One of the best things for me was learning to actually use my Scav runs to actually, like, scavenge. When I started out, I was like "hey free kit" and just went around shooting everything I saw like I was playing PMC. Now, I use Scav runs to go try to find unlooted bodies of maybe someone who died to AI and get some free armor/helmet/gun/ammo, whatever. Or go check to see if someone missed some graphics cards in a tech store or skipped over some rooms in Resort or something. All while walking past the AI because I have a free pass. Sometimes I'll do a Scav run and never shoot a single shot, but I'll walk about with 500k worth of stuff.
@@trxntroll843 It doesn't matter if the engagement is 5 seconds or 2 minutes at medium to long range steadying your aim can help enough to be the difference between landing that head shot before the other guy does, or not.
@@acewiddlewade2566 almost every match on factory and customs has a fight within the first 30 seconds. The spawns are fucking horrendous. What they also should tell you is unless you're a complete god at the game, you better be able to team up into teams of 2 or 3 because thats what you're going to be fighting 80% of the time. My last 6 raids today all ended by fighting teams of 3. Its just wonderful.
"Tasks will level you the fastest" absolutely. Do your quests. I've always sucked at this game but this patch I'm almost at lvl 40 just because of the tasks and I've never enjoyed the game more than now
@@bigfella2111 Sunk cost fallacy. If the attachments are already yours you can either sell them for rubles or "invest" into a mission. And if you sell them for rubles you'll have more money then if you "invest" them into the gunsmith mission. Let me be clear you will lose money doing the gunsmith mission, but you will gain XP and rep, and maybe some experience in learning how to mod weapons.
@@Minuz1 yeah no even if you buy all the attachments off of the store and the gun you will 9/10 times make money from the quest you just make more if you already have the parts
@@snakebutts2000 I just got this game and im only lv 9, nothing brings me joy than to rock a 33k mosin from the shop with average ammo and just one tap someone that has armor and gear. like that's how i've made all my money from the start. my 1 single mil.
@@financialadvisor9844 nice I suck I got the game on December and I'm only lvl 11 I just realized you can't lvl up on scavs lol but got 10 million saved up from scrapping and just figured They're quest too..... Sad I don't do research
6: The real progress is your PMC lvl, PMC skills, trader lvls, hideout - not your current RUB balance. You can always go make some money and you can always go lose some money.
Exactly. Sadly i learned that after i hit level 30. Most ppl think that money is the most important thing. Yes they are important but not as much as your level, hideout(where you can make a looot of money) and ofc traders levels for best gear and ammo. With 10m rubs and PS ammo you will still suck 😀 better to have 100k rub and atleast BP ammo available. Nothing matters more than good ammo and map knowledge.
@@downmachisek Good quote from another Pestily video, "money in this game... is made for spending." I'm poor as fuck right now but I have level 2 in almost everything in my hideout.
"Ammo is more important than the gun" Another reason I don't like playing or buying/using any sort of decent gun. I know that as a brand-new player, I cannot afford to buy the best ammo from the flea market, so there's no point going out there with a great gun using shit ammo. The only good ammo I have access to is Mosin ammo. So instead I just don't go out on raids.
Don't worry mate, it gets better. My advice would be to just watch a metric shit ton of videos like these and just collect info like a madman. I got the game about 2.5 weeks ago and it's gotten much better since then.
geldmoney_bitches Thanks lol I am going to do that. Ive been watching videos and learning a lot so far today at work. I cant wait to get home and play it tonight. I’m just going to do scav runs for now
Steve Deleo I would advise you to do PMC runs as well just to try and level up. The game opens up to more things after level 5 but take your time. I’m level 6 now and I’m still awful but getting there slowly 😂
The learning part is really fun, I remember my first raid, the first scav that surprised me on woods almost 2 1/2 years ago. I would spend hours just exploring the maps in offline mode. knowing where all of the drop down holes in resort are or how to get to mantis quickly, and the service areas still helps today.
My advice if you want to get better is this: play a lot and understand that you are going to die a shit ton of times in the most unfair ways. As generic as that sounds it is what works
I have an idea for a video you should make. Take a lengthy and successful raid that youve done, and pull it up and go through without any skips and pause occasionally and talk about what is #1 in your head at that moment #2 What is some potential options that you have to tackle the situation and #3 quickly discuss alternate things you could have done, or other people can do in similar situations. I think it would help us all out alot and i know i would greatly appreciate it. I struggle so hard in tarkov with just finding something to do that truly motivates me like it used to. Now i just get in raid, run to the biggest hot spot, and hope i find some geared ppl. It gets really repetitive and i just wanna know when in the raid should you loot areas? When to scavenge gear? When to hide? When to know if you can take a fight or not? etc... I could go on but i wont, im sure you get what im saying. Been a fan for a long time man, your doing this entire community a solid with every video you publish and stream you produce man, Nice work.
....thank you. I am 4 hours in scratching my head. I found a guy who did a timestamp vid showing all of the extraction points on Customs... that was like finding gold! I was starting to get discouraged... then I found your vid. I appreciate your pep talk.
Never underestimate the uley barter from ragman (30k for a class 4 armored rig) and the rec battery for an adar from skier (15k for the rifle) barters. I do one every day until my stash is full and I can't anymore. I use a lot of 856a1 @$3 a bullet and I inure everything, always. Don't forget to bring a helmet.
I enjoy dying on a intense long fight more, than making a million with running thru (i do money runs only for getting those intense fights)3 fullgeared vs several teams on woods is always a fun !
