Tarkov & Arena Linking EXPLAINED! - How To Unlock New Trader!

[@JesseKazam]

Have you unlocked Ref yet? Do you think this update will get you to play more arena?

[@guthixman43]

None of the average players are going to do this, your 2 hours a night guys are going to probably get slaughtered at water treatment. Yet another way for chads and streamers to get more than everyone else.

[@UKRAINIANUSEC]

1) It says in description of each where it should be planted 2) I lost connection on customs while running on road so fск bsg servers

[@orlfane1622]

@@guthixman43 Yep, fuck this. I barely have time to do the regular low level quests. I will probably never unlock ref and I dont care.

[@JoshHolmes-h8q]

will never play arena until base game is complete and fixed.

[@Kriss_Hunter]

I’ll play DM on Arena for ez money 😅

[@anonymusprime3050]

Joe Rogan went from commenting for UFC to commenting for Arena

[@clivecanlas9827]

He even moonlight as a referee

[@HoChiMinh1890]

no its Bas Rutten

[@KaidenBrittain]

I saw you on Twitter 😶

[@shaggy2Djr]

Im glad someone else said it to I see bas

[@chamilton1337]

nah they stole Bas Ruttens likeness

[@rjtrageser9884]

That reserve plant is BRUTAL, people are totally gonna camp that early wipe

[@Swarm509]

The entire quest is bullshit. Of course BSG cannot link the two games without gatekeeping behind their terrible mission design.

[@jimmymcfadden9923]

@@Swarm509 yep. Just another event/questline only completable by streamers and no lifers 5 stacked in a discord

[@BrickPsychosis]

I work 8 hours per day and already got the first 2 quests done in one evening. Finding some items can be a little grind but it's not that crazy​@jimmymcfadden9923

[@CL0_]

I did this at night and had no problems. But i can already see this being crazy at the beginning of wipe considering you have to go here to unlock jaeger anyways.

[@Swarm509]

@@CL0_ Start of wipe it will be stupid, so many bottleneck quests. If anything this should be a hideout upgrade to get access to the trader. At least then you could collect the stuff needed, like magazines, and not need to do these bad two part quests.

[@MegaGreen48]

This is what we need. A man of culture that understands us! Jesse, love the delivery of all things Ref! Wipe is turning out to be fun this time around!!!

[@BuiltToLast98]

FOR ALL WHO THE EXP IS NOT SYNCING -CHECK FILE INTEGRITY -CLEAR CASHE -DELETE SYSTEM LOGS ON BOTH GAMES THEN PLAY A RAID AS A PMC THEN GO TO ARENA AND PLAY A GAME THEN PLAY ONE MORE RAID AS A PMC

[@SpodsZ]

My arena quest from the main game to great heights is not showing in arena. What do I do?

[@Swarm509]

BSG: Lets add cross capacity between our two games. Fans: Great news, I'll play both more now! Also BSG: Lets put this behind a terribly designed quest for sweatlords that will make everyone hate the game even more. Classic BSG, just link the two god damn games and let it work from start of wipe.

[@tartarthewretch]

tarkov is hard, quit bitching.

[@Swarm509]

@@tartarthewretch A yes the "Tarkov Hard" cope to handwave away bad design. It isn't hard, it's a full time job to get anywhere with shitty roadblocks put in by the devs.

[@theirresponsibleghost7748]

​@@tartarthewretchdude, as a fan of difficult games, theres a difference between difficult and fuckin bullshit.

[@ThrownBanana]

​@@Swarm509Skill issue, if you don't wanna put in the effort and suffer on a hardcore game then play SPT, PVE, or quit. Tarkov isn't meant to be casual, it's a hard-core game with quests and interactions that make you wanna hang from a ceiling fan when they go bad. If you invest a lot of time and effort then you get a lot back from the game. If you only have 2 hours a week to play due to a busy life and expect the dev team to cater to you then you may wanna consider other games. Arena Breakout Infinite is more of a casual version of Tarkov, much easier to pick up and make progress with minimal invested while still having a high skill celing.

