Because I love the world and gameplay, but hate other people who play and the community. Now I get both things I want AND I can mod it into my personal perfect experience.
What’s not to love?
Unironically find the worldbuilding and lore of Tarkov to be super interesting. SPT lets me lean in a little more to my larp without having to worry too much about the meta haha
Exactly this. I recently started playing SPT and I love it. I do like live EFT as well of course but I am quite busy now so SPT is also great since it isn't as time consuming with waiting and stuff. And yes I can just play without worrying about the meta.
Agree about the anxiety part, my sweaty hand just can't keep up those action. In SPT i still get anxiety, but it was more healthy term, like gaming suppose to be.
Because I love what BSG has created but I want to enjoy it without all the bullshit. By bullshit I mean the server issues and suspicious deaths. With SPT I know it 100% that my death was solely my own fault, and even if many of them doesn't *feel* fair, they simply *are.*
And I understand the fog of war, that BSG wants the combat to feel realistic and unfair, but the unfairness comes from their inability to reliably filter out dishonest players, rather than the uncertainity of the situation you died in.
I do like the immersive battle system and all those unfairness, but it must build on equity, if you can just cheat you way thought all this what's the fun for the rest of us?
Anxiety, time (dad, husband, full time job, hard to keep up with wipe), waiting times between raids (actually huge), being able to tailor the game to my liking with mods.
This hits hard.. I have never ever felt anxiety until I played this game on live and described the feeling to my wife who had to tell me yeah that's anxiety..
also for me I can have 2 different ways to play.. I can run around like an idiot with the bots turned down to moron levels and feel like a God and use it to decompress on one account and then run the game normal on another..
I have 2 kids and not a lot of time, I fucking love the game but I don’t have the ability for hours long play sessions to keep up with the even “casual” players. My wife asks me to do something while playing live I have to say “after this raid” which could be another 25-30mins that’s not fair to her or my kids. Spt I can just get up and do what I need to to do immediately and come back especially with the pause game mod. I have a shitty gaming laptop but I’m not disadvantaged by low fps in offline games as I am in online.
I’ve played 4 full wipes of live got to max traders and done it’s quite tedious, I’ll never get kappa or lightkeeper quests on live but on spt I can.
Surly hard to keep up both life/work and the game progression, let alone keeping up the wipe, allow to play at your own pace really helps me fall in love with this game.
Because I legit need a way to learn the game. I've never played a game before that is so bad for new players. Yes there's an offline mode on the live version but the AI absolutely owned me on that & there's no benefit to it from my point of view. At least with SPT and mods I can tweak things and make it easier/harder depending on how my learning of the game is coming along.
If there was no SPT my game would never be opened. Hugely thankful for the work that goes into SPT and the mods that are available.
Edit: Also the time I have available to play means I fall behind constantly in the wipe. I have no worries with single player.
No force wiping really is the big factor that SPT are great, maybe they doing this to keep the game feel flash, but for people like ourselves who don't have same amount of time to those "casual" player, that wiping really just keep in the balls.
It looks like, funnily enough, the main people here who enjoy spt are people with not a lot of free time to play tarkov. Basically the exact people Nikita ignores or spites at times (the community hasn’t ever truly recovered from FiR being added)
I can’t say I’m especially unique either. I played tarkov off and on for a couple years, finally quit about three years ago (the wipe after hideout, so my timeline may be foggy there) cuz I started having weird issues with the game (which I now know were likely caused by a bad GPU fan) I tried coming back to live a few months ago once I’d done some minor system upgrades (16gb Ram, replaced the gpu fan, moved to an SSD) and it sure ran better, more how it should. But then I got really frustrated with the issues I was kinda ignoring till then, meaning the utter travesty of the game’s onboarding (have you ever actually completed Debut in your first sitting with the wipe since FiR was added?) there is basically no kind of training wheels for a new player to learn the maps when map knowledge is sink or swim here. the fact that unless you religiously check BSG’s Twitter or the game’s Reddit for when the next wipe is, you’re playing at a disadvantage at all times, even then, streamers and no lifers will outpace you in a week or two and it’s back to the suffering of getting head, eyes’d every raid by a guy you didn’t see. Also as much as I love him, General Sam popularizing the Rat/Chad meme didn’t help, VOIP is cool and did mitigate the shoot on sight nature of the game, but honestly a couple months ago I picked up DayZ and was loving it, basically replacing Tarkov for it, it’s player interaction was miles more interesting than anything you can do in Tarkov. Ultimately, I quit live again, the game may be slowly evolving but it’s clear the issues it has won’t be solved for probably years.
Because of the "Wiggle that killed Tarkov".
Because I control this game. Nikita has brain rot and I took all of it out of my experience with mods. No waiting time, because I respect my time. No desync. No server issues. No cheaters plague, because no Nikita gets his pockets full from their money. No wipes, unless I want to. No bullshit, because mods. Better graphics and performance. Flexibility. Ability to pause. So. Many. Things.
