The Current State of Tarkov | Escape From Tarkov 

The thing about Tarkov is that 80% of the playerbase are addicted in the literal sense of the word, trying to get the same dopamine rush they got 2000 hours of playtime ago

Most changes only happened after they messed up PR wise. It goes to prove that many QOL changes are held back when times are good. I don’t have time for that, hence why I play SPT with friends.

SPT saved this game for me. It allowed me to play at my own pace and add enough to fix many of the problems I have with it. Even the 'no pvp' is a non-issue with bots that act like humans would with SAIN. I'm really glad it has gotten the attention it deserves lately.

The best thing about this scandal is that it brought a lot of people to SPT, including me. I couldn’t play the last few months because of school, and I won’t be able to start the next wipe because of work. Without SPT I could never fully experience this game I paid 150€ for.

I was waiting over 20 minutes to get into PVE, ended up just alt-F4

3:00 Theres a decent chance that most of the cheaters simply got bored of EFT and moved on to a different game.

Coming back after being away for two wipes. Completely blown away by how well the gunplay feels even with unmodded guns.

i just play SPT now

The next wipe is gunna be the most important wipe to date, it'll be the real show of how the game is doing drama be damned. Player retention is gunna be BSG's greatest enemy to fight, a game can't survive if it only has a player base for a month every six months

I've escaped Tarkov, quite literally. That place has nothing to offer to me except frustration. I'm happier picking up trash in the streets and seeing a clean neighborhood.

Love the "Attention Retention Corner" 😆

Here's a friendly reminder that we never actually got a real apology from Nikita. And no, "sorry you feel that way" does not count.

Thanks for the attention retention corner , helps me feel centered after tarkov ....

I only exist in SPT now, Live has nothing for me that I can't mod in myself. Actually got time to do that event everyone rushed to do this wipe when it comes around. The lazy bastards probably have a giant list of fixes ready to go for Tarkov, but sit on them like Activision does whenever something goes wrong with Overwatch and they need good PR. In good conscious, I cannot just waltz back in like nothing happened. I want BSG to learn, and if that includes failing as a company, so be it.

While I don't think BSG will be able to reclaim what it lost as far as image and player count is, the game has many years in its future as long as they don't continue to take a huge dump on its player base - which admittedly may be hard for them. They do enjoy crapping all over their players and anyone with constructive criticism. I find it telling that after the trial of Arena breakout is the most they have ever listened to the community and provided clarity on their own actions than anytime in all of Tarkovs history.

It already died in my heart

3:00 If you're curious about the cheating problem being a lesser one than usual it's due to the biggest cheat being detected twice a month apart which has caused a lot of users of that cheat to get banned and doubt their customers are willing to purchase a cheat + spoofer from them incase they get detected again next month.

You hit all the points myself and my friends are talkin about wanting to see change, Great video!

Cheaters being "playable" is not an excuse for them still being basically unpunnished, despite the game running on your PC as badly coded malware under admin priviliges with RCE vulnerability being open to the Internet. It's not that no other games are like that (even Ubisoft and EA realease shit like that), but it's so annoying that nobody sees that as a big fking issue.

The attention retention corner worked way better than expected

“As someone who remembers Ferrari peek’s , a little inertia is a good thing.” So many of my friends attempt to clown on me for this take. In more games than just tarkov. Siege has this issue so badly that you die to a single pixel of someone’s elbow because it has zero inertia and your guns bullets come out of your character’s eyes.

I appreciate you taking step back from the drama and looking at the whole situation in a more grounded manner. A lot of the videos covering bsg’s recent shitty decisions were really blowing things out of proportion claiming that Tarkov is “officially dead now” and just hoping on the hype wagon and I will always appreciate someone taking the time to think the situation through and give their honest opinions.

In almost every way, Single Player Tarkov is a more enjoyable experience than online. No cheaters, no desync, and I can play co-op with my friends. I encourage anyone who steps away from the game but still misses the feeling Tarkov provides to give SPT a try.

It will be hard competing against a free to play game that does things better than their expensive game with a lot of years since public release. BSG can't just improve the game a little, they will have to overhaul the game into a banger worth the price tag. Right now the only people who will say buying Tarkov is worth it bought it already and are suffering from sunk cost fallacy, or they are addicted to the masochist gameplay (and to the good feeling of saying you play a more "hardcore" game)

I love the attention retention corner, knowing full-well I'm gonna be doing chores while listening to this (as it was intended)

your attention retention corner did its job, my dopamine receptors are fried. a tip for next time put some subway surfers gameplay too

Honestly I like your take on this the way you explain everything like an actual adult not crying like many others. Thank you for your patience and content.

