How To Counter Aggressive Movement In Tarkov - Beyond The Grave 

Have you figured out other ways to counter super aggressive players in Tarkov?

So imma put some stuff here for people that are interested. 1. If someone quick peaks. Don't just start mag-dumping. They will back off and let you run out of ammo if they are smart, do a quick spray as they peak and then start pre-firing at head level. If you can, move while you pre-fire to a better position if you have one, that way the info they gained from quick peeking becomes null and they have to rely on sound, which can be covered up by the suppressing fire you are putting down. 2. If you have a weapon with very slow fire rate, or a short magazine. Quick taps can do the same work as mag-dumping, not as well, but it will definitely make them think twice. 3. If they quick peek, you pre-fire, and if they don't push. Pre-fire again. If they still don't push they are waiting for a reload, throwing a grenade, or backing off. Throw a grenade if you have one and reload, or back off. Do not reload, that is guaranteed death.

Jesse, I love all of your videos. But in my 500 hors of casual Tarkov experience I think that you "Beyond The Grave" series has helped me identify my problems and overcome the issues that I need to work on the best. You're an absolutely awesome dude, keep up the fantastic work bro!

That repeaking of the freelook sprinter is a good tip. Gonna try that next time!

One thing playing aggressive will always give you is peekers advantage. I swear, as soon as I learned about this my survival rate sky rocketed 🚀

I’m using this info for killa when he sprints at me at 1million mph

Coming up on 2500 hours in game and I still find these super helpful! I guess these scenarios don't happen to me quite so often, but it can be frustrating especially in dorms / resort. The timing on the pre-fire, head-level spray is definitely crucial. Thanks for the awesome vids, Jessica Sam! ;)

Kid’s bhopping all the way through villa, out west wing, and through our connector, LIKE A SPEED DEMON

I had an instance of being the guy who did the peeking on siege tonight that sort of reminded me of this. I did a quick shoulder peek and saw where the fire was coming from as I ducked back, but instead of repeeking I decided to hunker down and just calmly counted to three in my head. Sure enough, the other person stopped firing, giving me plenty of time to line up a shot along their bullet trace and score the headshot when I repeeked. I think they were confident I was going to do this type of repeek, and when I didn't it broke their OODA loop and forced them to reset long enough to give me an advantage. Your first clip showed what happens when they're successful in resetting your OODA loop, and your second clip showed what happens when you beat their OODA loop. It's all about making fewer mistakes than your opponent, really. Interesting vid!

Hey Jesse it's CyanidePsychosisVII I have been tuning into you on twitch lately love your content. I just wanted to say tarkov is my first real mouse and keyboard game Normally I'm playing all my pc games with a controller if compatible and I was have a hard time with tarkov I was getting killed in every engagement and I was just not cutting it. I stared to watch your content and I learned and improved so much because of you. I'm now lvl 15 and I have been constantly getting more kills and having so much more fun because of your content I want to thank you. Tarkov is now my favorite game.

These are tactics we used in the USMC one is called running the rabbit and the other is a turkey peak. Amazing just amazing. I am new to Tarkov and the tactics I see being used are just wonderful. Thanks for the videos.

One thing I utilize a lot in gunfights on reserve, in tight corridors, is hold a very tight angle right next to the door. When they rush you take the first shots ads'd then back up(not strafing) while lowering your gun. It makes it a lot easier to track a moving target and if you land shots as they push your door theyre too weak to take the rest of your hipfire shots. I like to hold the angle out of the door at about 45' and having a short gun helps a lot. Its an aggressive play that a lot of chads doing info sprints like this wont expect unless you make noise at the door, the best defense is a great offense!

I play super aggressive, nice to know what some people could use against me

Your videos are the most useful I've seen so far, as a absolute noob I do really appreciate them. You just got a new subscriber. Keep it like that!

tl;dw do not hold same angles prefire for hope of desync-hitreg do not get head eyed

I really love this format. Showing what you learned from the Grave clip was pretty awesome!

