How I Play Tarkov without Gear Fear - PVP Tips - Escape From Tarkov

[@MaCreed1337]

3:00 was nasty

[@notthehomie]

“Use gear that compliments your confidence” literally the best advice I’ve heard for this subject

[@EstebanDuran-v1s]

Im an operator or was engaged a lot of fire fights in Syria, Afghanistan and Mexico some of the gear was our own and me and my squad leader would say this all the time

[@DraxTheDestroyer]

Indeed!

[@senseicreamyyt9274]

Not enough people are talking about that fight in basement of reserve with the doors. Shit was nutty lol

[@myntay]

Thank you for your content, this is my very first wipe and watching you has helped me mechanically get better at the game. Would love it if you made more updated guides as well but what you have up has already helped a lot so thank you. Much love 🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@nothung2145]

Your point on using gear that's good as an advantage before other people obtain better kits is super valid. Several wipes ago before the armor changes i found myself a Altyn with a faceshield as well as a slick on wipe day. I ran that for like the first two or three days of the wipe before i finally died. Eventually some mosin man found himself some SNB ammo and 1 tapped my helmet but prior to that it definitely carried me through some fights i shouldn't have won.

[@NoGenerals]

Good insight

[@lew_7]

very underrated channel, this guy plays so uniquely and hits some disgusting shots, props to u bro

[@TehGlitchGuide]

Easily my favorite Tarkov content.. honestly deserves way more subs

[@ben_heartbound]

fr

[@straightfacedmase6184]

I found this guy when he had like 10 subs and avg a few views. But ngl. The content is getting boring. I like reserve but damn. Play a dif map man.

[@thecaledonian7643]

Great tips. Been playin since Alpha but nice to keep up to date between juggling other games. 4:27 its actually possible to throw insured gear on factory, under the tanks at the end of Glass Tunnel/Gate 3. You can throw all kinds of shit down the pit under those tanks for a guaranteed return. Love the vids though, keep em comin my man 👑

[@Jason-ut8wc]

Just remember, it all wipes away in the end. Use it.

[@NoGenerals]

Exactly

[@joshualuttrell7269]

I think a very small percentage of people have "gear fear". For the most part people are afraid of the adrenaline that PvP brings, but have been told in videos or by streamers that it's so-called "gear fear".

[@T729-3]

Just a note to all with insurance fruading if you are collecting too much insurance back and losing some to timers, insure with therapist as she has a longer hold timer that prapor.

[@kungfu3299]

thats useless

[@killasjanitor]

@@kungfu3299 How?

[@kungfu3299]

@@killasjanitor a longer hold timer only helps the first time you use it, after that you will either have the same problem as with prapor, for more roubles, or you will go back to prapor and have an opposite and equal effect. Day 1: You lose your gear from day 1 Day 2: You get your gear from day 1, lose your gear from day2 Day 3: you get your gear from day 2, lose frm day3 Day 4: your day 1 gear is expiring you have to collect an entire day's gear, you get day 3 gear, you lose day 4 gear Then, the cycle repeats Therapist only adds a day 5 to the cycle, but that changes nothing. You have 1 day to make space for an entire day's worth of gear. This applies both to therapist and prapor.

[@T729-3]

@@kungfu3299 mate you forgetting that most people have jobs so longer timers gives them more chance to use it when they can only play 1-2 raids a day

[@kungfu3299]

@@T729-3 nope same shit

[@ashtvxn]

I died 6 times in a row yesterday as a solo, but it was some of the most fun ive had. 3 of the 6 six raids I killed 2 PMCS and in 1 raid I ran into a 5 man and killed 4. zero rubles made but hella fun.

[@alphoxi]

That’s what it’s about bro, nice shit 1v5 with 4 kills is insane !

