nice video bro

I run enforcer with the hundred round stick mags. I can't even begin to count the number of kills where I've just been laying down fire on a corner, and people assume I will run out of ammo so they swing the corner right into my stream of bullets.

Enforcer is especially fun for last hero if you run class 5 plate, cqcm mask and 2 drum mags of sost.

Umm it’s because I’m new 😂 idk wtf I’m doing

Bro you are a Legend. THANK YOU

My ass got it backward I got 26 Endurance and 16 STR I find it a chore to level str.

what if you want to play enforcer because of the machine gun😢

Armor doesn't win rounds. Running class 6 is pointless, the only round you are realistically going to run into that beats class 5 is M61, but it also pens class 6 so what difference does it make. Use the extra points and build a better gun that you can reliably use and control.

The game is headshot only anyway, unless you are running full auto 7.62x51 (with the latest patch even BCP FMJ can work). Halo force field armor turned every gun into a BB toy gun. You either instakill someone with face shot, or it takes so much time and hits to chew through armor, that you'll probably end up dead from 3rd party, return fire rng headshot, or your target just bunnyhop away into cover.

You're sleeping on enforcer + saiga + flechette, I don't know about blastgang/TF coz I'd rather stick a toothpick under my thumbnail and kick a wall than play them, but this setup is tons of fun on last hero. It also teaches you to clear jams :^) (Pro tip for the newbies, bind "inspect weapon" to the button you want to use for jam, and then "fix malfunction" to the same button but on the release mode. Hold the button to inspect and let go once you've identified the jam to fix it in one motion)

You will never take awey my sost

for enforcer, I run a level 6 armor with the vulcan, and for the gun, I choose the RPK, using a 60 round mag with a 30, it's kinda hard to burn through all of the 90 rounds, and not die, on LH, and I can pick up someone else's gun, with better penetration, from a dead enemy in TF or BG. Also, this setup could kill a pkm player even if I had a direct run in with them.

Nice 😊

ULACH over Airframe/mandable? Level 3 face protection can save you from people running sub-optimal ammo and last I checked the Airframe combo is about the same as the ULACH for points.

Arrogance in Arena is endless

Im running enforcer with the chinese face mask and 416 with 100 rounds mag of sost XD

I personally use the G36 or HK416 with 60 drums running SOST because I can spray for heads, the way I play I’m aiming head level for a majority of the time

I’m ngl bro this is a miss. Im assuming that you’ve haven’t played high level ranked, SOST is super viable and meta for enforcer and if you play with a 5 stacks have your scout player drop 55a1 mags for enforcers. Helmets are not needed as well unless your on enforcer. Shattered mask is meta and saves points for ammo and stims. Dude your normal tarkov vids are valid but your arena vids are out of touch because you just haven’t played against high level comp teams B,B+,A, and A+. D rank and C lobbies you play against noobs especially unranked.

don't know if it's "optimal" but STM-9 is also available on enforcer and pretty fun

I'd say running enforcer with aug and sost is fine(just aim for the head), the only reason people run enforcer is for tasks. No one wants to play with a shotgun or a pistol when you want to get your tasks done fast and easy.

I prefer the ahfi over the perfora because it s cheaper

nice video, one of my classes may or may not involve sost in an m4 but its mostly for the utility of having a super low recoil gun to smack heads with 60 rounds because i find myself running out of ammo in the middle fights often

dude that fucking body had me screaming

how to use it synchron?

One costs money and the other doesn’t, I think I know what I’m picking…

money is not an issue, but the xp is definitely a lot, especially after 46. I'm level 70 and have only played 200 raids in eft. I think they can cut the xp in half and it would still be a good incentive to play arena

PVE was worse.

Early wipe isn’t fun and I don’t have 24/7 to grind just keep the progression how it is

Cheaters ruin it more IMO, shit optimization and AI tracking through walls ruin the game. We have like 13 kinds of 5.45 ammo but cheaters can still loot through walls and fly hack or whatever. fix that shit we dont need content imo. I am excited for 1.0 but holy shit fix the cheating and optimizations please.

Your single wipe of anecdotal experience of pre vs post arena progression in reaching max traders is complete and utter garbage. Level 42 took at least half the hours, or less, than any other wipe. Sorry but this is at least part of the reason why many aren’t playing - it’s too easy. Also I don’t know why every comparison you make is from a pvp lens, where someone is punching down on someone else. It’s already been surveyed that more than half of the playerbase play the game for the questing and the grind rather than just straight pvp. When those players no longer feel like the challenge or grind is there, they disappear. To me, that’s why this wipe is dead.

I bought the game 4 days ago i got arena for free whit the keys while i was playing arena i got to lvl 38 when i bought the game i was lvl 40 whit lvl 1 trades no quest completed it felt gooooddd

I prefer farming rubles on Arena in the weekend because its a SAFE rubles..Yes you can make more on scav BUT...let say you have 5 min queque tak you loot 5-10 min and then you die to raider/PMC/Scav then you waisted 15-20 min for nothing while on arena even if you place in middle of the pack you get some rubles..

for sttreamers the early wiipe is what ? 4 days witthout arena ? they complain because everyone is leveling faster and theres no timmy everywhere. Also the real casu are in pve. nowadays theres almost oonly 2000h min gamers in pvp tarkov. of course we level up really fast.