Thiiss Im still lv 10 but goddamn, if you won fights in a raid it feels good even if you died in the end! Can't wait for some labs run in the future XD
4. It's okay to die. I have no gear-fear but some kind of anxiety, that I'm gonna die because of lag/stutter/connection_lost, basically, things which not depends on me(my skill/knowledge)
I played for 2 days so my skill is also garbage, but the saddest time I died the game crashed, and when I loaded in again I was already dead. I was super close to the extract too... they sent like 3 updates through the client that day so it probably happened to more people but I was really... unhappy
A good thing to do is to learn a specific weapon. My weapon to go is an AKS-74U and using bs ammo, it is pretty cheap, common on scavs. Since it usually has the highest recoil of the aks, it makes people not take the gun and you'll usually get it back from insurance. Even when you mod the gun out, most people would just take the attachments to save space so you'll get it back pretty often. Find a gun you like and are used to and learn how to effectively use it.
The mosin is mine. It is just such a good gun for a cheap price if you can hit your shots. Take out geared people with it all the time. Low risk, high reward.
@@drucastellon4904 Mosin is the only thing that still scares me when i run full T6 kit, best gun in the game hands down. If you're just starting, try loading a single 7N1 top stack to blow the likes of me away with some good positioning, and deserve your glorious loot !
Agreed. I'm hardly able to find a game worth playing unless it's got me hitting the books. Nothing worth doing in life comes without enough depth to make a study of it.
@@jtakesnols Definitely haha, DCS and other flight sims require quite a bit of ground school in order to have a good time in the air. Arma III as well, if you actually want to operate tactically rather than going in with your fingers crossed. Also games like Baldur's Gate are a real death march by today's standards lol Even the Witcher III with the right mods can force you to prepare and study before every fight.
I have been playing tarkov for almost 3 tear i think? so many changes and new meta"s, but these 5 tips are completely on point.. if you are new and nooby, find a group on discord or find an fb page to learn from people. BUT this dude is so right when he says just follow the quests when you are learning and solo. great video my dude.
Here’s something I found out the hard way on my own as a beginner that’s probably pretty common knowledge. You have to manually toggle off of sprinting with lshift or you make a very loud skidding to a stop noise when you slow back down. Again, felt like an idiot once I realized but I still hear it all the time in factory , it’s a dead giveaway to your position .
just got this game a week ago and i now can make my way around customs reasonably well now im trying to learn interchange map so im watching tons of utube vids on tarkov
I recommend running around on the map a bit as a scav, especially on the inside. It helps you get a better sense of where everything is and where other scavs usually are so you don't run blindly into them as pmc.
Very true, knowledge gets u way further than skill. Mainly you will want to pay attention to the maps, start with customs. I’m still new to the game tho I bought it two years ago. Just nobody to play with
Play with summit, he hyped you up last night while watching your 2 year progression video. This is your chance to claim #1 EFT twitch spot for good. P.S. my prime token is renewing today, and you've earned it!
The easiest way I found to make money is in between raids buy an expensive commodity that gets bought and sold all the time, or buy something cheap from a trader, like ammo and then mark it up 10-15% depending on how expensive it is. Let's say you buy 2000 rounds worth of 7.62x39 PS ammo, fairly cheap currently at 108 roubles a pop, so you would buy them all at 216,000, then you mark it up 15%, .15x108=~16 16+108=124 124x2000=248,000, since its an item that people will be using (and buying) all the time, it should sell within 2-3 hours. Finally, your total profit will be 32000! Please note that the per tile cost of ammo is pretty shit with 7.62x39 PS at around 6400, so if you want to make a lot of money, but also spend quite a bit, then stock up on graphics cards when they are cheap, which have a per tile cost of around 150000 roubles at current pricing, and sell them when prices rise, which at a 10% markup (because they are so expensive already) should make you around 30,000 profit total. Also one more thing, I've been doing this for the past month now every day, even when I don't feel like playing just hop on real quick, buy 250000 roubles worth of ammo, mark it up, sell it, do a scav run (likely fail), and have made almost 10,000,000 roubles total (all the loot and other shit I may have sold). Stonks.
I'm still compared to many VERY new at the game. Last night I was on the verge of giving up. I had gradually lost ALL my gear. I was down to 18k roubles with only a couple guns left. Did a sniper mosin run on Shoreline. Dropped three guys and walked out with my pockets FULL of freaking loot, class 4 armour and guns galore. Next scav run I did spawned with a freaking LABS KEYCARD. Butt clench was real running to the extract with that badboy in my pocket! Sitting on 390k roubles after an afternoons play and my inventory is literally overflowing with loot.. Don't lose hope guys. Games hard as fucking nails and will kick you in the teeth more than it rewards you at the start, but it's worth it for when you get those great runs.
@@infernowo7093 Ratted for a couple months and learned the game in and out went full chad finally at the end of last wipe and played a little bit of this wipe but school and work have taken the time required for me to enjoy this game at the moment unfortunately..
I learned the caps lock bind early this wipe before this wipe I always scrolled. I hated scrolling to walk and my friend was like bro just use caps lock. He thought I knew already.
Nice video mate, wish I know these things when I started. Even though I had watched your videos and your streams, I still struggled until I worked these things out.
Picked EFT like 3 Weeks ago sitting at 20% survival rate. I am not living the Rat-Life, I try to chad my way through the map and I play super aggressive. And since I am investing in better Ammo I definitely drop more geared fellas. I also like to zero to hero a bit in factory and there I die a lot. Anyway, 50% survival rate is crazy!
