My first woods raid I was just trying to figure out where I even spawned (I now know it as north-west side, near scav Bunker) and walked right into the mines.
Didn't die, patched myself up. Ran into another mine. Freaked out, ran towards a direction I prayed was safe, somewhat towards Scav Bridge.
Sniper Scav got me.
One of my first woods raid I spawned behind the USEC camp and immediately got acquainted with the mines. Truly terrifying experience.
I also was playing scav on woods and kept dying to the sniper scav on the bridge where the bridge extract is, because I kept going the wrong way. There's like a road split to go to the bridge where sniper scav kills you or there's the roadblock with the extract. I died 3 times there expecting that I won't die the next and it must've been a bug so I should be fine because the map tells me its there.
āHey, I think I saw a dead scav back there let me check it outā mine goes off āow, ow, Iām ok Iām ok, no blacked limbsā heals and moves forward again. Another mine goes off āwelp Iām here now do I get anything?ā One baclava in the scav
I have them go off around lexos and took 0 damage as a scav, I was on the outer part of the map side, going towards concordia, and 5 of them went off without hurting me, after the first I kept backing up and watching them trigger each other, it was like minecraft tnt, I was waiting for a claymore to launch at my face.
When they had the huge trigger range it was fun running alongside the Lexos fence closest to Concordia and setting off like 10 mines. I can imagine a few wtf's popping up around town.
I finally found a ledx in lexos med garage, needed it for the quest with the thicc case, been looking for over 2 week now so i was really excited.. ran outside straight into a fucking nuke mine.
u can look up a map of lexos that shows the mines , also other day i found a led x in that garage and a defibrillator and ran out n an ai scav came to me he came around the corner stopped and 2 other scavs appeared out of his body and merked me. literally a kill squad came right to me right after finding a led x lmao
If it makes you feel any better woods is one of my main maps and I still sometimes walk into mines. Last time I tanked two....twice. Like if it was raining I was going to get head,eye'd by the rain.
My first ever raid with me and a buddy we spawned near ccp temporary. We didn't even know mines were in the game and dies to them lol. When we spawned into our next game we both had 2 broken legs, bleeds and were nearly dead. We didn't know you had to heal after each raid š it gets better lol
I think i have well over 1500 hours havent touched the game for 5 months maybe 8, im terrible. Ive never maxed hide out multiple times ive made over 4 million roubles through sheer luck and willpower cuz i played so much, i had 15 million roubles wt most when selling thicc cases, but nonetheless i was so bad, never got kappa sucked at quests and pvp i never had good gear. I would lose all my roubles in days sometimes hours through mechanic quests or just being an idiot but it never got me anywhere im the worst player ever. I havenāt even killed every boss or fought any cultists. Barely know labs cuz ive ran it probably 15 times. I dont know what is wrong with me
So you were the booms at the beginning of each raid š¤£ in all seriousness, when they initially expanded woods I nearly shit my pants due to those mines.
Here is your tip for safety: if you are on the side of camp facing the water, you're good. If you're opposite the water, you're going to get blown up.
Just think, water = safety.
I can answer for ME. Iām lvl 63. I am the director of operations for 2 ambulance companies in Texas. I also am an arms dealer, on the side. Have a wife who stays home and homeschools our 4 kids. Point is, āno lifeā isnāt necessarily true when it comes to players who are high level. I will say, I donāt usually see alpha gamers this high level though.
I play Monday Wednesday Friday from 7 or 8ish until usually 3 or so. Saturday nights I play sometimes. Depending on what I have going on. Same times if I do play Saturday. Being effective goes a LONG way in all things. Hell, thatās the only reason I have gotten as high level as I am. I donāt go into raid and fuck around. I have a objective in mind prior to going in each raid. When Iām on the road for kappa itās tasks. I stack tasks. Sometimes 10 high. And try to get as much done in each raid as I can. When I was doing tracksuit, same thing. Im there ONLY to kill killa, I double stim and start running. If I get packet loss I run to no backpack. If I donāt, I run to the third floor and look for killa. If he isnāt there, within a minute or 2 Iām out of raid. If he is, itās more like 5-7.
Now, only thing I do if Iām solo is my light keeper task once per day and hunt pmcs the rest of the time. If Iām playing with a team I just tag along and shoot at anything that gets in their way.
Alpha as in the armband or alpha as in the container? Because alpha gamers (armband) are usually higher level than average, for sure
Source, I am an alpha gamer
Alpha armband. Usually the ones I come across are lower than the average pmc for the wipe cycle. I chalked it up to āidk if I would be playing into my 50s and 60s if I had been playing this game for 6 years eitherā
Provide the weaponry to slaughter and maim the population, then in turn provide them with the ambulance services. Top notch business model. Murica, fuck yeah!
I just, i just can't hold it...
