thank you so much for that "its not gear fear" part thats something people dont seem to understand sometimes. i dont fear for my gear i fear for my heart exploding when i get shot out of nowhere
You’re so right about the part where it’s not gear fear, it’s the jumpscares that get me bro 😭😭 but I guess it’s part of the game and I just gotta man up I really wanna play solo cuz I do enjoy the game and I’m confident in my pvp skills I just hate the jumpscares
In something like pubg I hardly even feel that since you don't lose anything, but man the simple way that tarkov handles loot is enough to completely change the dynamic
I don't think the sound being more fcuked than Jenna Jameson helps. I'd love it if I actually knew where my enemy was instead of having to use 95% of my brain power to still be 95% unsure.
Great video! Agreed - for me it really isn't about losing gear. It's about the jump scares - and also frustrations. I really hate the embarrassing feeling I often get after losing a fight that suddenly broke out. It's *really* aggravating for me. But I think the root cause is that I just don't have enough exposure and experiences of success to prevent me from being so harsh on myself.
I've never really heard anyone adress this, but its exactly how I feel. I used to think I was worried about gear, but I was really worried about getting absolutely destroyed by the sudden sound of a bullet piercing my helmet and shattering my head. I might try this method more now that you've shown me this perspective on it.
A few hundred factory raids will take that feeling right out and replace it with anger and hate to kill all pmcs. I was and am still a little weary playing matches for as solo, for random head eyes still and hackers. exposure is true. Even though nobody wants to be shot at or in sudden fire fights. I can reassure that once you get used to being shot and accepting the loud booms and gunshots right at your ears. maintaining your composure to crouch and tap a head. It will be something you do passively and with vigilant reflexes. Cheers china
genuinely so glad I'm not alone feeling this way. I was like, "maybe this game just gives me too much anxiety and I should stop." Sometimes, just thinking about launching the game and MAYBE doing a solo run gives me butterflies (the bad ones)
You really hit the nail on the head here. My main trouble as a PMC is I dont wanna get tapped and jump out of my seat. I'm at the point where I have more scav raids than PMC at this point. Everything you said is exactly how I've been playing I'm gonna use some of this to try to get rid of that anxiety.
I just started Tarkov last month. Bought it to play with a friend and that friend doesn't even play with me anymore and now I'm struggling to learn the game by myself and I am learning a lot of the things you are talking about in this video first hand. Excellently well put. Liked and subbed!
This is true there always atleast one duo in every raid n ur gonna have to play lil ratty to kill a duo unless miracle only one time in 1600 hrs has a duo lined up for me to kill at same time
You got one point so right that it made me relieved im not alone about the audio that it just pushes you to a corner in trying to decipher whatever bullshit you're hearing. I do get scared, though i found out that i don't get jumpscared as much. When i die i feel like im relieved that my fear has finally come true. I wonder why this happens...
Honestly this is such a huge barrier for me, and its such a struggle I want to so desperately overcome. I feel even with friends the sudden loud boom of a random headshot piercing either the visor or my helmet or just getting randomly sprayed at fills me with anxiety. I genuinely love this game and for me the anticipation absolutely kills me. I would love to snipe but the thought of sitting there and not seeing someone (I stink at spotting people) and randomly getting jumpscared triumphs over that. This video has given me more of a push to get over that barrier so I thank you, it will be a long journey but one I wish to really overcome.
bro you seem to be the only guy making videos about being afraid of jumpscares and sudden deaths rather than gear, i couldnt care LESS about some piece of equipment that i can earn back in 2x the amount by doing a scav run on streets, its always the jumpscares
Omg you opened my eyes! Of course it’s not gear fear but getting shot and the worst thing is when you just don’t know from where. Getting shot or killed isn’t that big of a deal but the fear of getting shot and NOT knowing from where is what makes people anxious
When I first got into tarkov, I wasn't having fun because of how hard the game was. But I loved the challenge so much it kept me addicted. I even invited my friends to play, telling them how much in depth the game is ( which they all quit playing because of the difficulty). One thing I learned was to accept dying and losing gear and just have fun. The sooner you can accept that, the better tarkov experience you will have. Awesome video.
This summarises it perfectly. I can fully embrace the knowledge that at the start I will not be good. Same thing happened when I started pubg, but that feels completely different because you don't ever lose anything. Tarkov's psychological effect is just so much worse. I want to get in, try something new and improve over time, but it feels like it punishes learning so much. I guess I just need to try and force myself to die a bunch to the point where it doesn't ever feel like I'm losing anything, then hopefully it becomes more natural.
I got into tarkov because a couple buddies liked it, but now I'm solo playing the game and I agree with everything here, I don't care about my loot going into or out of raid, I'm just scared of being shot at suddenly, but a few factory runs to die on is the way to break through.
Hey man just watched your video and i agree, playing solo helped me get over my fears of bad approaches in gun fights (not being afraid to shoot friends) playing alone made me a better player and i just hit 300 hours (and im new to pc so i have to learn even more) sounds cues are literally everything in this game and having someone yelling in your ears with bad comms can make the fight end in seconds, an advice from a new player and yet still very dedicated Solo Raids makes you pick up on flaws and strengths you have and afterwards you can work on them, but gifting kits in team of more then 3 is not the way (i lived it) now im barely playing more then duos.
