pve-chat

[jovial cobalt]

lmao

where did you get messed up tho

liike did you follow the wiki guide

[pseudo kayak]

yes

to the t

i mean it when i say i was schizo

[timid tendon]

a real schizo isn't part time, smh this is stolen valour

[pseudo kayak]

do website stash lines get reset if you reset your accc

[pseudo kayak]

also hey do the ending armbands get reset

[median frigate]

dayum

do you even know how grass feels anymore?

[pseudo kayak]

do you lose them after you wipe

[jovial cobalt]

nop

[jovial cobalt]

what's grass

it took me 2 months to complete debtor ending not too bad imo

[median frigate]

the thing attracting parmesan if you lay down long enough in

[jovial cobalt]

also i only have 2850 hours? + like 500 from arena so i could defniitely have wasted my life more on eft

i dont think i played very much from 2022-2024

[pseudo kayak]

so ur telling me you got savior, hideout 4 and everything, and then reset?

[jovial cobalt]

lol yeah i dont think my hideout was MAXED but it was pretty good

i got kappa n all

[pseudo kayak]

ur a fucking maniac??

[jovial cobalt]

idk early game tarkov to me is really fun

[pseudo kayak]

no offense ofc

[median frigate]

thats kinda low for playing every wipe tho
i almost have 600 hrs + from softcore wipe and 1.0

[jovial cobalt]

well

'playing' every wipe as in some of them i only get to like lvl15 and then get bored

but ive been around for all of them

[median frigate]

that explains a lot
like a dude i know who "really" played every wipe has like 7k +

[jovial cobalt]

like i remember shoreline before resort was added and people actually pvped at the villas or at the island

i love tarkov but i got bored of it quite a lot when it was getting kinda stale and at the peak of pvp popularity like when there was no inertia, once pve got added i got back into it big time

[median frigate]

i just wanted to check out pve before 1.0, but it hooked me so hard i maxxed my hideout in no time just to reset and start all over

[jovial cobalt]

before 1.0 i was super maxxed, i think i only had a handful of side quests left that i didnt care to do

rip lots of my cool event items though that is probably the biggest bummer

[pseudo kayak]

ig ill get kappa

@jovial cobalt are you down to play

messing up savior actually demotivated my want to play at all

[median frigate]

couldnt you give them to a friend for "savekeeping"?

[jovial cobalt]

probably yeah but i have few friends who play tarkov especially when i reset back then

[jovial cobalt]

mayb, i just got home from work and need to eat and shiet

might be a sec

[median frigate]

i really should progress in the story
im only a handful of tasks away from kappa and almost got every item for it

[pseudo kayak]

that's fine i just have like lend lease pt 1 and stuff yk

[distant obsidian]

hey what 556 m4 muzzle 2pc is meta? I cant remember.

I think the 1 piece areox is bis or the dgn

[jovial cobalt]

used to be g-lok but i assume they changed it with that one update

[jovial cobalt]

im still on fishing gear lol

[distant obsidian]

yeah old meta

im talkin new meta. I heard someone say something about some pc. But every 2pc I find is worse

[pseudo kayak]

okay wait are you supp to listen to the whole tape

or just click play

[fervent peak]

Just play

[distant obsidian]

play

[jovial cobalt]

ubey

[median frigate]

you really care about meta on pve? xD
but if you want to go silent the ultra 5 or minimonster with something compatible seem pretty good

[distant obsidian]

loud combo

best m4s are not quiet

and why would I not want to use meta on a piece that I dont see and only gives me betterstats

[jovial cobalt]

the other thing i miss about resetting my profile is my assault rifle skill

gives you -recoil +ergonomics for fucking free

[median frigate]

why would you want to use a 2 piece when a 1 piece is better in almost every aspect (except i missed something)

[distant obsidian]

your missing the point of my question

I am asking what 2 piece is better, if any. ive hear people talk about one

[jovial cobalt]

Ferfrans CQB 556 + CRD 556?

[distant obsidian]

ill check after this raid

[median frigate]

isnt that the only loud 2pc (if you leave out thread protectors)?

[distant obsidian]

spr combo has one

and another, but neither were bett then the dgn or areox

[median frigate]

thats a 3 piece

[distant obsidian]

spr is a 2 unless its on the MK barrel

then you can put the collor or supp on I think

[jovial cobalt]

idk if i should do fallen or survivor ending on my hardcore playthrough

[pseudo kayak]

what's hardcore

[jovial cobalt]

finding 40 btc is going to be ass

[jovial cobalt]

hardcore ruleset that i edited for myself to make the game harder like no flea market no insurance no buying from traders with cash

[pseudo kayak]

ive asked this before but would you be upset if you didnt get savior as ur first ending and got survivor instead?

[mental halo]

ARE PILLAGERS GONE?

[jovial cobalt]

i would because i would have done all the extra shit for savior to end up not needing any of it for survivor

[young frost]

NOT YET

[mental halo]

@young frost WHOLE CUSTOMS RAID WITH NONE

[jovial cobalt]

i think they changed their spawn chance from 100%

i have been seeing them a bit less it seems

[young frost]

THATS NICE I WAS KINDA SICK OF THOSE FUCKERS

[median frigate]

shhh dont scream
you'll wake up the europeans

[pseudo kayak]

i did the bitcoins and everything

are the bitcoins required for SURVIVOR

[jovial cobalt]

no

[pseudo kayak]

welp

goodbye 40 btc

27 quests around for kappa

[jovial cobalt]

survivor is pretty much complete fallen skies, grind 500m rubles, and a few more tasks for him

[pseudo kayak]

okay so ima kms

[pseudo kayak]

help me get kappa pls 😭

im so demotivated it's agonizing

i've lost my savior spark

[jovial cobalt]

is kinda bs how they set a trap on that story chapter for ppl trying to get savior

dont pay attention for 1 sec and then like 200 hrs wasted lol

but seems about right for tarkov ig

[pseudo kayak]

i just hate how i swear to god i did everything by the wiki

welp the only difference ik now is i read the note AFTER turning the power on

[median frigate]

im over 400hrs in and still havent completed falling skies bc im waiting for friends ...
if anyone fails were fucked

[jovial cobalt]

i was waiting for some of my friends to get to terminal but they stopped playing because they're tourists

[median frigate]

nah mine are prisoners xD

[jovial cobalt]

lmao

[midnight wasp]

my friends are telling me zryachiy is bugged rn and shooting them for no reason. they both say they 100% haven't shot at them. ring any bells?

[jovial cobalt]

did they kill cultists on other maps in the past like 3 raids? idk if that is the reason but i wonder

[toxic patio]

Did they piss off lightkeeper?

[midnight wasp]

one possesses the ability to visit lightkeeper but not possessing the DSPT that raid, the other does not. they both swear up and down that they did NOT shoot at the cultist guards or zryachiy. i'm thinking they somehow accidentally did and just don't know it

wait. they're saying it's two raids in a row now

[west mist]

game gave me a weekly to drop 12 scavs with a vpo-101

that went by in one raid, it was sweet

[toxic patio]

If even one person in party doesn’t have DSPT, nobody does

and it sounds like they did just go too close lol

[fervent peak]

Everyone must have an encoded DPST in the raid to visit lightkeeper, otherwise it is blocked

[midnight wasp]

neither attempted to visit lightkeeper. they're just aggresive for seemingly no reason

[distant obsidian]

how close to the bridge did you get?

[midnight wasp]

like mentioned before, neither tried to get remotely close to lightkeeper since the other person does not have lightkeeper and is doing other quests. they spawned at southern road, went up the mountain and got shot at by zryachiy (not the pillagers, they confirmed) and his guards at the helicopter area by upper chalet

[distant obsidian]

hm

yeah my and my duo got smoked by them once and we spawed at the broken house. Both encoded dsp and they just decided to kill both of us

literally 30seconds

this was like 2 months ago now

[west mist]

zriyachi wont shoot you if you dont shoot anyone on the island or go past the "gate" on the bridge that i know of, i've been there recently enough, though i ought maybe check

[fervent peak]

Still don't fuckin get it to this day

Just wish we had footage

[midnight wasp]

two raids in a row is weird. im sitting in the open rn typing this in clear view of lighthouse and no instadeath so i truly do not know what they're experiencing

[jovial cobalt]

.

