The Wiggle That Killed Tarkov

[@Pestily]

Man this is going to stir the pot. Someone hand me some popcorn! You did a great job on the video. Something I would of loved to see was more detailed statistics of the experience. My only fear now is every creator is going to go replicate this video for views and then the whole integrity of creators will go to shit. Guess we will see. Edit: for the people misunderstanding what I mean about integrity of creators - First person to do in a proper informative manner (g0at) can get away with it. Every person from here on is doing it for the wrong reasons (any creator who makes a video the same as this to be informative).

[@mkt_shv]

R.I.P. Escape from Tarkov 25.02.2023

[@CZProductions]

Common Pestily W. Seen a few Tarkov streamers like Veritas really angry about this video and thinking that this stuff is common knowledge when it really isn't.

[@virtuecommunication2003]

love to see you reacting on this. lot of the big guys just gone quiet. this need to be echoed more

[@MelzardHD]

Integrity dropping from telling the truth? Yikes

[@adesertfox]

Nothing to fear, you guys are the voice of the community. Noone will listen to me or the next nobody just trying to enjoy tarkov when we say cheaters are ruining the game. If something is to be done about these issues, the creators must come together and bring this to light, show BSG that tolerating cheaters for the sake of profits is not a way to go forward. Too much is too much. Or we can all just pretend there aren't cheaters in at least half the raids and let this circle of madness continue until the last legit player quits...

[@GeneralSam]

I’ve reported every single person that’s killed me for two wipes because I’m a spiteful, angry little man. Turns out I was probably right 50% of the time. Good vid

[@SoulStoneSeeker]

That feeling when you were most deff right. It sucks but it also feels good. Too bad they didnt message us when we got one banned tho, would made playing more worth it.

[@coomer8265]

no streamer item for you too Sam, it will be removed next patch

[@Radiant-Edge]

I blame Aqua for everything.

[@jerrodmccart103]

@@Radiant-Edge Ha!

[@midagavies4]

Sam bud... Occasionally if I lose a legit fight I won't report, but 99% of the time it's worth it lol

[@burchie1224]

It makes me furious to think of how many hundred hours I spent getting killed out of nowhere when I thought I was simply being outplayed

[@glizzygulper8948]

honestly yeah, i barely survived any raids, let alone any combat, but thats because my computer was shit and it would freeze for like 1/4 of a second every time i got shot, but now im wondering if the ones where i was just shot out of nowhere are cheaters

[@stefanManiak262011]

me too,man...me too!!

[@betterthanezra2583]

true but when I have a bad taste in my mouth after a death, now I know it was prob a cheater

[@chadmann2724]

@@glizzygulper8948scavs are cracked some wipes but others they are trash. The out of nowhere deaths in the other hand …..

[@stgdante4324]

The worst part is if you look back at other cheaters doing this kind of video showing their jank cheats you really cannot tell if any death was legitimate or not. Wether it's desync, a jank aimbot that's slower than players reaction, or just straight cheating and playing it off well. Hell ppl can be just using radar to easily locate you and still have to use their fps skills to kill you. It's soo bad.

[@marusero25]

I'm not even a Tarkov player, Im just here for our mutual hate for cheaters

[@ittimjones]

Same, but I'm confident that there are MANY wall hackers for Apex.

[@OperatorMax1993]

same dude

[@lerofiq]

same

[@mhammadalloush5104]

I'm here cause I hate smurfs in rocket league. Different faces of the same shit

[@Nitidus]

@@mhammadalloush5104 Smurfs? Well, that sounds familiar! Greetings from Dota 2, lol

[@seanmarshall5463]

Heard about you from a War Thunder forum. Apparently some guy pulled off something similar on WT by infiltrating hacker communities, and then sent the source code to Gaijin. Supposedly 20,000 accounts got banned yesterday. Keep doing gods work my guy.

[@lunatic22231]

the thing is. Gaijing does not hate the wt community (when they are not leaking)

[@razerblaxe7232]

An even higher number than that 40,000

[@jaggumonk7]

oh really? explain the grind​@@lunatic22231

[@godlyghost3111]

when they say “infiltrating”, they mean going on unknowncheats and sending a pasted source lol. i mean its what ItsGamerDoc does, he thinks he’s a cheat developers nightmare when he does exactly what i described.

[@Topic_Yo]

I play war thunder mobile and umm wow. I do play arena breakout too.

[@pewpewgotchas]

"He knows I have ESP, and he doesn't like it" Actually the funniest line in the whole video. Even the cheaters don't like the cheaters lmao

[@baycosinus]

The motivation for the cheating is being the strongest one in a session. Remember any MCU or DCU movie where two heroes meet for the first time. They don't like each other. At all.

[@jesterclownmime]

@@baycosinus lolwat, comparing cheaters to heroes. Superheroes are standoffish in first encounters because its the easiest excuse to have the two face off to entertain fans in a what if scenario. Terrible analogy.

[@Fischbroetchen2k]

@@baycosinus the motivation for cheating is having a smol self esteem and even smoller pp. People should stop even remotely acting like there is any justification for cheating and start treating cheaters as the small dick loosers they just simply are. Like seriously not even going salty mode here, cheaters are just pathetic and should know it since they already deep down feel like it we should do everything to confirm it for them to realize.

[@romuluscreative]

@@baycosinus lol no the motivation to cheat is being a terrible gamer and and crying for attention to pretend your good at all.. which obviously arent.. Thats the nice way to describe a cheater.

[@ACMExxWRLDtv]

90% of them became cheaters from tired of dying to cheaters bro... feelsbadman

[@pastor3271]

BSG is the type of company to ban the wiggle instead of fixing cheating

[@fackrez11]

Anything to protect their bottom line, they want to keep cheaters in the game because they profit off of them

[@quinn7174]

I dont even think RMT is the main problem anymore, it seems people are straight up hacking now for whatever reason I dont understand how its fun.

[@quinn7174]

Also I wouldnt be surprised if BSG makes more money from hackers/RMT people buying new accounts after getting banned then the actual community at this point in development

[@brettyh1]

The whole get a discount if you buy multiple copies thing is 1000% the kicker

[@plazmaballs1024]

YES

[@glowwcatttv3561]

11-12 Months later and absolutely nothing has changed, well done BSG!

[@Blind_Hawk]

How u know

[@julianfuchs5328]

@@Blind_Hawk 200 hour 14 k/d players, while some of the best players or rats struggle to get to 10 k/d. Not saying its impossible but the likelyhood of so many low hour high k/d players is easy to explain

[@Blind_Hawk]

@@julianfuchs5328How many are there? I also have 200 hours despite playing since december 2020.

[@VioIetteMolotov]

Nothing changed? You can't be serious, right? IT'S WORSE THAN EVER!

[@Blind_Hawk]

@@VioIetteMolotovHow do you know it is worse?

[@malalalalalala]

No wonder Tarkov is such a hard game, everyone knows where you are

[@whodis000]

And they know every item you're carrying down to the items in your secure container, I use to cheat we would rob people of shit in their secure container if they wanted to live lmao. I honestly feel so bad now but at the same time if I never cheated I would have never known how many other cheaters are in the game and I would still be getting killed by them. Best advice is find a new game that isn't infiltrated by cheaters because you either die a hero or see yourself become a villan

[@jeankazamer9166]

See don t even have to look for them hard, they all end up exposing themselves.

[@birdness]

@whodis000 who would take any advice from you? Time to reevaluate your integrity there buddy.

[@jeankazamer9166]

@@birdness Cheating lying stealing is a package, can’t get the options seperatly and can t be removed from the car once installed.

[@Lazo4200]

I died a hero man quit it for along time and only play when my friends want me to play cuz they are Bambis

[@hauthicus]

A big thank you to Luke from Floatplane/LTT for letting me know about a video that i might have otherwise never found

[@l-l]

Same here!

[@thexkey]

sameeeeeee

[@Hydranox]

100% agree

[@qgame4941]

I am on board with the luke gang

[@donut132]

@@l-l me also lol

[@daltonbarries3529]

The 1st cheater I ran into (in a scav run) he flew to dorms, grabbed through the locked cult door and gave me the loot from it, then flew off into the sunset

[@awesomeridley9888]

At least some cheaters are wholesome and somewhat nice. Not all, but some.

[@JeeJeen]

second come of jesus

[@bobbah676]

Mary Fking Popins.

[@lajf28]

everyone have a different view but for me, cheaters that give me loot is still bad, i did not earn that legit when i accept loot from a cheater i may aswell cheat myself because its just not fair

[@This_is_a_burner]

@@lajf28 Aye they still are bad, even if not immediately. Free loot for people who wouldn't normally get it, that causes an imbalance in the economy over time.

[@thalus5990]

The 1 year anniversary is coming right up, maybe "The Wiggle 2: New year, Old story" Honestly would love comparation if anything changed

[@hopedream11]

Cheating situation is the same oh and Vacuum cheating is a thing now.

[@oshke5225]

@@hopedream11 Vacuuming was always a thing

[@_Afterdawn]

this video is an AD for cheats - you got played thinking this guy was making a change

[@thealonestargazer]

​@@_Afterdawnthe ad is bsg wont do anything about it

[@_Afterdawn]

@@thealonestargazer hahahaha look at the bigger picture my man.

[@lostinbravado]

This makes me feel so much better for never cheating in Tarkov. Look at the things I've achieved while playing without cheats and while surrounded by cheaters. I'm awesome.

[@iWonderZz93]

True :D

[@richardcharleswilliams8894]

I too appreciate my own loyalty and hardship for however many wipes now.

[@lbolang2625]

Same here. Last year I only play night raid in low traffic servers，and I got 20.1kd（99% are ai scavs）I never went to Labs Lighthouse Reserve，and most of time I just sat in a corner wait 20 minutes then started to loot and kill bots.

[@Devil_dog1997]

Same here I got a 7kd and almost at capa 🫡

[@insomyt5055]

4 wipes level 80+ each time.. never once cheated or played with a cheater... cant touch the game now

[@Patton1944]

Human psychology in this instance is so interesting. Normally, someone would probably be pretty hesitant to let on that they're cheating, but the moment they know you're also cheating, you're suddenly in their "group" and warrant a base level of trust above the average player.

[@handson4580]

humans are naturally tribal thus will stick around to there community

[@PhilipAnderson2339]

It might be because they think that the opposite team has just as much to lose as they do and they relate to it, what do they lose? One tarkov account.

[@AngusBeef0]

Tribal

[@aikidodude05]

its because the whole fact that the interaction can only be done though cheating its why we have "stings" to catch criminals.

[@aiarta2280]

It unironically is a fractal of our broader world. Cheaters being psychopaths. Also at the top of the leaderboards ;)

[@BasicallyHomeless]

Haha dude imagine someone started a hacking task force where a bunch of dudes hack just to kill the hackers. What a meta that would be

[@BadSubi]

This needs to happen white hats vs the black hats

[@camoxod547]

No way, papa Homeless here, i love you dude!

[@goldeneye1716]

there's already people out there doing that but the problem is they still kill regular players too so what are they even doing

[@len64]

hi homeless, watcha doin here

[@typicallyodd2237]

ayeeee! my man! love ur vids

[@MyRkAcc]

Just here to see the wiggle after finding out about it from the 250$ for the game drama.

