Blue Collar Tarkov | Tarkov PvE

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PvE is, for many people, the only way to continue playing escape from tarkov. I am aware that it will soon be available for purchase seperate of other editions, but I still believe it should be free for anyone who owns an edition of tarkov. Ah well.
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[@leviticus1132]

Hey everyone, there is unfortunately an editing error at around 2:27. The queue time was at 45 minutes. Funny enough, I made a correction to this but proceeded to upload the wrong draft of the video. oof

[@DarthUrso]

The doge interruption makes it all good🤣 My shepherd was up looking for the intruder🤣

[@M1XB0X]

2:55 no, there is 2 mods to play spt in COOP i can give u names if u want

[@ELPez276]

@@M1XB0X MPT

[@M1XB0X]

@@ELPez276 fika* not MPT, and SIT (mod name)

[@vulpix9210]

Ptoject FIKA is SPT CooP. SPT has CooP but not supported by the main devs. its a mod for SPT made by other people. And it is NOT served on the SPT website since the SPT devs don't support CooP for legal reasons.

[@Wendigoon]

Advice that you definitely didn’t ask for so apologies lol: Definitely upload to this channel. Tarkov has a long lifespan but you’re a talented creator who shouldn’t be tied to any one property. Space out other games for a while, like do a non tarkov vid every three-four videos, then increase the rate as you become noticed in other games, atleast that’s how got away from iceberg videos. Love the channel man, can’t wait for other game coverage.

[@elpenetsundereman3136]

Hear me out. Pigeons aren't government drones, pigeons are the government real puppeteers.

[@Riley_1971]

You’re an actual legend man, agree with trying a variety of different games

[@themadthatcher4869]

Damn Wendi with the good advice

[@canyonraney7641]

Fucking WENDIGOON?!?!?!😮

[@Sprungus]

well said, iceberg boy.

[@fearingalma1550]

"Lee Harvey Oswald is back and they gave him an assault rifle" Man that line hits different now LOL

[@smuganimeface6247]

More like Ree Tardy Oswald

[@D3athmooman]

While the trump assassination jokes are funny, the AR-15 is NOT an “assault rifle” people using this term is the reason why dummies in congress are trying to ban it

[@Axis.801]

(((Lee Harvey steinwaldbaum)))

[@JohnnyStrelok]

​@@smuganimeface6247 About to change my name to this for Shooter Born.

[@EPICMAN-ld8oq]

I work 45 hours a week and last week my wife and I had our first child. I hadn't played tarkov in well over a year but then PvE released and it allowed me to get back into playing. Blue collar tarky for sure

[@bingekingo9040]

SPT be like.

[@ricardoa1661]

congrats to you and your wife 🧑‍🍼👩‍🍼

[@npz1838]

Same here. I'll never do PvP but PvE has become my jam

[@tomtoma754]

Congrats to you and your wife on becoming parent. Enjoy playing tarkov, because you sure aren't gonna get enough sleep lmao.

[@karatechris09]

You could have have saved that money for your wife,child,or yourself by getting SPT for free and get into raids in about 5 seconds !!!

[@THATguyTOMO]

-Shoots a single scav "We've awoken the hive!"

[@NGSF_GrayFox]

#NAME# has startled the horde

[@lamortx]

Haven't played PvE yet, but scav swarms sound pretty cool

[@n3rgal166]

​@@lamortx its not trust me, sometimes they spawn 10 Meters behind you and head/eyes you with a shotgun , they basically spawn where you dont look which is fucking dumb

[@lamortx]

@@n3rgal166 Ok wow, noted o:

[@npz1838]

*scav army has entered the chat*

[@dyylpckl]

SPT does have multiplayer, but not officially. The devs are against it, but there's "the other mods" as people refer to it commonly. MPT / Fika (same thing, just rebranding) allows you to install it as a mod for SPT, and enables multiplayer connection. The host runs the server as normal, and other clients just open the launcher without opening their own aki.server. Just have to change like 2-3 fields containing the IP you want to play off (usually local host, you change this to the IP of the host if they either port forward / host via VPN.) It's very simple to set up and we're able to use basically all the mods we want alongside it. I'd highly recommend checking this one out if you want to chill on pve tarkov with some friends without dealing with BSG's... whatever it is. We also tried SiT, or Stay in Tarkov. It's an entirely different client to SPT, we weren't super impressed but it's *functional.* There's a community dedicated to converting mods from SPT to SiT but it's a small work force, definitely a niche in a niche.

[@SiulSC]

Fika's main dev is a former SiT dev, he started the project due to restrictions made by the orginal dev of SiT and Fika is now the default way to play SPT Co-op.

[@l3rokenone677]

I host the server for our friend group to play SPT together on Fika, Although not perfect I think it works really well for what it is.

[@Barnes86]

@@l3rokenone677 I have a buddy that has a dedicated server box , and me and 5 other friends play on it and unless his power goes off it's always up. Pretty nice to be able to host a solo raid for yourself or someone, or your friend hosts for you to join and always have multiplayer progression.

[@oshkalele1744]

Been running a private fika SPT server for a friend group for a few weeks now with zero issues. Full mod support (SPT has amazing mods). Fika has very helpful features for new players such as the ability to disable friendly fire and show nametags over friendly players heads. The fact that people don't know about it, and instead feel the need to spend $250 to have a very sub-par experience is horrible.

[@zackbobby5550]

This is fine, if you have a dedciated server...

[@HurricaneRider]

AI PMCs scream "Friendly down" when you kill a scav nearby😂

[@TheMrPandabeast]

They also say “why you shooting friendlies” when you hit them. 😂🤦🏽‍♂️

[@WralthChardiceVideo]

>"Scav spotted" >"Teammate down" For the love of... just pick one, damn AI PMCs

[@ЯБезымянный-о5ф]

Everyone is a friend in PvE. Except you. Because Tarkov hates you.

