HUGE Questions & Even Bigger Answers // Pestily & Nikita TLDR

There is no questioning that this is the BIGGEST interview we have ever gotten from Nikita Buyanov, the lead developer of Escape from Tarkov. Pestily did a great job getting as many of the communities questions answers as he could have about the future of Escape from Tarkov and Nikita's response to many different problems over the years. Tarkov anti cheat, Tarkov future plans, Tarkov Full Release, Tarkov PMC Karma, Nikita tarkov, Open World in Escape from Tarkov and more all talked about here.
Get the full interview here I think it's important all fans of #escapefromtarkov watch this in it's entirety: • INTERVIEW with NIKITA ...
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Although I do sometimes get a hand from BSG and occasionally get to talk to Nikita or other members of the team, I do not work for BSG. I also work entirely off public information and past experiences of working in game dev myself, as well as following this game closely for several years. Unless I state very clearly otherwise, the information you're about to hear should be taken as speculation. You can either get no information or speculation, that's all we have to go off of these days unfortunately which is why it's easier to just say Thursday whenever anyone asks for dates. If you want hard facts and dates you won't get them, period.

[@straitmlgpug]

bro had to say everything twice for the people in the back

[@NoiceGuy]

XD

[@ItsRayful]

yeah wtf was that about

[@masterred82]

made it unwatchable

[@linx7130]

guy is stuck in replay

[@bioparavervideos]

@@masterred82 i've got to agree with that, made it a little annoying

[@stuartrobertson5062]

I don't know a single person who has ever used the lightkeeper crafts to get their ledx.

[@zaster500]

Thats waht pest Said... Thats why He told this Nikita .... U have to be new in tarkov... Earlier days , u can craft ledx without The book... Now u get The book so late u already have to 1-4 found in raid before U reach Lightkeeper. He Change it

[@Iceberg366]

You need to have ledx quests done before you can even craft it. Rendering the craft pointless

[@Chekannaya]

I used one for crisis this wipe but I had LK at like level 42 so

[@iFinlander]

Up until this week I've said the same thing but I'm currently crafting my 2nd ledx with that craft lol. I had a few microcontroller boards so I used them for that and will barter a thicc case later

[@Legoloup]

I agree completely. I will say tho, I just used it to get the ledxs for the crisis task. but that's kinda beyond the point

[@dylanhunsel5489]

Personally the VPX, LED-X and those crafts, which you unlock at LK is completely useless to me

[@redhead9713]

Not sure how he finds use for those crafts. By that point of the game you have easily found all of the FIR VPXs and LED-Xs you need and the have no other use.

[@orbglorb-zingalorg]

not intrinsically linked to LK, you can find the crafting book in raid

[@Dyils]

@@redhead9713 He's lying, that's how. Either that or he hasn't been past level 30 since they added the textbook from Lightkeeper as a requirement for crafting those and still doesn't know they are hard to craft... There's no chance in hell he's using those crafts "every wipe" as he claims. I don't even believe he's ever reached Lightkeeper. I don't think he even plays Tarkov much, he just does the news...

[@RazorBrain1]

​@orbglorb-zingalorg it's also far easier to find a ledx than find the electronics book. Just saying.

[@Ranger-fb6wh]

Yes, but not only do you need the book, the craft itself is locked behind the quest. So the book wouldnt help you at all​@@orbglorb-zingalorg

[@mavvkek]

For clarification on the wipe/no wipe after 1.0, Nikita said in the interview there will be two different characters, one that wipes and one that does not.

[@NoiceGuy]

Ok great ty thats always been the plan and they seem to be sticking with it.

[@oriolo99]

@@NoiceGuy for raid replay, I think they need to just tank the graphics on replay, or show some low load representation of what happened, not a full high res gameplay of the entire map, but that needs done

[@jessicaabel3481]

@@oriolo99 Meh many games has that feature and doesn't tank fps. PubG added it. The download raid feature should be available for like a week after the raid has ended to be available , it would be so easy to spot cheaters with a free camera.

[@w0rkhop555]

​@@jessicaabel3481yea i feel like even if it ONLY saved like the last 3 raids and deleted everything afterwards people would be fine with it cause usually if you are sus of someone you just immediately go check

[@MrSnrSquishy]

​@@oriolo99its not about graphical load its about data load on the servers. Every replay will need to be saved and with how many raids happen Nikita isn't sure about the data capacity needed.

