Jirasu

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Weapon Overheating is Too Extreme in Tarkov
(Intro) If there is one mechanic that was added to Tarkov a few years ago, and since then hasn’t received a ton of attention in terms of adjustments or balance, it’s weapons overheating. Something that certainly can happen if not taken into consideration in regards to your weapon builds and ammunition consumption, and can be the culprit for some untimely deaths. This is definitely more of a later game Tarkov problem. In the early game and even parts into the mid game, you won’t have the ammunition and builds around consistently enough to notice this mechanic. You might, on occasion see the barrel of your weapon begin to smoke and turn a soft red color. But usually that’s about it. We’re also just not dumping magazine after magazine early on because finding ammo, especially good ammo is precious and difficult. Still, once you are established and are just building weapons however you like, overheating becomes a real problem that you need to think about. And sadly, like a lot of other problems in the game, it’s not balanced equally across the different weapons, calibers and too extreme in certain cases for certain weapons. It renders some types of weapons almost impossible to use unless under very specific circumstances. Which you can certainly make an argument that having special use cases for certain types of guns and ammos should be how things work. On the flipside, with that being how this mechanic works currently, the weapons mostly affected should be adjusted in other aspects to counteract how easily they can overheat, either with their price, fire rate or recoil. We’ll get deeper into this, but while there are some extreme cases, overheating is more annoying than it is a way to balance weapons and ammo.
By Jirasuabout a year ago in Gamers
Is PvE Harmful to Tarkov’s Longevity?
(Intro) As someone who has experienced as much of Tarkov as I possibly can individually, with the exception of the Kappa container and meeting Lightkeeper, having more than one direct way of engaging with the game is only beneficial to the player base. If you a veteran of the game, have the knowledge and ability to hold your own, you normally go play PvP against AI and the other players. But perhaps you are lacking in one of the departments previously mentioned. Maybe you have the knowledge that Tarkov requires you to have, but you struggle to fight other opponents and win. Or, inversely, maybe you are exceptionally skilled at shooters but with how complex Tarkov is and the amount of knowledge you need to understand most of the mechanics, it can be an overwhelming experience for anyone. Which is why I am glad that the option to play Tarkov fully offline with no one else except for your friends exists in 2024. PvE Tarkov has allowed many people to experience how awesome the game is, under the guise that they don’t have to worry about the other components that have plagued the game’s problem pipeline for as long as they have. The answer to the question posed in the title of the video: does PvE hurt PvP Tarkov? Is a resounding yes. But it doesn’t matter, because the benefits of its existing outway the determents of it not.
By Jirasuabout a year ago in Gamers
DayZ: The Only Successful Open-World Survival Zombie Game
(Intro) There have a been a lot of attempts at the open world survival genre in video games. It’s easily one of the hardest genres to get right next to something like an MMO. Tons of factors to consider, the entire scale of the game, how to make experiences within it feel natural and organic instead of being spoon-fed moments that don’t come off as genuine. It’s a steep hill to climb, and while many different developers have attempted to get it right, the number of games that have managed to stay alive and hold an audience isn’t that large. Whether that’s because the game, while having a solid idea and foundation, couldn’t get the finer details right, not hitting the number of players needed to stay operational, or just being a complete scam with fraudulent marketing campaigns right up until the very end, it’s extremely easy for an open world survival game to sadly go under and fade away into the history books of just another failed game in this genre of saturated alphas and betas. However, there is one game, through sheer grit, determination, and a dedicated community of passionate players, managed to not only exist, but survive and thrive; being more played and popular than it has ever been before. DayZ is an anomaly; it shouldn’t exist. With how tumultuous the history of this game is, the general disdain for DayZ for quite some time, and then the revival of the game post its official 1.0 launch back in 2018, I wanted to discuss how this game, to me as an outsider with less than 160 hours of gameplay after owning the game for several years, is still the quintessential and arguably most successful open world zombie survival game on the market, even in 2024.
By Jirasuabout a year ago in Gamers
Tarkov’s Event Oversight is Obnoxious
(Intro) One of the many ways Tarkov can have some life given back to it is whenever BSG decides to add in-game events to spice up the currently gameplay loop. Something as simple as having bosses spawn more or all on a single map is an extremely effective way to bring back players to the game and also get people playing on a certain location or spot on a map. Sometimes less is more and the boss events are some of my favorites. But BSG over the years have been experimenting with lots of different styles of events with lots of mixed results. Some interesting, some that had a solid foundation but needed some ironing out, and others that are just plain bad. No matter what the event might be, it has become an unfortunate habit of needed to be adjusted by BSG at some point for one reason or another. It’s rare they release something and don’t need to touch it because it just works as intended out of the gate. They’ve done so many events overtime that it’s tough to remember the really bad ones as examples. But this recent cultist event was somewhere in the middle. But regardless of which event we talked about, they all have some semblance of oversight from BSG that really prevents any of them from being engaging experiences for players. So, let’s talk about how BSG somehow keeps screwing up events in some regard and the things they can take into consideration for future ones that will hopefully make them more enjoyable to play and even more memorable by the community.