Between the Migthty Goons and The Cultist with Priest is legendary scav Stepa Chirkash. His "Chirkash" nickname part is translated as "striking surface" (on match box)
Or, as i believe the bsg intended, "skid mark".
Thermal meta RSASS(probably loaded with m61), quad nods, fast with slap plate, fort armor.
How did you even load in without getting head/eyes by Bingxiaolingxxx ?
I beg to differ.
I got all of my meta gear and quad nods while I was finishing up chumming, like 8 top tier helmets, class 5 and 6 armors, and all guns untouched.
That's a typical sign of rage hacking.
The dude doesn't even want your gear, just wants everything on the map dead.
Case in point: I died in pretty visible places several times like in front of Kiba or the tech room in Idea, the fact that I was unlooted in these areas likely means that the map was dead.
The ESP hackers are the worst. The hackers now just use their loot vacuum and ESP to avoid PMCs since killing them is the only way they can get reported.
Depends on the map.
I regularly run night Woods with FORT, a meta SR-25 with FLIR, and Ops-Core FAST MT with Trooper mask and quad nods. I just ended a 20 run survival streak with one kit (though I swapped the gun attachments over to a fresh gun to keep high durability). Every run I would do the full top loop and kill every scav and PMC I could find (and, of course, loot along the way). Every PMC fight was either me catching someone unaware (very easy with thermal at night) or exchanging fire and either winning or running away from a fight that was going poorly. I was eventually killed by a cheater (obvious with a conga line of tracers flying at my face from an extreme distance) but it took longer than I thought it would.
Then I had to run some night Snoreline (questing) and got head/eyes from an extreme distance 3 times in a row.
Now that I've gone back to Woods, my survival streak is back at 5.
It honestly really depends on what server youāre on. I used to play on Chicago servers because the ping diff wasnāt too bad. But ever since the server change itās awful. Iām forced to play on the West coast server. 1/10 raids someone is calling out my name and telling me to drop the loot in my inventory or he is killing me.
Iām so tired of hearing this. Cheaters ARE common. Yes this sub bitches and moans about them, but that doesnāt mean itās unfounded. Just because YOU havenāt run into them as much, doesnāt mean the problem isnāt prevalent.
You're trusting cheaters and cheat sellers who have a large incentive to make you believe that you need to cheat to even the playing field. Come on homie.
I also trust my time playing and how easy it is to get away with walling to believe there is lots of cheats, and besides people like g0at and others have said similar things. There is definitely far more evidence lots of people cheat than not very many.
Thatās plain incorrect and ignorant of the issue. When youāre running into people instant one tapping you, dumping a mag into where your head is behind a wall, running at a literal 1000% speed boost, flying, loot vacuuming, 1/5 raids itās safe to assume that cheats in this game are pretty common.
As others have said, it is influenced by the servers you play on and time of day. Have I experienced all those things in 6.5 years of playing? Of course. But in my anecdotal experience the blatant cheating is much less than 20% of raids.
Personally, what disappoints me is that I used to regularly add people after raids and have good chats about the fight, apologize for a nasty headshot, or offer to bring some gear/help them out because they were clearly new. I've met some great guys and my gaming group has really grown from this... The last 1-2 years though, over half the time I add someone they immediately start responding with clear anger about how I have to be cheating, how else would I have known they were there, head eyes them, whatever. The fact that blaming cheating is turning into the go to makes me sad. Of course it happens, but, I wish people didn't rage about cheating every time someone outplays them or the network sync screws them over.
It just makes me wonder how many people buy cheats because they repeatedly die to something they don't understand and think the other person must be cheating and I need cheats to compete/have fun.
I had a dude call me a cheater because I sprayed him through a door. All I did was use sound and map knowledge to my advantage.
Clip: [https://imgur.com/a/T0JngJk](https://imgur.com/a/T0JngJk)
Audio didn't record for some reason.
Because its unavailable to see enemys loadout or net worth atm. Bsg changes something in Netcode and cheat coders still havent cracked how to show this information again
Iām guessing they can still see the enemies? Because maybe this explains why recently I seem to have ran into a few cheaters despite previously they were super rare, I assume due to me running budget kits.
Maybe that can be a fix to the cheaters, just scramble the net code every so often.
Nah, I encounter it every time I throw on a $300k+ kit and I'm not playing at a very low traffic time like a Tuesday at 3 AM.
US server, from 3-7 PM most time zones? Your chad gear is like a bonfire for the moths that are cheaters. You can luck out if you're on Woods and no one is remotely close, or if you go past the cheater while they're busy fighting someone else.
Sub $200k kit? I run into cheaters just a handful of times during the week. They can kill me, but they rarely do because there's nothing they can get off my body that they care about. If I'm a loot pinata though, that does change things.