This wipe has been great for me its my 2nd wipe and i lost my gear fear already last wipe i did exactly what you said i just wander around looking for something to do until i get head eyes from behind somehow 😂now i know most the maps and how to find quest items and have set goals its been a much better experience ❤
Thanks. Ya I just need to get into some solo raids. You can even use really cheap kits, just get exposure. Scaving doesn’t get me xp or skills and then there’s no cooldown on pmc. Treat it like a scav but it’s pmc.
dude this was a great insight on this topic for me dude, thanks for this. its been a long time since i have a real favorite game, but a few months ago i got EFT, and boy oh boy, its by far one of my top 3 all time fav games. I have this habit of scaving a good kit or getting lucky and taking out a player and actually getting to extract, and then for weeks ill just look at the gear in my stash, and sometimes move it over to my omc like im gonna go raid, then move it back to stash and it just sits there. This was a good video tho, fr. I look forward to seeing more in the future, c u in Tarkov
Forget gear fear or jump scares; the fear of having to wait around ten minutes in the loading screen is what gets me. I take solace in killing at least one other PMC, so I know I'm not alone, haha.
For me it's mostly just doing some of the tasks. I sit in stash not due to gear fear, but rather if I feel like spending potentially hours trying to do a task and getting frustrated when I can't I love Tarkov otherwise (and apart from other problems), but some tasks are a nightmare for newer players (and often more veteran players too)
I think one of the most important threshold to pass is learning the spawns and PVP hot spots. Dying over and over in the same spots will eventually teach you to not do the same thing over and over again
good advice and I do also think Factory starts help me but i dunno if i agree that dying a bunch at the start of the night desensitizes me.. if anything it puts me in a bad mindset for the rest of the night.
I actually had to research if jump scares are bad for your heart long term, and had to alternate to sound spikes in my mixer to fucking save my hearing and heart pressure spikes
I recently returned to the game and this helped me loads. I was feeling really good the other day and Rushed resort on shoreline and walked out 1.6 million doubles richer (Glad I remember THE CORRECT docs case this time XD)
"It's not the gear fear, it's the getting scared" This is exactly my problem, so often it feels like whenever I do move around I get jumpscared by a player or a scav I can't see or hear and having ADHD makes this 10x worse. I could give a shit about the gear or rubles, as it's so easy to get. It's also why it takes me a lot longer than others to unlock the flea market that itself is a huge achievement for me each wipe. Yet I'll happily slide into a lighthouse night raid and not have issues, but that anxiety is always gonna be there in the back of my head.
well first I had to learn military time lol spawned in on Customs in the pitch black night! next was map knowledge, gear fear and know I only have myself to depend on lol
Been playing tarkov since 2020, finally went through a burn-out last year and came back to it for the patch The patch is amazing but I'm stuck in a cycle of staring at my stash until alt-f4ing if my friends aren't on. I don't care about gear, or dying but playing solo now just gives me constant anxiety throughout the raid so it's not enjoyable
Kind of right, but also... im not afraid of fighting anybody anywhere, but i do get some adrenaline if im walking around thinking there are campers everywhere, so what i do is taking a cheap gearset, push around the map and learn the timings and where things can be or come from, and where to check. Then its just walk around the way i do, and if some bush muncher sits still in the right spot for 30 min to get me, so be it.
Something to be aware of when you're a solo player is knowing when you have the advantage over somebody else, or another team. If you DO have any advantage then your odds of surviving goes way high.
One of those days rn..gotta get into customs to get the first prapor and skier quest done and people sit in corners and wait and watch..5x ina row atm ive died..gotta keep pushing tho ig..they always see me before i see them in tarkov it seems like lol i stg
From some1 who recently got into tarkov at the beginning of the wipe who solos because they just dont have any1 to play with and discord servers are always dead, i honestly just thug it out
Tarkov is extremly new player unfriendly, I got the game in 2018 but only just started playing 2024 (50-ish hours) And asides all the difficulties within armor and weapons and maps etc. The biggest turn off is that everyone I walk into is level 30+ with 1000-4000 hours played. Never felt I lost a fight based on skill but time invested. But it makes one feel even more hold back to even shoot anyone cause they just gonna be super exp anyway. Very frustrating.
Hints: - For new players i suggets doing night raids on Factory for maxium scariness. like go in with a shotgun with a flashlight on & some 7mm/6,5mm buckshots in your belt. Dont even need a west or backpack because you can pick them off the first scav/enemy you kill. Do make sure to have a armor on & perhaps a helmet. I never used headsets & tarkov audio is wonky anyways. Even at low levels you can snipe the good shotguns like 153/155 from Fence & replace the 4 mag with like a 6 shell mag. Then just rapid fire the whole mag into anything that moves. Buckshots may not have much armor pen the multiple pellets does massive overall damage. Use Piranha once you unlock them. Try to use the flashlight only in combat. - reposition constantly. Watch a video about how scavs work & on how to reposition. Reposition constantly. This is not COD, so the thing that keeps you alive it running away & finding a new angle. I reposition myself constantly & after anything/everything really. - even if you are new to the game & dont know the maps do try to think about going from cover to cover if possible. - dont forget about the scrool wheel to sneak more. - advanced tactics is something i fear you can only learn by playing, but i do want to mention that you can transfter some tactics or mentality from other games even other genres. I mean in Dark Souls you also only engage one enemy at a time & then fall back. - challenge yourself. Because that is what make a game fun at least for me. i another game i got bored fighting the bots/players & so started loading into in solo into 4 team matches. And the game became really fun again. Not saying what your challenge might be because its so individual, but if you challenge yourself you might enjoy it a lot more.