[@TheBuddhalint]

don't worry, if you upgrade your 250$ edition to the next 340$ one you will get less cheaters for 6 months!!!

[@jorrevedder6097]

For an extra 250 on top you get esp and a wiggle hotkey.

[@Stevenjilted]

@@TheBuddhalintfor 6 months is so accurate

[@dom4in637]

at this point i am wondering if some of the high end cheats are provided by bsg themselves just so they can cash out twice for each copy they sell to the cheaters

[@FormerGovernmentHuman]

I’m posting this before premium servers are announced for a monthly subscription.

[@nicolasgonzalez629]

dude, the escape from tarkov subreddit went completely tyranical over this, deleting every post talking about this, posting the video isn't allowed and talking about you gets you shadow banned. it's crazy how much they are trying to control this information

[@StanGuru]

Really bizzare behaviour from the moderators, we can only assume they are regular wigglers themselves

[@bobbymccullough3210]

It breaks rule 7. It's pretty clear why. Trying to turn it into a conspiracy is just being irresponsible.

[@notEAdemize99]

​@@bobbymccullough3210 they deleted discussion even when the video wasn't posted. They locked all discussion including the clip from the WAN show that doesn't break any rules. Your comment is proof that mods know they can just lie to people and some of them will suck it up.

[@cargage9523]

They are baby minging

[@hackermangage1703]

@@bobbymccullough3210 Probably because the mods cheat too

[@Toni232HD]

I was able to finally escape tarkov thanks to this video, many thanks

[@firemusic412]

Im now only playing SP Tarkov mod :( no online more..

[@satanicchocobo9705]

@@firemusic412 sp tarkov sounds like the most boring thing of all time

[@firemusic412]

@@satanicchocobo9705 better than getting killed by cheaters

[@imdumpedsoul]

@@satanicchocobo9705 keep in mind that there are mods that range from adding guns to changing recoil to adding new clothing to adding new items etc

[@tomogburn2462]

Yup. Fuck this game. Finally uninstalled it and escaped.

[@Talishar]

And this returns memories of years ago where the Tarkov devs were making the outrageous claims that their game, by its very design, was impossible to cheat in. And everyone laughed.

[@Zanaki113]

My own friends told me I was insane when I said people had to be cheating and yet here we are...

[@ITh4n4tosI]

​@@Zanaki113 had a friend that quit cod for tarkov because he didn't want to deal with cheaters anymore lol. All anti cheat does is at least stop the rage hackers lol

[@w1mark275]

The worst thing you can do gloat about how your game is uncheatable, they'll accept it as a challenge and wear it like a badge of honor. After all, breaking the rules of a game is not even a foreign concept in gaming culture, some games even encourage it.

[@sgt_samples]

Anybody else end up back here after the whole Unheard Edition thing?

[@Compulsive_LARPer]

hello

[@thipygames3888]

yup

[@Acstasy]

$250 to not fix the game at all

[@EarlyBird1488]

So sad that the game is broken. The idea, the concept is great...

[@Andelot79]

Yeah… and came to the conclusion: thanks god I didn‘t spent any more money on this game.

[@brogers_]

When Luke said. "I would rather know i got beaten by someone legitimate than someone cheating, that feeling is so much better" I whole heartedly agree.

[@famulanrevengeance3044]

When half the fucking matches are ruined by cheats the game is no longer interesting. So many insta headshot deaths despite the average gamer not being good enough to do that and the high recoil in the game.. So many prefires, people holding the perfect angle, long range shots.. It's not fun with this many cheaters.

[@cagneybillingsley2165]

great investigative journalism. i feel like this video pushed nikita to make a public proclamation hopefully they use this tactic to track and mass ban people

[@JuSSayZ]

@@famulanrevengeance3044 the number of people who want to pretend like it’s completely normal is ridiculous. So many people want to make Tarkov look like a hardcore game that has the best fps players out of any other game, when in reality most players actually suck and will never have the opportunity to get better because they’re playing against people who can kill them long before it’s even possible for them to interact. Such a large portion of Tarkov gameplay is literally dying to people that you’ll never even know existed. This is coming from someone who’s played this game for over 1000 hours over the last 2 years, most of that time was spent during my first year playing. I’d consider myself someone who’s had a lot of experience in Tarkov and I’ll be the first to tell you that the game will never amount to anything more than it currently is, it’s actually so sad because I fell in love with the game and made some great memories.

[@hilexprmntl3929]

I still get matched against hackers in csgo and thats what ive been saying, im glad people still feel this way.

[@famulanrevengeance3044]

@@JuSSayZ Plus, Tarkov doesn't give you alot of 'time on target', you don't get much experience shooting other players. Even with a few hundred hours, weapon recoil changes all the time. And it's hard to have muscle memory when different pieces of gear affect ergo and recoil. It's funny. Sometimes you get a few matches without cheaters. And you pop off. You can finally sneak up on people, you can use map knowledge, you can push, you can nade. Without this horrible fucking feeling that they have supernatural knowledge and ability due to their cheats.

[@BigfryTV]

Such a wild video... Honestly, from one creator to another. Well done. This was a GREAT watch!

[@g0atmoth]

Thanks for stopping by my man. I have been watching you for a long time.

[@MaximumCarter]

Glad to see Bigfry giving support. I think we all knew this but it was great to "actually" see it. Thank you for standing up, more people should.

[@Viridiyan]

I hope you cover this on your channel, even as a shorter chopped up react and discuss kind of video on the main channel. You've been highly critical of BSG in the past and for good reason, now I think you might've just found another

[@rhodes9169]

Love ur work @bigfry

[@aptech1119]

Make a video on this bigfry!

[@ByronC900]

This basically means that every raid you didn't get killed by a cheater, was because they LET you live. They were probably looting, and you didn't cross their path so they avoided you. This is sick.

[@MrSquirtingTurtle]

basically if they dont wanna kill you is because there selling the account. there mostly just questing and shit. dont wanna make themselves obvious

[@ByDimilibs]

😭😭

[@Juntness]

@@ByDimilibs Being a level 55 BEAR this season, I find myself getting taken out a lot more often as my crew is left alone to live. Especially in LH

[@60FpsGoodness]

And this is why I started playing SP Tarkov.. I love the underlying game, but cheaters are just too much.

[@SeizeSir]

@@60FpsGoodness SP tarkov? Hell nah new levels of gear fear unlocked

[@centiret]

Yeah that explains a lot. I was new to Tarkov and was surprised of how some of the players were so insanely good. I had good, fun and tense engagements but pretty often I would get face-shoted out of nowhere, while I was chilling in some bush. I thought that they were just players with extremely strong situational awareness, headsets and reflexes. I'm disappointed.

[@turionb1408]

because developer dont have to do something against the bots.. 😂 its just sad. i hate those fucking cheaters

[@outrun7455]

I mean you probably did just get shit on a lot but that’s not to say hackers aren’t a problem. However, I have only encountered maybe 7-8 hackers in my time in this wipe. If you wanna talk about a game plagued with hackers talk about CS

[@FormerGovernmentHuman]

@@outrun7455what was your max rank in cs? I’ve been global on I think 5 accounts maybe one or two more and S+ in ESEA. After LEM+ the hackers get real fking bad and sadly the lower ranks of silver are also pretty bad but everything inbetween is pretty decent. You still get them mind you and it’s sadly very easy to cheat on faceit as well. But it is nowhere close to as bad as tarkov can be. I’m coming up on 4500 hours of tarky and while some wipes are significantly better than others California servers are always and will always be unplayable. California has the most PMC’s per raid average, fastest ques and its the only one the chinese can connect to without having 9000 ping. Most people that don’t experience how bad the tarkov cheating problem really is typically are not queing California, but most streamers do.

[@sb17899]

this is one of the most, if not THE MOST important Tarkov videos ever made. You're the content creator that Tarkov doesn't deserve, but desperately needs. Thank you for your work.

[@sparda_]

dear god ur pfp….practice retention, go outside and meditate, channel your s*xual energy into lifting weights, install site blocker browser extensions, i believe in you, you’re better than this, you are loved and you are valid, do not let addiction consume you like this

[@anonymousbanana204]

@@sparda_you can’t be getting your nipples triggered by some picture on a KZbin pfp right?

[@ahahuehafook4207]

​@@sparda_ Based.

[@sparda_]

@@ahahuehafook4207 glad to see someone that doesn't have an IQ below 100, p*rn should be abolished

[@g0atmoth]

Thanks to everyone from the WAN show! You guys are awesome. The last half of the video has a good interview with Luke. You will like! Cheers

[@TGC1775]

*BSG activates nuke* 👀 👖 💩 💥

[@washedstream6151]

Still dont agree with the ethics of cheating but I understand your fustration

[@northendtrooper]

At the very least he owes you a bottle of syrup.

[@RodRosenberg]

This video hurt. I only played this wipe for a couple weeks and for now I'm out. Thanks for doing this!

[@TGC1775]

Veritas TTV is watching it now. He is so salty about it 🤣!!!

[@ryanbanister4181]

As it turns out, there's no such thing as getting tarkov'd. There's just running into cheaters.

[@MaxingThePayne]

Sometimes there is with power-slidding Killa, or other scav boss. But you're right

[@ukaszanioowski9722]

getting tarkoved % 60% cheaters 20% AI (scavs, bosses, etc.) 9% game just screwing you over 1% other (basically combination of the few or bad luck)

[@olgagaming5544]

Idk, I never met any cheaters, they don't bother me but I mostly play at in-game night with good gear etc. Every RIP I have is normal, I usually fire at people first because Im stealthy Idk, but for me EFT is one of the least cheater-infested games I played, it's pure fun

[@Ashen_Night116]

@@olgagaming5544 "Good" kits, cheaters avoid woods because it's basically just new players (kits that aren't worth anything), if there is one in the lobby, you're too far away with a kit that's not worth anything. Go play on streets 50 times, or reserve, you'll find out real quick that there are cheaters. This video is proof, why deny it? 125 raids and at least 60% of them had some ESPing? How the fuck can you deny that?

[@HellGatefr2]

@@olgagaming5544 clueless

[@Kaiajn]

Came back after 3 years of not playing, the cheaters are still just as bad and probably worse than what it used to be. Nothing has changed

[@YaBoiiGermy]

Yeah just tonight bro 2 raids back to back rage hackers lol. Both were when me and my buddy geared up heavy to increase our survival chance just to have a dude bum rush us right out of spawn trying to spray us through walls before one tapping us both lmao

[@FormerGovernmentHuman]

@@YaBoiiGermysad thing is that gear might have been what got you targeted to begin with

[@YaBoiiGermy]

@@FormerGovernmentHuman oh most definitely. It never happens when you go in with basic gear. Throw a slick on and boom. Your getting rolled

[@ShowTheOreo]

You set the Tarkov subreddit on fire. Well done comrade

[@PurpleandGold615]

Absolute clown moderators in the pocket of BSG. Dudes are probably profiting off of covering this up. Too bad that subreddit is measly compared to KZbin so the mods can suck a fat one.

