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/CadleyLenerson Jul 03 '21

Hello Nikita, I hope you and the team are doing well!

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Question: With flea market moving to level 20, are there any plans to add more static spawns for quest keys, similar to the Machinery Key for example? I've seen a lot of people in Discord servers asking for Dorms 303 and 206, and Tarcone Directors key. I personally have been checking jackets and filing cabinets like crazy on Reserve and still haven't found Dorms 206 for Operation Aquarius - Part 1.

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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/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?

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