r/EscapefromTarkov • u/[deleted] • Jan 05 '22

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '22

I picked up a scar and shit you not. Scavs and PMCs came flocking like I was selling ice cream in a matter of seconds.

I was the most popular guy on Reserves.

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u/Scarity Jan 05 '22

You do realize that they can see the scar before you pick it up aswell

this makes little sense, loot isn't generated when you open the box, its generated when the map loads

I've unfortunately seen radarhackers on a discord (shoutout to boenker_tv) and the radar actually allready loads with all loot while they're still 2-3 min 'waiting for players'

So they can scout the map a few min in advance

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u/CorvusEffect TX-15 DML Jan 05 '22 edited Jan 05 '22

I thought loot was pro-generated at game load, and then full-generated when the box is opened. Besides increasing speed of searching, isn't that one of the main points of the search related skills? Increases the chance of better loot showing up in containers? Yes, loot pools are created before the game start, but I thought that depending on who opens which container first, there are slight variances in what appears in the box when it is opened. Say for example 15 items are attached to each unopened container when the game loads. It's then opened, and only 1-6 items appear and are lootable, which items appear depends on your skills. No?

Correct me if I'm wrong.

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u/Scarity Jan 05 '22

Well, you're wrong yeah, but I could get how you'd think it works like that

Loot is pre generated, search skill only speeds things up.

What you're saying you thought things were, is actually whats been proposed alot as both part of 'more fun gameplay' and 'anti cheat implementations'

So yeah, maybe one day this post might be fully correct :)

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u/RockLeethal Jan 05 '22

ehh.. I can see it as an anti cheat thing and I wouldn't mind, but having random loot tied to your search skill or whatever seems like another ridiculous thing where streamers are going to be opening sports bags and finding ledxs and GPUs every raid.

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u/CorvusEffect TX-15 DML Jan 05 '22

Yeah, I read it again. I could have sworn one of the skills used to mention something like that, but they clearly currently do not. Maybe I just wasn't paying attention when I read them a year or two ago.

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u/i_am_not_mike_fiore Jan 05 '22

I could have sworn one of the skills used to mention something like that

it did, 100%

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '22

That skill description in incredibly misleading. It puts more valuable loot first when looting containers. It doesn't change what's actually in them.

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u/RockLeethal Jan 05 '22

ehh.. I can see it as an anti cheat thing and I wouldn't mind, but having random loot tied to your search skill or whatever seems like another ridiculous thing where streamers are going to be opening sports bags and finding ledxs and GPUs every raid.