Tips For Intermediate Players! - Escape From Tarkov PVP Guide! 

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As a wise man once said, "when there's one, there's two, when there's two there's three, when there's three there's four, when there's four there's five, and when there's five there's a scav"

The trust your gut one is SO true.

Extra tip: Play like they always see you

Built my first pc this past year and this was one of the first games I started playing as well. Been a super steep learning curve, not only coming from a controller to mouse and keyboard, but also just how different this game is. But on a side note, putting hundreds of hours into this game has made me the biggest Chad in every other fps game I've played since. COD boys ain't got shit on Tarkov Chads, and that's a big fact haha.

I always spray in the direction of my ambusher before taking cover and hatching a plan. #1 tip for this game is definetly use it or lose it, dont forget you have nades, stims, or painkillers in a fight they can be a lifesaver

Finally video about tips for someone like me, thank you

This was perfect timing. Been playing on and off since 2017 but finally getting to the point where I initiate fights instead of letting them come to me and have been taking out pmcs left and right. Looking to get to that next level now

Feel like im at the intermediate position myself, can kill everyone lower level than me because i have more knowledge However still havent hit that threshold of some other players Probably one of the hardest games to push through to get to that point> So rewarding though

10:18 i get baited so many times when enemy healing and I push there's always 2-3 man crossfire at me

These are very good tips. Controlling the fight is what it's all about, and not being predictable. This game more than any other I feel solo players can do serious work.

Mature player and speaking as an adult. So rare in gaming. Thanks my friend take care.

I think the biggest thing for me is the hesitation part I never push when I should and I sit for far to long when I shouldn't. I feel like the biggest tip for anyone though is learn the maps seriously if you know the maps you'll get twice as many kills.

It's wild to come back to these older videos to see how much you've improved with your creation man. It's a marathon and you're winning

My best tip is "If you dont have fun in game, you will never learn" , when I became reckless with money I started killing squads

I’d think most new-intermediate players would appreciate a movement guide regarding sound. Something that can be tough to learn in Tarkov is when the extra speed is worth it, or even knowing who can hear you. Sound in tarkov is easily the most important sense for survival and nearly as important in pvp. I know that a lot of it would be situational, but even some basic things could help, such as a roughly estimated radius of how far your foot steps can be heard from at max walk speed (and how headsets impact that radius). I know veritas has a video that almost does this, but it doesn’t go much into detail on the value of moving at x-speed vs the cost of being heard from x-distance. It goes into some depth on using different terrain noises to locate players (I.E., factory bathroom shingles) but not enough for players to gauge whether or not it’s worthwhile for them to avoid those or treat them as any old walkway.

That guy feeling thing is so true. I was hanging out on reserve doing a bit of sniping. The whole time I saw nobody touched marked room by the train station. I told myself not to go unlock it because I’ll get pinched by a Chad. But I figured that ten minutes in nobody will check it. Well lo and behold as soon as I pick up the mag case I found in there I here a duo squad roll up. If I had stayed in the tower I could’ve picked them off but I decided to ignore my intuition and lost for it.

This video is great all around. Taking control is probably my personal biggest take away. I've caught myself hesitating a lot less since I've watched this. It also applies in other shooters as well so this video is also one of the more beneficial ones. I appreciated this a lot, man. Big ups

Love your vids! I've watched 3 of them and you are so right about trusting your instincts in Tarkov. The game has an insane mental aspect to it and I like how you touch upon using strategy to outwit your opponents and execute a fight toward your advantage. You bring up great points to reflect on - learning from your mistakes, practicing situational awareness and decisive decision making are key & don't let pride get you killed. Over time these things happen naturally as you progress as a player, but your videos certainly help drill those points.

Always clear before looting, always use the gear you bring, my personal biggest fav is to always use vaseline or ibuprofen to never have to worry about being legged and caught out. Positioning is huge and you never want to have to stim after being engaged on.