[@NoGenerals]

Good work mate, keep it consistent

[@JoshuaBollon]

if more ppl knew about you youd have more subs i been watching tarkov vids and playing for years, imo your one of the best pvp players

[@alexbeerx]

I think people can overcome the gearfear after they understand that it pretty easy to farm money on scav. And actually almost every average player has survival rate more than 50%, so you statistically will have more profit raids and don’t even need to farm. Also the less you farm the less you worry about the time you spent on gear, when you die. And don’t forget that better gear give you more chances to survive and probably you want to loose 2 expensive gears and win the 3rd raid rather than loose 20 cheap sets

[@NoGenerals]

Making money doesn’t translate into confidence well for most people. I’ve coached a handful of people with many millions, loading up with cheap kits

[@reposaur]

regarding insurance frauding, the opposite helped me really get rid of my gear fear. instead of throwing my gear away for another player's gear, i kept it and kept going with it until i eventually died with it. this kind of put into perspective the idea that every item will get lost eventually and its just a part of the game

[@NoGenerals]

If it works..

[@reposaur]

@@NoGenerals it helped me really have fun this wipe because in previous wipe i found myself using the same guns again, but doing this basically forced me try out a new gun every time i die and now i found the tx15 my new favorite :)

[@juniorfernandes7874]

Generals, firstly tks for the content! One thing I'm trying to improve in the game is the fear of fighting other players, most of the time I try to stay in stealth mode... would you have any advice "to overcome this fear"? Tks!

[@Spawn409]

Love the video (including all your videos) could you make one addressing solo anxiety? Keep up the great work dude, I've been binge watching all of your content and you've become my favorite Tarkov content creator. Your play style ... mechanics and game sense is outstanding!

[@finallightface3240]

For me, i think my main issue was always i just couldnt be bothered with dieing, re gearing up and then waiting for the next raid. I dont mind losing gear coz you can just buy it back anyway. This fear of dieing just to do it all over again is what gets me

[@joshuathies2540]

Excellent tips I’m in my third wipe and I till get gear fear from time to time.

[@Michaeltje89]

2:53 DAMN..... That fight was perfect use of environment.

[@LycorisOni]

I think my big thing that conquered any gear fear left was use the mega thor class five armor with an rpd I found two buben mags and some heals and went on customs going on a spree with a set of gear well over a mil worth. Just had a blast experiencing something powerful and hard to kill in fighting pmcs and scavs until I finally crumbled losing all of it but got so much fun even though I died. Literally just splurg on a build and fight til you die. You'll learn just how fun it is to go out and not fear fights as much.

[@-_-kcdq-_-5700]

I love those kinds of videos when he breakdowns a topic

[@djvne]

PUSH WITH CONFIDENCE/KNOWLEDGE, USE UR BEST GEAR YOULL HAVE A BETTER CHANCE OF WINNING THE FIGHT. SOMETIMES YOU FLAT OUT GET ONE TAPPED BUT YOULL BE SURPRISED AT HOW MANY PLAYERS YOU START TO KILL WHEN YOU ENGAGE IN GUNFIGHTS CONFIDENTLY

[@ItIsYouAreNotYour]

Best tip I've heard about this is, "Not using it is the same as never having it to begin with." It made sense, besides the fact I save it because I can't purchase it yet haha and hoping I can hold my own more by then.

[@nickos2079]

Yeah you're wrong, doesn't matter if you can't get it! Use it now, everyone is the same, takes a few wipes. Once you've lost a few meta kits it will be like water off a ducks back. I'd be embarrassed if my corpse didn't have sick drip and good gear on it 😂

[@Starbawk]

I love your videos, you are cracked, and your voice makes me melt

[@MousePotato_]

I think it’s just more or less map knowledge for me and when to utilize certain play styles in certain situations. Like when to Agro peak or play passive and patient I still tend to overthink those situations and I sit for too long and get pushed

[@NoGenerals]

Record your gameplay, watch it back. Take away info

[@MousePotato_]

@@NoGenerals yes general! Umm I mean no general.. I mean yes nogeneral 😂👌

[@Najemnik001]

For me helps a lot when I realize when I have better armor and weapon I survive more and kill more.

