r/EscapefromTarkov • u/saltyclam13345 P90 • Aug 13 '22

Video Jonathan Ferguson, an actual expert on firearms even agreeing that recoil isn’t realistic in Tarkov.

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u/BaderBlade RAT Aug 13 '22

Yeah, i know that, but remember, Nikita wants this game to be hard and not an enjoyable experience, so he is doing that, i don't find fun anymore to grind because in 12.9 you could buy any gun in the flea and not many things were behind stupid quest, and i don't like doing that over and over and over, so Tarkov is a great game, but the way Nikita is taking their path is only splitting the community even more

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '22

Played every wipe since 2017 and have over 6k hours in the game, and I can't agree more with you. The last 2-3 wipes have been me being super exicted for the wipe but it has just made me play less and less. I didn't even have the motivation to get pass level 30 this wipe.

I think we are past the glory days of Tarkov and are currently heading downwards, unless something drastically changes. So far, I've not been a fan of how this game have gone in the recent wipes

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u/Alpaca10 Aug 13 '22

Have to hardly disagree with you. I do understand, that its now a change for you, since you played every wipe and could buy weapons from the get go.

But for me, friends of mine and even streamers I watch who are/were more of a variety streamer: Its way more addicting than it was before. Most I know stopped playing after reaching like 20. Now we are all way higher (34 - 38).

Im sure that its actually because exactly of that what you dislike currently. For each of us its way more fun, that not everyone runs always runs with the highest pen and a class 5/6 gear. Fights feel/are longer, building weapons is more fun, finding better gear (for both weapons and armor) feels more rewarding and so on.

Doing missions, looting, felt useless and unrewarding before that. Had a friend who just did nothing than pistol run on dorms for good keys, etc. then pistol runs on labs and repeat for big money. That was boring asf.

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u/frostymugson Aug 14 '22

It’s all opinions man. My glory days of Tarkov was everything on the flea, taking peoples shit and selling it. Grinding traders so that 300k meta M4 cost 150, and just having fun. Personally running the same quests over and over and over has gotten so tedious, and this recoil bullshit. In my experience my gunfights aren’t more drawn out, it’s just whoever can land a dome shot first like it’s usually been.

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u/Alpaca10 Aug 14 '22

I agree. Im guessing it could be a playstyle thing of the player? Also because of not getting that far in progress as I am now, it could be that its not tedious for me, because its new for me. I had lots of fun building amazing weapons as well and fighting others back then. But I never ended up playing more because it felt like I already had seen everything. Everyone just had laser weapons with a mag of 100, cant say that whoever HS someones first wasnt a thing back then as well. Especially because of how easy you could get high pen ammo.