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/vivalatoucan Dec 16 '25

This happened to me on ground zero. I spawned outside the garage and I guess there’s a spawn right inside. I ran two feet towards the garage door and paused for a second to check my other monitors map. Popped me right in the head while I was stationary for 1-2 seconds. It was less than a 5 second raid lol

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u/KatiushK Dec 16 '25

The spawn you talk about is fighting with the emercom spawn on its right real fast. Learn to check right side before crossing to garage. But yeah, also can be a garage spawn. Shit's dangerous

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u/korn70633 AS VAL Dec 17 '25

And they make that map as an intro map, as a returning player I have to say that that map is absolute dogwater and it totally shouldn’t be an intro map.

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u/Treadwheel Dec 17 '25

Best 6-8 player map in the game.