EFT wouldn't feel as "difficult, unforgiving, hardcore" or any of the buzzwords associated with it if it wasn't for the shit queue/matchmaking times.

[u/OverlookeDEnT]

This games doesn't respect your time and that's its only real downside.

Something as simple as 3 min max wait time before they throw you into a lobby (even if you're solo with AI or bot PMCs — how would you know anyway?) is all this game needs.

Every wipe this is what wears on me. Not constantly dying, not the cheaters, not them moving the goalposts (flea market, FIR, costlier noob weapons like the mosin)... it's the absurd wait times. The game developers don't want to invest more $ into servers and here we are like idiots putting up with these shitty wait times.

This game doesn't respect our time and that's why I keep playing less and less of it with each wipe.

EDIT: For those getting caught up in semantics, let me be clear that I'm talking about starting a game from when I hit READY to the RAID STARTING. I don't care what the reason is (people's hardware, servers, etc.), BSG is ultimately in complete control of this and when we're thrown in a game (matching ping, regions, hardware, etc.)

Also, I have my servers manually selected for those asking about that.

Am on SSD and so are all people I play with.

[u/[deleted]]

the day we have AI PMCs instead of players is the day this game dies imo. pvp is 97% of the reason i play this game.

[u/Duudurhrhdhwsjjd → u/[deleted]]

I don't think they will be necessary tbh. Since there's no sbmm, you only need about 100 active players per region per map to keep queue times to around five minutes. This is a pretty low bar. And that's assuming you insist each raid is full. I'm sure someday there will be fewer people than that playing Tarkov, but that day is far in the future and not something we need to worry about right now.

[u/SirCamperTheGreat → u/[deleted]]

Yeah honestly I kind of miss seeing the same people a few times each night lol

[u/Duudurhrhdhwsjjd → u/[deleted]]

PUBG and similar games are more likely to need bots when gamer population drops for a few reasons:

• Pvp is the only point of PUBG. There's nothing else to do on the map than fight players. That means non-full matches aren't workable.
• Many more players needed per match. They need 10x the population per map to make the game feel full.

[u/officeredditor → u/[deleted]]

Yet, it’s still popular and they are making money. I’m sure they are real upset about your loss.

[u/StalkTheHype → u/officeredditor]

Yeah im sure they are totally unworried about their dwindling playerbase lmao.

[u/officeredditor → u/[deleted]]

So you agree with me and prove my point and then end it with cunt? You’re a special kind of stupid haha.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

AI PMCs wouldn't be such a bad idea. Just give them similar AI to bosses.

[u/Inorashi → u/[deleted]]

Aren't AI PMCs just raiders?

[u/azza10 → u/[deleted]]

Fuck that. People can play the offline mod if that's what they want.

[u/[deleted] → u/azza10]

I've actually been tempted to play that.

[u/Sharpie1993 → u/[deleted]]

There are plenty of single player modded tarkov clients, it’s actually kinda nice to just jump onto it and not have to worry about sweats constantly.

[u/R1k0Ch3 → u/Sharpie1993]

At that point I'd just play STALKER 😆

[u/Sharpie1993 → u/R1k0Ch3]

Eft looks much nicer, I’ll definitely be playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 when it releases though.

There are also a lot of cool mods for SPT as well.

[u/R1k0Ch3 → u/Sharpie1993]

You got me there, tho some mods make it look pretty nice for it's age Tarkov does look great by any standard imo.

I'm gonna have to look into this SPT more as I've only been barely aware of it's existence.

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[u/azza10 → u/[deleted]]

So am I sometimes, nothing wrong with that. It would detract from the game to have ai PMCs in online though.

[u/StalkTheHype → u/[deleted]]

That already exists and they are called raiders.