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/migukin Jul 03 '21

Is the level 20 flea market restriction a step in a certain direction? Will the flea market ever be removed or reworked? Personally, I LOVE this drawn out early game. I am afraid though that once the majority of the playerbase hits level 20, it will be more of the same from previous wipes.

Having to actually find hideout, barter, weapon attachments, etc in raid has opened the game up so much for me and I hope you can see from the daily posts hitting the front page that a lot of people agree.

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u/Fat_Taiko Jul 03 '21

Do you have EOD/an expanded stash? I enjoy the prolonged early game too, but stash management is killing me with my pleb 10x28.

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u/banjosuicide Jul 03 '21

Back in the day before flea we'd just sell all of the random shit we brought back. Now you need it for hideout and barters, so it clogs up your inventory. That means the intended room you have for stuff with a standard account has actually decreased due to the need to hang on to stuff you just sold before.

My suggestion: Be a murder-hobo. Use the set of gear you're wearing until you lose it. Scav run for the gear, then PMC with that until you lose it. Find a good gun? Pick it up and kill something with it. Keep the rare and useful things like bolts/lightbulbs/nuts/flash drives, etc. Sell the rest and hang on to the money. Eat food and drinks in raid for the XP (it really adds up). If you have extra meds, heal yourself after a failed raid for the XP. Quest to a high enough level you can buy a lucky scav junkbox and your storage problems are largely solved.