[distant obsidian]

two is weird though

[jovial cobalt]

[distant obsidian]

to me 2 sounds like they did something they didnt know. But who knows

[kind light]

guys i keep running into reshala and before ive never seen them have altyns now 9 times out of 10 they do

[icy rock]

Hey, an Atlyn is an atlyn

[kind light]

true but like they never had this before😭

atleast to my knowledge

[icy rock]

(He’s wearing an atlyn)

[kind light]

i see that twin

anyways i lost a 3 mil dollar model one today

im sad now

[icy rock]

Did you insure it

[kind light]

yeah but what if the scavs go prime von on my loot

[carmine lantern]

if ur solo its 100% recovery

[kind light]

oh

[icy rock]

Has it ever happened solo?

Never ever

[carmine lantern]

because the game just closes after you die

[kind light]

did not know that thanks

[icy rock]

Be kinda lowkey abt it tho

We don’t want “the pve with a p” players complaining

[kind light]

i only have 500 hours so i dont really know what im doing other then gun builds and quest lmao

[icy rock]

Only 500, bro I got 175

[kind light]

i mean its not that bad

[carmine lantern]

you'll only really lose things that are insured in coop (if teammates are alive) or labs/labrys

im sure theres a few cases where people lose insured stuff in solo games (server or local) but that would prob be a rare bug

its tarkov so expect the unexpected

[kind light]

i would hope its a rare bug

[icy rock]

Dawg your getting your model 1 back trust

[kind light]

is it dumb that im going for adik tracksuit with 500 hours cause thats like a big goal for me rn

[icy rock]

Idk whatever floats your btr

[carmine lantern]

nah I think thats a good goal to go for

my current goal is finishing the lvl 61 skier questline and then lightkeeper and then by that time hopefully prestige will be out

[kind light]

what level are you

[icy rock]

What’s 10+9?

[kind light]

buddy what

[carmine lantern]

21

[icy rock]

I’m level 21

[kind light]

ah

im level 36

[kind light]

ohhhhh i get it now

[lone tapir]

Hello Hello, It is day 2 of me playing Tarkov and omg, the game is brutal hehe. I see there is a PVE mode in the game and when checking the forum on the games launcher, I was brought to this discord. Just wanted to ask the community, you may know, how often does Tarkov have sales on the PVE expansion? I need to practice in there alot more

[kind light]

im not too sure

[icy rock]

Scav a figgin lot on PvP if you don’t wanna play pve permanently ig

[kind light]

i got unheard for 100 dollars less tho

[carmine lantern]

it was 25% off in november, 10% off recently in the spring sale in march

at least on steam, idk about tarkovs website directly if that follows the same sales

[lone tapir]

Is it normal to wait 30 minutes after each death?

[icy rock]

Yes it has cooldown

Get fence rep and intel center

[lone tapir]

Ah ok, ill keep eye out then in Nov. Yeah I have it on the website

[lone tapir]

Another thing I need to google lol

[carmine lantern]

if you mean scav cooldown between play sessions, yes those start off very long, and reduce as you survive with scavs, etc

[icy rock]

I mean for day 2 of tarkov, get a Sherpa

[pseudo kayak]

that's peak, free altyn

[lone tapir]

AH so the Scav mode of the game i have reduce by leveling stuff then okok

[kind light]

yup yup

[pseudo kayak]

time to build the dumb ssd for prapor and get my lazy ahh ending ig

[kind light]

im going for savior

[pseudo kayak]

ik what happened so be careful

[kind light]

i just turned in the 40 bit coins lol

[pseudo kayak]

after prying for like 50 years i found people who ran into the issue of they'd hit the button but it like ACTUALLY did nothing, it didn't disconnect the external agents for some odd reason

[carmine lantern]

damn shame

[kind light]

i see in your name it says lvl 62

i have a question for you

how did you do that

[carmine lantern]

for discord?

right click your name and hit edit per server profile

[kind light]

no no not that

[pseudo kayak]

ikr

[carmine lantern]

or do you mean lvling in the game, in which case, surviving

[kind light]

game level

[carmine lantern]

but really, a lot of it is uh

[pseudo kayak]

welp everyone else seems like content with the survivor ending

[carmine lantern]

doing my dailies every day (rerolling to get to ones that are turn in x item mostly)

labryinth is still pretty good xp solo, you get like 25k or so for killing bosses

[willow tinsel]

Is that the 500m one

[thorn token]

my friend had this issue actually, luckily he was able to ALT F4 out of the raid and it reset it

[carmine lantern]

but mostly its just from me being a super fucking loser and just playing a lot, I have 1.1k survived raids

in 700 hrs

[willow tinsel]

I did a max of 5 dailies this whole wipe

[kind light]

rellinou i have one more question whats a good headgear to run if im level 36 cause i cant figure out what to run

[pseudo kayak]

wow lucky man

I just took the beating ig

[pseudo kayak]

yeah

seems like it's the "whatever" ending bc you technically just escape but that's it

[fervent peak]

Whatever has high ricochet chance and is the highest armor class you can access

[carmine lantern]

my least damaged area out of anything is the head, I feel like it is low priority compared to body armor, because in pve most enemies dont really go for your head

[pseudo kayak]

idk im just more bummed out i put so much effort into being careful just to get gimped by the game

[willow tinsel]

They aim for thorax, their guns can jump to head

[carmine lantern]

I just go with shit like the ulach 3a since its pretty cheap and well covering, and you can wear anything else with them

and I have like 6 different variants of them because of arena

[willow tinsel]

And better be safe than sorry anyway, helmet saved me from some crazy birdeye shots

[carmine lantern]

yea its always good to wear a helmet for sure, I only dont wear a helmet when im screwing around in coop cosplaying as big pipe or something

[willow tinsel]

[kind light]

i wish i could send ss here cause i want someone to rate the kit

[willow tinsel]

#screenshots and link

[carmine lantern]

yea its kinda awkward but you can just do that and its no big deal

[kind light]

im mid raid ill send it ina bit

[willow tinsel]

@pseudo kayak are you ever going to prestige when that comes

[edgy vale]

Did they raise the level of the scopes in flea?

[carmine lantern]

a while ago yes, they made different categories 'unlock' at different levels

[icy rock]

Shittiest shit of all time

[cursive summit]

Man why does startling local games always take like 3 minutes, and half of that the game is just frozen, just start mah local game already

[icy rock]

Can buy a ledx but not a backpack

Or coffee beans

But I can buy moonshine

Bsg logic at its finest

[jade saffron]

soooo I got a notification (that golden glowing telephone) on my messenger next to mechanic
but when I visit him I got no option to talk about anything

[pseudo kayak]

yeah

[cursive summit]

Just my luck, killa spawned outside the mall, right next to my spawn and instantly started mowing down npcs

[willow tinsel]

Then youll go for savior when that happens

[pseudo kayak]

unless it happens again..

[willow tinsel]

Nah, you got dis

Have a friend or two yelling at you to do things in a certain order when you get to that quest again

[carmine lantern]

or pray to tagilla that it doesnt bug out

[next glade]

I hate that i can level surgery this fast but vitality is going to take forever💀

[raw nest]

Arena

[next glade]

True but then also

Arena

Also im almost at the 30 lvl cap for it on pve, i dont think itll translate over after that

Im not bothering to even attempt levelling stuff like immunity, and the vests skills cause im convinced their point values are just fucked, along with vitality but at least i have 29 on that one

[jovial cobalt]

im pretty sure it still transfers after level 30

[next glade]

Ive played so much arena and my vests skills are 16 and 13

[jovial cobalt]

its just that in arena matches everyones main skills are set to 30 so that it's an even playing field, and then you can pop stims to get elite skills, etc

while the xp still gets sent to both pvp and pve character

[next glade]

Hang on, the stats are all set to 30 during matches? is that why you cant check xp for skills durning matches?