[@_darko__7943]

I've notice that in PVP mode Rouges also scream "Friendly down" while shooting scavs at watertreatment,not sure if intended or not (most likely not)

[@dorian3516]

YEAH I NOTICED THIS LOL

[@Tyler-gc9zq]

Another win for SPT is the SAIN mod. This mod has multiple "personalities" for PMC AIs ranging from rat to gigachad. I have had PMC AI push me, jump in the air past a door and mag dump at me with m995. I have stomped into crackhouse to immediately be gunned down by the 5th man in a group of PMCs waiting in the corner camping the bodies...Best part, you can adjust the difficulties from a macro to a micro level!

[@wolfsmaul-ger8318]

this is honestly what got me motivated to get back into SPT and i'm gonna stay with SPT now, considering what tarkov has become, before the mod AI PMCs were challenging but still felt like i was playing against regular scavs with minor changes but i've heard so much good things from a friend who uses the same mod

[@Tyler-gc9zq]

@wolfsmaul-ger8318 oh yea. It's a phenomenal mod. Combine it with SWAG DONUTS (spawn mod) and the raids can get absolutely bonkers.

[@Blind_Hawk]

Yeah, that is the best about mods. Personally I would love to cut out every part of my SPTarkov experience that makes it like the live version. PMCs behaving more like real people (you'd never jump and mag dump in real life of course). So it is like the RAID movie from BSG.

[@newlandpencilnut4754]

When I die to the SAIN AI (a lot) I don't feel cheated, they miss, they don't aimbot, they can realistically fuck up, they dunk on you in a way that's realistic.

[@Kekatronic]

I'm just scared that its gonna get sued to death, especially now that they're making a singleplayer mode

[@spitfireflyer2205]

PVE is a great mode for people who want to just play with the lads and have some fun

[@proudpatriot3491]

Yup, my cousin who isn't huge in PvP didn't really enjoy Tarkov with me before PvE. Now he loves it and is pinging me to play instead of me always bugging him

[@DamienDarkside]

PVE is a great mode considering how the anti-cheat Tarkov uses is abysmal.

[@michaelsilvester8663]

"Lee Harvey Oswald is back, and they gave him an Assault Rifle" Absolute gold

[@jacktrader2405]

How did he know?

[@michaelsilvester8663]

@jacktrader2405 this comment is goated

[@FGC292]

SPT took me out of regular Tarkov when I learned that in SPT I can queue for Factory and load into the map in literally 8 seconds. The PvE mode having such long queues for singleplayer is just ridiculous honestly. Host the server on the player's PC in that instance.

[@vysenshark]

It's kinda wild how fast SPT loading times are. Factory takes 5 seconds to start the raid lol

[@corruptedpoison1]

They just confirmed the other day that local hosting for singleplayer PVE will be coming.

[@igorborracini5722]

@@corruptedpoison1 yea local PVE will come in june

[@JFitness88]

The realism mod for spt is crazy too.. AI being able to crouch and drop shot you.

[@kyot13]

You can set it to allow you to scav into labs too :)

[@Greenyugi]

PvE has broght back a lot of my friends that quit tarkov and it's been a blast.

[@snoop4470]

"14 hour shift at the ball crushing factory" Ya thats me lol.

[@SneakyShika]

i see they got you working the easy shift.

[@livebounty2698]

The first thing is exactly what I was telling my friends when they’re started playing Tarkov with me. I just got them into playing and I said this will help you learn a whole bunch before starting the new wipe for PVP. Thank you so much for the video.

[@jamie.mu55]

ur videos make tarkov less painful

[@ivanonlyone7160]

abandoning tarkov would be the best thing in total

[@xtra_1807]

I just dont understand how a game thinks its healthy to literally punish new players for trying to play the game, like it is actually, genuinely, so blatantly new player unfriendly, but the main problem is the community that says “iTs tArKoV gO pLaY cAlL oF dUtY” or “tHiS gAmE iSnT fOr PeOpLe lIkE yOu” like bro stfu you have no social life and play this video game 8 hours a day, theres nothing wrong with actually holding a players hand slightly and making trying out the game a “Wow this a cool hard game I can see myself enjoying this” rather than “Wow, this game is genuinely horrible, I love dying 5 seconds in after waiting 10 minutes to get into a match to a player with over 6 thousand hours with equipment beyond my wildest dreams”

[@iHop-Femboy]

The amount of joy a Leviticus baldurs gate video would bring me is immeasurable

[@Honzalis]

7:52 is probably the funniest thing I have seen, the way he just says " And Tagilla himself" just makes me laugh so much

[@kadian299]

I love the term blue collar tarkov. It actually brought me back to the game.

[@trathanstargazer6421]

One thing I've done in SPT is elongate the missions. I simply went into the files and added a 1 onto the start of every raid timer so now every raid is roughly two hours long. I'm done having to race through and can leave at my leisure. And thanks to SWAG and Donuts mod, the world is constantly being populated so I don't have to worry about empty maps even if I'm in Streets for over an hour.

[@adri745k]

Sever Value Modifier ☝️🤓*

[@ninocarachilo6660]

Or raid overhaul mod. It makes the timer unlimited, reduces metabolism, and adds some event to happen throughout the raid to spice it up. Check it out

[@AHappyCub]

Do you know how to setup SWAG and Donuts to not infinitely spawn ?, got back to 3.8.3 yesterday and i kept getting swarmed with that mod, had to delete it after the 4th time i got slapped by AI while having no ammo

[@Daganath]

@@AHappyCub there are presets you can select that stops spawns in the middle of raids

[@Galm276]

@@AHappyCub some of the boys in the Reddit are saying they don’t even use swag donuts anymore. They’re getting just as much enjoyment with vanilla spawns, using questing looting and SAIN. Swagnuts seems to be acting strange with 3.8.3

[@bobsaget8791]

the lack of wipes is my main draw to pve, i simply dont have the time to get quests done, so i've been stuck just doing the same few first quests with my friends every wipe, so its nice to have a way to play tarkov that feels like im progressing when i can put a little time in, without fear of it all being for nothing.