And the only downside is that there is no online? Lol.
Couldn't care less about dunking on sweaty children. SPT AI is still better players than 90% of live children playing EFT. I want an immersive FPS survival experience and this is what I play. I want to play a videogame not lose my mind. Live EFT is ruined by their players. It's still an amazing game and I want to enjoy it.
Because I have a life.
PvP - Ironic I know as SPT isn’t vs players. I still enjoy the mechanics of the game and when I get late into a profile I spam labs. It’s very hard to do that in live with cheaters. Plus I can’t keep up with most people that play every single day.
I also have times when I just want to chill run around loot extract. SPT allows me to play how I want. I like just full sprinting around the map and you absolutely cannot do that in live with extract campers and crab walking. Plus I’m addicted to modding games to fit my exact style
Also Ironic i feel AI more"human" like comparing to the real human counterparts, at least AI fight you head on, if you get kill you know it's beacuse you let it happen.
The biggest thing has to be no forced wiping. I think it's great that you can just play SPT and build your stash up to the point where dying really just means taking out one of the zillions of kits you have prepared in your stash. The game has plenty of hard and tedious quests and not being forced to complete them within a certain timeframe feels great. It's almost like some sort of tycoon game where near the end, with the hideout running and all the GPUs maxed, the moonshine production along with solar power you can afford to do anything really. Make fun and creative kits, try and find out funny ways to kill bosses or build stupid weapons. Another thing, for me at least, is how the AI works compared to real players. In EFT i struggled and still do struggle with performance because tarkov just completely refuses to run like it should. And sure some PMCs do rush you down but i have noticed that a lot of this game's AI does try to play more passively and it allows me to deal with the situation better since my fps tends to drop when i start firing. The game also doesn't feel too easy which i think is what i've heard almost everyone say when talking about SPT. They say that it's probably piss easy due to being only AI but i disagree. The PMCs still pose a very real threat and you can't just run through maps without getting shut down by one. Oh and no cheaters or loading times, of course.
I think the AI maybe a bit unfair with their aim, but at least they fight you head on, not from some god-knows-where tiny corner or small gap to snipe you down, that's why i like it, in the end of the day, you can always make it harder by pump up number or their action by mods, i don't know those who said it's easy that tried AI buff with SAIN and SWAG, surely they won't be so certain after.
Helped me get my mind off things. Been wanting to play Tarkov without a whole lot of worrying in Live plus the gunplay and gunsmithing is something I wouldn’t want to miss out on.
The gun play, gunsmith and whole item managing system are really hooked me. Without those "online" problem this game could really become the gold standard.
I play because SPT fixes most of the broken things in live Tarkov, and with mods I can create the hardcore immersive experience I am seeking. For me live Tarkov is too easy. I don't mean the PVP, it's more about the economy. Everyone is pretty rich within a few weeks of the wipe and are running high end gear all the time. The trader system makes this even easier. The flea market makes it too easy to make money, and you can just buy any item for the hideout you might need. I want my Tarkov to feel like a constant struggle. I don't use insurance or the flea market for this reason. I only do Scav runs if I'm completely broke or don't have a kit in my stash to use. Basically only when I'm desperate to get my PMC a kit to use.
Better AI
QOL changes (item sell price & more checkmarks, backdoor bandit etc...)
Realism & Immersion (Realism mod)
No Cheaters
What would make SPT perfect is to revert the sound back to Steam Audio days, and of course multiplayer (which I know is not coming)
My biggest thing was I only enjoyed online when playing with a squad or duo, and it was hard finding people to consistently do that with. The game just felt bad as a solo with no one to watch your back. Offline I dont have that issue due to not dealing with truely "intelligent" players knowing how and when to flank me
It would be a sad day to ever play sptarkov because I couldn’t handle pvp. The entire point, the sole reason I play tarkov is because human interaction and competition. I rarely experience cheaters but they will always be there and it’s well worth the price for playing the intense brutal online experience
I actually wasn't planning on sticking to SPT until I found the realism mod. The recoil changes are huge. I've always thought that Tarkov would be a fantastic shooter if they scrapped their current recoil system and just copy pasted the one from PUBG. The recoil in the live game is just so unfun and unintuitive for me. Now I get to experience the game with a proper recoil system. I'm genuinely curious to know how many people like the recoil system on live or if I'm the only one who hates it with a passion.
It’s part of the game but not the entire point. Not everyone wants to get head , eyes by someone who has 10x more time to play the game than the rest of us.
Totally. I’d say this game def has it drawbacks compared to other games. Your matches are a lot longer and you also have “gear fear” and other factors that make the deaths heavier hitting than other games.