[jovial cobalt]

idk if that's why or not, but yes most of them are set to 30

let me find the changelog

[next glade]

I honestly hope sometime soonish(like in the next year or two lmao) that they go back and take a pass at skill levelling and making sure the skills all function and all the elites work

[jovial cobalt]

some are higher like troubleshooting, aiming, health, they are all 51 in arena matches, metabolism is 1, and then i assume the rest of the skills are 30

[next glade]

I bet covert movement is at 51 and thats why i cant ever get points from it in arena

But then you could be so quiet that cant be it

[jovial cobalt]

idk its hard to tell with arena

[next glade]

I need more late-endgame quests, im out here trying to level vitality and individual combat skills

My melee skill is higher than my submachine guns skill who let me do this

[jovial cobalt]

omg i miss melee fights in arena i havent been playing

[next glade]

Scav skulls sing a siren song for my red rebel

[jovial cobalt]

i remember when tac map came out and melee lobbies were kinda common to grind the tokens

[next glade]

Fill a lh match with 4 others and have fun, genuinely some of the best arena fun ive had with friends

[warped imp]

Does anyone personally know of Black Key Card Spawns? Or Cultist Recipes?

[next glade]

Out here actively levelling weapon maintenance and intellect(0 use btw) i need endgame stuff help

[carmine lantern]

ive picked up like 6 black keycards from marked rooms

[next glade]

Marked rooms, glukhar, and theres a loose loot spawn in the dome computer area on labs

[pseudo kayak]

😭

[next glade]

Technically any of the bosses i think, but ive just seen glukhar with keycards most often

[pseudo kayak]

idek the order anymore

[warped imp]

So I should farm Reserve....Got it, thank you kindly

[carmine lantern]

its also only 4 mil for a 10 use one so its not that hard to just buy one if you farm a bit

[pseudo kayak]

knowing it bugs out and bsg doing nothing pmos

i was over here thinking that i mustve messed SOMETHING up

not pushed a button, not listen to the tape, but i did everything the way i shouldve

[next glade]

If this is for they are already here
Power on, open bunker, READ NOTE ON TABLE, button under other table, usb, leave

[warped imp]

I'm preparing to do a whole run without the Flea so I'm trying to stop buying from there to get in the habit

[next glade]

I also messed it up, its badly designed🫠

Out here considering pvp cause im dry on content help

[slender mantle]

reset go for diff ending

[pseudo kayak]

wait what

I thought it was, enter 1st door, power on, read note, open bunker, hit button, usb, leave

[steady coral]

When does this shitty pillager event end? 😄

[odd gale]

How is it bad?.

Also tmr

[steady coral]

its not but i swear they taking up the spawn for goons which is what i need more 😄

[carmine lantern]

20th right

[odd gale]

I just ran into them b2b on customs

[carmine lantern]

they dont take up spawns for the gooners, they work together actually

[odd gale]

They only take a spawn for Cultist

[steady coral]

Ive ran 15 customs raids past 2 days and all i get is them or reshala haha

[odd gale]

Unlucky I hope you get them

[steady coral]

tyty all i need for kappa now 😄

[warped imp]

The only reason I want the Pillager to go is so the PMCs will patch back to the Fortress on Customs. I need only two more kills there and I'm done with that stupid mission

[carmine lantern]

I want icebreaker

[steady coral]

i want prestige in pve

[cursive summit]

Tomorrow

I want an optimized tarkov alas I can only dream

[next glade]

I meant big power to enter the bunker, but yes that is the correct order my b

[odd gale]

Soon hopefully

[slender mantle]

i want new arena season

[cursive summit]

Hopefully

[cursive summit]

End of April I think

[next glade]

I want elite skills to all function :(

[slender mantle]

mid april it was said maybe after the event?

these pillagers are so ass tho cant really go for cultist on customs

[next glade]

The only thing ive found them useful for is being bullet sponges for weapon skill levelling

[odd gale]

I've been going at them all day and they haven't been much of a pain

[slender mantle]

i mean iam not saying they are hard by anymeans but they are not fun thats what iam implying

[cursive summit]

They can be a pain but not too bad to deal with

[odd gale]

That's fair

[next glade]

You think the ref quarter dailies are gonna stick around?

[slender mantle]

i dont think so they want people to play arena for gp coins

[next glade]

They could get people to play arena by updating arena💀

I just realized prestiging means im eventually going to have to redo to great heights FUCK

[slender mantle]

i mean they are changing to a diffrent unity and new season but arena is not that fun the matchmaking is so bad

[wanton crane]

guys im doing guide and im going to the maps with these pillagers. how good are they?

[next glade]

Is arena going to new unity before mainline?

[odd gale]

Yeah

[slender mantle]

can be really aim botty

[odd gale]

It's a testing site for them

[next glade]

Goons-lite

[wanton crane]

that doesnt gives me any confidence xd

[next glade]

Big healthpools, aimbotty, decent ammo

[carmine lantern]

they will be more difficult than most things you've dealt with so far if you encounter them

[slender mantle]

i mean i was doing snowball and guide at the same time so its not that bad

[next glade]

Just turn the guide into a giant transit task, it makes it easier imo

[carmine lantern]

look it up on the wiki and you'll see their spawn locations so you can be prepared for them, if you want

[slender mantle]

let me guess while doing long line i ran 3 times in to killa now that i have the task to kill him i will not find him

[wanton crane]

sadly my pc doesnt like multiple transits

[next glade]

With transiting i dont think you would have many issues with their spawns if you're only going to another transit

I dont think tarkov itself likes transits, ive crashed in them a few times

[next glade]

It really is such bullshit that vengeful killa doesnt count as a killa kill

[slender mantle]

i find it funny when i was running to lighkeepers island to kill zryachi i killed 8 pmc on the way ang got 8/15 kills to assesment in one raid

[slender mantle]

yeah its kinda sad

[next glade]

Its either you wont find him, or he'll have igolnik and thorax throat you

Or he wont respond to grenade recon, or voiceline, or make footsteps, or he'll wander outside the mall entirely gosh isnt tarkov fun i really should sleep lol

[slender mantle]

yea i have noticed that killa or some bosses in pve dont voiceline at all even tho you are next to them

[next glade]

I despise silent tagillas, like no heavy breathing even

Dude is od'd on norepenephrine and cant be bothered to be loud and aggressive

[slender mantle]

yea he walked up on me like a scav bareley any audio

[slender mantle]

YEA XD

[icy rock]

4 days till what?

[slender mantle]

new unity for arena

[odd gale]

My birthday

[next glade]

I can only hope that the hideout one day will not require a top line cpu to load reasonably

[rotund comet]

just killed a squad of 7 ai pmc then a squad of 3 on reserve, thats the most I've seen in a squad

[next glade]

Sometimes ai squads just dont fight

[rotund comet]

recently they've been teaming with pillagers against me a lot

[cursive summit]

Supposedly (which may never happen) on that tarkov community website, bsg plans to make the models 2d or something similar in the hideout

[next glade]

Ive had 2 full opposing sqauds just chilling with each other

[icy rock]

[rotund comet]

I'll wait till pillagers are gone before I go goon hunting for kappa, fighting them both at once is a pain

[next glade]

Before i go to bed anyone want some skillmaxxing tips

[rotund comet]

sure

[next glade]

Which skills ya need

[rotund comet]

endurance, health, mag drills

[odd gale]

Mag drills just spam alt t

[next glade]

Do you have max strength yet

[rotund comet]

I'm currently doing laps at the top of dome naked

[rotund comet]

45

[next glade]

Get that maxxed first cause the endurance strat uses the elite

[rotund comet]

endurance is 22

[cursive summit]

Takes way to long to max some skills

[next glade]

Bring in 2 guns, one normal and one heavy af, once youve done your endurance underweight, take the gun out of your slot and into your backpack. Run a 3:20 timer and then put it back in the slot.

