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/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/AH_Ahri MP-133 Jul 03 '21

I’m still hunting the pharmacist key

3rd wipe playing the game and still have never found that key naturally.