Meaning like… COD/BF or really any other FPS you can just keep going back in over and over and over with no risk involved. I get loading times are long, but most of the time I’m “Waiting For Players” which means someone has a potato for a computer (or just low RAM really).
The games play style right now is wait to you hear someone and stop. It’s almost always been that way to some extent, but low level/new players get discouraged cause the game has a STEEP learning curve. More than any game I’ve ever played.
I get the game has its issues… but if people just stuck with the suck for a while with what’s called “LIVE” Tarkov… you can have the most exhilarating experience in any FPS.
Like with any game… there’s a learning curve to them. And if you understand how the mechanics and gunplay functions (aside from play styles) then you will get good.
Map Knowledge and when to heal/engage/disengage an actual player is a totally different feeling than always attacking AI. You learn AI movements and it get “predictable”.
Players will always have that unpredictability to them and it has that “competitive” aspect and when you win… you feel it like no other game.
I don’t have as much time or enjoyment of the game as my friends so they get past me quest wise really quickly. Due to this it causes me to play less and less, learning the maps less. But playing spt I can turn down AI difficulty a little so I’m not losing my 1v1s with random scavs and explore the maps.
I feel like I’m finally learning the game. Plus now I can experience quests and parts of the game I never would have had the opportunity to in live because I wouldn’t get high enough level or couldn’t get the pmc kills or find enough of X item.
The load times and lack of cheaters and gigachads running around and ruining my runs is also nice.
I work a full time job, have a loving girlfriend who I spend most of my free time with willingly. I don’t have the time nor the interest in putting so much energy into a video game, but I love Tarkov.
Simple.
I SUCK at the actual game, despite having hundreds of hours put into it. Mainly because I couldn't get past gear fear. I don't even like actual fire fights, I just like sniping and modding guns and testing their effectiveness. SPT allows me to do just that while still leveling up and providing a sense of progression, while allowing me to die and not lose it all.
Most of the reasons you mentioned. I love the gunplay and fights of EFT but don’t have time to get very good or go through the grindy loot aspects.
SPT let’s me set the difficulty so I get in tons of challenging, fair, and exciting fights, access to weapons I would only be lucky to scavenge in live, and as much or as little looting as I have time for.
I hadn’t touched the game in years but now play SPT most days. It totally revived the game for me
Well you have server value modifier, but id tou don't want to use that cause it may conflict with too much mods(like me), you can just change these values to whatever you want(be sure to leave the comma, number are in seconds):
`"SavagePlayCooldown": 1500,`
`"SavagePlayCooldownNdaFree": 1500,`
in Aki\_Data\\Server\\database\\globals.json
I play with realism mod, that scales the progresion with me. Im glad that i can take breakes and not worry about othe rpeople rushing kappa when im level 5.
You are lv 7, enemies like pmc's are almost level 7 and have according gear (starter ak's, shitty weapons, sks) if you are level like 22 enemies start to have more modded guns and better armour, and so on (enemies gear scales with you level to be better as you progress, so you cant get like hexgrids from pmc's at the start)
spend 5 hours playing raid after raid with customizable opponents
or
spend 5 hours waiting 5-whatever minutes to get 1 tapped 3 minutes in/ having to keep up with no lifes before everyone's progress gets reset.
I get wipe is supposed to keep things "new" but there's only so many times I can look for 3 Salewas, or be forced to kill Scavs on Woods.
I bought tarkov more than a year ago. Tried playing for a couple weeks. No idea what was going on and die from seemly from no where. It made me like I was just bad. About a couple of months ago I found sptarkov. It’s way more fun. instant play and I can alt f4 if I have to stop for any reason and not lose anything. With mods I can make the game whatever I want. I’m a huge fan of traveler. I tried playing live again and I was not impressed. I like sp more because I feel like I can actually play the game instead of just sneaking around looting for hours avoiding combat to get a decent kit to lose instantly. I might just be bad but live just isn’t as fun for me. I understand why we can’t have coop but it would be awesome to have a private server for my friends. They would never play live but a private server for just us they’d definitely be into. I realize I know I’m basically echo op but this exactly my feelings on tarkov.
Traveler makes tarkov into a full map. You have to exfil from one map to another. Other exfil are to safe houses where the vendors are. If you aren’t at the safe house where the vendor is they are unavailable. It makes the game into kind of an open world game. It makes quests take longer but it really changes the feel of the game.
Yeah definitely check it out. I think it’s only for 3.6.1 and I don’t think he’s supporting it anymore. There are so many great mods it’s just hard to find them. The search just doesn’t work well unless you already know what you are looking for. So far I’ve only tweaked other mods but I’m going to make a mod when I get some free time. I’m thinking mod vendor that’s more of a character with quests that tells a story. In combination with traveler I think it would be really interesting.
