Arena is FUN NOW? | Escape from Tarkov

[@ScavsAteMyLegs]

Arena would’ve been a lot more popular if it didn’t launch on life support, glad to see some positive changes tho

[@drinkmorecocacola]

i had fun with it the day i played. the only issue i had was some voip dudes being weird. and trying to get in a raid a couple times and it not working cause the last guy was smoking pot

[@NoSleepWiblo]

i was the one smoking pot@@drinkmorecocacola

[@KrzyczAndrzej]

Wouldve been more popular if it didnt have such high price. Almost 40 euro is wild

[@bknighty28]

Game sync trashes the game. None of the changes even matter,

[@Very-average]

I dont get audio at all anymore HALF the time 💀

[@CapitaineP-Multigaming-sp3rc]

The way arena was launched is exactly how I go into raids : unprepared

[@bobjose1122]

Babe, wake up, Leviticus is doing an Arena video. 💜

[@magmachicken4402]

Not now, I’m playing hell divers, hun

[@drinkmorecocacola]

"WHY are you waking me up for your tarkov bullshit?" - every girlfriend in the history of girlfriends

[@foki8671]

​@@drinkmorecocacola Cause who would ever want to hear anything about tarkov

[@drinkmorecocacola]

@@foki8671 “me” - every cool boyfriend on planet earth

[@HAASNUTS2826]

MOM GET THE POPCORN THAT DUDE WITH THE HELMET MADE ANOTHER VIDEO!

[@thoalis4325]

Even if they don't add full on custom kits using a tiered money system like people want, they could at least give some small options like weapon attachments. The best really would be tier 1 has access to tier 1 trader items and something like ~100,000ru for a kit. This increasing up to tier 3 where you get access to full trader items and ~500,000ru or something like that. Haven't played in a bit not sure if those budgets would work but you get the idea.

[@maplegumm]

Custom kits would be such a horrid addition as everyone would immediately just rush to get the most meta options and just dwell on them

[@fubarexress6359]

Nah. With the changes to recoil, attachment variety would be there. Plus does it matter if everyone uses common shit? We use THE SAME SHIT NOW, as we are locked into tiers and limited to the same presets. Customization is the HALLMARK of EFT, to not have it here... makes ZERO SENSE. Weird L take. @@maplegumm

[@maplegumm]

@@fubarexress6359 Your using the same shit but a team can only use one of each preset. You can’t do that with attachments especially. Additionally having presets allows BSG to balance them out more instead of trying to balance every gun for what ammo it’s compatible with or attachment as well as gear. It’s fine in EFT where you don’t have to as it’s a free for all and you use the best gear you find and that’s that, but in Arena it’s literally just people getting the same exact copy of gear that their teammates have or opponent so they don’t lose the advantage. Like why would you choose a mp-153 with 7mm buck with a beanie when you can just use G36/RRLP with a Tor? It would just devolve back into pre-balance Arena.

[@Brzzzyexe]

@@maplegumm you already see people rushing to the most meta presets and dwell on them already, at least custom kits gives you some customizability

[@maplegumm]

@@Brzzzyexe Okay so say I’d say that the most “meta” kit right now is Diesel in CQB with the G36, as despite it having having shit RRLP it can reliability kill at range, he also has only level 3 armor and a face mask that can only stop SP8 at that tier. In the same category there is Murka who while having a lvl 3 face shield/helmet + lvl 4 armor AS well as a 133 with flechette, however the kit is limited by range as flechette has a very high damage drop off so you need to get up close to dish out dmg. Now let’s say that you can customize your kit, what’s stopping someone from running a tor + lvl 4 armor + G36 effectively making it one of the strongest kits in the game at low tiers.

[@monkegaming476]

god i love helmet man

[@williamcase426]

Helmet man ftw

[@user-pq4il4xo9s]

*Balaklava man

[@williamcase426]

*baklava man

[@robjob6537]

11:37 In arena before wipe had a teammate that wanted to see if his 9mm pbp gzh pistol would go through my Rhys-T. So I lined up in spawn and he shot the back of my head. The bullet went straight through me, the Rhys-T, and hit the wall in front of me. No damage to either my head or the helmet lmao

[@SMMmc76]

That’s just means the helmet bends gravity duh

[@rygzengrho]

Armpits are almost gone in latest Tarkov patch. Overall, they decreased randomness by making ears, armpit zones, etc smaller

[@jcozyyt]

More variety in objectives, like plant/defuse bombs or CTF as well as larger maps with more players and longer rounds would be huge. Also just a casual mode that allows custom kits

[@thecaledonian7643]

Murka in the CQB tree is Free and comes with Flechette, makes the 133 feel devious

[@polaralpha5561]

Best Tarkov content creator 🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@oaklandredwood2054]

I just got a new GPU and the bluescreen bugging out at 3:49 gave me a heart attack.