[@erlendhansen5635]

He is right about the go outside quote lol. Some people act like this game is the only thing that’s important in life.

[@OfKingsXI]

I get it but also the game is literally meant to be a grindfest with the millions of quests some of which RESET if you fuckup or get killed. Its NOT a casual shooter. The steep learning curve alone means playing casually is just going to hinder new players. and if EVERYONES goal is to "escape" aka complete the VIDEOGAME that they paid for??? cmon dawg

[@fredericotito9479]

Please don’t repeat yourself again. Please don’t repeat yourself again.

[@elemental4999]

it made the video unwatchable it made the video unwatchable

[@Nifuji_TTV]

bro why are you saying every point 2-3 times I thought I was going crazy

[@PAfreakFlorian]

Absolutely ridiculous!

[@NoiceGuy]

Was trying something new for the big stuff haha wont do it anymore.

[@PAfreakFlorian]

@@NoiceGuy Thanks ;-)

[@Satoabi]

Yeah kinda annoying xD

[@simonkumpel3971]

Actually it kinda helped me because i am Not the best in understanding english and with the Style of the Video i was able to to get all the relevant information without watching parts of it again

[@junglebeatz]

There absolutely should not be a better edition than what is essentially the "Founder's edition" of the game. This is an awful awful decision.

[@MrJaldal]

Nikita needs a new car, i guess...

[@xboxman500]

I agree. If i paid $130 for the best version before the game was even out, I should have been given the best version there will EVER be. I supported since before the game was even finish I deserve the best for investing early.

[@shampp5411]

Why not? It's probably just going to bundle some micros together and some of the mentioned DLC. Really not a big deal.

[@junglebeatz]

@@shampp5411 idc if they re-release eod under a new name, just add like some type of exclusive clothing item or something to actual EOD. The founder's edition of anything should always be the best.

[@eeeeeeee543]

Boo hoo

[@zZzCharlie]

Appreciate the video but the constant repeating of stuff really wasn't necessary

[@Adubs917]

Cope

[@NoiceGuy]

I was trying to add emphasis wont be doing it in the future

[@hunterowen5171]

Why you countin my gnomesayins? You taking a gnomecensus?

[@fingersonmyhand.7612]

​@@hunterowen5171 I forgot about this one, jroc was so fucking funny

[@sweatysockz]

The LedX craft he's talking about is Lightkeeper Intel Center crafts and you dont need to craft those electronics if you've already made it to lightkeepr

[@jonathanoriley8260]

Fr, it's completely redundant and useless. By the time you get to Lightkeeper, you absolutely already have a fully loaded stash with numerous crates and boxes. Aka, you have more than enough at that point, so LEDx's are useless even for their monetary value.

[@3DProductions]

@@jonathanoriley8260 money is money and enough is never enough lol

[@zaster500]

Nikita Change it... Watch The vod

[@roflret]

If Ironmace can scrounge together a death recap system for Dark and Darker, BSG should have no excuses at all. My dream come true would be Tarkov 2 in unreal5 built from the ground up with anticheat in mind. If there's any followup to the private servers that the rumor mill has been churning out lately would be appreciated.

[@eeeeeeee543]

Don’t think they would ever rebuild it from scratch

[@chaotikkiller1617]

They will never move to unreal, the cost of unreal engine VS unity isn't worth it for something that won't garner them enough additional sales to be worth the redesign or development cost not to mention the difference in knowledge required for their dev team.

[@xxkillbotxx7553]

UE5 is a stuttery mess. It is not the uber engine that all non-developers seem to think it is.

[@chaotikkiller1617]

@@xxkillbotxx7553 Nah, people are mostly right. Highly complex games perform substantially better if they're well developed on UE5 vs well developed on Unity. The issue is that UE5 has shit documentation and takes substantially longer to properly learn which causes development issues. Also each newer version of Unity has been slowly but surely closing the gap a bunch, definitely still behind for now though.

