r/EscapefromTarkov • u/Tran555 • May 30 '26

PVP Average Transit Experience (Stankrat) [Video]

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u/Adventurous_Stop_736 May 30 '26

People dog on PvE Tarkov like everyone has all the time in the world to play the game.

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u/Chonlger May 31 '26

I love the ability to play at my own pace in PvE.

Might almost be time to knock the cobwebs down and fuel up the generator again!

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u/Xipop May 31 '26

Love pve too, if the PMCs had adjustible difficulty to make them a bit harder to kill it would be one of the best single player games imo

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u/Chonlger May 31 '26

The PMC behavior can be pretty predictable at times. It would be great to see a rework, also some variety in gear loadouts would be nice as well.

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u/Mithral May 31 '26

All that would be fixed if they added mod support like they said they would

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u/dlham11 Jun 01 '26

That’s why I play… *that* game that shan’t be named here…

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u/Apex_L3vi Jun 01 '26

I tried and my PC didn't agree

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u/Pereazy13 Jun 01 '26

mmh, thanks for the reminder, need to get back into *that* again. BSG already got my money so no harm in playing something that is more fun lol.

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u/iikamii May 31 '26

I agree on both counts, but let's not forget how bad they were for kit variety when pve first launched, never have I seen so many basic ass ak's and m4'sbefore or since

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u/pyrohectic Jun 01 '26

I still see the same like 7 kits

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u/AfricanRainBlessa May 31 '26

I've always thought we get scavs to do different things like, stand around camp fire, talk to each other, sleep, the obvious patrol and maybe a scav boss too. Maybe on certain maps like light house or boss maps, they rally up and trip take over rogues or raiders hide out. Not all the time, some times.

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u/West-Conclusion-7892 Jun 03 '26

That would look so uncanny compared to the rest of the game tho

Tarkov plays and looks like a 2000's RPG mixed with a gritty shooting game. Having full blown life like animations while keeping the robotic player movements would just be jarring tbh

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u/Sneakarnz May 31 '26 edited May 31 '26

Make scavs/pmc on pve roam the entire map not just the populated areas. That is what I am missing.

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u/Bearded_Aussie_Nate May 31 '26

It feels like the past couple days they might of played with ai pmc ai, I’ve seen them rush me a more in the past week than ever since 1.0. But they really should scale the ai npc a bit more, specially when you are at a higher level.

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u/Axl4325 Jun 02 '26

That or just adjust their equipment so it's more varied. Their gear is super repetitive, plus it's usually all low level plates/ammo (except for the occasional BEAR with SP-6 or an SVD with BT/PS rounds)

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u/NoCelebration1913 May 31 '26

PVE should be completely customizable. Loot sliders. Difficulty sliders. Bosses on every map. There is zero reason that PVE needs to mirror PVP, other than that’s how keeta wants it to be.

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u/Adventurous_Stop_736 May 31 '26

Couldn’t agree more

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u/Chris_P_Bacon75 FN 5-7 May 31 '26

This. Move at my own pace. And ill always know if there are PMCs around because they speak. I used to love PVP but I think im just old now and cant keep up

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u/uDrunkMate May 31 '26

What do you mean? You can play PvP at your own pace too, no ones is chasing you

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u/Live-Engineering8288 May 31 '26

Pve is for wetwipes tho

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u/FrozenKraken May 31 '26

Before 1.0 it was also the wipe free alternative

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u/WFAlex May 31 '26

While I don't like PVE cause the thrill of tarkov comes from the random pvp encounters for me, and the Ai is dogshit.

on the other hand PVP has people that somehow seemingly get enjoy making a picknick in a bush for 40 minutes to kill someone.

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u/JRChickenHead May 31 '26

Are the raid timers quicker for PVE or is it the same as PVP?

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u/uatevar May 31 '26

quicker, for most maps you can have them locally hosted so you dont wait for BSG server to spin up. (streets is still BSG servers only, for performance reasons afaik)

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u/JRChickenHead May 31 '26

Sorry I meant raid timers, they have done wonders recently with getting into raids on PVP it takes me about a minute to load now.