[@Maintenance_Mark]

Haha oh noooo

[@leviticus1132]

My bad man

[@Maintenance_Mark]

So BSG is figuring out that they need to make changes the players actually enjoy if they want their game to grow? Will this recently gained insight apply to escape from tarkov as well?

[@infinityd8448]

I like EFT armor system in arena, it adds more weak spots for classes like Butcher (u have a chanse to 1 shot kill him to the neck f. egz.) so u always have a chance to hit that weak spot face to face and win gunfight. Earlier if you had bad or flesh bullets u just die no way of killing them.

[@evanboland1220]

Exactly, the people who whine about it are people that rely on armor to win fights so they whinr that they cant be invincible to lower levels anymore

[@sundragonbro2080]

i mean butcher doesn't have a hexgrid anymore so it's not like it matters much lmao

[@smokeymoe842]

Good, Goooood.

[@romanm.7563]

og butcher made me feeling like i was in a episode of the boys and the actually butcher was after me juiced up on v and i was wasn't a main character with plot armour

[@j0hnicide]

what does arena do better than other 5v5 shooters? how is this gonna be an esport?

[@fluffow2675]

Nothing. It does everything worse. Only thing it's good for is as a practice tool for tarkov. But it fails even at that

[@DesiNR_M]

It has started becoming more fun as of late, although there's still more to be desired.

[@Maintenance_Mark]

Yeah I came back and gave it another try but... not yet

[@imurchin867]

At least it's a step in the right direction no?

[@Maintenance_Mark]

@@imurchin867 yes definitely heading the right way which is exciting and it looks really good as well. But the desync and hit reg issues are still to much for me. Death cams need to show reality itself and not something that never happened on either screen. I live on the outskirts of a big city and have fiber internet to my house with brand new Internet gear. I recently built my new PC on the upper high end of things. It's on a quality Ethernet connection with tests showing great numbers across the board. My point is that I am a best-case scenario for eliminating any issues that are not related to the game itself and I'm experiencing some things that in my opinion make the game unplayable for me. I can't trust my bullets. I can't trust my peaks. I can't trust that my character is even in the spot that I think my character is in on my screen. I can't trust that the enemy is where the enemy is on my screen either. Those are all fundamental things that need to be fixed before I can play the game. But I am excited for the future!

[@102ndsmirnov7]

Yep, hitreg feels off which is my main gripe. (Tarkov movement also feels clunky to me but that's a more minor thing.) Another thing that I really want them to add is the EFT gun customisation and kit customisation. That's what EFT is all about.@@Maintenance_Mark

[@Maintenance_Mark]

@@102ndsmirnov7 good point. Gun customization is definitely a core part of the Tarkov experience. I have a 2nd standard account for my oldest kid to play on and BSG sent me a free 3-day code to try Arena and also invited me to come watch Twitch for drops. I guess the Twitch Arena drops event is not going as well as planned? What are your thoughts?

[@Nate-kc2wf]

First time i've ever seen anyone describe arena even remotely close to fun

[@BoxdHound]

With less downtime and a few QoL improvements it could be a pretty good time waster while you're waiting for dawn/dusk to transition in base tarkov.

[@maxzett]

I still feel like teammates need to be more visible in arena. If you only see the feet there is no way to see if it's a m8 or an enemy. Same if you only see the head. At the time you try to find out if it's an enemy it's either you getting killed by an enemy or the guy in question via a team kill anyways.

[@drinkmorecocacola]

MUTINEERS: GET THE LASER OFF YOUR PISTOL AND PUT IT ON YOUR RIFLE!

[@BalgaBear]

Best educational channel on Tarkov!