For me it is the loading time. I hate getting killed 1 minute into the raid just to wait another 15 mins. When I have 2 hours to play…..they really should fix that.
5000+ hour squad player here. Not really done any solos for 5 wipes. For me it’s not about losing my shit. I don’t even insure my gear, cuz my friends might want it or sell it for profit. For me the worst part about solo Tarkov is that you get way more fucking jumpscared. My heart jumps out of my chest if I accidently walk into a goblin. XD But what kinda worked for me when I’m solo is to play very slow and tactical. That means I stay in raid for the entire timer more or less. XD
Gear fear is quite dumb on Tarkov, when I have valuables that I absolutely want to bring home, well I just extract asap, and if I die in the process then I don't feel bad, I feel bad when my hesitation is the cause of my death, but I'm never upset to die trying something to achieve my objective. You can jump straight again for another round and maybe set yourself back in optimal conditions to go in raid again. Tarkov is way more permissive than you think. If you don't like to fight you can sucess in Tarkov by being great at positioning, well aware of your surroundings, I'm a hardcore DayZ player and this is my first wipe, I use the topography, the sounds to create a diversion or sounds coming from other players as a diversion, the lights/shadows, I use a lot of defensive nades to secure my escapes in close quarter, I almost never see players using supress fire to cover themselves while moving in high pressure, you litteraly have everything you need to escape from any player. Tarkov just feels like a Call of Duty without HUD when you are a DayZ veteran coming to Tarkov, even easier
Being new and having no idea if I have crazy good gear or trash. That’s gear fear. When I saw a plater ridge I had was selling for 34k on flea with no armor plates I really didn’t care too awful much taking that out. It’s just crazy what you don’t know till you get the flea market. I mean I’ve made a lot on it just selling stuff I found.
Idk man.. ive played through 6 wipes and i cannot get over that fear.. i have the game sense,map knowledge, when to engage and disengage fights.. yet it doesnt calm my nerves.. maybe im just too much of an anxious mess to play this game anymore and to make it worse i feel the same anxiety when i play arena..
200k for decent gun 30k for ammo 40k for comms 40k for helmet 20k for rig 50k for armor 20k in men's .... I wouldn't say I play scared, but yeah it's definitely the gear I'm worried about. What else separates tarkov from arcade shooters?
Bro I spent my first 3 wipes crouched in a corner somewhere then spent 1000 hrs offline n watch this vid n just never stop now so recommend this vid but also spending time on the maps offline to learn the map n flow of the map also ground zero raids are 45 min and most raids the pmc are gone by 30 min left
I LOVE factory. It's such a fun map to play. Everyone should play factory if you want to improve your pvp. It's also a decent loot map if you clear the lobby. Farming scavs is also pretty easy, so you can walk out with a few thousand xp.
For me it’s trying to complete tasks by myself when there are lots of people camping :( I get nervous when trying to go to high traffic areas. There’s only so many angles I can check and i can’t see through bushes. I don’t get a lot of time to play so I try not to throw away raids lol. Any tips for this? Especially going for tasks in high pvp areas. Thank you !!!
Personally its not that much the "anxiety" when it comes to tarkov, but more the frustration of actually gearing and being ready for battle, for then to be one shotted by more or less the first bullet in first fight, straight to the head.
If you wanna survive solo in this game you gotta hide for 30 minutes untill the last 15 minutes before moving out, wich is kinda boring. And the scared feeling you have is from cheaters taking ur shit anyway eventually if it is worth.
I played like 3 years ago for 3 wipes. I came back to tarkov and I feel lost on Woods. Its so annoying that I dont want to play anymore because BSG things its realistic that a PMC that goes into an unknown area does not have any compass or technical device. Imagine you are a completly new player, its just annoying as fk.
I don't have gear fear I have what's called loading screen fear. Because I know if I die it's going to waste at least 8 minutes of my life getting my pmc geared again and loading into another raid lol.
Pro tip if you accidentally kill someone and they passive aggressively low blow you it’s simple find new people to play with no need to have them lingering around if they feel like that over a game :D
I got the game was learning downtown with bots for awhile queued into a real raid then got rushed by 6 people up a flight of stairs I don’t think I’m necessarily scared it just seems impossible to do anything
I have over 1 500 hours as a Solo Player, and I disagree about the "sitting scared in a corner" strategy being bad for new players. In Tarkov audio is the most important cue. Learning to master it by learning how to not be heard and sneak up on players will make you a very deadly player down the road. It also gives you the most powerful advantage you can have as a solo - the element of surprise. Once you learn how to be silent and invisible, adding a sprinkle of aggression is easy.
