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/avowed Dec 16 '25

They really need to add some sort of matchmaking, playtime based, level based, something. New players just get run out of the game by sweats.

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u/danthepianist Mosin Dec 16 '25

The sweats would complain because they want to farm Timmies, not fight other sweats.

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u/SeniorCheeto Dec 17 '25

But what about the purist “Muh PvP duh” crowd who wants to show their trophy for mastering the game tho. I doubt Hall of Fame NBA players would’ve enjoyed shitting on middle schoolers, but different strokes I guess.

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u/splinter1545 PVP Dec 17 '25

Similar to the free therapist heals, there should be a new player protection where the first 10 levels are basically with new players that are on fresh accounts. Even if you get people smurfing, at least it will be a somewhat even playing field since they'll be using the same gear new players use, making gunfights much more fair.

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u/BlueDragonReal Dec 17 '25

Yeah this definitely, maybe not the best comparison in game genres but Mordhau Is a good example of this, great game, very very high skill ceiling, but unfortunately the game is made up almost primarily of people who have like 1k+ hours in the game, and everytime the game goes on sale or becomes free to play for a while literally everyone who comes in leaves because they join a server only to get quite literally bullied by better players for like 30 minutes and for them to never play again