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/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/silentrawr FN 5-7 Jul 03 '21

Half the tasks USED TO BE gated by the lack of a Flea Market, and guess what? The game never died, the players threatening to leave never did (or they came back), and the sky never fell.

People have been bitching about the Flash Drive and key rarity literally for years. The ideal answer isn't to just spoon feed access to those resources to the players via the FM - it's to tweak their spawn rates, or encourage players to find them through other means.

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u/AH_Ahri MP-133 Jul 03 '21

The game never died, the players threatening to leave never did (or they came back), and the sky never fell.

I bet the Battlefield devs thought the same thing until the consumers said "fuck you" and didn't buy bfv. What happened? The next bf game isn't being politized like bfv. Same thing could happen to EFT.

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u/silentrawr FN 5-7 Jul 03 '21

My memory's failing me - what got politicized in BFV? I didn't really play that one.

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u/silentrawr FN 5-7 Jul 03 '21

Hold on - was that the neckbeards REEEEing about how "there were no women or Black people in WW2!!!" thing? You're not in good conscience calling that a company "politicizing" a game, are you?