As someone who has played mostly solo a majority of wipes since 2018, my biggest advice is, accept you won't be able to loot your kills as often. If you see or hear at least two people in a squad and you kill one of them, 70% of the time, the best thing to do is to just run the hell away. Unless the squad is really good, they will become static, trying to figure out where you are and where their friends are. Use that time to run away and just keep looting other things. Cause most likely, as they're trying to find you and you're looting, you're going to find items with a value way higher than the gear of the guy you killed. Accept that looting PMC kills is a privilege of squads who can cover each other and your survival rate will get much higher while still getting the fun out of PvP. Another big tip is to ambush. Don't start a fight with a squad unless you feel that you can kill one of them for sure. After you kill that guy, you either run away or you run to a different position to shoot the next guy. There are many squads that I have fought that seem to think they're fighting another squad even though it's just me cause I keep moving and shooting at them from different positions. This can also be used to box squads in cause players who usually play in squads poop their pants when they're alone. Therefore squads in a fight will group up and stay closer together where you can box them in somewhere where you can just sit in a good spot and shoot them as they try to push, or you box them in and use the time for them to find the courage to try to find you and kill you to run away and go loot the good stuff. You also have to accept that if you run into a squad at close range as a solo player and you have no way to run away or reposition, you're dead 90% of the time. But instead of being sad about it, try to do as much damage as possible. Send one or two of them back to the lobby, chances are they won't play another raid until their friends are done with theirs so you can probably get one or two raids done before they're into their next one. Dying wastes their time much more than yours and is something to feel good about as you kill two people in a 4-man squad. They might get their gear back, but they won't get their time back. Those are probably my biggest tips for playing tarkov solo and that's the end of my TED talk.
accepting you will always be at a massive disadvantage was the hardest part for me to deal with. that and going from complete dead silence to the loudest gunfight in history in a matter of seconds. i'm not afraid of losing my kit, i'm afraid of the sound design haha
I think there is difference between gear fear and solo anxiety. I'm not scared of losing expensive gear. I just have super anxiety playing solo. Getting jumpscared by a bush camper solo vs with squads hits really different. Fighting 1 v many is so much adrenaline that my hand wont stop shaking for hours after.
@@TACTICALKAOS1 Keep doing it over and over! run to those fights! become desensitized to it, after you've done a tonne of raids that feeling will go away i promise
Once I am in a raid as a solo I do really well. I find fights while solo so much easier like when I am in a group fighting a three man feels scary but when I am alone I feel so much more in control. The issue is when I am playing alone I will take like 10-20 minute breaks in between every raid because I have no one pushing me to play so I just sit there building up confidence to play.
I'm the exact same, every time I'm actually in raid I have a great time but because the game is intense I have to work myself up to do it. I usually end up watching Tarkov videos on the other monitor sitting in my stash more than actually playing. This is still true even after 1600 hours entirely solo, wish I could get over that. I guess there's still some form of gear fear there even though I don't value gear much at all and know it's easy to get.
Great tips, and one extra incredibly important piece of advice is to ALWAYS FOLLOW YOUR INSTINCTS. As soon as you doubt yourself in this game, it will punish you for it. If you get that feeling that you're in a bad spot, move. If you think you heard something nearby, check your corners, turn on tac device, look around, be ready to shoot, ect. If you spawn somewhere specific and feel like you're going to be pushed, you probably will be. Chances are your gut feeling is correct and any time wasted being indecisive can be punishing, especially when no one is there to save you as a solo.
That's a real thing too Undercover cops are told to follow their gut and if they say they have a bad feeling about something they don't have to do it - it's recognized as a valid reason
Yep, just telling myself „you can do it“ always makes me play so much better, because the second I doubt myself I will just sit still with my heart racing for no reason and wait for the enemy to find me.
I'm definitely much more evasive when I play solo. A bunch of times when I'm fighting a squad and I think I can't kill all of them, I'll just kill a few and run since more likely than not the remaining ones will go into "protect my buddy's stuff" mode and won't pursue.
