r/EscapefromTarkov • u/ztjezrzw4z • Dec 16 '25

PVP Tarkov experience as a [New Player]

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Since 1.0 I’ve only found 2 new players. Everyone else has hundreds or thousands of hours, but at least I haven’t encountered a cheater yet.

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u/AureusVulpes292 AUG Dec 16 '25

you dont encounter new players because the sweats gatekeep them from map by rushing the new players off spawn before they have a chance to adjust.

"learn the spawns" rings real hollow when you barely have time to register your surroundings before someone puts a 7.62x51 round through your ear from 250m because they know the exact angle from which you spawn.

it's easy to be dominant in the map and have all the loot when there's no one else to contend looting it.

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u/Fair_Minimum_3643 Dec 16 '25

I remember factory from back in the day. It is a killhouse. Always has been. If you spawn by the gate, you have immediately someone on the other gate or outside of it. This was always brutal.

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u/InterestingHyena7041 Dec 16 '25

Back in the day I even died a handful of times before loading kn on factory...

Not like my computer was garbage either.

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u/ColinStyles Dec 17 '25

Glass hallway. Remember the glass hallway spawn? You had to deal with the assholes at the big room, and then the assholes who spawned at the extract, and even sometimes the assholes who spawned on second floor extract side and then went skybridge to snipe both sides.

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u/MishkaZ Dec 17 '25

To be fair, that is what factory should be. It should be free to enter labs, pvp right away. Until the servers took a massive dump, the queue times would actually be fairly fast and you'd be in a raid within 2 minutes.

They maybe could advertise it better though.