Trusting your gut really is true. Every single time I die I tell myself what I did wrong so I learn from it and every time I survive I tell myself what I did right so I know how to improve it

In just baffled on how people react in 0.01 second to shoot me but in these videos you just walk by them as if you're team8?!? Game is frustrating lol

Pretty dope vid! I actually never thought about these tips! Thanks for making this video. It made me re-think how I play, because mostly all my raids were on like a autopilot or somethin and there was no strategy happenin in my head when I was in fights. Like!

A valuable thing i learned is that you cannot -CAN NOT- listen to that little voice after you killed someone, saying ''ooooh look at aaaall that yummie loot! go take it!'' or ''now that we have the loot, let's rush extract!''. I always tell myself that if i kill someone, the loot is mine. If i pick it up of not is by choice, but once you kill someone they lost all their stuff. You don't have to pick it up as fast as possible, it can lay there for 20 mins, as long as you don't drift too far, no one can take it unless you notice it (most of the times). So don't rush looting, you got plenty of time :p this time you use to check your sector for teammates or 3th partiers (aka loot deliverers).

For a long time I really sucked at PVP in Tarkov but then I started doing it a little more and my skill started to blossom. For me that was around the 120 hour mark when I really noticed my skills starting to get better. Now I go into the resort on a regular basis and can get a kill or 2 and make it out occasionally. I killed a guy last week wearing all class 6 armor with a super modded HK. It takes time but once you hit that point where your getting decent at the game it’s a lot of fun.

This is the first pc game Iv played pretty much got pc for this....im not disappointed

Some of the best advice I've come across. Thanks man, I'm glad I found you on RU-vid :)

I'm in this intermediate level of player and these tips was great... Just feeling more confident about PvP is helping me a lot. Thanks man.

Dude, awesome video! Finally a video for where I am in Tarkov. I’ve been doing lots the the things you mentioned in this one but also learned a lot from this like the peeking thing to bait. Great idea! Still record my gameplay and watch it back because it really helps, I can’t stress enough how much that helps. Anyway I can go on and on, awesome video dude! Thank you

I really like that last tip. I used to wait and hold an angle in a fight, usually ended up dying to a lucky point shot. Pushing a corner before someone gets around it throws most players off.

Dude the idea of "squads are worried about team killing, you're not" is so true. We have to talk really fast and get answer fast to be able to kill an enemy vs killing our teamate.

Jesse is becoming my captain Picard after that "you can still do everything and still lose to rng" comment

Already played for 3 wipes but this still helps as a reminder for things i know i need to do

I have always got killed trying to heal up completely after a fight , rather than relocating after making all the noise

Tip for looting solo: Throw your bag somewhere safe, put everything you need into dead guy's bag and transport that to your bag. Repit for every body you loot. It's way better to make few quick trips, then stay looting for long out in the open. Other pmcs and scavs will probably camp the dead guys first. Also, buy quickly grabbing guns and armor from your kills you prevent some sneaky scav stealing it and killing you later.

Good vid, I died pretty stupidly in the past week, and a few times I was just sitting there waiting. Damn, that's a bad way to go. Gotta push or do something.

A tip everyone should know is that you can shoot under stuff. Cars and vents (resort roof). I killed multiple guys that layed on the ground thinking i can't shoot them, yet there always is a gap.

Another tip I tell every person I know is new to the game is; if you are playing with people who are experienced with Tarkov, make sure they are not holding your hand the whole time. If you are relying on another person to show you where extracts and loot are, then you yourself are not learning anything. Sure, for the first few days get used to the game. But after that period of time you really need to start solo raiding to find your play style. I played with my friends for like 3 months before I became confortable playing. Each time we would just extract camp. Once I started losing gear fear and realized nothing in Tarkov is permanent, did I really begin having fun with the game and begin taking control of fights/not waiting for people to flank instead of doing it myself. Tarkov is a really fun game but you have to remember it is unforgiving as fuck. Just have fun, do the quests, and eventually you will begin to understand the game more. Also, there are so many different kinds of headsets in the game. No one is truly better than the other, it is all about preference. I myself tend to mentally understand audio cues when I am not wearing any of the headsets. I.e. Comtacs, gssh, tactical sports ect.