I really love your takes on this taeyoff. Arena and the fleamarket changes for me really saved the game and I enjoy the progression and balance much more now. The real problems bsg needs to work on imo are performance, load times, bugs, and hackers. The game is in a very good state without these issues.

Arena is blessing for players that dont have 8-10 hours per day to play Tarkov. In my case it was extra fun because of pure pvp. I think BSG did good job with progression from Arena to classic Tarkov.

They need to lower the price money on unranked...

It's not about progression or money imo, it's about how dead the wipe has felt right from day one. I think it's a combination of PVE, Arena, cheaters, and a lackluster patch. With a lot of casuals moving to PVE, and the early grinders on Arena, there wasn't a feeling of community progression in the early weeks. No groups of timmies trying to collect pocket watch or do the early game grind together. I only played a handful of Arena matches because of all the sync issues, and early wipe almost felt identical to the end of last wipe. The raids felt partially filled and there was hardly conflict at the main task areas. There used to be one way to play Tarkov and progress, and that was getting into raid and surviving. That's what made it special and so intense back then. Also, players are usually extremely goal driven in this game, and having a fast pass to flea means you bypass one of the first big milestones. That surely played a part in the lack of early game taskers. So no, I don't think Arena directly ruined the economy or even progression, but it definitely took a toll on how the early wipe felt.

I've reached level 44 without Arena, but the sheer amount of level 50-65 players absolutely dunking on me while having less than half my hours is insane. I'm not a naturally gifted tarkov player, my reflexes aren't great, my positioning and flanks are quite good though, along with my general game sense, after 6400 hours since 2018, but damn, I've NEVER seen level 60+ players killing me one after the other in 6 years of playing this game and the main difference is Arena. There was totally unrestricted flea market and level 6 armor barters, people were about lvl 48 for the mostt part then that killed me, not 62. What gives? Also the CONSTANT AACPC chads are getting boring as all hell to be honest, and that is all thanks to Ref and Arena.

I didn't have the time to play the main game with how late the wipe came, I played occasionally solo or in a duo with a Standart acc guy who has more time than me, so he tried to rush kappa. With arena dailies we had around 5-7 lvl gap, except at the end I didn't have basically any lvl4 traders besides prapor and mechanic, because I didn't do my quests, and for me completing 3 dailes and a weekly in one arena game is much easier than doing several quests with required survival at the same time. Also thanks for the suggestion to play comp, it really helped me to not suffer outside of deathmatch

I think it is the opposite . EFT save Arena . no one was really going into it, but once they add the money. coins, and lvling. people went to try Arena and someone ended up actually liking Arena, so again EFT saved Arena. without the link . Arena would of stayed the same, and everyone in EFT would of kept in EFT trying to find out what other ways can they lvl and get more of an upper hand to other players.. so at the end. they both now benefit from each game. as for me . I still stick to EFT on everything and dont mind who other get the upper hand, as long as they aren't using cheats lol. the game is the best thing on the players doing or playing whoever they enjoy the game, and for me i still stay the way in EFT so it gets a bit harder , cause everyone else s fidn other faster ways to get a upper hand, but i dont mind , that is a good challenge for me , so that is how im choosing my difficultly. I dont use anyting social media or reddit. so I dont fall into any of the he said she said. I just enjoy playing the game and let other bark on their believes lol. enjoyed your video. I said about the cheaters, but I got used to them too( no different from other games).

arena didnt ruin tarkov, bsg did by adding throat hitbox, ruining spawns, ruining audio, making fighting not worth it, and doing nothing about the rampant cheater issue. people play arena because you get to have your pvp fix in a slightly less broken state than in regular tarkov while making progress in regular tarkov without having to put up with how absurdly shit the game is

i 100% agree with the timmy vs no lifer take. gearing up in all your best stuff only to run into hatchet runners and people with bad gear doesnt feel very good or rewarding, more people with mid-high tier stuff is more fun imo

You aren't looking at this from the perspective of the casual Tarkov player who returns to enjoy the early progression and then stops playing around lvl 30-40. For many of us, we romanticize the collective early game struggle which only takes place during the first week or so of wipe, it's a truly special time. The problem with arena is that it opens a path with less resistance, from which players can bypass levels 1-20. The 1-20 experience is exactly what many.. perhaps most players, return for each wipe. It's not an issue of time management or XP/Rubles per hour, it's about a fundamental change to the level 1-20 experience that has historically been worth returning for.

the problem with arena early wipe also allows people to invest in later items early on in the wipe by purchasing of the flee with the extra money i made from arena. by seeing where i was with quests and hideout upgrades this would allow me to see what items i needed a few days before i got there and also to buy extra and every time i bought in bulk i mad my money back in a few days and kept me way ahead financially. i think arena is great for learning but 1.5mil is to much for early wipe. but in general tarkov has major problems with hackers and it this wipe fell off two weeks after wipe day, players dropped off, hacker became more common in lobbies (competent hackers). Running into a speed hacker in 3 raids in one evening was fucked and then seeing all the stuff about recent hacks verybadscav and especially the easyanticheat "backdoor" to get innocent players banned. with these two things combined my favorite part of tarkov which is early wipe isn't as enjoyable anymore. these aren't the only reasons but this is the main reason this wipe wasn't as enjoyable. i am a player that would prefer a tarkov with no flea market which i believe is in the minority so take my opinion with that in mind. i prefer a sluggish grind.