[@xxkillbotxx7553]

@@chaotikkiller1617 Ah yes, the engine that has built-in stutter unless you're running on crazy hardware perform better than your average Unity game. The problem is that there's some bloat with UE5. Lumen and nanite in particular are awful because (1) lumen is a default issue that you can't easily change and (2) the documentation literally says to use nanite at every possible moment. However there's been plenty of analysis that shows Nanite tanks performance, even when used sparingly. Maybe a smaller game like Tarkov could do well with it, since the maps are all separate and it looks like they're not doing the whole open world thing. But Unity is superior for their use case right now. Not to mention that every UE shooter feels the same, and generally feel like garbage.

[@jamesm7845]

One note about the ledx and virtex crafts, they are now locked behind lightkeeper task and to unlock lightkeeper, you have to do the quest where you need the ledx and virtex found in raid. There needs to be a quest before unlocking lightkeeper to get the crafts.

[@sumdood6784]

"HIgh level crafts are useless": They absolutely are, because they're locked behind LK quests. Before that change (~1-2 wipes ago), you could start crafting the VPX/Vertex/Ledx/COFDM that you'd need for quests as soon as you upgraded the Intel Center in the Hideout to level 2/3. Now the crafts are locked behind LK quests, and the LK questline is locked behind most of the quests that you need those items for. So now the crafts are pretty much useless by the time you can actually do them.

[@user-we8xk7dq2g]

I dont get why you release a video without watching the original yourself. quite a few points of what you have said have been incorrectly taken from the original conversation, so anyone who watches this BEFORE watching the Pestily one will have a negative view on things which are then incorrect.

[@chestercopperpot3793]

Audio remains the biggest bug bear for me personally. Occlusion, vertical audio etc. Hoping there's still efforts underway to improve.

[@captainwiener13]

As soon as I saw how long that interview was I waited for this. Thanks as always Nolan!

[@NoiceGuy]

You really should watch it still I'm not just saying that. I get things wrong and miss things.

[@elspaldo]

@@NoiceGuy so should you... before you do a video about an interview you didn't even watch, wtf

[@M7A1cro]

For Virtex crafting he means - you can only craft it after you completed the quest where you need to find it. So it's pointless to craft it when there is no point in getting one found in raid. 2 wipes ago you could craft virtex for the task.

[@Stezell]

10:47 Grenades have stopped to fragment since a few years ago. Don't think most people noticed, but the fragments you see and hear hitting everything around you isn't capable of hurting you anymore. In the early beta stages they did hurt you but now it's literally only the explosion that can hurt you. I think they did this to stop fragments from sniping people 40 meters away like it used to do, which was a pretty bs way to die. So Nikita has to mean Bullet fragments, like you mentioned.

[@korbynishydrated3363]

I got hit from a grenade frag last wipe from around 35 meters away didn’t kill me tho luckily

[@elflordyt6830]

New edition ofc after i spend 150$ on eod

[@zoriox8667]

You will likely be able to upgrade tbh

[@captaincoffeecake3595]

its prob a version with the stash space increase and outfits.

[@Gerbil_World]

If you can upgrade, that would be clutch, definitely feeling a bit robbed if EOD can’t be upgraded to that new edition.

[@xxkillbotxx7553]

@@Gerbil_World You've been able to upgrade forever. There's no reason to think there will not be an upgrade option

[@tarochanusa]

I would like to think that the Bounty hunter has his eyes on Stank Rat and has his wanted poster in his office somewhere xD

[@drgrimmgaming]

my biggest question is will we be able to just upgrade our accounts and get the new EOD or will we have to purchase it in full?

[@D3enjoyer]

If you know how the editions work, you pay the difference. So if its say, 200 bucks, you paid 140 for eod, so you pay the 60 bucks difference

[@Covet-J]

I really do agree with the fact of no replay feature, I think it should be a priority, because an invasive anti cheat would be great but it cant provide better evidence then actually watching the guy who killed you and how he did it, I think it would be way faster then just report spamming and hoping bsg will message you weeks later telling you that yes, that guy was cheating, and no you will not get anything back if you died from him :D

[@UEemperor]

What id like to see is a shift from the "kill mania" centric quest system, into a more "go do the job, idc how u do it" style. Thats my biggest gripe with tarkov, and i hope PMC karma helps with that.