Health is bogus and the only way youre getting that is skier's endgame weekly or arena

[rotund comet]

is it 3:20 the time it takes to reset the skills

[next glade]

Ye

[rotund comet]

alright thanks

[next glade]

Mag drills is, bring in a 10 round ak mag filled, unpack and pack 10 times and do a 3:20 reset

10 should put you above 4 points and getting higher than 4 a reset on that one sucks

[odd gale]

What's the method for vialitiy

[cursive summit]

Get murked almost to death then heal up

[next glade]

Mantle onto a fire barrel, let it take a leg, heal with a salewa while you burn. Your sweetspot for resets on this skill is about 2.4ish

Salewas have the fastest continuous animation for the size of their hp pool

You can also do surgery at the same time with this one, also this is the same method for stress resistance, just dont be on a painkiller

I also have troubleshooting, search, perception, attention, and the hideout skills if you want em

[crude kraken]

doing set up with pillagers arond is like harrowing in nature

[rotund comet]

questing with them around is a pain

[next glade]

ALSO lvl 20 mag drills is important because at that lvl your pmc will give perfect round counts on mag checks

Higher levels just speed up your loading and unloading and in menu checks

[jade saffron]

stumbling into a fight between cultists, PMCs and Pillagers is a horrible experience

[next glade]

Sounds like a lot of free loot for someone with patience

[odd gale]

What's worse

[jade saffron]

not if you stumble to far and they all decide that you make the perfect target for grenades, bullets and shanks

[odd gale]

Is your teammate going into a fight with the cultist with the full goal of killing the priest and looting him with no regards to anyone else

[jade saffron]

I saw a priest run past a Usec readying a grenade with knife in hand

[next glade]

I had a priest sprint at me with a pulled pin grenade💀

[odd gale]

Did you need a new pair

[next glade]

It was a flash lmao but nearly

[odd gale]

Now what was a flash going to do

[jade saffron]

picked up 4 knives one is missing a charge

[next glade]

Leave me stunned long enough for him to poke me🥲

[odd gale]

Lmaoo

I always keep a xtg on me

[next glade]

I

Oh i HATE the thought i just had

I just realized the most effective way to level immunity

[odd gale]

Oh no

[next glade]

Get icky'd by labrynth razor wire and cure it, then time reset

💀💀💀🥲

Bruh thats so goddamn expensive

[crude kraken]

i hate doing setup soooo much

[jade saffron]

@next glade btw nice to see you around again

[next glade]

Nah fuck that ill just pop a dolbos 2 right at extract

[odd gale]

Would

Going to labs and popping every stim be good

[next glade]

Kinda? I doubt itd be bad, just watch out for the ones with heavy negatives that would overlap

[odd gale]

I did it once

I did not run out of stamina

[next glade]

Btw labs is the best for levelling weapon maintenance and intellect

Spawn and merc all the raiders and take all their pistols and repair em

Toss any extended mags out of em for space

Ok i sleep now bye

[rotund comet]

[jade saffron]

good night

[bronze saddle]

nice... fucking wonderful... black screen

why the fuck am i getting a black screen sometimes when im extracting?!?!

[worthy otter]

Probably have mip streaming enabled

[bronze saddle]

i dont have anything enabled

what a waste of good loot... finding and successfully knifing Tagilla aint easy

[vale atlas]

Average tarkov experience

[steady coral]

What ones dont ?

[bronze saddle]

i mean.. melee ones sucks altogether

[next glade]

Notification summoned me back

[next glade]

Intellect, health, melee, vitality's regen and a handful of other ones

Might as well count berserk mode because its activation is so rare and unimpactful and brief

Also the vest ones are so hard to level that their elites might as well not exist either

BUT theyd be cool

Heavy vests gain richochet chances, and light vests get alot of blunt damage resistance

Thinking about how the armor system works now tho i think that armors with built in soft armor would have both effects if you put a heavy class plate in them

[crude kraken]

rashala being lowkey easy as piss to kill but having is goons hunt me down like a dog has me feeling the closest i'll ever be to being hunted by a group of caveman with fully automatic aks and t5 armors

[next glade]

Same with shturman lol, his guards are MEAN

[crude kraken]

his guards had me scrunging for like any kind of protection from the volley of fire

i had to dig deep into my MGSV days of sneaking around the AI

[next glade]

I bet they took his guards ai for the black division ai

[bronze saddle]

at least Reshala and his gooners cant see you through hard foliage

[crude kraken]

doing set up is ass ngl

[crude kraken]

fox

imma put my hand on your shoulder when i say this

i had 1 shoot me through a shrub through a window INTO a differnt room to gray out my stomach

[crude kraken]

likelly

i hate doing set up MAAAAAAAAN

[bronze saddle]

sometimes they can, but not always, but Shturman and his gooners?? youre never safe from ANYTHING

[next glade]

I feel like his guards are actually the hardest ai, the goons will W key you, black division yell alot so you know where they are. Shturman guards will just rip your arm off at 90m with only a muzzle flash as a hint of where they are

[bronze saddle]

16 54/100 melee skill its gonna take forever to max it

[next glade]

I hate to tell you this chief but

Arena

[bronze saddle]

i dont play Arena nor did i buy it

[next glade]

Then bonk 2-3 of those boys every 3:20

Thats all you can do sadly

[bronze saddle]

i already know how to reset the penalty reduction, dont worry

wait wha?? says here i have more melee kills than pistol kills Jesus dafuck

[next glade]

Lmao

On the topic of melee, i quite like the floor you unlock for make a notch

Do you also feel like the bonk is way more consistent than the stab

The stab should let me 1 tap things in the chest with my strength but i cant ever land it

[bronze saddle]

385 melee, 338 pistols, 1058 smgs, 588 shotguns, 2040 assault rifles, 427 assault carbines, 871 marksman rifles, 2626 bolties, 92 nades, 1837 revolvers

[wheat echo]

They told us they've fixed that amc is now agressive against scavs, but why i'm seeing those amc's friendly with pillagers?

[next glade]

Ai jank

[worthy otter]

Literally no they didn’t

[worthy otter]

It’s not jank, it’s intended behaviour

[next glade]

I was assuming it was the same behavior as when 2 opposing ai squads dont fight

Or when rogues dont gun down bear ai

[crude kraken]

i wish PMC ai was a bit harder in later levels

[wheat echo]

whoosh.. 2024? rather kill myself. thanks moderator

[next glade]

That friendly to player pmc i dont believe at all

I know it works with scavs but ive never had any ai do anything friendlier than a scav flipping me off before shooting as a pmc

*besides rogues but they have solid rules of engagement

[crude kraken]

yeah im giving up

[stable tinsel]

I genuinely don't even understand the point of the fence when i refresh the page and immediately click on a gun to buy and it is already sold every single time almost.

[crude kraken]

fuck doing set up with pillagers

[crude kraken]

legit never use fence for guns

just like go in a scav raid on factory and merc some pmcs

[next glade]

Its because fence has scav guns(damaged) so people snatch them to level weapon maintenance, same for his damaged armors

[stable tinsel]

I'm just trying to buy damaged guns so i can repain them and level up the weapon maintenance skill

[crude kraken]

i wish PMC had different behaviors like some are more catious some bum rush you and some are just normal

it would be more fun then just like

[next glade]

Do labs and hunt raiders, like 60% of a level per run

[crude kraken]

"Damn! I'm hit." runs in a corner for me to shove my barell up his ass and killing him

[next glade]

Flipping raider pistols honestlh might be the sleeper moneymaker move

[stable tinsel]

I'm going to have to at this point because my god the weapons on the fence are just immediately getting bought

[next glade]

GOTTA RELOAD (8shot shotgun) oops looks like you're finding out what red rebel tastes like

[crude kraken]

i only ever have issues with PMCs when its like

6v1

[next glade]

Fun fact, ai cant interrupt their reload animations lol

[crude kraken]

i know lmao

[next glade]

Thats how i got most of my notch kills

I do want to get tagilla like that one day

[crude kraken]

im gonna do ONE last set up run

if i die to fucking pillagers again with their black division like AI im gonna do a different ques

[next glade]

Set up is the shotty disguise one right?

[crude kraken]

yeah

its not that bad its only like

[next glade]

Are you using a break action mp-18 with a scope as well?

[crude kraken]

i get 5 kills with the shotty

i go to RUAF cuz V-EX is closed

and i just hear "PASHA NAHUY" as silenced .300 blackout makes a shortcut from their barrel, through my frontal lobe, and into the tree behind me

[next glade]

Crossroads it is then i guess?

[crude kraken]

yeah

[next glade]

Oof, i quite dislike being extract restricted

[crude kraken]

whats the gooners spawnrate now btw

25%?

[next glade]

God i hope vengeful zyrachy isnt the halloween event

Isnt it 33% on all their maps while the pillagers are around?