[@Swarm509]

@@ThrownBanana Thanks for making my point for me with a wall of text. I stand by my statement. There are many games that require grind that don't do it in such a time wasting way. I don't expect it to be easy or casual, but there is a limit to how obtuse and time wasting this game is.

[@Joshua-rp8dw]

Love this update! makes playing arena not feel like a waste of time knowing that I am at least making some progress in my pvp account. Being able to transfer money is great too, I feel like I make way more money in arena compared to pvp since I basically die every raid lol, so the extra money is a nice boost to the PVP account

[@TheKingJuliano]

They should add the amout of GP you have in stash on the top right corner (just like the other currency)

[@the5starx]

I think Arena is alot better now. Leveling the preset system is so much smoother now with cross progression. And the new free for all deathmatch mode is alot of fun.

[@eatmorvegetal3444]

Being able to just play Arena to level skills and earn xp is definitely enticing.

[@Galm276]

For me who’s not great at the game, it’s good practice while progressing. That’s a W for me at least

[@drbeanbeanbino5746]

Get that vitality to level 10 in 2 matches of arena lol

[@jordangamble6444]

mine is completely bugged out. my eft character is lvl 36 and my arena is 15 its not linked at fkn all. i got 15k exp in an arena match and it didnt give me any exp in eft. my shit is fkn bugged out

[@illeatyourhands]

Same

[@jordangamble6444]

@@illeatyourhands This is crazy, how is this not fixed? bsg has the worst bugs ever

[@ShadowScript]

is your level 36 characters on pvp or pve?

[@themanwiththeplane3371]

For some reason my arena level isn’t linking to my tarkov level

[@ELAtarkov]

You have to sync it sometimes.

[@HitmanBA]

I feel noone is talking about that that if you own any edition besides EOD or Unfucked edition you either have to buy Arena or your GP's are worthless.

[@slyderace]

I was thinking this too. Anyone w/o EOD or Traitor edition will be fucked by needing to buy Arena separately.

[@jamesG7338-h8q]

I've been trying to play arena since they updated it and only managed to get into 2 games i don't know why but the matchmaking is completely non existent on Oceania servers. Anyone other people having this issue

[@TrashPvnda]

Well currently 2 tasks away from the Theta Case and can honestly say it's a pain in the ass. The trader tasks don't always move to arena so then you have to go back run a PMC in hopes it transfers over

[@jobsquad2079]

My account is linked i am able to transfer through ref but my levels aremt synced and my xp from arena isnt adding onto eft?

[@riskingmybiscuit4209]

Rats are watching these plants plus watching the spawn of them. 😂 died so many times

[@blaidd2769]

the flyers also have a text saying for which map they are ;)

[@BrickPsychosis]

For me it just says quest_flyer_1, 2 and 3. But my mate got the info when hovering over them. Gotta be bugged for some

[@blaidd2769]

I can click inspect on them and there is a little Text at the bottom🤷

im having a problem with the missions rewards, i send them to my pvp stash but the dont show up anywhere, where they are?

[@alexanderwatson1980]

Second floor, right-hand side of "Schoolhouse" on Lighthouse, formerly open room, now locked.

[@frankfurter1580]

saw this today and almost cried

[@prideingaming]

I like the cross progression between accounts but we need more standard accounts on arena for it to stay relevant. If arena queue times aren’t faster than raids then most people will just choose to raid over playing arena which hurts the value in purchasing both.

[@BB-mv1ud]

Just a heads up to everyone the gp coin stacking has caused massive errors for me in stash when sorting. Youve been warned! Just put your gp coins in a wallet or money case

[@Squiggly6942]

I've been playing arena occassionally still. I like the combat of Tarkov and I like competetive 5v5s. So I get a lot of fun out of arena.

[@bpa4life570]

I feel like linking only make sense if they take wipes away and do the full release.

[@trathanstargazer6421]

Curious how SPT will handle Ref

[@escapetarkov3838]

They can just add traders, so they'll probably just make a custom one.