Bro I was lost in the gameplay. And listening to you and it wasnt until like 3 minutes in and I noticed the “attention retention corner” and it made me chuckle.

l have been playing erry day since the "DRAMA" started and have seen ZERO change in the time it takes to get in a raid and all my raids have been as normal as ever - prices of some things have gone up on the flea and some have dropped a bit but other than that if ya didnt know about the DRAMA you would never know anything had changed except the patch notes

Thumb'd up for consistent attention retention

BSG impossible challenge: don’t piss off the playerbase😂

Here are 4 problems that stop me from installing tarkov again: 1. When you get stacked upon stacked, the only way to get to extract is to use a mule stim, now if you have gamma, you always have plenty of space in the secure container for a mule or injector case, but if you play with standard edition and personally I've never got epsilon container, i always end up at beta container, this space is so valuable that many times i choose not to bring a mule because of how rare those stacked moments are, and when i do have a moment like that, I either can't extract at all, I can extract so slow that anyone with a pm pistol can easily kill me, or I have to drop high value loot in order to make it to extract, and this just ruins those moments for me, every time i have those moments and I'm moving at snail's pace, I think to myself: BSG really ruined the game by having you use 100k and a slot in the secure container to punish you for doing extremely good in a raid, this is so bad that when I get 3+ kills and I can loot, I'm actually extremely anxious because I know that once i have all that loot on me, I'm a very easy target and have a very high chance of getting killed solution: weight maxes at a certain point where bringing more gear doesn't affect it, going in very stacked still hurts your playstyle but does not completely remove the ability to walk properly 2. Even before the unheard edition, the game was clearly pay to win, before i start I have to define pay to win by what it means in tarkov, in tarkov, there are several ways to "Win" in the game, including: getting kills in a raid, getting lots of loot in a raid, getting high value loot in a raid, having alot of money built up, progressing fast on your quests, having a fun time with friends or players in game, and upgrading your account (stash, secure container, hideout). I've played 1000+ hours on standard and 300+ hours on EOD, if I had to compare the 2 experiences, I would start out with describing how constricting playing on standard was, a 4 slot container and level 1 stash is absolutely miserable, the max i've ever upgraded was to stash 3 and beta container (though i got very close to epsilon) and I admit I'm not a good player, really i should have gotten epsilon a while ago, but I have to play with alpha for atleast one month before i get beta, and beta is still too small compared to just getting gamma from day 0 to end of wipe with no effort, you literally save so much money over time if you use gamma instead of alpha/beta because of the meds you can put in the case instead of outside, and this includes high value items found in raid, lets say I have a grizzly and cms kit in my beta, if i find a lion, I lose about 60k rubles compared to if a gamma user had an efficient arrangement with an AFAK and cms, where they can lose 0 rubles, or the fact that I would have to think about every single slot on my beta, where a gamma user can freely throw in a mule and 2 stacks of ammo without a care in the world, truly this doesn't matter because i can do 1 scav raid, but to be constricted by this only because i didn't spend more money for so much convenience hurts, also as a casual player it's impossible to get stash 4, and gamma gets it for free, the same logic applies there, it's so convenient that it's pay to win because of the game's design solution: find other ways to make money (gun and clothing cosmetics, first person gun skins) + make gamma be able to be obtained by standard users on a completely separate questline to epsilon, and make both epsilon and gamma easier to obtain 3. Horrible AI design: have you ever been made fun of because you died to a scav? I've been on both sides of this, first - if a scav is in close range, they are so easy to kill, factory scavs are the easiest scavs in the game to kill, and that's how they are supposed to be, but if you go to a map like woods, a scav can see you in the open, then you or him to into a bush and the scav and STILL see you, so scavs have thermal vision all the time, if you are in the wrong situation when this happens, you are extremely screwed, this doesn't include the fact that the scav can be really far away from you and still hit accurately, and if you don't have a scope, you're done for, now this all isn't too bad, but when you get bosses like tagilla, if you fight them, instantly a billion scavs start following you, please let me just fight the boss, not the entire population of the factory scavs, you would think you are good when you kill tagilla then you get absolutely swarmed, this is also bad when you are a scav minding your business, see tagilla and get swarmed by scavs and die, because that was definitely your fault, also rogues HAVE to be cheesed in order to be able to kill them, there is no way you can treat any of the ai like players - not even a little bit, if you are a bear and you peek 0.1 mm from a rock, you are instantly sniped by a rogue's machine gun, the only way to prevent that from happening is to get a raid where no scavs shot the rogues or snipe them from a hill filled with 1000 landmines on a 30 fps map solution: be a decent game developer with a functional brain 4. This is a simple one, you need atleast 1000 dollars to spend on a computer in order to play every map except streets at 60 fps, lighthouse and streets are complete optimization failures on the part of BSG, there comes a point where it's the company's fault, not the computer of the user's part, there is no way you can make a map like lighthouse, then learn nothing from that and make a gigantic map, claiming that it will run well, and it's crazy how little backlash they have gotten for doing this, I want to play streets but if I get into any pvp situation, I will be absolutely ran over, so I'm just supposed to ignore a map where a numerous amounts of quests and loot exist on? Thanks BSG for making me have to get a nasa computer in order to complete a portion of the quests in your game, really nice. solution: remove all quests from streets, maybe optimize the actual game instead of spending all your money on arena? Bonus: the fact that they made it so you HAVE to go to ground zero in order to progress, please BSG let me decide how I want to play the game and not force this (arguably bad) map down my throat

