Gating the flea market to level 10+ makes this game a very boring grind.

June 9, 2020

I am almost level 10, currently sitting at 9.5 5kish EXP to level 10.

What a absolute grind it has been. and not fun at all. I am sitting at 40ish raids 10 or so survived.

Being a EoD player I have one recommendation. Don't give me Pistols or anything that shoots 9x18 or 9x19. One week into wipe its good for one thing selling for rubles to buy Mosin/SKS or equivalents.

As I speak I am struggling to make it by went into a raid with 5 others and was repeatedly one tapped. The armor at level one is useless in my experience PACA's are good for shotguns and pistols most scavs this wipe have SKS/Vepr Hunters/ other hunting rifles and AKS-74u's. Even basic poo ammo from these guns will tear your guts out wearing PACA or one tap your helmet.

So the initial leveling journey is this, go in and kill as much as you can before you die. Burn through your cash, do not touch your hide out and save anything you succesfully FiR and extract with. Sell the rest.

If you do this you can avoid hatchet running :

Sell your makarov's they are worse than the axe. Sell the P226 and Grach, I would rather have the axe in a fight sell the ammo. Save the AK's and use them.

Buy 10 or so SKS's with appropriate PS ammo insure them and run through killing as much as you can trying to make it to extract. If you kill a scav with a better weapon drop your gun in a bush loot the gun and ammo and continue on.

If you have the christmas gift, sell the p90 keep the ammo and 5.7 pistol if funds get low.

If you do the following you can avoid doing hatchet runs, I did not and I was forced to hatchet my way through levels 6-7 and partially 9 after a bad day losing.

This is not a fun gameplay loop, I watch lots of Kotton, Deadlyslob, Pestily, Klean.

These are not average Tarkov players yet the game is built for them. They literally know the systems inside and out of this game. The majority of Tarkov players die however it seems like the game designers focus on seeing how fast these players progress and succeed and adjust to make the game more difficult for them. I have no problem with them being level 40 already and having all the best poo in the game they stream for a living. I do not I do not have 40 hours a week to dedicate to this game or I would be just like they are now.

Suggestions to make this game accessible for the majority of the player base.

- Make scav exp translate to PMC XP until you unlock the flea market.
- Get rid of the FiR requirement for quest items or increase the number of items required if not marked FiR ( This will end the issue with RMT as you can just secure case out quest items but not sell them)
- Give players access to a offline only with AI map with AI spawns, if you make it out you can keep the loot you collected. This allows players to go in with gear avoid being third partied and build up EXP / gear any gear taken out is not FiR and can not be used for quests / crafting it allows people to build up funds early game and not resort to hatchet runs.

Basically, as we speak being level 9 I have access to guns and ammo that really only work for the first week in game once people start hitting 10 they get access to flea market and then you have non stop access to guns and items that are much better and cheaper than anything the traders sell. (Why would I pay 50k to prapor for a mosin when I can pay 69edgelord 20k for a vepr hunter and then a few mags of m80 and I can now easily go out and farm gear like crazy. or any combination of adar / ak based rifle. if it shoots 7.62 something you can play with the big boys you won't win every fight but you can play and for cheaper than what the traders offer. 50k for a mosin, why wouldn't I hatchet? This morning I went in with a hatchet on shoreline I killed a shotgun scav, took his gear looted a few houses went past radar, found a m4 on a dead level 40 player and then pushed north to road to customs. With the silenced M4 I was able to dispatch scavs from a distance and silently. that happens about 1 in 10 hatchet runs. probably less.

I can only do so many runs until I need to start spending money on food and water. I can't even buy food at level 1 traders. WTF is this?

June 9, 2020

This is a hardcore game. If you're struggling that means they're doing a good job.

June 9, 2020

I don’t know man.. I’m by far not the best FPS player, I am not a chad nor a pure rat.

I started this wipe on last Wednesday, scaved for the first two. By now my PMC is just like yours, my stash (Beta Container edition) is filled to the top with loot I need for later quests, guns, armor, helmets from scavs and like 6 PMCs I killed. So far I did all my runs with pistols or Vepr Akm. I have just about 2 Million chash just from NPC trade. You get tons of water from Therapist for quest, food is in like every second duffle bag or hidden stash

This game ain’t too hard

Edited June 9, 2020 by AlphaPhiAlpha