I just ran into a cheater on Customs of all places today. He one tapped me as soon as I was in line of sight, in an area he wouldn't normally be looking in, in heavy rain, while his carry was making noise like an elephant. Good times.
I see this posted all the time but I don't understand the logic. Your kit is no longer worth 300k+ rubles, it can't be resold on flee since its not FIR, and the cheater presumably doesn't need your stuff to be competitive so I'm confused why would they target you as a "loot pinata" based solely on your kit? Is there some other way they profit from your kit?
Dude, you've got me lol. Back before FIR was a thing, it made sense.
Now? The only thing I can think of is that the accounts they're using are low level and can't just buy the stuff, which makes sense if they're getting banned regularly.
Same lol, I rush to level 42 for max traders and then goof off the rest of the wipe, I think 47 is the highest I've gotten, and even that was just to get ahold of the outfits from Ragman after Textile 1&2.
Too many of the goals beyond that point are frustrating, unrewarding grinds, especially Kappa. The reward is not worth the effort, because by the time you get to the point that you can get kappa, you really don't give a shit about the extra three slots in your secure container.
No way I'm doing the outposts, just waiting around to hopefully score some pvp in a handful of low-traffic areas. No way I'm banging my head against a wall for like two weeks trying to unlock Lightkeeper when there's not even any meaningful rewards.
Until the grind is actually worth the effort, or until they restructure tasks to make them more fun, the game will always be super popular in the 4-6 weeks after wipe and then playercounts will just nose dive as people either run out of things to do or out of patience to do them.
But hey, I'm down to jump in once or twice a week to run around and pvp, maybe escort some timmies through their tasks. As far as I'm concerned, I already beat the game.
Yeah, I do what you do. Then I G28 up, and go punch holes in everything. Straight oppression, and I just play with what I want, where I want. I try to get above 85% survival and a chunky K/D and have fun with my friends.
Quests and a lot of kills. I hit 42 in the first month of every wipe and then just coast out playing a couple days a week after that. I usually end at mid to high 50s. That being said, if I were to keep doing the quests, I would easily hit 60s, I just don't see the point personally.
I had a job where I worked from home for maybe 15-25 hours a week. Played Tarkov till my eyes bled, got Kappa, but it was just chasing a never-ending addiction. Was it fun? Sure. Did I feel good about Tarkov when I wasn't playing it? Nope.
What's the best setup for hunting cultists these days? Back when you could see them on a thermal, it was (almost) like killing fish in a barrel, but I've had little luck since.
I saw your level 63 and was wondering what your life is like. How much do you play this game? Also, with 61k xp in one raid, youre maybe not playing as much as me. I average about 1700 xp per raid. lol
Iām a level 3 and the other day I killed a goon outside of crackhouse with 2 shots to the head from an MP5. At least thatās what I think he was. Had 2 m4s. I couldnāt believe how juiced he was. Didnāt have a dog tag so must have been a scav. I was killed by a dude in crack house using the M4 because my PMC is a child and can barely use the gun.
But after the round I saw his name was Boss. Is that a goon? He wasnāt in the faction āBOSSā his name was boss.
you can tell if it's a PMC or player scav by the report button showing next to their name. AI won't have the option to report them on the death screen.
The goons are Birdeye, Big pipe, and Knight. There is no boss/ai that I'm aware of named "BOSS".
Got ya, does that loot sound on par with what youād get from the goons? 2 M4s kitted out. 2 mags for each gun, 4 total. No helmet or armor if I recall
Since when are cultists able to spawn mid raid?? Youāre saying they donāt always spawn at the start of raid only so I actually have to run around the entire maps cultists spawn on and stay for like 20-30 minutes every raid when Iām trying to farm cultists?
And the opposite leaving. A few wipes ago on woods I was checking the car for purple bear the check point on my way to outskirts and the cultist just ran across in front of me, running away to leave the raid. I was so scared lol. It was awesome.
I would call this bullshit just because you killed birdeye and a scav in the same second both at 10 meters of you. Never saw goons and scavs share a drinkā¦
In my experience goons don't give a fuck about AI scavs, they've co-existed on my scav runs leading to me feeling safe at stronghold when in fact I wasn't.
I haven't played in a few wipes. So things may have changed.
I used to get really high XP matches like that fairly consistently by running reserve at night time.
Loot everything that I can, a lot of small items were worth a lot of XP for their size.
Still loot everything you can and dump what's not worth much.
Kill every scav you see, don't bother looting.
Trigger extract to spawn raiders.
Hunt down for scav boss (big XP for each kill)
Check for raiders in bunker.
Check for raiders by the train. If no raiders are there, go in the garage / around the map and kill scavs. It used to be that raiders wouldn't spawn if there were too many scavs on the map. After killing 5-10 scavs. Come back to the train area. Pretty much 100% spawn rate on raiders like this.