This is no criticism, simply an observation based on my experience in playing many shooters. The "method" or counter strategy that's highlighted here is something that is applicable to most FPS games, really. I myself am a Counter Strike player, and this sort of response comes natural to me at this point. The baiting, cat and mouse game of someone jiggle peeking and you trying to figure the correct counterplay out. I think it is important to note that regardless of your course of action, if you are stuck in a position where someone can jiggle peek you, you should be losing that fight. That's just the simple truth. More often than not, you should be losing that fight if you are equal skill. Peekers advantage is a thing in every (online) game, and its incredibly bad in EFT. If that guy is good, he does not need to swing out like mad as you see these dudes doing. Now, don't get me wrong, this also has to do with the way EFT works (with people being much tankier compared to say CS, where one AK headshot will kill anyone at any range regardless), but the principle still holds. As long as you are using good ammo, headshots will likely kill. If you have very good aim, you should be capable of jiggle peeking again AND firing a few rounds. If those rounds hit the head of the other player, its over before he can even react. This is of course where the prefire comes in; except, they have all the initiative and you have none if you are being jiggled. If he's smart, he does it more than once, and you are pumping rounds into that wall like there is no tomorrow. At that point it's a guessing game, which can be incredibly fun or frustrating depending on how good you are at playing it. I won't go and say that people should start playing CS to learn how to play EFT better, but I do think it will help you significantly if you try playing other FPS games, specifically ones that offer a high volume of firefights in a relatively short timespan. Practice your aim, practice the jiggle game. There are also cool practice tools out there, such as "Aim Lab" on Steam. It should be free, and there is loads of different types of aim practice you can do on those. While EFT is mostly about other things than aim, if you do end up in a fight it'll go a long way if you spent more time clicking a crosshair at heads than they ever did!

F10 out the room to make him turn to run, then quick peek, kill, then back in the door to shield from the nade. For a single enemy, or for 2 on one side of the door or the other it's a decent strat; if there's a guy on each side watching from multiple angles then you dead!

I had someone pull this move on me just the other day, he kept running back and forth trying to bait me to emptying my shotty, so i turned the light on slowly walked towards the door and blasted him basically point blank.

Alright big tip of the day: Change your key bind for scope magnification and switching scopes to ctrl + W, and ctrl + D, respectively. I find the mouse button one doesn’t work for me because I changed the default setting to toggle ADS to “hold” where essentially I am continuously holding the RMB if I am aiming. Might be a habit from playing on console, but I hated the toggle for aiming in Tarkov’s defaults. Since I got the game I’ve been using a single press for the up and right arrow key to achieve the same effect, but that usually means I have to look down to get my hand placement correct. Again it might not be helpful if you do toggle your ADS, but the issue is for me I would need to scope out, and then hold ctrl and then click RMB, let go, and then hold RMB to aim with the scope setting I wanted to switch too. It sucks for sniping cause you will lose your target and yeah... hope this helps someone

Thanks for the great suggestion, that was a really annoying tactics for the receiving end .

your videos have helped me a lot, appreciate the content like always!

Jess - continually good videos, no arrogance, no attitude. You're one of the good streamers.

the best counter to this is defenetly a fix on the game/servers by battlestate. That aside, what you explained is most likely the only solution atm(outside of just backing away when possible),the only problem with it is that i just won't work everytime, some times you die before you can even see him peek the corner , some other , while he's peeking or somtimes it works like in your video. most of the times you die no matter what you try to do, i die so many times while the guy just started to peek or while he's still behind cover, i've seen it happen to a lot of people other than my group as well and this is probably the only fps out there where the peeker has the advantage over who is holding the angle, wich really doesn't make sense . Great video as always tho . love your content

Nice and very helpful video bud. These kind of videos are what helps really to understand an hopefully get rid of some of the problems I think many players have. It already helped me in some situations. Keep up the good work.

these videos of combat are so great Jesse

Free idea for a video series outside of the tarkov world. This. What you are already doing with EFT, but in a super generalized FPS game sense. Would pull viewers outside of the tarkov world to you channel and Ive found a lot of your tarkov from the grave tips to be super useful in other games such as COD Warzone. Obviously mechanics differ but human tendencies dont as much.

Love the content! I share your videos with some of the guys I play with. I appreciate your effort much more than other channels with millions of subscribers. Keep it up man!

One thing I been doing that really fucks with people, if I have a flash light or lazer on my gun, ill detach it and drop it, so they think I'm holding a angle hard and just get the drop on them

Irl you can’t sprint at max speed instantaneously. As soon as they implement an inertia system this won’t be a problem anymore: running at the start will be slow until you cover several meters. High weight from excessive gear will exacerbate this affect even further.

i did this in the customs crackhouse, when i peek form the stairs outside people walk like this in to the folder room from the stairs inside. i killed a guy who saw me because i pre fired him thank you for the kill

Great video as always Jesse. Love the Beyond the Grave series.

You could have naded the hall way to get him to back up. Then you just use more nades to push him back even more. or he will rush into the room while you are pre-aimed and ready for him to push in or to the other side

That whole second example is why this game needs inertia. Great vid as usual.