I started playing 3 weeks ago and goddam it's unplayable this late into the wipe. You can't do anything. The wipe can't come soon enough

I love how I'm watching this going, yeah I'm an intermediate player, but routinely get killed by Tozzy Scavs

Loving the Pogcast man! Keep up the good work!

You, my dude - are amazing. You just make me want to come to RU-vid to listen to your calming voice. Keep up the brilliant work my man. - GettyTV

This helped a lot, my most recent scav run I used some of this and killed a geared dude, he had a slick with an EXFIL helmet and some really decked out MDR, I caught him while he was reloading

Really like the way you structure your videos man. Good stuff.

Great video man! Definitely a bunch of applicable tips for mid range players. I find I second guess myself or shoot without having enough information about the situation pretty often. I see a 2 man, shoot at one, next thing you know 4 more come into my sight line from out of the trees. lol GGs

I think my biggest issue is I'm always convinced there is someone that's going to move in so I tend to not try the more elaborate flanks like where you ran around doorms basically out in the open. Guess I'll have to just try it.

I just built my first PC to play tarkov an I’ve only played solo an your videos deff help. But I have definitely been struggling solo

My tip is not to sprint everywhere. Once I stopped pushing down on the shift key so much I survived far much more. Hear so much and don’t get caught out in the open without stamina.

Tarkov was my first pc game, what a game to start with.

Speed, agression, surprise served me well in my 1000 hours. Make rat nests with loot so you're not laying on top of bodies (stuff their bag with their shit and run to cover to search.) Set bait and leave a bag in the open lol. So many things you could do.

I’ve been waiting for this video all my life

u uploaded this on my birthday! thanks.

Go for raiders in reserve as a scav its so damn profitable

I just hope Worrun makes a guide like this.

My personal first Rule of Tarkov combat is, " if you think you heard something, you heard something." goes well with trust your gut ;)

i ve been notcing a lot of higher end level players/groups running customs solely for the lower level player pvp. its been tough lately as a new solo player..

Great video I struggle to fight in side of dorms usually die even resort I find it hard to manoeuvre through whilst in a fire fight

Thanks Jesse. Love your content and ur presentation of it. Really good stuff brother!!!

Number 1 thing I’ve learned is spendingrubles on ammo rather than crazy attachments pays off 99% of the time same with nades. Instead of pimping out a 74 just put BT in it. Take a mildly modded one with BS. Especially when facing squads quick TTK is essential.

@JesseKazam You give some great advice and I appreciate that you call them out in a list. My suggestion would be to summarize this advice in each videos description, with maybe time stamps.

Great gameplay and awesome tips. Definitely I could relate to a lot of things you said from my experience

Doing somewhat successful, solo first wipe. Good thing ive had other games to practice on. Im a rat with serrated teeth. This game is incredibly fun once you get the hang of it. Dayz mod, arma 3 epoch mod, warz (a victim to the censorship banning when cheating was going on,) alpha rust to current. Lots of survival-game experience. This game blew these outta the waters This video cleared some things up. Thank you mate. Edit: i wonder when body dragging will be brought into the game. For balancing reasons, gotta be loud af on floor. Outside not so much but gun rattling if equipped so forcing you to take the gun or bag it somewhere, and if you drop it. Hey we just got this update too that scared the shit put of everyone. Lmao

This game has been rough on me man. Level 32 and not sure how much more I can take of it. I love the game but man I cant seem to get ahead in tarkov with a combo of how many grouped players there are and how some ai just wont die or super cracked bosses that one tap me w aimbot or shoot me thru walls. The game is so hard man I guess im just ready for a more user friendly tarkov style game that actually looks like tarkov and plays like tarkov.

One day later and im still salty I lagged out at extract geared asf and someone killed me.

Yup, tryin to bang my head against the pvp right now. Taking more fights but also trying to be smart about what fights I actually take on. 🤔 But I guess my 1300h+ playing Squad + all hours in Arma gives me some hint of what is what etc. 🤔😀 But yeah, there's ALWAYS another one. 😵😵😵😳😅

Always great content. I take something away from your posts. Keep it up.