I feel like squads that play longer together do not do that though. I duo a lot with my buddy and we never really watch each others body, we try to get weird angles or we chase the guy that killed me or my buddy like a madman
I just got into solo play after running ONLY duo for my 300 hours of gameplay (300 hours is not alot for this game) and honestly the only tip i can give for solo anxiety is to have a plan. You tell yourself you're gunna do THIS obj, loot this area, and take this extract out if you spawn in THIS side of the map, and just generally don't wander from your idea. I find myself always getting killed and panicking when I wander around too much. Think about your ways out of situations, you aren't shroud, or landmark, when the alarm bells in your head are popping tf off telling you you're going to die, bug the hell out man. Pick your fights and only fights you feel like you have an advantage in. Heard an anonymous man ahead of you in a bush somewhere you don't know on your way and feel he has the better position? back up and swing around and put yourself at the advantage. This game doesn't force you to take all the fights that come, at the time they come. You have control. Every sighting, sound, creak and crack is an enemy. So many players don't have that advantage, they run in squads or duos where they have to keep spatial awareness of their teams at all times, communication gets muddy, confusion hits when someone dies, use it! The mass majority of my anxiety went away when I finally drilled it into my head that I have control, and the more you play like a lost roomba hugging and bouncing off every wall, the more you'll get killed. Another tip that helps it to talk to yourself (LMAO). But trust me, it helps, joke about what's going on, think out loud, make light of the situations. There's an infinite well of enjoyment you can get from this game, in victory and death, don't let it be cornered by the whims and wills of whenever your friends wanna play, jump on, grab a mosin, put a sock on your head and go be a goblin.
Goated, all of this is so true. Primarily solo almost 400 hours and it can hurt, but embracing the suck allows the HUGE come ups where you wipe a three/four man and manage to extract with 3 new kits. Also, nothing beats that adrenaline rush when you take out a member or two of an enemy squad, you hear the rest repositioning, and you take that deep breath like "Let's go". Internal music activate. Win or loss, absolute rush.
I am currently working at overcoming my cowardice, there were days the last weeks were I only zoned in as a scav because that wasn't es stressful to me. But as of late i've been embracing the way of the mosin man and it contributed in overcoming my gearfear. Some weeks to go and I will have left the anxiety behind me
Something that helped me when I was in that mindset was, I spent like 2 or 3 days worth of play time doing only scav runs on lighthouse and built up a stash of guns, ammo and armor, and went from 1mil roubles to 25mil, then I realized that I could spend all day dying and still have enough gear and money to keep playing for a week and when I got to that realization my gear-fear went away (I still don't like dying but that's mostly due to me being in the middle of a task or feeling like I could have done something better to win the fight, but I don't care about losing gear at all anymore, even early wipe when I haven't built up a big supply of stuff yet).
@@CitizenLoc thats not true at all, the mosin is just the insurance that i can easily replace my gear, i went in with my best gear and a full modded m4 and lost it, which didnt bother me due to me realizing that the mosin will get me back anything i want
The best advice a chad gave me( and it worked) do plenty of factory runs, or run 1 factory raid when you start playing. After 30 factory raids you start to get cocky. I fully understand if you almost wet your pants after finding a ledx though
This is my third wipe, I'm a father of six kids, got wife and full time job. So my play time is only when they all go to bed before I go to bed. And I can say my first wipe I was scared, I avoided every fight and only fought if I had too. At end of that wipe I got to level 44 and had so much stuff erased at wipe that last wipe I didn't have gear fear anymore as I know it all goes away one way or another. I will say each wipe I can tell I have gotten better, I still die a lot but I also have won fights I would've never thought I could first wipe I played. I have played a couple games with other players but to be honest I enjoy playing solo way more. Just take it slow, learn maps, learn ways to make money and just die and learn from it. You will see progress I promise
you can raise your progress by insane amounts if you just type + in any lfg channel of any tarkov discord. your chances of dying will be 1/5 and your chances to kill will be 5x. if you're not a complete masochist there is no reason to play this game in any group size below 5. especially if you do not have to opportunity to devote your entire being to the game.