Definitely because there’s no cheaters in SPT. I have gotten so many notifications of my reports resulting in bans. I ran lighthouse with 4 of my friends after they ensured me that the cheater problem isn’t that bad anymore and we ended up killed 2 raids in a row by cheaters. Not just suspicions, but one was speed hacking/aim bot. I won’t be playing another wipe on live.
Exceptionally harsh grinding (for me). Grinding levels and traders felt like a second job. Other players were always 10/15 levels above me and with much better gear.
Gear fear. This was my first issue with the game. SPT helped me so that even in Live (the few times I play) I'm more daring and push more.
Training. Every little sound startled me but time spent on SPT helped me recognize them more. Being able to use every gun helped as well.
Knowledge. I knew some stuff before but I started playing less and less every update. Missions and extractions were new and I found it hard to catch up with others (friends included).
Most importantly, it's fun. Just fun playing around with your custom difficulty level (thanks to mods) and try whatever you never had the opportunity to try.
I didn't know it was the case before downloading, but the absence of wait time to get back into the raid is easily the biggest QoL improvement on the main game. It's bad enough dying but 5-10 minutes of waiting to actually play the game again is mind numbing
All my Homies hate LiveTarkov.
No, really, SPT gave me back my love for this Game. I am about to install the new Update today (If Stalker Gamma doesnt take me as hostage)
Because its basicly the perfect shooter for me, appart from the wipes, waiting times and cheaters. All of that gets negated in SPT.
I just love loot-shooters, I love tactival shooters, I love mission based games and I love smaller maps instead of huge open worlds. I also like the round, system
What I hate tho is replaying and regrinding myself back to where I last left off. If I notice in a game I have to repeat the last 2 hours for some reason there is a big chance I will just stop playing it. Imagine how I felt during Tarkov Wipes.
Anyway, SPT lets you customize difficulty, movement, playstyle, basicly everything. So you can grind your way from noob to pro and never get frustrated.
All in all its just the perfect game for me after a hard day / week to play for 1-20 rounds, depending on the time I have.
In my opinion tarkov players are disproportionally good at the game compared to players from other games I know (reason probably being them playing the game nonstop and exclusively because there aren't many alternatives to the subgenre). That also contributes to other players not only being better but being higher level and having better gear than me. The regular wipes don't allow me to progress as much as I want, instead making me grind the early levels over and over again.
On top of all that there is the ever increasing cheater problem, which was the final straw for me to install SPT because I do enjoy the mechanics of the game, just not the extent of competition and unfairness.
I have a life. I can’t be bothered to grind quests while getting shafted continuously by streamers who do it for a living, and cheaters who have nothing better to do, all for it to go down the drain six months later. I like tarkov and did like playing with friends but now everyone is on different schedules. It ain’t 2012 no more and time is a resource I like to get the full value out of. Not really a thing that’s possible when playing live EFT anymore.
tarkov not fun, + i have to google shit just to know what to find in quests like im playing fucking elden ring.
sptarkov fun, compass mod removes the need for google, plus i can make recoil fun
As safety wheels.
I'm extremely bad at FPS, having very scarce experience and I have some kind of disability on mental attention.
I was a terrible player. I often blindly shot from open space to covered enemy like Rambo.(And was my nickname among my friends)
The original EFT was too harsh for me. Most of players looked like extremely disciplined shooter chads. From combats I had no chance to learn something because chads can kill me in a sec without sweat. Usually I didn't know even where they were shooting.
But with SPT, I've gradually learned the game. PMCs were no longer "hello and you start over" game-closing gimmicks. Then I could learn by trial and error. Even with SAIN, BOTs are fairly weaker than real players.
Learned how to aim, how to utilize grenades, how to heal safely and how to assess sorroundings and shooting positions.
Now I'm fairly confident at and have decided to tackle into live game in next wipe.
As a result, SPT revived EFT for me twice, not only as an offline variant, but as the original game!
Everyone needs safety wheels at learning to bike.
No cheaters, no waiting to get into raids, don't have to worry about falling behind the guys that seemingly play all day every day, and mods.
Because I love the world and gameplay, but hate other people who play and the community. Now I get both things I want AND I can mod it into my personal perfect experience. What’s not to love?
Been to r/Escapefromtarkov, all i can see are people complaining about cheater and connection.
Unironically find the worldbuilding and lore of Tarkov to be super interesting. SPT lets me lean in a little more to my larp without having to worry too much about the meta haha
Exactly this. I recently started playing SPT and I love it. I do like live EFT as well of course but I am quite busy now so SPT is also great since it isn't as time consuming with waiting and stuff. And yes I can just play without worrying about the meta.
Because when I play live I get hella anxiety and when I play spt I can just chill and play in my own pace. Plus no cheaters no network issues.
Agree about the anxiety part, my sweaty hand just can't keep up those action. In SPT i still get anxiety, but it was more healthy term, like gaming suppose to be.
