The main dev is pro-russia.

This also makes me curious how it was even possible for them to bring it to Steam in the first place, logically speaking, with Russia being under international sanctions and all major payment processors no longer accepting business from there?

Did they like make this happen with a shell company or something elsewhere? Lol

I don't remember the details but there are deliberate references to a real paramilitary group which fights for Russia.

EDIT: The group in question is 715 Team. Their logo is shown on the "Ground Zero" map.

BSG still means Beets and Bears to me

edit: and i just dropped the Beets

Why? Never heard of this game.

The cheating problem is off the charts. There was a really good video of someone who investigated how bad it was, and found that about 50% of players were using wallhacks. of matches will have a hacker.

I played it for a couple months. The gunplay was pretty impressive, but the cheaters made it incredibly frustrating, and after seeing that video, I uninstalled and never looked back.

EDIT: The video in question.

I've also heard it doesn't run on Linux, ironically due to it's kernel level anti-cheat.

The game has had major cheating issues since Covid started. There only so much they can do when the game is built on over a decade of shit code.

Out of a lobby of 10 people 3 likely are cheating. Every person who's ever cheated to show videos of their games has this experience. My own first hand try at cheating shows this.

The game literally is one of the most cheated in shooters there is.

The game has a really bad problem with incompetent developers and project leaders who have shitty moral and ethical principles, and no I don't think they are fixing that any time soon lol

There isnt actually a way to make functional anticheat as long as its playable on your own device. Its pointless to try and a waste of money. The only way is banning offenders and premium/custom matchmaking.

If you like the idea there is a PvE mode which is fine. But the AI has its own cheats and there are all the other issues mentioned in this thread.

does the game just run off a downloadable exe? or is it on epic or something

kagis

I haven't played it, but it sounds like it doesn't have a replay system, which apparently has exacerbated finding cheaters.

https://facebook.com/groups/1714415802627065/posts/1842637456471565/

Sounds like PvE works, but not PvP.

This guy claims that he got it working in PvP, at least at one point:

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1f6u88z/tarkov_on_linux/

Ran fine for me with Proton Easy Anti-Cheat when added to Steam. This was a few patches ago now though. Whenever Streets came out.

This is why I loved the DMZ mode of Warzone when it launched. The stronger bots were mother fuckers but there were missions to finish, so the players (all fresh from Warzone and new to having prox chat,) were mostly carefully happy to talk and often helped each other. It got pretty sweaty over the next two seasons though. After that it was kill on sight.

A few weeks ago, soon after they spun it off to its own download apart from Warzone, someone cracked it for solo play. I'd love someone figuring out a way to let people play private servers for that.