[@Partyczka]

PvE is such a godsend. I bought EOD in 2017, but the game was way too hardcore for me, so it was 150 euro wasted. I adored the game, but i didn't enjoy it a bit. Now i can't remember when a game gave me so much fun. I Hope they continue to tune the experience, i'm really hooked now

[@Nukky_]

Yes bro huge updates coming for pve this summer

[@Cam64viper]

I'm too busy with work and school to play Tarkov, and couldn't even keep up with the game's wipes when I didn't have to do all of that, (highest level I've been is 14) many years ago. But this PvE mode has brought back all the fun of the game I had once and it was great! The AI PMC's need some tweaking though, they instantly head-eyes from like 200m too often, and don't count concealment when shooting, so some areas are guaranteed death if you accidentally end up in a bad position while the PMC squad rolls by Otherwise a lot of fun! I was actually thinking of seeing when you'd drop a video as soon as I heard news of it coming out, glad to see if right after work too!

[@NunYurbis]

This explains my problem with Tarkov perfectly. To get good enough to be competitive, you really need to spend a TON of hours, and I simply don't have the time. By the time the wipe comes, I am roughly level 25 or so even if I start playing day of the wipe, and that's been the case since Tarkov first came out, and yes, I can only play roughly every second or third wipe.. Coming home from working a 12 hour shift at the mill, and immediately getting killed the first 5 minutes of every raid by some sweatlord that's unemployed and plays for 12 hours a day really wasn't fun. With this said, I already own the game, I won't be buying an upgrade to get PvE mode, if they don't make it available to everyone, then I am simply done with Tarkov.

[@comradekitten9883]

Allow me to introduce SPT :) It's 100% offline, you can even play it without internet. You can mod it to be whatever you want, and it never wipes unless you make it wipe. You could stay on the current version of the game for the next 5 years if you wanted to. I've been playing it for a week now, and I don't think I can go back. There's even a co-op mod so you can play with your friends. A quick google search will give you everything you need.

[@Youp1e]

I would spend those 20 on PvE mode. I have the same situation, work, family and all that. Don't have much time to play. Don't want to get pissed on, when i do have time to play. PvE is perfect in thag regard.

[@dankbonkripper2845]

God I love seeing people complain they can't git gud because of 13 hours at the ball crushing factory.

[@NunYurbis]

@@dankbonkripper2845 Your puberty is showing.

[@dankbonkripper2845]

@@NunYurbis yeah man, just another 14 hour shift at the ball crushing factory. Us real men really have it rough.

[@clementineshetheyfae8312]

I have over 1000 hours in Tarkov and PvE was a godsend I actually enjoy playing it and I don’t question if every death is a cheater obviously SPT is better but for people who don’t do modding it’s a good alternative

[@bloke8457]

its not like SPT is difficult to install though, they even have a installer for it now so all you have to is download and run it. if you want to add anything extra there are plenty of YT videos that explain step by step

[@brawler5760]

Modding in SPT is just dragging and dropping. SVM makes it easier to modify individual values too, like raid timer

[@andrewandheidigoodwin20]

Im so glad that they added PVE. I had almost completely stopped playing due to limited play time making me struggle in PVP. i had 0 access to good ammo. and as soon as i got it unlocked it would be time for a wipe. glad i can actually progress now! thank you for all the content.

[@thil2894]

I'm also glad. I'm not paying 250 bucks for it.

[@whatismyname6086]

I​@@thil2894i have eod and got pve mod this week,just wait

[@surfg0th450]

Brother try SPT. Play at your own pace, you can play any edition from standard to unheard and it’s all at your own pace with mod support. I had the same issue and apt solved every single one for me

[@Darca1996]

Getting back into tarkov after nearly 2 years and so far really liking PvE thank you helmet man for explanation

[@tjek12345]

I had a friend who refused to play Tarkov for like two to three wipes do to the hackers and "turbo sweats". He works really crappy hours and had no chance to grind so he was always behind the rest of the wave. The second he heard of PVE he got back on. I know and expect the "skill issue" esque comments but its just nice to have everybody back on Tarkov for once.

[@proudpatriot3491]

Man my cousin was the same way. He didn't really enjoy Tarkov and now he is pinging me to play rounds.

[@luiswonder2101]

Nah, i totally get it, i also work so i dont have too much time to keep up with tryhards so PVE (or SPT being the improved version) is the best.

[@c.robtoz]

Don't buy the unheard bullshit, play projekt fikka which is spt with coop

[@archer92longshot29]

Same actually l. I really struggle to survive against even scavs. Never mind gigachads whose sole purpose in life is to chase you across the map and end you. So I really enjoyed PvE as now I've learned how to fight scavs and survive at least a few raids 😀

[@naifabd1184]

I actually only play tarkov for only 3 hours once every 6 days, i have been able to keep up, now im lvl 16 and in the raids i play i seem to encounter pmcs with low level gear like mine, i thought they have a secret gear rating matchmaking,

[@CptDawner]

“They’re either terrifying or stupid” fits players pretty well too. Good mix I’d say after playing it a bit

[@Spideryote]

SPT is solely the reason I got into Tarkov in the first place. I'm not up to the task of learning the game with the challenge of PvP added on top I want a more stalker like experience than a true multi-player experience

[@ViroRads]

Same honestly

[@LucyWoIf]

Being able to put on a juggernaut outfit and blow heads off scavs in factory is what i want, not be destroyed by some 5000 hour sweat

[@jbong7114]

@@LucyWoIf an Altyn Zabralo PKP enjoyer

[@LucyWoIf]

@@jbong7114 lmao, nah with spt theres a mod thats a actual full body juggernaut suit ;)

[@G00N3YC4NG]

​@@LucyWoIfyeah, but... what's the point? I mean factory with a juggernaut suit is like running through a kindergarten and kicking children in the chest...