[@plantgaming2v254]

bro its so stupid they took it down for the most pettiest of reasons possible basically because he was also cheating that its not allowed but thats the whole point of the video to show how hes cheating to clearly prove that others are cheating such a petty and delusional rule

[@Dirty_Dumb_NAFO_Scum]

@@plantgaming2v254 It's fucking plebbit, what else could we expect?

[@plantgaming2v254]

@@Dirty_Dumb_NAFO_Scum ikr its just reading it just made me realize that we are the same species like the video clearly proves that their are cheaters and that their anticheat needs to be fixed but they are just so delusional for some reason that they are like he cheated so this whole video is invalid i seriously am flabbergasted on how they clearly didnt watch the video and see video evidence on how people are cheating in tarkov

[@eda230bbs2]

@@plantgaming2v254 exactly.

[@jakedunning9244]

all i take from this as a solo player is wiggle if im in a bad spot and theres like a 60% chance i make it out alive.

[@kingterry6045]

just uninstall this garbage lmao, imagine still trying to cope play with all the cheaters.

[@fthishandleshit]

After this video, they're just gonna kill everyone on sight. No chance now. These people are TRASH.

[@DevinEMILE]

@@kingterry6045 I mean the issue is, whats similar? DMZ? Even more incomplete then tarkov. Hunt? good game, just different. Ill continue to log on after a wipe. Play two weeks to a month. Then delete it. i usually take two wipes off in between anyway. Not like they change enough anyway from wipe to wipe.

[@PabloJustChillin]

@@DevinEMILE that is the worst waste of time I’ve ever heard. Unless you’re having fun then go for it, but mindless grinding and getting killed by cheaters is like self torture.

[@heidenmensch4809]

​@@DevinEMILESPTarkov. Just Google it^^

[@brockmiller45]

the wiggle used to be the universal sign of being friendly in multiplayer shooters, back to arma 2 dayz mod days, it hurts my soul to know cheaters have taken it for themselves now

[@slopcrusher3482]

It’s like raising your hand to wave at someone while there’s a gun hidden behind you’re back, there’s just something wrong with it

[@TomJakobW]

Even worse; used as a sign for other small weenie beta cuck cheaters to signal a truce; being part of their in-group. Honor among thieves, I guess? Fck them…

[@haydentravis3348]

Not only are they stealing it, they're making other players mistrust it and associate with cheats. These people don't even realize how horrible they are and how much they're hated. They do not get it.

[@simz04]

You know someone is younger than you when their reference is arma 2 :P

[@FerventReminder]

@@slopcrusher3482 ever heard of rust? :P

[@gammainc1666]

Why does every cheater unironically sound like a basement-dwelling mouthbreather.

[@red-cap_shroom]

because they are

[@ThePianoRemembers]

60+% of raids... I'm done with tarkov. Probably the greatest and most informative tarkov vid I've seen so far but this also hurts so bad.

[@mitchy5994]

Don't take it to heart. He only showed about 10-15 people blatantly convincing. Only about 8%. On par with most competitive games.

[@blakeolinger1220]

@@Pulp95 Dude why? You're literally the problem

[@blakeolinger1220]

@@Pulp95 Do you not love this game?

[@roadkill8161]

@@Pulp95 I get it, You die to cheaters constantly but don't want to quit the game so you have to even the playing field. You're not the only one who's resorted to that, a few of the guys I used to play with did it too but does it not ruin the game? Like I feel that knowing where everyone and everything is would just suck the joy out of the game

[@Pulp95]

@@blakeolinger1220 Im literally not because I've only killed kids with 20+ KDRs and given away prob 30+ ledx these past 3 weeks

[@beepboop8005]

7 Months later and absolutely nothing has changed, well done BSG!

[@Unsaphyra]

140 quid early access since 2018. problem?

[@deathttrap9755]

Bro i cant even play tarkov this wipe cause i server disconect every 2 raids even after i clear my cache

[@iseeyou9488]

and the game is still unoptimized on a 8 core CPU and 6600 XT. lmao fucking russian scammers

[@Gurnu]

what did you expect from russians? integrity?

[@zombieryan]

I must be really lucky then. I've had *maybe* 2 cheaters this wipe so far and only had server connection issues during the Halloween event

[@ThatBeePerson]

Honestly I love watching this because you can tell that the moment they realize you have ESP they're on high alert. Suddenly they don't have a massive advantage. It's like a predator meeting another predator and it's VERY interesting.

[@GeekOfAllness]

@@Ok-um5ho It's not generally hard to find pirated copies of cheat programs, so a lot of them probably didn't pay for it. But given how many different cheat programs there are advertising pretty steep prices, it's likely a lot of people are paying for it. Given that the cheats are selling in the range of $100 a month, not many 8 year olds could afford to do it, and they're not likely to get away with using Mommy and Daddy's credit cards undetected. So you're mostly left with nobody but 30+ year olds. And there's always the simple argument that if you think a couple bucks on a cheat program is a big issue, maybe you should get a better job, slacker. While I don't have that kind of money, the fact is that people who can afford these cheats are actually doing better financially that those who can't, which implies they're actually doing better at that outside world thing than you or me. I do feel like you're projecting here a bit though. People playing games with cheats doesn't in any way suggest they're addicted to games, nor that any "high" they get from gaming requires cheats. It's more like someone who just plays on easy mode, which is statistically more likely to be someone who isn't terribly good, and therefore someone who doesn't actually play that much. I.e., the opposite of someone who is addicted.

[@PraiseTheKing77]

@@Ok-um5ho man I don’t want to break your innocent heart. Who do you think cheats are made by…Working adults. kiddies are the ones that get banned for free hax. Its dudes in our 30s that are way more likely to be cheating because we have real lives, with real jobs, 40+ hour week work lives with maybe an hour or two a couple of days to play. What do you think is more likely the Chad No life or the Average Gamer turning to cheats because of getting clapped by basement dweller 5000. This is why Cod is so accessible and has more children cheating on it. You don’t have to sink 100’s of hours to get good at it. Joe schmoe can play a couple times a week and be a beast. Tarkov? Skill leveling, Character leveling, Competitive Economy without dynamic loot (currently) , You can spawn into a match and level 50 chadmaster just hit all the loot spots before your level 5 Strength having butt even gets halfway there. I’m not endorsing cheating but I learned a long time ago that “Kiddies” aren’t the problem. Working men and women with money to pay for 300+$ private and slotted undetected cheats are the issue.

[@FrancisDGM]

@@Ok-um5ho yeah! its like dude ...im 35, i got 2 kids and maybe only 4h to play in a week or two ..SAME FOR YOU!! why the F*** are you hacking and make me losing this precious time

[@FrancisDGM]

@@PraiseTheKing77 still no excuse man... im 35 ..2kids and over 4K hours of pubg since 2017... working over 50h+ a week (lineman). never hacked even as a teen and never will. those ppl a just Puss and weak.

[@Gasked]

@@Ok-um5ho I think that have sense that older people is the one that cheats, because they have works and things to do outside and the pay a little to progress faster and have fun, they dont care about if is ethical or not

[@Goobnu]

Nothing has changed. The amount of disrespect that BSG has for their community is abysmal.

[@AOD_AnkGrooger]

It's why I stopped playing tarkov for about 2 years. Although I may be joining this new wipe when it releases.

[@PSXman9]

it's even worse. i've seen people showing their ingame mail cheating reports. 51 rounds, 51 deaths, 51 confirmed and banned hackers. and literally my first Arena match a couple days ago was a guy with a pistol having 15 kills in three rounds.

[@haydentravis3348]

They're russian, this is literally their culture from as far back as the invention of indoor plumbing.

[@Reversefilms]

BSG showed their lack of respect right out of the gate by offering people who pay more money an advantage.

[@5000Seabass]

@@Reversefilmsoh cry more

[@victorc1462]

there should be separate lobbys for cheaters. Like a shadow ban, when a person doesnt know they are only put in the games against other cheaters

[@Anuisgod]

Exactly that's where they will be kept isolated and will not buy new game again, but developers don't do it because if cheater gets banned they will buy the game again.

[@Legoldos]

well thats not enough, think about the market, they are screwing it by obtaining ridiculous amount of high value loot

[@charc0al_tv]

A few games have done this

[@victorc1462]

@@Legoldos the market should also be separated. So cheaters will play and trade with other cheaters in their toxic little world. And non cheating part of the game will be healthy and cool. Everybody wins

[@brodylockwood14]

Impossible. That implies they can detect every cheater at all times to be able to match them together. If they can do that, they can just remove the cheaters to begin with.

[@joshuaweezorak7042]

This is going to definitely light a fire under BSG's ass. This video is only been out two days as of right now and it's caused so much controversy inside the community and they want to damn you for it. You might even get banned for it but you know what? You're a hero in my eyes man. I think you may have saved this game.

[@timmeke_8213]

ofc he will be banned, he cheated. doesn't matter what reason

[@weasle2904]

​@Timmeke_ BSG refused to address this problem for years and would copyright strike videos talking about the horrible exploits and how easy it is to cheat. They deserved it

[@timmeke_8213]

@@weasle2904 ok? I didn't even speal about bsg. This guy should be banned. Sure he did wake up everyone and bsg but still, he should be banned

[@Bigol_Jimbo]

@@timmeke_8213 That's the point of the video though. If he gets banned for making a video... cool... but you're still left with all the other cheaters he just showed exist, because they're probably not going to catch a ban, and if they do they'll just grab another account... knowing how cheating communities work in other games, and how many people have dropped this one, it probably won't even be a new account but someone else's who stopped playing and either sold theirs or got phished for it.

[@steven_tesla1911]

@@timmeke_8213 mate, truly the most academic stance on the issue 😂

[@Pppppedro]

Today I learned that *I* the average player that just wants to gear up go out and have fun - Is the sucker in Tarkov. I am the bottom of the food chain that basically fuels cheaters. Thank you

[@ajuslucky5432]

Yea man...I just tested it, used up all my money for lvl 6 gear and got aim locked to the part my armor wasnt covering 80% of the time. Only place that I survived with this shit is factory, even against other people with gear. I won those fights cuz they werent cheating. Even a 3 man took so long to kill me cuz some bullets hit legs and arms, but not for the cheaters

[@AquilesPal]

@@ajuslucky5432 It's so sad... Not to cry, but leaves a hole in the soul to know what the state of the game is

[@DrMurdercock]

It REALLY sucks knowing that these fucks see my horrible KD that im UNDER LEVEL 5 with SHIT GEAR and they still hunt me down and kill me. Fucking pathetic. Needed a reason to quit this shit show and I now have it.

[@astainlessnoyb1038]

1 year later and the problem is still so bad everyone is now playing PVE.

[@Odzeradobushcraftera]

What is happening at Tarkov reddit is sick. They are deleting all posts that are informing about this situation, even those that are not breaking ANY rules of forum. Imagine how desperate and powerless they must be if they are taking such actions...

[@stormtroopers8653]

typical reddit mod fashion. Power hunger fanboys or actually hired by BSG.

[@Monsicek]

@@stormtroopers8653 both true

[@stormtroopers8653]

@@dagmaragnutek9390 yep. Considering how BSG loves kissing big streamers' ass I'm not surprised at all.

