I've been extending the use of my plates by having a higher level of protection in the front. Running say, a level 4 up front and a 3 in back (or a 5/6 fir front and a 3/4 back) Saves some money, weight, and I can use the extra higher level plate in another carrier. Doesn't seem to compromise a lot of survivability either, because I'm either eating a round from a sniper and turning around, or getting mag dumped and I'd have died regardless of protection.
@davidmoslow41778 ай бұрын
@@Calm_Plier shift+W But also being ready for 99% of engagements is preferable to being ready for niche situations. I don't find myself fighting from the prone very often
@veritas89858 ай бұрын
Skip the nods too bro. We'll be back before dark...
@scripe19578 ай бұрын
i do this too lol, thought i was the only one
@quiggs83618 ай бұрын
Smart men think alike! I do the same, lol
@thinnedpaints65038 ай бұрын
Mullet rig, business in the front, party in the back
@frozenred34918 ай бұрын
Gigabeef really do be single-handedly raising the price of rip stop and aramid
@LeonSteelpaw8 ай бұрын
What I am getting out of this is "Be Lucky with finding things in raid or manage to kill someone running a better plate"
@hallow67638 ай бұрын
Or run lighthouse quests, almost every good item this wipe is locked behind dumb ass lighthouse
@andremachado45578 ай бұрын
@@hallow6763 if you get one of the hideout craft plates in deadscav, caches, weapon boxes you can multiply them and I think you dont need to do the lighthouse quests, just upgrade lavatory to lvl 3 and to the required quest for craft.
@DustyyBoi8 ай бұрын
@@hallow6763they realized people fucking hate lighthouse for the horrible map that it is, so instead of improving it, they simply force you to play it 😀
@fartoman1238 ай бұрын
ive bought TONS of lvl 5/6 plates from fence and simply repaired them. anything else than ceramic plates repair to almost full nomatter how damaged they are, and they are for sale pretty often, just gotta snipe them faster than everyone else
@robertgrant5598 ай бұрын
i honestly think the armors need to have all their soft armors buffed to level 3 if the armor was previousely level 3 or higher, lvl 2 soft armor barely stops anything, even scav ammo shoots through it, there is no reason we should be paying 100k for level 2 soft armor. it wont effect pvp much outside of people using flesh meta (they shooting for arms or legs anyways) but it will make scav deaths a little less frustrating
@k1roextophia288 ай бұрын
Sometimes I get one tap by scav using 5.45 and 7.62x39 PS 😂 Hit into throat even my softarmor is lvl 3
@PDitty7578 ай бұрын
It's soft armor and armor shouldn't make you invincible to lower level players and scavs.
@anglexe5558 ай бұрын
What level are you?@@PDitty757
@MackieLevyn8 ай бұрын
cope, armor shouldnt be magic. you should fear every weapon that points at you with no discrimination
@RoninDoesStuff8 ай бұрын
This would completely negate the point of the rework and a lot of lower calibers would be back to basically useless.
@CellTank8 ай бұрын
Sir GigeBeef delivering informative and entertaining content as always. What a terrific chap he is!
@OTOss88 ай бұрын
Fantastic video. Having just watched your settings guide a few days ago I understand why you have your game settings where they are for when you're streaming, but might I suggest bumping those textures back up a smidge if possible when recording for KZbin? Your videos are so well put together it's a shame that the appearance of the armours and plates we're looking at don't match the overall quality of your presentation. Cheers.
@Xelif98 ай бұрын
4:06 the wiki says that crisis gets unlocked after accepting farming part 4 not completing it
@Tluccodis7418 ай бұрын
I got lucky and killed Gluhar at level 9 and he had a tactec on. Now that i know i can eventually make infinite i'll make sure i save one of the GAC's. Also, if you're reaaaallly patient and reaaaally fast - you can occasionally see one of those plates popup on Fence.
@bRaf7778 ай бұрын
Tbh, i think the quests in tarkov needs to be changed, they feel like early 2000s rpg quests
@RoyalBack8 ай бұрын
They are all sidequests anyway. Wait for the main game
@myob948 ай бұрын
@@tosfriendlylmao he’s mega coping
@JustASuscriber8 ай бұрын
@@RoyalBack We'll all die before this game is ever finished.