People want hints? Hip-fire, learn it, it will immediately improve your survival rate. If you are beig shot at, make a break for it, if they lose sight of you its an easy flank or and easy way to balance the fight Another tip is if you think you heard someone dont doubt yourself, trust your instinct, i was using a tier 5 helmet (makes you nearly deaf) and head someone close a duffle bag, a straight guess that he was to my right and prefired, easy kill. Trust yourself
I had a Stashlootrun on Customs found a TT in it with 5 bullets of useless ammo, killed a shotgun scav, killed 2 player with his shotgun, got good geared and still looted the stashes :D
Every step can be your last. Thats whats fun here... those random headshots from out of nowhere, nades thrown under your legs and getting sniped by random scav holding a shotgun on 80 meters like no problem. :D
The most profitable scav runs I've had is when another player scav actually decides to team up. We watch each other's back because we pretty much understand that we both need roubles to get anywhere, and if we fight, the survivor's going to be wounded with no medkit and now the AI scavs will be gunning for you (This has only happened twice in my 2 months into Tarkov, really disappointed in the community for this). Unfortunately too many idiots I'll get the drop on, I'll alert them, they turn around like "oh crap he could have killed me", and then shoot me straight in the face. I know for a fact that a lot of those player scavs who shot me, didn't get to extract with all the items they were hording because the AI scavs probably fucked them up.
honestly I'm not sure about number 1: because in an extremes scenario, having insane knowledge about tarkov, while not being able to place your shots essentially cancels out if you're fighting someone who knows what they're doing.
I would replace nr3 with: use your playerscav and try stuff out(don't be scared, just go for it) I would actually instead of doing a pistolrun, do a scav run.
took the pp from the mechanic task into interchanged with pst gzh and downed two kitted players and one had a fir reaper lmao. also 1v2 two players with a grauch after watching one of your videos
my two cents, you can play single player though a mod you still have to buy the game and so nice doing quest and learning without getting smacked all the time. i got my first kappa this way and now i play normally and enjoy it much more now.
Another way to make money is by not upgrading the hideout. The hideout is cool but I've NEVER used it. I got everything to level 2-3 at least but like... It got boring after a while so I just sold EVERYTHING.
Second step would be to specialize on ONE map only. Learning very deeply all the loot spawns and working on a loot route. It's a good way to make money early
Good advice from a fellow magyar! :) I just did this, especially with stashes. I learned all the stashes on Interchange and Customs - Scav runs, low risk, high reward. A really good way to build up a basic inventory.
My first time playing I thought I had no guns went in with only a knife and I killed a scav and took the pistol but not in time and got headshot by another one that I never saw or heard
I think something else people don't talk about is, honestly, game isn't a race or a game about your KD. Slow it down, think about what you're doing. Be tactical about it. Play to survive, not to frag baby.
I almost quit twice given Ive had about 2ish months on the game but I always watched the "good" tarkov players after and seen them get clapped while also investing a ton of money on loadouts and see the same expression of pain when a basic rat loudout gets them. Seeing other peoples pain is a must when youre new.
Solo is hard but when you take down a fully geared sweaty squad of 4 - it feels so good. You are going to die its just part of the game, knowing that you can grab a pistol do a quick loot run and you are back in business makes it easier to swallow.
Its definitely a scary scary scary game. Very much so when you're new. But when you start to really study Tarkov, it starts to open up to you over time untill it is the only game you want to play. To get to that point though, you have to walk through those hot coals lol. Good luck man!
Well my issue is the ammo right now. I overcome gear fear, but my trouble is having ammo, and armor. How can I do that if I have not them unlocked. We can have AKs rapidly, but no BP or BT ammo. We can have Adar but no AP ammo. I’m struggling with that a lot right now.
Tarkov takes the darwinism approach, meaning it kills you until you learn. You can study the game all you want, if you don't have firsthand experience, you aren't gonna make it in tarkov
Ppl should not compare themselves to streamers like shroud when it comes to aim and how quickly they progress because basically its their job to sit and play and they done it for many years. You can achieve same level but over longer time period.
Honestly the ammo is insane, I used to buy the cheapest bullets for my mosan which are like 100 rubles per bullet but if you go for the ones that are like 1k rubles per bullet, it is alot but the amount of one shots I've gotten is too dumb
I thought the idea for this game was great. But what I don't like about this game is the fact that all the cool movent mechanics "leaning and blind fire ect." are negated by sprinting and hipfire.
5:35 Of course, it's okay to die, it's okay to die in every game after all. Currently I am too afraid to go into a raid with my PMC, but not because I fear loosing my stuff. It's because I know with certainty that I won't survive. In CoD or Battlefield or any other casual game I *know* that the fights I get into are pretty fair, meaning that I have at least a chance of winning a fight regardless of whether I actually win or not. In those games I am confident enough in my skills to say to myself "I can win this". But in Tarkov, this isn't the case: I played online as a scav about 30+ times now, but made it out alive just three times (in two of those cases I didn't see a single PMC or player scav and in the third case I heard one player walking around and just waited in a corner of dorms until I couldn't hear him anymore). Though, when playing an offline raid with medium difficulty bots (which is the difficulty of online bots according to online sources) I survive pretty much every time, killing 12+ scavs on average before leaving, often without having taken any damage. WTF am I doing wrong that I easily survive medium (sometimes hard) bots in offline mode, but barely survive one in ten online raids?
it may simply come down to your rotation locations, If your wandering into Dorms not kitted to the gills to kills players your in for a bad raid .. basically Pestily Rule #1 : Knowledge.. map knowledge can play a key part in successful raids, knowing out of the way middle class loot can sometime pay off better then the contested high tier loot There is a significant difference between the AI and players ..... the AI if it cant find you will move on and leave ... players can be spiteful and sit and wait 25mins just to make sure they kill you
@@MrXennhorn I've got navigation down on Customs and I know where to run for cover. Two things I haven't yet internalized are the player spawns and loot locations (not all of them at least), so I probably should work on that. And I should learn to be more patient when hearing players around me. Got it :)
How do I find an evacuation point? If they added some in-game map I might try the game more than just going in with a knife for one round a week. I don't have a second monitor and just playing in a map for 5-6 hours to learn it for a game I dunno if I'll even enjoy..... The in-game map doesn't need to tell position. No. Don't do that. Just a menu to open. Look at the full map. Nothing else. Like people keep on their second monitor
@@Djawadi90 I HAVE 1600 HOURS now. i make all my money solo and play for xp with the guys, got a few boxes of dog tags, i used to rat but now i chase noise, its no fun sitting in a room i just did that while i was learning. but ratting def has its place in tarkov thats for sure, my rat work these days is making sure you cant use D2 and taking the hard earned loot lol
I just wish i could see people! Its so hard on the eyes i feel like im running and die to the wind half the time :( i keep clipping just to try and spot the player, 90% of the time i cant.