[@ThePianoRemembers]

freedom of speech is overrated where the devs cpme from ;)

[@MaximumKarma]

It's their cash cow, it's called the infinite account glitch 😂😂

[@josephfoulks]

Basically confirmed what I could feel with my own gut instinct. The game's literally a dumpster fire of cheaters right now.

[@betterthanezra2583]

sadge

[@barca227bc3]

Always has been a dumpster fire.

[@paparoach007]

My gut instinct has been telling me this for years bud, it's only gotten worse and will continue to get worse. Tarkov is slowly dying in front of us unless BSG and BattlEye do something even more drastic to combat cheaters, until then the game isn't worth playing right now.

[@Linnitup7755]

Bro I swear most of the time I bring in good gear I get smoked but do some loot runs with cheap load outs and I do fine.

[@blakeolinger1220]

@@Linnitup7755 That's why everybody has gear fear. If there were no cheaters, imagine all the wins with the good gear. It just confirms my suspicion that I was being hunted because I had good gear on with good ammo. If I take a AK 5.45 in, I get kills and extract. Take in meta shit, my first encounter is instant death almost every time. Shit is so wack. The lack of integrity makes me sick

[@davkimb]

It's absolutely heart wrenching to have conformation this was going on. Thanks for going through the effort for this video

[@obscuredlove4043]

Yeah knowing everytime you call out a cheater its correct is finally enough, I'm sending this video to all my friends.

[@BuangAmerikano]

bro, its been known since 2018, when real gamers quit the game, welcome to PC i guess

[@blakeolinger1220]

If only they developed this game for console.

[@Nephermoore]

@@BuangAmerikano it's not about pc. This game currently suffers the worse from hacking, out of any game on the pc market today that has kept up its relevance.

[@BuangAmerikano]

​@@Nephermoore anime pic means fag dont talk to me

[@paragonflash8937]

Dude this feels like a video about busting drug dens or going undercover in a criminal group where they do illegal deals. Great video

[@OneNationUnderGod.45]

This explains so much. I played this game for about 2 years, was never "Great" at it, but I was probably average. I remember so many of my deaths being the typical "How did they even know I was there?" Deaths aside from the other "Ok no idea where that dude shot me from". This also explains times where I would go AFK and hide my PMC in the most obscured vacant location, only to come back after 10 minutes to the post raid lobby to see a PMC killed me. There were so many instances where that happened. Seeing how common the cheaters are in this video, confirms my suspicions. I'm glad I stopped playing this game last year.

[@blokin5039]

Nah you simply suck at this game.

[@blakearius]

Can't believe you lasted 2 years. When I first played the game it was great.. but when I came back and cheating had literally become the meta I quit after a few sessions. Nothing could be more frustrating.

[@DadOM8999]

I play diet tarkov now. Arena Breakout.

[@battyflaps5410]

Cheaters are super common in survival games tarkov in particular because they went round on huge banning streaks but then ended up with them cheaters just getting new accounts and using cheats again..

[@Arkane_HC]

So glad I didn’t play this wipe. I’ll play the single player part when it comes out

[@BrodaciousD]

I've quit playing tarkov this wipe because of this and I can't possibly put to words how much I appreciate the work you've done here your a Saint amongst men.

[@MrArmenian17]

Me too. I pop back on every once in awhile, but it really took the wind outta my sails encountering moments that were clearly someone cheating.

[@matthewpamatian4853]

Its sad the people who think he is a bad person for this...

[@Lornext]

You think this is extra bad this wipe? No... This is how it has been for years, there is always a cheater in your lobby, no matter what.

[@jefferyw861]

I'd recommend checking out Singleplayer Tarkov. I swapped over to SPT because I just can't deal with live anymore, never looked back.

[@theonlydz4178]

I mean if you enjoy it, why quit? I've had the same gun 12 raids now because I haven't died, and maybe got 25 dogtags with just this same gun, and I'm not cheating, so its definitely playble still.

[@DangerRussDayZ6533]

I was a server admin for a rather popular Dayz mod server back in the day. After that experience, spending countless hours trying to catch and ban cheaters, I've never looked at games the same since.

[@andrijs1521]

CAn you tell more ? :D

[@HonkHill-ev4hk]

I remember if they had multiple servers, it would save your position. So when you got the drop on some players, they would take cover, disconnect after getting your position. Then they would reconnect on another server in the same spot, flank you completely safe from fire, jump in your server and shoot you in the back. Not a hack but still cheating by gaming the system.

[@AlexDerange]

@@HonkHill-ev4hk ah man loot saving over multiple servers was the meta, i would disconnect in mil zones, connect on an other server, loot, disconnect and do it again until i was geared XD

[@KaoticReach1999]

Wonder how many innocent people you banned

[@n00bist723]

Curious bout the server name lowkey not for a like "aha I knew there were cheaters there" or drama sorta deal just more wondering if I know the name or played there for muh nostalgia based dopamine kick.

[@stuartclarkson48]

Come back to this video a year and a bit since I first watched it, and I have successfully escaped this game not touched it since I watched this video. Probably one of the best videos I've watched on YT saved me so much time as this game wasted so much of it

[@itsgrimace]

The frustration of not knowing kills me. I don't mind losing, I hate not knowing if I lost fair and square.

[@stonerdad82]

it's the worst.

[@wasd3108]

on the other side, every kid whos bad at the game everyone that kills them is a cheater ;D

[@faxanfm682]

You probably didn't

[@cassidy8307]

Knowing you died to hacks isn't much better

[@foxhound6364]

The fact that he confirmed there were cheaters in 60% of his raids, probably means about 90%+ of raids have cheaters.

[@jamespfp]

Yes, it's all about the overall size of the sample. Up to 10 matches versus over 100 or 1000, we'd have a really decent idea where 10,000 matches should stand. Even then, are we going to sample randomly or would there be a much different result when teams or clans get involved...

[@cartrips9263]

Yep. And as he said, most of them won't bother with you until you get close to them. I've had situations like that where they literally faked not realizing i am there. Then they turn around and head eyes me instantly with just one shot. Scavs even.

[@pheo8116]

Sorry but it was totaly bullshit... This is just no real Player-experience! LISTEN This 60% per Map means that there are only 5% of PLAYER are cheater, cuz u have 10-14 PMCs per map - just mathematics. AND i will never see whos cheating like him to hunt them. AND i will never meet all of the 10-14 PMCs per map like Counter Strike, max half of them. This facts he just did not think about. So Tarkov dosent have a cheater problem, it has a cheater-call problem... 5% are just not much guys! After all we even dont know on wich server he played... In statistics there are a lot more cheater on russian servers then europe for example! He gave us just 5mins of uncomment raw informations with that stupid 60% but tonns of clickbait-video-material. His Video will push cheating and cheat-calling and is just toxic for tarkov. I hope u can see guys, not everyone can do good studis, even if he is a cool guy......

[@steveStonehedge]

@@cartrips9263 yup, i wish there would be another game company to just make this game over with a different name and a good anti-cheat

[@ShaggyRogers1]

@@cartrips9263 If there isn't a cheater lasering heads, then the cheater(s) are busy looting the map dry without even coming within line of sight with another player the whole game.

[@ricardodelis7035]

I retired playing tarkov now I’m on sptarkov

[@2camels0ina0tiny0bus]

I guess SP tarkov doesnt wipe right? My only fear is the ai dont behave very human. Scav ai is the worst ai I can think of in a game

[@Cesko_Plny_Fialovejch_Zmrdu]

​@@2camels0ina0tiny0busLOL WHAT? Have you ever played ArmA? 😂😂😂😂

[@jacob-fx5ys]

What is SP tarkov

[@Cesko_Plny_Fialovejch_Zmrdu]

@@jacob-fx5ys Single player mod for Tarkov. Alows you to play offline while still have career mode. You play against bots with real player names and they are behaving much more realistoc than Tarkov ones. Simply put, you can fully enjoy this game without cheaters

[@RaYmoNDTVShoW]

@@jacob-fx5ys instead of typing this dumb comment a quick google search will give you what you want

[@yungmonsterxs8929]

This is a necessary evil. Whatever was paid for the cheats and the new account pales in comparison to the value this insight has given the community and hopefully worth a proper responce from Nikita & BSG.

[@SchrottKopf247]

BSG is selling the cheats lol no joke but who knows

[@acid_rain_bow_xd9312]

Agreed

[@gracjansm]

they wont respond

[@TheOriginalMidweekcoma]

Its confirmed what I have experienced. Today I died twice within one minute of spawning and have died many times to the headshot situation described.

[@yungmonsterxs8929]

@@gracjansm that is a very reasonable expectation. I have hope they will respond, but a very realistic amount of hope. I feel like ego and their pride in their product plays a much much much bigger part in the management of the company than it really should considering how Goat expects the video to get stricken with a claim.

[@TheArsenalgunner28]

I honestly am broken after watching this, knowing that my routine/tactic in maps is likely being seen by people and they are just ignoring me because I don’t have something they want or I’m not in their way feels so demoralising. It invalidates everything about the game and it’s direction. The worst part is (like Luke said) is this ‘bro’ attitude they have. Like ‘us’ versus ‘them’. There’s no respect. I do love this game. I learnt how to build a PC and playing tarkov was partially one of the reasons why because I was so tired of the triple A generic shooters. I wanted something with an atmosphere where the tension is overwhelming…and knowing it’s all tarnished as badly it is really is painful. Thank you for making this.

[@13thBN]

Yeah pretty disheartening knowing that every time I went, “omg I survived that raid” only really meant “I survived because they let me survive”

[@TheArsenalgunner28]

@@13thBN yeah, not everytime ofc but knowing there were times that happened and not knowing how many is just horrible.

[@TheAlbin0zebra]

So you quit bc nobody chases you, but I quit because everyone chases me

[@ecia2671]

​@@TheAlbin0zebra he quit because the only reason he didn't get chased was he didn't have the loot they wanted. You quit because you got chased because you had the loot they wanted.

[@TheArsenalgunner28]

@@TheAlbin0zebra my point is ‘even a win isn’t really a win’ because you just didn’t interest them enough…but equip a full kitted weapons with level 4 plus gear and they’ll make their way over. So all that special gear you save in your stash is just going to increase your risk of them targeting you.

[@pitaandhummus7643]

5000 hours in this game and I looked like a fool this whole time

[@DeezNuggz]

do not tell me you didn't already know about this for years bro

[@typicallyodd2237]

@@DeezNuggz ur a troll dog. ive seen u post everyway belittling and being condescending af. you have contributed nothing to the discourse.

[@TheBulletBlitz]

@@DeezNuggz we knew there was cheaters but we didnt know how bad it was.

[@DeezNuggz]

@@typicallyodd2237 what the hell are you talking about dude

[@Blankyto58]

2.5k of hours, and same felling here... i know there was cheaters, but not this much

[@evi-vw]

What pissed me off about tarkov for a few wipes is. I am not great at pvp. But whenever I brought a nice meta gun + armor I got from killing another player. I’d go into another raid and instantly die. Looking back, cheaters just seen my value of loot and low kd. Think it’s fine to just rage hack me. Thinking I’d not know any better, and not report them. It was the correct assumption. Always thought I was just cursed. Never knew cheating was that bad, despite the rumors of it.

