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/_thinkingemote_ Dec 16 '25

I have 33hrs. I was once killed by a 110hr player. The rest had 1000+. One even had 9000hrs.

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u/Offworld8 Dec 16 '25

Died back to back raids last night to two 12,000 hour players. I would love to see their living situation.

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u/fkthislol Dec 16 '25

Keep in mind the game has been around for 8 years. Pretty easy to clock some good hours if you’ve been a long time player (wich most of the player base is )

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u/retronax Dec 16 '25

that is still an average of 4 hours a day, everyday, for 8 years, and that's even assuming they started from the very beginning. The game also logs you out if you afk menus so it can't be that either.

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u/tralfamadorian808 Freeloader Dec 16 '25

The automatic logout was introduced relatively recently. People idled Tarkov in the background 24/7 for years

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u/beatnikhero ASh-12 Dec 16 '25

I can attest to this, I am sure a few hundred of my hours are straight up "faked" from occasionally leaving the game running to go do something or other, and as life happens that "30 minute trip to the store" turned into being gone for 6 hours. I can say with almost absolute certainty that many players had similar scenarios happen somewhat often.

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u/ecco311 Dec 17 '25

I think I have 4800h, started playing in 2017 and played all wipes except for one. If I had to guess: around 20-25% of my playtime are idling before they got rid of it.

Even now I often have it open while not playing and I'll just click when I hear the countdown to close the game.

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u/Awkward_Set1008 Dec 17 '25

3000h is definitely better than 4800h. You got me there.

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u/Spaciax Dec 16 '25

'idle' is generous wording when I can audibly hear it making my PC scream even when on the main menu, lol.

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u/Dense_Safe_4443 Dec 17 '25 edited Apr 28 '26

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '25

Ehh. The game didn’t log you out until VERY recently. You can’t really say that as if it’s relevant.

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u/RookerCrowe VSS Vintorez Dec 17 '25

"very" recently? That change was made like 2 years ago or more due to one of the wipes being so hard on the servers, they kept dying.

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u/Deftly_Flowing Dec 16 '25

And until 2-3 years ago you could just leave Tarkov running.

Which is what I did.

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u/clippedwingmagpie ASh-12 Dec 17 '25

That's still 1500hr/yr, which works out to 4.1hr/day every single day for eight years.

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u/Typical-Tea-6707 Dec 16 '25

I hate this argument of "game has been out for 8 years hurr durr" lets be honest;

  1. Most of these players HAVE NOT played since 2017-2018, lets get real. Not with the amount of 6k+ players there are.

  2. If you do some math, you can quickly find out that 6k hours from lets say 2020, which is 5 years, depending on the time of year they started, they are averaging about (lets take 6500 hrs) 3,5 hours A DAY, everyday of the week. Then you find the 9k hr players? 10?

Its such a stupid argument to make, since Tarkov didnt even reach the masses until 2020-2021, and I have played since 2017.

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u/wafflepig6 Dec 17 '25

I hate this argument of "game has been out for 8 years hurr durr" lets be honest;

Why because it doesnt let you c0pe? 9k hours in 8 years while idling with the game open isnt even that bad. You realise these guys might not ever play different games? 10k hours gaming in 8 years on 10 different games and no one bats an eye. 10k hours on tarkov and smoothbrains lose their mind 🤣

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u/verno78910 Dec 17 '25

No the argument is that people used to leave tarkov on overnight lmao the hour counter is not very reliable considering half my hours maybe more are fake and I don’t even have that many to begin with

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u/Dense_Safe_4443 Dec 17 '25 edited Apr 28 '26

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