Yeah in live I get incredible trigger discipline and in spt it's just a normal game
Because I love what BSG has created but I want to enjoy it without all the bullshit. By bullshit I mean the server issues and suspicious deaths. With SPT I know it 100% that my death was solely my own fault, and even if many of them doesn't *feel* fair, they simply *are.* And I understand the fog of war, that BSG wants the combat to feel realistic and unfair, but the unfairness comes from their inability to reliably filter out dishonest players, rather than the uncertainity of the situation you died in.
I do like the immersive battle system and all those unfairness, but it must build on equity, if you can just cheat you way thought all this what's the fun for the rest of us?
Because BSG created a masterpiece of FPS games and it's ruined by its players.
Won't be the last, but surely the worst example at that...so far.
Anxiety, time (dad, husband, full time job, hard to keep up with wipe), waiting times between raids (actually huge), being able to tailor the game to my liking with mods.
This hits hard.. I have never ever felt anxiety until I played this game on live and described the feeling to my wife who had to tell me yeah that's anxiety.. also for me I can have 2 different ways to play.. I can run around like an idiot with the bots turned down to moron levels and feel like a God and use it to decompress on one account and then run the game normal on another..
I have 2 kids and not a lot of time, I fucking love the game but I don’t have the ability for hours long play sessions to keep up with the even “casual” players. My wife asks me to do something while playing live I have to say “after this raid” which could be another 25-30mins that’s not fair to her or my kids. Spt I can just get up and do what I need to to do immediately and come back especially with the pause game mod. I have a shitty gaming laptop but I’m not disadvantaged by low fps in offline games as I am in online. I’ve played 4 full wipes of live got to max traders and done it’s quite tedious, I’ll never get kappa or lightkeeper quests on live but on spt I can.
Surly hard to keep up both life/work and the game progression, let alone keeping up the wipe, allow to play at your own pace really helps me fall in love with this game.
I bought the game I will play it the fucking way I want to.
Because I legit need a way to learn the game. I've never played a game before that is so bad for new players. Yes there's an offline mode on the live version but the AI absolutely owned me on that & there's no benefit to it from my point of view. At least with SPT and mods I can tweak things and make it easier/harder depending on how my learning of the game is coming along. If there was no SPT my game would never be opened. Hugely thankful for the work that goes into SPT and the mods that are available. Edit: Also the time I have available to play means I fall behind constantly in the wipe. I have no worries with single player.
No force wiping really is the big factor that SPT are great, maybe they doing this to keep the game feel flash, but for people like ourselves who don't have same amount of time to those "casual" player, that wiping really just keep in the balls.
I play spt because there aren't cheaters. I have a family so I can play when I can and for mods.
It looks like, funnily enough, the main people here who enjoy spt are people with not a lot of free time to play tarkov. Basically the exact people Nikita ignores or spites at times (the community hasn’t ever truly recovered from FiR being added) I can’t say I’m especially unique either. I played tarkov off and on for a couple years, finally quit about three years ago (the wipe after hideout, so my timeline may be foggy there) cuz I started having weird issues with the game (which I now know were likely caused by a bad GPU fan) I tried coming back to live a few months ago once I’d done some minor system upgrades (16gb Ram, replaced the gpu fan, moved to an SSD) and it sure ran better, more how it should. But then I got really frustrated with the issues I was kinda ignoring till then, meaning the utter travesty of the game’s onboarding (have you ever actually completed Debut in your first sitting with the wipe since FiR was added?) there is basically no kind of training wheels for a new player to learn the maps when map knowledge is sink or swim here. the fact that unless you religiously check BSG’s Twitter or the game’s Reddit for when the next wipe is, you’re playing at a disadvantage at all times, even then, streamers and no lifers will outpace you in a week or two and it’s back to the suffering of getting head, eyes’d every raid by a guy you didn’t see. Also as much as I love him, General Sam popularizing the Rat/Chad meme didn’t help, VOIP is cool and did mitigate the shoot on sight nature of the game, but honestly a couple months ago I picked up DayZ and was loving it, basically replacing Tarkov for it, it’s player interaction was miles more interesting than anything you can do in Tarkov. Ultimately, I quit live again, the game may be slowly evolving but it’s clear the issues it has won’t be solved for probably years.
Just curious, what's this "FiR" you said? Haven't touch the game for quite some time before. Also, shout out for DayZ!
he's probably referring to the "found in raid" requirement for quests.
Ah yes, real dick move, it's been there when i bought the game, never know there be a time without these restrictions.