[@KazBodnar]

What I love about PVE is that it encourages the player to play tactically and realistically. In online, aggression and meta/unrealistic builds are rewarded, while in PvE, hastiness and uncarefulness are punished.

[@awittypseudonym2520]

Regarding the coop and SPT, it's an issue of technically yes it exists, but not in any way endorsed or supported by the SPT team. Because it gives BSG the power to Nintendo them

[@collin3012]

You mean protect their intellectual property? They've had it from the start...

[@Soul73x]

This guy is correct with his statement 👍

[@ImotekhtheStormlord-tx2it]

@@collin3012 intelectual property? you do realize 80% of tarkov WITHOUT PVP is literally STALKER stolen concept and intelectual property of stalker developers? nikita literally stole ITEMS from stalker. most foods, meds, clothing, quest lines.

[@awittypseudonym2520]

@@collin3012 so, BSG being registered on the UK means that they abide by their IP laws, which means that being a mod doesn't automatically discredit it (unlike Nintendo which benefits from Japanese IP law being a lot less consumer friendly). The nuance here is that as a purely standalone single player experience, there wasn't any way for BSG to argue that it was competition to EFT, whereas officially recognizing co-op could technically make it a competitor and threaten their bottom line, which gives BSG more leeway to potentially threaten, which is often enough to push people away from a project.

[@UnimportantAcc]

@@collin3012 m-m-m-muh IP it's ours now axaxaxa

[@ShowbizSpy1]

I definitely noticed the weird PMC/Scav interactions on a few occasions. On factory as a scav, I watched Tagilla run around everywhere but where a PMC was, I hear the USEC voice line, Tagilla runs around offices, Bathrooms, and does a lap around the map. On Ground Zero with the swarming, I could not get to my objective building, the wine store. I was surrounded by Scavs and PMCs. I was pinned on the ramp across from the vehicle extract between the two buildings. I ran out of meds but managed to get to the extract. The next raid, I get into the wine store, but kept getting shot and pushed by Scavs while trying to look for the bottle. There were scavs and PMCs outside sometimes chillin, sometimes fighting, but never consistent. I ended up not finding the bottle and making another miraculous extract after getting down to my last mag and no meds again.

[@Slayman3909]

spt now has online coop by the way

[@wgisexuallyidentifyasprett4142]

mods is what makes SPT the best

[@theorphanobliterator]

wait actually? dope

[@NGSF_GrayFox]

no regular spt has not, however FIKA and SIT exist and they are SEPERATE from SPT

[@chidori0117]

@@NGSF_GrayFox Which means that you can Coop with SPT Aki instead of using the paid for mode which is essentially what OP meant ... who cares if its two additional programms. SPT also has Mods which technically are not SPT itself.

[@ImotekhtheStormlord-tx2it]

there is a multiplayer mod yes

[@12345farris]

"WHY ARE THERE SO MANY SCAVS?" Because it makes it more fun. Literally one of the most fun raids I've had since I started playing was when I was stuck in the Green Screen building on Customs and every time I was done killing something and went to med or reload mags within 10 seconds I heard more scavs show up. Shit was wild.

[@G00N3YC4NG]

😐🤨

[@jordanbauerly8843]

Yea, but theres a point where it turns from fun to chore. And expending ALL my ammo off spawn can start to push it into chore especially if I cant repack a single mag before their pissed off siblings are chanting more russian witchcraft at me. I don't mind alot spawning, but they do need to at least spawn in waves, or far enough apart not to be some continual train like im on kino der toten.

[@ant1h4t3rz]

@@jordanbauerly8843 or just dont spawn them 5 meters away from you. I've literally seen three scavs fucking will themselves into existence right infront of me and it is not a great time, I'll be honest. And maybe don't spawn bosses too, my friend was killed because Killa just spawn behind them in a already cleared Brutal shop

[@iB_pOpN]

@@jordanbauerly8843or bring more ammo

[@jarvy251]

Volume of scavs can be fun Scavs that spawn in next to you and immediately prime nades less so

[@wubnoxious]

no cheaters, can play with all my friends with little confusion, we been loving it

[@Revan13372]

glad to hear you branching out to other games to enjoy cant wait for the stalker gamma vid!

[@benman9242]

Fika is a popular coop mod for SPT so there is (at the moment) literally no reason to pay extra for the official PvE unless you really want access to the fleat market ig...

[@RastadasPT]

You can "access" the Flea Market on FIKA with a mod. Prices are updated every hour according to the prices in the live version.

[@jonathanoriley8260]

There is literally a "live flea market" mod for SPT (and in turn the coop FIKA mod) that imports the data from live EFT's flea market. Again, no reason to not use SPT (with Project FIKA if you want coop). SPT with mods, especially Amand's Graphics, SAIN 2.0, SWAG-Donuts, Looting Bots, and Questing Bots, is superior to live EFT in every way. And I say this as someone who enjoys live EFT with above average stats.

[@G00N3YC4NG]

THE ONLY REASON anyone would want to play LIVE is for the newest updates. Unfortunately, SPT is several patches behind the current LIVE version. For example, when the newest mechanics that we saw on TarkovTV were announced, SPT may not be updated to that version until several months later. That is the only reason that I can think of why I would ever "play" live again. Even then it would be just to see how the new peek system and everything will work.

