Push first. Always Be Pushing.

People prattle on about "chads" and "shift+w gamers" but the reality is that given the games current state and simply how the game plays, being hyper aggressive and attacking every source of sound offers an extreme advantage.

It's a simple fact: forcing your opponent to react to your actions is an advantage.

Aim for the dick when he is over geared.

Don't take fights you don't have the advantage in.

There is always one more.

Record your own raids.

1. There is Always one more
2. Not every fight is worth it
3. If you die, you made a mistake
4. If you push, Push it through
5. There is Always someone watching you

This is exactly my PoV too. Love to pvp when I want. Don't really care for it being forced.

Had an experience of my own that was basically a mix of the two. Had a guy who was attacking people farming spice. He directly declared he didn't want the resource just wanted to kill us. I was OK with that. I mixed defending and evading him while I continued to farm. Dude literally couldn't handle not getting the kill and after about 4-5 failed attempts to kill me he finally just rocketed my thopter and then me.

I genuinely think the biggest issue in the PvP is the render distance. I have no problem getting killed in the DD, hell a couple hours ago I was mining a medium spice in the middle of no where. I was naked. Kept looking around. All of a sudden, there is a guy behind me and I'm dead (ya kno, no armor and shit). Never heard the guy approach, never saw a horni (this guy travels in an assault) when I was looking around. He got me fair and square within the confines of the game mechanics, but fuck me it would be nice to see or hear people coming before you get raked over the coals.

>What's the fix? Hell I don't know

I do. It's faction based PvP that doesn't force flurby players to participate. Get 3,5, or 7 factions, give them a bunch of FPS arena PoIs to fight for, shoot a bunch of faction colored fireworks in the air if the manage to take the enemy HQ then reset the map. People figured it out decades ago the Devs just chose, for reasons that are utterly beyond my comprehension, not to apply any of the theory or wisdom gained from thirty years of games like this. Instead they tried to make a billion dollar IP in to Rust 2.0, and failed.

TLDR; the solution is planetside with sand worms

Funny thing is Hagga is about 90% of the way there but then they pushed PvP in to the DD and refused to have real PvP or PvE servers, trying to force both kinds of players in to the same servers with results so predictable you don't need to be high off your ass on space cocaine to forsee them.

Reduce rocket effectiveness distance to 10-20m lower than render distance is my suggestion 

My strat as a returning division 1 vet. If they use goo I hug em close. What's the use of goo if they get themselves stuck? Limits the bighorns headshot use when you aren't still anymore. Any scenario where the odds are against you. Especially number wise. It is the smartest move to run. Nade behind you. Make em waste time but more importantly. Resources. What's the use of fighting if you got no plates? The more nades you spam at them the higher chances of them NEEDING to waste time and a kit to continue the chase. And throughout your chases try and limit ALL fights to 1v1's slowly widdle their numbers down. I have won plenty of overly confident 1v4 man's and when the head honcho usually overextends himself and goes down the rest scatter like rats. It's all about assessments and practice to get some advantage in the dark zone. And as for rouge hunting. You have NOTHING more to LOSE than they have to GAIN in most rouge encounters. So just keep at them. They will EVENTUALLY run out of armor and ammo. But the more you sit around talking trash from inside checkpoints and whining online, they are out there rearming and restocking plates. So get out there agent and never let the pressure down!

These days the majority of people are running Umbra crit builds or Bighorn headshot regen builds so you may wanna farm for them.

For Bighorn there are a couple of variants but it's essentially armor cores with armor regen and headshot stacked everywhere so you can go with 1-belstone, 3-gila, 2-golan (even Catharsis or Emperor's Guard knees).

Talents can be Perfectly Efficient, Unbreakable, Adrenaline Rush, basically anything that increases your survivability.

Combined with the armor regen, it'll make you much harder to kill, as long as you're strafing (especially while reloading), not standing still for too long, playing at close range (the Bighorn is quite inaccurate) and landing those headshots.

Even if you don't master moving your character or aiming properly, at least you'll have a fighting chance.

Some good PVP youtubers I know are Cryptonomous and Zurgence but I don't think they teach about movement or decision-making.

There is not a single right answer. It always depends what build the other agent is using. Good players are able to adjust and react to what others are using.

