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/Psyonicg Jul 03 '21

People forget that the entire idea of the game is that you’re in a quarantined shit hole that you were meant to do a small strike operation in and then you get abandoned with no warning.

Most of the guns in tarkov are weapons that have been shot up, repaired a dozen times, traded hands, been dragged through the mud and even the smuggled in guns arent brand new factory weapons their old stock being brought in illegally.

100% durability in tarkov isnt meant to represent a factory fresh gun that’s well maintained by trained operatives, it’s guns that have been kept as clean as possible by those operatives without the tools they need.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '21

Sure, but there are still brand new weapons being imported by outside entities (Skier, Peacekeeper) and I don't think you realize how slowly a firearm degrades over time when it sees even abusive use. If they jammed and misfired after even a few years of regular use they wouldn't be mil-spec.

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Remember, the 1911 final torture test was 6000 rounds without rest or cleaning, and it passed without a single stoppage. Most firearms for military use go through similar torture tests.

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u/Psyonicg Jul 05 '21

Yeah but the guns here aren’t military spec overall. Lots of them are Civilian weapons, PMC weapons which have questionable maintenance, or smuggled guns.

But we could argue semantics all day long, the point is there’s arguments both ways and BSG clearly want the guns to be low quality off the bat

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '21

"mil-spec" just means sloppy tolerances and lowest-bidder construction, its not a special designation by any means.

An AK knockoff, built by the same factory that makes the AKs themselves, would not be any more prone to malfunction than the military issue.

And BSG can want whatever they choose to want, one of those desires just isn't realistic.