@ReuterL8 ай бұрын
@@RoyalBacklmao GRRM is gonna finish Asoiaf before Nikita finishes this shit
@corporatebaddie6858 ай бұрын
@@RoyalBack Good one :--D
@iamnuklear32668 ай бұрын
One of the things I've been doing is buying a trooper on flea, and swapping the plates out with the kirassa. Nobody touches the kirassa, you will almost always get it back and on top of that, the level 3 plates in the trooper can be used for loot runs or questing.
@letmeregisterbitch8 ай бұрын
cheeky
@flappy36358 ай бұрын
just put level 4s in the kirasa i get it back every time
@Deadlock-g4t8 ай бұрын
I even put class 6 on it And it return as it should lol
@flappy36358 ай бұрын
@@Deadlock-g4t nobody checks what plates are in the vests for some reason i always check if its anything good i yoink them and put them in mine
@wurfyy8 ай бұрын
Unfortunately people are becoming more wise to it by the day. It's becoming harder and harder to snag an armor that someone didn't know to take the plates out of. So far this has been my main source of lvl4 plates. Personally I use the M2 rig since it's chronically underpriced imo, idk why people don't like it. I also have the zhuk craft going nonstop and I snag the rear plates to put in the back of the M2 since I'm fine with lower level plates there.
@clintsbrown7 ай бұрын
once you get (1) GAC 3s15m ballistic plate and level 3 Lavatory you can use it to craft the TacTec (in 7 hrs) and it comes with (2) !!! just do this over and over for a few days and start stacking up level 5 plates !!! :D
@maxr91168 ай бұрын
Farming plates early with the tactec has been so good
@VrodegTheGoblin7177 ай бұрын
2:50 this is how I got my lvl5 plates, but at that point I already had a stash full of lvl 4-5-6 plates.
@sseacpovo7 ай бұрын
As a first source for GAC 3s15m plates, you get an Ars Arma CPC MOD.1 (with two plates) as a reward for Living High is Not a Crime Part 2. From then on you can craft.
@ryensullivan75648 ай бұрын
seeing clips I watched live used in youtube vids is so cool
@oktommy56028 ай бұрын
the quest with the planting 2 gzhels was so stupid this wipe it took me 3 SETS OF 2 to finally get it done got camped at the stage twice in a row
@veerkillerx8 ай бұрын
Holy shit. You talk a lot, and it's a lot of good information. I looked away for 3.5 seconds and missed a goddamn paragraph. xD
@KravenLupei8 ай бұрын
Ayyy I have 2 of those GAC plates and I'm a dadgamer level 20. Gonna hold onto those for a bit, good tip.
@CeceliPS36 ай бұрын
Noice. I got like 15 CAC plates from PMCs and Goons. It's time to farm more CAC plates on Lavatory lvl 3. Thanks!
@DecaDose8 ай бұрын
Just hit 42 and do your tasks 😜just kidding. Good video as always Giga. You got some awesome testing videos. We appreciate it
@joshbeasley75818 ай бұрын
Any help please how do I add guns to my favorites list. I’ve seen it done once and can’t find it again 😂😭😂😭
@OtakarAtLJ8 ай бұрын
finally, a contentmaker who pronounces Zhuk correctly. Gzhel is not an easy one, but way to go!
@ubercopp20748 ай бұрын
Thanks for the vid - very digestible.
@anonymousyoutuber30028 ай бұрын
its crazy how people sell the plate only carriers (no plates) for so much on the flea when they are the worst armor carriers in the game now
@v3loute6458 ай бұрын
Cause some have many storage
@sprigg33808 ай бұрын
traders still buy them back for a lot so they cant sell below that
@lorddestructive8 ай бұрын
i think soft armor does not really matter 99% of the time. ap6.3, PS, PBM and many other rounds are really accessible this wipe. lvl 3 pen ammo is kind of the base most players sit on. hard to get anything better (all locked at lvl 4 except m80 and t46m) and any soft armor just gets useless by that. i get shot through my chest all the time although i wear lvl 4 or 5 bec the new armor system combined with ammo access just is not really balanced.