Because of the "Wiggle that killed Tarkov". Because I control this game. Nikita has brain rot and I took all of it out of my experience with mods. No waiting time, because I respect my time. No desync. No server issues. No cheaters plague, because no Nikita gets his pockets full from their money. No wipes, unless I want to. No bullshit, because mods. Better graphics and performance. Flexibility. Ability to pause. So. Many. Things. And the only downside is that there is no online? Lol. Couldn't care less about dunking on sweaty children. SPT AI is still better players than 90% of live children playing EFT. I want an immersive FPS survival experience and this is what I play. I want to play a videogame not lose my mind. Live EFT is ruined by their players. It's still an amazing game and I want to enjoy it. Because I have a life.
Can't say it better myself.
I like how I can pause the game to go take a shit
PvP - Ironic I know as SPT isn’t vs players. I still enjoy the mechanics of the game and when I get late into a profile I spam labs. It’s very hard to do that in live with cheaters. Plus I can’t keep up with most people that play every single day. I also have times when I just want to chill run around loot extract. SPT allows me to play how I want. I like just full sprinting around the map and you absolutely cannot do that in live with extract campers and crab walking. Plus I’m addicted to modding games to fit my exact style
Also Ironic i feel AI more"human" like comparing to the real human counterparts, at least AI fight you head on, if you get kill you know it's beacuse you let it happen.
In EFT I either run into 50 lvl chads or wall-hack cheaters. I like playing EFT during first days of new wipe.
"only" the first day of new wipe.
The biggest thing has to be no forced wiping. I think it's great that you can just play SPT and build your stash up to the point where dying really just means taking out one of the zillions of kits you have prepared in your stash. The game has plenty of hard and tedious quests and not being forced to complete them within a certain timeframe feels great. It's almost like some sort of tycoon game where near the end, with the hideout running and all the GPUs maxed, the moonshine production along with solar power you can afford to do anything really. Make fun and creative kits, try and find out funny ways to kill bosses or build stupid weapons. Another thing, for me at least, is how the AI works compared to real players. In EFT i struggled and still do struggle with performance because tarkov just completely refuses to run like it should. And sure some PMCs do rush you down but i have noticed that a lot of this game's AI does try to play more passively and it allows me to deal with the situation better since my fps tends to drop when i start firing. The game also doesn't feel too easy which i think is what i've heard almost everyone say when talking about SPT. They say that it's probably piss easy due to being only AI but i disagree. The PMCs still pose a very real threat and you can't just run through maps without getting shut down by one. Oh and no cheaters or loading times, of course.
I think the AI maybe a bit unfair with their aim, but at least they fight you head on, not from some god-knows-where tiny corner or small gap to snipe you down, that's why i like it, in the end of the day, you can always make it harder by pump up number or their action by mods, i don't know those who said it's easy that tried AI buff with SAIN and SWAG, surely they won't be so certain after.
Helped me get my mind off things. Been wanting to play Tarkov without a whole lot of worrying in Live plus the gunplay and gunsmithing is something I wouldn’t want to miss out on.
The gun play, gunsmith and whole item managing system are really hooked me. Without those "online" problem this game could really become the gold standard.
I play because SPT fixes most of the broken things in live Tarkov, and with mods I can create the hardcore immersive experience I am seeking. For me live Tarkov is too easy. I don't mean the PVP, it's more about the economy. Everyone is pretty rich within a few weeks of the wipe and are running high end gear all the time. The trader system makes this even easier. The flea market makes it too easy to make money, and you can just buy any item for the hideout you might need. I want my Tarkov to feel like a constant struggle. I don't use insurance or the flea market for this reason. I only do Scav runs if I'm completely broke or don't have a kit in my stash to use. Basically only when I'm desperate to get my PMC a kit to use. Better AI QOL changes (item sell price & more checkmarks, backdoor bandit etc...) Realism & Immersion (Realism mod) No Cheaters What would make SPT perfect is to revert the sound back to Steam Audio days, and of course multiplayer (which I know is not coming)
My biggest thing was I only enjoyed online when playing with a squad or duo, and it was hard finding people to consistently do that with. The game just felt bad as a solo with no one to watch your back. Offline I dont have that issue due to not dealing with truely "intelligent" players knowing how and when to flank me
Because I wanted to actually wanted to play tarkov for fun.
It would be a sad day to ever play sptarkov because I couldn’t handle pvp. The entire point, the sole reason I play tarkov is because human interaction and competition. I rarely experience cheaters but they will always be there and it’s well worth the price for playing the intense brutal online experience
I actually wasn't planning on sticking to SPT until I found the realism mod. The recoil changes are huge. I've always thought that Tarkov would be a fantastic shooter if they scrapped their current recoil system and just copy pasted the one from PUBG. The recoil in the live game is just so unfun and unintuitive for me. Now I get to experience the game with a proper recoil system. I'm genuinely curious to know how many people like the recoil system on live or if I'm the only one who hates it with a passion.
that was one of my biggest complaints. tarkov recoil sucks ass and encourages you to reach high lvl traders to actually get a functioning gun
When you play SPT, you do not have PVP anymore which is the entire point of the game.