[@RedTheSniper]

I've been playing arena on and off this year. This linkage id not bad to me, however the tarkov quest to me is not going to be fun if I attempt it, ok on woods for the posters and ok to send it to custom, meh for riserve but defenetley not good for lighthouse. Anyway, we'll see how it evolves

[@falldamage3446]

The update has left the GP Coin on the PVE side as completely useless and a waste of inventory space since we can't even sell them to Mechanic/Therapist. If anything, they should've took the coin out of all loot tables and replaced it with something similar in value/rarity.

[@alexis1451]

Why they removed the ability to sell them to traders is absolutely beyond me. Like I'm in PvE, I'm *never* going to unlock the trader therefore these coins are 100% useless... and yet I can't even sell them to like Fence? Development at BSG must be such a shitshow, they should just make it into a reality TV show.

[@captainlonag3678]

I don’t get why they didn’t just add it to pve also. I feel like they never really think about decisions they just throw it out and see what happens

[@HitmanBA]

Not just PVE, if you own some of the lower price editions other than EOD or Unfucked edition, then they flush your GP coins down the toilet as well. Either they are useless, or you are forced to buy another game. Fok BSG.

[@eatyourcarbs]

i have played few games on arena but no xp or skill xp transferred to EFT. is it a bug because i saw NOICE guy sharing that he only played arena and now his EFT character is 17lvl.. its stupid if its bugged like that

[@roadrnr21]

Same

[@xotiics_]

have you found a fix yet?

[@SpodsZ]

My arena quest from the main game to great heights is not showing in arena. What do I do?

[@mikecich]

Late to the party here on this vid, got back into Tarky after I stopped playing in Jan/Feb 2024. I update my game to .15, have some good raids, then I check out Arena again as it has changed significantly. My first Lega medal was a "weekly" and it was to kill 30 players in free for all lol. Might be the easiest Lega medal I'll get, unfortunately, I did research on it after I sold it lol

[@hdhejehwkaje6542]

I absolutely hate the stash the magazines quest but i like everything else

[@garrettpowers2600]

The xp is crazy if you’re earning 10k xp every arena match

[@ChristoffRevan]

I'd actually play Arena if the queues weren't so long...I get it for the normal Tarkov, but for short matches? It seriously is a demotivator to install the game, and having a new trader for Tarkov isn't really enough of an incentive for me to deal with the timers. I feel like if BSG actually made their servers better then most people wouldn't really complain as much about things...like, dying doesn't feel as bad in a raid if you can get in relatively quickly; but, waiting 5 to 10 minutes just to then immediately die, well...only a no-lifer has the time to actually achieve anything

[@_.junior]

@@ChristoffRevani find matches in like 30 seconds on Arena

[@levibird6935]

@@ChristoffRevan ye thats just you man

[@ChristoffRevan]

@@levibird6935 Yeah no...go on any forum and you'll find people that it ends up taking 5 minutes or so. Lmao I love how you bootlickers desperately try to defend the game like your life depended on it

[@rickvermeulen3678]

Please help! I got lvl 32 with lvl 3 traders on EFT base game, played a game arena, went back and my trader rep got reset... What to do?

[@dkqugip]

is ref gonna be available to pve players?

[@piotrr5439]

It's BROKEN, Arena resets your trader rep - start early, forget 0.2 unheard advantage (it'll be reset if you start arena)

[@Altf-rw2ed]

I think this new update with tarkov is super good I like how I can sell things that arent found in raid and I can transfer loot I think nikita making good choices or that's what I think at least the game is way more enjoyable for me now then it once was I did enjoy it when it was extremely hard and it sucked but now its just super fun.

[@tylergeorge3952]

my lvl on arena is 18 but in eft it’s 15 does anyone know why?

[@poekaz]

As a standard edition owner I’m definitely sitting back and waiting on arena entirely. PvE looks more fun to me right now lol

[@rickvermeulen3678]

my levels did not sync but actually reset my lvl 3 traders back to the start after playing arena, it destroyed my wipe... what can i do

[@joshfloyd7755]

I ran arena for around an hour last nite. I felt like as a lower level player i had to put a lot of rounds on other players to melt them... it didnt feel great

[@nicholasreynolds6609]

More great content! Thanks!