@AyatoxNayeon8 ай бұрын
Now look please dont judge me but i rather prefer weight over protection so id go for the Press armor or Korund and leave the side plates out. YES PEOPLE CAN SHOOT ME IN THE SIDES but ive never died to sides yet
@Nate-kc2wf8 ай бұрын
Don’t know if you figured this is out, but the wiki says you get Energy crisis after accepting Farming part 4, not completing it
@adamgreenan78158 ай бұрын
My audio on my AirPods are coming out, right-side first with a millisecond or two between the left audio. Investigated about and I believe it may be something to do with your end, just a note for the editor :)
@infectiousproduction8128 ай бұрын
what about CLASS 6 ?
@danhay25056 ай бұрын
Nobody else cares about class 6… It’s just you…
@carlsonbench18278 ай бұрын
1:16 S,sapy I am always surprised at how Gigabeef pronounces things. incredible.
@juanlilg8 ай бұрын
Everytime I hear him pronounce something different than I do I just assume he’s right and I am illiterate
@bizzler88968 ай бұрын
If we can fix the problem of taken 3x damage from one single round, then level 2 armor makes sense for soft armor. Armored rigs don’t stop bullets until they have plates. Period.
@_fissure14418 ай бұрын
Shhhhh. Don't tell BSG! They're remove it!
@Very-average8 ай бұрын
So what I’m hearing this it gonna be aids I get shot once under my armpit and I’m dead from anywhere 😂
@SamMoonRyong8 ай бұрын
I dont like the changes they did this wipe, since I always tried to avoid doing quests on reserve and lighthouse. Like actually not going there at all but so much shoot we had access to normally is now locked behind quests and quests on those maps. Its kinda a bummer for those who would just like to play the game. I hit 35 this wipe without going on those maps at all, but on my way up there I was missing basic stuff like m80/tier5 armors and other shenanigans. Hope they make side progression more of a thing where those items get unlocked at a certain progression of quests. Like m80 either gets available after marking the helicopter or doing bullshit on customs or something interchangeable
@PDitty7578 ай бұрын
You don't like going there because the game play tends to be more difficult on lighthouse. You can't expect to get the best stuff when you don't want to do some of the harder quests.
@SamMoonRyong8 ай бұрын
@@PDitty757 no because the map is dogshit. Bad performance, bad spawns, bad layout, bad concentration of hotspots
@JustASuscriber8 ай бұрын
@@PDitty757 Nobody likes going there because the map is garbaggio. Lighthouse is the biggest mistake they made, even after having learned through their initial release of customs how bad of a design it was, they still went through with it.
@wesleywyndam-pryce53058 ай бұрын
t5 armor is not basic thats why its been slowly getting more and more restricted.
@wesleywyndam-pryce53058 ай бұрын
@@tosfriendly citing cheaters is a cop out for bad players. cheaters have never stopped from progressing.
@CMDRFandragon4 ай бұрын
does tagilla drop class 6 plates on live? in SPT his rig has class 6 plates
@Gigabeef4 ай бұрын
Yes depending on armor, his default config for the Tagilla Rig is front plate 6, back plate 4
@CMDRFandragon4 ай бұрын
@@Gigabeef and 3 cheers for lvl 6 plates to lol. After I killed him a couple times and upgraded my Gen4 full to his lvl 6 plates, he walked up behind me in another run and mag dumped my ass with his Saiga 12 and did basically no damage. My stomach area was yellow and that was it.
@soap62648 ай бұрын
I have so many t6 plates but I can't run them because it's so heavy
@ketubann94058 ай бұрын
Was really hoping no one made a video on this lol I have so many lvl 5s for like 25k with fabric cost
@DeBlackKnight8 ай бұрын
I just unlocked the craft last night and the first thing I checked was if using one plate got you one or two plates. Doubling the plates is crazy good and definitely my go to for now on
@DARKthenoble2 ай бұрын
I still find it upsetting they took all that time working on this new armor system only to remove it just when I'm finally about to get electric in my house.