[@Blind_Hawk]

I had to skip the "rant" about the armor part. I can not hear it anymore. Modular armor is such cool system because you can hit and kill guys by shooting the "weakspots" the armor does not cover. Like in fucking real life, this is so fucking cool. I wish every milsim game has that. Except it is bugged or completely broken, then yeah this has to be fixed. And oh my god... Chop Shop my beloved

[@MyDadsBeatMe]

Nice helmet it defines your head shape well

[@charamander]

Now all the Chads gonna roam all over the arena, and the raid gonna become canniballistic world of rats.

[@KiddBuu_]

Not quite yet, the moment they integrate the main game into Arena, that will absolutely be the case.

[@ColdfrontNJ]

i like the new presets and stuff , main complaint about arena that i've said from the start is the game modes are so boring like maybe the worst gamemode ive ever played in a competitive 5v5. Why isn't there the tried and true defusal mode? Also the one fun gamemode 2v2v2v2 or 3v3v3v3 arent even worth running from a grind/progression or even rank perspective because of how little return u get for winning for the amount of time it takes to complete the match. imo opinion they should just literally copy CS, why not? Would be so fun to have a 5v5 defusal/objective gamemode but tarkov

[@Skratzy]

Marksman tree bolt action grind feels like david vs goliath

[@Kanzuke]

Until you get a AP-M VPO and can one-tap every other T1 player

[@Skratzy]

@@Kanzuke *L.arm

[@adaptabledisease]

3:00 LOL the names XD

[@lolpl0000]

lmao i love the fact that you're keeping your greenscreen up by a couple darts in a dartboard.

[@mattb4110]

it is better I have to admit, BUT having to grind out 5 tier 2 kits before being able to play tier 2 is insane to me and already killed the game for me , once you do unlock enough kits why would you even use the first 2 or 3 kits in said tier when you have the best kit in that tier unlocked? makes no sense. anyway that's my rant. love all the vids bro keep em coming!

[@groffyy7208]

my thoughts exactly, the amount of time being spent in tier 1 is crazy and pain inducing

[@Domonian]

They really should just let you pick which tier you want to queue in and then let you use any LOWER tier equipment. Sure, it would suck if your only tier 2 kit got taken, but at least you could play with 2 or 3 kits instead of needing to complete the tier basically.

[@mattb4110]

@@Domonian totally agreed!

[@ForOne814]

@@Domonian nope. It's not about you, it's about your team. I don't want a tier 1 Andy in my tier-2 game.

[@Domonian]

@@ForOne814 L concept. Could always lock the Tier 2 kit for the guy who only has it so nobody else can play it, cause its not about the player apparently.

[@longplaylegends]

Just one big issue still - Carrying your team with a 2-3 KD or more, but still managing to lose, still screws your rank... Gotta queue as at least a 3 man if you want to have any major hope of ranking up. Although that's also a less consequential thing so..

[@Lord_Mike_]

my man keeps looking at the wall

[@nwigchert10]

BUT SOMEHOW NIKITA introduced more issues....tier system?! DOPE. wait ... I can't use the kit I just unlocked. I gotta unlock 4 MORE just to play the BETTER kit 🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️😂😂😂 (also now the "good" kit in a tier with be instantly selected so u might NEVER play a kit before up tier)

[@davimuniz1469]

NEW VIDEOOOO YIPIEEEEE

[@Ryoshi3576]

Yessirr lesss goooo

[@Gunner8_]

I totally agree with your take on randomness in the game. The new armor system and the excessive amounts of aim punch and blur are fine in Tarkov, but in Arena those things should be left out. BSG are trying to make a competitive game, and in a good competitive game limiting the amount of randomness is a good thing. In a gun fight the one who out skilled their opponent should win, not win based on who won a coin flip. Great Video!

[@joseaguirre9389]

i hate aim punch and blur.. god knows why its in a "comp" game like Arena lol

[@DraxtonBayne]

DAD GET THE LOTION FUNNY HELMET MAN UPLOADED

[@krelekari]

I have no idea why everyone hates the armor system as much as they do, and the idea that they'd make the two games so mechanically different that they'd have two different armor systems in it is absurd and I personally LOVE using flesh ammo instead of AP ammo and with the armor changes its FINALLY viable. 11pen ammo at 1100RPM is much better vs soft armor and actually viable, and I think the difference of having half the games ammo's literally being a joke VS having them actually be useful but everyone has to care about their positioning more than ever is a fair tradeoff. If anything just ask for old movement back instead of old armor back

