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‘Escape From Tarkov’ Coming To Steam In the Coming Weeks (www.forbes.com)
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[–] 54 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Personally I'll avoid sending any Western money to the Russian economy that I can. BSG has been able to weasel out of political controversy thus far...but it's a milsim, the devs are probably more pro-Russia than not, they're just smart enough to keep their mouths shut and keep accepting Western patronage.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    This also makes me curious how it was even possible for them to bring it to Steam in the first place, logically speaking, with Russia being under international sanctions and all major payment processors no longer accepting business from there?

    Did they like make this happen with a shell company or something elsewhere? Lol

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

    I don't remember the details but there are deliberate references to a real paramilitary group which fights for Russia.

    EDIT: The group in question is 715 Team. Their logo is shown on the "Ground Zero" map.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Blue beret item references the VDV, airborne russian troops, in the description. Also one of the armbands has the russian flag on it.

    Although because the game is shown through the lens of PMCs (you're not fighting as or against Russian/UN/NATO troops), most of the russian military references are minimal (unless you count the descriptions of weapons detailing their design/usage histories).

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    • [–] 46 points 11 months ago (10 children)

    I heard that game has a really bad problem with cheaters. Addressing that seems like it would take precedence over getting the game on Steam. You only get one shot to make a first impression and all.

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  • [–] 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

    The game has had major cheating issues since Covid started. There only so much they can do when the game is built on over a decade of shit code.

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  • [–] 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

    The cheating problem is off the charts. There was a really good video of someone who investigated how bad it was, and found that about 50% of players were using wallhacks. of matches will have a hacker.

    I played it for a couple months. The gunplay was pretty impressive, but the cheaters made it incredibly frustrating, and after seeing that video, I uninstalled and never looked back.

    EDIT: The video in question.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    *50% of raids had at least 1 player using wall hacks. There is a large chunk of the player base cheating, but it is definitely not 50%.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    It's likely around 30% total player base, and out of ten man raid your going to have likely 1 to 3. As cheaters like to squad up. It's very common for large cheat discords to have fuck loads of people grouping up

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    The game is very fun and the loop is quite addictive, but PvE is probably the best thing that has happened to it in a long time. The AI needs minor tweaking, but not playing against other people and cheaters is so great. Being able to play with friends makes it fun.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Out of a lobby of 10 people 3 likely are cheating. Every person who's ever cheated to show videos of their games has this experience. My own first hand try at cheating shows this.

    The game literally is one of the most cheated in shooters there is.

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    [+] 35 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    Last time I played I got curious hit up a buddy who cheated and grabbed walls. I haven't used cheats in a shooter since I was 14 I'm fucking 34 now. I've gotten kappa twice legit and had basically quit the game over being pissed about the cheaters.

    And holy fuck playing around for a few weeks was absurd. I was mostly just questing, no farming or killing for the most part.

    But there were so many obvious cheaters that I didn't even have issues finishing the kill quests doing a HvH only rule.

    I was worried I would mistake people who are actually good for cheaters but no. Not even remotely, it's so absurdly obvious it's funny.

    Honestly HvH was more fun then normal tarkov just because it actually was a level playing field. Definitely a different experience.

    Tarkov REALLY is one of the most cheated in shooters there is.

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    • [–] 19 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Doesn't mean it's going to work on linux

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    https://facebook.com/groups/1714415802627065/posts/1842637456471565/

    Sounds like PvE works, but not PvP.

    This guy claims that he got it working in PvP, at least at one point:

    https://old.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1f6u88z/tarkov_on_linux/

    Ran fine for me with Proton Easy Anti-Cheat when added to Steam. This was a few patches ago now though. Whenever Streets came out.

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    • [–] 15 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Yuck

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    [–] 8 points 11 months ago

    Why would anyone be interested in playing with cheaters?

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    [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    Extraction shooter market is getting crowded quick. It's probably wise move by Tarkov devs to bank some money before Arc Raiders comes out on October 30th. I have a feeling Arc Raiders just might dominate the extraction shooter market for broad general audience. I'm sure more hardcore extraction shooter fans will stick with Tarkov but I don't see Tarkov will appeal to the masses. I hear developers of The Division might be working on an extraction shooter too. It's quite ironic since they accidentally stumbled onto the extraction shooter idea and just now figured out there may be a demand for the genre. There is Marathon but I have no idea what's going on with that game. I'm not sure if Bungie or Sony knows what will happen to that game.

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    [–] 4 points 11 months ago*

    I cant wait to have Tarkov on steam and play a game thats flooded with hackers, thats developed buy people who uses their admin powers to punish people that kill them.

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    [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Would love a coop focused extraction shooter tbh. Payday 3 could have gone for that actually, its essentially just an economy change.

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    [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Tried changing my email on my Tarkov account but it was nor possible. I contacted support and they refused to change it too. I simply wanted change the email as i no longer use outlook as my mail provider. After multiple refusals i simply deleted the account instead.

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