[@Onoesmahpie]

All multiplayer FPS games (and hell, most competitive multiplayers) are like this. I'd just stay away from them in general, I highly doubt the cheater issue is ever going to be fixed since most of these developers directly profit from cheaters. There are so many better ways to spend one's time than playing against cheaters.

[@saladfingers874]

Meanwhile in the Tarkov Reddit; “Skill issue, hackers aren’t in Tarkov.”

[@thebeastmeister3009]

the eft sub is a shithole

[@travisolexa3074]

I've been convinced for over a year now a majority of the Tarkov Reddit are hackers who spend all day gaslighting people that hackers don't exist.

[@travisolexa3074]

@@janintelkor No one is talking about this video in the reddit, you are getting shadow banned for mentioning this video right now.

[@loner9832]

Raid is needed mock the mods daily that they do it for free.

[@GodOfWarBG]

@@janintelkor On the main sub people are getting banned for even mentioning this.

[@bansita7377]

Cheaters are the reason I stopped playing the game. Played it since 2018, but haven't touched it this wipe. I know Tarkov has many cheaters, but I didn't know it was this bad. Made me question everybody. Got really paranoid. The ear-deafening silence from BSG about the severity about this problem is just a big slap in the face. Are they actively trying not to adress this? You, g0at, have done a lot to bring this issue to light. Thank you!

[@gradeyundery4939]

bsg posted the standard pr answer on reddit, made it sticky so everyone has to read it. its just a joke. "we do everything we can" "there are soon coming new updates" "its your fault for not reporting" "now report more so every cheater gets banned" "thank you for bringing the attention to an already know issue" the good thing is that they are too stupid to give a real response and will lose a lot of players and hopefully have to get some anticheat because videos like this will be now everywhere on youtube.

[@Mark-O-V]

BSG deserves the shit for this, for sure....but at the same time...no one is shitting on BattleEye which is just hilarious.....

[@bansita7377]

@@Mark-O-V BattleEye sux for sure, but BSG is responsible for using them instead of someone else. Also, a replay after the round close where you can spectate other players would really hurt the cheaters.

[@WAXTER_XIII]

SPT AKI is the way for now, you can play with bots, locally

[@Aqueox]

@@gradeyundery4939 What's funny is it is the exact same format from posts that were made years ago about cheaters. Nikita is being eviscerated, even on the fucking reddit, for it. I'm absolutely loving this. Like, I've fucked off from Tarkov for awhile and haven't even been on Tarkov-related content on KZbin or reddit over the weekend. I went and ate some IHop this morning, went to a gun show (Note: M1 Garands, Mauser 98's, and many other older weapons are much smaller than you'd think IRL), did a bit of shopping, sat through a tornado about an hour ago, and now... Now I'm blissfully reading that BSG, Tarkov, the reddit, and everything has gone fucking NUTS in the last day or so. Quite a turn of events, and it's only Sunday!

[@themattenthehat]

Holy shit. I was one of those who thought I'd only encountered a handful of cheaters in 1000+ hours. My mistake was assuming they wouldn't work so hard to hide it.

[@urbansekkt6355]

Learnt it on CS. Made a similar "investigation" since i wanted to prove a friend that VAC was worthless (I'm talking maybe 7 years ago, don't know now since I haven't touched the game for a long while). No aimbots or anything. Just my years of experience, ESP and exclusive casual matches. As long as people wasn't suspicious of me...i had no issues. Then i decided to make it more obvious (looking at walls following people etc) and after people started calling me out for it...i finally got banned. That's the thing with cheaters... people expect some dude spinning around like the tasmanian devil and headshoting everybody from miles away. And while that is a possible scenario... Most cheaters won't be very obvious about it

[@JuSSayZ]

[LONG POST. TLDR AT THE END] When I found this out last year I felt the same way. At that point I clocked about 850 hours into the game over the previous year. There were always moments when I thought “wow that death was so sudden, there’s no way I could’ve possibly reacted to that,” but I considered the fact that perhaps the Tarkov player base was just that good, after all I’d lined up a few hundred clean headshots myself at that point and knew how quick death could rain in Tarkov. Then I saw a similar video to this and it was terrible. I actually loved this game, and still love it, but now whenever I play it I just get sad because I know that the game and I myself as a player will never grow. Growth can only happen when every player is given the same opportunity to survive, but I could be the best Tarkov player in the world and die in 40-60% of my raids just because I don’t have ESP and the next guy does. I could go on a 10 kill game and then load up and die in the first 10 seconds. There’s rarely an opportunity to survive when you might’ve died in Tarkov, because so many of your deaths come from hackers. I even began thinking that it’s a conspiracy, the issue has existed for many many years now so it feels like battlestate isn’t taking any issue. They made changed to the black market that prevented hackers from profiting as much, but in reality the ones who suffered the most were genuine players. Hackers can survive raids easily, players have a much harder time surviving raids in lobbies full of hackers, the amount of loot that players can sell on the black market was drastically reduced whereas now hackers just need to bunker down in raid for an extra 10 minutes and they can sell everything they looted. It appears to me like battlestate is fine with the hacker issue because after the hackers sell their rubels or keycards online, they get banned and buy another copy of the game and do it again. The existence of hackers incentivizes players to buy rubels online, because they lose all their gear and money dying to hackers and then they want a little more just to keep pushing for another month. This way, the hackers profit off of an issue they created, and battlestate profits by allowing it just long enough for the hackers to profit and come back again to profit some more. TLDR; Battlestate Games pimps out their players to hackers, hackers which then profit off the players desperation to stop being pimped. Battlestate doesn’t sell games, they’re selling a business venture to hackers and software developers. For hackers, buying a new EFT account is just like buying a tool to replace windows, BSG is the manufacturer of the tools and the person who sold you the house next to the hacker, the player’s either move out or pay the hackers to fix the windows which hackers broke.

[@cerealhit555]

@@urbansekkt6355 Now do that on Faceit and you'll realize that 80%+ is cheating.

[@TheMalkavianPrince]

to quote my friend when I caught him out fly hacking in Minecraft after playing together for like 3 years at that point "I wouldn't have gotten away with it for this long if I used it while people were watching"

[@porrster1007]

#60%

[@RisitasKEKW]

Cheating is a bigger deal in Tarkov because you lose all your gear. That’s why it hurts so much. In counterstrike for example, when you get cheated against, you don’t lose your valuable inventory.

[@VeryBadSCAV]

It's a Really Good Video that reveals a lot of stuffs, hope BSG does something about it!

[@vic2024]

The man himself

[@wetlerus2523]

:/

[@THeChickmagnet0031]

Love this dude

[@TGC1775]

Tons of people deleting their VODs after streaming this on TTV btw.

[@virtuecommunication2003]

Asia region guy has spoken. you better listen to this BSG

[@fdfd4739]

Luke absolutely sold me on this! I don't play Tarkov, but the human element of this is real interesting.

[@davidbalkevitch1990]

Almost like this is a promo to make the rp of tark funner and a new aspect

[@Nephermoore]

human element just ruins everything. people literally can't help but to be a piece of trash if it means short term fun.

[@minecraftboy4208]

@@NephermooreBut it’s so weird u take out all the fun Things of the Game like They have to be trash irl

[@BrandonSullivan199]

It’s an amazing game unlike any other. Give it a try

[@tophm2634]

@@Nephermooreit’s human nature. Even in the highest level of competition in sports people cheat to get an edge. I’m sure a lot of streamers cheat as well

[@nesano4735]

This is the most solid proof of Tarkov's rampant cheating problem I've ever seen. Downloading this video right now so I have it saved locally. It won't be lost to history.

[@Lo0nex_]

@@JKLOLOMG1101 i played a bunch of old fps games competitively for years and have seen tons of cheaters in different contexts as a result, tarkov's cheats ramped up a lot since the flea market got added considering people could make money off of it. it's been fucked ever since then, i don't know percentages but i'm willing to bet at least half of tarkov's cheaters are people who do it purely for RMT reasons

[@loner9832]

That's good, just encase bsg might flag the video. They have a history doing that to channels exposing the broken bullshit in the game.

[@spicesmuggler2452]

When i started playing Tarkov i sucked so bad at the game i had to hide somewhere on the map and wait for 10 minutes so the PMC's would kill each other and thin the numbers. After getting found (i always had nice guns with me from the starter bonus) multiple times i always thought they have their hearing levelled up more than me so they could hear me or something. Turnes out it does not matter, i just had to take shitty guns in raids with me and the cheaters lost interest hunting me down at those starting 10 minutes.

[@KineBuds]

This is absolutely heart breaking .... Tarkov officially died for me today .. but it was needed and I am glad I watched it. Thank you for making this and risking your relationship with bsg

[@pajamuhs6691]

damn same i’m just reading the comments realizing i won’t open it today, i have 2k hours and play everyday, just can’t open it anymore/: ggs man we had fun

[@2cuntsgaming]

Single Player Tarkov Dog

[@BarneyGumbl3]

​@@2cuntsgaming That takes the fun out of it.

[@2cuntsgaming]

@@BarneyGumbl3 i played tarkov for the tactical aspects,, eventually you will be able to play with friends .. only a matter of time.

[@DeezNuggz]

its been like this for years man, the wiggle trick is not new

[@michaelshaffer1239]

This video just gave me my final reason to quit Tarkov. Thank you for shedding the light on what most of us figured was happening all along.

[@LNKSonYOUTUBE]

Same

[@aaronjohnson4525]

dont forget to request a charge back from your bank as you didnt purchase the game ;)

[@andrewperkovich8184]

@@aaronjohnson4525yeah im gonna do that tonight and I’ll repurchase access to their beta when they resolve the issue

[@Lawrence417]

@@aaronjohnson4525 is this a real thing?

[@aaronjohnson4525]

@Lawrence yes a charge back isn't like a refund it's a forced refund if you have no recollection of purchasing it but you have to say you didn't purchase it

[@TheBoa52]

I've experienced such a wide range of emotions playing tarkov, I did not expect this type of heartbreak to be one of them.

[@PWstateOFmind]

I saw it coming and everyone told me i was mad for calling cheaters out

[@spliffingrat5469]

@@PWstateOFmind havent thought it would be so bad.this leaves me speechless.

[@MrFidjit129]

Truth boa... Like, im upset.... i knew, but the proof is heartbreaking

[@SinShadowed]

Same homie

[@Brad-py7sj]

I’m on my 5th or 6th wipe, I bought $5000+ worth of computer stuff JUST so I could play this game after seeing it on you tube I’m no good at it, but I love playing it. I’ve wondered how I’ve gotten worse at pvp over time (thought I was losing me reflexes, probably am) but in all the time playing I’ve only reported 1 player once for suspect play because I acknowledge I’m crap, but now I’m gutted after watching this.