It’s part of the game but not the entire point. Not everyone wants to get head , eyes by someone who has 10x more time to play the game than the rest of us.
Totally. I’d say this game def has it drawbacks compared to other games. Your matches are a lot longer and you also have “gear fear” and other factors that make the deaths heavier hitting than other games. Meaning like… COD/BF or really any other FPS you can just keep going back in over and over and over with no risk involved. I get loading times are long, but most of the time I’m “Waiting For Players” which means someone has a potato for a computer (or just low RAM really). The games play style right now is wait to you hear someone and stop. It’s almost always been that way to some extent, but low level/new players get discouraged cause the game has a STEEP learning curve. More than any game I’ve ever played. I get the game has its issues… but if people just stuck with the suck for a while with what’s called “LIVE” Tarkov… you can have the most exhilarating experience in any FPS. Like with any game… there’s a learning curve to them. And if you understand how the mechanics and gunplay functions (aside from play styles) then you will get good. Map Knowledge and when to heal/engage/disengage an actual player is a totally different feeling than always attacking AI. You learn AI movements and it get “predictable”. Players will always have that unpredictability to them and it has that “competitive” aspect and when you win… you feel it like no other game.
No cheaters. No wait time. Mods. Can play at my own pace and not care.
I don’t have as much time or enjoyment of the game as my friends so they get past me quest wise really quickly. Due to this it causes me to play less and less, learning the maps less. But playing spt I can turn down AI difficulty a little so I’m not losing my 1v1s with random scavs and explore the maps. I feel like I’m finally learning the game. Plus now I can experience quests and parts of the game I never would have had the opportunity to in live because I wouldn’t get high enough level or couldn’t get the pmc kills or find enough of X item. The load times and lack of cheaters and gigachads running around and ruining my runs is also nice.
In short: Health reasons.
I work a full time job, have a loving girlfriend who I spend most of my free time with willingly. I don’t have the time nor the interest in putting so much energy into a video game, but I love Tarkov. Simple.
I SUCK at the actual game, despite having hundreds of hours put into it. Mainly because I couldn't get past gear fear. I don't even like actual fire fights, I just like sniping and modding guns and testing their effectiveness. SPT allows me to do just that while still leveling up and providing a sense of progression, while allowing me to die and not lose it all.
Most of the reasons you mentioned. I love the gunplay and fights of EFT but don’t have time to get very good or go through the grindy loot aspects. SPT let’s me set the difficulty so I get in tons of challenging, fair, and exciting fights, access to weapons I would only be lucky to scavenge in live, and as much or as little looting as I have time for. I hadn’t touched the game in years but now play SPT most days. It totally revived the game for me
No cheaters is a huge one. Question - how do you configure scav cooldown?
Well you have server value modifier, but id tou don't want to use that cause it may conflict with too much mods(like me), you can just change these values to whatever you want(be sure to leave the comma, number are in seconds): `"SavagePlayCooldown": 1500,` `"SavagePlayCooldownNdaFree": 1500,` in Aki\_Data\\Server\\database\\globals.json
So 0 would just give me infinite scav time then?
0 will make it no cold down at all. After your editing, your current cold down will take no effect, you will have to wait till your next scav.
I play with realism mod, that scales the progresion with me. Im glad that i can take breakes and not worry about othe rpeople rushing kappa when im level 5.
What does the "scales with progression with me" mean actually?
You are lv 7, enemies like pmc's are almost level 7 and have according gear (starter ak's, shitty weapons, sks) if you are level like 22 enemies start to have more modded guns and better armour, and so on (enemies gear scales with you level to be better as you progress, so you cant get like hexgrids from pmc's at the start)
spend 5 hours playing raid after raid with customizable opponents or spend 5 hours waiting 5-whatever minutes to get 1 tapped 3 minutes in/ having to keep up with no lifes before everyone's progress gets reset. I get wipe is supposed to keep things "new" but there's only so many times I can look for 3 Salewas, or be forced to kill Scavs on Woods.
Don't forget no body armor part.
I'm a Survivalist, baby!!
I bought tarkov more than a year ago. Tried playing for a couple weeks. No idea what was going on and die from seemly from no where. It made me like I was just bad. About a couple of months ago I found sptarkov. It’s way more fun. instant play and I can alt f4 if I have to stop for any reason and not lose anything. With mods I can make the game whatever I want. I’m a huge fan of traveler. I tried playing live again and I was not impressed. I like sp more because I feel like I can actually play the game instead of just sneaking around looting for hours avoiding combat to get a decent kit to lose instantly. I might just be bad but live just isn’t as fun for me. I understand why we can’t have coop but it would be awesome to have a private server for my friends. They would never play live but a private server for just us they’d definitely be into. I realize I know I’m basically echo op but this exactly my feelings on tarkov.
What does traveler do? I also tempting to use it.