I have a buddy, tries to convince me spt is better and online isnt worth because of the fear. My man wont get out of hus own way. Litterally every time we play hes on for like 3 or 4 raids then gets pissed and gets off. I end up soloing just because i want to play. Point is self awareness and maturity are a big part of this video; Accountability.
For me, it's never been about being scared. It's about realizing patterns and understanding what you're leveraging versus what you're getting out of it. I feel like the game doesn't respect your time, and perhaps it doesn't aim to. You can spend a ton of time and money on a kit, just to die to a nearby spawn. You can also spend a lot on a kit only to not find enough to justify bringing that kit in. So many random variables, yet too many set patterns of guaranteed set backs. Hard to explain, but I just feel my time is basically wasted when I play.
Anyone got tips for reducing load in time, my biggest reason for not wanting to play is I haven't been able to play a wipe from the start and so I come back to the game when everyone has better stuff and I feel less inclined to play when I spend about 5 minutes gearing up, then wait 5-6 minutes loading into a game just to die in 1 minute its a technical issue that affects my motivation over everything
i literally cannot figure out where i spawned in at! i have the maps up and im trying and trying to figure it out but i die before i ever figure out where tf im at! i did a practice one and couldnt find an extraction point lol im like a baby with this game. makes me feel so stupid. i am but this makes me notice lol
New player here. What you're talking about made me put off playing this game for almost a year and a half after buying it. For this though, i feel like i have overcome a small part of it but enough that im proud that i did. I feel like on woods i am at least ABLE to figure out where i am better. On customs, i feel like maybe i wont get sniped as much and though i still find myself stuck in a corner, i now am stuck in a corner where i think other spawns wouldn't instakill me the moment i spawn. On ground zero i died so much i think i understand where i can die from enough to at least prevent one death out of a hundred. This is sad news for a lazy ass like me, but to be honest, it feels like the only way you learn this game is by actual true brute force. I am thinking about focusing my gameplay on dying in each and every manner possible so i can expand my exposure to death a bit more.\ Hopefully this helps!
@@strippins I dont think we are that far in the wipe yet, but if you dont get used to PVP then having better gear wont help much later on down the road
gear fear doesnt exist if you play the game like it should be. I picked up the game 4-5 weeks ago and now so much better than most people i sherpad with. why? cuz i pushed the limits of the engagements i was in and learned offline for layouts and just pushed. but hey people learn at their own pace so you shouldnt use me as an example. I now have a 5.4 kd and 47% extract success rate. and i just touched the game. so you can do it just believe in your skills
thank you so much for that "its not gear fear" part thats something people dont seem to understand sometimes. i dont fear for my gear i fear for my heart exploding when i get shot out of nowhere
SAME BURR🥺🥺
You’re so right about the part where it’s not gear fear, it’s the jumpscares that get me bro 😭😭 but I guess it’s part of the game and I just gotta man up I really wanna play solo cuz I do enjoy the game and I’m confident in my pvp skills I just hate the jumpscares
In something like pubg I hardly even feel that since you don't lose anything, but man the simple way that tarkov handles loot is enough to completely change the dynamic
Just treat it like survival horror. Jumpscare is just gonna happen and its like ripping a bandaid off
I don't think the sound being more fcuked than Jenna Jameson helps. I'd love it if I actually knew where my enemy was instead of having to use 95% of my brain power to still be 95% unsure.
Same
EFT is more of a horror game then CS 😂
Great video! Agreed - for me it really isn't about losing gear. It's about the jump scares - and also frustrations. I really hate the embarrassing feeling I often get after losing a fight that suddenly broke out. It's *really* aggravating for me. But I think the root cause is that I just don't have enough exposure and experiences of success to prevent me from being so harsh on myself.
I've never really heard anyone adress this, but its exactly how I feel. I used to think I was worried about gear, but I was really worried about getting absolutely destroyed by the sudden sound of a bullet piercing my helmet and shattering my head. I might try this method more now that you've shown me this perspective on it.
A few hundred factory raids will take that feeling right out and replace it with anger and hate to kill all pmcs. I was and am still a little weary playing matches for as solo, for random head eyes still and hackers. exposure is true. Even though nobody wants to be shot at or in sudden fire fights. I can reassure that once you get used to being shot and accepting the loud booms and gunshots right at your ears. maintaining your composure to crouch and tap a head. It will be something you do passively and with vigilant reflexes. Cheers china
genuinely so glad I'm not alone feeling this way. I was like, "maybe this game just gives me too much anxiety and I should stop." Sometimes, just thinking about launching the game and MAYBE doing a solo run gives me butterflies (the bad ones)
Just a tip, holding left click on bolt actions can stop the bolt from cycling and you can see where your shot lands, great video
You really hit the nail on the head here. My main trouble as a PMC is I dont wanna get tapped and jump out of my seat. I'm at the point where I have more scav raids than PMC at this point. Everything you said is exactly how I've been playing I'm gonna use some of this to try to get rid of that anxiety.
I just started Tarkov last month. Bought it to play with a friend and that friend doesn't even play with me anymore and now I'm struggling to learn the game by myself and I am learning a lot of the things you are talking about in this video first hand. Excellently well put. Liked and subbed!
