34 Improvements Tarkov Arena DESPERATELY NEEDS! 

I wish that I could see what presets my teammates have bougth, so I could maybe avois getting 5 marksmen on the same map, or pick a loadout that synergizes with my teammates.

team fortress 2 doesn't do client side colours, but what it does is spawn you in themed spawn-rooms so you have an idea of what team you are on. It also reinforces by showing names of teammates etc through the HUD so it doesn't suffer the inherent issues with Arena's realistic system. Not sure if this is a problem that can't be solved with stuff other than client side colours as other games have overcome that issue.

Vision blurr could be changed into a tunnel-vision effect. Clear in the center & blurry on peripheral. Item spawns on all maps would be cool like Granadelaunchers, MachineGuns, Armor and such. Keep your Inventory between rounds if you survive like in CS when you pick up someones weapon. An English announcer or subtitles. I look forward to the respawn modes to play more and wait less.

regarding the clothes, I think clothes should be team specific instead of loadout specific. If all of reshala's guards can match their drip, my team could too. it would also be a cool opportunity to utilize the wide variety of cosmetics as teams could have map dependent looks similar to csgo.

every single point you made in this video has come up in conversations with my friends about the game lmao. great video, literally 0 fluff, everything is relevant. i just hope bsg sees this and shapes things up with arenas

Really solid feedback man. Thanks for the link to the music as that was something I was struggling with while streaming. I do really hope to see some of these implemented, some are so minor. They have to have a way to adjust the crowd/announcer amongst other little tweaks and changes. The impact blur callout though, dude, good call. I never realized how bad it was until you called attention to it.

To add to "#7 Shift + W Doesn't always run" - I think this is a similar problem to aiming after sprinting, if you ADS a milliseconds before ur sprint ends you'll come out of sprint and won't ADS, after a while of playing you get used to it but it is a feels-bad mechanic and should be addressed similarly. It should be coded so that if you're pressing your ADS key while sprinting it should immediately ADS when the sprinting is cancelled.

I don't agree with outright removing blur or aim puch, but they need some reduction, I think a 33% reduction to both would be best for all parties. We still get a nice boost to visibility, but there is still a fantastic incentive to keep mobile and end fights quickly. I have played quite a bit and enjoyed it quite a lot. I think class scaling is broken and needs a change, and you have touched upon many universally agreed upon issues like the poor preset scaling. I ultimately think that the game could be in a better state by fixing those bugs, making qol changes like full auto by default, and by updating class scaling. I think, unless you were to be given a budget for your custom class, it would allow both some really fun kits that are goofy like a fort, vulkan and a toz and some really bothersome kits that are just meant to be drastically more efficient compared to the others. While I think they need to clean up class scaling in general, I like the premise, but it obviously needs a huge amount of work.

I think full customization is a bad idea bc meta crafting kits will be really really strong. But maybe a version of presets where you can change certain things like pick between a few sets of meds, ammo choices, and sights/attachments

I’d love to have an end of round kill cam and a voice channel for the teams to talk/argue/yell at each other at the end of a match

Totally agree with the Frag grenade removal. Its so bad to spawn and getting killed by a nade within the first ten seconds because you have to contest a few areas on each map and chucking a greade there usually gets you a kill. I would wish for more flashbangs and smokes for every kit and then also more than one flash or smoke

Custom loadouts... if theres any game in the world that needs custom classes its tarkov and it's baffling that arena went with some weird preset system

I think the best way to handle the flashlight problem would be to just remove flashlights (and replace with lasers as appropriate) from all the presets. Given that all maps are well lit as is, the only purpose flashlights serve is to blind people. If blinding people isn't a good thing, keeping flashlights at all serves no purpose even if they're toned down.

I think making tiers unlocked by overall xp would be a great change. That way you are not stuck on one tree. Edit: I would even be fine with overall xp for each set. So you would need to use Assualt to level Assualt, CQB for CQB etc...

Great video I'll reiterate three of the improvements mentioned here that will also greatly improve EFT 1. Remove or greatly reduce blur when getting shot at. This will improve gameplay while also reduce the effectiveness of camping, which is already very powerful 2. Remove or greatly reduce aim punch. Same argumentation as above 3. Flashlight are too powerful. They can maybe introduce a system which incorporates ambient light ( High ambient light reduce effectiveness of flashlights blinding effect - Night time the blinding effect will be large - Day time the blinding effect will be lower). This is to emulate the iris opening.

