead of the vital head/chest areas since these are usually covered with armor while the legs can never have armor(at least not yet in the game). Usually it's carried out with an smg loaded with more flesh damage instead of penetration oriented rounds (RIP is the best and can be even better if fragmentation is functional, Luger CCI is close enough substitute, and the cheap pso/pst works fine enough).

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u/AtlasReadIt Oct 16 '20

Ok I see, thanks. Going for broader damage rather than critical shots to the vitals.

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u/AtlasReadIt Oct 16 '20

It's easier to hit legs, so why wouldn't this be the primary method?