I started hatchet running today just to see the difference (from doing budget runs, stock SKS etc) I doubled my earnings without any gear at all... -__-
And you halved your fun, well done... Seriously, unless you are dirt poor, just dont screw yourself out of the experience. Bring a mosin or a makarov, outplay a T5 kitted unaware guy, and deserve your loot, you'll get much more weapons and armor, much more roubles, and much more satisfaction. Also know that all veterans will spray you down before you get to any decent loot half the time. I run with 4 friends with thermals on shoreline just to wipe the hatchet runners trying to steal everything in resort, then we leave to let the real players have at it. Never shot a kitted guy with a thermal, and never will, be warned, we are out there making sure you guys "optimizing the fun out of the game" cease to exist.
@@sirzebra oh i wasnt doing it to continue doing it, just tried it for a day to see how successful these peeps actually are.. unfortunately it seems, very
"It's Escape From Tarkov. No one has escaped yet."
That one sentence sums up more than he even realizes it did.
Sometimes I like to run dummy thick just because I have too much and selling isn't fun.
@@mr.ovenbox4941 Hook a level 4 up!!!
@@Philth_E add me ScoobWitADoob
Mr.OvenBox nice name
@@mr.ovenbox4941 Couldnt find ya, mine is Philth-E
One of the best things for me was learning to actually use my Scav runs to actually, like, scavenge.
When I started out, I was like "hey free kit" and just went around shooting everything I saw like I was playing PMC. Now, I use Scav runs to go try to find unlooted bodies of maybe someone who died to AI and get some free armor/helmet/gun/ammo, whatever. Or go check to see if someone missed some graphics cards in a tech store or skipped over some rooms in Resort or something. All while walking past the AI because I have a free pass.
Sometimes I'll do a Scav run and never shoot a single shot, but I'll walk about with 500k worth of stuff.
welcome to the ways of the rat my friend
@@baksteenkakker8364 rat scav, Chad pmc
@@laxerman091 you dare to underestimate the ways of the scav, normie?? >:U
I learned almost all the maps from scavving in and running around the map
hit em with a rat attak
Just putting this out there, LEFT ALT, steadies your aim...invaluable for me as a new player
lol yeah cuz you'll be aiming at enemies for long periods of time as a new player lol
My first game I started, in 14 seconds some streamer ran by me head shorted me and kept off running.
Even better is to bind it to the same button your ADS is. So every time you aim it's on by default.
@@trxntroll843 It doesn't matter if the engagement is 5 seconds or 2 minutes at medium to long range steadying your aim can help enough to be the difference between landing that head shot before the other guy does, or not.
@@acewiddlewade2566 almost every match on factory and customs has a fight within the first 30 seconds. The spawns are fucking horrendous. What they also should tell you is unless you're a complete god at the game, you better be able to team up into teams of 2 or 3 because thats what you're going to be fighting 80% of the time. My last 6 raids today all ended by fighting teams of 3. Its just wonderful.
Pestily being a bit silly: 50% survival rate
I'm taking this game as serious as ever: 20% survival rate
More like 12%
@@14rick88 yes that is a great way. Only if I had friends..................... -_-
@@14rick88 tell that too the 5 man shit shows i get myself into " is that you guys? Bang* nope nevermind"
ben fl I I’m a Tarkov discord if you want to join discord.gg/8AwmjbN
@@svx_n_sxvn6244 haha lmao i die much more when im playing in a group of 3 or more
"Tasks will level you the fastest" absolutely. Do your quests. I've always sucked at this game but this patch I'm almost at lvl 40 just because of the tasks and I've never enjoyed the game more than now
Yeah gun Smith makes you rich if you play the game often on reserve because you alwase have extra attachments
@Valkyries SS Just do raids with your PMC. Practically everything you do with your PMC earns you XP. Scav XP does not transfer to your PMC.
The game is honestly way harder before you get your traders to LL3/LL4, too
@@bigfella2111 Sunk cost fallacy.
If the attachments are already yours you can either sell them for rubles or "invest" into a mission.
And if you sell them for rubles you'll have more money then if you "invest" them into the gunsmith mission.
Let me be clear you will lose money doing the gunsmith mission, but you will gain XP and rep, and maybe some experience in learning how to mod weapons.
@@Minuz1 yeah no even if you buy all the attachments off of the store and the gun you will 9/10 times make money from the quest you just make more if you already have the parts
Even when I die to the squads it still makes me happy that I killed 1 or 2 and ruined their game also
you kill people as your pmc? wow - teach me please
@@Antiork sit in a bush with a mosin overlooking a exfil
ur welcome.
Yeah I agree. Feels good to take one or 2 with you
@@snakebutts2000 I just got this game and im only lv 9, nothing brings me joy than to rock a 33k mosin from the shop with average ammo and just one tap someone that has armor and gear.
like that's how i've made all my money from the start.
my 1 single mil.
@@financialadvisor9844 nice I suck I got the game on December and I'm only lvl 11 I just realized you can't lvl up on scavs lol but got 10 million saved up from scrapping and just figured They're quest too..... Sad I don't do research
6: The real progress is your PMC lvl, PMC skills, trader lvls, hideout - not your current RUB balance. You can always go make some money and you can always go lose some money.
Exactly. Sadly i learned that after i hit level 30. Most ppl think that money is the most important thing. Yes they are important but not as much as your level, hideout(where you can make a looot of money) and ofc traders levels for best gear and ammo. With 10m rubs and PS ammo you will still suck 😀 better to have 100k rub and atleast BP ammo available. Nothing matters more than good ammo and map knowledge.