On the back of “Shift + W doesn’t always run”, right clicking or whatever you have bound to “Aim Down Sights” should ALWAYS take priority. This is how every other fps does it, and for good reason! I should not have to perfectly time right click the instant after I stop sprinting or if I’m in the middle of another animation just to have a chance in a gun fight. By the time you realize you didn’t ADS because the game ate your input, you’re already gonna be dead.

10:00 the fact that they even coded the item orientation like this just makes me feel like they don’t play the game and have no idea what they’re doing

For sure, allowing players to communicate when they are dead / communication with no radio noise is a must; otherwise, randoms stand no chance against 5 stacks. 3rd person aimpunch needs to go. Too many times I see people aiming at the sky while covering their face with hands (giving them extra protection against headshots ), while on their side the look right at you. I personally dont like the fact that sites are random on maps. More randomness = less competitiveness. Regarding cleanup crew - I would rather see gas that moves the zone towards the active site ( same as in Warzone or Apex ), that would give way more fair opportunities to outplay your opponents. Your idea regarding Ai spawning 1 by 1 is good too btw. Nades need to go or be reworked with their radius and damage drastically decreased. We had a round where we killed 4 enemies with nades within the first 4 seconds on Equator and the 5th guy just left and the game got cancelled. Such kills happen on Bowl and bay 5 occasionally too. The majority of the rounds dying / killing with nades feels way too rng, since even if you dont die in the beginning of the round and manage to survive till mid game, there are still moments when you get naded without seeing or hearing the nade, since people can throw them across the map. Agreed with everything else, good job V

THANK YOU, this also helps for the Main Game. Its great that you use your influence for us.

Veritas, Ive learned a lot more than you think from this video essay. Thank you, and well executed.

Im thankful that one of the larger tarkov creators is talking about arena. Keep on keeping on veritas!

I've been playing Hotel for about 2 or 3 weeks now and yeah the laser bug is quite strange indeed. I've also had another bug playing as Blackjack where if I died while firing, the next round there would be a permanent, static muzzle flash at the tip of the muzzle that would sometimes persist for only 1 round, or the entire remainder of the match. Quite frustrating.

Should keep local chat , it’s funny

Great video! Glad to see arena is allowing us to take a closer look at all these broken mechanics. I think a lot of these suggestions should be considered for base game as well. Arbitrarily being stuck prone reloading, vision blur on hit, dying to stamina loss, etc are both unrealistic and not fun at all. Hopefully Nikita takes a look at this like the last one. Thanks for doing what you do!

Really nice video, the point about persistent placement of items/attachments is huge for me personally. If I could setup my loadout how I want once unlocking it at the main menu that would be Ideal. Of course this would need some sort of a "revert to stock" option in case you discarded an item such as a pistol etc. to keep from being overweight, and eventually decide you want it back in your kit.

Yeah I also noticed the sudden jerk that happens when you stop using free look. It makes be feel like ive been shot every time.

you can see who is ready in your group btw, it corresponds with the order the group members are shown in and the group will always be in the first few slots shown, so if member 3 isnt ready the 3nd square will not be lit up. wish bsg made this more clear tbh

I think an improvement to be made would be to not have dead end kits in the middle of the progression tree. they should all be able to progress in some way to the end tier kits weather it be fully into whatever is closest in the branch off or in a partial state to the class as a whole.

Great video as always. I hate to beat the dead horse but sound will always be a huge issue with tarkov. We need to pick a direction for what should happen and work toward it. I feel like supporting silent movement and super loud punishing movement makes it hard to balance and fix. We need to somehow agree at what distance we should hear people walking while we are walking. And then when that doesn’t happen we fix it until it does

Legit this video hits up on everything I hope BSG is listening they can learn a lot to fix the base game and Arena. Great job man!

Regarding 31 - I was having this issue with some marksmen kits with adjustable zoom. Normally the gun gets brought towards your face/zooms in a bit. The bug disables that and keeps it zoomed out. Issue only happens once you toggle zoom. Oddly, this is a feature in Enlisted as a zoom option for iron sights when you just tap M2.