[@phillytimd8355]

I thought it was interesting that Terminal is going to be a single player mission

[@NoiceGuy]

Forgot to add that bit but he's discussed that already we knew that

[@Just-Tony583]

the led x craft is locked behind lightkeeper now. If you dont finish the led x and virtec quests before you unlock them thats impressive

[@eugyolo]

In these interviews the only thing you can be sure will 100% be added, is a more expensive EOD, that... they will never mess up

[@loliegamerd5135]

I feel like the problem with a post raid kill cam will be that they need to have the footage on the server side wich is going to be hard (for serverperformance and storage). If it would be saved on your pc there would likely be exploits to see the kill cam before the end of the raid.

[@FunkyCold.]

None of the content creators making recap videos even watched the Nikita/Pestily video in its entirety. They clicked through the time stamps. If they would’ve watched, they would know that you will have the ability to have more than one character on your account, like one that wipes, and one that is a persistent character.

[@Daelan1234]

I love how you repeat everything for 3 times, gives Bladerunner vibe. Within cells interlinked

[@popcorn-rs6qj]

One of the concepts I’ve always wanted is a ‘stylish one’ quest for every boss. Imagine running around in sturmans jacket or tagilla’s tats

[@MrUlaris]

I don't want to watch the whole interview. But if you can, was there a specific declaration about transferring the game to a new graphics engine and, most importantly, was there finally a declaration about servers without resetting the progress?

[@MaunoKoivistoOfficial]

I really appreciate this summary and wasn't bothered by you repeating the points at all

[@method16R]

Thanks for the video. Thanks for the video

[@tgudge]

Will we be able to get some clarification on whether or not existing EoD players will be able to "upgrade" to the new edition that they're adding?

[@That0Homeless0Guy]

EOD is already a full season pass with a promise of all DLC for free. If they try and go back on that promise why on earth would anyone give them more money?

[@EugeneD7]

Video starts at 1:45

[@mrwheatley4520]

Them adding a version of EOD along with adding microtransactions feels like a complete betrayal of trust as someone whos been playing since 2017

[@AngerSalt]

End of raid kill cam - Not important Raid Loading Screen mini game? - Absolutely essential and necessary. Top Tier Priorities.

[@johnhan5364]

For a full replay system they would have to set up a whole dedicated server to capture the whole match from all player’s perspectives and then have it saved for x amount of time. Instead they could do essentially an nvidia or Streamlabs clip type system that has a rolling 10 - 30 second buffer that gets captured whenever someone kills a pmc or dies and gets stored and sent to relevant parties involved. With the addition of an API it could even be viewed on a separate website like with LoL accounts and other games.

[@AgentFPS]

The crafts for the LEDX isnt unlocked until WAYYYY after you finish Private Clinic/Crisis so Pestily was saying "The unlocks for the crafts need to be sooner, because they don't make sense currently being that you no longer need the items by the time u unlock the crafts"

[@VeryGoodScav]

changeable movement speed should also make you interact slower/ quieter for lower, and faster/louder for higher with opening doors, and dropping backpacks, or swapping weapons

[@lacman6159]

Hell nah

[@LogicRat]

if i own eod will the new edition be discounted since they might include alot of the same stuff

[@notrobert8284]

Probably not

[@iamwatari4088]

Im probably the odd one out but for someone with attention issues, i appreciated you emphasizing the important things and repeating it twice.

[@TJ-dn4zc]

The post raid killcam data is too large is what I inferred. He had said due to the number of raids ongoing simultaneously.

[@wdymftw]

I haven't crafted a LedX in years(?) because it requires an item I would get after getting a certain Lightkeeper quest done

[@Unknown-pc9yq]

I didn't get the impression that 1.0 would be coming for Christmas 2024 for a January wipe/start. Game releases timing is actually a big deal, most companies try and push something out mid to late November to get it on all the kids Christmas lists. Plus you have competition for those who might only be able to afford a few games a year, which do you buy?

[@PeepleusIncognito]

I have been playing on and off since 2017. The latest wipe, especially during the snow, was incredible. Im just at a point where I am tired of testing, and I really look forward to the experience crafted for us on 1.0. Yes, I wish some of the promises made back then were kept, but I gotta hand it to them. Hell of a game.

[@willscitarkov3013]

Great takes from you on all points. I'm not disappointed one bit, I really appreciate all the new info on the direction of the game. Most disappointment comes from unmet expectations. Hopefully setting expectations will help that to some degree. I really liked that Nikita said to go outside. I've been playing this game *far more* than spending time outside and I realized last week I needed to fix that. Games can be a healthy hobby but they can also be an unhealthy addiction. Whatever his reason for saying it, I'm going to assume it's "be healthy and well rounded people." Oh, and do you play hockey? If so, how was your game? My team took a W in our first playoff match up and we had some drinks after.