To be fair, the first week of a wipe feels like a completely different game because everyone needs to move around for quests, almost nobody has the resources for extended fights (not getting 5 grenades thrown at you for existing near a hotzone) and the density of cheater is (hopefully) at its lowest.

Tried so hard to get into the game. Basic edition. Played 15 games. In ten of those games, I got killed by a spinbot that would run into view doing textbook jerky spinbot nonsense from Counter-strike and ten BANG BANG two rounds right through me. Then there's the spawning in on Reserve, taking two steps and being shot by a guy near tunnel with a bolt-action. You know. Underground.

0:04 jokes on you i do that for most videos. Tbf I watch it normally first for most

Even if Tarkov doesn't die, they won't get another cent from most of the playerbase after the unheard debacle.

i played a few games over the last week or so, granted i play in the early morning but the game has that distinct dead feeling to it, like no one is home, also the audio is the worst i have seen it

just saw that they are adding single upgrades like stash upgrades alone on the site for just a few bucks, definitely on the right track there

0:28 I see what you did/tried there 😂

I think one of the most important things they can change are preventing the need to tab out of the game for a map or quest info the in-game map needs to give better info like your location and the location of extracts, landmarks , doors and the general location of quests and what door needs what key would be a big help to new players or those that get lost easily and if it's a map where you have to discover locations before they show up on the map it would bring more exploration/completion to the game and could even have an achievement for discovering all the the locations.

10/10 yap sesh +W attention retention corner

The part about the change found in raid making you willing fight is 100% facts, I found red keycard yesterday on streets and stayed in raid another 20 minutes instead of hightailing to extract.

Having so much fun with modded spt. I don't see myself playing live again. Agree with fir talk though.

"Attention Retention Corner" love it🤣

1:44 sadly it feels this way with 5.45 aks :( The damage is horrible while penetration is worse or on part with 5.56 and that combined with the fact that 5.45 aks(for the most part) have pretty low shots per minute makes them pretty much unplayable past early wipe

I think you made great points with each topic you covered. I'm certainly one of those people who are fed up with tarkov and the nonsense coming from bsg. This coming wipe will be hard to resist, but I'm hoping to be one of the lucky souls who can beat the odds. I've got SPT for gameplay and you for content. Hopefully that's enough lol

Finally something else than the usual "it is dead!!! This time for real!!!"-videos

Was just wondering about this! I'm hoping that this whole fiasco has made BSG sweat bullets and reevaluate their treatment of their player base FOR ONCE, though I don't have incredibly high hopes that they learn the right lessons from this. It may just reinforce the idea that as long as you keep quiet and hand out some cookies, any poor business/PR decisions will eventually blow over.

simple answer: hatchet runner for example that are marked CANNOT" have a found in raid" till they actually get a gun

The friend I play with reminded me yesterday that we have access to PVE mode cause we're both EOD and it has honestly been really fun.

I just started playing again personally

i love how i just watched half of the video before i realized what the "Attention Retention Corner" is xD

Why does the attention retention corner actually work 😔

My EFT fire has died down to the size of a candle but that’s alright. I still keep up with it with SPT-AKI and I’m ok with that.

me and the boys are having insane fun on Dorms Customs, literally 1 of the best Wipes since Inertia was added...

friendship with tarkov ended, real life is my new best friend

the best thing about vid is - its 8 min - exacly how much l need to finish cooking my lasagna

I love the attention retention corner, easily best video ever of all time

Hearing FiR is gone makes me want to play the game again. I hated the FiR changes, it tried to force people to use the stuff they got but all that happened is people felt pressure to hoard and frustration in inventory management as a result. This change makes me happy.