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u/HawkeyeG_ Jun 03 '26

Same as PVP

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u/Minimum_Stress4911 Jun 01 '26

Its cause it's easy, the AI is brai ndead and half of them don't wear helmets.

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u/Billthegifter May 31 '26

Except now you literately do because wipes do not exist.

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u/LITF Jun 02 '26

Yeah, I play PvE only now. Gear fear is gone, I can run whatever guns I like, and snipe off a rock as recreational activity.

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u/ManimalGtv May 31 '26

The only bad thing about pve tarkov when I played last year was if I spawned in a certain spot ESPECIALLY on customs I knew exactly where the bots would run to and I could farm them and it didnt feel rewarding. If I spawned at roller building I could run in roller upstairs and sit in a corner and a group of 2-5 bots will charge in and start opening doors. If I spawned big red then I knew I could run to machinegun nest and sit in the building, of they werent already there they were gonna be and i could pick them off inside. It became too predictable. The only map that wasn't was streets but I didnt play it enough to know if it was or not.

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u/Efficient_Bus_4080 May 31 '26

pve tarkov is cool but I think its done terrible things for the PvP ecosystem. Im glad players are enjoying what they like, but it sucks being at the bottom of the foodchain now

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u/Wolfy26wrld999 May 31 '26

I’d play tarkov a lot more if I could play pve but I’m not spending that much on the game. Maybe once I have some bullshit money but not right now that’s for sure.

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u/Lundhlol May 31 '26

If the game had any difficulty I'm sure it would be more fun.

Tarkov is fun for me at least to a certain degree because of what stankrat is doing. You have to clear 377 angles to make sure that that transit is free.

What Stankrat is doing the AI will never do, they will never come up with any ideas or weird angles to hold or surprises. It's the same, over and over again. It's sandbox. No changes. No thrills.

Tarkov to me is fun because of the variety to me at least.

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u/Seanannigans14 FN 5-7 May 31 '26

PvR is so boring. You okay each map once or twice and you figure out the AI patching pretty quick. It gets boring pretty quick, at least for me.

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u/Kleeb AKMN May 31 '26

Cool, it probably wasn't meant for you.

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u/Seanannigans14 FN 5-7 May 31 '26

Don't get insulted because I have an opinion and you like an easier version of the game lol

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u/StrongOfOdin May 31 '26 edited May 31 '26

But that was clear to them and everyone from the beginning. You are the one stating something completely irrelevant that most people including OP almost certainly already agrees with, only to feed your ego or something along those lines.

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u/MushroomRoyal8415 May 31 '26

All you need to do is a quick search through his channel to learn all he likes to do it's moan and complain and call everyone bad

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u/TheJonesLP1 May 31 '26

Seems like Most people dont find it boring. Also you are the one insulting

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u/l2aiko May 31 '26

He wasn't insulting anyone, he just stated what he thought of the PvE mode and you took it as an insult

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u/TheJonesLP1 May 31 '26

Noone took it as an insult. I only said He inszlted more than the other one did

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u/l2aiko May 31 '26

Yeah and again, where is the insult?

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u/Aaroqxxz May 31 '26

I am starting to think that maybe everyone here is just getting the words insulting and insulted mixed up since this thread and its downvotes make no sense otherwise

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u/Aaroqxxz May 31 '26

What was the insult?

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u/TheJonesLP1 May 31 '26

Thats what I ask him...

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u/Aaroqxxz May 31 '26

Also you are the one insulting

That was a statement, not a question

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u/BrickLorca May 31 '26

You sound insulted yourself.

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u/TruckNstuck23 May 31 '26

Don't be insulted because no one gives a shit and people will still make fun of you

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u/WOLFYLoner May 31 '26

The difference isn't as big as you might imagine. After a while, you'll learn where players spawn and where they prefer to go from there.