I think for IDing friend and foe, if we can't do client side armbands then potentially make every match usec vs bear. Like you have a usec character and a bear character and they look different clothes wise and you're one faction or the other when the game starts

Great video, 1:10 that nade was brutal 😂

Seeing the vision blur slowed down in your videos makes sense with why I struggle with this game

the advanced bind also fucks up if you are currently leaning (holding Q or E) and try to hit an advanced bind forcing you to let go of lean botton to hit said bind,

Someone tell the arena dev team they have a pop quiz on Friday! This video should be on repeat at that studio I love this game mode and I don't wana see it flop and be a failed experiment. Amazing video as always Veritas much love!

That one spawn in bowl you can double vault jump out of and can make it halfway across the map before the other team exits

Great video, as always. Thank you

Thank you for your service in trying to improve this game.

The grenade suggestion is great, more smokes less frags.

19:30 This is an issue specifically with free looking while ADS leaning*. The camera is tilted while freelooking, but when ADSing it gets stabilized to the horizon. This causes this strange reset behaviour, as it's just applying the tilt in an instance instead of smoothly over time.

Honestly the flashlight one i do voutch to keeping the same, irl you would 100% not want to be on the other end of a military grade flashlight, It can even Deal eye damage If looked at for more than 10 seconds. Now, what they could do is add batteries, so you need to use your flashlight sparingly and not Just turn It on and gg.

the sprint not working if you press shift after w issue has annoyed me for ages - I use a mouse macro to hold shift and w in most games where overland movement over long distances is a thing due to tendonitis, and 90% of the time it doesn't work in tarkov unless i pre-hold shift, then release it while pressing my mouse macro at the exact same time, which is super awkward.

I have a question for you all, what binds are you using for that left shoulder? I still didnt figure a good way to be able to use it with combination of movement and leaning

Great video. Really excited to see the future of Arena

I found a spot on Shoreline where you can make the entire fence disappear on your side and still shoot through it and see players on the other side. I'd love for a bigger content creator to showcase it or send it to BSG to get it patched!

Being able to modify the presets would be nice. As in the game would remember if you set your weapon to full auto if you discarded your helmet and how you have meds setup/hot keyed.

BUG: I died and my whole screen went black no spectator cam, when we respawned i was 5 seconds delayed from the rest of the game, teammates would run straight through the gates while i had to wait for the announcer to start and then wait for gates to open for me. Enemies could also see through the gate that was closed for me

Absolutely love opening RU-vid and seeing Veritas has dropped a new video. Always bangers. Also, Veritas is absolutely cracked. Holy shit.

There are two bugs that annoy the crap out of me. The first has to do with the launcher where the loading mechanism seems to leave 'Play' greyed out until you terminate it by either closing it or Ctrl Alt Delete and End Task. Then sometimes it'll log you out of your profile completely and you have to sign back in (even though stay signed in is checked). The second involves what I've noticed players doing when the clean up crew arrives. As it turns out when you prone and press Q to lie on your side, the AI will miss all of their shots. I haven't tested this personally, but I've observed team mates doing it multiple times.

Wow, thats a ton of great suggestions. Im just playing base Tarkov, and even there stuff like less/no screen blur on hit or less silly bright flashlights would be a big improvement! Let alone the sound.

I think in addition to changing around presets we get limited customization to presets. Maybe swap out to a better pen bullet but have a smaller mag or swap painkillers for a single morphine with more options at higher preset levels.

I had a bug where for an entire game, my countdown was always 5 secs behind my team. Like the game starts and my teammates run through the doors, but I’m still stuck in the spawn

tip: apparently the cleanup crew is nearly incapable of aiming downwards. in one of my games, teammate was laying prone and was surrounded by like 6 scavs all just standing there, occasionally shooting and hitting him even less often. I can't remember whether we won or not, but regardless, he lasted a good ~30 seconds surrounded by scavs just because he laid down.

even when the mans himself is sick, he still puts out great content :). LOVE all these improvement suggestions

Another great video V. Hope they listen to all of these improvements... I couldn't handle these issues so I ended up uninstalling the game until at least some of them are fixed.

This game resets my sense every time I boot it. Also so many recorded instances where Im shooting some dude in his unprotected head watching the bullet holes appear on his face and blood splatter behind him and it takes like 4 of those to kill. Insane.