You might consider playing pve
Its not taht i have solo anxiety its that everyone brings their entire family into the raid
lmao just happened to me today, i was running solo factory and 3 man squad killed me🤣
or they bring like a billion rouble kit in
lmaoo frr
This is true there always atleast one duo in every raid n ur gonna have to play lil ratty to kill a duo unless miracle only one time in 1600 hrs has a duo lined up for me to kill at same time
@@cristi.3057play more at the start of the wipe
You got one point so right that it made me relieved im not alone about the audio that it just pushes you to a corner in trying to decipher whatever bullshit you're hearing.
I do get scared, though i found out that i don't get jumpscared as much. When i die i feel like im relieved that my fear has finally come true. I wonder why this happens...
Honestly this is such a huge barrier for me, and its such a struggle I want to so desperately overcome. I feel even with friends the sudden loud boom of a random headshot piercing either the visor or my helmet or just getting randomly sprayed at fills me with anxiety. I genuinely love this game and for me the anticipation absolutely kills me. I would love to snipe but the thought of sitting there and not seeing someone (I stink at spotting people) and randomly getting jumpscared triumphs over that. This video has given me more of a push to get over that barrier so I thank you, it will be a long journey but one I wish to really overcome.
It's hard to get over. Just remember the worst thing they can do to you is send you back to the main menu.
Have around 200 hours now, all of them solo, and I feel like I progressed more playing solo than I would have in a team.
bro you seem to be the only guy making videos about being afraid of jumpscares and sudden deaths rather than gear, i couldnt care LESS about some piece of equipment that i can earn back in 2x the amount by doing a scav run on streets, its always the jumpscares
I stopped being afraid and now I have lost all my stuff! Thanks @average Ol!
Shit, yeah that happens 😅
Omg you opened my eyes! Of course it’s not gear fear but getting shot and the worst thing is when you just don’t know from where. Getting shot or killed isn’t that big of a deal but the fear of getting shot and NOT knowing from where is what makes people anxious
Spot on insight into Tarkov anxiety. "Bent over and taken to brown town"... that made my day. Just LOL. Great video.
This is hands down the best video to help players get over playing alone.
When I first got into tarkov, I wasn't having fun because of how hard the game was. But I loved the challenge so much it kept me addicted. I even invited my friends to play, telling them how much in depth the game is ( which they all quit playing because of the difficulty). One thing I learned was to accept dying and losing gear and just have fun. The sooner you can accept that, the better tarkov experience you will have. Awesome video.
This summarises it perfectly. I can fully embrace the knowledge that at the start I will not be good. Same thing happened when I started pubg, but that feels completely different because you don't ever lose anything. Tarkov's psychological effect is just so much worse.
I want to get in, try something new and improve over time, but it feels like it punishes learning so much. I guess I just need to try and force myself to die a bunch to the point where it doesn't ever feel like I'm losing anything, then hopefully it becomes more natural.
I got into tarkov because a couple buddies liked it, but now I'm solo playing the game and I agree with everything here, I don't care about my loot going into or out of raid, I'm just scared of being shot at suddenly, but a few factory runs to die on is the way to break through.
Hey man just watched your video and i agree, playing solo helped me get over my fears of bad approaches in gun fights (not being afraid to shoot friends) playing alone made me a better player and i just hit 300 hours (and im new to pc so i have to learn even more) sounds cues are literally everything in this game and having someone yelling in your ears with bad comms can make the fight end in seconds, an advice from a new player and yet still very dedicated Solo Raids makes you pick up on flaws and strengths you have and afterwards you can work on them, but gifting kits in team of more then 3 is not the way (i lived it) now im barely playing more then duos.
This wipe has been great for me its my 2nd wipe and i lost my gear fear already last wipe i did exactly what you said i just wander around looking for something to do until i get head eyes from behind somehow 😂now i know most the maps and how to find quest items and have set goals its been a much better experience ❤
its just pixels, your going to die. who cares. its just a game. and its just going to wipe again anyways.. so all that time for nothing
@@SpaceRanger187 wtf you on about? 🤣🤦
YES! I've been looking for a video like this, because I just sit there scared because I heard loud bang...
Everything you said about Factory is SO right! 🤝🏼
Yknow i wouldnt have gear fear so hard if i didnt watch my gun get stripped from my hands mid firefight 4 times
Thanks. Ya I just need to get into some solo raids. You can even use really cheap kits, just get exposure. Scaving doesn’t get me xp or skills and then there’s no cooldown on pmc. Treat it like a scav but it’s pmc.
Just do it mate! You’ll never looks back!! How this helped!
Scaving does give you XP I usually get 1k to 2k everytime I scav because I leave right before it ends and I leave with a full backpack and rig
its crazy I watched you most days with the cod videos I stopped playing cod to play the wipe and now your doing tarky content, perfect!!