[@toxinomic3713]

June 8th 2024. after watching this video i learned a lot, you dont even have to have hacks to confirm a cheater, if you have a good headset and just stare at the wall you think they're behind then they will think that you have esp so they will usually back off, sometimes i confront them in voip about it and they will just blatantly admit to hacking. im so pissed off that you cant even play this game normally anymore instead i resort to acting like im cheating.

[@Ahmadabdal_]

Bro is countering cheating with bluffing 😂 ride on ma man

[@deugggi]

I am a Korean Tarkov streamer. The video was really meaningful. This season is really serious. I will share this video with my community so that other Tarkov users can see it. Thank you for making a good video.

[@ohmylantajawnt]

Badscav on his horni alt lolol

[@sewolk8399]

한국인중에 Tarkov하는분들을 많이 본적이 없는데 한국에서 하는분들이 있다는거에 대해서 감사하게 생각합니다. 그리고 한국분들에게도 이런 이슈를 알려주셔서 정말 감사합니다.

[@DeezNuggz]

you A holes were a plague on west coast servers years ago, do they not have eastern servers? lol.

[@Asporez]

Hey don't get too serious about it you know.... it IS a video game after all.

[@kekoa_ok]

Plz try marauders, we need more Korean players (and players in general)

[@bluerobe918]

So what have we learned? Wiggling is the key to survival in Escape From Tarkov.

[@faxanfm682]

Right, if someone shoots at you, back up & wiggle then shoot them

[@Kanfutizer]

wiggle on all fronts

[@jjl9360]

There is a large amount of cheater in EFT,that's what we learnt

[@CrOOpSS]

And how you will see what they wiggle back if you don't have the cheat?))))) emmm...?!?!??!

[@artursiruk4280]

just walk and wiggle every 5 seconds

[@blakearius]

When I first played Tarcov it was great. Truly immersive experience.. then I came back 9 months later. I had been given a nice specked out weapon as a promo, I hid in some grass not moving, I wasn't gonna lose this thing, Suddenly some guy came running up behind me and stabbed me, he knew exactly where I was. The second round I got the drop on two guys, approached slowly, 1 then baited me while the other poped out less than half a second later for a headshot, nobody could do that if they were surprised. 3rd round I heard someone moving around.. I didn't move for 3 minutes and just waited rifle pointed at the door from the room corner, he blew me away instantly. It's ridiculous that a game about realism is just a battleground for people robbing the intention of the experience. I miss that original experience alot.

[@j4ck3t]

First example, yea cheater for sure. Second example? you have to understand you make a lot of noise when you walk, I really think these two heard you. Third example is peekers advantage. Depending on the patch it can be real bad, it is real bad right now with the current patch, was bad 3 wipes ago too. Being aggressive rewards HEAVILY in this game, you have a very big advantage. This is why it is so hard to discern legit players from cheaters. If you play a lot, you will know what is possible and what is impossible. I can tell you from experience, gun fights don't end in 10 seconds. Sure if you play with friends, 1 might get dropped but even against veteran Tarkov players, you have a proper battle.

[@blakearius]

​@@j4ck3t Yeh I can't be 100% sure on those last 2, In that second instance. I had stopped moving and was camping around a corner. While they were running around full speed seemingly unaware for at least a minute or 2. It was a perfect ambush spot, there was no easy way to flank me but I'd still need to be lucky for them to come my direction, just a big box in the middle of the mall alley, out of nowhere they went quiet, 1 peekabood from the right side of the box super quick while the other head-shotted me from the left all in less than half a second. It truly felt like I was punished for being extra careful and sneaky instead of rushing them before they noticed me through the wall.

[@BlancoMD]

Just make tarkov for consolle, problem solved🤷‍♂️

[@Little1-1]

Get good. Cheaters or not by the small descriptions I noticed you are a passive player that doesn’t like to move alot. In eft that player is often a dead player

[@ninjireal]

@@BlancoMD There are blocks, complete components, that allow you to cheat on console.

[@aphentv]

Great video bro! I've just started Tarkov, whilst this hasn't put me off.. it's given me an excuse that is better than I'm just not good at the game at the moment 😂 Loved the video, thanks!

[@UncleJosivan]

This actually hurt. It's like when you find out that all of your friends have a nickname for you behind your back. I do worry about the effect of this video on the community. People seeing no hope so they either walk away or have a "can't beat em, join em" attitude and cheat on their own. Thank you so much for making this video and staying objective. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and any immediate harm done to the community I'm sure will be met by long term change.

[@fantomxdexrage]

You don't actually understand the problem fully if this is how you are thinking brother. Either that or you are really intelligently minimizing it. The problem is so bad it's not even worth playing. It has been that way for a long time but people are willfully ignorant.

[@declanwells1887]

​@@fantomxdexrage no hes right. If you weren't having fun before now you spend $5 and have all the fun you want. The people wanting to be legit will just leave and the games going to be 90-100% cheaters. The developers dont care, the games in alpha and you've all given them $90 for extra space.

[@stayignant]

@@declanwells1887 And when the game is 100% cheaters im sure there will be tons of people to buy their RMT loots and gear. Or it will kill the game, like it deserves.

[@GottHoldNicetomeet]

Yeah in the recent 2 weeks tarkov was so frustrating, that i almost give up. This video confirming that atleast in 60% of matches there are cheater is the tipping me to right uninstall it now.

[@UncleJosivan]

@GottHold Nicetomeet I didn't want to admit it, but I haven't enjoyed a raid in really 4 weeks. I came into this wipe late, and now I feel like I won't be able to catch up. After watching this video, twice, I'm a little less disheartened actually. I realize I'm not as bad as I thought I was.

[@stefaandutil5920]

Will listen to this after the WAN, thanks for publishing! :)

[@politta]

Same!

[@BrandonBurch]

Same

[@samrobinson9953]

Ditto hahaha

[@PHRiCTiON]

Likewise

[@e.li.0]

same!

[@connexiful]

g0at had about 15K subscribers when I watched yesterday. Now he has 41K. Well deserved after this video.

[@swampassgaming3526]

its like when Colby Covington was pressured to doing something controversial, or the UFC was gonna cut him from the roster so he told the Brazilian people at the main event that their city was a dump amidst a chorus of boos and jeering. He was soon catapulted to fame. Funny how that works.

[@Djawadi90]

He saved us from "tHeRe aRe Not MaNy cHeAtErS iN TaRkOv" guys forever so yeah

[@nickmhc]

This is literally investigative journalism for FPSs

[@didzisfreiss6088]

Luke refenced channel in LTT WAN show, so lot kzbin.info/www/bejne/lXfUeWSopralh8k 11:29 you can see subs going up.

[@Ashley-wi4ng]

talk about cheating for profit lol, i don't see any reason for him to of embellished the stats since 12 clips and a 20 minute edit out of 125 raids just plain old don't support his stats.

[@noobspawnersstreams4102]

Glad you did this bud I stopped streaming 2 years ago due to how bad it was you made tarkov great again and I’m back at it 2 years later and I have you to thank bud

[@BrucifyMe]

First heard about this video last week on the WAN show and I'm so glad I came back and watched it. I hope you ended up not being too mad at Luke for leaking a bit much!

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

AnneMunition reacted to this video!

[@Afroninja2025]

2 years ago i made this kzbin.info/www/bejne/bqqmh4psrL6BepI. The was good then, don't what happened.

[@thelongwinter362]

Same bro. I don't even play tarkov but my friends do. Still a great video.

[@JoshuaHaasua]

Luke's response was brutal to listen to. The disappointment in his voice shows how much he loves this game, and how these cheaters just destroy that enjoyment.

[@ItsBoyRed]

it sounds borderline unhealthy to be honest, caring so much about a game man..

[@JoshuaHaasua]

@@ItsBoyRed if this was your take away, the video went right over your head.

[@Gaetano.94]

With what he is showcasing, basically advertising what cheats could actually do to "help" especially when you suck at the game, is probably doing the opposite of what he is intending to do. Know his heart is in the right place, but he's basically giving free advertising for the hacks out there.

[@JoshuaHaasua]

@@Gaetano.94 disagree. My take away from this is why so many people refuse to come back to this game. It’s a extremely common issue swept under the rug and ignored by the developers. It’s the number 1 problem facing the game currently, next to connection / desync issues. I never once watched this and thought “I need cheats”. Unless Tarkov decides to take this issue head on, most of the community will shy away from the game.

[@Gaetano.94]

@@JoshuaHaasua I hope you're right, I haven't played in a long time because of it.

[@Bennysnamehere]

This creates doubt in every single player, every single round and every death. That is going to be very difficult for Tarkov to overcome. This is going to have lasting impacts

[@StudleyDuderight]

Good. BSG has been sitting on their hands for too fucking long. I quit playing the official version when it became apparent that BSG wasn't going to do anything significant to stop the cheaters. The offline mods can be lonely and less challenging by a wide margin, but at least I can play the game without worrying about getting aim-botted and wall-hacked.

[@comrade171]

I think your putting it mildly, the % of cheaters in EFT is 75%-85% of the total players and BSG is ok with it because for reasons unknown to almost every commenter here (myself included) lots of ppl like playing this game with cheats, if BSG "fixed it" (remember fixing it doesn't mean patching the game it just means allowing cheats to be detected) their total player number will go down, BSG won't fix it ever and I'd bet a months salary on that!

[@control_the_pet_population]

Is it going to be difficult to overcome? Isn't this the norm? I am asking legitimately because I gave up PC multiplayer FPS over a decade ago... because cheaters were rampant and it was just no longer fun. At one time, privately ran and somewhat moderated servers were a common thing. Cheaters existed but they were easy enough to sniff out and ban. Once that stopped being a common thing because the publishers needed everybody in the company servers for MTX and silly achievement trinkets... I knew it was all downhill and I nope'd out of the genre. So I guess I'm surprised that anybody is surprised by this content... I just assumed that this would be the norm... that everybody involved in these games just deals with it. I've played maybe four hours of GTA:Online... and was killed by griefers a bunch of times... and probably a few cheaters... and then was showered by money hacks by another half dozen cheaters. I seriously did nothing be get wrecked while occasionally pocketing millions of hack dollars. It was a bizarre experience. As far as my old man gen-x ass can tell, online gaming is a wasteland.

[@Afroninja2025]

2 years ago i made this kzbin.info/www/bejne/bqqmh4psrL6BepI. The was good then, don't what happened.

[@KvltKommando]

​@@control_the_pet_population The only thing you can do is play games with servers with active admins. There will never be an anticheat to stop every hack because new hacks come out and can't be kept up with and never will be. Sometimes admins ban legit players but sometimes an admin is the only way to get rid of a hacker before his hack is added to the anticheat database because they can watch a player and tell when he does completely fake bs a real player would never do. GTA Online is a cesspit and always because the developers couldn't be fucked to balance the game and wanted to sell Sharkcards and other garbage, they'd rather make money off the players who want to to pay to be overpowered than to make a balanced enjoyable mp game. I'd only ever play GTA Online on a private server with friends but even then, it's far less fun than I had with the SA-MP mod

[@chipsandcheese124]

best video on youtube dude, great idea and just beautifully executed.

[@jackawaka]

This is absolutely going to hurt Tarkov so hard, I know how hard it is to make anticheat but damn, they're going to absolutely have to try to pull all the stops to get rid of this

[@talkingmango8658]

I mean they don’t, they just use battleye. There’s no effort.

