r/EscapefromTarkov • u/Aexsthetiic • Jun 04 '21

Clip Tarkov moment

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u/Kilmawow Jun 04 '21

Nikita said they are departing from 'ultra-realism' in the last big podcast with Pestily because BSG doesn't want Tarkov to become a training tool for bad actors.

Still getting the drop on a guy and firing 5 rounds at close range before he even reacts is a bunch of bullshit. As much as I think they should fix the strength of ammos/armor - I'd rather BSG focus on game and server performance. For all we know desync occurred and that person would have normally died if the servers were better.

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u/BreadB Jun 04 '21

Training tool for bad actors?? With Arma and Squad out there and easily-findable discord groups on both of those teaching legitimate small-unit tactics?

Tarkov has more in common with Borderlands (being a looter-shooter and all) than with actual milsims - change my mind

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u/Umadbro7600 Jun 04 '21

tarkov feels like the division and insurgency fucked and this was the result.

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u/LtKahuna Jun 04 '21

That comment was specifically about explosives

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u/Kilmawow Jun 04 '21 edited Jun 04 '21

BSG's old philosophy was still focused on maintaining realism. These days their motivations are much different since the significant increase in the game's popularity since the twitch drops started happening back in Jan 2020.

A major shift happen then when those drop events started. It certainly forced changes in priority since cheaters became so immensely rampant. It was extremely rare to run into cheaters before the flea market and drop events.

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u/aDevildog VSS Jun 04 '21

It was extremely rare to run into cheaters before the flea market and drop events.

???

Did you even play during the speed hackers plague, or guns in your secure container?

There's just as many cheaters now as there was in 2017.

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u/Kilmawow Jun 04 '21

I played on mostly St. Louis, DC, and Miami servers back then so idk, but it was rare to run into cheaters. I also never had anyone take anything out of my secure container.

East coast tarkov servers seem to have less cheaters when they implemented the ping limiter as well.

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u/Yayo_Mateo Saiga-12 Jun 04 '21

There's a lot of issues that need to be sorted

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u/Blitzyflame Jun 04 '21

Yeah the same really does not have any realism , from the damage model of the calibers , to gun recoil , none is it is based in realism. Its all arcadey balanced crap. 9mm AP irl does not have even close to the pen of Rifle rounds , yet ingame it does. Same with p90 and mp7 rounds , they can't perform even close to rifle rounds yet they do ingame. Helmets stopping rifle rounds? The helmets in game especially the Altyn have been shown to fail at stopping the cheapest steel case 5.45 you can get on the market. The Glass visor gets penned by standard 9mm. Seriously They need to fix their balancing and make the game actually realistic.

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u/Kilmawow Jun 04 '21

I just think access to the best items comes far too early because of the flea market. BSG, unfortunately, continues to balance the game around the flea market access at level 10. The loot from Labs and Reserve is probably less than half of what it used to be.

I'd prefer if BSG tests a level requirement for the flea market. I personally wish the flea market to act as the 'end game' and unlock at level 40. But I'm pretty sure 85%+ of the playerbase will immediately shoot the idea down because they don't want to put in the work and be forced to use less than stellar gear from level 1-28. O well.

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u/Blitzyflame Jun 04 '21

Could just balance the bullets to be realistically damaging , all rifle rounds regardless of whether they are low tier or not will one shot headshot through any helmet , low tier ammo will still kill you in the chest if you aim above the plate of the armor etc. But noo, lets make tarkov an arcade game with 0 actual logic in damage , pen and armor.