[@oldboy8081]

Never thought about insuring weapons and tossing them somewhere safe! Cheers

[@CalamityBoomPants]

Hey man, great content as usual! Love the tips on gear fear. I think a good video idea would be to make a guide about when to heal. I feel like it's something overlooked and there isn't much content about it. As a non-chad (working on it) sometimes I struggle in fights cause I see a blacked or super red limb and get all frozen up cause I feel like I'm one-tapped but see a lot of the great players like yourself, continue to take fights and remove the threats before healing. Just an idea. Thanks again!

[@NoGenerals]

Interesting idea

[@c0refreAk.]

what also helped me was just the fact: no matter how much gear you lose duriung a wipe, as the name already states, EVERYTHING is gone anyway when the next wipe hits so are you really losing anything?

[@XIIOSRS]

Can you make a video on guns 100-200k please?

[@kylewest4212]

By now I’m surprised you’re only at 30k man you’ll blow up soon

[@icey_b1562]

Thing that helps me is to use presets for guns that aren’t too expensive for how progressed I am. That way I’m not too attached to them. Die? Just make another one.

[@EXTRA300s]

Am I alone with this when I say for me it is not GEAR FEAR, but I hate it to be shot from nothing...the jump scares, almost never see the one who shoots me, and last but not least the (way to long) time I need to gear up, and I am finaly in a new RAID. I watch your vids becouse I think you are one of the best TAKOV PVPer I ever seen.

[@VlurryBision]

Started late in the wipe as always, I mostly play solo so its tough fighting fully kitted chads all the time... But this wipe decided to just use all my best gear and its been my most successful wipe yet! Just got to about lvl 20 and got no room in my stash.. about 14-15 weapons at a time😂 Never think I'm getting my insurance back but then i get everything and have to organize the stash

[@justperry5473]

After 5k hours my gear fear has evolved to a waste of time fear...

[@rednekray]

easy money glitch finna pyo. make a series called map knowledge, go over every single maps pvp areas and how to play them in certain situations for example go over dorms and show angles talk about how you gain the upper hand in a firefight and so on. most average timmys would pay good money for that no cap.

[@cdillowtg]

would love a video on a lightweight kit to run in game bro!!!

[@dsmith3199]

Great piece, as always. Keep up the great work. PS You're a beast

[@NoGenerals]

Much appreciated!

[@Oizzro]

Is there anything specific you do make sure your game is stable at 120 ping ish? Mine starts going crazy sometimes

[@NoGenerals]

Download gear up, highly recommend

[@Guroji]

My favorite tip to give for getting RID of gear fear-- i feel most of my fear comes from when I spend 20 minutes looking at attachments and ammo for my "new gun" that i want to try. I build an attachment to the gun/gear itself and how cool it makes my character look. My way around this, just build 3 or 4 kits at a time. Definitely spend the 20 minutes still enjoying the game and building your gun, but when youre finished, make sure you save it and build like 3 or 4! my reasoning behind this is if its new to you, of course youre going to die while trying to figure out the gun. thats why you build 3 or 4 so you can have awesome back to back raids without have to spend 20minutes building another gun/set of gear. When it comes to guns you love, do the same thing! you love the gun so much build 4! TLDR Bulk crafting my kits tricks me into not getting to attached to my gear.

[@MetaphoricalMusic]

this is a great tip!

[@ItIsYouAreNotYour]

My fear comes from losing 90% of my battles. If I was actually good, I'd be less fearful haha. It has only been a month though, I'm getting better.

[@MetaphoricalMusic]

@@ItIsYouAreNotYour as a newcomer do budget builds. I killed pmcs with stock guns.

[@ItIsYouAreNotYour]

@@MetaphoricalMusic Yeah, I do. I just lose most of my fights haha. Getting good ammo helps though. I don't really have gear fear though it's more about knowing I'm going to lose my gear because either my lack of understanding a map, can't buy ammo or magazines, or the gun in general. Money is so easy to make, I just am only level 14 with a month of game time after a reset from 19.