@@downmachisek Good quote from another Pestily video, "money in this game... is made for spending." I'm poor as fuck right now but I have level 2 in almost everything in my hideout.
Pestily is like the steve Irwin of tarkov
This!
Because he's Austrailian?
@@Reachermordacai no Reacher UK in one of his last tutorials he was catching crocs at the pond on shoreline
@@hammond9866 Wow, did not know you could do that in Tarkov.
@@Reachermordacai it's a jaeger task for level 99
"It's Escape From Tarkov, no one has escaped yet"
Play a game and enjoy it ! What a legend !
"Ammo is more important than the gun"
Another reason I don't like playing or buying/using any sort of decent gun.
I know that as a brand-new player, I cannot afford to buy the best ammo from the flea market, so there's no point going out there with a great gun using shit ammo. The only good ammo I have access to is Mosin ammo.
So instead I just don't go out on raids.
I just bought this last night ... I’m totally clueless!
Don't worry mate, it gets better. My advice would be to just watch a metric shit ton of videos like these and just collect info like a madman. I got the game about 2.5 weeks ago and it's gotten much better since then.
geldmoney_bitches Thanks lol I am going to do that. Ive been watching videos and learning a lot so far today at work. I cant wait to get home and play it tonight. I’m just going to do scav runs for now
Steve Deleo I would advise you to do PMC runs as well just to try and level up. The game opens up to more things after level 5 but take your time. I’m level 6 now and I’m still awful but getting there slowly 😂
The learning part is really fun, I remember my first raid, the first scav that surprised me on woods almost 2 1/2 years ago. I would spend hours just exploring the maps in offline mode. knowing where all of the drop down holes in resort are or how to get to mantis quickly, and the service areas still helps today.
My advice if you want to get better is this: play a lot and understand that you are going to die a shit ton of times in the most unfair ways. As generic as that sounds it is what works
I have an idea for a video you should make. Take a lengthy and successful raid that youve done, and pull it up and go through without any skips and pause occasionally and talk about what is #1 in your head at that moment #2 What is some potential options that you have to tackle the situation and #3 quickly discuss alternate things you could have done, or other people can do in similar situations. I think it would help us all out alot and i know i would greatly appreciate it. I struggle so hard in tarkov with just finding something to do that truly motivates me like it used to. Now i just get in raid, run to the biggest hot spot, and hope i find some geared ppl. It gets really repetitive and i just wanna know when in the raid should you loot areas? When to scavenge gear? When to hide? When to know if you can take a fight or not? etc... I could go on but i wont, im sure you get what im saying. Been a fan for a long time man, your doing this entire community a solid with every video you publish and stream you produce man, Nice work.
Underrated af
"5 things I wish I knew"
"Number 1: knowledge"
....thank you. I am 4 hours in scratching my head. I found a guy who did a timestamp vid showing all of the extraction points on Customs... that was like finding gold! I was starting to get discouraged... then I found your vid. I appreciate your pep talk.
Never underestimate the uley barter from ragman (30k for a class 4 armored rig) and the rec battery for an adar from skier (15k for the rifle) barters. I do one every day until my stash is full and I can't anymore. I use a lot of 856a1 @$3 a bullet and I inure everything, always.
Don't forget to bring a helmet.
Stevo Why 856a1 when 855a1 is better and 2$ @ trader?
@@maniac2344 855a1 is twice as expensive on the ah and you are limited on how much you can buy from vendors.
Stevo I was talking about the trader tho, I know the price for it on fm
I was just wondering why someone would play 856a1 rather than 855a1
@@maniac2344 oh def get the 200/300 rounds of 855a1 from vendors but that's not enough for a sesh. I buy 856a1 by the thousands.
I enjoy dying on a intense long fight more, than making a million with running thru (i do money runs only for getting those intense fights)3 fullgeared vs several teams on woods is always a fun !
Thiiss
Im still lv 10 but goddamn, if you won fights in a raid it feels good even if you died in the end! Can't wait for some labs run in the future XD
4. It's okay to die.
I have no gear-fear but some kind of anxiety, that I'm gonna die because of lag/stutter/connection_lost, basically, things which not depends on me(my skill/knowledge)
I played for 2 days so my skill is also garbage, but the saddest time I died the game crashed, and when I loaded in again I was already dead. I was super close to the extract too... they sent like 3 updates through the client that day so it probably happened to more people but I was really... unhappy
Just downloading Tarkov now and was looking for some basics before stumbling across your vid, thanks for the tips!
A good thing to do is to learn a specific weapon. My weapon to go is an AKS-74U and using bs ammo, it is pretty cheap, common on scavs. Since it usually has the highest recoil of the aks, it makes people not take the gun and you'll usually get it back from insurance. Even when you mod the gun out, most people would just take the attachments to save space so you'll get it back pretty often. Find a gun you like and are used to and learn how to effectively use it.
The mosin is mine. It is just such a good gun for a cheap price if you can hit your shots. Take out geared people with it all the time. Low risk, high reward.
Mine is ak 74. Still not good at it lol
@@drucastellon4904 Mosin is the only thing that still scares me when i run full T6 kit, best gun in the game hands down.
If you're just starting, try loading a single 7N1 top stack to blow the likes of me away with some good positioning, and deserve your glorious loot !
You know a game is hard when you have to do research in order to play it.
Agreed. I'm hardly able to find a game worth playing unless it's got me hitting the books.
Nothing worth doing in life comes without enough depth to make a study of it.
@@delta-a17 facts, know any other games like this?
@@jtakesnols Definitely haha, DCS and other flight sims require quite a bit of ground school in order to have a good time in the air. Arma III as well, if you actually want to operate tactically rather than going in with your fingers crossed. Also games like Baldur's Gate are a real death march by today's standards lol
Even the Witcher III with the right mods can force you to prepare and study before every fight.