[@dom2flyy314]

I bet they could connect them by using the BTR. You could pay the driver to take you to another location

[@KiddBuu_]

The vision blur and whatnot while being shot/shot at is there to recreate the feeling of being shot at in a way that works in a video game. When you’re under stress or being shot at, you tend to get tunnel vision, there’s dirt and dust getting in your eyes, your heart is pumping, your arms are shaking, etc. but you don’t get that from a video game, as such, many FPS devs employ tactics like screen shake, blurring, etc. to recreate that so that you’re not just a laser when under fire and to promote repositioning combined with suppressive fire. Also it just looks better. You don’t want a game without visual recoil and lack of feedback from being fired upon, it just looks silly.

[@capalo1079]

yes bro

[@RossK1988]

The repeating made this a tough watch

[@AgentFPS]

I agree with you about the post raid replay system! It is crucial for the health of the game and community and I cannot figure out why BSG/Nikita aren't prioritizing this feature. If they want to get the most accurate player reports and reduce false bans, false reports, and significantly improve the stigma of the game they should implement this post raid replay system with the release of 1.0 IF NOT SOONER! (*the fact he made it seem that purchasing storage for the replays was the issue was more upsetting IMO). These can be temporary replays that are stored for a couple hrs and then deleted, with the players having the option to either record or save it to their own PC if they choose to do so. Makes no sense.

[@slumpman01]

did we get any confirmation if silent walking is a bug or a feature yet?

[@ray6696]

bug i think he said that he thought it was fixed XD

[@cokedealer2084]

Pestily also mentioned ADSing being far too fucking loud. Should be 2 types of ASDing a faster combat ready version and a slower version. May as well add 2.

[@originalthundercat4295]

I’m all for seeing how it plays but I can’t see how pmc karma could positively affect gameplay. Unless they completely avoid bear vs bear and usec vs usec, and not letting that have a negative effect.

[@bundleofsticks9174]

The loading activity is probably playing a tetris, if you own one. (Tetris goes up 20mil roubles.) after raid replays would make the community the anti cheat. With the addition of the profile viewer and being able to report outside of raid. I havent crafted a led x or anything in a couple wipes.

[@FunkyyMonkeyy93]

Hopefully they increase the time between the wipes. For a normal player which is going to work and have a social life, which have several hours in a week to play is it nearly impossible to get to Kappa and that is not the endgame. Now Lightkeeper is. Lightkeeper is only possible for streamer, unemployed people or rich one which have endless money and time. My hope is big.

[@norbetcynor6387]

He also stated they that they will add new stuff to fight cheaters in arena and test it so they can improve it for EFT

[@jebuschroist5994]

Noiceguy: "I repeat things for emphasis. . . EMPHASIS!"

[@lucasfiorinibraga]

I question I always think about, is if there will be any feature that promotes teams working together like the videos they release or if will stay always the same. I mean, being solo or at best duos, is way less risky and playable than a complete team. Also, if you die while playing with a team, you either stay idle until they extract or die too, which sucks after a while.

[@vil5008]

With all the new features we're expecting, I highly doubt that that we'll have enough time to "test" all the new upcoming features considering 1.0 is literally next year.

[@itschops]

I’ve always said EFT needs a post match replay that you can watch anyone’s POV or even free roam camera around the map like PUBG currently does. Obviously you can’t watch the replay until that match’s time has run out. So you can’t tell your buddies where the enemies are.

[@reeldeal2439]

I wonder If we will be able to upgrade from EOD to this new edition.

[@Deevil311]

I used to use the virtex craft every wipe... back before it was locked behind LK. I can't think of any world where you unlock LK without finding the virtex you need

[@rustictuntuqtv7725]

Appreciate the break down. Thank you for the content. And once all of the internet trolls come out and outrage about the fact that you are not as outraged as them, ignore those rejects.

[@algorithm2396]

Take a shot of whiskey every time Nolan says TLDR.

[@ray6696]

he said that there could be a way that you have to do something in bios to play the game i don t know anything about this but could this be a way to make it harder to cheat ?