[@bastien7985]

My pb is not the gear fear it’s the ratio and the survival rate . I don’t care about stuff money I care about ratio pmc kill and SR . This is stupid I know but this is my pb

[@precipk]

Quickest way to I feel like is to think about it like we are all taking turns using each other's gear honestly Everybody will get they're turn some way or another but shi is def not forever unless you are hoarding lol

[@DoctorGrove]

Haha I've got the solo anxiety due to a combination of minimal map knowledge, lower mechanical skill, and Tarkov mechanics knowledge. This is my first wipe though so I guess it's to be expected. Hitting a wall with Reserve, Shoreline, and Lighthouse. The only thing that really helps is that I run a cheaper gear set so my deaths aren't too painful....but the Scav has been much more fun to play, which I don't entirely like since I'd like to progress my PMC more.

[@NoGenerals]

Focus on one thing, learning multiple things at once will increase the learning time

[@justbcoodog9259]

bro if you dont mind me asking where did you get that mousepad?? thats exactly what i need

[@NoGenerals]

Titan wolf,

[@justbcoodog9259]

@@NoGenerals thanks so much bro I appreciate it. Keep up the good work!!

[@xXhardcore108Xx]

i want that mouse pad btw where did you get it

[@NoGenerals]

Titan wolf

[@hawky7644]

My lack of confidence is in map knowledge 100% but mainly where enemies will spawn. Where to expect enemies to be. And so much more😂

[@Official_ISmokeyTheBear]

My question is how do you move like that? Lol Returning player and inertia just trips me out

[@viijunioriiv8512]

Ur game looks amazing i just adjuated my settings and i looks days different

[@brylythhighlights4335]

I'm going to go ahead and say that Gear Fear is a little bit of a lie. Yes, it exists, but alongside it is a much larger chunk of fear for the time it takes to get into a raid and start playing the game. When I was playing The Cycle: Frontier I experienced almost zero gear fear and was happy to push fights in even the highest tier kits I'd found, because if I died I could re-kit and be *in a live match* in under 2 minutes. In Tarkov, you're lucky to even have your gun put together in 2 minutes.

[@kartopod]

All the clips in this were NASTY

[@credecarter8429]

General is wise

[@jmsoarez8090]

My solution was too get rich. I would play raids for money and for fighting. If you have allot of roubles gear fear goes away. Gear fear starts when you use expensive kits knowing you have limited plays considering how many roubles you have.

[@KiragayaYeager]

great video man!!

[@6.2Lou]

I play both with squads and solo and I always just prefer solo it’s so much easier your not constantly worried about where your teammates at if the sound you just heard was them or not especially when they don’t even help during your gunfights and want you to just kill everyone😂

[@sgtlance6627]

I hated my gear fear so much I’ve basically destroyed my stash on multiple occasions. 90% of the time I have an empty ass stash ._. If I don’t use it immediately, I usually sell it and use the money to make something cheaper yet I would be less annoyed with losing.

[@paulbarclay4114]

correction: gear fear comes from playing on asia server where meta gear gets you face tapped every raid

[@fenris.507]

Nice i like this type of content

[@warlee6969]

Good shit, bro

[@wraithyyGG]

I feel like a lot of people have genuine fear of dying or the jump of being shot at more than their gear too

[@cascarudoFPS]

great vid, great content!

[@NoGenerals]

Appreciate it!

[@Motlicky]

MUCH LOVE

[@NoGenerals]

Love

[@DrAlexandrius]

I've come to realize I don't have gear fear, but "die instantly and having to wait another 15 minutes before joining again" fear... 😢

[@marci_assetto]

This game is about pvp. Either scavs or pmc. Think about it, if you kill somebody, they'll lose all their shit just like if you were being killed. This game is about killing, dying, doing quests and just enjoying it

[@zoommonkey]

great advice

[@outforlunch1258]

big ups

[@bigbangbiggi]

i lack confidence in the anticheat

[@Trollzy55]

I dont have gear fear, i go out with whatever i can afford. But i just feel trash. I lose almost every fight. I love tarkov, but i just cant play well

[@larrybutler9203]

How do I get better at mechanical skill? First time on pc and this is my first wipe lol and I just suck with mouse and keyboard

[@NoGenerals]

Long story short, practice

[@larrybutler9203]

@@NoGenerals alright bro thanks Hopefully one of these days I can terrorize customs 🫡

[@fabledrebel3961]

Keep your sensitivity low and once your comfortable, raise it up a little more and just keep repeating that. I got into pc in 2018 and it took me a bit to feel confident with my aim but you’ll get there. Good luck!