[@hectorzarlasfilms9695]

Hate that PVE players can’t access this trader

[@lifipp]

Well, it kinda makes sense - how would u want to merge PVE Tarkov and online Arena? It creates an unfair environment for those who only play online (since PVE is easier and does not wipe until you decide to wipe).

[@hectorzarlasfilms9695]

@@lifipp It was a promised feature by Nikita that you can only move money from Arena to PVE, nothing unfair about that

[@Demetri25]

@@lifipp Sending money from Arena to PvE would be nice and doesn't effect anyone but me. I dont see anything unfair about it and it was stated to be a feature.

[@drbeanbeanbino5746]

​@@hectorzarlasfilms9695not only that but now we get these gp coins on pve all the time and have nothing to do with them lol

[@Skoglend]

@@lifippNot going to admit your wrong? Sensitive ego I guess. I agree arena should transfer to PVE.

[@ulpsb]

Why does it take 30 seconds to put a magazine down 😂

[@despondentanura6939]

Need to change lighthouse plant location

[@LapadatXD]

I did all 4 task first try just switch to eu servers and play in the afternoon

[@Swarm509]

@@LapadatXD Great, let me just take time off work to do a poorly designed quest for a feature that should just be connected at start of wipe for everyone.

[@ThrownBanana]

Skill issue

[@RedTheSniper]

Agreed my friend

[@theinconsistentgamer1402]

Go at night, easiest quest complete of my life

[@patrykwojtya6753]

what if arena is not sync with EFT? any advice? by lvl from Arena is not sync with EFT. HELP PLEASE

[@xotiics_]

have you found a answer yet?

[@patrykwojtya6753]

@@xotiics_ yes :) so you need to strictly follow this: check files integrity on both then clear cache on both than delete all log files on both after that play PMC - Arena - PMC and problem should be fixed. For me now arena is sync. Good luck 😎

[@emitchell4455]

So wait, if I start day one wipe from scratch in arena. Could I just grind arena and that progress transfers from day one? Basically asking so I can skip the level 1-15 task grind.

[@prestonneedham9160]

Yeah noice guy did a video on it 7 to 8 hrs he was level 17 fresh account

[@handacannon3443]

Quick question, what headphones have you been using?

[@slyderace]

Check his video description. His audio setup is linked.

[@ynghoffa7523]

i still dont get it my arena exp dosnt trasfer to main eft account. is it because EFT account is higher lvl than arena?🧐

[@xMRxCHILL]

I ain’t touching tarkov until one of two things happen. Nikita Actually apologizes. Or he quits and gets a new leader in there. That said, love supporting anything you do Jesse!

[@sloshymold6648]

So will it be able to be used as a bank for money for a wipe

[@MrRollhax]

So do levels sync both ways? I.e. can I level up my main PMC by playing Arena? Or is it only EFT -> EFT Arena?

[@afonsoamaro3948]

yea if you play arenas you level up both in arenas and tarkov, both levels are perfectly synced so it's like the same level is used for the two characters

[@romeprince11]

My arena character is not synced level-wise with my raid character

[@lerrz8969]

The Linking isnt working for me. Anyone have the problem? I havent done the task "Easy Money" yet is that the issue?

[@afonsoamaro3948]

are your accounts connected? did you buy EOD or the Unheard edition?

[@lerrz8969]

@@afonsoamaro3948 I have both editions. Yes the accounts are connected. My skills are the same for each character. But the level isnt and EXP isnt being shared.

[@Skim_beeble7125]

I was gaining normal level xp but then it stopped I dont understand why

[@p1llows914]

how do i get my rewards from arena into eft?