[@Atikmis]

I hope no wipe servers will be on release. I'm waiting for it to start playing again.

[@Unknown-pc9yq]

Same. I don't have the drive to grind kappa, light keeper and all the other things. I use to have a max hideout 2 weeks into wipe with 50 GPUs and grind so hard. I've just lost all motivation to do it over and over again. Especially when your killed by a blant cheater, that's the worst.

[@SpooningTreesap86]

@8:39 I think the reason why they say that (what you quoted) is because of infrastructure and cost limitations, and performance hit. Assuming that they did a full raid playback that is a lot of data to capture with everything moving around and spawns of AI. The problem first becomes that you need to "capture" everything and all movement that happened in a raid for playback purposes in a meaningful way that allows someone to watch everything that happened afterwards. This also has to not effect in game performance while the raid plays out. Then the problem becomes that you need to save and store all of these playbacks, for every raid that happens. That number of raids played and the file size of the raid playbacks will balloon over time and becomes expensive to store and hold on to over time (assuming they go with cheap bucket storage). Then you also need to create a usable "playback" mode or way to view back the raid that you want to view. TL;DR: This becomes a time and money sink for them on the roadmap with no real "business value", of course it's the most valuable thing to the playerbase, but that won't keep the lights on for the business. Then that will get weighed out as less priority than other features and content which have the potential to draw in more players and more revenue. Do I like that of course not but that's probably how they see it.

[@jaydynbristol8920]

my assumption on the master of ultra thing, sounds to me like maybe the tracksuit will carry through wipes, if you get the master of ultra achievement you will always have the tracksuit? just a theory

[@k1ngz0r.]

I understand everyone has his POV but saying that even if we had bought EoD we have thousands of hours for a few bucks is ridiculous. Yes we probably have some great money/time ratio out of Tarkov but it was still a "BET" and a way of saying we support BSG BUT we did it or at least I did when the game was just a Niche game and could end up without content and support like many other games I'm glad it grew like it did but looking away now from day ones just because it outgrew it's such a F*ing shame. If people like me didn't bought EoD in the first place they probably wouldn't end up like they did today but yeah.. Maybe I need to buy the game again just because I've spent soo many hours playing it.....

[@vilkas6571]

kill cam would be realy good, but it means that game is recording yours and many others gameplay in background that should be some performance hit i think

[@JustSomeDog]

You should mention that theres a disconnect bug and you wont be able to reconnect to the server In the next video

[@marcsman07]

I'm wondering about body dragging, buddy healing and unconscious states.

[@angoloco1597]

How I disable repeat? Is any button?

[@OverDose-kx7kx]

That's fucked up I bought EOD for the for the right to have the gamma container. Unless EOD gets the extra goods for free regardless of me playing for the last 6 years and getting my money's worth. I'll be pissed about it

[@Scafatiello]

agree

[@broder588]

I've gotn Kappa multiple times and not once have I used the LedX craft because it's basicly locked behind lightkeeper

[@RyeRob.]

You can't craft a virtex before lend lease part 2 so I'm not sure what you're talking about there.

[@jonw7214]

He said the logistics of saving the camera footage for the raid until the raid instance ends would be too great, which makes sense. That's a lot of footage to save for every raid.

[@vultureTX001]

camera footage? everyone with a 3000 or higher nvidia can do it for 8gb size level of storage but that is not the point. the server can save the wireframe data of the match to show what it based kills on. that is like 3-4% the size.

[@jonw7214]

@@vultureTX001 The replay cam would need to be saved for everyone in the raid who died until the instance ends on their servers, and for every instance, not locally.

[@vultureTX001]

@@jonw7214 but if you do the server wireframs then you only need one file that is the map for the duration. And there are public wireframe viewers.

[@DeathDeclined]

how was the raid start spawning system issues not mentioned in the interview... :(

[@chaotikkiller1617]

Wdym? Haven't seen a singular issue of spawning late into a raid from anyone in well over a year. Have you been having issues about it, and if so you should make a bug report directly to them as that sounds like a fairly unique case.

[@DeathDeclined]

@@chaotikkiller1617 I can tell you exacly where every player spawn is on customs, this has been an issue for years now.

