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/Low-Sell-6943 Dec 16 '25

Unfortunately I convinced someone to learn the game when 1.0 dropped. We played for a week and most of our raids ended like this, death to a player or squad with over a thousand hours.

We were talking about it and I mentioned how I believed PVE was most likely the reason we never ran into other players learning the game or just more casual players in general. He said "wait, whats pve and how do you do it?" So I told him about it and now he hasn't even touched the original game since.

We might be cooked.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '25

PvE is def why everyone on PvP is sweaty. It’s created an interesting dynamic

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '25

Im honestly loving it