[@ceepert2153]

wait you cant sell GP coins anymore? Even with the reduced value? So they are basically dead loot for anyone in EFT who does not own arena? Kinda bullshit. I own arena so I dont care, but for anyone who doesnt this would seem pretty anoying

[@HitmanBA]

exactly if you don't own EOD or Unfucked edition, you need to buy Arena kekw xD

[@djbrissette]

GP coins are now literally worthless on PVE, no more barter traders and you can't even vendor them for rubles lmao

[@Justin-ny8df]

The introduction quest for him is going to be SUUUUUPER annoying on day one. According to Wiki you need to complete the car extract on Ground Zero first and that was a nightmare in itself.

[@Wizaardd]

Tarkov broken for anyone else? Game keeps throwing my loot in the trash. After successful exfils, nothing shows up on my character and it resets.

[@comic_the_ace]

@@Hairyasscrack11 seems like your mad for no reason lmao

[@alexis1451]

I haven't encountered this but I'm told it's an old bug and what will happen is that your next scav will still have all the gear from your previous scav run.

[@alexis1451]

​@@comic_the_ace PvP tryhards want the easy kills of casuals in PvP mode; they can't seem to bear knowing that we're all over in PvE land now having the most fun with Tarkov we've ever had.

[@comic_the_ace]

@@alexis1451 if thats true thats so sad lmao

[@subliminalfreedom]

The drop on reserve seems very hard for early wipe

[@Jonchua1]

Stay strong brothers and ignore Arena content until they actually make it good.

[@ClassWarMatrix]

What were people actually expecting from arena that isn't meeting expectations ? It's great to warm up before playing the base game, which is all i personally wanted from it

[@KermitTheFlogga]

How about explaining how Nikita lied and screwed over Unheard buyers once again, Ref was suppose to come to PvE, but now it's not?.. Suppose to be able to send items from Arena to PvE, but not from pve to arena which is fair ... but now No new trader at all?.... Why is no content creator talking about this.. BSG paying you guys or what?

[@dotEXCEI_]

Twitch drops and promo codes are also not for PVE. Only work for PVP

[@DrDGAFLive]

I don’t mind Nikita screwing the unheard buyers.. they deserve it

[@germanreds2907]

Then you go ahead make a video about it. Fight your fights

[@JoshuaDay0550]

i mean.. thats what yall get for buying their trumped up expensive package. Common sense woulda told you that if they JUST literally fucked over EOD owners that the same would be done to yall.

[@judith678]

Learn to forgive people. They said sorry

[@Kvatch1]

Jesus why would they make it a multi raid multi location plant, especially in the middle of the water treatment plant

[@ToploadedGaming]

If anything, it pisses me off the way they are trying to manipulate us into playing a game I want nothing to do with, and makes me wonder how much time they waste on Arena rather than fixing sound, fixing bugs, quality of life updates etc. at some point, they are just going to have to accept that no one likes or wants Arena. I mean, are they going to just start paying us to play it. Because it’ll have to come to that to get me to play it. The only reason I would have ever wanted to play Arena is because you could have practiced pvp, both as a pre-game workout, or just general practice. However, the movement build is not the same as current EFT, and the load-outs are not even something I would ever use, so even trying to practice pvp is just useless, and can quite possibly get you to learn bad habits. Sorry to the 5 guys that play arena.

[@DennisYT]

Level is not synching for me why ?

[@jagriffin1]

Arena couldn’t have had less players before this

[@mrsmileyface517]

so RP coins are useless for people who don't have arena or are the barder trades still there?

[@Andre-ih8rv]

Idk if bartersfor other traders are still there but you can trade them on other stuff with this new trader as it was shown in the beginning

[@onlybear6007]

I have no interrest in playing areana.. and will never do it..

[@mrkomich]

same wont play it

[@deadnightgenesis]

If you want to level skills you have to play arena. Cause it a 100x faster than in tarkov

[@goldenwind08]

boss event gone?? i coudnt find no one last raid

[@SorrowAngel97]

They are on Reserve now.

[@goldenwind08]

@@SorrowAngel97 oh that’s way better I guess

[@piledrive]

​@SorrowAngel97 oh for real?

[@alexis1451]

They moved to reserve, check your quest entry it should be updated to that now (you'll still keep previous kills as completed, so it's just a map change).