By Jirasuabout a year ago in Gamers
Is Arena More Fun to Play Than Tarkov?
(Intro) Tarkov is a difficult game to quantify into being called fun. If you’re an outsider who doesn’t play the game looking at what’s happening, the immersive world, accurate portrayal of weapons and attachments, and the risk factor of losing gear when you die, you might be intrigued by what you see. And then you open the game up for the first time and there is so much going on you quickly become overwhelmed and regret buying the game. But if you’re lucky and have someone around who can assist with getting you started, you might get lucky and get the Tarkov bug and just become absolutely consumed by the game. It’s happened so many times with so many different people, it could be studied as a phenomenon. But, as someone who has been playing for so long, that magic does go away after some time. The game is still great; but the spark and initial curiosity that led you to buy the game is lost because everything about the game becomes about the numbers. Late game Tarkov is especially impacted by this, because as a wipe cycle goes on, the number of people still playing goes down. It’s no surprise that people tend to enjoy early game Tarkov more, for its frenetic and scrappy gameplay. However, with the introduction of Arena and its existence in the Tarkov ecosystem, a question popped into my head. Do players prefer or enjoy playing Arena more, or do they enjoy Tarkov more, specifically the late game?
By Jirasuabout a year ago in Gamers
Arena's Least Played Map is.... and Why?
(Intro) If you had to guess what the least played map in Tarkov’s arena mode was, which map would you say it was? Spoiler alert: it’s Sawmill. It’s always been Sawmill. Ever since we got the first version of the game available to the public. This map, while interesting in its own unique ways, doesn’t really jive with the purpose of arena existing. It meets somewhere in the middle between a small battle arena, and a chunk of a normal Tarkov map ripped out of the game. Because technically, it kind of is. It’s a chunk of Woods taken and modified to be an arena map. Which isn’t a bad thing, the concept and execution are both solid. But when you are at the map selection screen, you are most likely not selecting Sawmill to be in your map rotation. So why? What’s the reason(s) that people don’t play this map? Is it bad? Does it not make sense to be in arena? And can you even play the map this deep into arena’s life?
By Jirasuabout a year ago in Gamers
Tarkov Just Integrated Marathon into the Normal Game
(Intro) With the rollout of patch 0.15, one of the new mechanics that was added into the game was marathon mode; an interesting way to play Tarkov where the ability to travel to locations without going back to the stash is the main reason to try it. We don’t know how popular the mode was, or how many players interacted with it, but the few times I messed around with it, I found marathon mode to be an incredibly more interesting and immersive experience over the traditional Tarkov formula. It was a great shake-up to what we know; you had to think about so much more. Did you bring enough ammo to supply yourself for multiple maps? Do you have food and water in case you don’t find any? Is you armor going to withstand potentially multiple encounters with AI and other players? If you went into marathon mode, sure you could back out at any time and take a normal extract out, but many want to challenge themselves by either extracting from each map without dying, or starting with nothing and seeing how far you could take it. Overall, I would say the reception to the mode was positive, and the community generally welcomed the additional mode of play. What they’ve done recently in a smaller update, is remove the marathon mode, but inject it directly into the normal mode of Tarkov play. Now, anyone at any time can use the transit points to get from one map to another. And there’s more of them! But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. They made map to map travel actually possible in normal Tarkov, and I am very excited to start using it going forward.
By Jirasuabout a year ago in Gamers
Why Does it Feel Like Tarkov Throttles Quest Items?
(Intro) Has anyone else experienced this in Tarkov, where you get a quest to find some items in raid; nothing that is normally seen as rare like bitcoins or graphics cards. Could be something like Signal – Part 2 from Mechanic, and you’re looking for the rechargeable batteries, but raid after raid you keep looking in locations and loot containers that usually spawn them and they aren’t there? For years now, there has been this waft in the air that for some reason when you need certain items for a quest that need to be found in raid, the game refuses to spawn those items for one reason or another. This will be mainly coming from experience of playing the game overtime instead of any anecdotal evidence because I imagine it would be difficult to accurately collect data to back up this idea. But to me, and others who are in the community, for some reason Tarkov will throttle items you need for quests whenever you accept them and need to have them found in raid. With other quests that require you to find a static item on a map it doesn’t really apply, and for quests that don’t need found in raid status, well that’s easy enough. But even as early on as finding salewa’s or worse, gas analyzers, those can sometimes feel like you’ll hit level fifteen and unlock the flea market before those get done. Again, this is bro science from me, but please if what I am saying resonates with you and your immediate thought is this has happened to me before as well, sound off in the comments because I can’t be the only one.