Awesome Video I think that hit so many key points for me, as I Solo most of my games. I will say it has been kind of frustrating coming across mostly teams... but you give key point to focus on so I can overcome the teams weak points.

“Hesitation is defeat”-isshin after slapping me 100 times

I thought I heard someone on gravel around that corner... pre fired and got him. My gut was right. Instead of looting I ran to cover to see if the dude had a battle buddy. He didn't so I healed and CMS... then... I looted.

top 3 fav tarkov yters always!

Thanks man, was a very helpful and thoughtful video.

Finally a tip video for us not noobie

Really enjoyed this video. Thanks Jesse!

Love your videos, respect from Italy 💪🏻

Do you think those FPS trainers would help me with reaction times, or should I just raid more?

usually I don't take notes on videos but this one's an exception

i mostly die because i cant see people in dark corners... now i use flashlights a lot, they help greatly

To be honest my gut is the one telling me “I think that might have been a scav” or “that noise was nothing”

You missed the tip of Treat scavs as PMC’s, I have gotten killed by a cracked scav that’s more unpredictable than a PMC that you can expect to do certain tactics and strats.

i have 700 hours in this game, and bascialy most of it was camping and playing for money. I never really improved my pvp skills because of this, once i started going ham on pvp, labs, dorms on customs and resort pvp, i improved so much more.

The majority of tarkov players aren’t rats or chads, we are mids. A hybrid spawn where we can’t hit our shots but map knowledge carries us

aLL i COULD THINK ABOUT WAS HOW YOUR LEFT EAR ON YOUR HEADSET WAS LOWER THAN YOUR RIGHT. ocd

The learning curve for this game, is larger than the entire circumference and curvature of the earth..

I still have trouble figuring out where I'm being shot from.

My surv rate is fluctuating around 35-40% considering that I'm a Zero-to-Hero format fanboii. Not sure if I'm a mid-tier player. Pretty sure that I can solo a squad or so, though.

Yo dude, any chance of running a couple raids or doing some practice duels? Need help on pvp

always great advise. Thanks man!

i thought i was gonna be very terrible at tarkov for ever but i kept watching vids and map guides and am slowly getting less fucked. thanks for the vids

i knew most of that already, but these are great tips! i totally recommend this even for new players!

How do you get your mic sounding so 👌?

Finally! a video for me!

Think, how often do I die in Tarkov? Is this a serious question Jesse mate? I die ALL of the fkucing time! Yesterday was a better day, but today has not been fun. Even SCAV's attacking me on SCAV runs

I do not have the best internet connection... so I am very cautious in what fights I pick. I run away often. I often use thermals to avoid fights (because for some odd reason this wipe, a ton of them dropped into my lap, I've bought 2 so far). My survival rate is around 63% at the moment. Very ratty, I admit.

At which time do you start streaming usually? I live in europe so I never got to watch one of your streams yet unfortunately

A perfect video, no one makes these. Great RU-vid video

Solid advice, thank you :)

do you have any advice for semi automatic gameplay in a solo setting against multiple people?

This game is the reason I got a PC..with literally zero experience on a keyboard..I'm talking zero CPU experience I'm fat fingering everything at the wrong time all the time..still love it tho..got about 100 hours and only 2 pmc kills..maybe like 20 scavs..still level 9..maaaan its tough I'm broke rn but I need all that stuff for level 10..it's rough rn Edit..I fuuuucking heard them...what did my dumb ass do? Accidentally hit reload duo opened the door and smoked my dumb ass..fuckers..killed the sniper scav tho before I died so there's that

I've found that most of the community is rather impatient, so just waiting or clearing the area after each kill for around 30 seconds is enough before looting. Most of the time, at least from my experience, when people are playing in a squad and one dies, he will probably immediately want the others to avenge him by rushing straight into combat, so if 30 seconds pass and no one comes, probably no one will.

I dont know if youll ever see this but ive been playing tarkov pretty often for the past few months and my aim still feels off, it looks like i should be hitting the shots but it just doesn't seem to happen. Do you have any tips that would help with improving accuracy in tarkov so i can do better in these pvp fights. thanks love the videos, have helped me learn a lot!!!