[@larrybutler9203]

@@fabledrebel3961 thank you bro!

[@elijah343]

the thing that pisses me off is the constant cheaters because im in AU servers. Whats the point in running good kits if youre just gonna die to a cheater 50% of the time or ppl who dont move once they hear you running up. Just run the green 6B armour that covers your neck so you dont get 1 shot by scavs and follow the meta weapons

[@mr.fanner3312]

I always insure everything bec I normally play with a trio and I died with an ultra chad kit but I didn’t insure the gun bec it was 100k… I got everything else back bec the guy couldn’t find my body

[@vladimirdosen6677]

Get comfortable with dying. Mistakes are not permanent, you learn and correct.

[@BX-Fish]

Running shitters just to learn the map forced the gear fear i once had out of my brain, and now 2500 hours into the game I'll still run a shitter mosin just to have some fun.

[@xXhardcore108Xx]

i dont have gear fear i just think its boring playing solo

[@p.dybala1187]

I actually think that playing solo is the best way of playing. I am new to this game (~100h) and i play mainly solo. When i sometimes play duo i have the feeling that everything is new and completely different then solo. I mostly die when i have a teammate.

[@lew_7]

as a solo player i prefer it, no need to worry about teamkilling and u can gank squads pretty hard by masking your audio with there’s especially in resort and dorms

[@straightfacedmase6184]

@@p.dybala1187because when playingg with others you have to communicate and play faster. Playing solo allows for much slower and “tactical” combat. But that a bunch of mumbo. Everyone plays solo so they have an excuse for ratting but its more fun to play solo when youre rushing teams head on like ur a five man each with altyns and zabralos. Trust man. Ppl are to pussy to move in this game and acc moving and rushing ppl makes the nervous and you always win every fight. Especially with peakers advantage and dsync

[@OsaculnenolajO]

​@@p.dybala1187you definitely learn fastest while playing solo.

[@pedraaaa]

Tell me lies

[@dominix3910]

I did not have gear fear when i started playing tarkov because I came from Rust

[@mrcrandy2783]

actually never had gear fear, its a game just play the coolest stuff you can haha. One advice i can give is trade with real money irl you wont care about the fake money in tarkov no more

[@214.guero9]

did bro said its only been a year since he started playing

[@NoGenerals]

True

[@dodinoooo]

Your game looks 5 times smoother than mine, even with a 1.5k pc, fuck it

[@LiveCentz]

I don't have gear fear. I have being broke ash

[@Aaduhero]

Stream tonight please❤

[@smak4711]

i just keep telling myself it aint even my kit fr

[@NoGenerals]

It works

[@metalelf7]

I ain't got gear fear I'm just thrifty.

[@kathybates800]

I only got gear fear because I have 2000 rupees an aug and no armor/rig/backpack/or ammo 😂😂

[@superchargersonic]

Step 1 play spt

[@amirhosseintb1521]

I luv u senpai no general ur da best 🫠🥰

[@manuzitz]

I lost gearfear after i learned how to make money

[@nachoben3975]

youve got a lil bit of a london accent? right?

[@NoGenerals]

Nah

[@dudeguy334]

algorithm

[@dudeguy334]

i sometimes wonder if youtube flags me as a bot... im a real dude, guy.

[@Scuffedalex]

Not even gear fear. Its loading screen fear

[@congerlity1121]

By the way if you insure your gun first then insure your gear it’s free

[@NoGenerals]

Its not, the fee just doesn’t show up on screen