@@jtakesnols Stalker Anomoly....free game with huge depth.
@@jtakesnols warframe
I have been playing tarkov for almost 3 tear i think? so many changes and new meta"s, but these 5 tips are completely on point.. if you are new and nooby, find a group on discord or find an fb page to learn from people. BUT this dude is so right when he says just follow the quests when you are learning and solo. great video my dude.
Here’s something I found out the hard way on my own as a beginner that’s probably pretty common knowledge. You have to manually toggle off of sprinting with lshift or you make a very loud skidding to a stop noise when you slow back down. Again, felt like an idiot once I realized but I still hear it all the time in factory , it’s a dead giveaway to your position .
If you haven´t already done this you should react to your first raids ever and analyze what you did wrong and what you learned from it
I did everything wrong.
just got this game a week ago and i now can make my way around customs reasonably well now im trying to learn interchange map so im watching tons of utube vids on tarkov
I recommend running around on the map a bit as a scav, especially on the inside. It helps you get a better sense of where everything is and where other scavs usually are so you don't run blindly into them as pmc.
same learning all the flanking routes and where to reload and med are invaluable. making use of your scav and offline mode really helps
@@54321eclipse12345 ok thanks for the tips i try that out
@@tomr3422 cheers mate i try using that offline mode then
Very true, knowledge gets u way further than skill. Mainly you will want to pay attention to the maps, start with customs. I’m still new to the game tho I bought it two years ago. Just nobody to play with
i have roughly 800 hours on the game and i'm sitting here told that the avg surv rate is 50% with mine at 3% with 600+ raids
bruh
is that like PMC only and im guessing you solo alot im new and dont understand the stats.. does your scav run count as surv rate
@@shinski8114 Scav runs don't count for anything afaik. The only thing you get out of them is the loot.
@@oriongaby it helps you learn the game or jump inot combat and practice. Also its very easy loot if you are low on guns
50% is crazy
Mine is always under 10%. But I run towards every gunfight I hear 😂
On ammo, if you just check the flea market for the most expensive ammo of a given caliber, that's usually the correct one.
not really, the next best ammo might be 500 roubles cheaper and only have 1 less pen, making it in effect, better then the most expensive
Damn I guess ScavsAteMyLegs isn’t awake yet hecc
That nigga is alllllllways commenting
😴
ScavsAteMyLegs sleep well
Lmfao
Had a PMC run yesterday, completely naked and i got out with full gear , AKM and a SKS, on factory
I just make money on the flea market, I can just keep dying with loot in raids and still end up with more money than I started feelsgoodman
Play with summit, he hyped you up last night while watching your 2 year progression video. This is your chance to claim #1 EFT twitch spot for good. P.S. my prime token is renewing today, and you've earned it!
The easiest way I found to make money is in between raids buy an expensive commodity that gets bought and sold all the time, or buy something cheap from a trader, like ammo and then mark it up 10-15% depending on how expensive it is.
Let's say you buy 2000 rounds worth of 7.62x39 PS ammo, fairly cheap currently at 108 roubles a pop, so you would buy them all at 216,000, then you mark it up 15%, .15x108=~16 16+108=124 124x2000=248,000, since its an item that people will be using (and buying) all the time, it should sell within 2-3 hours. Finally, your total profit will be 32000!
Please note that the per tile cost of ammo is pretty shit with 7.62x39 PS at around 6400, so if you want to make a lot of money, but also spend quite a bit, then stock up on graphics cards when they are cheap, which have a per tile cost of around 150000 roubles at current pricing, and sell them when prices rise, which at a 10% markup (because they are so expensive already) should make you around 30,000 profit total.
Also one more thing, I've been doing this for the past month now every day, even when I don't feel like playing just hop on real quick, buy 250000 roubles worth of ammo, mark it up, sell it, do a scav run (likely fail), and have made almost 10,000,000 roubles total (all the loot and other shit I may have sold). Stonks.
1) Gear will win you more fights than skill. At least before level 10, until the flea market and better ammo opens up to you.
I'm still compared to many VERY new at the game. Last night I was on the verge of giving up. I had gradually lost ALL my gear. I was down to 18k roubles with only a couple guns left. Did a sniper mosin run on Shoreline. Dropped three guys and walked out with my pockets FULL of freaking loot, class 4 armour and guns galore. Next scav run I did spawned with a freaking LABS KEYCARD. Butt clench was real running to the extract with that badboy in my pocket!
Sitting on 390k roubles after an afternoons play and my inventory is literally overflowing with loot.. Don't lose hope guys. Games hard as fucking nails and will kick you in the teeth more than it rewards you at the start, but it's worth it for when you get those great runs.
110mil stash and i am still rocking the mosin, i even gamma the scope when i going into hot areas
Great guide as always
As a person whos currently installing Tarkov, I didnt understand a single f****** word he said, but i do know bullets are better then guns
Shane14t How’s your tarkov experience going so far?
how ya doing so far?
@@infernowo7093 Ratted for a couple months and learned the game in and out went full chad finally at the end of last wipe and played a little bit of this wipe but school and work have taken the time required for me to enjoy this game at the moment unfortunately..
no one:
Pestily: een hele mooie dag o oh o oh oh, een hele mooie dag.
its beyond perfectly fine to die, dying is the fastest way to lvl up certain skills.
I learned the caps lock bind early this wipe before this wipe I always scrolled. I hated scrolling to walk and my friend was like bro just use caps lock. He thought I knew already.
how do you bind it?
I would love to put these tips to the test but get tired of waiting 20-30 minute queues between games
Adam Novy Try now! Past month the server queues have been great! Customs, Shoreline, Reserves, hell even Woods get 1-2min queues now :))
Thanks for the knowledge mate. Purchased the game today and it its a lot all at once.
Pestily providing that knowledge, love it! Great vid!
Nice video mate, wish I know these things when I started. Even though I had watched your videos and your streams, I still struggled until I worked these things out.