[@95curt]

@@jonathanoriley8260 there's even raytracing mods mods similar to the vids tarker made

[@konna6130]

​@@G00N3YC4NG people like playing against real players. for me most of the fun in tarkov comes from the knowledge of other players being real and they having their own goals & motives and i get make a difference in their experience, be it good or bad. also people want to experience "the early wipe". there is always a huge wave of hype when a new big patch drops and that is the best time to play tarkov as the stakes are high, everyone is struggling and the hype is real. there is no way to make the real early wipe in spt, because the hype is a huge part of it. i only play eft when the wipe hits and i usually play it for 2-3 months before i turn to other games.

[@generalagony]

As a married father of three with a very busy work schedule I am loving PvE Tarkov. After losing my first and only Kappa to a wipe a couple years ago I dropped the game because I couldn’t be bothered to grind it all over again just knowing I’d lose it again. Being able to play the game at my own pace and know my progress with stick around is the best feature of the mode. Love it.

[@Soul73x]

the look of defeat when the dog started barking and the background went black lmao

[@Zodaxa_zdx]

ramblings of a madman is what I live for, no other game sends some one this far gone mentally

[@Khornecussion]

To be fair, when I would play Scav I would get adopted by some PMCs and they would let me loot their scraps. Lol.

[@iamcubz]

PVE is an excellent mode to get warmed up or just learning maps and quests I hope they make it free for everyone in the future.

[@sentinowl9207]

Just a correction on the SPT Co-op stuff, the devs of SPT are now recognising that it's something people want, and advise looking for mods like Stay In Tarkov and Project FIKA, which are both full co-op mods.

[@SweatiestDegree]

as someone who plays mostly RPG's and is a mere gold on voltaics aim charts, PVE tarkov has been a blast, I used to scav a lot, and mostly played factory for some PVP, now I can chill learn the maps offline with all the items and quests. it's honestly super fun

[@tripmracek1580]

0:08 Leviticus is hella based today.

[@tripmracek1580]

and I agree with what he said.

[@rkhale02]

1:50 as someone who has consistently gotten above level 40 each wipe in PVP tarkov(i dont bother with kappa, i have a gamma and its good enough), i actually have enjoyed Blue Collar Tarkov because Tarkov itself is infested with cheaters and rats and my time IS limited so its nice to know i'm not going to be 360 no scoped by a dude flying around with cheats(I have literally ran into floating hackers multiple times in raid) and its refreshing to be able to play quests with my homies without having to bum rush everything and rush through the experience to get the best loot and actually play slowly and methodically to work our way to the location instead. i also feel more rewarded by playing this way instead of rushing everything and chadding it out with level 6 plates in the most un-tactical way possible that you have to do to get the upper hand on other players. It's nice to have the option instead of being forced to. It's also nice knowing that at any given moment some dick canoe isn't staring at me through a scope 5 miles away looking for his shooter born kills. I get it, it's part of the game, it may even be realistic, but it's not fun. I particularly don't like doing the quest either, despite having done it multiple times. Much prefer medium/cqb type fights for the fun and rush than waiting 6 years for some guy to show up to get a shot for a jaeger quest.

[@detrixdude]

Yo Leviticus you're lookin big bro

[@Maverick-7508]

This is why I love SPT since even in multiplayer the queue time is only restricted by the players loading in using the multiplayer hosting function. Also, they PMC bots in SPT are so much better since you can give them personalities, and you can expand the patrol routes of AIs.

[@ivanmishchenko372]

PMCs also spwan at weather station on shoreline

[@jaylebowski9745]

aka just recycled Scav spawns from PVP mode lol.

[@ivanmishchenko372]

@@MrJedi5150 Yeap, I've met pmc's twice at weather station. Goons can spawn there as well.

[@zunk4435]

Heyo, SPT does have a functioning mod called Project FIKA and it does work. There are even people hosting dedicated SPT multiplayer servers. The advantages of SPT is load times (Factory takes 20 seconds, bigger maps

[@scornfulbongo]

im actually having a blast playing PVE tarkov. i was given the unheard edition from a buddy because i refused to purchase it myself. turns out I would have 100% bought it. i love the persistent progression. i myself work 84 hour weeks and seldom do I have time off to grind any game let alone tarkov which wipes every 6 months. im actually close to maxing out all my traders for the FIRST TIME EVER. SPT bans your account and is too tedious for me to set up blah blah blah. i do love PVE mode. i dont like the shorten raid timers though...

[@awsm253]

SPT doesn't get your account banned. And I wish people would stop spreading this Misinformation. The only thing that would get your account banned is if you fucked with EFT's Live build files. Which SPT does not do. SPT's Installer Copies and changes files into a SEPARATE. FOLDER. That doesn't interact with the Live Tarkov AT ALL. It's also stupid easy to set up and even mod. - Download SPT installer. - Make a folder called SPT where ever you want the game installed. - Put installer in that folder. Run the installer. - It asks for 4 Checkmarks to be green. - Install. Boom. Done. And Putting in mods is literally as simple as. Download. Extract into SPT folder. Done.

[@Ringularity]

SPT doesn't get you banned and AI is way better. Enjoy any pve you want. Both are great.

[@randyxyt5562]

You're utterly wrong about "SPT bans your account and is too tedious for me to set up blah blah blah". 1) No, your account won't be banned 2) No it is not tedious to set up, it's just as "complicated" as installing regular Escape From Tarkov 3) You can adjust the raid timers to your liking 4) If you do play Co-Op with your buddy who bought it for you, you can also do that in SPT, with the added fun of mods. 5) SPT has *significantly* better AI - like light years ahead of what current PVE Tarkov has. Not trying to throw shade at you, just mentioning some facts and correcting your wrong statements.