[crude kraken]

i wish we had like audio tapes on dead bosses bodies to hear more of their lore ngl

[next glade]

I wish we were able to interact with reshala for accidental witness

Like yeah its a super easy quest but let us find some evidence on reshalas corpse or something

I wish boss loot wasnt booboo

Okay actually sleeping now

Byeeee

[peak silo]

??event

[quasi apex]

Upcoming new battle pass "celebration" event!
Accept task Short on Hands (Skier) and Casus belli (Ref) to get started.

[bronze saddle]

EASY!! another successfully night factory raid with ONLY melee lol easy Tagilla loot lol

[vestal phoenix]

how does one complete huntsman evil watchman

[crude kraken]

i feel like a lot of big quests fall short in that regard cuz in the gameplay its just harder to do big story quests with that kind of depth

[next glade]

The one quest fucking people out of savior(they are already here) would be literally fine and fixed if mechanic just told you the instructions in between raids instead of you having to read the instructions first

The only reason i cant do savior🥲💀

[crude kraken]

i wish instructions were clearer

like the images in the quest tab ar so vague and esoteric

like the van one on shoreline like fuck you mean the black van was in a river with NO CLUE to that

[next glade]

I love the blood sample ones with no visual blood to sample lol

The audiophile guitar pick is also a gem of a quest

[crude kraken]

find the drugs in factory

shows pick of the a pile of medical things on the ground
goes to look for those
doesnt find drugs
looks at the wiki
its in the fucking room next to the office

oh my fucking god bro

[next glade]

Find a good place for a tripwire on factory
Its in a breach room

[crude kraken]

i feel like fucking sherlock holmes when i can read the quest description and UNDERSTAND what i need to do

[amber night]

is there any 5.56x45 ammo that can one tap black dickvision?

[next glade]

Ssa ap and m995 oughta do it. Gotta pen 6 and do at least 40 to the head

Nothing in 556 is going to tap their chest tho

[amber night]

so trying with m855a1 is bad idea

thank you

[crude kraken]

its almost the same pen

fuck me i guess huh

[next glade]

I would still go with ap, terminal doesnt take your gear on a fail so once you have enough for one attempt you have enough for all of your attenpts

[crude kraken]

that too

[rare field]

[next glade]

I would also bring a black mdr because BD likes using 7.62 as well

However much ammo you bring in wont be enough, and youll have to steal from their corpses

[amber night]

i prefer m32a1 as secondary for black division card area

[next glade]

Having guns that can throw their ammo out of their mags helps a ton

Fuck it if you got the ammo for it run it

God i wish you could buy the shotgun rounds for that id love running with that as a shotty

[next glade]

! Relevant question. Does that level revolvers or grenade launchers

Tarkov skills are my autism flavor i think

[wheat echo]

Welp Gotta head back to play arena again. Not a good idea to start a new with laser beaming ai right now...

[cunning sequoia]

When is snow gone

Melted one ofc

[trim kettle]

Nikita is Russian Kojima btw

@pseudo kayak Did it work out?

[odd gale]

Probably with the vegetation update

[cunning sequoia]

When

[odd gale]

??roadmap

[quasi apex]

Preliminary roadmap for #EscapefromTarkov for the first half of 2026. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/521645013277474826/1473640144665051311/Roadmap_for_the_first_half_of_2026.jpg?ex=69a81555&is=69a6c3d5&hm=0cbca04fb0f3dbd07596f02014386eadecf210c6d4549dfbad59facab7d1e157&

[cunning sequoia]

Ty

Hopefully they fix the statue glitch when you kill someone they aren't lootable

[granite warren]

returning player here (2250hrs mostly PVP) am i missing something or have they just turned the difficulty up to 11/10 now in PVE? im all for this being a hardcore game and all but getting laserbeamed by pillagers?!?! from half a KM away and them eating rounds of ammo is new isnt it? what have i missed the past 6 months?

[cunning sequoia]

Your not the only one

Pillagers are cracked

[odd gale]

I personally believe pillagers for pve are being tested to see how we would react to the increased difficulty

But that’s just me

[granite warren]

so they seem to me (and ive only just gotten to lvl 15 in 1.0) that they are goon level cracked just without the rushing you mechanic the goons have?!?!

also - are the goons in every raid now? they seem to always be in every raid ive played

to be clear - i have tracksuit and ususally made lvl 50+ each wipe prior to 1.0 so im no beginner in this game but i have just started playing since full release.

[odd gale]

They don’t rotate anymore and have a spawn chance on the maps they can spawn on

[granite warren]

i like the difficulty level but the Ai is just so moronic in PVE - they just stand somewhere completely still and silent until you walk into a pre determined zone then just laser you and never ever move so you have to do all the flanking and pushing on stationary cracked Ai.

[granite warren]

they always had a spawn chance but it seems every raid they are there on shoreline or customs for me

[odd gale]

Before they rotated to different maps

[granite warren]

thats true they did

[lapis mesa]

I wish I was getting gunfights, not headshot every raid. I died 7-8 raids in a row to headshots now. And personally, if I want difficulty, Customs and Interchange are not where I look unless I gotta get through Killa or Reshala. I literally cannot run solo because even if I do survive PMC’s, 2 Pillager groups, Reshala, and the Goons, I am out of time to do any quests.

If the pillagers were random like any other boss, that could be bearable. But I can’t play solo anywhere anymore.

[odd gale]

Could be the way you play

[lapis mesa]

How so?

[sterile flower]

guys whats max slots in flea market? currently im on 6 with 57 rep

[past girder]

Do you just....run into shit? Do you...not clear any areas?

[granite warren]

yeah im noticicing the Ai is taking up so much time in raid, im always leaving sub 10 mins to go and like you say - out of time to do anything.

[cosmic meadow]

especially after dying a few times to them, stick to cover clear areas and hold choke points, sounds like hes w keying around and gets beamed for running through an open area

[past girder]

Do you keep repeekin the same corners? That's an easy way to get shot in the head

[granite warren]

like i get it that they want to make the game harder to stretch palytime out now there are no wipes but there is a middle ground.

[odd gale]

Do you find yourself standing still while firing

[granite warren]

but in truth as we all know - BSG dont do any 'middle ground' its always been all or nothing.

[odd gale]

That’s just not true

[lapis mesa]

Not really, no. Not unless I’m trying to snipe from a ways away.

[odd gale]

You don’t need to loot every single person you kill

[cosmic meadow]

300 ping on a scav run is fun

[past girder]

Do you at least wear any plates??? What ammo are you running?

[odd gale]

Check the search xp if it’s over 200 then loot

If not then go on your way

[lapis mesa]

You’re being demeaning. Ain’t worth talking to.

[past girder]

This guy's delulu

[odd gale]

When do you get head tapped

[past girder]

You'd hate talking to tyreall if you think I'm demeaning, eesh

[lapis mesa]

I mean, you’re asking if I’m wearing armour. I think most players know no armour means you’re invincible.

[cosmic meadow]

careful you might summon him

[past girder]

I want him to see this

[granite warren]

nope never, unless im miles away from the targe im usually always strafing. the real problem with the Ai is they dont behave anyway like ususal human players do, they dont make any noise, they sit planted to a spot and they NEVER lose sight of you even at huge distances, i got shot at from stronghold by Ai through a tiny square in the glass - like this thing not only knew i was there they were ready to fire on me 🤣

[past girder]

To know what demeaning actually is

[odd gale]

They do make noises ai don’t just sit and if they do they still make shuffling noises when they turn or if you throw a made

What headset do you run in game

[lapis mesa]

It’s been a variety of ranges. From ones I found ridiculous (as far as I knew, I hadn’t pulled agro) to ones that makes sense (20-30 metres).

[odd gale]

Do you run loud or silenced

[granite warren]

the cheapest ones from prapor - always have, i have my headset set so i can hear perfectly aswell, no isssue with ingame sounds my side

[odd gale]

That’s one of your issues then

[cosmic meadow]

comtac 6 ftw

[lapis mesa]

I actually did have the pillagers audio suddenly get bugged. They made no walking audio. It was weird. Suddenly I would hear heavy footfalls like they were on top of me, then nothing. They were about 50 metres out at the time.

[odd gale]

You should always run comtac 6

[odd gale]

Sometimes the audio bugs

[cosmic meadow]

this guy knows ball

[odd gale]

But if you run loud guns then they’ll investigate

[lapis mesa]

A bit of both. I try to be more silenced with solo.