@XenonNito8 ай бұрын
I get mine from moonshine scav case
@labcoat228 ай бұрын
Farmers of the new helmets? Like is it even worth wearing more than a level three
@ceetee33708 ай бұрын
Reduce scav AI! Like, normal scavs. No need for them to aimbot chest, armpit every damn time from 60+ meters
@skillet37538 ай бұрын
who needs armor just be a chad and don't get shot😎
@aimLined8 ай бұрын
yeah i just hit 14. not enough time to grind when you have responsibilities
@mikepanda1178 ай бұрын
4 still. Did gpu quest already and still need to do next quest
@huixionglow40827 ай бұрын
Bagariy have now lv3 soft armor
@gervasfuhrmann15067 ай бұрын
The TacTec plate carrier craft is stupid. Infinite tier 5 plates for low cost, but 8 hours. 100% worth but should be nerfed imo
@williamcase4268 ай бұрын
o yea it's gigabeef here
@Beedji8 ай бұрын
Is there a reason why you're using the Bomber hat in this clips on Streets ?
@thedude63598 ай бұрын
There’s a quest to get 30 kills on streets wearing that and hipster glasses
@blindfire748 ай бұрын
Doing the 'Dandies' quest from Ragman.
@floben30418 ай бұрын
Quest or just to look like scav, best strategy against player scav
@martinleland39698 ай бұрын
I think it's farming 3 I have it unlocked, I'll double check later boiiis
@namaka8088 ай бұрын
shit im mad that the cat is ouit of the bag now. i noticed this early gaem with lvl 4 plates. sigh well hopefully they dont patch this
@TheBen97018 ай бұрын
Just farm lighthouse rouges! Free 5 and 6 plates!
@marcossanchez87688 ай бұрын
the begarli tanks shotgun shells
@benjaminkitchen75628 ай бұрын
I like the Aug
@xMaverickFPS8 ай бұрын
"Early" must be subjective. I'm still level 16 w/ LL2 vendors.
@BrandonsUsername8 ай бұрын
I mean, the game doesnt really begin until level 42 anyway :)
@wesleywyndam-pryce53058 ай бұрын
no. its actual time. your level is irrelevant. only been 1 month, still early in wipe.
@AndreasMnck8 ай бұрын
I have access to all armors in the game including the Zabralo barter and from my testing the rat rig 6B3TM-01 basically gives me the most protection honestly. I would unironically revise my personal armor tier list and put this in A or S tier and almost everything else as irrelevant looter rig tier garbage. Only good armors are the Gen4 Assault Kit, Defender-2 and Osprey (P) but they all have various downsides. I feel as if I have hoarded plates and done clever barters in the past for nothing as I dont even care to run any of these armors tbh. I have a lot of Tier 6 plates from the slick barter I did when it was basically free before people realized the resell values etc. Running the heavy armors still gets you instantly killed by 9milimeter AP to the collar bone yet the rat rig literally gives better protection in this vulnerable spot that matters for PVP a lot. Makes me think the whole system is still full of game breaking bugs with how powerful this rat rig armor feels in practice. Also tip for another video: Insurance seems to be bugged and some armors are basically free to insure like the bastion costs 400 roubles and the rat rig 500 etc.
@angrychickin8 ай бұрын
Sooooo get lvl 4 traders got it..
@boogeymanw96438 ай бұрын
To be honest, I just wear whatever i can find, i don’t run helmet or anything cuz to me, they all useless this wipe. I get 1 tap by rats anyway so save me tons of money. 😊
@BirbarianHomeGuard8 ай бұрын
Buh-gear-ee
@faseltresh8 ай бұрын
how can i choos what i wanna heal?
@thisnameistemporary64348 ай бұрын
hold your healing button + mouse wheel scroll.
@dic-vr2mx8 ай бұрын
lighthouse runs like dirt this wipe somehow it's worse than the last wipe
@Gigabeef8 ай бұрын
Check your game isn't randomly on high textures - loads of people got it reset to that for some reason
@andremachado45578 ай бұрын
make sure you save as much RAM as possible. looks for optimization videos and close browsers when I have a map open it eats over 1 GB of ram sometimes and I have game on HDD and takes 10 minutes to load sometimes but whenI close it goes down to 5-6 mins but good settings will help you the most
@DustyyBoi8 ай бұрын
@@andremachado4557bro you are the reason i have to be "waiting on players" for 4 minutes every single raid. for the love of god get an ssd
@SpaceRanger1878 ай бұрын
more of making the game for streamers
@jameharris0988 ай бұрын
Non of this matters when you get 1 taped to the head armour sucks unless they give u some head protection
@davejones84628 ай бұрын
Yeah welcome to tarkov
@Dyils8 ай бұрын
Ngl, this armor update is a failure imo. The reason the wipe feels better is because of ammo and recoil rebalancing. You can't have realistic hitboxes for armor, when you don't have realistic player hitboxes. No, my shoulder is not a vital area, that's not where my heart is, getting 1 tapped there is neither realistic nor balanced. Still only wearing a Uley. Made the mistake of wearing Korund with T5 plates in dorms... got 1 tapped in the chest with a shotgun (from the front). Never wore armors with plates again. What a joke.