I say it makes people more spongey. Vitality skill leveled high than normal. Cheaters still fucking game flow :/

While I do agree that Arena has been overall beneficial, the progression is a little on the crazy side. I'm currently level 52 this wipe and I have only played 19 PMC raids. My daily quests after level 46 on Arena will usually net me around 50k-120k and weekly quests will typically fall between 210k-430k. This would seem to contradict the Wiki but, I do have screenshots to back this up. Another thing to keep in mind is the daily class bonus for wins. Every 24 hours you get a double XP bonus for a win with each class. Usually this results in roughly 17k-18k XP if you are able to achieve roughly 40 or more kills in a Last Hero match and win. I have played roughly 200 matches on Arena. The vast majority of those matches were played in Last Hero however, I do happen to have an extremely high win rate. Depending on your proficiency level, your results will vary because, as stated in the video, only those who come first place attain the winning bonus. Side note, in my first day of playing Area I was able to reach level 6 after one match and level 19 after 32 matches, 23 of which were wins. I tend to drag my feet a little at the start of a wipe so hitting level 19 the first day with minimal effort as well as actually having fun was pretty cool.

how many hours u got

its not arena. tarkov is fundemetally flawed in its progression. a level 15 could be as geared as a level 42 due to the flea market. there is no point in using 70% of the gear in the game because class 3 and 4 armor is useless and only pen matters. the reason why tarkov progression is too quick is mainly due to the flea market being too open to low level players and arena just exposed that. the only gaps are level 1-14, 15-42, 42+. the game should feel like level 1-14, level 15-23, level 24-32, level 32-36, level 37-42, level 43+. Heres my take. ban all level 5-6 gear and 42+ pen ammo from traders and flea. Make certain keys purchasable from traders after a certain level-locked quest. end game gear can be found behind those key-locked doors. a good example of this is kiba, but instead of needing the keys randomly, have it purchaseable from ragman after some level 30+ quest. Then, ban the ability to buy gear/ammo on flea until the player could obtain that gear. for instance, if you were level 42 and got a slick, you could sell the thing in full with the plates and all, but only to players who have done a quest that could sell a key that has slicks in its loot pool. that means that if some sniper who mainly plays lighthouse wants to continue sniping but they need bullets or the gun or other gear, they could buy whatever they want off flea given they have done a quest that allows them to buy that gear but not force the player to run certain maps like interchange for rigs and plates or woods for bullets and so on. an example of this would be like finishing the cult part 2 to gain access to one of the dorm rooms in customs that has a 100% spawn chance of a kitted hk416 with parts and all, but you also gain access to buy/sell those parts on the flea to other players who have completed the quest. another could be 338 AP if you complete huntsman path relentless TLDR everything is restricted on flea and is quest-locked. everything could be bought/sold given you have done a certain quest.

Honestly, for me, it's the cheaters that are keeping me from coming back. I am not a great player and only have time to play a round or 2 here and there between work and life. When 1 of those 2 rounds is dying to a cheater it's just not worth it for me.

When assessing Arena you have to remember that you have to buy it. You got it for free because you have EoD, but others have to pay 40$ + tax and fees. So, - You get a somewhat worse but a lot less boring alternative for scav and loot runs for moneymaking. AND ONLY IF YOU PAID. - You get earlier and/or less annoying access to m80, 762 BP, SP-6 and good class 5 plates + the "meta" rig they come in. AND ONLY IF YOU PAID. - You get much faster early game leveling, and thus much faster access to good early gear and much better early economy (because you can sell items on the flea instead of selling to traders). AND ONLY IF YOU PAID. - You get relatively safe access to high end gear (in Lega key locked rooms). AND ONLY IF YOU PAID. Advantages Arena gives are much more sencetive than their power would suggest because they are inherently p2w. But selling p2w has been a decent part of Tarkov's business model since forever, so emotionally i don't care much. As for having ways for less skilled and/or invested players to catch up somewhat to megasweats - they do need to exist but Arena probably makes the situatioin worse: - Your hypothetical timmy won't have lvl 20 and good combat skills from Arena, because they wouldn't have bought Arena. Instead you and other decently invested players who have Arena will be stomping on that timmy even harder. - Now adding such ways to the base game will hurt sales of Arena (or whatever the next thing will be), so they are less likely to be added. Regarding Lightkeeper: to get to Lightkeeper you have to do a bunch of annoying quests for Mechanic. And as a reward you get... the ability to do even more even more annoying quests (but for Lightkeeper this time), and as a reward for them you get access to some gear you may never even run. Oh, and you get an achievement. Very few people get to Lightkeeper because for most people it isn't worth it, not because they can't.