BSG MUST PAY FOR THEIR CRIMES

got to the 8 minute mark until i realized i have been staring at that attention retention corner all the time so i can listen...

I uninstalled and will not be planning to play it again until full release

HOPE IT will soon

Looks like you’ve been working out dude! Good on ya 👍🏽

I played consistently since 2017 and stopped playing when unheard released after getting tired of getting screwed by bsg and haven’t even cared or thought to launch the game again. It’s wild.

I am one of those who play this game since 2017 and really look forward for the changes they made in the near past. But honestly... I am also one of the players with a big FPS problem on maps like Streets and Lighthouse. My wipes look all the same. Having fun until like Lv. 35ish and then playing the game not against AI or players but the low FPS i get bevause i have to do all the quests on these two maps. Then my interest fades and I wait for the next wipe to do the same thing again just to hope something changes but I already know I get the same experience again. Thats my love-hate relationship with this game. Even with all the things going on right now I think we get a game that is worth to have some more trust in it. We will see :)

Change "found in raid" to "bought from traders" to limit trader/flea flipping 👍

I’ve moved onto 100% SPT… don’t have many friends who still play and the modding makes it an amazing game

Tarkov is dying because: Old school PvP players have ABI Low skills have PvE Everyone else has regular tarkov (mediocre players/players who don’t know how good ABI is)

I personally love Tarkov but with the recent mishaps from BSG i just don't want to put any time into a game that could crumble due to the incompetence of Nikita.

For me personally at this stage of the wipe the thing that gets me back and excited to play are these special events with long term rewards unfortunately I’ve ran out of time on both of them due to being military but I still try them and I got very close to completing this one. Like I’m level 39 I think and I know I don’t have enough time to make it to max traders with the small amount of time I can play so there’s no real point to play otherwise. I do help buddies from time to time but many of them are in the same mindset as me.

"Attention retention corner" 💀💀 that's sad.

I used to be super against SPT thinking it wasn't very good and fighting AI would feel awful. The mods for SPT make it feel amazing. I remember when I would be able to fight normal players and not hackers CONSTANTLY and the game felt amazing to play. SPT really showed me that most of the time now that's what I die to. No campers, no cheaters, just fun. Try SPT

*Interaction* I like the yappy vids, playing scav raids while typing up paperwork with you chatting is chill.

we as players of this kind of genre ,realistic FPS/extraction shooter, do not have an alternative so this is the absolute best option we have even if they do screw up. most people that play tarkov get addicted and even if you do manage to get off, you will never truly quit. i feel BSG is learning this and now is getting a little too comfortable holding a monopoly on this style of game.

I was quite good at aiming during the hip fire/bad ads meta. I still feel like I can compete just as fine with the aim changes, but previously it felt like I was at an advantage while everyone else was at a disadvantage haha

I tried playing a few months ago. During my first and only scav run I asked myself “what am I doing?”, abandoned the raid and uninstalled the game. Haven’t reinstalled it since and at this point the only thing that could bring me back would be a true single player mode (I’m not paying for the unheard edition)

ghosts of tabor has been getting pretty good lately for those who have vr

Been an on and off player for four years. Got eod after the first wipe so I could have some QoL. Not sure I’m ever coming back after this tbh. Tarkov doesn’t occupy my brain in a way that makes me beholden to their game. It was an addictive way to play with friends and I have so much more that we play now from gray zone to helldivers, even Diablo is pretty good now. That last one probably won’t last though lol.

“Best wipe since inertia was added” is the hottest take I have heard in my couple thousand hours of playtime.

Unrelated to the video topic but that squad wipe was clean.

It’s not the obvious rage hackers that are the problem (who you say you run into “every 15th raid”) it’s the guys with ESP/walls and no aimbot. They are EVERYWHERE in this game and they go multiple wipes without being detected. In a full lobby you have a 100% chance of having at least one of them in your raid. That guy who just so happens to have a perfect angle on you in a seldomly traveled part of a map, find you as soon as you have decent loot, charge at you when you bring a nice kit into the raid within the first minute with perfect positioning- remember the hundreds of times that happened? If you don’t you have walls too or haven’t played Tarkov before.