@eeeeeeee5438 ай бұрын
Don't like how the "graze" or shoulder hits are detrimental, but also don't like how you can eat an m80 round directly to the heart
@evanboland12208 ай бұрын
Armor update is amazing youre just crying because armor doesnt make you invincible anymore' although i do agree shoulders should be part of the arm hitbox
@Azalealiketheflower8 ай бұрын
Well yeah dude everything that isn't plate area on the korund is lv2 aramid, that isn't gonna save you unfortunately
@1LuckySavage8 ай бұрын
@@evanboland1220 no armour update is garbage and the only people who like it are shitters that sit in bushes/corners and never got to use good armour past wipes cuz they suck at the game.
@Balyente8 ай бұрын
Korund is literal trash.
@ItsAlexisWolf8 ай бұрын
don't tell them that :v
@CssHDmonster8 ай бұрын
''early'' is not near-lightkeeper, lol
@wurfyy8 ай бұрын
Apparently in this wipe it is, at least in the context of lvl5 plates
@ronokoplhatake74638 ай бұрын
"early": Ragman 4
@WVGHOST108 ай бұрын
NOTI GANG
@SmexMyPocky8 ай бұрын
Bro this video is like 2-3 weeks late lmao
@brunk228 ай бұрын
Megaqueef
@lungzs8 ай бұрын
"I was level 35 and still unable to buy any class 5 front plates from the traders" good
@8lives8738 ай бұрын
Just hit level 3 with all my traders. Unlocked fucking nothing…. This is ass. They love cheaters but hate players. Deleted the game after I unlocked m856 at level 3 peacekeeper… not doing 30 hours of silly quests to get 3 ammo types
@crash20938 ай бұрын
i'm actively running m855a1 m856a1 , 545 BP and BP , 7.62 bp and pp stacked on top of rounds that can decently pen level 3 armors with level 2 traders and finding ammo in raid.
@Chevalier_knight8 ай бұрын
Im killing people with pistol ammo in smgs that cant pen lvl 3 git gud nerd
@DYLANBROCHILL8 ай бұрын
wah
@evanboland12208 ай бұрын
Bro is crying
@Azalealiketheflower8 ай бұрын
lmao dude you can make SOST in your workbench thats better than 855, just idle craft some SOST while you run SMGs or some shit. Also scav Reserve and go look at scope shack in woods. You can get loads of usable AK food amongst other things. I found a 100rd box of 995 in a wooden ammo box. PS: Try the P90 now that you can buy L191. You'll thank me. PPS: Vector .45 is opened up to you as .45 FMJ is completely viable at this time of wipe.
@samiramo72528 ай бұрын
This is bullshit. How to get glass 5 armor Early wipe?? Then proceeds to talk about level 4 traders? I'm a casual player and rarely reach beyond level 30 in the entire wipe. Thus only way to get level 5 armor is ambushing some thicc boys with leg meta?
@voggers25938 ай бұрын
You don't need to use leg meta, the class 5 armor only has class 2 or 3 armor on most of the rig anyways. Just play like normal and you'll probably kill them anyways
@garyhamilton21048 ай бұрын
Someone give me a tl;dw
@DonairExtraLarge8 ай бұрын
No
@maxzett8 ай бұрын
Buy plates Buy armors Crafting
@starwarsgamer3888 ай бұрын
You will not have class 5 armor because you're a chud
@rickeyheard44548 ай бұрын
Wiki honestly too. But crafting trading farming
@KingKuso8 ай бұрын
Do annoying quests to get plates and buy armors or upgrade your stash a lot to craft