[@nathanwortham2876]

finally someone who gets it lmaooo @3:23

[@tylernicolas]

Personally I think if BSG wants to make a esport out of arena then they need to get rid of the loadout system they’ve made. I’d make it so players can create their own loadouts before a game, some with meta gear and others with basic kit. In game you have a buy system where depending on your Econ you can choose what kit to run for that round. If you die you lose that kit, but you move on with what you had the previous round. I’d also increase the game times to something closer to an esport

[@UltimateFalk]

lol. I started up arena yesterday for the first time. Was disappointed beyond belive. The fact it was 10 times worse before that wipe.... Is fuckingg insane

[@Rossebma]

Arena would greatly profit from things like a HUD. Nothing too fancy... Just a hud that shows you, who is alive. Basically the display you get in every other E-Sport title. :D

[@justinw.7045]

I play Arena when I want to suffer faster than I do in Tarkov.

[@oneramirez]

Top 500 player opinion: This game launched on life support but its slowly coming back really glad to see it climbing out of the hole it was put in but i do think unrated needs to be a thing

[@deus_exdee5339]

Let's not forget that they still haven't added scroll heal

[@Warcrimy]

Did they just took a progression system from war thunder and called it a day?

[@AverySadBear]

I like arena, i like your takes. I disagree with the armor one, but I understand that it really depends on the person. Good video.

[@BazinGarrey]

Desync will never be fixed. It's fucked on a fundamental level.

[@wizpig64]

i think the armor systems should be the same across games, and if the new armor system apparently sucks in arena they can use that knowledge to fix it in both.

[@anhduc0913]

The most important change is going to be hackers flying and headshot every one before the round even start. Which is not here, and not likely to ever be here.

[@yeethefeete1712]

Winterfando here: nice one

[@bummer7736]

1:35 i thought its by using any kit within the same class not tree?

[@incediumignis]

yea it might be bugged, because that has been my experience as well, ive been spamming cqb shotgun fleechete (murka) and unlocking the entire left tree since that and the piranha shotgun are the only remotely good starter kits.

[@GiRR007]

The armor hit boxes are already goofy as fuck in the main game, led alone arena.

[@sklllsam5107]

nice video , the arena is much better now , i just wish they add audio settings to lower volume of the russian commenter , so i can hear my teammate giving me info or just to hear my self thinking. thanks. 👍

[@jedpratte]

Early shot gun classes are little to strong. Murka with flachette lol

[@mohammedriadh4990]

It still needs more work but gotta give it to them they fixed alot of the flaws, what i have in mind is that they should implement special quests in the vanilla tarkov that tells you to go arena. It will have different rules ( no time limit or cleaning crew ) and it will rewards you with loot to use it in the vanilla.

[@ghost4fly659]

you are forgetting that arena is a DLC for everybody that didn`t buy EOD

[@thegamingkidder2866]

chop shop was in the 2v2 mode before the most recent update

[@flyingchair8103]

11:43 That bullet missed due to height over bore.

[@ifailedcollege5692]

For the amount of games that copy tarkov, dunno why it took them this long to figure out a progression tree when war thunder figured it out years ago.

[@nahuelleandroarroyo]

So Battlestate learned from Warthunder/wargaming tech tress in the end, never try to reinvent the wheel

[@counter8630]

"ben Shapiro fluoride stare" lmaooooo

[@Suspicious_Doggo]

Holy shit, this guy gets it

[@shock226]

You don’t have to use a kit from the same tree to gain xp. You can use any kit from any tier from any tree

[@Just_Jet]

You do if you want to research that tree, you have to use the same tree kits You cant use a sniper kit to research a CQB kit

[@isaacmacqueen9695]

I feel like they could learn from insurgency and add like a budget system or something. Spend too much on armor and you cant use the top quality of ammo, spend too much on ammo and you cant use top quality armor

[@Mooshew]

They did a great job and acted super quick to complaints

[@deezboyeed6764]

I actually really like tht nade spot, not because I use it but I hate the modern obsession with everything having to be perfectly balanced and amazing designed. That nade shoukd be a consideration if you go that way.

[@UwUz.]

FUCK YEA I LOVE THESE VIDS

[@nomadstudios9564]

I love MyBallsItchALot at 3:03

[@gaming.2280]

chop shop isnt new it was a shootout map. this is why the spawns are so short distance away from eachother

[@deezboyeed6764]

Also that shotgun clip was down to pirahna being absolutely busted strong.

