help or hiatus?

[heyasiankid]

Hello to whoever is reading this. I read around the forums every now and then just to check in on the community but never actually posted before. This post is a small vent and ask for advice for whoever wants to read and reply otherwise I dont think youll want to waste your time reading this. 

 

To start off, I am in no way close to being a moderate or decent player, I dont have too much time on hand to "play to get better". I also mainly am solo and rarely play with others, and I guess I would categorize myself as a casual gamer?

 

I enjoyed playing Tarkov for the longest time and didnt mind looting, dying, getting some kills here and there and slowly climbing up in level and funds. Sadly, ever since the latest update and wipe I cant find myself to enjoy the game anymore. I feel like its all risk and little to no rewards anymore and more competitive based. For example, I would enter raids in Reserve and spend approximately 8 minutes or up to get in and die in less than 5. Ive tried everything to make the game enjoyable and survivable from trying to just rat, run, exit camp, to waiting to the last moments of the raid to loot and leave, and just trying to make friends with people in raid. Like I said, im not great at the game and it punishes me a lot for that. I've noticed a lot more people are going in groups and it makes it extremely difficult to  fight again and loot against groups as there either nothing felt or Im forced to leave as I know its a fight I cant win.  

 

Before Found in Raid, at the very least if I lose my scav I could at least go in with my PMC geared or ungeared and if i lose it all at least i could keep something in the secure container that may be sold to recoup some of the cost. Im currently level 14 with approximately 1mil in roubles and its been extremely hard to bring it up. I feel the encounter with high level and high geared players are a automatic lose for me since I cant afford gear to contest. If anyone has any advice I'm just looking for a way to earn money and at least have a decent fighting chance without just camping a corner or the exit. I love the game but I'm just not enjoying playing it anymore. Especially after entering 4 raids and waiting for the que times to end up dying and come out with nothing or barely anything in the span of 2 hours. I cant find myself to be able to reach the point of where I was before the wipe where I was sitting over 7 mil roubles with a finished hideout and decent levels where money for gear wasnt an issue. I might just take a hiatus from the game but I wanted to reach out to the Tarkov community before then. Maybe this game at this time just isnt for me?

 

If you reached to the end of this, thanks for reading my rant, I appreciate you, and if you respond I appreciate your feedback.  

[RAZORICE]

Imo, just run your scav on CD and try to avoid the gunfire. I often run scavs and avoid combat specifically, preferring to hit common areas after all the "Chads" have cleared out.  That way you arnt really risking anything if you die, but sometimes you can find some bodies or other scavs with decent loot on them. It's a slow system, but has worked for me to be able to buy the gear to compete.   

 

Edited August 11, 2020 by RAZORICE
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[behi09ma]

1 hour ago, heyasiankid said:

Hello to whoever is reading this. I read around the forums every now and then just to check in on the community but never actually posted before. This post is a small vent and ask for advice for whoever wants to read and reply otherwise I dont think youll want to waste your time reading this. 

 

To start off, I am in no way close to being a moderate or decent player, I dont have too much time on hand to "play to get better". I also mainly am solo and rarely play with others, and I guess I would categorize myself as a casual gamer?

 

I enjoyed playing Tarkov for the longest time and didnt mind looting, dying, getting some kills here and there and slowly climbing up in level and funds. Sadly, ever since the latest update and wipe I cant find myself to enjoy the game anymore. I feel like its all risk and little to no rewards anymore and more competitive based. For example, I would enter raids in Reserve and spend approximately 8 minutes or up to get in and die in less than 5. Ive tried everything to make the game enjoyable and survivable from trying to just rat, run, exit camp, to waiting to the last moments of the raid to loot and leave, and just trying to make friends with people in raid. Like I said, im not great at the game and it punishes me a lot for that. I've noticed a lot more people are going in groups and it makes it extremely difficult to  fight again and loot against groups as there either nothing felt or Im forced to leave as I know its a fight I cant win.  

 

Before Found in Raid, at the very least if I lose my scav I could at least go in with my PMC geared or ungeared and if i lose it all at least i could keep something in the secure container that may be sold to recoup some of the cost. Im currently level 14 with approximately 1mil in roubles and its been extremely hard to bring it up. I feel the encounter with high level and high geared players are a automatic lose for me since I cant afford gear to contest. If anyone has any advice I'm just looking for a way to earn money and at least have a decent fighting chance without just camping a corner or the exit. I love the game but I'm just not enjoying playing it anymore. Especially after entering 4 raids and waiting for the que times to end up dying and come out with nothing or barely anything in the span of 2 hours. I cant find myself to be able to reach the point of where I was before the wipe where I was sitting over 7 mil roubles with a finished hideout and decent levels where money for gear wasnt an issue. I might just take a hiatus from the game but I wanted to reach out to the Tarkov community before then. Maybe this game at this time just isnt for me?

