Escape from Tarkov can be a brutal and punishing game, and it’s constantly changing which means sometimes right when you feel like you have it all figured out something huge changes. Additionally, it’s easy to find people that have been playing the game for years that kind of know-how to game the system, and sometimes it feels like they are playing a completely different game. In this video, we talk about why we care so much about how many roubles we have, and we talk about some mental blocks that can prevent us from having a good time when playing. Check it out!
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Do you feel like you need to have a ton of money in Tarkov in order to enjoy the game?
This is my 9th or 10th wipe. The most money I had in my stash (gear aside) was 38 mio. rubles. I never needed so much money at all and could still run my favourite loadouts every raid.
I feel like me having 20 mil roubles has resulted in less fun coz idc if i lose kits and guns and get boring quicker
You got some points, but you are missing out some stuff, coz of your point of view inside the game. I love the game, I love playing it, although I am not very good at it. You say you have 50% survival rate and that you aren't a good player. Well, your are better than probably 50% of all players.
I worked really hard to get my btc farm, so I can have a bit space to breath. I like the intense feeling in the game, but as a new and not very good player, who has to learn, you hardly have the possibility to even learn. As you say, although you don't consider yourself good, you don't have any money problems. Not so good players do and can't carry out enough stuff of the raids to keep them alive. I leaned everything I can now, the hard way, which is kinda ok, that's the game 😉 but since I got my btc farm I learn so much more, because I can trie stuff and don't have to worry for every bit of equipment. I can go into raids, am still pumped, but can engage more fights and therefore learn a lot more, because losing my stuff won't ruin me. When you are new and not very good, you only sneak around, hoping noone ever sees you, coz experienced showed you that you can't stand even 1 second with your crappy lvl 4 armour you are so proud of even having it against all those good and superb equipped players sprinting and running around.
As I said, I worked and learned really hard to get my btc farm, which made learning easier and faster after that. That as now taken away again, plus all the effort Putten into achieving the farm was nearly worthless.
These actual changes, speaking of the increased prices for nearly everything in the hideout as well, are a knife in all not that good players, who need to learn. Good players don't care, they got enough money and can make it in several ways, like you do. But for not that good players, the limited ways of learning go cut down even more so you will never get in touch with the good ones. Not coz you need money to be good in the game right away, but it makes learning a lot more easy, so you can close the gap yourself. There is no real practice mode or something like that, that's fine. But now I'm back to sneaking around, coz I can't afford and evening of dieing after 30 seconds. It opens the scissor between good and bad players even more with no light at the end of the tunnel whatsoever
I mean I also don't need a car to get to other places but it certainly fucking helps
I don't like the huge economy changes mid-wipe that only affects those who hasn't reached that point yet. The price of solar power is a great example. Going from 15000 EUR to 75000 EUR is not only steep, it's an unfair advantage to those who completed it early. Same to a lesser extent with the bitcoin farms; having just gotten one up and running, only to see prices drop, you feel targeted, while the chads have saved up 100m roubles. It makes parts of the game feel unfair, at places where it adds no value to your experience. Coming after a wipe, I think the backlash from the community would be lessened.
The thing is i can have fun with jjust a pistol. 1 million is enough for me
Just enough to buy an enjoyable loadout.
The problem I have is that the economy shift is a massive one. Everyone is seemingly shooting the best ammo all the time which was never the case in previous wipes because there was more balance in the economy. Now the casual player that is not playing as much and perhaps was utilizing Bitcoin farm to finance their raids because they don’t play a lot has had a major impact to their game and perhaps they only play to squad up with the boys who are go big or go home. This change just seemed major to do mid-later in the wipe. I’m at 100mill I’m fine I have nothing to worry about but I know players that play less that have given up on this wipe because it’s still chad city out there and they can’t afford to compete since their Econ got cut by more than half.
I never look at the amount of money i have. for me it boils down to how much have i spent to get into this raid, and how much am i getting out. If i spend 100-200k and survive 3 raids in a row, I get to bring in 3 full backpacks and subtract the initial investment. also scav runs make me a lot of money, anywhere between 300k to 1mil per scav run. the game can be challenging to get momentum, but the tools are there to make the journey a lot more manageable. also stop running meta ammo thats super expensive. weapons like the VSS start with the SP-5 ammo thats super cheap and can pen T4 armor. .366AP is also good. also if youre running expensive ammo consider using semi-auto to conserve your ammo. SNB is found quite easily and can pen t6.
