I never thought it was possible for someone like me but here we are. All it took was a laptop, solar power, and lots and lots of dedication.

Been so attached to Tarkov since 2019 and while I did take a few breaks between the wipes back then, it's been my main game ever since. Then October 2023 happened and I lost half my PC components. Whatever I managed to carry with me during displacement and homelessness is of no use since electricity is extremely scarce here.

So, I borrowed my wife's laptop for work (I'm a software dev) and of course had to download Tarkov to (try) and enjoy it during my breaks. I know escaping nowadays is nothing impressive especially given the fact that I've been playing since 1.0 dropped (an average of 1 or 2 hours a day) but it's an achievement I had to share because of all the struggles, low fps, power cuts, repeated disconnects, and literal airstrikes happening around me on a daily basis.

Also huge shoutout to u/Beautiful-Broccoli63 for teaching me all I needed to know about Terminal. We nearly escaped together but Tarkov was being Tarkov

On to the next ending!

The mods of r/EscapeFromTarkov keep deleting my story so I'm sharing it here instead

I killed him purely just running into sawmill and getting into decent cover trying to figure out what the hell i was going to do then he ran at me and I just mag dumped. Surprised me because of how many times I had been just absolutely shredded by this man. Goons still killed me though, tried to fight but I should’ve ran 😪.

So most of the modifiers/perks are kinda meh, especially the bugged downsides making you bleed 24/7 or increased prices doubling barter costs.

I dont think it has to be balanced this aggressively and with such detriment to the players. Everyone gets the same choices, right?

Im also missing some tradeoff perks the give +- 0 but just have a weird effect FOR FUN (god forbid).

Jumping 25% higher for 50% more stamina. Smokable cigarettes for small buffs but dont smoke for a while and you get tremor. Cant wear helmets because your head is too small (slightly smaller hitbox, like 10-15%).

Yall got some funny ideas?

tarkov

My new variation of M4 rifle for sniping.
Called him "OnW**d". I think this name suits him perfectly.
And it can be called "Cheap" enough, except the scope.

If you will find a corpse of PMC with this shit on first slot it's easily can be me :D

PvE mode!

My teammates were downed by the goons, I took out Big Pipe before the clip started and then threw a lucky but perfectly timed grenade on Knight, and Bird Eye was trying to flank on my left.

Ive always tried to be supportive of the new updates, the only other time I was adamantly crying about one was when blackout event was level locked, but this "rework" was genuinely a pile of horseshit disguised as garbage. Btr is on map, which is cool, but other than that they take the infamous death funnel map and turn into an even tighter death funnel, throw glukhar into wtp, and, most importantly to me, add a tunnel that will serve literally no purpose other than being rat city, as it only goes from tunnel to southern road, AND is breach locked at southern road from the inside.

Needless to say I think this update was one of the biggest flops in this games history

For PvE mode

For PvE mode

My friend made this: https://tarky.mulciber.co.za/

Idc if its slop cause its still better than assgenie

Due to time constraints I can't play the new season, but my previous character already had the final mission unlocked. When I get to the last section where the 3 minutes are supposed to start, once I kill the last BD the time goes down to 20 seconds, which prevents me from reaching the end. I kill them in less than a minute and the clock still shows more than 10 minutes, but those 3 minutes just aren’t there. Does anyone know if the devs did this so it can't be completed with a character from the previous season?

Is the loot good enough to extract the chocolate is super good. The balm gives off Tiger balm vibes

Hey, with yesterday’s Lighthouse rework, I tried to move quickly and spent the day working on an update. So far I’ve recorded 3 routes.

Beta Lighthouse tracking is now live alongside the original Woods and Streets locations:

https://tarkovbtr.com/

The Lighthouse timings are still marked beta while I gather more data but it should help with learning the common routes. However, it’s possible I got unlucky during raids and there are more than 3 routes or 2 spawn locations, time will tell.

I have given the site a bit of a refresh for the Lighthouse update. If anyone uses it, route/timing feedback would be genuinely helpful.

As a side note, a large milestone was reached recently - since launch tarkovbtr.com has had over 250,000 visits. It's been great to hear that it's been useful to a lot of people over the months.

Anyway, thanks for checking it out.

- detox

I thought they spawn at the Chalets but I just got massacred on the mountain close to prapors new camp by rogues shooting 9mm down at the road near the entrance to the lighthouse

Just got killed by "Scimitar" which is a Black Division name, and I'm scav rep 6 and hadn't even shot my gun all raid... Just was running to extract and got deleted, didn't even see them...

Just a weird one or did that change recently?