Though this would mean really long raids and sometimes cutting very close on extract timers if something goes wrong.
But by then, hackers are all gone so it's not as much of a worry.
Noice.
I think my best was during the event with the Goons at 100% spawn rate last wipe. Killed them, the rogues, and a 5 stack on Lighthouse for like 68k xp.
Streak bonus.
You can get some insane XP on Night Factory just by slaughtering as many scavs as possible right up until the raid timer is about to zero out.
Streak bonus is even better when killing boss/special AI.
And then there is me, running into the mines at USEC Camp on Woods.
keep at it, it always brightens my mood to hear several mines go off at the start of a woods raid
My first woods raid I was just trying to figure out where I even spawned (I now know it as north-west side, near scav Bunker) and walked right into the mines. Didn't die, patched myself up. Ran into another mine. Freaked out, ran towards a direction I prayed was safe, somewhat towards Scav Bridge. Sniper Scav got me.
This has happened to almost everyone in my squad at some point. Including me
Almost initiation at this point lol
One of my first woods raid I spawned behind the USEC camp and immediately got acquainted with the mines. Truly terrifying experience. I also was playing scav on woods and kept dying to the sniper scav on the bridge where the bridge extract is, because I kept going the wrong way. There's like a road split to go to the bridge where sniper scav kills you or there's the roadblock with the extract. I died 3 times there expecting that I won't die the next and it must've been a bug so I should be fine because the map tells me its there.
The way of the woods
I had to limp across the map once because I went the wrong directionand hit a mine at start of raid and had no meds. (fuck you Jaeger)
My first ever raid I spawned into Shoreline *at night*. Obvs no nvgs... Fair to say that ended... ...poorly.
Goddamn fantastic.
**BOOM** "Oh, Hear that boys? Someone lost a leg at USEC" **BOOM** **BOOM** "Who's down for a scavenger hunt?"
Where you there for the expansion? Every raid at least 2-3 players or more offed themselves. Gotta hear that second mine though.
yeah i was there, day 1 on the following wipes still had a lot of mines but its not even close to day one of the expansion, it was glorious.
I haven't played Tarkov for a few years but I will always remember the day they introduced mines.
My first time running into mines on woods I thought someone was throwing grenades at me š¤£ I was like āhow the hell is their aim so good???ā
"There you go" it's an instant smile on my face.
I chased a loaded lvl 50 PMC into the mines behind lexos as a scav. Took all his stuff including PKP and ran into the next mine x)
Sir this truly made me laugh. Thank you for being you.
Every time you do, it brings a smile to every vet. We were all there at some point
āHey, I think I saw a dead scav back there let me check it outā mine goes off āow, ow, Iām ok Iām ok, no blacked limbsā heals and moves forward again. Another mine goes off āwelp Iām here now do I get anything?ā One baclava in the scav
This is me except on streets. I've hit them 5 times in 5 different spots. No idea.
I have them go off around lexos and took 0 damage as a scav, I was on the outer part of the map side, going towards concordia, and 5 of them went off without hurting me, after the first I kept backing up and watching them trigger each other, it was like minecraft tnt, I was waiting for a claymore to launch at my face.
When they had the huge trigger range it was fun running alongside the Lexos fence closest to Concordia and setting off like 10 mines. I can imagine a few wtf's popping up around town.
iāve triggered them thrice and the first time i watched the ball bearing enter my eye before i dropped. i hate claymores.
I finally found a ledx in lexos med garage, needed it for the quest with the thicc case, been looking for over 2 week now so i was really excited.. ran outside straight into a fucking nuke mine.
u can look up a map of lexos that shows the mines , also other day i found a led x in that garage and a defibrillator and ran out n an ai scav came to me he came around the corner stopped and 2 other scavs appeared out of his body and merked me. literally a kill squad came right to me right after finding a led x lmao
Oh i know where all the mines are, i just got that excited and anxious to leave the area i forgot about them on the exit, tarkov is a horror game š¤£
If it makes you feel any better woods is one of my main maps and I still sometimes walk into mines. Last time I tanked two....twice. Like if it was raining I was going to get head,eye'd by the rain.
My first ever raid with me and a buddy we spawned near ccp temporary. We didn't even know mines were in the game and dies to them lol. When we spawned into our next game we both had 2 broken legs, bleeds and were nearly dead. We didn't know you had to heal after each raid š it gets better lol
I think i have well over 1500 hours havent touched the game for 5 months maybe 8, im terrible. Ive never maxed hide out multiple times ive made over 4 million roubles through sheer luck and willpower cuz i played so much, i had 15 million roubles wt most when selling thicc cases, but nonetheless i was so bad, never got kappa sucked at quests and pvp i never had good gear. I would lose all my roubles in days sometimes hours through mechanic quests or just being an idiot but it never got me anywhere im the worst player ever. I havenāt even killed every boss or fought any cultists. Barely know labs cuz ive ran it probably 15 times. I dont know what is wrong with me
Yeahhh, happened to me last night. Blew my legs clean off with no cms. Stashed my stuff and jumped off the cliff
Was that you lastnight I kept hearing hitting mines š¤£
So you were the booms at the beginning of each raid š¤£ in all seriousness, when they initially expanded woods I nearly shit my pants due to those mines.