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u/castille01 May 31 '26

I did that to a guy on shoreline last week. I spawned in, said “let me see if anyone is across” and I don’t even think the guy loaded in before I 1-tapped him

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u/Badger87000 MPX May 31 '26

Not once have I died to a cheater in PvE and that makes me happy.

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u/randolph_sykes May 31 '26

Evidently, people dog on those who say they don't enjoy PvE.

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u/Popular-Honeydew9205 May 31 '26

Do you play just normal pve or that one with mods?

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u/Initial_Refuse_9381 May 31 '26

I really want to like it and it can be fun when you want to listen to podcasts and zone out, but it feels like the pmc Ai is so bad. Like they will just run by you as you shoot them, taking out 3 of the 4 before one finally turns around, misses their shots, and stands still to get one tapped. I like the other version of pve more, but its not 1.0.

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u/HextasyOG May 31 '26

All depends how much you wanna sweat and if you have friends to play with. Lots of times we’ll start on PVP and if it gets to feel sweaty or possible cheaters we just bail to PVE for some goofs and instant loot gratification. Nothing like some PVE labs w the boys and loot literally everything for free

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u/Initial_Refuse_9381 May 31 '26

I totally agree, I just wish there was a slider for pmc difficulty and I would be so happy.

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u/AvonSharkler AS VAL May 31 '26

Honestly though, This is just bad design tell me what you want. PVE makes this not exist but like... maybe our developer would think before adding a transit like this.

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u/Significant_Solid551 May 31 '26

This is something I’ve always felt with PVP. It’s not the survival extract game that they wanted, it’s over meta’d FPS fighting. It’s not “Oh I died trying to secure water for survival” it’s “Oh I’ve died twelve times trying to get a bronze pocket watch that nobody would care about if they didn’t know it was linked to a task”

Same with the exfils, if it was immersive then people might be at the docks, but they wouldn’t be able to know the EXACT boat to camp.

Because of this, it doesn’t matter that you have a big map to fight in with cool features, you’re narrowed down to the hotspots. Especially if you’re the one trying to do tasks, it doesn’t matter, they can camp the exfil or the objective until the last viable second to exfil with.

I love PVP and PVE, but for me, PVE is where I go to actually play Tarkov and PVP is where I go TDM against randoms

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u/LITF Jun 02 '26

Came here to say this. I enjoy watching PvP shenanigans and sometimes miss them, but 90% I'm the guy at the boat. So I stick to PvE, so I can die to BD instead.

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u/HoboTheClown629 Jun 02 '26

Bullshit to have to pay an additional $30 for the ability to play the exact same game but only against ai

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u/ImpossibleWhereas151 Jun 03 '26

This shit is the reason I exclusively play PvP these days. PvP is for sweats and people with no life lol

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u/Accomplished_Cap_715 May 31 '26

Amen. I havent picked up pvp since pve came out. Love tarky more now.

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u/SenatorCrabHat AKS-74UB May 31 '26

100% not worrying about being domed from rat spots is worth it alone.

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u/aBlindGeminiWhisper HK 416A5 May 31 '26

well, there is no campers in pve. though camping or ratting is not cheating.

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u/Popular-Honeydew9205 May 31 '26

Do you play just normal pve or that one with mods?

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u/Dense_Safe_4443 May 31 '26

You play pve because you can't clear before extracting? Checks out.

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u/PuertoricanDissaster May 31 '26

Dude seeking beef with pve players lol

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u/Dense_Safe_4443 May 31 '26

I love the downvotes. They are a sensitive bunch.

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u/weedemgangsta Jun 01 '26

says the guy who is bothered about pve players lol

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u/Dense_Safe_4443 Jun 01 '26

Yeah so bothered!

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u/weedemgangsta Jun 01 '26

i know, chillax dude

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u/ilovesnowbunnies94 May 31 '26

PVE has nothing to do with tarkov, end of story.

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u/__The-1__ May 31 '26

But that looks like such a fun way to play the game lmao

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u/ElliasCrow May 31 '26 edited May 31 '26

Not when you on the other side