[@neaumusic]

all they have to do is take a fkin screenshot

[@jackawaka]

@@neaumusic that's not how anticheat works

[@slals]

Personnally I didn't need this proof to suspect the game to have some cheaters. I'm pretty sure everybody has been killed a weird way, multiple times. Sometimes you could think you're just bad, but when you're pretty sure you were stealth and made quite no noise, and got killed the short moment you're in sight of another player that you couln't see : it's reasonable to think that there is something else than just skill.

[@mryellow6918]

​@@jackawaka theres lots of anti cheats that work like that

[@SoundShunter72]

Someone did this years ago, but looked at Labs specifically. He went on a large number of raids with ESP and saw that nearly all raids had at least one cheater in it.

[@asimplesolution5351]

yes

[@dallasparris3905]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2acXqeplLx_fac&ab_channel=EULGaming This is the video you're referring to it got blurred out now but the audio is still up

[@SaltedSlug85]

I did this in 1999/2000 with Quake 2 and counter-strike. Found plenty of cheaters. This is why I started playing coop games with some old guys around 2008. I can only imagine it's much worse now. Back then not alot knew enough to build a nice gaming PC. The community was smaller and better. Now every lil dickhead is online. I mostly stick to Coop / MMO now.

[@Colyers]

10/10. I've never played Tarkov but this was insanely well made and educational.

[@JackoBanon1]

My friends always tried to covince me to start playing it. Thanks to this video I will never start to play it.

[@tjlambaes]

I’ve been wanting to play this game but as someone that isn’t great at FPS anyway I def will not be buying this game until something is done.

[@robby831]

Stay away from tarkov, its pretty much a death simulator at this point

[@themadbro2873]

I've spent probably over 2,000 hours of my life being an admin for servers on Urban Terror and CoD-4. At this point, every FPS game is pretty much swamped with cheaters. Anyone who thinks otherwise is just living in ignorant bliss.

[@Onoesmahpie]

Yeah I realized this a long time ago, I feel genuinely bad for people who waste hundreds/thousands of hours playing competitive FPS games legit. There are so many ways to spend your time and so many hobbies to pick up, hell there are so many good single player / non competitive games out there it's insane to waste so much time getting packed up by cheaters.

[@EULGamingYT]

Incredible. Disgraceful. Insightful. And kinda depressing. Tarkov is poisoned so badly that I wonder if it can recover. Thank you for doing this.

[@cavemanvi]

im hoping he does another video where he goes ham on cheaters.

[@roadkill8161]

the sad truth about it.. It's been like this for multiple wipes

[@hawkfandan]

Too much vodka... In all seriousness. I would just let it die and have a different developer create a similar game. There's way too much money on the table for there not to be a game exactly like tarkov taking its place, and tarkov can be an example for future games as to what happens when you fail to address cheating and disrespect legit players. And it's not just them failing to address cheating either. If you look at their subreddit, the moderators ACTIVELY censor any conversation about cheating.

[@sawxpatscelts]

​@@roadkill8161 Years....and BSG profits from it

[@intellectic9155]

Shit, I've been feeling this for a long time. I haven't played in wipes because of this. And I'm a person that never really buys the "cheater!" excuse. I just never felt it in many games. I suspected people of cheating, obviously. Just could never be 100% sure. Tarkov is the exception. Well, that and maybe PUBG.

[@jackorlove4055]

This honestly almost confirms the suspicions I've always had. I thought I was going literally insane feeling like so many deaths were fishy, but since it's the nature of Tarkov for desync and weird hit boxes you can never put your finger on it. But I'll tell you right now, the number of times I've had people seemingly waiting around the corner with their cross hairs right where my head will poke out is crazy high. The number of times I've had people seemingly b-line straight to me despite my position being ambiguous or straight up concealed. It feels like so many people know right where to look, point and click. I LOVE this game, at least, I love the idea of it. But for a game that's supposed to be tactical, calculated, and each encounter a "what if" or "what would", there are some people with surgical level precision, when the game is on a foundational level, when played as intended, totally and completely disorienting. There is an inherent level of sloppiness that cannot be avoided when played without cheats. No amount of experience or knowledge will prevent you scrambling last minute for cover, or having to make a choice between proceeding or going with plan B, heck you might have to come up with a plan C on the spot. You have to rely on sound, past experience, and often times limited visuals. Each step SHOULD be a well educated guess. Every fire fight should be nerve wracking. Every time you camp you should feel the tediousness but also the worry at the back of your mind. Tarkov when played as intended should be a stressful, yet rewarding experience. It should feel like equal parts strategy and equal parts raw FPS skill and reaction time. This CANNOT be the case when there are cheaters. This stress is cranked up to 100 when there's cheaters, and it is on top of that extremely demoralizing.

[@Earthboundmike]

The cheating has been worse this wipe too imo. This is my third wipe and I swear the cheating is amped up so much. There has been people flying, people below the fucking ground, THERE ARE INVISIBLE PEOPLE WHO DO NOT EVEN KNOW THEY ARE INVISIBLE SOMETIMES TOO.

[@arcanealchemist3190]

i agree. i do not have many hours in tarkov, (started like a month ago) but the first time I had a clear indication of someone cheating, every encounter there was afterwards had that thought in the back of my mind "did he really see me? or was he a cheater?" especially when I got into an encounter, survive, and run away, it becomes very clear who is cheating and who isnt. when chasing someone, if you want to keep yourself safe, you cannot catch up to someone who is running for their life and taking every risk. but if you are a cheater, you KNOW if you are safe to run after them or not. and you KNOW when they stop and camp a corner. when I was playing with a partner, cheaters would never chase me into his line of sight. not once. but the legit players OFTEN got dropped by him as I lay on the ground bleeding out nearby. I quit after a few weeks of that. I wanted to keep playing with my friend, but I played ALOT and every day there were suspicious players. at least one who I was confident was cheating. it wasnt fun, so i found a new game.

[@darkracer1252]

you should do this in call of duty. the numbers are much much higher there.

[@EbonySeraphim]

This comment right here is fundamentally why I mostly avoid realistic FPS games or those that proport to be realistic. Gamerz believe and want their decent senses, map awareness, tactical decision making, better reaction time and aim to be believed as the reason they beat you. In reality, that type of situation has so much luck and randomness you could do everything right, and still do something that gets you killed. War is not fair, the most skilled and most geared soldier won't always win because a bullet is a bullet and gamerz don't tolerate that. They pretend to enjoy the realism, but turn into man-child babies when they get owned by someone they deem lower. They don't enjoy the idea that some newb with a trash weapon has the patience of a treant, and could be in some position that is dangerous if they cross a certain area; or maybe they need to approach an area they've scouted from the outside pretty thoroughly but can't gaurantee that they weren't sighted first, and a camper is waiting patiently inside. Maybe such a player doesn't exist, maybe they do? They can't tolerate the unknown risk of failure so they'll cheat to restore justice against these inferiors. I've experienced campers before, and they can be annoying, but I've never considered them unfair. Then again, in most other FPS games, dying is only temporary removal and you're probably easily able to get to that exact spot and if the camper is still camping in the same spot, you will likely get revenge. Tarkov removes you entirely from the situation, never to return to the same scenario, so that player got you -- period. The next time, it will be another player and it may not be that spot. Your collective game memory needs to be better, and this, I believe is the ability "high skilled gamers" lack -- full memory and coalescing of past experiences and sane risk assessment, to patiently execute something that isn't sexy, but achieves the goal. I saw this in practice with an ex-friend of mine who thrived on Call of Duty running and gunning with speed and aim; and grew up with video controllers in his hand, versus me who took far longer and will never be as dexterous. He was clearly better than me in Call of Duty (OG MW2, I maxed at 1.4KDR, he was 2.2 IIRC), and no doubt is cleaner when it comes to controller input. But after many many matches it's clear he can never beat me in Tekken, or almost any fighting game either of us had or hadn't touched, because better execution doesn't mean you win. Putting out agression, defense, flow, feint, etc that he either can't see or can't retain the memory to read how I play so he most likely to lose in subsequent matches (and we played hundreds). And in RTS games, Starcraft 1 and 2, it was also clear he lacked the ability to remember how he got defeated quickly because he forgot to build something basic to prevent an easy loss. I haven't even finished this video yet, but I think the maker has it right. Pushing more a substantially high KDR (over 1.4) in this game, or anything that is quite punishingly realistic is huge.

[@darkracer1252]

@@EbonySeraphim ofcourse i am not going to read the entire rant. that would be insane just as typing it. but GAMERZ don't turn into babies when they loose. that behavior is reserved for the man child boyfriends that think they are gamerz that you are used to. the people YOU know do that. also if you don't know what the fuck you are talking about you should just go back to the kitchen and make a fucking sandwich. 1.4kd in tarkov is shamefully low. killing the npc scavs actually counts towards your kd. so if you can't even kill 2 scavs each time you die then you really shouldn't be touching a video game. a kd of 3 to 5 is average.

[@geoffreylewis7985]

This is truly amazing, we have needed this so bad, on behalf of the tarkov community, thank you.

[@timmyman9677]

I played this game for about a year straight, solo rat life. You know how many times I'd be killed out in the middle of nowhere? I can count less than a dozen times I actually saw someone running around. It really felt like I couldn't see anyone, but everyone could see me.

[@user-fq1gh]

Confirms everything I've suspected all along. So often in Tarkov I had situations where I thought to myself: Impossible that my opponents always knew so exactly my position. Now, unfortunately, everything makes sense...

[@Fabodroidgaming]

There are radar only cheaters, which cant see you QE-ing. The original "wiggle" is the radar wiggle which is looking left/right/left/right several times so they can see you "wiggle" on their radar map. Btw i stopped playing tarkov after i realized how many cheaters there were... This was 2 yrs ago, and as i can see i missed nothing. Followed SPTarkov since then, fun too.

[@uwu_smeg]

can't wait for some mouthbreather to equate you with adolf hitler because you have the sheer AUDACITY to play the game the way you prefer, because mods in multiplayer games (even when they are specifically made to turn the game into a singleplayer experience that might very well be the most corporation-friendly example of such in the world) are pretty much equal to cheating, and you're not even playing the same game besides, so why not just like play Jenga or something? or i don't know, maybe now that even the blindest of ostrichs have a hard time denying that there is something fundamentally WRONG with the experience as it stands, maybe now we'll get less of those comments. wouldn't hold my breath, though - not even if i was posting this from the marianas trench. sorry about that. been met with outright misinformation, unjustified hostility, and being labeled a "cheater" because i preferred learning the maps on SPT. maybe more people will come around, maybe the AKI crew will get a go-ahead from BSG, and maybe we can finally get rid of the cheaters as well. hope you've enjoyed your time with SPT so far - it's a great way to destress after the 5th consecutive head/eyes from XiaongMingLing in a row

[@Fabodroidgaming]

@@uwu_smeg Yes i enjoy SPT a lot. At the beginning i just modded it further myself which was incredible fun. Imagine 10 PMCs with around 40 SCAVs in factory at the same time, then after dying more waves of both incoming. At the moment i just want a coop mp for this. Its the last feature missing t obe legendary. Btw i never heard someone calling SPT players cheaters...this would be pretty stupid anyways.