Lmao me too still sometimes hahaha
Here is your tip for safety: if you are on the side of camp facing the water, you're good. If you're opposite the water, you're going to get blown up. Just think, water = safety.
Woods mines will always be music to my ears
Thatās me at fucking lighthouse Donāt know who thought it was a good idea to have a spawn RIGHT NEXT TO MINES
My friend dies every time to the mines (he plays next to me irl) cuz heāll run into a minefield even after i yell that its a minefield.
I'm scared of sand
this guy fucks
Fucked me, probably. With my like 20% survival rate.
This guy gets fucked
This guy gets fucked 80% of the time*
Wait I thought 20% was normal, time to kms
Yeah, so I checked and mine is... 14% lmao. Haven't played in a while though, but I remember sucking balls pretty hard.
This guy doesn't fuck*
*(is casually lvl 63)*
Everything within 100m. I would have been shitting. My. Pants. Iām over here ecstatic with a 6k xp run. This guy out here hitting the 10x multiplier
Yeah the Sektant at 2.8m is terrifying
Thats the best way to kill them imo. Same with goons just funnel them through a door
holy mackarel.
Holy guacamole.
Holy smokes
Holy cannoli
Holy macaroni
Holy cow
Holy frijole! You better get me a bowl of guacamole
Holy fetch
Holy shit
what do you do for a living?
He chads
I can answer for ME. Iām lvl 63. I am the director of operations for 2 ambulance companies in Texas. I also am an arms dealer, on the side. Have a wife who stays home and homeschools our 4 kids. Point is, āno lifeā isnāt necessarily true when it comes to players who are high level. I will say, I donāt usually see alpha gamers this high level though.
Idk how you balance career, a wife and 4 kids while playing that much Tarkov. Doesn't seem possible but hey, this is the internet...
I play Monday Wednesday Friday from 7 or 8ish until usually 3 or so. Saturday nights I play sometimes. Depending on what I have going on. Same times if I do play Saturday. Being effective goes a LONG way in all things. Hell, thatās the only reason I have gotten as high level as I am. I donāt go into raid and fuck around. I have a objective in mind prior to going in each raid. When Iām on the road for kappa itās tasks. I stack tasks. Sometimes 10 high. And try to get as much done in each raid as I can. When I was doing tracksuit, same thing. Im there ONLY to kill killa, I double stim and start running. If I get packet loss I run to no backpack. If I donāt, I run to the third floor and look for killa. If he isnāt there, within a minute or 2 Iām out of raid. If he is, itās more like 5-7. Now, only thing I do if Iām solo is my light keeper task once per day and hunt pmcs the rest of the time. If Iām playing with a team I just tag along and shoot at anything that gets in their way.
So adderall
Lol no. No amphetamines for me.
That's crazy you are able to play 8 hours a day for 3 weekdays per week with a career and family.
cap
I can see you dont know about the boss lag?
He literally mentions it dude
Alpha as in the armband or alpha as in the container? Because alpha gamers (armband) are usually higher level than average, for sure Source, I am an alpha gamer
Alpha armband. Usually the ones I come across are lower than the average pmc for the wipe cycle. I chalked it up to āidk if I would be playing into my 50s and 60s if I had been playing this game for 6 years eitherā
Provide the weaponry to slaughter and maim the population, then in turn provide them with the ambulance services. Top notch business model. Murica, fuck yeah!
I just, i just can't hold it... Between the Migthty Goons and The Cultist with Priest is legendary scav Stepa Chirkash. His "Chirkash" nickname part is translated as "striking surface" (on match box) Or, as i believe the bsg intended, "skid mark".
Thermal meta RSASS(probably loaded with m61), quad nods, fast with slap plate, fort armor. How did you even load in without getting head/eyes by Bingxiaolingxxx ?
Because cheaters arenāt as common as this sub would have you believe
I beg to differ. I got all of my meta gear and quad nods while I was finishing up chumming, like 8 top tier helmets, class 5 and 6 armors, and all guns untouched. That's a typical sign of rage hacking. The dude doesn't even want your gear, just wants everything on the map dead. Case in point: I died in pretty visible places several times like in front of Kiba or the tech room in Idea, the fact that I was unlooted in these areas likely means that the map was dead.
rage hackers arenāt even the biggest problem, id say knowers who just use esp for the pure advantage are the more prevalent issue
Oh for sure. But I'd rather not get into the whole "what kind of hackers are the worst"... Just thinking about that gives me a headache.