😂😂 I do it just for you haha
dude this was a great insight on this topic for me dude, thanks for this. its been a long time since i have a real favorite game, but a few months ago i got EFT, and boy oh boy, its by far one of my top 3 all time fav games. I have this habit of scaving a good kit or getting lucky and taking out a player and actually getting to extract, and then for weeks ill just look at the gear in my stash, and sometimes move it over to my omc like im gonna go raid, then move it back to stash and it just sits there. This was a good video tho, fr. I look forward to seeing more in the future, c u in Tarkov
Forget gear fear or jump scares; the fear of having to wait around ten minutes in the loading screen is what gets me. I take solace in killing at least one other PMC, so I know I'm not alone, haha.
honestly. worst part is sitting in a loading screen for the same amount of time that i’m in raid for haha
Yep exactly. My gear fear is really just hating the time wasted when I die out of nowhere (if it’s a fun gunfight I don’t mind dying)
thank you man for the vid, that factory grind befor session tip worked for me like charm!!! thanks
For me it's mostly just doing some of the tasks. I sit in stash not due to gear fear, but rather if I feel like spending potentially hours trying to do a task and getting frustrated when I can't
I love Tarkov otherwise (and apart from other problems), but some tasks are a nightmare for newer players (and often more veteran players too)
so so true, i hate being jumped out on thats why i dont watch horrors.. but factory does help loose that fear
if you're playing with mates and still leaving with an empty bag you're not playing with mates
I think one of the most important threshold to pass is learning the spawns and PVP hot spots.
Dying over and over in the same spots will eventually teach you to not do the same thing over and over again
good advice and I do also think Factory starts help me but i dunno if i agree that dying a bunch at the start of the night desensitizes me.. if anything it puts me in a bad mindset for the rest of the night.
I just gotta remember that everybody is just as scared as I am
6:39 "...This doesn't simulate the raw feeling you get of terror when you're in a live public server."
NAILED IT!
I always had the mechanical skills but struggled with anxiety. Arena def helped and now my play style on both games is more “fk it we ball”
I actually had to research if jump scares are bad for your heart long term, and had to alternate to sound spikes in my mixer to fucking save my hearing and heart pressure spikes
I'm used to the anxiety, the paranoia. I always play solo if I can in these types of games simply because its like a drug.
I recently returned to the game and this helped me loads. I was feeling really good the other day and Rushed resort on shoreline and walked out 1.6 million doubles richer
(Glad I remember THE CORRECT docs case this time XD)
Factory was a good idea. Helped me a lot. Thanks! :)
"It's not the gear fear, it's the getting scared" This is exactly my problem, so often it feels like whenever I do move around I get jumpscared by a player or a scav I can't see or hear and having ADHD makes this 10x worse. I could give a shit about the gear or rubles, as it's so easy to get. It's also why it takes me a lot longer than others to unlock the flea market that itself is a huge achievement for me each wipe. Yet I'll happily slide into a lighthouse night raid and not have issues, but that anxiety is always gonna be there in the back of my head.
The purpose of the early pistol quest in factory was most likely to desenticise people regarding dying.
well first I had to learn military time lol spawned in on Customs in the pitch black night! next was map knowledge, gear fear and know I only have myself to depend on lol
Been playing tarkov since 2020, finally went through a burn-out last year and came back to it for the patch
The patch is amazing but I'm stuck in a cycle of staring at my stash until alt-f4ing if my friends aren't on. I don't care about gear, or dying but playing solo now just gives me constant anxiety throughout the raid so it's not enjoyable
Kind of right, but also... im not afraid of fighting anybody anywhere, but i do get some adrenaline if im walking around thinking there are campers everywhere, so what i do is taking a cheap gearset, push around the map and learn the timings and where things can be or come from, and where to check. Then its just walk around the way i do, and if some bush muncher sits still in the right spot for 30 min to get me, so be it.
Something to be aware of when you're a solo player is knowing when you have the advantage over somebody else, or another team. If you DO have any advantage then your odds of surviving goes way high.
One of those days rn..gotta get into customs to get the first prapor and skier quest done and people sit in corners and wait and watch..5x ina row atm ive died..gotta keep pushing tho ig..they always see me before i see them in tarkov it seems like lol i stg
When i started playing solo i noticed i survived a lot more and got way more tasks done
What helps with me is playing spt gives you time to play on your own and figure it out
Very applicable. Thanks
scared--> confident --> 3.2k hour reserve PTSD. it doesn't get any easier boys.
great video but you not checking corners on factory gave me anxiety lol
100% it’s being scared of getting jumped and not gear fear at all for me. There is no gear I could bring in that I would be afraid of losing.
From some1 who recently got into tarkov at the beginning of the wipe who solos because they just dont have any1 to play with and discord servers are always dead, i honestly just thug it out
Tarkov is extremly new player unfriendly, I got the game in 2018 but only just started playing 2024 (50-ish hours) And asides all the difficulties within armor and weapons and maps etc. The biggest turn off is that everyone I walk into is level 30+ with 1000-4000 hours played. Never felt I lost a fight based on skill but time invested. But it makes one feel even more hold back to even shoot anyone cause they just gonna be super exp anyway. Very frustrating.
Hints:
- For new players i suggets doing night raids on Factory for maxium scariness. like go in with a shotgun with a flashlight on & some 7mm/6,5mm buckshots in your belt. Dont even need a west or backpack because you can pick them off the first scav/enemy you kill. Do make sure to have a armor on & perhaps a helmet. I never used headsets & tarkov audio is wonky anyways. Even at low levels you can snipe the good shotguns like 153/155 from Fence & replace the 4 mag with like a 6 shell mag. Then just rapid fire the whole mag into anything that moves. Buckshots may not have much armor pen the multiple pellets does massive overall damage. Use Piranha once you unlock them. Try to use the flashlight only in combat.