[@ixthompson]

Don't have SPT and normal tarkov running at the same time and you won't get banned. That would be the only way BSG would know otherwise

[@jonathanoriley8260]

Your boy wasted money, and you would have too. You should have just gotten SPT. It's superior to live EFT's coop mode in every way. And there is a coop mod for it too called Project FIKA, so live EFT doesn't even have a monopoly on that aspect. What truly makes SPT shine is the mods; anything you can think of, there is likely a mod for it. For real, you've been made a fool of by whoever made you believe that SPT gets you banned or that it's a hassle to set up. That's a blatant falsehood. I've been switching between SPT and live EFT (go back for wipes and new content updates) for about 2 years now and haven't been banned. Setting up SPT was as easy as downloading the installer into an empty folder and then launching it. Setting up mods for SPT is also the easiest modding I have ever done for a game, and I have been modding games like Fallout for years.

[@matthewami]

Note yes you can co-op in the spt mod, you always could. the other person just directs themselves to your ip/sni and boom they’re there. The mod more or less just a private server. The old (now defunct) JET branch had a ‘fun time’ server that was more or less just a private server running a shit ton of mods. AI performance has a lot to do with server performance. In the mod you’ll notice that they’re pretty fucking scary to fight if you keep everything ‘as in raid’ since you’re running that server way more efficiently than bsg can. You see this in a lot of other games. They also seem to have it set to their own internal highest level, based on experience with offline raid mode.

[@xxthefeardxx]

Spt is literally pve tarkov with MODS

[@prevalentbordom6037]

I really really love this mode. Being in the military, working 13-14 hr days on a panama schedule, this takes (most of) the frustration out of the game

[@BIGGCOUCH45]

The only thing I don't like about PVE is the infinite scavs that spawn on every map. I had to push through 45 scavs just to do some streets quests. I prefer PVE compared to PVP right now due to all of the cheaters in the game right now unfortunately.

[@awsm253]

Just download SPT. Installing it is super easy and there's mods that let you set up exactly how many scavs you want to be spawned and at what intervals.

[@zeevr.4752]

The PMCS in tarkov pve it’s so wild being level 30 on factory about 60m away absolutely insane aiming, then the bots seem to team up. Its kinda wild

[@589real]

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

[@GirlypopShotgun]

i hope you get touched

[@normalguy8377]

I was on shoreline doing signal pt.1 ... encountered a group of PMCs and by the time I was done killing them, another 4 man just walked up and joined the battlefield. Truly a Tarkov hood classic

[@timourmarimuntz5294]

Correction, some of the devs collaborated with modders to make a mod that allows co-op..

[@II__argo__II]

SPT has a mod called Project Fika that allows you to open your SPT server for other clients - essentially, multiplayer singleplayer Tarkov. It works amazingly. My friends and I have been playing it a lot recently, its super easy to set up and we can run all the mods we want to customize the experience to our own desires (even on each client, ie our newer friend uses radar while the rest of us have it disabled). The absolute best part, imo, is the fact that I can just leave the server running for my friends to jump on and play whenever they want.

[@GreenLad319]

There is a Seperate mod for SPT that introduces coop to it i wont name what it is because it might be a bad idea legally speaking but it does exist and its actually very stable and well made

[@thespacenoob4760]

name is fika

[@ChromePyramid]

"Lee Harvey Oswald is back and they gave him an assault rifle" Ok that one got me

[@Bakabakaonichan]

All of my friends are playing on SPT, but I'm just too paranoid to play it. The fact it isn't officially supported, and is a bit dubious in regards to legality with coop mods, means I just simply don't trust it. So many people keep telling me "it's fine" or "something something local server undetectable blah blah blah", I just keep seeing a future where BSG cracks down on unofficial modding ahead of their own modding release, and everyone who ever had SPT installed gets hardware banned. Likely? Probably not. But possible? Yes. So I'm not taking that risk at all.

[@noAlia5]

well thats ur fault..literally played for 3 months and just deleted it, i can still play online. your just tweaked tf out from bsg scaring you 🤣

[@MsZsc]

weird personality to have where you're not a pirate, yet want to enjoy this kind of adrenaline-based game

[@jacktrader2405]

6:28 - that line aged like fine wine

[@daffix1337]

About coop, there is a mod for coop in SPT, that works quite well and doesnt require a 250$ version of the game. You should really make a video about SPT at some point.

[@SomeRandomObserver]

SPT does have a co-op mode, and it is called Project Fika. Now with that said, it does have one major drawback which is....that only the server host can start raids. that leads into players hosted on your server without their own personal progression profile while your server is offline, and ability to go into a raid alone because the host has to start the raid.

[@Refraktor1]

you can host the "server" on another always on pc, everyone can connect to it for progression but raids are hosted locally on the client.. check forcebind ip in the fika options (also there are youtube guides)

[@SomeRandomObserver]

@@Refraktor1 Thanks for the info

[@OldKnightAMV]

multiplayer SPT has been the best tarkov experience of my life.. I use Tagilas voice line and skins and its amazing

[@loldotsarefun]

I like this description of tarkov, that PVE mode is blue collar tarkov. I work a full 8-hour job as well as help take care of the family cattle farm, so the amount of time I get to spend playing games eight varies wildly depending on time of year and b is just a lot less than when I was in school. So because of that, it makes playing tarkov difficult, because I can't clock the same amount of time as everybody else seems to be able to. And I know that inherently I'm kind of bad at the game, but I still enjoy it, so having the PVE mode allows me to play tarkov and not feel like I'm behind everybody else

[@Shabangs510]

"obscene learning" curve was putting it nicely lmao

[@1110jesse]

One thing in PvE I noticed is that PMCs do kill scavs.. if they wander within smelling distance. I've seen this kind of scenario multiple times: Scav stands around, PMC runs next to it, yells "bandit sighted" and mows the scav down, meanwhile me, another scav, stand 10 feet away from the now dead body having a staring competition with the PMC. I can just walk away, I can have the first shot, or I can walk closer to the PMC at which point he will open fire. So yes, if you play as Scav, it's almost far too easy to kill PMCs cos they aggro you at 5 meters away, not at 200 meters.