[@helmut6630]

This! 100%... SP Tarkov has no cheaters thus I can play night raids. Impossible to do during this wipe and I play like 3/4 of the raids at night / sunset. I just love the atmosphere. The thing you said about COOP is another point I fully agree on. Their attitude towards single player and dictating how you have to play THEIR game is what will be their downfall. Sooner or later more people will be fed up. It happened to many games recently, where devs were thinking they were doing the right thing. An ONLINE COOP mode, with a seperate profile would not hurt anybody. Imagine it like a PvE server in an MMORPG.

[@Fabodroidgaming]

@@helmut6630 Yes, just another instance like Path of Exile does. You got the live season and then you got your no-wipe Coop/MP. Everyone would be happy. Everyone but the cheaters because they had to deal more and more with themselves. You mentioned stealth/night play. This brings me to another major issue with the game.The AI! The AI ist just not fun as it is right now and makes such a playstyle obsolete. They see you in the dark, through obsticles no matter what. The AI is bad af so they need aimbot and max awareness to make it somehow "challanging". If its not on purpose, its bad work (or taste).

[@GamerGuts420]

SPT is much more fun imo. I bought Tarkov to try it out and it was just frustrating, but I love playing with bots, you can choose your own difficulty, you can mod it to high heaven, and you can actually have fun. If we could play SPT COOP Tarkov would die and that's why BSG will never allow it until they give up on Tarkov entirely.

[@tpbandit4944]

this has already been banned on the eft reddit, this is so enlightening about bsg and their supporters to me, a thousand thanks for posting this! i will be leaving said reddit and not supporting bsg until something changes.

[@D.Trout222]

Reddit mods should be charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Some time in the old rape and shiv showers would help sort out their hatred of free speech.

[@tings.]

What has been banned on the Reddit?

[@Nokav]

@@tings. talking about this video and just about cheating in general on that sub is moderated to dust

[@tpbandit4944]

@@Nokav legit! its super messed up.

[@tings.]

@@Nokav dude wtf, that's such a joke

[@dmitryg9450]

To every person thinking of buying Tarkov: don't waste your money. The situation hasn't changed in any way since this video. BSG is only pretending to fight the problem but in fact on Labs/start of the wipe/events its nearly impossible to play.

[@NickGreiner1988]

Yeah, practically everyone who plays this now is a hacker

[@spicesmuggler2452]

It always was and always will be like this. If BSG could fix it, they would by now.

[@masterthee]

I was considering buying it and this video has convinced me otherwise. It’s not worth the squeeze.

[@markuscha6005]

@@spicesmuggler2452just add replay good report system

[@OGPvPMC]

Hey what about lost light?

[@raptorprolapsor]

Amazing dude. I appreciate you being willing to take a huge L to expose this shit. I really hope this opens the eyes of a lot of people and this game takes a new direction when it comes to dealing with hackers instead of punishing legit players.

[@DojuOG]

How's this a L? The man already said he was quitting tarkov he dont give a fuck at this point. Destructive for the community... Doesn't Actually help or DO anything. Other then just make everyone quit the game......... How's that fucking helpin?

[@k1ler4m]

Next patch: wiggling is banned

[@uhuju1]

that conversation you guys had near the end hurts so much, i agree with everything you said. This game was a drug for me, i could NOT put it down. it felt so visceral, so real, like an all-or-nothing gamble. And sure, i died a ton of times, i lost a lot of really good loot, i died to extract campers, and i died to people i couldn't see, but i always could tell myself i just wasnt good enough and i'd get there some day. But little by little, those sudden, insta head shot deaths started piling, and this video just makes it that much more apparent...

[@orionmlux1]

i felt the same way as you and even spent time hacking just to enjoy the game, but i felt like i was ruining others experience, when i found out about sptarkov i moved to that and only play that

[@kameronjernigan]

bum@@orionmlux1

[@sirundying]

@@orionmlux1 SPT is indeed awesome. wich mods are you using ? im currently using the minimap one ( open in browser with live cursor moving on the map ), the bush mod ( AI dont see you in fog ). im thinking of using SAIN mod

[@basedbalaclavaman7011]

@@sirundying I run SAIN. It makes you think twice about every encounter you get into with scavs and I find myself scanning the horizon for enemies a lot. I feel like a magnified optic is essential. I also use SPT realism primarily for the recoil and stance changes. Having been a pretty avid tart shooter in real life, tarkov's noodly recoil always gave me the impression the PMCs are complete amateurs. The only recommendations otherwise that I would recommend are loot fuckery with the live like preset and if you do end up using SPT realism I would disable the trader and flea market changes, as they make getting ammunition very difficult and traders often simply don't have anything of use in stock.

[@Kuutti_original]

​@@sirundyingWhat is SPT? As someone who has bought the most expensive version of this game i would love to experience it fully without cheaters.

[@jesseskinner5776]

EASY FIX: After raid has finished you get a message from Peacekeeper saying "My guys found some footage you may wanna see!" And it's a Kill Cam!

[@ImThatCatYT]

you say easy fix but you gotta remember that it took BSG over 6 months to add a grouping system to their game, even if the concept is easy, the spaghetti code the game runs on will likely make it take years to implement a system like this

[@GiRR007]

@@ImThatCatYT I feel like thats more because they have so many things on their plate. If they were to focus on 1 specific thing they wanted to put in the game I think they can implement it pretty quickly.

[@Kojakofthelake]

​@@ImThatCatYT To be fair, they can just steal the radar ESP and just have it play back the last minute of your life, a rough map, and the same LOS feature the cheaters have. Die after being in someone's LOS for less than a second ? You know who you're dealing with. Not even memeing too, they probably have all the informations needed server side, and it would avoid having to create an actual killcam which has to be more trouble than most people think it is. And it would give us, legit players, some peace of mind, knowing this particular death was simply an unfair fight.

[@miiiiiiiiiiick]

I'd rather see them introduce 4 or 5 more types of AK platforms to the game, along with some more gimmick hockey masks and things.. than actually have a crack at fixing real issues.

[@Kojakofthelake]

Guy Fawkes mask when Nikita ???????

[@holdupmaster]

Thanks for doing this video. The cheaters are killing Tarkov

[@SwissMarksman]

Not only that. The insecurity of not knowing if it was the Desync, Peeker's Advantage, Audio, buggy Hitbox & everything else that makes it extreme frustrating. Sometimes on a point where you don't know if that was "legit" or not. Or if it was from the bugfest bingo.

[@MomsRavioli]

"When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals."

[@mannymoo]

- Mom’s Ravioli 2023

[@metalDCM8]

Can’t think of a more stupid quote. God I hate quotes on KZbin videos

[@bdhale34]

When the ones enforcing the law are not only allowed to but encouraged to break the law themselves to get other people to break the law so they can enforce the law, you are ruled by criminals. (sad thing is this actually happens all the time)

[@gilsthyname256]

Playing games, similar to this game makes me realize that most of the time if you’re not cheating, you’re literally missing out on a player base that is treating you as an NPC they can play with

[@frank.e.wildcat]

that's why I'll never play games like gtao/rust/dayz ever again

[@dicksawyer5818]

It's in Halo, Call of Duty, and Battlefield too. As well as MMOs like WoW and ESO. They are sharing discord, chat, etc. And have been since the days of instant messaging. Hacks get updates quicker than legitimate development, too.

[@madduckling4436]

@@dicksawyer5818 nobody is taking action... they only ban "nobody"s who are suspected to be cheating... These companies need to step up and sue these cheat engine developers... what do they expect... do they expect the average person to sue these bastards?

[@HomeDefender30]

Guys this stuff has been going on since the original tom clancy’s ghost recon…. And probably before that as well.

[@MaxUgly]

@@frank.e.wildcat I know it is rampant in Rust as well. That is my favorite game. Good, active, admins on smaller servers with regular players are normallly okay. I always record my game and so do my friends. It is normally pretty obvious....

[@kozyk5927]

I've played Tarkov for roughly four years and I quit two wipes ago. I don't think I'll ever go back to the game to be honest. After watching this video I'm glad I didn't waste so much time not knowing if I got killed by a cheater or not.

[@Quintara2001]

same

[@FormerGovernmentHuman]

I insured I could never play again by getting my one and only eod account perma banned. Finished my third tracksuit, decided I never want to play again, ever. Got a week worth of the most blatant game breaking cheats available for a week. Atleast 70% of the playerbase that I interacted with was undisputedly cheating. I spent alot of time trolling or forcing people to show they had info they shouldn’t. It is worse than I ever imagined. Worst part is I didn’t get banned before my hacking sub ran out. I had to get another 48 hours, use every game breaking feature i could. Auto loot the entire map, speed hack, fly, clip through walls, insta kill everyone on the map. No ban. With my final 10 hours of subscription time I hunted streamers on populated servers. It took 3 manual reports by 3 large streamers to finally get me banned a week after my subscription had run out. I did everything I could for a ban, and the only way I got it was harassing streamers. Do yourself a favor and never ever ever play this game again.

[@shmee2571]

i started playing on patch v0.4.2.717 (29 Nov 2017) and ended up quitting the game mid 2019 around patch v11.5 or v11.7. came back 2 weeks into this wipe and regretted every min of it. 2nd ever raid i went to the new map streets of tarkov. spawned in a clothing store at the back behind a plywood wall. i crouched as soon as i spawned and didnt move, waited for about 2 mins and out of absolute nowhere a guy out on the street full auto'd my face through the wall and insta killed me. so blatant that he was wall hacking lmfao. all i could say was nothing's changed and uninstalled it again

[@johnmonrow9981]

Try Tarkov SP

[@CocaineCobain]

@@johnmonrow9981the day someone mods SP and allows for multiplayer fun with those AI pmc's is gonna be a fun day. I've gotten kappa 4 times on Tarkov now. All 4 times it was rough, and cheaters were pretty prevalent. I'm over it.

[@whatyoulookinatfoo]

was going to play this wipe, came across this again and changed my mind, thank you!

[@Rawbtube]

I'm an old retired dude. I love EFT. It is/was my main hobby. Played multiple hours EVERY DAY. I have not logged on in over a week. Absolutely unheard of in my 3.5 years playing this game. I could go on an on here about it all but what I feel is loss. And frustration. Thank you for this video. Great work.

[@Chamomileable]

It's a bad feeling. Hunt Showdown and Marauders both have similar vibes to Tarkov, but they also unfortunately have cheaters of their own. Way less than Tarkov, but still occasional cheaters. Godspeed out there.

[@tegmark6284]

Hope you are doing ok. It can be a weird and sad feeling when a game you love starts to fade away and it leaves a big hole.

[@straighttruth5850]

I'm right there with you, RAW.

[@jjjjjjj4610]

check out games like squad, hunt showdown or insurgency sandstorm. hunt: showdown is the most similar to eft gameplay wise, but squad and insurgency is more in the mil sim direction with their weapons and stuff squad more so than insurgency.

[@jacksonbowen]

hang in there bro