Een hele mooie dag!
Picked EFT like 3 Weeks ago sitting at 20% survival rate. I am not living the Rat-Life, I try to chad my way through the map and I play super aggressive.
And since I am investing in better Ammo I definitely drop more geared fellas.
I also like to zero to hero a bit in factory and there I die a lot.
Anyway, 50% survival rate is crazy!
That intro was cool
People want hints?
Hip-fire, learn it, it will immediately improve your survival rate.
If you are beig shot at, make a break for it, if they lose sight of you its an easy flank or and easy way to balance the fight
Another tip is if you think you heard someone dont doubt yourself, trust your instinct, i was using a tier 5 helmet (makes you nearly deaf) and head someone close a duffle bag, a straight guess that he was to my right and prefired, easy kill. Trust yourself
HAHA I just noticed that Pestily is singing 'Een hele mooie dag' at the outro. That's Dutch for: 'A very beautiful day.'
I had a Stashlootrun on Customs found a TT in it with 5 bullets of useless ammo, killed a shotgun scav, killed 2 player with his shotgun, got good geared and still looted the stashes :D
those are the best raids - when you extract thinking " how am I alive?"
Every step can be your last. Thats whats fun here... those random headshots from out of nowhere, nades thrown under your legs and getting sniped by random scav holding a shotgun on 80 meters like no problem. :D
My boi mentioning QuattroAce the absolute legend
The most profitable scav runs I've had is when another player scav actually decides to team up. We watch each other's back because we pretty much understand that we both need roubles to get anywhere, and if we fight, the survivor's going to be wounded with no medkit and now the AI scavs will be gunning for you (This has only happened twice in my 2 months into Tarkov, really disappointed in the community for this). Unfortunately too many idiots I'll get the drop on, I'll alert them, they turn around like "oh crap he could have killed me", and then shoot me straight in the face. I know for a fact that a lot of those player scavs who shot me, didn't get to extract with all the items they were hording because the AI scavs probably fucked them up.
I can't wait to get my gaming pc finished, I'm building my own piece by piece cuz I'm a broke boy :(, EFT is my #1 game to play.
I feel ya brotha,but building piece by piece is giving more satisfied moment in the end than "buy in 1" haha
At the end of the day it is a video game. It's okay to take a break. There's no point in playing if you're not having fun
"it's ok to die"
Thanks pestily I was petrified of dying but now I know it's ok:)
Glad to hear that it's all good in Europe, good on you
That is a good lesson for Life. Find a good way to make money.
honestly I'm not sure about number 1: because in an extremes scenario, having insane knowledge about tarkov, while not being able to place your shots essentially cancels out if you're fighting someone who knows what they're doing.
Wish i could enjoy playing this game. Im so bad it just makes me sad anytime i try to play
same.
I would replace nr3 with: use your playerscav and try stuff out(don't be scared, just go for it) I would actually instead of doing a pistolrun, do a scav run.
took the pp from the mechanic task into interchanged with pst gzh and downed two kitted players and one had a fir reaper lmao. also 1v2 two players with a grauch after watching one of your videos
my two cents, you can play single player though a mod you still have to buy the game and so nice doing quest and learning without getting smacked all the time. i got my first kappa this way and now i play normally and enjoy it much more now.
Another way to make money is by not upgrading the hideout. The hideout is cool but I've NEVER used it. I got everything to level 2-3 at least but like... It got boring after a while so I just sold EVERYTHING.
Before you enter real games, learn the maps offline and get to the point where you dont die to random scav AI. Thats my 2 cents as a new player
Second step would be to specialize on ONE map only. Learning very deeply all the loot spawns and working on a loot route. It's a good way to make money early
Good advice from a fellow magyar! :) I just did this, especially with stashes. I learned all the stashes on Interchange and Customs - Scav runs, low risk, high reward. A really good way to build up a basic inventory.
AI feels much better than average players, Scavs don't miss and raiders are even worse with aimbot nades
These are good tips as I'm new to pc gaming and to tarkov thanks
My first time playing I thought I had no guns went in with only a knife and I killed a scav and took the pistol but not in time and got headshot by another one that I never saw or heard
I think something else people don't talk about is, honestly, game isn't a race or a game about your KD. Slow it down, think about what you're doing. Be tactical about it.
Play to survive, not to frag baby.
I quite often spawn in and hide for a while and let eveything die down a bit, great way to end up behind people
@@djimma5080 Oh yeah, lots of people go fast and don't think to check behind them!
I almost quit twice given Ive had about 2ish months on the game but I always watched the "good" tarkov players after and seen them get clapped while also investing a ton of money on loadouts and see the same expression of pain when a basic rat loudout gets them. Seeing other peoples pain is a must when youre new.
I d recommend running cheap ish loadouts unless playing with a team of 3+. I save my best gear for runs with friends
SR: 26%! playing since 2017 ;D
29% playing since 2017 too. Good luck mate!
It doesn't matter if you had fun before dying
i have a 51% SR but it dont matter tbh if your not having fun.
13% survival rate but i'm absolutely addicted
36% on the rise, but i play stuff like a berserker x)
Doing a zero to hero run then dying at your extraction point is the worst feeling..
Great video!
And good effort on the Dutch at the end. Will we hear Pestily speaking a bit more Dutch soon? :D
Greetings from the Netherlands! :)
4am and the bell goes off, i guess it’s time to wake up.
I wish a knew, that stutters, lags and desync wont be fixed atleast to patch 0.12.
It’s okay to die. Well kinda but for you, pros. If you die 10 times in a row as a novice it kinda ruins the fun...Playing solo is freaking hard
Solo is hard but when you take down a fully geared sweaty squad of 4 - it feels so good. You are going to die its just part of the game, knowing that you can grab a pistol do a quick loot run and you are back in business makes it easier to swallow.
I just wish I knew that I can't even beat the bots in this game...