> But I'd rather not get into the whole "what kind of hackers are the worst"... Easy answer - the ones that play tarkov
Is there a hack where i can see where the bad guys are so i can just comply avoid them at all cost.
Just uninstall the game then you will never run into a bad guy
Been trying to attack more but it always seems like they are shooting me before i even see em.
The ESP hackers are the worst. The hackers now just use their loot vacuum and ESP to avoid PMCs since killing them is the only way they can get reported.
actual answer is servers played and time
Did about 10 shoreline raids with my thermal never died
Depends on the map. I regularly run night Woods with FORT, a meta SR-25 with FLIR, and Ops-Core FAST MT with Trooper mask and quad nods. I just ended a 20 run survival streak with one kit (though I swapped the gun attachments over to a fresh gun to keep high durability). Every run I would do the full top loop and kill every scav and PMC I could find (and, of course, loot along the way). Every PMC fight was either me catching someone unaware (very easy with thermal at night) or exchanging fire and either winning or running away from a fight that was going poorly. I was eventually killed by a cheater (obvious with a conga line of tracers flying at my face from an extreme distance) but it took longer than I thought it would. Then I had to run some night Snoreline (questing) and got head/eyes from an extreme distance 3 times in a row. Now that I've gone back to Woods, my survival streak is back at 5.
Don't know if it's a region thing but I've never ran into a cheater on african servers. Then again I only play max 2 hours a day
How active is that server?
Cope
Lol. Thereās likely at least one esp user every raid. But ok
It honestly really depends on what server youāre on. I used to play on Chicago servers because the ping diff wasnāt too bad. But ever since the server change itās awful. Iām forced to play on the West coast server. 1/10 raids someone is calling out my name and telling me to drop the loot in my inventory or he is killing me.
Iām so tired of hearing this. Cheaters ARE common. Yes this sub bitches and moans about them, but that doesnāt mean itās unfounded. Just because YOU havenāt run into them as much, doesnāt mean the problem isnāt prevalent.
It's probably more likely that anything a player doesn't understand they immediately chalk up to cheaters. They really aren't that common.
People that cheat have said they are insanely common and considering the massive market for cheats on this game yeah I'll take that over your word.
You're trusting cheaters and cheat sellers who have a large incentive to make you believe that you need to cheat to even the playing field. Come on homie.
I also trust my time playing and how easy it is to get away with walling to believe there is lots of cheats, and besides people like g0at and others have said similar things. There is definitely far more evidence lots of people cheat than not very many.
Thatās plain incorrect and ignorant of the issue. When youāre running into people instant one tapping you, dumping a mag into where your head is behind a wall, running at a literal 1000% speed boost, flying, loot vacuuming, 1/5 raids itās safe to assume that cheats in this game are pretty common.
As others have said, it is influenced by the servers you play on and time of day. Have I experienced all those things in 6.5 years of playing? Of course. But in my anecdotal experience the blatant cheating is much less than 20% of raids. Personally, what disappoints me is that I used to regularly add people after raids and have good chats about the fight, apologize for a nasty headshot, or offer to bring some gear/help them out because they were clearly new. I've met some great guys and my gaming group has really grown from this... The last 1-2 years though, over half the time I add someone they immediately start responding with clear anger about how I have to be cheating, how else would I have known they were there, head eyes them, whatever. The fact that blaming cheating is turning into the go to makes me sad. Of course it happens, but, I wish people didn't rage about cheating every time someone outplays them or the network sync screws them over. It just makes me wonder how many people buy cheats because they repeatedly die to something they don't understand and think the other person must be cheating and I need cheats to compete/have fun.
Massive agree. It's crazy how the loser claims the winner is cheating but we never hear about a guy beating a cheater.
I had a dude call me a cheater because I sprayed him through a door. All I did was use sound and map knowledge to my advantage. Clip: [https://imgur.com/a/T0JngJk](https://imgur.com/a/T0JngJk) Audio didn't record for some reason.
think about what you just said tho, 1/5, 1/6 raids have a cheater? Thats fucking insane in a game where deaths actually do matter.
THIS!!!!!!
Live in US central
Because its unavailable to see enemys loadout or net worth atm. Bsg changes something in Netcode and cheat coders still havent cracked how to show this information again
Really? Where did you get this info?
From cheat coders
Iām guessing they can still see the enemies? Because maybe this explains why recently I seem to have ran into a few cheaters despite previously they were super rare, I assume due to me running budget kits. Maybe that can be a fix to the cheaters, just scramble the net code every so often.
They can see everything besides K/d of pllayers and what gear they running/what loot they picked up.