By Jirasuabout a year ago in Gamers
The Current State of Tarkov’s Economy
Let’s get one thing square right off the bat: Tarkov’s economy will never be balanced. With the flea market simply existing in the game regardless of how it works, if players can buy and sell goods from one another, then the game’s entire economy can be boiled down to simple supply and demand. What do people want and how much are they willing to pay for it. Even with saying that however, I think it’s important to take a look at what Tarkov’s economy currently looks like, because this patch has had some major implications with how people accrue money in this game. No more found in raid flea, earning money in Arena, and being able to transfer it to the main game and vice versa, how players earn their income has been challenged completely. And to be brutally honest, it’s never been easier to earn money in this game. But why? What about the changes to arena make it so compelling for players to engage with it and then move funds over to normal Tarkov? Is the economy better or worse because of these changes? And will Tarkov ever nail this system down before or even after 1.0? Let’s answer all of these questions and more.
By Jirasuabout a year ago in Gamers
Death Sprint 66: The Ultimate Racing Death Game
(Intro) Death Sprint 66 is an on-foot racing game where you pilot a mechanical robot with the sole purpose of defying the expectations of the crowds as you run, slide, drift, jump, and claw your way to first place. Set in what looks to be a dystopian cyberpunk themed world, your goal is to get through the course as fast as possible, while battling other contestants, both AI and other players. The game is all about speed, dodging obstacles, and getting first in the race. Nothing else matters. Except maybe screwing over your opponents from them winning the race. That always feels good.
By Jirasuabout a year ago in Gamers
Is New Factory Better? Answer: It’s Dark
(Intro) Over the course of Tarkov’s life, since the game has been playable to the masses, we’ve gotten a good idea as to how many maps will be released when the game finally goes 1.0. As far as we know, the only map that has not made it into the game yet is terminal which if I had to take a guess, will release when Tarkov does eventually get to the 1.0 release date. In the meantime, BSG has made several attempts across all the Maps in the game to make them more cohesive expand them, and just make them feel better to play. From the underground in reserve to multiple expansions on customs, multiple times on both sides of the map to even completely changing the topography of how shoreline feels and making everything flow much nicer than what it was like before. And the most recent map to get this quality-of-life attention was factory and we’re not talking about just updating some parts of the map. No, we’re talking about a completely different map build from the ground up but it still feels like old factory. There are still the same points of interest, the same ebbs and flow in terms of how the map feels, and in general it should feel familiar. But there’s enough new going on that it’s worth having a conversation about and seeing how the community feels about it. Because there’s a good chance that this will be potentially the final update to any of the old maps we get before terminal gets added into the game.
By Jirasuabout a year ago in Gamers
This Change Might Be Huge for 5.45 AKs
(Intro) Many years ago, BSG added a weapon that was wildly underused because it lacked the attachments to make it competitive with other guns. The AK-101 and 102 were some of the least used weapons in the game for a long time. And then they got the love they needed. More muzzle attachments and an adapter to use 5.56 muzzles and suppressors immediately made those two guns viable and arguably some of the better rifles in the game. It always surprises me how much the muzzle on a weapon can drastically affect the stats of it. It’s one of the most important parts to making an effective rifle. So, it comes as a pleasant shock to me that the 5.45 AKs can now also use 5.56 muzzle devices too. This was something I wasn’t expecting; a crossover of calibers like that in this game seems really antithetical to the lore of the game. USECs versus BEAR. But in the spirit of having as much weapon customization possible, it makes perfect sense. There are just less AK muzzle devices than there are for an M4. Especially suppressors that don’t tank the ergonomics of the gun either. This change is small on the grand scheme of things; more options is always a good thing. But let’s discuss how impactful this change is, how much your options do open up, and why you should be taking advantage of this change as soon as you can.
By Jirasuabout a year ago in Gamers

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Weapon Overheating is Too Extreme in Tarkov

Is PvE Harmful to Tarkov’s Longevity?

DayZ: The Only Successful Open-World Survival Zombie Game

Tarkov’s Event Oversight is Obnoxious

Is Arena More Fun to Play Than Tarkov?

Arena's Least Played Map is.... and Why?

Tarkov Just Integrated Marathon into the Normal Game

Why Does it Feel Like Tarkov Throttles Quest Items?

The Current State of Tarkov’s Economy

Death Sprint 66: The Ultimate Racing Death Game

Is New Factory Better? Answer: It’s Dark

This Change Might Be Huge for 5.45 AKs

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