So what build was he using and what build where you using? You mentioned you changed to a haz pro build. That’s already something that doesn’t really make sense except you u go up against someone with a skill build and probably against iron lung.

>I never cared much about going to the DZ

there is a saying that to gitgud at ANY game in pvp takes around 1000 deaths - how long that takes is up to you

Get a meta weapon.

Get it to max expertise.

At the end of the day the DZ is just "deal more damage than the other guy".

> It's a game. And it was DZ. And, he/she was better at it.

ehh, in my experience I'm losing a lot to wonky hitboxes and good old fashioned lag. There isn't really much skill expression beyond Wobbling, everything else is just having bigger numbers.

High levels of aggressive play, point firing, right hand peeks and repositioning

It depends on my gun and on the ground were I fight. The key is to know how to use the ground to your advantage.

I would always search for cover before I engage. Almost only right peeks and knowledge about the map is important.

Use grenades if people are on good position to let them move.

And ffs guys stop reload after 3 of 30 rounds got used. Saw it so many times and I dunno why they are doing this.

W key and full auto

Never repeek same angle and always reposition after firing my weapon.

For me, always make sure im peaking on right hand peak. Learning to utilize the smooth lean feature, and my biggest trump card is using the sidestep feature on a 1 tap. The sidestep feature is my favorite one in the game, you lean out so fast the desync of the game doesn’t even catch you leaning and you leave people wondering how the just died. (i’ve had people add me from the post death screen and flame me for it afterwards) it might be cheesy/abusive of tarkov servers but it’s ultimately not my problem and still takes a relatively decent amount of skill to sidestep and then one tap in the window allowed

Are you overly aggressive? Too passive? Cant hit your shots? Do you learn from your deaths?

What gun and bullets are you using?

Play with at least one person because tactics are important in EFT and your options open up a lot when you have other people.

The pincer maneuver is one example of a simple to use tactic that is impossible to do solo. The best is trio imo because if a member of your squad gets ambushed by a solo, (which happens often) you're still in a 2v1 situation.

If u are getting shot, just retreat find a new angle. When I’m solo fighting teams, I would try my best to down one of them ASAP and retreat. Then go around their position, if they are heading for extract, I’d go around and cut them off. Basically, u don’t want to bring the fight to them, let them do the work for u. Most of my kills, I shoot them in the back😀

>I absolutely suck at PVP and every guide I see tells me the same thing which doesn't help for shit.

That's probably the shit you need to listen to tbqh

Record your deaths/fights.

Considering semi-even ip, what did you wrong? What better could you do? What my opponent has, and how he used his gear/spells? How did you use your skills?

Its often rock-paper-scissor. For example. Opponent goes for mercenary jacket? You then go hunter hood, or purge, or invis, or cultist cowl, or you run away. He goes with X spell, you go with Y which counters him.

Know your build. Stick to one and learn.

New players tend to spam skills without much thought.

What do you play with? Your set?

Usually you need to have at least a decent spec if you’re running solo. Otherwise, you’re basically going to get stat-checked everytime.

Tips as a new-ish player:

1. Always inspect; make it fast. If you don’t know all the skills or builds, just glance at the IP. Do some research on the hard counters to what your running.

The max I take is around +100 IP to mine in a fair fight. If I’m crashing in ava roads, I’ll basically take any fight upwards to +400 IP if they are already chunked down.

2. Join a guild! Preferably one that does group roaming and roads. Its tbe most secure way to get real bz pvp experiences. I started off duoing with a friend whos much more versed than me in the game, then we ran a 5-6 man in roads and got a lot of small scale pvp encounters.

These really help your coordination, understanding your role and how to position better.

3. As mentioned above, you need to spec up. Me personally I go in fodder gear like 4.1s and farm open world mobs in bz or lower tier ava roads.

Lastly, with everything there’s two huge things to remember. You WILL die. And you SHOULD run.

PvP is a huge part of the game and so is death. Gears and sets get tossed around so much it’s not even funny. But you should also know when to run. Don’t take every fight and don’t always fight to the death against a much stronger opponent.

Throw yourself to some more pvp. That's the only way.