[@Not_honest_enough]

"Lee Harvey Oswald is back and they gave him an assault rifle" I will quote that more than once now

[@big_nickos5609]

Freshly subscribed 🎉 I really enjoyed this video, my guy got humor and style 😎🤘🏼

[@gaucebossanomaly2103]

I always wanted to play Tarkov but was always deterred by the sweats and the rampant hacker plague. The mechanics are cool and is genuinely a really impressive game. Now that PvE is available I've been having a blast playing with my friends and having them coaching me through the game since it was my first time playing. I've heard you talk about how there are so many Scavs that spawn but honestly when playing with a full group you get that "Black Hawk Down" Moment when a bunch of scavs start rushing us. PvE has been a really good addition so far that has finally scratched the 'tarkov itch' that other games I've played haven't quite got for me. I can already feel the gamblers spirit rising within lmao.

[@ft4d391]

As a soldier PVE mode is so useful. Ive been gone for training for a while but when I get back its not like im gonna be 3 months behind wipe, im able to pick up and play like I never left and im genuinely looking forward to getting back and just relaxing for a day or two

[@tarettime9392]

I haven’t played tarkov in years precisely because I have a full time job and don’t have the time play so regularly that I can keep up with the progression others. PvE sounds like a fun way to get back into it

[@ericbentley5091]

i work 70-90 hours a week and pve tarkov has gotten me back into my tarkov grind... I love it

[@ericbentley5091]

and i love the added raid times \

[@royleoncallisonii1053]

Just built my first gaming pac this month just to play tarkov. Got 3 raids in on PVP and got murdered each time. Bought PVE and boy-o-boy I’m in love. I work as a mechanic (10-12 hour days) and PVE is literally blue collar tarkov so you’re right on the money on that one bud.

[@Chaooo]

SPT has multiplayer functionality as other comments have already stated. I just wanted to chime in and say that the only two advantages that PvE Mode has going for it so far is: 1. No local resources are spent running the AI in your games. This saves you a mountain of performance because BSG's servers will be conducting the AI and doing all the calculations, not your own system as it is in SPT. However, MPT allows you to subvert this advantage by having another computer host the SPT/MPT server and perform all the calculations to conduct the AI. You'll have to deal with P2P latency if you're trying to play with friends, and deal with P2P security issues if you're hosting it publicly. 2. Game updates are immediate as opposed to waiting for the SPT devs to research and reiterate for the next wipe's patch. However, this is a double-edged sword. Not everyone wants to update right away, and not everyone especially wants their progress wiped at the hands of BSG since it's PvE (although I do not know if they will wipe, which is also a double-edged sword in itself because some people would want to reset their progress on-demand or have multiple profiles for something like a Rags-to-Riches run). I'm personally still running patch 0.13 which is before the Ground Zero release and Shoreline rework, mainly because I didn't want to update right away so that the modders can update their packages, and because I don't have a lot of time to spend playing Tarkov but also didn't want to lose all the progress I made -- updating major patches can cause a lot of issues if you use your existing profiles from the previous major patch, including losing stuff from your stash. So to boil it all down, PvE mode doesn't really have any advantages at all.

[@-matsu-9363]

Awesome video and analysis, I needed that. Thank you for bringing us reliable and entertaining info, as always. "Blue collar Tarkov" player is the perfect term for someone like me that has very little time to invest on games and don't want to deal with cheaters every raid. I still chose to play spt because: - I have no friends to play Tarkov, so no use for multiplayer features - I'm terrible at fps games although loving them so the idiotic AI is still a pretty hard challenge for me lol - spt features many mods that enable me to customize the game even more to my tastes and skill level.

[@Sztywny125]

glad someone spoke about it, I am stuck on quests on reserve, lighthouse and woods and I DESPISE all those maps, playing alone there is no fun, so I just go to play PvE when I'm alone and I have succesfully learned navigating on woods that way (even if only a bit), I have made a lot of progress on doing start quests alone, I have learned to use other weapons than those I use know, I have learned to use grenades once in a while if it won't end on getting cooked by a fucker with 5k hours and 20 k/d, learned not to take every single piece of loot if I don't need to and I could succesfully do quests like fishing gear completely alone. I played last wipe, but it was painfull due to turbo sweats and cheaters, since I got PvE I could just genuinly chill out on that game without fear that I'll lose my entire gear in one raid because some cheater dipshit just sniped me from across the map with his DVL and 41 lvl on day 3 of wipe, I like PvP more due to the idea that against AI you won't learn how to outplay much, but AI is very forgiving compared to players, like you said, you picked 3 PMCs and slipped away because they didn't agro yet, and I love this, it's a great way to simply chill on that game instead of losing your mind while doing bunker part 2 or any other reserve quests and meeting either a rat, a cheater or a glukhar because why the fuck not (yes, I'm saying it out of experience)

[@haydenhudson8963]

Me and a buddy were doing a shoreline raid, and we went to Pier for one of the marker quests. As we arrived we heard yelling of PMCs, so we started nading to flush them out. There were a total of 3 BEARs, 3 USECs, and 4 Scavs all inside the pier house. Each Scav had a 5.56 weapon and UN Gear on (Helmet and/or Armor). Not sure if this kind of thing was intended, but it felt like we interrupted an arms deal or something, felt really cool. Also, nuts having 10 AI to fight in a small building lol

[@SuperAsefasef]

I’ll say that playing a coop version of tarkov that is free hypothetically was the most fun I’ve had in tarkov in a very long time.