[warped imp]

Holy shit, I need to go play the the jackpot, I have killed the Cultist on Factory

[odd gale]

There’s just a lot of factors

??headsets

[quasi apex]

Updated infosheet for all headsets for 1.0 https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/521614489884295169/1491903385262100661/TarkovEarChart.png?ex=69d962cd&is=69d8114d&hm=868c1cece157e2a5549d317c609db6b3b5df0bc424ce4f64f8fef332f22d6cc6&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=1351&height=1066

[lapis mesa]

And I get that. But what if I’m broke, because I’m new to the game and all my buddies ended up busy with life so I’ve drained my pockets soloing?

[cosmic meadow]

tbf it really could just be his playstyle, i run and gun most raids with no supp and have little to no issues with the ai

[odd gale]

Use this guide @granite warren

[odd gale]

You can always use

??lfg

[quasi apex]

If you're looking for people to play with, you can find them over in #pvp-lfg or #pve-lfg.
If you are new to the game, check out #sherpa-info. Happy raiding!
Looking for Arena battle buddies? Head over to the Arena discord! https://discord.gg/tarkovarena

[odd gale]

A lot of people are chill

I’ve used it a few times myself

Also always be looking around

Scanning areas

[lapis mesa]

I’ve played plenty of Hunt: Showdown. I get the premise of clearing, listening and being alert.

It’s that when I try to cross the river on Customs, no matter how good a shot I am or how silent I try to be, they find me.

[dense sentinel]

haven't played my scav in a while so not sure if this has been answered but is transiting as a scav broken at the moment? tried to transit from factory to woods and it just hung up in a 20min load screen

[odd gale]

I believe it is

[lapis mesa]

And so I either spend 20 minutes killing them, or I die.

[cosmic meadow]

how are you crossing that river?

[odd gale]

They are annoying to fight on bridge

[lapis mesa]

I’ve tried every path.

[odd gale]

Best advice for it is to go main route on the road

Use the cars as cover

[lapis mesa]

They catch me at RAUF, and they snipe me on bridge.

[cosmic meadow]

they legit cant see you on the left side coming from crossroads, theres no los and a large bridge in the way, either ur shooting alot before crossing making them rotate towards that direction or are just running across with nothing cleared and not sticking to cover

[lapis mesa]

I have yet to get past them undetected there. And my luck is that I have spawned on the wrong side of the river every raid for the past 10-15 raids.

[jovial cobalt]

they can spawn in front of the shoreline transit too

[odd gale]

That’s rare

I haven’t had that spawn for them

[cosmic meadow]

9/10 times with the spawns down that way youll hear them fighting the pmcs that spawn and can move

[granite warren]

thanks for this but let me be clear : Ai seeing you from a mile away and hitting every shot while moving is the problem not the sound. At all.

[cosmic meadow]

the game gives you alot of info of approaching a situation whether you take it anduse it is player to player

[jovial cobalt]

i remember peeking and they were all 4 still standing in the road on their spawn lol

they blew up my brain

[odd gale]

I don’t know what to tell you man I don’t see how you play or react to being shot at

[cosmic meadow]

deer in headlights after one bullet comes by him

[jovial cobalt]

you have to be way quicker when fighting pillagers

[odd gale]

Happens to me when I let my guard down and get distracted

I’ll be on my phone and then boom a shotgun goes right off

[cosmic meadow]

yeah but i bet not 7 raids in a roww

[jovial cobalt]

to me pillagers feel more challenging than goons

[lapis mesa]

If I do panic from a shot, it’s to dash for the nearest cover.

[granite warren]

ususally i find cover run a good distance from wherer they first saw me and try and peek brand new corner but as im saying they are always locked on, pretty sure they see you at all times regardless of cover or not (after initial contact)

[lapis mesa]

Goons feel more predictable I think.

[odd gale]

Yeah

[odd gale]

They are

[cosmic meadow]

idk why yall even fight them on their own ground, peak get aggro anduse nades to force them to rush you so you can beam their little domes

[jovial cobalt]

the pillagers are aggressive too so if you can hold an angle they may push it and give you an easy kill

[jovial cobalt]

exactly ye

[odd gale]

Or better option

Just spray them

They have shit ammo

[lapis mesa]

Does shit ammo remove an arm with 1 bullet?

[cosmic meadow]

theres not really any "hard" ai, it just gets harder to fight certain ones because of approach ammo type armor type etc, theres tons of factors per gunfight in tarkov that youcan easily abuse and manipulate to your advantage

even shadow is easy once you learn his ai

[odd gale]

I mean shit ammo as in for pen

[lapis mesa]

Ah, okay.

[odd gale]

Low pen high dmg

Usually how it is

[granite warren]

absoloutely this

[cosmic meadow]

theres plenty of cheap ammo that will black out bodyparts not covered by armor

[lapis mesa]

I dunno if my luck is shit, but I found one once that had a few rounds of MAI AP in his active mag. Kind of had me wide eyed for a second.

[odd gale]

That’s lucky lmao

All the ones I fight usually have ps or t45

[lapis mesa]

Not if he’s unloading that shit into me

[crude kraken]

can i wear bullet proof vests when doing set up?

[jovial cobalt]

yes

body armor or you can wear the JayPC plate carrier vests i think

[crude kraken]

cuz i just killed 4 people with shotguns and didnt get a single uptick

[warped imp]

The thing about the Pillagers is they are like every other Ai in Tarkov, for the most part, they are easy to kill when you full send it into cover, like the ones on Customs, run into Fortress to one of the rooms that only has one way in or out, and hold it, they will push you and you can kill them, the part that will fuck you up is running there, if you are too slow they have time to aggro on you and mess you up, so you have to not second guess yourself when pushing to cover

[jovial cobalt]

what shotgun

[cosmic meadow]

these fuckass servers man

[crude kraken]

mp153

[jovial cobalt]

damn

woops sidnt mean to reply

just need the scav vest and ushanka and mp series gun

[cosmic meadow]

pillagers wiped w a 57 lmao

[bronze saddle]

when a guard needs 3 in the face with FTX to die, piss off

[valid obsidian]

remember when rotex was 100k guys

[trim shoal]

can u help me is the goons spawn rate on 100%?

[valid obsidian]

no

[trim shoal]

every game on woods or customs ther spawn

7 times in a row

[warped imp]

They changed the Spawn rate to 30% all the time on the maps that they rotated on, rotation is no longer a thing for the Goons

[valid obsidian]

not 100%

[trim shoal]

OH OKAY thx

[peak silo]

??event

[quasi apex]

Upcoming new battle pass "celebration" event!
Accept task Short on Hands (Skier) and Casus belli (Ref) to get started.

[bronze saddle]

38 covert movement lol ''gag''

[main eagle]

Just finished handing in the 8 major evidence. How long do I have to wait until Fence reaches out? It doesn’t mention anything on the wiki.

[raw nest]

24-48H

More likely 48H

[dense sentinel]

Lol I think mine is at least 3 since I dont even think it helps in pve

[main eagle]

[main eagle]

Bruh…….

[raw nest]

Idk go camping or do Mount Everest hike in the meantime

[soft hare]

It is clearly explained?

[raw nest]

Pretty much

[main eagle]

I was looking at the tree graph

[soft hare]

Bro

Really

[main eagle]

Relax bud it’s just a game. If you don’t want to answer stupid questions, you don’t have to. No one is forcing you.

[zenith chasm]

why tarkov performance just fell off a cliff. ive been getting heavy stuttering for the past week or so. it used to run fine before this

[proud forge]

who else has noticed the return of the armpit hitbox with these pillagers

they the only fuckers who 2 tap me trough lvl 6 armor trough armpit for some reason

[stable tinsel]

That's why you got to use Degree Men's Advanced Protection for your arm pits. Proven to stop odors and 7.62 x39mm AP ammunition.

[loud lance]

T6 armor in PvE ?
What are you fighting ?

The guy fights like a crab for sure 😉

[smoky sigil]

goons and cultists

[loud lance]

Are you serious ? T6 for Goons ?

[smoky sigil]

why not ?

its not that deep

[raw nest]

They can run M995/ssa ap/M61/m80a1 so might as well have some protection

[stable tinsel]

I pretty much always run a level 6 front plate so i don’t see why you wouldn’t.

