Welcome To Tarkov
Escape from Tarkov (EFT) is a hyper realism take on the first person shooter genre with strong RPG and MMO flavors for you to digest on your trip through the slaughter house that is Norvinsk.
With 3 main factions, and 7 dealers waiting to pay for your services, Tarkov is a hot zone for a Merc, like yourself.
You begin your journey by picking either a USEC or a BEAR soldier, we wont get into the lore behind these two sides but to keep things super simple USEC speaks English and the BEAR Russian. (you can use in game emotes to yell at each other in their own dialect).
Both mentioned above fall under the PMC option when your ready to select a map, you can customize your loadout how ever you see fit and drop in a match at will.
Your second option is SCAV. As a scavenger you have certain advantages and disadvantages.
Advantages, you are on the side of the NPCS as long as you don’t show aggression towards them by shooting or melee attack. You are given a random loadout, and anything you acquire en route to your exfil is allowed to be kept and utilized by your PMC.
Disadvantages, your on the side of the NPCS and others who may decide to play SCAV and you run the risk of being killed by a friendly player SCAV. Random loadout can be awesome or garbage. Ex: only a pistol on Woods, pretty useless. Also no secure container, so if you die you lose everything, no xp earned via SCAV is kept, and no tracking of any stats whatsoever.
Also, 10 minute cooldown in between SCAV uses, regardless of successful extract or death. Cheeki Breeki!
Out Of Raid
So this is my favorite part of Tarkov, so far at least. Between your stash, the vendors, missions, market house. Its all fantastic, in your stash you have your gear and items you own, this is where you edit your loadouts. The vendors provide things for you to trade/buy, also give you missions which further their opinions of you and open up more goodies to buy later on.
It takes a great deal of time to grind market standings, as you only gain standing according to the dollar amount sold and purchased, and lose standing when a sale expires, I am roughly sitting around 7.8 points of standing right now and I haven’t opened another sell slot yet, so this is a massive grind that is typically left to high loot players.
But the bread and butter is preparation, and if you fail to prepare you prepare to fail. I am from the side of meh, I’ll be ok in preparations, but it has yet to pay off. Taking the extra 5 mins to get the right ammo and armor goes along way into helping in engagements.
Hideout
With the release of .12 the addition of player hideouts has been released. The economy of the game has been stimulated like never before, pre-patch the general world loot had little purpose or value and money was tight. Post patch however all of these items in decent quantity were required for your hideout upgrades, i can release a write up later detailing this out. With upgrades such as reduce the scav cool down timer by X%, to how fast your solider recovers out of raid, the hideout is more of a game changer for those more active players.
To the Future
This is a solid title for those left with wanting more from a shooter, the community is on the rise and the devs are some of the most involved with in the community that ive ever seen. The reddit page is bumping, and the twitch for battlestate has daily content for your viewing pleasure.