I'm very excited for next wipe

Prior to the Unheard debacle, I was a consistent player. By far, my best wipe. Got almost all lvl 3 traders, and bitcoin farm. Felt really good to get that far. Looking forward to next wipe, and maybe playing pve after they released it to EOD

*Personally the addition of SPT killed the game for me.* The whole point of tarkov to me is the multiplayer component, having an option for people to be able to avoid cheaters just means that the more chill parts of the community will be sectioned off and multiplayer will become more toxic and have a even higher proportion of cheaters. I uninstalled tarkov when this whole thing happened because the things they are choosing to add to the game tell me that they don't really understand why their game is so good. I really don't like gray zone or arena breakouts infinite so it's a shame I don't have any kind of replacements, but I'm just not interested with the direction that's tarkov is going and it's a damn shame because there's just nothing like tarkov

Gotta say: I am enjoying the PvE mode. Gives me that Tarkov fix without getting my balls shot off with laser precision every raid at some days.

I've gone cold turkey outside of SPT since Nikkita said I wasn't a true believer for not just forking over an extra $100 to get something I already paid for. They're gonna have to work thier ass off if they want me back wipe or not.

I'm playing pve (had eod b4 unheard issues) and I'm hooked in a way I've not had in a long time. The biggest draw for me to pve is the freedom from the concerns of cheating. Any time i load into a game in pvp, there's a looming thought of "what if someone has esp and is gonna bullshit one tap me?", and it ruined my experience for a long time. While pve is so easy it's lame to admit i have fun stomping ai bots, it REALLY is! This is also the first time I've really experienced certain maps because of hardware limitations, lighthouse and streets to me were impossible to play because my pc would produce max 20 fps, and filled with stutters. Though i do also think that pve servers run just as rough because to balance the reduced population they increase scav spawn raters, so servers have to do extra work keeping track of all those bots... Also the additional changes to fir are awesome! While it's cheesy the way flea flipping is happening, in pve at least it seems the situation is being mitigated by reduced populations, because only so many people are flipping items at once. In fact because of how much rare good loot it, the reward for finding something like a military power filter or a phase array multiplies the excitement! As an experience for tarkov, i do think pve is a good experience. If only it motivated everyone who bought rmt and cheating services to jump ship and play pve, then it would be worth this shit storm, but in all likelihood it won't even dent the cheating situation... But it will definitely help this game's longevity in the long run! Any time a change causes someone to get burnt out in the current wipe, if they could hop to pve and progress their perma account then they could feel like they can keep pushing.

Escaped from Tarkov and found myself in Gray Zone Warfare

I love Tarkov but I gotta say the unheard edition and their response to it(including the "Sorry you feel that way") has felt like a knife in the back and soured my mood on the game as a whole.

The wipe has been the best there was technically and balance-wise, and I have not run into cheaters, probably 1 or 2 only. However the latest controversies have steered me away from the game, and I can't bother to play actively anymore

grinded the new challenges in one night shit was fun as hell

So I was playing for four years and so far this year I haven't played at all, and neither has my friends .

I really like this type of video from you, you are not holding back but you are fair. You give good constructive criticism and solutions to problems. Keep it up, the content is great

I've run into hackers more this wipe than any other wipe and I play on NA servers. I think it really depends on your playstyle if you notice them or not. I don't notice them as much when I'm just running around shooting everything, because when I die I just assume I got outplayed and/or they heard me coming from a mile away and were ready for me. But when I'm being a little rat I notice it a ton. The amount of people who'll just prefire or toss a grenade into the place I've been hiding for 5-10 minutes without making a sound makes it a lot easier to spot who's using ESP. Not to mention the stupid amount of hackers I see who've obviously tanked their stats and haven't been banned is just sad.

Unironically PvE has revitalized my interest for the game. The existence of wipes and cheaters had completely deterred me from even playing the game despite owning it since 2018

While struggling to finally finish the event on Customs yesterday, I died 3 times minimum to incredibly obvious cheaters... For those who definitely aren't cheaters, I turn a corner and get basically instantly headshot, or their meta ammo shreds even a Korund. So I've literally regressed to using early wipe grub kits because I'm dying all the time anyway, despite the fact that early wipe, my PMC K/D was about 3... Maybe only people left are hyperchads, I dunno.

I routinely scav Streets on an empty server because the ONE PMC who created that instance was a Vacuum Cheater. Still get my good ammo finds and daily quest items and it's safe (don't even listen to audio) to do.

Really I’m not going to dock anyone for playing other games other than EFT, that’s ultimately up to them. If it’s more viable for them, then by all means. I just bought unheard just so there’s actual support. Naturally I really do not support Nikita for the underhanded stuff he did to this game and him not really issuing an apology, it still won’t affect my ability to play the game. I like the adrenaline and the gunplay is something that is not seen anywhere else in a shooter. Honestly I just hope some sense gets into Nikita and he’ll actually give a damn about improving the game so it’ll be more attractive to others

after playing SPT, I'm not sure if I'll ever care to play live servers again. even the pve mode unless it gets mod support like SPT.