Dude same. I'm also having really bad disconnects and crashes after every raid. Making it not very enjoyable. I've just been running factory and only scaving to make some money without back to back to back losses
As someone who's played over 2000 hours as solo, maybe another 500-100 in groups one of my favorite tricks I've learned is if you're near loot, wait and hide until not only they start looting, but their teammate starts moving and just walk behind them; often times this screws up comms where they think it was a teamkill, giving you a lot of time until your name pops up in their death screen to abuse the advantage.
Being in the military and having my other military friends play I just to explain the simple acronym we are taught in the infantry is SLLS which stands for STOP.LOOK.LISTEN.SMELL WHILE THE LAST part doesn't apply in games like video games but the rest does especially in methodical shooters or games irl like paint ball or airsoft.. It's used irl hunting in combat and in games people don't seem to understand that even in a game like tarkov if you chill out for a sec between movements you can pick up alot of what's going on around you and get idea of where enemy combatants or animals or players in a game are.
I know this is a good video because I've repeatedly come back to this video for confidence throughout the last year when I feel down while playing a lot of solo raids.
I remember not to long ago after doing a ton of rat runs I had enough cash to do a bunch of factory runs and at first I was kinda scared but after seeing what that armor will actually do it gave me a ton of confidence
hey big dawg, just wanted to say that your game sense and mindset advice is fantastic and I'm very happy and grateful that you made this amongst several other guides this game is very intimidating but with good guidance you can have so much fun even as a level 1 trying to gun down level 40 players with sweat pooling on the ground beneath their chairs.
the most important tip that I can offer is to learn. the. maps. Knowing what locations are player hotspots, where scavs and players spawn, where loot is and where extracts are can go a very long way as a solo player. I'm still fairly new to the game, but I've gotten pretty far in just getting comfortable in some of my regular maps. It became much more easy to avoid squads and not get 180 1-tapped by scavs and I also know where to look for certain loot so I'm not running around like a headless chicken. Learning combat is very important, but I honestly think learning the maps themselves is even more important
WOW, for an actual gamer trying to learn tarkov... this information was invaluable. something you definitely learn from many of game playing and i skipped that simply watching this. Thanks Jesse
My biggest thing iv learned this wipe(.13.5) is to walk. Sprinting around is actually vary noisy and iv walked up on people that had no clue I was even there and I had the ability to either kill or just keep walking to my extract/ also your more likely to see fast moves and actions rather then slow smooth ones this has saved me a lot
I've been playing since 2017 and just recently discovered a way of reducing solo anxiety that works really well for me. A lot of the time I don't feel like I'm ready to commit to a specific kit, weapon, map etc... The result is me running some half-assed budget kit instead of the good stuff sitting in my stash, because good gear isn't going to save you if you aren't comfortable using it. My advice for anyone struggling is to sell EVERY gun you acquire and if you like a specific weapon enough, build it yourself. Buy the gun and make the same thing yourself with the money you get from selling what you aren't using. The mental difference of using gear you acquired for free opposed to UTILIZING gear you PURCHASED for the purpose of performing better is night and day. You can safely say, "Yeah, I bought this shit. You see this shit? It's mine. This is my kit and I'm gonna bring the pain!" ...opposed to... "I really don't wanna lose this gun pls stop shooting at me ;_;" Kinda crazy it took as long as it did for me to realize such a basic concept. Nobody buys a bad car and drives around worry-free. They're anxious the whole time about it breaking down. The same kind of logic can be applied to the kits one brings in to raids
This is actually the right answer for me anyway. This is wipe... technically 3 but really 2. I'm level 12, and last wipe I only ran mosins, SKSs, stock PP19's. Rat guns. This wipe I decided to start building 5.45 AKs (the loss of 7.62 PS helped that decision) and I started running AK after AK with a sight, laser, and foregrip and it made me run more guns. And guess what? I survived more often, because I had something that was half decent at putting rounds into a target rather than some scav 50% durability bullshit. Find a gun you like and build on it yourself. Remember you can make another one.
Awesome video. I'm new to tarkov so every footstep I hear (or every sound I hear that sounds like a footstep) my blood pressure and heart rate rise lmao
Love this guide Jesse. Been playing solo with great success for years now but it's still nice to get tips. My problem in tarkov is actually playing with groups. I'm so used to "everything in front of me dies" that if I do find a group to play with I'm the one that struggles the most.