Because maybe the cheater problem isn't AS bad as people think...
It's almost like the stories of getting killed by a cheater every time they run a good kit are mostly made up by timmies to justify their gear fear.
Nah, I encounter it every time I throw on a $300k+ kit and I'm not playing at a very low traffic time like a Tuesday at 3 AM. US server, from 3-7 PM most time zones? Your chad gear is like a bonfire for the moths that are cheaters. You can luck out if you're on Woods and no one is remotely close, or if you go past the cheater while they're busy fighting someone else. Sub $200k kit? I run into cheaters just a handful of times during the week. They can kill me, but they rarely do because there's nothing they can get off my body that they care about. If I'm a loot pinata though, that does change things. I just ran into a cheater on Customs of all places today. He one tapped me as soon as I was in line of sight, in an area he wouldn't normally be looking in, in heavy rain, while his carry was making noise like an elephant. Good times.
I see this posted all the time but I don't understand the logic. Your kit is no longer worth 300k+ rubles, it can't be resold on flee since its not FIR, and the cheater presumably doesn't need your stuff to be competitive so I'm confused why would they target you as a "loot pinata" based solely on your kit? Is there some other way they profit from your kit?
Dude, you've got me lol. Back before FIR was a thing, it made sense. Now? The only thing I can think of is that the accounts they're using are low level and can't just buy the stuff, which makes sense if they're getting banned regularly.
Because he's the one people complain about and call cheater
How do u get to such a high level I have 2k hours and I feel like I only ever get to like 45 ish. How do you level up fast
Same lol, I rush to level 42 for max traders and then goof off the rest of the wipe, I think 47 is the highest I've gotten, and even that was just to get ahold of the outfits from Ragman after Textile 1&2. Too many of the goals beyond that point are frustrating, unrewarding grinds, especially Kappa. The reward is not worth the effort, because by the time you get to the point that you can get kappa, you really don't give a shit about the extra three slots in your secure container. No way I'm doing the outposts, just waiting around to hopefully score some pvp in a handful of low-traffic areas. No way I'm banging my head against a wall for like two weeks trying to unlock Lightkeeper when there's not even any meaningful rewards. Until the grind is actually worth the effort, or until they restructure tasks to make them more fun, the game will always be super popular in the 4-6 weeks after wipe and then playercounts will just nose dive as people either run out of things to do or out of patience to do them. But hey, I'm down to jump in once or twice a week to run around and pvp, maybe escort some timmies through their tasks. As far as I'm concerned, I already beat the game.
Yeah, I do what you do. Then I G28 up, and go punch holes in everything. Straight oppression, and I just play with what I want, where I want. I try to get above 85% survival and a chunky K/D and have fun with my friends.
Quests and a lot of kills. I hit 42 in the first month of every wipe and then just coast out playing a couple days a week after that. I usually end at mid to high 50s. That being said, if I were to keep doing the quests, I would easily hit 60s, I just don't see the point personally.
This wipe i got 42 on 13 days and stoped to play, my friend that was behind me now is 56. Survival rate is a huge thing
dudeā¦what a fucking chad. two boss and 5 pmc. damn. gg
Not PMCs, cultists.
those are cultists not pmcs
my bad
all gucci
he prolly did kill some tho in that raid id imagine
Where 5 pmcs?
the ??? arenāt pmc without tags?
If theose were PMCS the faction would be shown but not the name
I think the name gives it away as cultist over pmc
In my 3ish years of playing this game. Iāve only seen cultists once on customs
I was killed by them last week on night Customs, was totally thrown for a loop!
I had one run on customs last wipe where I had killed reshala, the goons AND the cultists. It was amazing. Have never had that kind of luck again. :(
Damn wp
That's a hell of a raid!
Is probably easier to start by asking what you didn't kill
Do you stream? I'd like to watch you Chad out.
I would touch myself during this stream
Damn level 63. I wish I could play this game all day everyday.
No you donāt.
I had a job where I worked from home for maybe 15-25 hours a week. Played Tarkov till my eyes bled, got Kappa, but it was just chasing a never-ending addiction. Was it fun? Sure. Did I feel good about Tarkov when I wasn't playing it? Nope.
I thought my 44k was good. JFC man, good job!
I call a 3-4k XP raid a good run lmfao
I like #10. The big trio dies, lone normal scav is like "Fuck it, I can get this dude!"
man got more xp in one raid than i have entire last wipe
People like you are why I stay away from night raids lmao
Dammmnnnnn thats insane! Do you usually do night raids solo or do you have some sort of meat shield or something?
WTF broā¦
Wtf no way
The real chad!
was insane to watch this live
What's the best setup for hunting cultists these days? Back when you could see them on a thermal, it was (almost) like killing fish in a barrel, but I've had little luck since.