[@chaotikkiller1617]

@@DeathDeclined Oh player spawn locations, so Nikita didn't respond much on this but Pestily talked directly about the lack of extract opportunities and explicitly player spawns being too close and consistent on most maps with limited leeway. Nikita did note these things down though as a culmination of ideas from the community that Pestily told him being - Increase certain extract radius's to limit exfil camping like emercom increase player spawn/extract locations and possibly have more indoor spawns following the same dynamics as little divot and building spawns on streets (especially for reserve to limit quick LOS off spawn) and to balance exfil types so you don't have essentially just outskirts on woods from one half but then 4 viable exfils on the other Also possibly reducing player count on some maps to decrease the odds of knowing there is going to be a player in a certain spot because of spawn location rules Now while these things aren't guaranteed Nikita was agreeing while Pestily talked about it so it's not unlikely we'll see at least one of these things being implemented with the most likely being spawn adjustments to limit some of the 30 second or less combat off rip.

[@jeremynapier5995]

I SWEAR TO GOD I WILL DO ANYTHING FOR A HIDEOUT CAT!!! A N Y T H I N G!!!!!

[@TVNDRA]

lol everyone’s complaining about him Repeating himself. It’s really useful if I’m doing something else like scrolling twitter or texting someone. If I hear a point he’s making a 2nd or 3rd time, it snapped me back to the video so I could retain the info.

[@DecaDose]

If the post raid replay works the same way as Arena’s killcams, I don’t think it would help much. You can tell if people are cheating easier sure. But the killcams don’t look how it really looks on the persons screen if that makes sense

[@Memoritter]

Am still wondering if they plan to change ambient noise, as some of them have ghost steps in them like in Streets of Tarkov audible loud thump on the left side

[@chaotikkiller1617]

Do they still after the recent update? Haven't played much but it was supposed to be an ambient overhaul.

[@ILOVEMYDOG758]

He literally said there will be non wipe persistent servers also. You will have character for wipe servers and one for non wipes

[@stomodino5443]

I know there's a culture of pessimism in the Tarkov community but I'm really excited about the future of Tarkov. BSG have made an amazing game and I don't see why everyone's complaining all the time.

[@SofaKingAwsim]

6:25 new edition is ridiculous

[@ViolentHabits]

And it's essentially a middle finger to those who backed the game in alpha stage by buying EOD just to gain early access to a unfinished game that wasn't well known at the time.

[@Hype_Incarnate]

Yeah seems pretty shit to the people that actually funded your dream game.

[@ibpopn1653]

@@ViolentHabitsno it isn’t

[@scott4547]

I can imagine it being similar to EOD without the inclusions of all future DLC with some extra goodies to make up for the loss of that

[@Dante_S550_Turbo]

@@ViolentHabits it was a huge risk we took back then. kinda bs

[@luisomem]

I feel like I got x3 more of the news in this video xD I REPEAT, I feel Like I got x3 more news in this video I feel like QUOTE "I got x3 more news in this video" END QUOTE

[@paradox19993]

maybe hes thinking about full raid recording to view later, wouldnt it take less storage and be easier to record last 20 seconds or so of a kill from both perspectives that you can chose to be saved for later review

[@kensmith3113]

We need replay feature!!!!

[@brandonstump4717]

So they said that open world will not be available at launch but it sounds like they still want it in the game so maybe that is what they mean by continuing development after 1.0? I hope open world comes out for this.

[@xaspar3011]

I think its a good idea to watch the entire interview first next time cuz there were a few pieces of information that you misinterpreted. looking forward to your opinions once youve watched it tho thanks for the work you put into this

[@quinnjets]

makes sense to use the BTR for map to map travel

[@moonday5521]

With the post raid replay thing, you got to think, it's not as simple as a game like Counter Strike where the Hammer editor was built in-house, allowing for the team at Valve to implement HLTV into the game to playback matches. (Something I would also like to say wasn't even available on the launch of CS2, meaning they likely spent countless hours implementing it and it still was not ready for launch.) From BSGs perspective: They would have to create a virtual replay instance of the raid, save it to your machine as an exact replica of what occurred, recording every client accurately for the duration of the raid, and the server would need to have accurate feedback being sent to your client for the duration of the raid for that to work without tanking your FPS. (This is much easier to accomplish on games where the round timer is 1 - 2 minutes, not 30 minutes to an hour.) Then you would also need to have 'cameras' attached to every player to see their POV, as well as pulling all of the loot in their vicinity, and on their person, and generate every AI they killed. It would be much easier to implement a system for seeing ONLY your POV, but to be able to see a replay of the entire raid from a birds eye view or from every persons perspective. It would actually take far more resources than it's worth for BSG and frankly for all of us. I for one, do not care enough to watch replays for hours when I barely have enough time to play as it is. I don't think it's a worthwhile feature.