Have you heard anything about people not being able to shoot their gun at far away opponents? I posted a video recently about this happening to me and it always seems to happen when I aim my crosshairs at an opponent’s head from some arbitrary “long distance”

I agree with all of this except the capture zone part. I like that sometimes you don’t know where it is. I feel like they make it gulag ish in the sense that it’s your fault because you took so long to kill the other team. I agree tho on big maps like sawmill it can be pretty hard and sometimes you can’t even make it to the point before the team captures. Awesome video

Amazing video as always! Man i just started playing and the team colors thing is so annoying. And that comes from someone that used to play a lot duos on normal Tarkov. Also, great music!

I originally went into arena thinking we would get a call of duty style loudout considering just how much customization there is in tarkov a gun smith. I was very disappointed to see presets that prevent creativity and refreshing gameplay

As somebody who has partial red green colorblindness, it is SUPER hard to see red armbands for me especially if there is any significant distance or any conflicting clothing. I essentially have to rely on memorizing what kits my teammates have + game sense to make an educated guess on if I should shoot which means I will always react slower than those without any visual impairment. Before anyone "informs" me of filters, color blindness filters pretty much always suck in every game and just tend to muddy everything or make things look weird if it is applied to the entire game and not just the UI or hud elements (i.e fire hydrants become pink). And since tarkov wont and probably shouldn't do the arcade-y red outline and/or a marker over their head for enemies, that leaves them with two options; make team outfits distinct (think same colored jackets or something), or add more team coloring to everyone like putting colored stripes everywhere (guns, helmets, legs, etc.). I like the more color stripes solution because it makes sense that in a gladiatorial arena like this, the show runners would want the crowd to be able to easily tell who is on what team; and as a contestant you would damn well want your teammates to not shoot you by mistake and would make sure that it was as clear as possible you were a friendly.

Love the video. Is the gate hoping before the timer considered bug abuse? Does BSG do anything about bug abusers? ill submit my daily bug report.

I have never once heard a feedback loop with the in-game radio. I guess I'm super lucky since a lot of people seem to be complaining about it.

You are blunt, honest, and right about everything on this list. Good Video, Thank you Veritas. Hopefully BSG listens to this.

Cool vidéo Véritas. it would be nice to be able to adjust the FOV when aiming so that it remains unchanged. Initial camera = fov in ADS like in the game Ground branch.

I only really need three things 1.let us pool and then spend exp on what we want 2. Let us turn announcer and other "non comp/aesthetic" effects off 3. Add a pve mode/non ranked game modes or really just more content at all. Everything else you mentioned is also needed but those three things are what made me drop arena after around 100 hours and keep me from coming back even though I really enjoy tarkov pvp.

A big one for me: I would strongly prefer that from a player's perspective their team is always BLUE. The confusion and changes game-to-game around the color you're shooting seems like unnecessary pedantry (even considering Nikita's started design goals)

Not being able to stand while doing anything prone is incredibly dumb. Shifting your weight back to your knees is very easy to do without hands And you’re definitely right, NOT defaulting to full auto is incredibly dumb. Who is running a PPsh that plans to use single fire? If you’re going to single fire it’s a decided action; not a default choice.

great video, great music keep up the great work dude

In terms of the music, can we use the music as background for RU-vid videos (with citation), or is it just for streaming?

Gear based matchmaking in the casual mode is so needed, I’m hating that I want to start a new class but I can’t right now

Leaning affects your camera tilt when youre freelooking and point-firing, but when you aim the the tilt levels out. It can be very jarring and nauseating.

standing up while reloading was actually in the game for a while. They added it back then and they then removed it again. jsut like some other features

God do I feel the vision blur one... especially since I played a lot of CQB kits (aka, high ass armor) against people who refused to aim for my legs with terribly ammo... My friend has probably heard me scream "I CAN'T FUCKING SEE ANNYTHINNNNG!" at LEAST... a dozen times. It's so much more blatant just how bad the vision blur is when you die after the first 15 rather than first 3...

I honestly have a TON of trouble seeing enemies when shooting and I assumed this was just me being bad at the game or having the wrong setting, but apparently everyone see that same crazy blur affect? I would love to see that greatly reduced or removed as the video indicates. Honestly all these items would improve the game and I really hope BSG takes this game seriously and realize that this isn't EFT, we want this game mode to stand on its own and be fun.

