So, is the game worth playing today? If you can hack the massive amount of learning involved, there's nothing else like it. This may or may not impact your enjoyment, but it's something that makes me feel weird - especially in a game with seemingly 10000 different variants of the AK - not to mention the absurd ‘justification’ from the devs. They walked it back, but it's 2021 and it rankles to hear people make nonsense excuses. Improvements do roll out as the patches roll along, but inventory management, quest clarity in the menus and even just making sure you're going into the same game as your friends is full of friction that some may find unwieldy.Īlso, while it's not super noticeable in the game, it's always worth highlighting that the developers once said there were no women in the game because war was only for hardened men. The earlier mentioned jank also persists in the game’s menus, and navigating the game's UI out of raid is a form of torture. It's miserable when it happens to you, and it's not all that much better when you're doing it to other players, but because the quests are the game's real form of progression, inevitably you will spend 20 minutes facedown in a bush, hoping to snag players before anyone stumbles upon your hiding spot.

Quest design encourages further toxicity because it often requires you to kill people in certain creative ways, and the easiest way to resolve most of these situations is to lay in a bush and shoot people in total silence.

The Escape From Tarkov community is unfortunately filled with complete arseholes, meaning every now and again when you kill another player you'll get a friend request from someone that will lead to them telling you to kill yourself because of some perceived slight. If they're not with you, they're not friendly

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