Bare in mind the majority of content creators use clips where they’re pub stomping new players and/or have max spec/higher ip, when you’re outnumbered by semi competent players your chances are pretty low

Don’t beat yourself up about it, try to find people to watch who use similar ip and aren’t killing new players - back in the day I’d try watch someone doing either stalker corrupteds or slayers in t8 and see how they play against different matchups. Other than that record your own fights and review it. You get better with time

My gateway drug to pvp was corrupteds back when they were actually worth anything.

Started by learning how to inspect, learning what each weapon did, what to expect, learned that it no matter what you do, blackhands will just 2shot you.

Its important to record and critically watch it after to see what you could have done better, what you missed etc.

Later you can get into arenas or 2v2s and go through the same process.

The more people you put into the vod review process the harder it will get

Some people cant/dont want to learn, some people dont care.

But the fastest way is to record your gameplay and watch it with a "what could i improve" mindset

Does your game stutter or drop fps in these fights? Netcode is what it is. Sometimes shots wont register

A lot of this is down to the game's netcode still running like a Minecraft server at only 20 ticks (updates) per second, instead of something like 60, and general weirdness of how the game handles you and other people having varying ping.

Often on my screen, I run straight through people and start shooting them in the back of their head, but still die to the person I'm standing behind because I'm on 150 ping, and the enemy might also be at that ping, and they still see me in a different place

The same thing happens to me, in many cases it is due to desync, others due to lag, others due to hacks. The more lag you have, the more likely it is that bullet registration will fail, but even if you use a weapon with a high rate of fire.

this will always happen no matter what, some players are on 150+ ping and will always give you these desync/registration issues

As someone with 3500 hours on pvp and 1000 on pve, I absolutely agree. Pve has been a fucking ton of fun, especially when I don't have the time to grind pvp like I used to.

All the people ragging on pve are try-hard losers. Just enjoy the game.

I never get the same adrenaline from PvE encounters like I do in PvP. You can always take breaks from fights. Close a door and suddenly you cheese hyper aggro opponents.

I lowkey need better AI that will burst fire through doors or walls more because of sound I make. Or at least prone before I peak the corner so I have a reason to nade.

People play games to have fun. Getting dumpstered on constantly isn't fun. If it wasn't for pve having no wipes I would play pvp I hate the idea of the wipe.

Wut, he's explaining how one is clearly superior to the other lol. In no way does his comment talk about his they complement each other

In reality this thread is just massive compium, everyone saying "oh yep I love PvE, it's so much fun" when deep down they are like women telling each other they're skinny and beautiful lol

The more you have to say it, the more obvious it is you're compensating

Tip!:

Bum rush sniper rock and aim for just left of the metal building. He hops between the skeleton with the logs piles and the log piles to the front left of the metal building. He really likes to take cover behind the farthest log pile just to the right of the front corner of the skeleton building. When he gets up to move, he will side step to the metal wall of the skeleton building or the front corner of the skeleton building behind that log pile.

Snipe his ass at that spot. Sighting is 150-250 meters for bolt and you should be able to crank him.

My issue with PvE is that while the AI gun mechanics are good, their movement is TERRIBLE. Customs for example. If you don't get into a PMC fight within the first 3 minutes, they all wander into construction or the other side by fortress and fight scavs until they die to scavs. Then the PMCs above new gas wander down then engage their at the same time. After 10 minutes the raids are ghost towns.

Still love it to play with friends, but I jumped on solo and could basically predict the AI movement. I'd check for 2-3 hotspots then exit the raid and reset.

Same boat, same experience! Though I'm having such a good time in PVE, I've been sinking more hours than expected and that argument is starting to awaken. But the fun goes on! Kappa is in sight for this casual gamer.

It's such a shame Tarkov is what it is because no other game has given me the raw feeling of fear and adrenaline such as Tarkov. None. I've had so many good moments in Tarkov. If just the game wasn't such shit.

that is true, you can never have a real fight in pve, with the other guy trying to outsmart you and then you do smthng wierd and you manage to outsmart them, and win the fight and that feels AWESOME, but it happens 1 in maybe 10 raids, it is fine, you weight the pros and cons and you choose what you play, no one should tell you what to play, play what you enjoy most, for the time being I emjoy pve it also makes me better at tarkov cause I'm a moob, and when I feel confident enough I will play pvp again, or maybe I won't. Who cares, I like tarkov and that's the point, no other extraction shooter makes me feel line this game! enjoy it as you want.