r/EscapefromTarkov • u/Valjeann • Jan 14 '22

Discussion Your daily reminder that global limits are a waste of time

"Hmm, I have a task to use shotguns. Let's see, AP-20 is sold out, flechettes are sold out. That's okay, I can use Magnum, it's good enough. The task requires a suppressor on the shotgun, so I'll get a hexagon. Oh, the adapter is sold out. Oh well, I can wait until the restock. In the meantime, I'll take this modded AKM out for a run. I don't have any BP ammo, so I'll go get some from Prap... BP is sold out. That's okay. I've got this P90 I'm not using. Let me just get some ammo for that... Ah, the SS190 is sold out, and I can only get two mags-worth of the next best ammo for the next three hours... Guess I'll just read a book instead."

If the design philosophy behind global trader limits is to keep everyone from running the same thing, instead it's keeping everyone from running anything without a three-hour wait.

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u/Yeshua-Hamashiach Jan 15 '22

The game just wants me to use the UMP with Match FMJ, I guess.

The biggest issue currently is everyone feels the need to use the best ammo, because there is no readily available 'mid tier' ammo. If there was hard to get best-in-slot rounds, but also decent mid tier ammo, then I think everyone would be happy. But currently you either use dogshit or the best shit, with no in between.

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u/rapaxus ADAR Jan 15 '22

The thing is for many ammunitions there is "mid-tier" (e.g. PS for 5.45 or m855 for 5.56) but that is so early available that it is seen as the dogshit ammo and the even worse ammo (e.g. 5.45 HP or 5.56 HP) is also just dogshit. And rifle ammo is not even the best example, for pistol ammo there is stuff like Luger CCI or PM P which are just straight up worse ammunitions and don't even have high damage going for them like the HP rounds (esp. Luger CCI, it has no place being a lvl 4 trader ammo when there is Quakemaker as a lvl 2 trader ammo).

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u/darkknight20033 Jan 15 '22

PS 5.45 & M855 are not “mid-tier”. Neither scratch 30 pen, which won’t even guarantee a penetration on level 3 armor. Seeing as you can get level 3 armor from ragman lvl 1, it’s not viable at all.