I'd really like to see "fun" challenges. For instance, if you got a reward for a certain number of melee kills you'd occasionally have a dude blasting around the map trying to wack people. I don't think it should be driven by funny gimmicks but there should be an element of humor in arena that is present in raids.

I had fun bug today. Run through gate, flop over dead. No death message, nobody killed me. Just died. Switched to my teammate who seemed to spawn slightly late and he just flopped over running through the gate too. Was pretty funny honestly.

if they fix the audio thing where you hear better than your teammates, then i think its worth adding the voicing to your teammates. I get the concept of not being able to talk to your teammates because you're "dead" but going against players that are grouped talking on discord is one huge disadvantage

6:23 I like it when if in real life- when you think to run- you actually start walking- the most basics of any game even Mario bros on Nintendo had no issue with this - thats 30 yrs ago

Great vid, man. Really hoping BSG is working on some of these issues at the very least.

Great video, sick nasty clips

BSG desperately needs to open more server locations. As an avid Tarkov player from Korea, Tarkov works just fine with Korean servers, but Arena only has China and Asia servers as viable options at the moment. The server selection menu incorrectly informs that both servers have relatively low ping of around 30, whereas when I play in-game, I get 30% packet loss on top of 150+ ping. I’ve noticed that this also occurs when I try to include China and Asia servers on normal Tarkov and play it. Very odd.

another audio related thing is it feels like gameplay audio (like other players gunshots and movement noises especially), are heavily muffled even with a headset on. Like I'm constantly having people run right up to me and it sounded like they were walking pretty far away but nope they are on top of me already and sprinting. and of course the usual no audio whatsoever and now there's suddenly a dude in front/behind. The muffling is the worst though because its not consistent between games it feels like

is anyone else getting a bug where the gun reverts to semi auto between rounds? I'm getting with most full auto guns (I may be fatfingering or brainfarting)

An idea I've had (could be completely dumb) is to tighten the gap of all ammo types. For example, what if every loadout had the middle ground ammo types instead of the highest pen or damage ammo. I feel it can make gun fights last longer in the mid to higher tiers plus, it may help the first couple of loadouts in a tree feel a little better to start with. One issue could be the highest tier loadout options being juggernauts without the highest pen ammo types, but at the same time the chaos sounds fun lol

Love the content, Big Dawg!

My ADS button should always override my run input. I don’t want to stop running before being able to ADS. Again, sometimes this happens so close together that I don’t end up aiming.

I feel they should do what many other games and sports along with humanity before long range communication: Make each team visually distinct from a fraction of a second glance with uniforms. To do so and save time, they could either use the bear v usec or they could use red and blue for a more traditional feel.

I personally think that the first 4 things you said would be major improvements to the game. You should be able to communicate with your teammates in a competitive game no matter what (because things like discord exist and there is no point in limiting comms). Aim punch/blur is too much for arena trying to be competitive game. There is already a low ttk in tarkov you should not have spray battles be random in a competitive game, it is a competitive game it should be based on skill not luck. Keep making these great suggestions, these are well needed in order to make arena a competitive experience. I have not watched the full video yet btw. Edit: I watch the whole video and I can say these are all easy changes that need to be done that will help improve the game. It is still in early beta, but BSG really needs to work on improving the small stuff like this. Great video, keep up the coverage. I bet these videos help the community feel like they're not alone, as well as, helping BSG identify problems with the game that need to be fixed.

You've always had a great take! W Content! Let's hope they implement some of your ideas.

SSS+++ level of suggestions. Thanks for this great video.

Great thumbnail! Really checked all the boxes

I stopped playing because of the tinnitus sound effect caused by getting shot in the helmet (and golden star) wich would occure roughly 3-7 times a match for me and i just value my hearing more than playing arena

Great video Veritas, thanks

i been waiting for this video !

Oh my god this is insane somebody with a brain, Thank you, near all of these suggestions are perfect. You know you would’ve thought the BSG team would’ve come up with the same conclusions, but I’m guessing they didn’t even play test soo.

I would also like to be able, to go prone during reloading and not have to do "paniccircles", while waiting for the animation to be over, just to lay down behind cover.

XP should be gained for the next class unlock using any prior class that connects in the unlock tree. Sometimes the tier 2 or 3 class is better than the tier 4 and if I’m going to get 280k xp I want to use something that can actually kill people.

Great Video As Usual!