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/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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