[@MrSnrSquishy]

"Server would need to be accurate" so in other words its impossible for BSG

[@That0Homeless0Guy]

No you don't need cameras on every pmc etc. Aside from every pmc already having a camera. You just have to record positional and action data of all players which the server already does it's just a matter of logging it as and when it happens. This can also be easily synchronised. It wouldn't take a major load and it certainly wouldn't stress the CPU or GPU. A replay is literally just logging data the server recieves. Pulling up that data would be like loading a web page from 2005 which is absolutely nothing compared to the load of a modern web page let alone a live raid.

[@ghostprincess.]

There are ways to get around those technical issues you mentioned, and any sane dev with experience wouldn't bother doing things the way you mentioned. I.e., for the cameras, you wouldn't have multiple camera objects for every player/A.I., that would indeed cause lag on the single user's end. The solution is to just use the single camera that already exists, and update the subject it is focused on, whenever the player wants to switch. That does bring its own issues, though, depending on game and map complexity and size. Since switching subjects could cause a FPS drop, due to switching to a different location quickly, and it having to load assets in a certain region into memory. (this can also be sub-verted, though, by delaying switching and pre-loading, or pre-loading certain assets/regions/parts of the map). As for the accuracy of the tracking, it would all be tracked on the server, no point in the client trying to save the replay locally, especially if accuracy is a concern, when the server already has all the corrected information it needs.

[@chaotikkiller1617]

@@ghostprincess. The issue is that tracking and storing that information would be quite large, then the download for the player attempting to get the replay would be an issue, AND you'd have to deal with a LOT of info for keeping all items in a raid tracked for the whole duration. Then you have to make this all fully replayable in a format that doesn't have desync which is already an inherent issue on the game otherwise it wouldn't even prove suspicions of cheats reliably in most cases.

[@AverySadBear]

I like the idea behind the PMC karma anti-exit camp. But I cant imagine spawning a boss to deliver a high tier weapon to a player would be the greatest idea, but i guess we will have to see. Edit: really disappointed to not hear anything about scav AI and rogue AI, (ill assume the new russian faction too).

[@chaotikkiller1617]

They talked about AI in the actual interview, Nikita said that it's just an issue with the playerbase responses as they can't manually code a full mesh for each bush as that's ridiculously performance heavy so they're approximated typically with cones and spheres. If they make the meshes too large then people complain that AI are just stupid and if they make them too small/perfect to size then people complain they shoot through bushes, a hard balance but he did say they'd look into it more and wrote it down.

[@Gnarwolf]

I feel like Customs Factory, Woods and Interchange could easily be merged into one map.

[@jeffhart4361]

Just have a loading zone between maps, like how stalker gamma linked those maps. That's fine. These giant maps aren't stable on most PCs. Streets is already too much by itself; imagine if they mashed lighthouse, shoreline, and reserve together??

[@AmerIsHere]

Better than EOD? thats kinda spitting on your supporters

[@Montgumerz]

NO WIPE ACCOUNTS SHOULD BE HARDCORE. BARTERS ONLY AND NO FLEA!

[@ryannealmes]

Regarding post raid kill cam. I don't think people understand the costs involved in having this functionality. If you were to go with a storage solution like AWS S3, it would cost BSG to upload the vods and store them (i.e. duration). This feature would eat into their margins heavily I think.

[@ryanbolson23]

The audacity of Nikita to say “go outside” after HE makes the game a grind-fest and unachievable for people with normal lives outside of playing Tarkov for a living.

[@OfKingsXI]

LOL HE SAID THAT? THATS fuckin wild after AS MUCH AS IT TAKES TO GET KAPPA? to "escape"???? FUCK you bro My ass is settin up shop in factory I guess

[@cokedealer2084]

He was joking. It’s all about context. He said go outside and then immediately come back in. He knows outside sucks.