Escape from Tarkov

key to win fights is map knowledge. advise to play map offline and use online guides and maps to navigate your way through.

For maps I prefer map genie but game maps i do reference as well epecially for cache location pic's. Use for what works for you.

Also when choosing a loadout, concentrate on using good ammo and even sacrifice wearing armour. Level 3 armour or less is generally good enough to protect you from scavs. Against other players who are using higher tiered ammo makes that armour redundant. Running crap armour and crap ammo is next to pointless unless completly flat broke in which case you should be doing hatchet runs (zero to hero)

for custom's guide I Like how pestily walks through the map (along with every other map), there are other streamers who also have very good guides. Such guides really useful in order to get a grip of Labs and Reserve.



another here for customs shows loot and pathing. You do get decent loot from cache's solo and it is a way to avoid the hotspots. Over time you will get to know what is trash and what to keep to have the highest rouble for square in your inventory.



to get the game working and looking the best for your system check out the video from veritas.

I didnt know this game had an offline mode,how does that work?

Just AI on the map?

That could be very handy to learn the maps. Thanks for the info guys

Laviski wrote: »

when starting your raid on your main PMC char....
choose map, pick time then on the next screen you have the choice to enable offline mode.

as per the warning in big red background, nothing is saved - you get nadda when finished.
When enabled for offline you choose how you want the map - with or without AI.

Also note offline is solo only at present. not sure when co op will be introduced.

That sounds great for getting to know the maps then alright,ill give that a go

dazftw wrote: »

Any of you guys wanna team up? Our group is always looking for new players to play with and help with quests etc.

I actually built a site a little while ago to help track your hideout progress. Feel free to check it out.

https://www.tarkov-hideout.com/

Do ye have a discord? Tend to float on the official tarkov discord for when I want to grp, but would prefer to get a few regulars.

Dcully wrote: »

Ive been enjoying theHunter call of the wild lately, really enjoy its slow stealthy gameplay with believable gunplay and it got me thinking of EFT again, havent played in a year or so id say as i really got turned off by the inventory management, all seemed pointless and took me away from the real meat of the game.
I doubt anything has changed in this department lately?

A good way around that is to just sell most of the stuff you get, use your bank balance as your stash instead, buy when you need, otherwise you just end up with so much stuff you probably will never get around to using..

Dcully wrote: »

So im going to try get into this again, going to start off against ai in the training mode to learn atleast 1 map well, any suggestions?

Is it still Customs?

I would say Interchange to be honest - Customs was everyones go to because early quests force you there and the loot is meh once marked is looted, few safes yeah but nothing major. Interchange offers a bit more in the way of loot and still plenty of PVP available - although extract camping is a bit of an issue at times, you learn where to look though and there's a good few alternatives.

I never mained Interchange at any stage and don't play the game much anymore but if I was to go back I would focus on it. Toward the end I played Factory only for pure PVP and it was the most I enjoyed the game. Just depends on what you want from the game!

mamaz wrote: »

I would say Interchange to be honest - Customs was everyones go to because early quests force you there and the loot is meh once marked is looted, few safes yeah but nothing major. Interchange offers a bit more in the way of loot and still plenty of PVP available - although extract camping is a bit of an issue at times, you learn where to look though and there's a good few alternatives.

I never mained Interchange at any stage and don't play the game much anymore but if I was to go back I would focus on it. Toward the end I played Factory only for pure PVP and it was the most I enjoyed the game. Just depends on what you want from the game!

Ehhhh loot in customs is pretty great now with the expansion and especially since the last update, it has loads of stashes and you can get some pretty great stuff in them now, like level 5 armours/rigs and bitcoins for example..

Interchange is a camperfest nightmare, id only go there if i have to or if im in the mood for snail crawling around the dark for 30mins.. Not saying its a bad map, you can have some great games in there, but you can also get one tapped from some lad who has hiding in a random shop for 20+ without making a peep with a mosin..

So yeah, id recommend customs, tasks bring you there at the start and you would want to hit level 10 sooner than later so you can sell **** on the flea market. Its also a pretty fun map when you learn it..

Dont worry about losing gear, get used to dying, if you run out of ****, jump on a scav and scrounge some things on him and get out and use his loadout..

im only after jumping back in the last few days, im like lvl 14 and im just chipping away at tasks to get some levels. I had a load of great armour i accumulated in my stash but just decided to sell it to the vendors instead to increase rep with them.. Thats my main focus, level my pmc and the vendors, dont worry about modding guns until later in the game, think of everything as disposable until lvl 20 at least..

Deleted User wrote: »

Finding people to play with is key for learning this game

Id say you would learn more playing solo at first, as you then have to look **** up and learn everything yourself, going with others you wont learn as much as you're just following their lead usually..

I know theres not many posts in here, but I'm considering picking this up. I suppose my main question would be, is just how much of a grind is the game? I dont get a huge amount of time to sit down and concentrate on a game, and while I'm not expecting it to be simple, just how difficult is it to play?

For reference, I play a fair bit of R6 Siege, and Also Enjoy the likes of PUBG, Warzone, and also the Division - Im thinking this is like a more unforgiving 'Dark Zone' from that game - where you enter an area, kill AI, but can also be ganked by other players?

As what is said above, this game brings moments of pure joy while also giving the extreme opposite of frustration and despair. What makes you win at this game is map knowledge then game knowledge then aim. Some would say aim be top but that's assuming you shot first and get the headshot.

For anyone on the fence look at pestilys raid series. Which goes over the game content, pvp and loot runs, with the end result in getting the kappa container using the standard account.

Another thing to note, game is still beta so that means there are wipes. At present we are in late stage so wipe can happen at any time over the next few months despite devs saying just recently that wipe is not planned.

Best time to play tarkov is at start of wipe, but not as a new player. You will get destroyed.

Anyone that wants a Sherpa to walk them through stuff you can send me a pm. But You will learn a lot through map guides and do a lot of offline raids to get that map knowledge.

ShadowHearth wrote: »

the worst part of the game and grindiest were Quests. A lot of them want you to do very spesific things or find stuff in raids.

For me the quests that were "deliver these items" or "retrieve this from there" were fine for the most part. Even the most of the kill quests made sense from a lore perspective (kill scavs on interchange for example).
The ones I had problems with were the kill PMC quests for the most part, Shooter born in Heaven, Punisher part 6, Grenadier, and others feel less like quests and more like achievements. I would hope they are only there to test the mechanics of the game and will be removed once we get closer to a full release (soon tm)

quick but somewhat boring update as I take my intial steps in this.

I'm stick with the map 'Customs' for the time being, as it seems to be one of the more straightforward ones. I've gone in a few times in offline mode to get a better handle on the layout, and I'm starting to build a picture of it. Its still slightly confusing in the middle area by Old gas station , but again, time spent will help here.

I've managed to extract a few times from the scav raids and thats been a good old confidence booster, made the mistake of taking my main PMC character in with a pistol and no ammo, which went exactly as you'd expect.

went again later and played it cautiously, and managed a successful PMC extraction. I never thought I'd be so happy to have looted some screws and a measuring tape! My stash is almost full now, so I may as well start taking some of the scav stuff back into the PMC raids as I've no real attachement to it. I'll save my MP5's and M4's till I get a bit more confident.