[@piledrive]

@@alexis1451 Awesome.

[@brennenmcminn2387]

They upped it to 1.5 million

[@MaRcElORegeton12]

ty sir, new sub

[@N0ctVrnaL]

500k a day is a joke, what about people who play a day a week..You can do that in a scav run. I thought the point was to let people choose to make money on arena or mindlessly looting on a scav run. What an L

[@garebrylls]

500k is plenty wdym?

[@N0ctVrnaL]

@@garebrylls every 24 hrs? lol that’s not even 1 kit wdym?

[@garebrylls]

@@N0ctVrnaL oooo fancy pants, rich mcgee over here...

[@N0ctVrnaL]

@@garebrylls lmao super fancy

[@escapetarkov3838]

@@garebrylls He's not wrong you can fart as a scav in streets and 500k comes out.

[@Chasemare]

It just sucks for players using basic accounts. Having to buy arena to unlock these things is a little disappointing

[@Chnkp]

Lega must means Legacy (contra wars)

[@MCWordicus]

I was exited for the new trader until I saw his unlock quest, fuck that. BSG legitimately hates average players.

[@VicSicily]

Is that Bas Rutten?

[@saotii]

So what do I use now GPs for on PVE? They are useless

[@comic_the_ace]

hoard them like a dragon and hope they add ref to pve someday

[@mrunpopularopinion334]

I don’t play escape, I just play arena . I have like 50 million rubles doing nothing and 5k gp and those medals to trade for the key. 😂

[@Cardenazjr]

Is the boss quest gone?

[@alexis1451]

No, but they moved to Reserve (you still keep your current quest progression though). (Assuming you're talking about the 'Hustle' quest).

[@jstanandthesavages558]

No on til 9th

[@JoshHolmes-h8q]

yeah no way will i go through that much bs to play arena.

[@443810]

I want my PvE link to the arena. One way translation I just want a trader unlocked!

[@dvont1383]

Man, why are they forcing everyone to go to woods. woods sucks really really bad. I often not unlock jaeger at all, because I can't manage to navigate woods without dying of hunger and thirst...(I know, I'm bad af, thanks).

[@joeingram458]

Offline raids help a ton with navigating, use the large mountain in the center as a point for reference when starting out.

[@rizeicyy5609]

wait so none of this applies to pve?

[@robsoto5834]

I didn’t know bas rutten was in tarkov

[@Khyrid]

Wow, they got Rogan in the game now?

[@kuglertv]

So you play arena until u get to lvl 15-20 u probaly lvl up the endu and strenght then go in tarkov unlock ref, buy keytool, gear, weapon and start tasking. Lovely hope they nerf it a little but not too much cause kinda ez now especaly cause in arena i play with noobies

[@InHUM44n]

The dailies in Arena are so stupid. I'm blowing most of my cash on rerolling them

[@TheBot-kr3ui]

Im really upset that PVE doesnt get arena rewards. Not even worth playing now

[@Kejruf]

Lol so we'll get an extra stash next arena update?

[@Surtza]

My XP is transfering but my mooney is not

[@robertdane1076]

Sad we can't unlock him in PVE

[@mn1907]

ok quest where i lsoe stuff when dying. i know im aint doing it

[@tiihii1024]

Losing stuff when you die is literally part of tarkov lol

[@josefkun7466]

I dont know somehow im not excited at all for this Bruce Willis guy

[@Hamanschie]

man it took you 2 min to tell us how to unlock that new trader ... wow

[@poyeh9914]

pls turn the music down a tad!!

[@GoingRampant92]

Ahh yes, being forced to grind one shitty game so you can progress in another. Definitely what we all want.

[@MultipleX18]

I dont think the arena trader should be locked behjnd tasks

[@NorthInium]

BSG is really shit at mission design holy shit. It will be a pain for a lot of people to get this going as squads just going to camp that plant.

[@wesmorris3529]

Nah man I only play pve now they fucked us. Stranded a bunch of gp in our inventory with literally no way to get rid of them except deleting them