Each wipe i end up floating around 5-10 million roubles and once you have around that much or even 2ish million, you're basically immune from running out of money. Scav runs, loot runs, and successful PMC raids will keep your cash stack growing. All you need to be successful in Tarkov is a little luck, and maybe 10-20 hours of experience. The narrative that you need a lot of money is mainly spread by super casuals who watch Pestily more than they actually play the game, but want to bitch and moan about not being able to afford thermals for every raid.
Yes you have to be rich especially with all the people using radar and esp that don’t get banned
Do a scav run on reserve, sell all and use the money for next raid or use the gear u got and play a raid👍🏻
The only issue I have with money is that I have the base game. It's easy to make roubles, but I have to spend tens of millions just to get my stash and hideout up. I spent 12M roubles yesterday on Stash 3, Intel 2, and Generator 3. Oh well! I'll have it back in a week or 2. Just slows down progression
In my opinion, it's definitely not a survival game, its just cod with extra steps. A lot of money will let you skip all those steps and jump right back into the game to get a good run/play/moment instead of being set back several weeks of time because you don't have the skills or experience to keep up with everyone else.
Yea like the saying goes, "happiness is not about having what u want; its about wanting what u already have"
Honestly once you get to 14 mil you can def start having fun. But if you die a lot in a day it can definitely make it stressful because you think "well time to farm money now". Which makes it boring since you got a taste of going in geared and just going for pure pvp
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The Bitcoin farm is stupid anyway. It should be removed completely. And I started the wipe late this time. Farmed all day yesterday for solar power so it's not like I ignore it. It just makes the game too easy.
The game I want is the one where I have a Kappa container, and as of yesterday, that would mean Tarkov is where I need to go. Got that shit just before midnight and I’m fuckin pumped
You need a lot of money to consistently and constantly shit on chads and highly geared player for pvp for that type of fun but you don’t need a lot of rubles to do quests and go for pve type gameplay. Completely depends on how you want to play the game IMO
i love playing tarkov as a scav because i love having to just use whatever the game gives me. I dont have to think about it, all i have to do is recognize what i have and try to use it most effectively.
My problem with this game isn’t the reasons stated before but that… I bought it before it was very famous and it seemed to be a tactical realism type of game. Upon playing it I realized it only had those mechanics, but that the damage model is very unrealistic whenever it comes to body armor. Plate carriers taking 10+ bullets and the like. It really throws me off, but the devs have found the twitchy crowd that I think will give the game it’s fame.
I really want to like it.
I want to play this game but game is trash 😉 Why? Joining game after 2 months after wipe is tragic. As a new character you have almost no chance against most players. Biggest nolifes have top tiers unlocked after 2 weeks of playing. Tarkov problem is that equpiment gives you so much advantage even if you are total noob. Ammo types should be changed to mor simple that even with basic ammo you can kill people without problems.
To make it simple and clear. Most frustrating and boring moment is until you unlock enough good ammo to kill chads. Without this you are just rat who can't do almost anything to these tanks when they are moving and rushing you.
I enjoy all sides of Tarkov, from grind to lvl40 to chilled PvP oriented gameplay after securing couple GPUs in a farm. I enjoy scav plays aw, even tho they more like luck dice rolls then actual need like in my first [last] wipe. Don't care about kappa coz I don't enjoy late game tasks and yeah Ima gamma owner so kinda gave up on that.
I like this game a lot. I watch people play it all day long. The personal enjoyment factor out of 10 is about 3. I just don't like dying and waiting 10 minutes to try again. I literally have spent more time in menus than in the game. Maybe if I could get spun up and back in-game within 2 minutes or less, I would have a better go of it.
The game would be significantly more fun if it went back to no fleamarket.
Little over 3 min's in and I already Liked it. this is the discussion to have.
Dang it! why can't I give more likes! Freaking preach!!!
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Short answer. Depends on playstyle.
I personally prefer having a lot of money, because I enjoy using the best of the best gear and being able to actually run around and pvp without having gear fear because I'm poor.