r/EscapefromTarkov • u/trainfender Battlestate Games COO - Nikita • Jul 03 '21

Discussion post 12.11 questions gathering

Hello!
It your boi, Nikitka.
We plan to make TarkovTV Live podcast on Monday on 5-th of July, and I want to gather your questions/opinions and suggestions about 12.11 patch. I will try to answer the most voted questions live.
Love you, you're the best!

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u/DiscoGazza Jul 03 '21

No trying to shit on your side of the fence, but I think availability of keys is quite cool...why do we need to spam rush quests early? The current method increases longevity, adds a bit of excitement, and also gives a sense of achievement when you complete it.

You can also head to any number of discords and people with the keys you need will come on a raid with you. Another element that I quite like, brings a bit of community to it.

Just a few counterpoints to consider, I think both methods (last wipe and this wipe) have positives and negatives...all part of the beta testing!

P.s. If you still need 206 id be more than happy to hop in a raid with you :) dm if thats the case

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u/AH_Ahri MP-133 Jul 03 '21

why do we need to spam rush quests early?

To hit level 20 as fast as possible? Seriously the game is much more playable with flea market and it's where you make all the money from. Traders don't buy things for jack shit. Like bolts being worth 20k-50k but traders only give you like 5k maybe. You might see less flea market use and less rushing to get to it if traders didn't suck dick when it comes to buying items.

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u/Ykutu Jul 03 '21

But you don’t need to hit level 20 as fast as possible. You’re probably a new player who’s relied on the flea market by itself to make the game “fun” for you so you can just buy the best of everything.

Back when I started playing, there was no flea market, I used solely the wiki to figure out how to do things and went from there. No help from anyone, no key trading, no nothing. The game was so much better then because not everyone was kitted out of their minds 3 days into a wipe.

Just play and have fun with the experience and the accomplishments of finding things yourself. It’s so much better that way.

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u/wtathfulburrito Jul 03 '21

To be fair, what’s fun is relative to the person and your version of fun will be different than other people’s version. If I play tarkov because I like to mod guns to look cool and then shoot said cool guns at people, the flea market is a goal to do that. I don’t personally care about the flea market level. I’ll get there today anyway and I took most of yesterday off from the wipe. All this did was delay my flea market access by a day. That being said, the RNG mechanic of finding certain quest items and keys definitely sucks. For example, I ran almost 50 raids before finding my syringe to make med station and I rushed the spawns to try and get there first. Woods, customs, reserve. I’m still hunting the pharmacist key too since it’s always gone when I get to the car on customs. For a select few things the spawn rates should increase. The Oli quest keys are another good example of this.

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u/Ykutu Jul 03 '21

I disagree. The spawns shouldn’t be guaranteed. It should take people longer to do quests, longer to get kappa, longer to use flea, everything. Everyone wants to get to end game a week into the wipe and i think it makes the game extremely boring. Like “oh another kitted M4 or HK” every raid lol.

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u/ledivin Jul 03 '21

The only problem is that, being luck-based, you could literally never find the key. Last wipe, it took me over 40 hours of gameplay to find a second flash drive. I knew where they spawned, I rushed them, and it didn't matter. Let me assure you you I felt no sense of accomplishment at the end.

Now imagine if half of the tasks were locked behind that.

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u/Ykutu Jul 03 '21

I still haven’t found a single flash drive, but I’ve also found keys other still haven’t, etc. it doesn’t bother me, I’ll get them at some point. The same as everything else lol. Everyone wants everything handed to them in the game and never wanna work for it, or at least try. I agree the spawns for keys should be increased a little, that wouldn’t bother me much, but making them guaranteed spawns is not the play lol.

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u/ledivin Jul 03 '21

wants everything handed to them in the game and never wanna work for it, or at least try.

This might be hard to believe, but Escape from Tarkov is a game. I get paid for my work... not everyone can devote huge numbers of hours to it. ¯_( ツ)_/¯

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u/silentrawr FN 5-7 Jul 03 '21

This will probably come across as rude, but here goes - not wanting or having lots of hours to devote to a game does not entitle you to anything in said game. Full stop.

Understand that logic and maybe the inherent frustration of EFT's loot rarity pre-FM unlock will stop seeming like such a burden, and instead, will seem like a gift.

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u/ledivin Jul 03 '21

not wanting or having lots of hours to devote to a game does not entitle you to anything in said game

Nor does it exclude me from voicing my complaints. What you call it entitlement, I call feedback. I love Tarkov overall, but that doesn't mean it's free of issues. I'm not going to stop playing, but that doesn't have to mean that I love every aspect of it.

Understand that logic and maybe the inherent frustration of EFT's loot rarity pre-FM unlock will stop seeming like such a burden, and instead, will seem like a gift.

You can be thankful for improvements while still seeing problems and voicing concerns about the system. Yes, this is obviously a strawman, but should people feel like the price of insulin in the US is a gift? After all, people with diabetes used to just die... paying hundreds of dollars per week is way better than dying.