[wooden kestrel]

Gonna reset my account for a zero to hero with friends, so dumping everything on fence..

[raw nest]

Nice

[smoky sigil]

good luck

[loud lance]

People are really scared to die in PvE. Clearly Prestige will be just for the grind of it when it comes to PvE

[smoky sigil]

Eric

its still not that deep

[proud forge]

W key bosses while dealing with my timmy ahh friend

[willow tinsel]

It really isnt that deep

[spare prairie]

i hunt bosses turn a corner to something like tagilla being 1 inch away an you will be happy ur in T6 as half ur body goes black but u still live 😂

[proud forge]

dont have to tell me, i was the one he was talking about LOL

[willow tinsel]

How is just having common armor on a thing to be like disgusted by

[proud forge]

this or there is a stack of muted PMCs just rust door camping yo ass xD

[smoky sigil]

they scared the shit out of me

[spare prairie]

exactly T6 saves lives lol

[proud forge]

had it happen on lighthouse just now, they aint responding to F1, to nades or anything

[proud forge]

sadly stuck paca running rn for quest xD

[magic yacht]

I mean, there's literally no reason to not run T6 plates if you have them available.
Especially with the GAC 4sss2 barter from Ragman they're a dime a dozen right now so it's not even like it'd be a waste or something

[proud forge]

still dealing with my timmy friend xD

[spare prairie]

we got one of those to 4 of us are in the 35-45 range then hes like level 12 lol

[magic lion]

How's the AI? I haven't played in 6 months-

[willow tinsel]

Eric, if you cant complete the game without armor on and weapons and empty melee, you must be bad right

[spare prairie]

feels like they were adjusted recently there not as special ED anymore

ur not just 1 tap headshotting whole lobbies anymore

[stable tinsel]

I pray they make a body armor thing that protects your left arm in the future. My poor left arm been shot a billion times.

[loud lance]

I'm bad ngl.
Just saw a video of Cocaoo doing terminal... I'll never Escape lol. Still I just use t4 stuff and ps 5.45 most of the time.

[proud forge]

i'm lvl 41 with 1.5k hours he is scratching 300 xD

[willow tinsel]

I'm just saying, use whatever, don't frown upon it

[smoky sigil]

i have way to much fun with these emotes lol

[proud forge]

dw ik ik LOL

[spare prairie]

i have like 300 or so to but i have 8k in DayZ so not a big change for me just had to slow my roll a little an not COD push things

[willow tinsel]

It's just equipment

[proud forge]

i use em in other servers too LOL

[smoky sigil]

haha

[proud forge]

my bud is brittish and just braindead LOL

[magic yacht]

Speaking of Terminal, here's a question I have for people who have it available:
Do you know if Acid Green flares work on RUAF/Black Division?

[stone goblet]

they do not

[magic yacht]

Interesting.
Could still be useful for the Scav Boss spawn I guess

[willow tinsel]

Dude I didn't even think about that

[cosmic patrol]

that is big brain ngl

[high sandal]

??code

[quasi apex]

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[raw nest]

Nope

[magic yacht]

So does that mean flares in general dont work on Terminal?
Because normally scavs and bosses become friendly with the Acid Green flare.

[raw nest]

Not worth it simply

[magic yacht]

Thats not my point though

my question is does it function on the scavs/boss spawn on Terminal

Because my second Idea was to bring a Blue Flare aswell

[soft hare]

Neither work. What are these questions

[spare prairie]

theres a reddit post about someone trying it that flare didnt work on anything for them an they got nuked trying to use it lol

[pseudo kayak]

no 🙁

im honestly debating resetting

[willow tinsel]

Do you have kappa done

[pseudo kayak]

you should put your top 3 weapon builds in modding :3

[pseudo kayak]

close

[willow tinsel]

I mean

Took me 5 days to complete story

[pseudo kayak]

im sure if i set my mind to it yah

[willow tinsel]

And if you don't have kappa

[wanton crane]

wth selling with euros and the estimated rub price is way more different then where it places it on the list

[pseudo kayak]

im v close to kappa

[pseudo kayak]

it's more or so all my limited stuff

[willow tinsel]

Yea i get you

The ducks and whatnot

[pseudo kayak]

bc restarting idk if id regret it

[main eagle]

Man you’re so intelligent and cool. You’re so superior with all your knowledge. Would you be willing to mentor me?

[spare prairie]

just sell for rubles an exchange for euros thats what i do since rubles are so easy to make on PVE you can easily pull 50k+ euros a day via ruble exchange

[gentle pulsar]

the holy tarkov jesus

[willow tinsel]

what is it that push you to want savior

[pseudo kayak]

a good ending ig

terragroup death

savior of all people in tarkov

idk it's the most sought after ending

[willow tinsel]

Then reset

[gentle pulsar]

its also the most interesting imo

[pseudo kayak]

do you see what i mean tho

[spare prairie]

i eventually want all the ends but im an achievement seeker 😂

[willow tinsel]

And do the main missions with the most timegates like batya

[pseudo kayak]

what if im pushing myself to reset and then when i do i get buyers remorse but like for resetting and just regret it 💀

[willow tinsel]

I see it i know

[gentle pulsar]

i personally dont think the other endings are worth wiping my account of all that effort for a like, five-minute cutscene and a postcard message at the end

savior is the ideal ending

[pseudo kayak]

do I really want this ending more than my gear

[pseudo kayak]

well i mean it doesn't reset really right? i get the ending and if i want the other one THEN i reset?

[willow tinsel]

Thats a question only you can answer

[spare prairie]

i agree there not actually worth it i just want the achievement for doing it, ive done far worse achievements for other games lol

[pseudo kayak]

ik

[gentle pulsar]

well yeah, im saying if you want more than one ending you need to wipe progress beyond stats.

there's no real appeal to it other than "we can"

"im bored"

[willow tinsel]

The sooner you do it

The sooner you'll be able to get other limited stuff from future events, and not feel worse about it

If you're like a collection goblin

[pseudo kayak]

ill do this ending

then reset

im sure later on ill see that as more worth

[willow tinsel]

Survivor ending?

Or whatever it's called

[gentle pulsar]

how many side quests do you need to do in order to finish the game

because i dont want to do every single side quest 6 times over

the only varying factor is a short cutscene

[willow tinsel]

I cant remember

On top of my head

But last lvl req is 61

Wait

You mean just for main quests?

[gentle pulsar]

no, the side quests

[willow tinsel]

Or wanting to finish every single side quest

[gentle pulsar]

im asking you

if you need to complete all side and main quests

in order to complete the game

each ending

[willow tinsel]

Oh no

[raw nest]

No

[willow tinsel]

You dont even have to deal with most of the side quests

I just do it because...I don't like assignments in my taskbar

[stone goblet]

the only things you have to do side quest related for story is unlocking lightkeeper if you go for saviour or debtor, otherwise you dont need to do any

the rest of it is just the story chapters depending on if you want to do saviour or debtor

[main eagle]

@gentle pulsar be careful with these questions, @soft hare could smite you with his superior intellect

[stone goblet]

you should chill

no need for this

[soft hare]

What exctly is your problem with me? You asked for something and i told you where exactly to look and now you are trashtalking me lol

[proud forge]

i run 1 raid and there is drama again, what i miss?

[willow tinsel]

There is none

[raw nest]

nothing

[main eagle]

Nothing but banter

[proud forge]

mkay

sadge, i do love me sum drama once a while

[gentle pulsar]

then i guess that makes doing each ending easier, when i initially started i was told you needed to complete all main storyline, and additionally all of the side quests in order to get the ending

[main eagle]

Some have sticks up their sewer drainage opening

[gentle pulsar]

thats why i say i viewed it as not worth the effort

[proud forge]

actually just slammed him with a five seven while wearing a paca cuz buddy failed to kill him with his 2 guns xD

[smoky sigil]

its just to easy

[willow tinsel]

I also were told i needed every single sidequest, till I realized they meant every main story side quests

[smoky sigil]

[raw nest]

Always check wiki for that

[proud forge]

he is pretty ez on interchange i agree

[willow tinsel]

For savior

[stone goblet]

only saviour requires ALL the side story chapters

[raw nest]

That

[proud forge]

o/ butch

[gentle pulsar]

so you just prestiege and speedrun the next ending?