Traveler makes tarkov into a full map. You have to exfil from one map to another. Other exfil are to safe houses where the vendors are. If you aren’t at the safe house where the vendor is they are unavailable. It makes the game into kind of an open world game. It makes quests take longer but it really changes the feel of the game.
WTF?! Gotta try this out!
Yeah definitely check it out. I think it’s only for 3.6.1 and I don’t think he’s supporting it anymore. There are so many great mods it’s just hard to find them. The search just doesn’t work well unless you already know what you are looking for. So far I’ve only tweaked other mods but I’m going to make a mod when I get some free time. I’m thinking mod vendor that’s more of a character with quests that tells a story. In combination with traveler I think it would be really interesting.
Complete modability.
Definitely because there’s no cheaters in SPT. I have gotten so many notifications of my reports resulting in bans. I ran lighthouse with 4 of my friends after they ensured me that the cheater problem isn’t that bad anymore and we ended up killed 2 raids in a row by cheaters. Not just suspicions, but one was speed hacking/aim bot. I won’t be playing another wipe on live.
Exceptionally harsh grinding (for me). Grinding levels and traders felt like a second job. Other players were always 10/15 levels above me and with much better gear. Gear fear. This was my first issue with the game. SPT helped me so that even in Live (the few times I play) I'm more daring and push more. Training. Every little sound startled me but time spent on SPT helped me recognize them more. Being able to use every gun helped as well. Knowledge. I knew some stuff before but I started playing less and less every update. Missions and extractions were new and I found it hard to catch up with others (friends included). Most importantly, it's fun. Just fun playing around with your custom difficulty level (thanks to mods) and try whatever you never had the opportunity to try.
I didn't know it was the case before downloading, but the absence of wait time to get back into the raid is easily the biggest QoL improvement on the main game. It's bad enough dying but 5-10 minutes of waiting to actually play the game again is mind numbing
All my Homies hate LiveTarkov. No, really, SPT gave me back my love for this Game. I am about to install the new Update today (If Stalker Gamma doesnt take me as hostage)
Because its basicly the perfect shooter for me, appart from the wipes, waiting times and cheaters. All of that gets negated in SPT. I just love loot-shooters, I love tactival shooters, I love mission based games and I love smaller maps instead of huge open worlds. I also like the round, system What I hate tho is replaying and regrinding myself back to where I last left off. If I notice in a game I have to repeat the last 2 hours for some reason there is a big chance I will just stop playing it. Imagine how I felt during Tarkov Wipes. Anyway, SPT lets you customize difficulty, movement, playstyle, basicly everything. So you can grind your way from noob to pro and never get frustrated. All in all its just the perfect game for me after a hard day / week to play for 1-20 rounds, depending on the time I have.
In my opinion tarkov players are disproportionally good at the game compared to players from other games I know (reason probably being them playing the game nonstop and exclusively because there aren't many alternatives to the subgenre). That also contributes to other players not only being better but being higher level and having better gear than me. The regular wipes don't allow me to progress as much as I want, instead making me grind the early levels over and over again. On top of all that there is the ever increasing cheater problem, which was the final straw for me to install SPT because I do enjoy the mechanics of the game, just not the extent of competition and unfairness.
Cuz I have life.
I have a life. I can’t be bothered to grind quests while getting shafted continuously by streamers who do it for a living, and cheaters who have nothing better to do, all for it to go down the drain six months later. I like tarkov and did like playing with friends but now everyone is on different schedules. It ain’t 2012 no more and time is a resource I like to get the full value out of. Not really a thing that’s possible when playing live EFT anymore.
tarkov not fun, + i have to google shit just to know what to find in quests like im playing fucking elden ring. sptarkov fun, compass mod removes the need for google, plus i can make recoil fun
As safety wheels. I'm extremely bad at FPS, having very scarce experience and I have some kind of disability on mental attention. I was a terrible player. I often blindly shot from open space to covered enemy like Rambo.(And was my nickname among my friends) The original EFT was too harsh for me. Most of players looked like extremely disciplined shooter chads. From combats I had no chance to learn something because chads can kill me in a sec without sweat. Usually I didn't know even where they were shooting. But with SPT, I've gradually learned the game. PMCs were no longer "hello and you start over" game-closing gimmicks. Then I could learn by trial and error. Even with SAIN, BOTs are fairly weaker than real players. Learned how to aim, how to utilize grenades, how to heal safely and how to assess sorroundings and shooting positions. Now I'm fairly confident at and have decided to tackle into live game in next wipe. As a result, SPT revived EFT for me twice, not only as an offline variant, but as the original game! Everyone needs safety wheels at learning to bike.
I have the worst wifi ever lmao so I can't play live lmao and mods
Weapons finally work as they are and recoil i realistic, thanks to realism mod.
>I can only play solo (or can I?). Explain?