AS-VAL & VSS Bad Now? – Escape From Tarkov



Although the new ballistics made the AS-VAL and VSS better suited for mid-range combat, the recoil changes and ammunition debuffs make this weapon very difficult to control. Is the weapon really bad now?

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48 thoughts on “AS-VAL & VSS Bad Now? – Escape From Tarkov”

  1. When im get lvl 3 prapor I'm gonna be runnin the VSS and gonna be on single fire until it's CQC (within 30-60 meters). SP6 at lvl 3 prapor is gold not to mention the cheap craft for lvl 2 workbench but takes so long to craft lol. Still a good option that isnt too expensive

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  2. I find it’s Very good. The rotor grip is needed to make the recoil Con playable. Problem is last wipe you’d have to buy it on glee for 100k.

    Now you can give mechanic a milk for it. For the price, the Val and VSS are incredible in the right scenario. I’d say the performance shits on the p90 and the ump.

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  3. New recoil pretty much forces you to slap all of the best -% recoil mods on your gun to make it more or less viable. This game gets more and more meta-heavy with every balance change. Budget and medium class gun builds are not viable anymore.

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  4. I hadn't used the vss/val since the initial recoil nerf 4 wipes ago I believe? Not sure exactly when but hadn't used it since it was still a laser. I've been running the exact same val with rk2 and PRS non stop with sp5 because of it's cheap price for decent class 5/6 pen. I've run the durability down to 78 max taking it in every raid but it's only jammed once and I've not had any trouble chewing through slicks/hexgrids and killa armour so I definitely recommend it if you know you'll be able to get a lot of raids out of it (because like you said, the gun itself and the 30 rounders are quite expensive)

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  5. the rate at which suppressors get red hot in tarkov is bullshit… i have a can on my fun gun range toy, its a 7.5" barrel 5.56 AR with a binary trigger.. i can dump mag after mag after mag, and it doesnt glow red hot.. its hotter than shit, but not red hot, and doesnt effect whether or not the gun functions properly.
    They tried WAY too hard on some of the shit that they added.. that and the fact that you cant free look while ADS anymore is fucking stupid.
    really dissapointed with some of the changes this wipe.. too many things got "fixed" that werent broken…

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  6. Deadly, go put 150k worth of mods on an hk416 (not the most money to spend on the gun, but a decent amount) and go shoot it in the range. You'll be absolutely shocked at how dogwater it is. I don't know why they are trying to make it so these guns are horrid. The HK only gets reigned in when you finally blow insane amounts of money on it with best in slot attachments. Even then it's a shell of it's former self.
    For a final tier gun you unlock at the end of the mechanic/peacekeeping questline, at lvl 4 traders. Something weird is going on and it doesn't make much sense to me

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  7. the VAL and VSS fit a niche spot in the meta now. the guns are basically unusable full auto past 10-15 meters unless you are crouched while firing. but if you think of it as another sr-25 or vepr-136, and use it single fire only, then they can shine for the price. the VAL is 100-120k on the market, and it's very cheap to kit out from there. you honestly don't even need to pay for a grip if you don't want to cause base ergo is high and the 4-5 recoil from a grip is irrelevant. add a sight/scope and a flashlight and it's set. so all in all it's price can vary from 130-160k fully kitted. which is relatively cheap for a suppressed weapon. but the big bonus of the VAL is the ammo. sp-6 can be crafted at level 20 and crafts in batches of 300. it has almost the exact same stats as 7.62×39 BP but it is available MUCH earlier, crafts faster, and the craft is cheaper per bullet. the sp-6 craft comes out to 393 rubles a round in the current market. which is half the price of the BP craft per round. and it's 6 hours faster.

    if you are filthy rich, i think an AKMN or a kitted m1a/sr-25/g28 with m61 is obviously better. but the VAL has insanely strong ammo available super early on and the gun isn't that expensive when you take into account that it comes suppressed.

    to add onto this, if you are patient on the flea market, you can filter for VSS rifles that are at ~90 durability or higher and just sit there refreshing. eventually people put them up for ~60k. so you can basically kit a VSS for 100k or less if you're stingy.

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  8. Seems like the first guy you took down is.. gold farmer? Who let their guards down? They probably had their cheats on, know you have a AS VAL, but didn't realize how OP AS VAL could be….

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  9. alltime watcher and big fan BUT : xplain2me how you manage to get youtube flag an at best 720p video as an 1440p one oO ? my eyes hurts because of the quality im not blind…not yet oO that one really really bugged me ALWAYS…. dude your face is SO pixelated -.-

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  10. A bad gun? No
    Expensive? YES
    You can pretty much buy any of the 5.45mm AK's for the same price as a 30 round VAL mag…then the gun itself you could buy a full 308 (M80) set up for the price of the VAL itself without attachments or ammo

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  11. My favourite gun…Hits hard, comes suppressed, a beast inside 150m. Outside of that range the round is too slow to be a DMR damn rounds loop into a target – 290m/s is slow.

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  12. If ur using sp5, youre better off and its cheper to run an mo7 with fmj, fmj is cheap and it has better stats than sp5, and with the mp7 you have less recoil and good ergo witout even having to put attachments on it

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  13. Interesting Fact: The VSS was so expensive to produce, the Soviet Union looked to another weapon smith to make a cheaper variant. And so the VSK-94 was born in 1995 by Vasily Gryazev, chambered in 9×39. Although less reliable than the VSS due to cheaper assembling, it still performed greatly and was used by Law Enforcement and later adopted into the Russian Army.

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