 

If you reached to the end of this, thanks for reading my rant, I appreciate you, and if you respond I appreciate your feedback.  

well i have a question for you, is it matter how much money you have, if you die most of your raids? i mean let's pretend we don't have FIR in the game, as you said you get in a raid and after looting some valuable items, you can't survive. you made some money from your secure container. what will you do with that money that will make you enjoy and have fun in your raids?( as you said, you die in your raids, no matter what you do)------> i wanna get to this conclusion, that removing FIR will not make you better at this game, and it will just double up the hatchet runners+flea market players+help RMTs more.

i was wondering which other shooter game you play? what you do to improve in those games? maybe get better in aiming, or learning the tactics in those games?

my point is, like the other games, you need to get better in aiming and tactics in this game also, cause otherwise not in this game, you even can't have fun in other games too. having roubles in stash is important in this game but if you can't use those roubles to survive more in raids, it's pointless. i feel like some people in this game are kinda confused, cause all they care is collecting roubles. they forget that this game is a shooter game that people shoot guns in it, it's not super mario running and jumping game, collecting points and coins from here and there.

at the end i wanna say my own experience so far with this change. i really like the FIR status, because it has reduced the fleamarket players so i can buy good bullets and stuff from traders, still i can see hatchet runners in my raids but atleast the amount of them reduced. tbh this change have not changed my playstyle at all, and it feels like the last wipe for me and i spend even more time in my raids (i extract at last minute or seconds :D), cause i never used my container as a safe for my valuable stuff even though i had kappa last wipe. i use it as utility box and keep my keys, bullets and stims there, thats it.

if you ask me, you need to get better in surviving, do not even think about FIR at all, cause if you survive your raids, it will not even matter FIR being there or not. think this way, it's a surviving game and if you die, you are not allowed to get anything out, so surviving is the key.

good luck

[S5_Mr_Wiggle]

take a silenced vpo 215 to woods with echo rounds pick off any scavs near scav house or spine grab the gear on them and run

 

stay away from the wall, lake, and logging part of the map after 20 min its generally safe to move bush to bush past log camp on the side away from the lake beware scavs like to be between the excavator/tractor and checkpoint

 

do not pick off players they tend to out pew pew you.

works best when only taking the vpo if players are approaching you cram the silencer into the tree roots

Edited August 11, 2020 by S5_Mr_Wiggle
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[heyasiankid]

9 hours ago, behi09ma said:

well i have a question for you, is it matter how much money you have, if you die most of your raids? i mean let's pretend we don't have FIR in the game, as you said you get in a raid and after looting some valuable items, you can't survive. you made some money from your secure container. what will you do with that money that will make you enjoy and have fun in your raids?( as you said, you die in your raids, no matter what you do)------> i wanna get to this conclusion, that removing FIR will not make you better at this game, and it will just double up the hatchet runners+flea market players+help RMTs more.

i was wondering which other shooter game you play? what you do to improve in those games? maybe get better in aiming, or learning the tactics in those games?

my point is, like the other games, you need to get better in aiming and tactics in this game also, cause otherwise not in this game, you even can't have fun in other games too. having roubles in stash is important in this game but if you can't use those roubles to survive more in raids, it's pointless. i feel like some people in this game are kinda confused, cause all they care is collecting roubles. they forget that this game is a shooter game that people shoot guns in it, it's not super mario running and jumping game, collecting points and coins from here and there.

at the end i wanna say my own experience so far with this change. i really like the FIR status, because it has reduced the fleamarket players so i can buy good bullets and stuff from traders, still i can see hatchet runners in my raids but atleast the amount of them reduced. tbh this change have not changed my playstyle at all, and it feels like the last wipe for me and i spend even more time in my raids (i extract at last minute or seconds :D), cause i never used my container as a safe for my valuable stuff even though i had kappa last wipe. i use it as utility box and keep my keys, bullets and stims there, thats it.

if you ask me, you need to get better in surviving, do not even think about FIR at all, cause if you survive your raids, it will not even matter FIR being there or not. think this way, it's a surviving game and if you die, you are not allowed to get anything out, so surviving is the key.

good luck

Thanks for the advice and response!

Mostly I play shooters such as CoD, BF franchise, arma franchise. Money doesnt necessarily matter to me as much, its the money to buy gear and better equipment and most importantly ammo. Sitting at 1 mil rouble Im not confident in dumping into full sets (team wendy, slicks, 4-5 mags full of good ammo) yet. Im just kind of keeping the 1 mill rouble as a safety net otherwise ill be stuck scaving for a while or be forced to hatchet run, at least i could buy a m9? Not sure if thats the wrong mentality. I guess I should  look up more info and dedicate more time into researching better paths and loot areas? That way I might know which areas to avoid and also go to for surviving?

 

I appreciate you a lot  behi09ma, thanks for the help!