I finally am getting to the point in my tarkov career where I play like this Chad...the point is to try to find u but also try to get u to use your ammo so u gotta reload...but I'm deff not a pro yet

Another way to counter it is as soon as they do the run-peek, start strafing back and forth and either go for a reposition or do the 300 iq play and go right back to where you were. You might be able to get him to second guess where you are, he might think you moved and come in aimed at the opposite side. At the very least you have nulled the information they got from the sprint peek.

Thank u for the videos u make they helped me a lot

i would say You should be closer from the door on the side as the incoming threat so that he stays longer within your line of fire, you can push to espace a nade coz being being back into the room opposite side of incoming threat you have not option to keep spraying and push out of the room.

Hey Jesse, great video as usual. Concise and clear. I was wondering if you could do some full raid videos where you talk over what your thought process was in critical moments. Or well, just an idea. :) Keep it up man.

Damn, the strat your enemy used is one I never used. Gonna try this

1.throw nades 2.prefire the corner and move to a new position 3.wait for those idiots to push the old position and hose them down 4.laugh at them 5.wait for clips to pop up where the guy rages at you for being better 6.profit

In the second clip, isn't it possible to shoot through those cardboard boxes?

I had a mental fight on customs today, took out 3 pmc, then couple of scavs rocked up and killed them, followed by another 3 man squad. Took them out, then while looting, a cheeky rat fragged me with a grenade. All I was trying to do was get shooter born in heaven done. But all the fights ended up being close quarters. Fun though lol

I just always try to make them feel very uncomfortable and do something unexpected and make them do the stupid move (doesn't tell much I know) but many times when i have been in an area with more space and enviroment to use (for example the small forest area in customs near dorms) i keep repositioning all the time and I have many times found out it to be very effective

Awesome tip actually. Very useful to counter the frustrating quick peek

The thumbnail in my suggested said this video had over 890K views...

Thanks for the vid. I definitely have died to chad altyn bois just jumping across and melting my head with the repeek. Could you also do a vid on how to stop getting deathslided

2 things give you the upper hand in these situations. First off, crosshair placement. Place it headheight and have some leeway for your reaction time. Don't hold it that close to the corner. Secondly, the further away you are from the object that is between you and your opponent, the sooner you will see him. Meaning if you are far away from that object and he is standing against it, you will see him considerably faster than he will see you.

For me realizing to not use short bursts, or long range auto bursts like in WZ even. Single shot for range, 15~ shot bursts for mid range. Enough to settle recoil onto target then reaquire for me.

Nade would have fixed it. See head whizz. Throw nade. Hide and wait until he pushes you. You have the advantage. Plus he can't go anywhere. Yeah, I'm just making all this up right now. Tell me how it went! :D

Love your content King 💪🏽💪🏽

how do you even move that fast? i always have a delayed sprint due to my armor :')

He would have been wa6 smarter to toss a name over the lumber piles and try to just interrupt you possibly sitting there prefixing or pre-aiming him.. thats what I try to use the run by tactic for is to gain info for grenades or for teammates if I have them so they can try to get an angle while your occupied with me running past the door and screwing with you.. but that was awesome I love seeing them get folded for being ultra aggressive haha im not slow by any means I play at about the same pace you do ❤️🧡💛

Very very helpful tip .. Thanks a lot for this video ..

This is similar to CS:GO quick peeks. Looking for shadows and/or counting around a second in your head helps if you’re newer to this stuff.

Stun/Flash nade has helped me ALOT in situations like this. If not to get them, it may allow me to switch rooms. I usually bring at least 1 to shoreline, Factory or Reserve and its done me alot of good :P

Now sure how much this tip might help, but maybe change elevation too to make it a little harder for them. Like a simple crouch or lean, maybe both? The thing is i feel like taking that pre fire fight is like taking a 50/50 chance. You're both shooting head level at the same angle and about this same time. So I think its anyone's win. Maybe even advantage for them because of peeker's advantage/ping stuff.

Useful info. We like it, keep it up.

the mistake on the first guy is you angle peaked him from the left looking right. If you angle peaked the other way round he would be dead as he would have been visible for longer

Thanks Jesse for another good point!

if they open the door while you're close to the door, close it first then search for an escape route if the guy is geared ez

Great vid. I learned a while ago, always have an exit

Great content! Keep it rolling

Always nade. Good video very helpful

@ 1:20 you shouldn't of stimmed you should of simply crouch walked back to the corner you did later around 1:25 this gives you more cover and a slight upperhand of attack because while standing in the middle of the door might surprise you, you'd just get gunned down when they get startled, when you stimmed you gave away position immediately so they knew the exact door you'd be in and in some cases would know how close you are to said door. (of course this is assuming they don't know where you are to begin with)

Thanks Jesse, this happened to me today!

