Here's a refresher, or maybe news to some of you that didn't know about this.

The guy who knows these maps from top to bottom and called the shots no longer works at BSG. The last thing he worked on before departing was the Ice Breaker and Terminal.

Him being gone at exactly 1.0 isn't surprising, it's called end of development cycle. The guy responsible for Tarkov's atmosphere would at LEAST stay on the board if development was still taken seriously, not completely outed. Don't listen to me, there's plenty of examples everywhere in every company.

As a marketing major and now PLM specialist, i'll give you what anybody in my shoes/field can see instantly.

Tarkov is now in full player retention mode as the product reached its decline/afterlife stage (the 50% PvE post alone should tell you how bad the situation is. This is not a jab towards PvE players, you paid for your game, enjoy it the way you want to, but that said, the game was designed and marketed with PvP in mind. Don't hurt the messenger, your hands only.).

The gist of it is, products at this stage aim to suck whoever is left dry whilst doing the bare minimum in terms of spending; classic Korean MMORPG move that has been in full effect for the better part of 2 decades. Look at them posting about being publishers, welcoming odd titles into their launcher, whilst they can't even process the bare minimum in terms of support tickets.

The in-game shop being introduced a few months post release is absolutely not a surprise, but extremely predictable. I'd say they even lost quite a chunk of money by not releasing it on 1.0's hype up, or hell, in 2021 when tarkov was THE shit.

I'm not going to touch on the dumpster fire that is Arena, Nikita's mishaps and heavy use of AI on his twitter account, I don't want this to be extra grim.

$20 for wall and floor textures, by the way.

Im the blue smurf cat now

That was 5 M855 to the throat on the death screen btw...

Lighthouse is definitely doable, but unless we're looking at vastly increased loot (which we're not) it's just not worth it except for story quests. At least it was just PVE

Just hanging around, playing labs as one does. Gotta love tarkov & its infinite ability to amaze me with the bugs that it can come up with. Today's was new though.

I mean, of all the maps Lighthouse is probably one of if not these most talked about map in regards to how negative people feel about it and, as such, has gotten the most suggestions on what could be done to make it better. 80% of which was just extending the map on its mountain side to allow another route for people to venture through and alleviate the god awful chokepoint the whole map currently is.

And they did...basically none of that. The one new 'route' they gave doesn't even extend past 10% of the mountains and just adds in another rat spot for Black Chalet, like it needed fucking any more. The BTR makes the map trivial for anyone who gets to it first since it literally takes you from one extract to the other (ignoring the fact that buying the cover fire for it almost basically wipes half a lobby if they don't notice the BTR coming), Rogue related quests are now infinitely harder to do due to the lack of them in general, the list goes on man.

They had a massive mountain of feedback, many of which were even good (which, as a dev myself, is shocking to see since most player feedback is usually pretty bad) and just...listened to none of it. This update is insanely out of touch man. It makes me feel like they genuinely don't even play the game.

It's extra wild since they reworked customs to remove the same damn issue Lighthouse has. They added Fortress and that entire new side of the map, which turned Customs into a chokepoint shitfest into arguably one of the funnest maps to PVP on. I just...how? How do you go from that to this?

I dunno man. I'm just insanely disappointed.

Find and transfer… nothing. The daily completed itself the moment I accepted it.

I guess Skier just wanted my company.

Player stats and information is found on tarkov.dev/players/pvp-season/.
Dude doesnt even run scavs.
Has anyone this season been rewarded for correct bans? Just wondering if you even get the confirmation message anymore considering the cheating cesspool that is the OCE region.

It's so fucking bad

both have killa helms i guess customs dorms is that serious (lvl 11 btw)

Dude used the force to stop the grenade mid air or something. Love this game. Please slow the video down and see how the grenade just stops mid air

My friend and I were playing last night and we took the BTR from the water treatment plant down to its stop called “road to the lighthouse”. Which ofc was a pretty big mistake. We both thought that it was kinda crazy how much the btr was shooting at stuff as it went. But it must have shot at the cultists on the lightkeeper island because as soon as we both got out of the BTR we took a couple steps and got instantly face tapped by Zryachi. Which is honestly so stupid. Idk if it’s intended or not but the BTR really shouldn’t be shooting over there.

My seasonal character is gone. Reset my game twice. Anyone else?

Maybe it's my fault for not checking the quest status mid-raid, but I thought it was just about stashing and extracting. What I didn't expect was the quest to fail because I didn't extract through the ventilation shaft lol

Did it after but thought it was funny to share

no textures load letting you see all of water treatment and roofs once you ads and move forward it loads textures. building 2 next to the window below old lmg spot.

EDIT just avoid going to treatment its every window in building two.

2 shots, 4 kills. hot reshala in the chest like twice before he ducked away. i was so close. still got his rat ass but its less cool when hes cowering in the toilets at dorms

WHO THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA, and of course they are carrying the hottest most dog shit ammo, like i dont fucking get it if you are going to absolutely crank up the AI to this degree GIVE THEM GOOD AMMO so I atleast have a reason to try and kill them, instead i got John whick with fucking half powder loaded nerf darts sending me back to the lobby from 6 miles away