[@J4CKAL05]

"If you worked a 14-hour shift at the ball-crushing factory, this is the best way to experience Tarkov." If I worked at a ball-crushing factory, I probably don't want to fill my spare time with exactly the same thing.

[@KostellOnY]

Didn't see this in first comments, but SPT HAS multiplayer branch. It's called MPT and it works like a charm (not 100% sure if this is a mod from the same dev, or not, but I've tested it with friends and it does it's job)

[@jonathanlacefield5066]

Honestly I went over to spt and haven’t looked back, to go against the point of being bad and moving to pve, I was on pace for getting kapa about halfway through the full wipe but after their shenanigans I went to spt The amount you can customize and change the difficulty it’s amazingly done

[@bl1tzz]

There's actually a mod for Spt that allows you to kinda do a co-op with friends, its not that lengthy of a setup too, its called 'project fika'. It's not created directly from the creators of spt but the community around it and i find it so much more fun than what I have in actual tarkov.

[@sonysk84life]

one nice thing you didn't mention is that you will get back everything you insured in PvE. helps new players with overcoming gear fear.

[@Mithaldu]

your content is really getting high quality :D

[@gnarrlly]

"lee Harvey Oswald is back and they gave him an assault rifle"

[@CrusaderCrunch]

That kinda aged like milk lol

[@bearsbite95]

Can confirm, the train works and is glorious. But sometimes the boss will randomly push it when you're waiting

[@MatoVuc]

As formerly avid SPT player, I can say the thing that I liked most about it was the local hosting, because my internet kind of suck even at my house, let alone when I have to travel to a different country every 2 weeks for work purposes... Unfortunately, I really haven't been feeling it for months now and have only jumped in to see the snow maps for a short 20-30 hours and then just haven't gone back.

[@shadowninja8011]

Know this video is a month old but I had one of those high moments on woods today with 2 of my friends in PvE. We were at Emercom camp on woods and as we got ready to leave 3 Scavs walked in. We killed them easily…. And then we were under siege for the next 15 minutes by no less than 7 PMCs and another half dozen Scavs from every direction, as the 3 of us tried to hold the camp and keep out the interlopers while covering each other from snipers and bush Wookiees. That was FUN.

[@ArthurAuditore]

As someone who experienced SPT a couple of months before official PvE launched, I wanted to clarify a couple of things that you left out while talking about it, if people are curious about SPT: - You CAN play SPT online, it's just hard to figure out how because in the official forums like reddit and such, it's prohibited to talk about it for reasons you can probably guess. But if you dig a little bit, it's not that hard to find out how. I did it and it works great, also pretty easy to setup. - A BIG advantage that PvE has over SPT is the updates. As an example I'll use my own experience. When I started playing SPT, Ground Zero and the update for Shoreline were the latest releases in the live Tarkov. At that point I had to play the old version in SPT because they can take up to months to update SPT, depending on how complex the updates are. - Events is another advantage for PvE. - The biggest advantage that SPT has over PvE is the customization, the mod community is incredible and you can tune pretty much everything. You don't like the AI? you can tune it to make it behave differently. You want extra stuff in your HUD? It can be done. Live Tarkov removing the fog came from one of the most popular mods of SPT, which did exactly that. BSG said mod support will come to PvE, but we already know the value of BSG words at this point. Considering those points, it's a matter of which of these points are most important for each player.

[@themajesticrice]

Part of the ship, part of the crew. Worthy sub to a fellow coworker at the crushing factory.

[@n0denz]

I wish this existed two years ago when I first tried getting into the game. I just could not get anywhere or try anything out. In the case of some objectives like doing something in Factory office, I literally stopped trying because someone would always be waiting. I knew exactly where people were but couldn't kill them. I'd throw grenades, but they'd be ready for that. I'd run in, prefiring, but they'd be ready for that. I even figured out the time it would take to get there and to exfil within roughly a 1 sec of error so that I could wait until the final minute of the raid, but someone would still always be there, so I gave up and never went up there again. One time when I was messing with keybinds, I accidentally unbound LMB to fire but I didn't realize it until the next day because in the subsequent raids, I didn't have a chance to fire my weapon before getting killed. The next day, I thought my guns had malfunctions because nothing would happen when I fired. I stopped playing for good after I developed honest-to-god nervous tics like facial twitches and spasms in my arms and legs - that and I really started to hate myself for being such a prototypical timmy. I was over 1200 hours in, yet other than map knowledge and other technical aspects, I had not improved. I came to the conclusion that I could get good, but it would take so long and have such a negative impact on my mental health, that the indignity of giving up was preferable to the indignity of toughing it out.

[@deathbob091]

lee harvey oswald is back, and they gave him an assault rifle..... very well played.

[@miiiiiiiiiiick]

I've really enjoyed it. Knowing I won't have to grind some of those quests again (unless I choose to join a wipe in the future) is a good feeling. Getting access to some content I never could earlier will be great too - lightkeeper and such. If they keep working on it, it will be awesome I think. I've also really enjoyed playing it with a few of guys I used to play pvp with. Much more chill. Zero cheaters too.

[@WLMaximus]

Friend of mine told me we'd "quickly go loot that jacket" 30 minutes and 42 scavs later we still hadn't looted that jacket

[@vipersbladeify]

The Lvl.20 difficulty jump is real. I went from 0 deaths to a 50% survival rate in a single evening I was dying to the PMCs so much, most often shortly after spawning 'cause they spawned in the nearest area

[@kinori3198]

As someone that gets maybe an hour a day to play, pve has been a blessing and so much fun yet still punishing if I'm not playing tactical