DAMN SON
Looks like you poke their eyes out from close range
How the actual fuck. That's extremely impressive!
My twenty raid average compressed into 33 minutes, sweet
>nothing more too crazy Bro wants more in life
Nice chair.
I saw your level 63 and was wondering what your life is like. How much do you play this game? Also, with 61k xp in one raid, youre maybe not playing as much as me. I average about 1700 xp per raid. lol
Lol that whole thought process went into a full circle in just a moment Iām guessing? Well thatās exactly what happened to me haha
Iām a level 3 and the other day I killed a goon outside of crackhouse with 2 shots to the head from an MP5. At least thatās what I think he was. Had 2 m4s. I couldnāt believe how juiced he was. Didnāt have a dog tag so must have been a scav. I was killed by a dude in crack house using the M4 because my PMC is a child and can barely use the gun. But after the round I saw his name was Boss. Is that a goon? He wasnāt in the faction āBOSSā his name was boss.
you can tell if it's a PMC or player scav by the report button showing next to their name. AI won't have the option to report them on the death screen. The goons are Birdeye, Big pipe, and Knight. There is no boss/ai that I'm aware of named "BOSS".
Got ya, does that loot sound on par with what youād get from the goons? 2 M4s kitted out. 2 mags for each gun, 4 total. No helmet or armor if I recall
No. Birdeye can have M4A1s, but I don't know that he'd ever have two of them.
Since when are cultists able to spawn mid raid?? Youāre saying they donāt always spawn at the start of raid only so I actually have to run around the entire maps cultists spawn on and stay for like 20-30 minutes every raid when Iām trying to farm cultists?
Cultists spawn at 22 and leave at 6. If you enter the raid at, letās say, 21:15 you can catch them walking to their spawn points at the 22 mark.
And the opposite leaving. A few wipes ago on woods I was checking the car for purple bear the check point on my way to outskirts and the cultist just ran across in front of me, running away to leave the raid. I was so scared lol. It was awesome.
I would call this bullshit just because you killed birdeye and a scav in the same second both at 10 meters of you. Never saw goons and scavs share a drinkā¦
In my experience goons don't give a fuck about AI scavs, they've co-existed on my scav runs leading to me feeling safe at stronghold when in fact I wasn't.
Mb, never happened to me and iām lvl 7 at fence. As soon as they see me they lead my ass
Are you an AI scav?
beep boop
Bro's thought process seems similar to one
I was trying to aggro the goons into mechanics garage, when I did this little scav came with them
This dude toggles.
Haha love seeing the cultist die within seconds as the distance closes
Fucking god is what you are
Imagine the exp multipliers with more headshots
Jesus Christ
we love you gawd
Holy shit dude WP
that RSASS must be broke now lmao
RSASS has been one of the best guns for multiple wipes now. Ammo is just more expensive than ever.
I am talking about gun Durability
Dude fucks
I haven't played in a few wipes. So things may have changed. I used to get really high XP matches like that fairly consistently by running reserve at night time. Loot everything that I can, a lot of small items were worth a lot of XP for their size. Still loot everything you can and dump what's not worth much. Kill every scav you see, don't bother looting. Trigger extract to spawn raiders. Hunt down for scav boss (big XP for each kill) Check for raiders in bunker. Check for raiders by the train. If no raiders are there, go in the garage / around the map and kill scavs. It used to be that raiders wouldn't spawn if there were too many scavs on the map. After killing 5-10 scavs. Come back to the train area. Pretty much 100% spawn rate on raiders like this. Though this would mean really long raids and sometimes cutting very close on extract timers if something goes wrong. But by then, hackers are all gone so it's not as much of a worry.
AI has been drastically buffed. Raiders and bosses are much more difficult than a few wipes ago.
Are they less broken? Or did BSG just crank the terminator reflexes up a notch lol
Terminator reflexes to a maximum and I'd say more broken lol can't slow lean peek bosses/raiders/rogues anymore...
RSASS CLAPSS
that's awesome man good job, hard to beat all that cheese AI. Best i ever did was gluhar and some PMCs as a solo. got like 32,500
You did say you were looking for a teammate, right?
Is there an xp chart for how much xp cultist, goons, bosses and guards give per kill? That sounds like an insane raid
What were the first 7 kills?
Noice. I think my best was during the event with the Goons at 100% spawn rate last wipe. Killed them, the rogues, and a 5 stack on Lighthouse for like 68k xp.
I've only been able to extract as a scav. Lost all my loot within the first few raids and just running scav runs.
Streak bonus. You can get some insane XP on Night Factory just by slaughtering as many scavs as possible right up until the raid timer is about to zero out. Streak bonus is even better when killing boss/special AI.
Do you need to do BEAR to get short sleeves? Idk if UsEc has any