- reposition constantly. Watch a video about how scavs work & on how to reposition. Reposition constantly. This is not COD, so the thing that keeps you alive it running away & finding a new angle. I reposition myself constantly & after anything/everything really.
- even if you are new to the game & dont know the maps do try to think about going from cover to cover if possible.
- dont forget about the scrool wheel to sneak more.
- advanced tactics is something i fear you can only learn by playing, but i do want to mention that you can transfter some tactics or mentality from other games even other genres. I mean in Dark Souls you also only engage one enemy at a time & then fall back.
- challenge yourself. Because that is what make a game fun at least for me. i another game i got bored fighting the bots/players & so started loading into in solo into 4 team matches. And the game became really fun again. Not saying what your challenge might be because its so individual, but if you challenge yourself you might enjoy it a lot more.
Also don't be afraid to move. I've had allot more success booking it out of spawn towards my task objective instead of trying to take it slow.
For me it is the loading time. I hate getting killed 1 minute into the raid just to wait another 15 mins. When I have 2 hours to play…..they really should fix that.
5000+ hour squad player here. Not really done any solos for 5 wipes.
For me it’s not about losing my shit. I don’t even insure my gear, cuz my friends might want it or sell it for profit.
For me the worst part about solo Tarkov is that you get way more fucking jumpscared. My heart jumps out of my chest if I accidently walk into a goblin. XD
But what kinda worked for me when I’m solo is to play very slow and tactical. That means I stay in raid for the entire timer more or less. XD
Almost all of the 600+ hours I have in tarkov were solo. Tarkov has beaten me down like a dog but I just keep coming back.
Gear fear is quite dumb on Tarkov, when I have valuables that I absolutely want to bring home, well I just extract asap, and if I die in the process then I don't feel bad, I feel bad when my hesitation is the cause of my death, but I'm never upset to die trying something to achieve my objective. You can jump straight again for another round and maybe set yourself back in optimal conditions to go in raid again. Tarkov is way more permissive than you think.
If you don't like to fight you can sucess in Tarkov by being great at positioning, well aware of your surroundings, I'm a hardcore DayZ player and this is my first wipe, I use the topography, the sounds to create a diversion or sounds coming from other players as a diversion, the lights/shadows, I use a lot of defensive nades to secure my escapes in close quarter, I almost never see players using supress fire to cover themselves while moving in high pressure, you litteraly have everything you need to escape from any player.
Tarkov just feels like a Call of Duty without HUD when you are a DayZ veteran coming to Tarkov, even easier
Accidentally spent to much while building a gun, and now i just can't wait to die with it so I can raid stress free again
Being new and having no idea if I have crazy good gear or trash. That’s gear fear. When I saw a plater ridge I had was selling for 34k on flea with no armor plates I really didn’t care too awful much taking that out. It’s just crazy what you don’t know till you get the flea market. I mean I’ve made a lot on it just selling stuff I found.
Idk man.. ive played through 6 wipes and i cannot get over that fear.. i have the game sense,map knowledge, when to engage and disengage fights.. yet it doesnt calm my nerves.. maybe im just too much of an anxious mess to play this game anymore and to make it worse i feel the same anxiety when i play arena..
200k for decent gun
30k for ammo
40k for comms
40k for helmet
20k for rig
50k for armor
20k in men's
.... I wouldn't say I play scared, but yeah it's definitely the gear I'm worried about. What else separates tarkov from arcade shooters?
exactly. happened many times I had to loot and do scav runs to get decent gear only just to get head eyes in the first 10 minutes lol
So, one scav run?
I don't have gear fear, I have loading screen fear.
I actually need to start playing with my bros more. They give me crap but I enjoy Tarkov solo the most.
Bro I spent my first 3 wipes crouched in a corner somewhere then spent 1000 hrs offline n watch this vid n just never stop now so recommend this vid but also spending time on the maps offline to learn the map n flow of the map also ground zero raids are 45 min and most raids the pmc are gone by 30 min left
I LOVE factory. It's such a fun map to play. Everyone should play factory if you want to improve your pvp. It's also a decent loot map if you clear the lobby. Farming scavs is also pretty easy, so you can walk out with a few thousand xp.
For me it wasn’t worth going out just to looks for Salewa without flea market. Just did most of the other tasks alone that require pmc to do
For me it’s trying to complete tasks by myself when there are lots of people camping :( I get nervous when trying to go to high traffic areas. There’s only so many angles I can check and i can’t see through bushes. I don’t get a lot of time to play so I try not to throw away raids lol. Any tips for this? Especially going for tasks in high pvp areas. Thank you !!!
Personally its not that much the "anxiety" when it comes to tarkov, but more the frustration of actually gearing and being ready for battle, for then to be one shotted by more or less the first bullet in first fight, straight to the head.
If you wanna survive solo in this game you gotta hide for 30 minutes untill the last 15 minutes before moving out, wich is kinda boring. And the scared feeling you have is from cheaters taking ur shit anyway eventually if it is worth.