[raw nest]

That's the plan

[willow tinsel]

Oh yeah we know that now for sure

[gentle pulsar]

if you can b-line for it yeah sounds doable

[willow tinsel]

Very doable

[stone goblet]

the fastest way to do any of it is by keeping the case when given the choice

that way you dont have to unlock lightkeeper to continue progressing the story

[willow tinsel]

Give proper case, unlock lk, get case back by quests -- ez gg

[gentle pulsar]

lmfao

the polar opposite messages

[willow tinsel]

Oh rlly

[stone goblet]

if you want saviour or debtor, give prapor the case

[willow tinsel]

Ofc

[stone goblet]

if you want survivor or fallen, keep the case

[gentle pulsar]

i went without giving it to prapor for this playthrough since im aiming to 100% the game (beyond prestige)

if i had uh

properly understood it maybe id go for another ending

mhm and achievements that i can obtain feasibly

some you cant just cus events

i have some limited ones like from the zombie event during halloween

[willow tinsel]

I mean

Wouldnt prapor also give you a discount of only having to hand in 300m instead of 500m when doing survivor

After handing in case to him

Id say thats a huge ass factor

[pseudo kayak]

now the only hard part is actually escaping 😭 ive heard bd is hell on earth

[proud forge]

i want BD gear

[vale atlas]

Its just boss level enemy spam

faux difficult really

[gusty reef]

why would you give it to prapor for savior???

[tranquil crane]

Hey guys, I was playing some night factory with a friend and we were playing like normal, killed tagilla and a bunch of scavs etc. Then I saw a familiar looking hooded guy. It was a cultist. Found 3 of them including priest.

I was grinding cultists on night factory a few weeks ago during the smuggler event and thought the general consensus was that if scavs spawned it means no cultists spawn. And if there's no scavs it means cultists are somewhere. Was that only for the event or something? Or is it maybe because we killed all the scavs that cultists were able to spawn as the next wave or something? Or can they just spawn with scavs now

[pseudo kayak]

well you killed tagilla

scavs CAN be present at the same time as cultists but they can also spawn when u murder tagussy

[tranquil crane]

Wait I know you

[stone goblet]

because you instantly get lightkeeper which is required to do saviour

[vale atlas]

That was just a way to figure out if cultists had spawned straight away

[gusty reef]

I was just about to say the same thing lol

[vale atlas]

Its how the "slot" system for ai was working for it at the time

[worthy otter]

Saves you 200M and skips a bunch of tasks

[tranquil crane]

ohhhh mkay neat

[vale atlas]

it was just the easier way to speed farm during the event

[gusty reef]

not for savior.. the 200m save is only on survivor

[vale atlas]

now spawn chances are lower there's no need for it

[tranquil crane]

gotcha, ty

[gusty reef]

do you not unlock network provider later in savior anyway? I thought you did

[tranquil crane]

Were you in berry farm or somewhere else, I don't remember exactly

[pseudo kayak]

wait whattt

if you give prapor the case from falling skies you get access to lk immediately?

[gusty reef]

berry farm, I left to air out how many discord servers I was in. I just don't play much war thunder recently, I'm like 3 months clean

[pseudo kayak]

alr I need someones exact steps on how to navigate the room for they are alr here

[stone goblet]

no but you get network provider 1 very quickly after

[stone goblet]

only in batya

[pseudo kayak]

give me the exact steps on visiting the arss room again

[stone goblet]

give him the case and like 2 raids later you get network provider

uh

[stone goblet]

open door->power->note->button->flashdrive

[gusty reef]

gotcha, fair enough then lol

[pseudo kayak]

THATS WHAT I DID WTF

[worthy otter]

That’s never been true. Just tinfoil hat people.

[pseudo kayak]

the exact way that came out of your mouth

[tranquil crane]

Ahhh yeah thought so. I also haven't really played much wt for a few months now. Only hopped on occasionally or to grind a vehicle here and there before a new one blocks it in the tree etc. War thunder just ain't fun atm

[gusty reef]

agreed, hopefully Gaijin makes a comeback because I do really like the game and I've sunk so much time into it. It just sucks what it's turned into lately

[tranquil crane]

It was most certainly true during the event. I could consistently find the cultists when scavs didn't spawn and could consistently NOT find them when scavs did spawn.

[worthy otter]

It wasn’t, I literally killed scavs and cultists within seconds of each other and so did many others in this chat during that event

[gusty reef]

it was definitely true in my experience. Never once did I have scavs spawn in the same wave as cultists

[tranquil crane]

Interesting

[gusty reef]

unless it's just survivorship bias

only raids where I realized cultists spawned didn't have scavs

[pseudo kayak]

ive seen them close together before but never at the same time

[gusty reef]

same

[pseudo kayak]

but that's just my experience

[tranquil crane]

Yo lexon we should play together some time, you down or nah?

[gusty reef]

Tarkov or WT? lol

[pseudo kayak]

hey lexon wanna play tog sometime

[tranquil crane]

Tarky lol fuck wt at this point

[pseudo kayak]

by that i mean you help me get they are alr here AND YOU tell me what to do so that way i have a witness and can blame you

guys let's all play warframe tog!

[tranquil crane]

would have to be US west servers tho cuz on US east i get like 200 ping

[stiff scaffold]

could just be a crazy coincidence but if true it would be a great thing to know when to farm them

[gusty reef]

gotcha, that's fine by me
I'm pretty busy this week but I'll try to find time, I'll be out of state from Friday-Monday

I'm down to play, I honestly haven't been on tarkov in a bit either

[tranquil crane]

I'm curious to try farming them again now that the event is gone and see if theres raids with no scavs and 100% cultists still

[gusty reef]

it's honestly just not worth it on Factory with the spawn rate being so low

better off going Customs with green flares

[tranquil crane]

gotcha gotcha. Im busy tomorrow but will be free for a while after. I'll add you on discord ig

[tranquil crane]

Honestly the spawn rate has been pretty good for me. Did like maybe 5 or 6 raids of factory and found them twice

Got a 314

I suck at fighting the goons so I'm kinda scared of going to that area on customs lol

Though they do have a way higher spawn rate there

And bigger groups usually

[gusty reef]

goons are scary until they're indoors because their AI likes to just run circles around you instead of holding any angles

if you can get inside fortress they're not that bad

[tranquil crane]

I've had really bad luck with them instantly head, eyes-ing me the nanosecond they get around the corner at close range

[gusty reef]

I haven't even thought about cultists since the event, I have almost a full key case of marked

[tranquil crane]

Yeah same lol

[gusty reef]

after that event my stash is definitely worth the most it has ever been

[tranquil crane]

I've only got like 3 314 left so I kinda want more

Plus they drop nice ammo

[tranquil crane]

Dude real though

I was like level 15 when the event started 💀

[gusty reef]

they almost always have 7.62 and I never use it unless I'm larping RUAF

[tranquil crane]

The marked room loot hella sped up my grind

[willow tinsel]

During that event i had one time in factory where i had to kill Scavs, PMC's and cultists at the same time, also on customs, goons, reshala and cultists in the same raid

[tranquil crane]

Damn wild

[willow tinsel]

But they spawned right after goons or reshala kill

[tranquil crane]

I enjoy using the rd704 and mutant but I think they are objectively not that good yeah

[willow tinsel]

Like, I saw them literally spawning in

[jaunty stream]

[gusty reef]

I hatteeeee the Mutant
RD is pretty cool though

[tranquil crane]

I think ive only used the mutant once and thought it was aight

Used the rd a lot tho

[gusty reef]

I've been running the AK-12 the most recently

[tranquil crane]

After getting most of my traders up to ll4, specifically skier, I can now see why people like the nl545

[gusty reef]

it's so much better now than it was when I first used it with all the newer handguard options and stuff

[tranquil crane]

Having 545 with 850 rpm is sooooo nice

[tranquil crane]

Mhm. I used that quite a bit before I got my hands on the NL

[gusty reef]

Nl545 is insane but I kinda got bored of using it so much

[willow tinsel]

I'm debating on getting diarrhea or not

[tranquil crane]

Ak12 is drippy as hell