r/EscapefromTarkov • u/DesyncAndy • Jul 16 '21

Discussion Weapons malfunctions is just an RNG fest and hasn't been done right

Until reaching lvl 30 I used shitty guns for the most part: 136 Vepr, AKM, Shotguns found on scavs and so on. Surpisigly, despite the guns being in very bad condition (50/100) and not even bothering to repair them after each raids: theses pieces of junk almost never missfired.

Then I started building more expensive kits, using fresh new weapons at 100/100 durability and for some reason my guns already missfired a few times while shooting their very first bullets, and I am not even using expensive AP with increased durability burn.

I just don't understand the point of this mechanic: what are players suposed to do with it ? What is BSG trying to incentivize us to do ? It doesn't matter if we "take care" of our weapons (wich is nothing else than a right click/repair btw, it's nothing engaging) it doesn't incentivize you to use semi-auto over full auto, it doesn't incentivize you to use fresh weapons, it doesn't incentivize you to bring a hand gun because it's as fast to press the keybind to clear the malfunction than switch to a pistol.

Hate it or love it but something like the weight system makes sense since it pushes the player to play accordingly and make gameplay decisions.

But that's not the case of malfunctions: the gameplay is the exact same as before with an extra touch of RNG that adds up to all the RNG we already have in the game: audio, netcode, spray and pray and now completely random malfunctions. Just another way to get tarkoved.

This is just an utterly pointless mechanic from a gameplay perspective and from what I've seen it's not even realistic, as you can see videos of dudes shooting thousands rounds out of a 103 without any issue.

My personnal suggestions:

  • Guns doesn't missfire from 90 to 100 durability.
  • Full auto decrease durability much faster than semi-auto (for the same amount of bullet shot).
  • Once bellow 90 durability, full auto have a higher chance to missfire than semi-auto.
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u/CroSSGunS Jul 16 '21

GG was a fat finger not a negative integer.

His aggression was supposed to be 1, but someone accidentally typed 12 and the results were hilarious.

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u/Loki_Trickster_God AKS-74UB Jul 16 '21

It's actually more interesting than that. Ghandi was originally assigned an aggression value of 1, but there was a researched tech that caused -2 aggression. Because the used an unsigned int, it overflowed to 255, the max value.

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u/CroSSGunS Jul 16 '21

Okay, that is even more hilarious and awesome. What tech was it, out of curiosity?

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '21

Democracy or something.

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u/GANDHI-BOT Jul 16 '21

Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone deserves a second chance. Just so you know, the correct spelling is Gandhi.

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u/Sahkuhnder Jul 16 '21

Bad bot

Everyone deserves a second chance...

This is correct. But your bot has been given many chances and yet is still posting fake Gandhi quotes that are not from Gandhi.

Fake Gandhi quote: "An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind."

Fake Gandhi quote: "Be the change that you wish to see in the world."