Same I'm bad lol
Perfect video as a new starter myself :)
Still playing bro?
Een hele mooie dag to you to mate lolz
Did you try to say een hele mooie dag at the end or am i tripping lol
yes he did :)
i bought this game years ago and i'm still too scared to play
Its definitely a scary scary scary game. Very much so when you're new. But when you start to really study Tarkov, it starts to open up to you over time untill it is the only game you want to play. To get to that point though, you have to walk through those hot coals lol. Good luck man!
You can open every drawer of the filing cabinets l, took me 6 months to realize
Well my issue is the ammo right now. I overcome gear fear, but my trouble is having ammo, and armor. How can I do that if I have not them unlocked. We can have AKs rapidly, but no BP or BT ammo. We can have Adar but no AP ammo. I’m struggling with that a lot right now.
Either buy it off the fleemarket or find good ammo in raid. That are the only options you have untill you unlock the higher trader levels.
Tarkov takes the darwinism approach, meaning it kills you until you learn. You can study the game all you want, if you don't have firsthand experience, you aren't gonna make it in tarkov
Ppl should not compare themselves to streamers like shroud when it comes to aim and how quickly they progress because basically its their job to sit and play and they done it for many years. You can achieve same level but over longer time period.
What is that outro lol? Een hele mooie dag!
Honestly the ammo is insane, I used to buy the cheapest bullets for my mosan which are like 100 rubles per bullet but if you go for the ones that are like 1k rubles per bullet, it is alot but the amount of one shots I've gotten is too dumb
I love how he said shroud gets smacked ducking hard in this game Hahahahahaha
een hele mooie dag, lol... you have a nice day too dude :)
3203 hours over 86 days comes out to 36 hours per day? how is that possible?
I think that is in Australian time.
I thought the idea for this game was great.
But what I don't like about this game is the fact that all the cool movent mechanics "leaning and blind fire ect." are negated by sprinting and hipfire.
Tip #6 the server will crash right before extracting on your best runs and erase all of your effort.
5:35 Of course, it's okay to die, it's okay to die in every game after all.
Currently I am too afraid to go into a raid with my PMC, but not because I fear loosing my stuff. It's because I know with certainty that I won't survive. In CoD or Battlefield or any other casual game I *know* that the fights I get into are pretty fair, meaning that I have at least a chance of winning a fight regardless of whether I actually win or not. In those games I am confident enough in my skills to say to myself "I can win this". But in Tarkov, this isn't the case: I played online as a scav about 30+ times now, but made it out alive just three times (in two of those cases I didn't see a single PMC or player scav and in the third case I heard one player walking around and just waited in a corner of dorms until I couldn't hear him anymore). Though, when playing an offline raid with medium difficulty bots (which is the difficulty of online bots according to online sources) I survive pretty much every time, killing 12+ scavs on average before leaving, often without having taken any damage. WTF am I doing wrong that I easily survive medium (sometimes hard) bots in offline mode, but barely survive one in ten online raids?
it may simply come down to your rotation locations, If your wandering into Dorms not kitted to the gills to kills players your in for a bad raid .. basically Pestily Rule #1 : Knowledge.. map knowledge can play a key part in successful raids, knowing out of the way middle class loot can sometime pay off better then the contested high tier loot
There is a significant difference between the AI and players ..... the AI if it cant find you will move on and leave ... players can be spiteful and sit and wait 25mins just to make sure they kill you
@@MrXennhorn I've got navigation down on Customs and I know where to run for cover. Two things I haven't yet internalized are the player spawns and loot locations (not all of them at least), so I probably should work on that. And I should learn to be more patient when hearing players around me. Got it :)
Man even thinking about going on a raid gives me the shakes.
ngl i am kinda curious where pestlily is at in the netherlands tho since i wouldn't mind to help him exploring the netherlands
How do I find an evacuation point?
If they added some in-game map I might try the game more than just going in with a knife for one round a week. I don't have a second monitor and just playing in a map for 5-6 hours to learn it for a game I dunno if I'll even enjoy.....
The in-game map doesn't need to tell position. No. Don't do that. Just a menu to open. Look at the full map. Nothing else. Like people keep on their second monitor
Mate that was some great Dutch singing
SO what im hearing is for a newbie with 300 hours, 49% survival rate is not to bad hahahahaha.
LoL you are a rat like me then. Or you have a squad. There is no other explanation bro
@@Djawadi90 I HAVE 1600 HOURS now. i make all my money solo and play for xp with the guys, got a few boxes of dog tags, i used to rat but now i chase noise, its no fun sitting in a room i just did that while i was learning. but ratting def has its place in tarkov thats for sure, my rat work these days is making sure you cant use D2 and taking the hard earned loot lol
I just wish i could see people! Its so hard on the eyes i feel like im running and die to the wind half the time :( i keep clipping just to try and spot the player, 90% of the time i cant.
Look up landmarks video settings. 10/10 you'll be able.to see again. He made a twitch clip of it
I started hatchet running today just to see the difference (from doing budget runs, stock SKS etc)
I doubled my earnings without any gear at all... -__-
And you halved your fun, well done...
Seriously, unless you are dirt poor, just dont screw yourself out of the experience.
Bring a mosin or a makarov, outplay a T5 kitted unaware guy, and deserve your loot, you'll get much more weapons and armor, much more roubles, and much more satisfaction.
Also know that all veterans will spray you down before you get to any decent loot half the time. I run with 4 friends with thermals on shoreline just to wipe the hatchet runners trying to steal everything in resort, then we leave to let the real players have at it. Never shot a kitted guy with a thermal, and never will, be warned, we are out there making sure you guys "optimizing the fun out of the game" cease to exist.
@@sirzebra oh i wasnt doing it to continue doing it, just tried it for a day to see how successful these peeps actually are.. unfortunately it seems, very
eft: the only fps where stealth is acceptable