Also could have turned on your light. Would you have had time to use a nade?

such a nice counter punch tip ! love from S.K

ive died so many times from Dsync in these situations. What advantage or disadvantage can i navigate DSYNC?

Great content 😊

at the moment he run to left u should have push him while prefire. both enemy where on left and this desync peakers advantage is insanly hughe

thx for ur videos from Czechia..

You cant prefire that with a 30 round mag, maybe hop in the bathroom when nades are thrown, force them to have to walk into your crosshair. but its a low percentage chance for survival anyway

I've had people do that jump peak and I've killed them with prefire i always try to think how I would react to someone else in my pov so once I hear running when my location is known I just unload after saying 1 😂😂😂

In this situation you should have thrown a nade out the door and peek with it shoot then get back to cover

also he knew to do the sprint to crouch on ya. its so hard to counter someone that does that. I've died to that so many times and shot every round above someone's head

in my experience its called a 'popcorn' technique

well lads, back to the drawing board

how do you only have 40k subs on RU-vid? you videos are extremely well made

the situations are not comparable at all, the is exact reason why the first guy had so much advantage and in second clip you were in immediate advantage instead. In corridor he car run past the door backwards and forwards and his peaks and baits most of the times will be faster than your reaction time + peakers advantage. You stuck in the room and he can nade rape you all day long - so you need to get out of the room as fast as possible and you were kind of dead there from begging. Maybe trying to nade corridor was an option, but he can always retreat whereas you can't. Second situation is polar opposite - you have absolute advantage, you can retreat, you can change your position etc. the guy peaking the corner is almost had no chances, because he cannot jump the gap and bait you, he can only run to the middle of the gap and the run back meaning there will be second where he needs to stop, for you is easy to predict as opening is on only once side, his option is only to push right into you or turn around. By this time you have plenty of time to get your point of aim and shoot. First guy has re-peaked because he aggressive and skilled (and geared), the second guy re-peaked because he made mistake and got right into your bullets and he wasn't even geared enough to tank it. Yes the similarity is the pre-shooting, but in first situation the guy controlled situation of where and when he peaks, in second situation the guy could only peak from one side and you could easily predict from where. He wasn't stuck like you, so he it wasn't necessary for him to push making his situation little bit better than yours in the first clip, but he did it anyway and got clapped. So no - there is nothing to be learned, first situation - you died because the other guy was good and you were in bad positions, second situation you win because other guy was either bad or made mistake.

Thanks for the video! This is currently my wall right now. Aggressive players are destroying me.

One word: "Grenades"

REAL SERIOUSE QUESTON OFR YOU JESSE.. WHERE CAN I GET THE PIZZA LIGHT???????????

thanks for the Tarkov tech

Is it worth me starting this wipe now? me and my mate started beginning of last wipe, took a break most of this one. Had a few games over this week, but seems like its just chads running round atm

Can some one explains the first guys movement? So he sprints across with the head tilted! Then does it again but it was a sprint but more like a side step? That was confusing especially at his speed!

to counter this counter, re-peak while crouched so they miss while they're prefiring at head level

Great vid bro.

310 likes 0 dislikes. Great video my friend

Its extremely difficult to actually get a kill in the situation because of the desyn lately.Got killed twice yesterday in the very similar situation only a was about 1 metre behind cover and got one tapped from way down the end of a hall in admin and my ping was low 40s

thanks !!! !

IMO - they need to remove the bunny hopping and uber fast sprinting. The more you weigh, the slower you run unless you have the mule stim... these strength/endurance buffs for the no-lifers is getting a little old

Playing slow, patiently and very cautious with audio queues

I found the best way is to do 10 to 15 naked runs on shoreline and while though's Chadlings are pounding on each other you just run around and suck up all the ledex's Gfx's and tetris, my best so for is 7 ledex's 8 Gfs's 9 tetris and when you get shot in the back and they loot you Whaaaa Whaaa WWHHHAAAAAA they get FA. I find this much more satisfying rather than spend 500 000 rubles on gear and dying in 2 seconds, Fuck that bs.

IT IS JESSICA SAM BOIIIIIIIIS

Nice

yo i was literally thinking this last night xD

Good glorious ammunition and unmodded AK. Yeah. A little bit of good aim and full auto should do the trick.

Top Tier Sweats for ya!

you did hit his altyn