I have been playing this wipe mostly solo i play scavs with friends though they're not high speed enough for me lol
I mean, i cant get over getting totally stomped by scavs xD
I played like 3 years ago for 3 wipes. I came back to tarkov and I feel lost on Woods.
Its so annoying that I dont want to play anymore because BSG things its realistic that a PMC that goes into an unknown area does not have any compass or technical device.
Imagine you are a completly new player, its just annoying as fk.
I don't have gear fear I have what's called loading screen fear. Because I know if I die it's going to waste at least 8 minutes of my life getting my pmc geared again and loading into another raid lol.
Pro tip if you accidentally kill someone and they passive aggressively low blow you it’s simple find new people to play with no need to have them lingering around if they feel like that over a game :D
literally me as well idgaf about my gear or dying i just hate getting jumpscared 😅😅
I got the game was learning downtown with bots for awhile queued into a real raid then got rushed by 6 people up a flight of stairs I don’t think I’m necessarily scared it just seems impossible to do anything
I would be less scqred if snow didnt make so much sound even slow crouch is not silant
Nice video. Thanks
There should be solo only queue lobbies. The amount of times i kill a PMC and then get picked off by his buddy is ridiculous.
I fear interchange so much more than factories 🤣
I got Kappa. Today, since the achievement has been introduced, only 0.6% have it. And let me tell you. After a break - I am still scared.
I agree with what you've said
I have over 1 500 hours as a Solo Player, and I disagree about the "sitting scared in a corner" strategy being bad for new players. In Tarkov audio is the most important cue. Learning to master it by learning how to not be heard and sneak up on players will make you a very deadly player down the road. It also gives you the most powerful advantage you can have as a solo - the element of surprise. Once you learn how to be silent and invisible, adding a sprinkle of aggression is easy.
its was money fear for me so now i have just ran scavs only for a couple days , factory ,streets and shoreline. Now im at 12mil rub and no fear
Being scared is part of what makes it fun.
01:25 or you agree with the group that whoever gets the kill / puts in over 80% of hits gets the loot like me and my mates do, never issues with it
Instead of factory raid, arena is a better option as you would get more pvp for less time.
usually newer players don't have EOD so they can't get their hands on arena unless they spend 30ish euro for this dogcrap of a "game"
Playing Factory is the best tip!
I have a buddy, tries to convince me spt is better and online isnt worth because of the fear. My man wont get out of hus own way. Litterally every time we play hes on for like 3 or 4 raids then gets pissed and gets off. I end up soloing just because i want to play. Point is self awareness and maturity are a big part of this video; Accountability.
For me, it's never been about being scared. It's about realizing patterns and understanding what you're leveraging versus what you're getting out of it.
I feel like the game doesn't respect your time, and perhaps it doesn't aim to. You can spend a ton of time and money on a kit, just to die to a nearby spawn.
You can also spend a lot on a kit only to not find enough to justify bringing that kit in. So many random variables, yet too many set patterns of guaranteed set backs.
Hard to explain, but I just feel my time is basically wasted when I play.
Anyone got tips for reducing load in time, my biggest reason for not wanting to play is I haven't been able to play a wipe from the start and so I come back to the game when everyone has better stuff and I feel less inclined to play when I spend about 5 minutes gearing up, then wait 5-6 minutes loading into a game just to die in 1 minute its a technical issue that affects my motivation over everything
Good luck to that, in raid is still scary af
i literally cannot figure out where i spawned in at! i have the maps up and im trying and trying to figure it out but i die before i ever figure out where tf im at! i did a practice one and couldnt find an extraction point lol im like a baby with this game. makes me feel so stupid. i am but this makes me notice lol
New player here.
What you're talking about made me put off playing this game for almost a year and a half after buying it.
For this though, i feel like i have overcome a small part of it but enough that im proud that i did.
I feel like on woods i am at least ABLE to figure out where i am better. On customs, i feel like maybe i wont get sniped as much and though i still find myself stuck in a corner, i now am stuck in a corner where i think other spawns wouldn't instakill me the moment i spawn. On ground zero i died so much i think i understand where i can die from enough to at least prevent one death out of a hundred.
This is sad news for a lazy ass like me, but to be honest, it feels like the only way you learn this game is by actual true brute force.
I am thinking about focusing my gameplay on dying in each and every manner possible so i can expand my exposure to death a bit more.\
Hopefully this helps!
I'm scared of losing all my ammo cause traders at level 1 sell garbage
Fill the bottom of your mags with garbage ammo and keep the good stuff in your prison wallet. Then refill mags from your secure case
Level one ammo is good enough for scavs and until I’m level 15 I’m just avoiding PvP
@@strippins I dont think we are that far in the wipe yet, but if you dont get used to PVP then having better gear wont help much later on down the road
gear fear doesnt exist if you play the game like it should be. I picked up the game 4-5 weeks ago and now so much better than most people i sherpad with. why? cuz i pushed the limits of the engagements i was in and learned offline for layouts and just pushed. but hey people learn at their own pace so you shouldnt use me as an example. I now have a 5.4 kd and 47% extract success rate. and i just touched the game. so you can do it just believe in your skills
Can you recomend a head set thsts all around good and wont cost you your liver?