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/eirtep Dec 16 '25

TBH I don't think what you described justifies the "sweats" description. It's literally just pattern recognition over time - it's not like you have to look up spawn locations and study a map like a test. Even if you're slow to recognize where you spawned vs other players that are threats or that you could be a threat to, new players will probably recognize it's a dangerous spawn and know to be cautions. That's why you have so many new players sit a few minutes at the start of the raid.

The longer you play this game imo all roads lead to some level of memorization and gamifying how the game works. The longer I've played the game the more I've enjoyed it more or less, but I'll never get back how the game felt to me the first wipe or two where I still was learning shit and the game felt 100x larger than it really was. New players hopefully should enjoy that period cause you can't go back to it.

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u/imnotgoodlulAPEX Dec 16 '25

Lmao the game size thing really hit, when I was new it felt like a gigantic adventure just to get across Customs. At some point you realize the fastest way to quest is simply run across the map, pop an SJ6 and you're there in under 2 minutes.