[@Beemo.160]

i love u daddy leviticus

[@Hmsdeacon]

with the unlocking 5 kits, they should just let you play the tier and if you don't have a tier 2 kit cos you only have 1 and it's been selected then that was your own fault.

[@jackgiggle]

This sounds real good and all, but can I turn the announcer volume down yet?

[@secret_szpion1626]

Im calling that they make cooldowns for nades at the start of rounds in the future. They already took away so many of them so i bet they will do it again but more aggressively

[@bogdankl2000]

I don't like arena, I think it's mainly the fact that I'm really bad at it and I also insist on using bolt action rifles, I played it for a few days with 2 friends when arena came out and had just a miserable time of it, it's also the game mode tho, I just don't like the single life modes, I was under the impression that it was gonna be something like TDM where you can just push and have fun but it's more like CS and it that way I get it, it teaches you more important stuff than aiming like positioning, tactics and the importance of audio but I just don't have the patience for it

[@1999Dorito]

why the fuck do you insist on using a bolt action when most of the maps and the game itself calls for close quarters engagements

[@winstonpham4809]

Been having such. Fun time especially with SMGs i like to sneak around or rush quick

[@no.7893]

honestly I am just shocked that BSG somehow made war thunder but with soldiers instead of tanks.

[@dyshexiia]

now instead of 10 min que times now we got 30 min que times cause of the tier lock :)))))))))))

[@Nicky654a]

I really hope they give more tier ones headphones audio is barely a factor in that tier

[@StepSisRUstuck]

MOM! MOM! GUESS WHAT THEY FIXED ARENA WOOOOOHOOO😂

[@cloaker8362]

This patch made arena borderline unplayable. Every gun was given zero recoil weapon builds with new recoil system that just ends game stupidly quick to head shots

[@mutedpeeps5189]

with the flash bang thing, just turn around lol

[@justtonofash6724]

If they ever add a 10v10 bearVusec faction gamemode, cool, im only really waiting to see if the overrun gamemode is any good.

[@basedb1644]

The ban timers are insane. Everytime i start the game i get disconnected first game. Im at 24h ban for both unranked and ranked

[@ThatAverageGamer0]

Did you know you have a counterpart that makes vids on vr tarkov

[@umadyet-4064]

damn i loaded into a scav and my scav had the exact same helmet + mask loadout

[@theZaxity]

just wanna point out my man keeps looking at the green screen as if he’s got the tier trees up, LIVE. but this dude is basically a weatherman pointing at a green screen lmao. wonder if he’s got the monitor off to the side to look at like the weather casters

[@leviticus1132]

I only have them pulled up on another stream if I’m doing a tier list. Otherwise it’s just off memory and having a decent idea of how the video will be structured.

[@spoonmanthe3rd]

I’m redownloading this game right now

[@evilspoon88]

I really enjoy arena. The main thing i dislike is the performance though. Wish it were a higher priority

[@KrupekXD]

nah shotgun kids are way way worse im on a rx570 which is a worse 970 nvidia so i know what u mean whenu say performance haha but it is not bad

[@MegaHarden]

They deleted my class, Cavalier.

[@That1Historian]

Anyone else feel like bullets just don't work? Like I've mag dumped someone yet they just kill me

[@de-ment]

"ben shapiro fluoride stare"

[@user-fv1lr2jx2v]

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[@skeven0]

Meanwhile i havent touched Arena yet, because i got acees to it when Escape wiped

[@stealthyezio1273]

lol the preset leveling is going to be like war thunder 😂

[@loone3619]

My favourite class Being ryzhy

[@AlexandroneF]

BSG just replaced World of Tanks progression with War Thunder progression, lmao. Slavic competitive MMO-shooter at its finest.

[@Grayest_Fox]

The ammo changes literally make tier one insufferable lol

[@windows10-8bitproce..6]

Game is fun

[@GamingZ_enith]

I dont know why people think "custom kits" are a good idea. It's just going to have the previous versions problems but worse. The only thing I could see being viable is having the presets being somewhat customizable themselves. Like trading weaker ammo in 30-40 round mags with 20 rounders with much better ammo. Things like that would be cool, but fully custom kits is a REALLY BAD idea.

[@st2udent_650]

Totally agree. Too bad people aren't ever going to stop asking for it.