One of the best things I brought from Siege is shoot first. If you think someone is around the corner and you need to push that corner using some ammo on no one is better than losing it all when you die. Has gotten me lots of kills in dorms and underground of reserve. Peekers advantage is also huge in this. I've only ever won fights holding an angle when people dont know I'm there or I'm literally lvl 5 or 6ed out with armor.
Today I was able to finish my part 1-3 of Tarkov shooter for the first time, solo. During the process, I went broke & I also took a break. Throughout the 6-7 hours it took me.. I learned woods pretty well. After completing those quests, I’m now level 15 with access to flea! I’m stoked, not only because this is my first real time playing this game, but I’ve made so much progress just because I’ve made myself uncomfortable, forcing myself into areas that I knew were hard for me! No matter what, I just kept buying that gosh darn mosin and went back in. This can apply to life, sometimes we need to make ourselves a little uncomfortable, push ourselves. If we just do what makes us comfortable, who knows what will be on the other side of your success? Happy raiding!!!
One of the largest benefits I've seen first-hand from playing solo is now when I play in squads with my friends I'm more confident when I'm 1vX and I can visibly see other teams of players start to scramble and make mistakes when you remove one of their meat shields.
watched half the vid loading into a raid and kept telling myself, "keep the advantage" did that and killed a lvl 47 and walked out perfectly fine, awesome video
I acually don't play eft. Just came around cause your explainations are sooo valuable and can be transfered to other games. So I learned something that hopefully will help me get better at Marauders. Thanks a lot!
Also, I find it useful to view PMCs as "XP Piñatas" as opposed to "Loot piñatas". If you kill someone, it may be better to just leave their body and get out with that xp rather than risk getting killed and losing that xp trying to get some loot.
7:40 woh woh woh woh, hey now, when I’m on attempt number 15 of trying a task I did so fast previous wipe I forgot about it, and a team jumps me and I hide like a little rat. The thought of these guys tacticooling it up in the coms while I’m just watching them praying nobody sets me. Feels like a movie lol
Anyone who quit playing tarkov should watch this, and make an appearance again. We miss you guys. I've got 1400 hours as a solo on top of a full time job. I learn so much from this game💯 Thanks For the vid dude. Stay strong solos
I started playing this game mainly solo and overcame that anxiety. Then more friends started hopping on for the last 2 wipes. This wipe it’s been me on my own. Now I get major solo anxiety again lmao.
I used to be really scared solo'ing and get really anxious and then upset when I"d die, especially to bugs and stuff like that. Experience is the best teacher. Nowadays even when I die as a solo I can at least take in stride and go again.
Lost all my gear as a level 10 pmc, felt bad. Got off and came to this video, and heard you talk about confidence in choices. Just ran a scav run and locked in during a fight against a squad. I thought about running but then your video came to mind so i stood my ground. I just walked out with 2 level 20 PMC juice builds, i walked in with a Mosin and a dream
I have always played tarky solo... always will.. its epic. The things that gets me is the audio. Have not play much in the last 2 years mind you. But have a dabble every wipe some times more than others.
This was something i had over this weekend, no one in my group was really online Saturday, ended up only playing one raid on customs (it was a great raid, 15 scavs kills, literally left the raid with 2 bullets left, one in a spare mag and one pack bullet). Albeit i was playing very different than when im playing in my group, a lot slower and wasnt pushing all the fights around the map, just lurked around and hunted scavs for hobo quest. thank you for making a good video on helping with this apprehension that im sure many of the newer\casual players may face.
4 or 5 man raids can be good but it REAALY takes a lot of communication and teamwork. And even then it takes a lot of practice. You really need to telegraph where you're moving constantly, and you need to keep a mental map of where your teammates are moving. You need to know your callouts really well. But, when you have a good functioning 4 man, it really makes you powerful on the map. You have the strength to push just about any situation and win or at worst lose a man and be able to make sure he gets his insurance.
As my first wipe and starting halfway through and as a solo player I didn't play with a duo until level 13. I have a 20% extraction rate and am still on starting quests. I joined up with someone on discord I met over voip who helped me through my quests and he kept telling me how impressed he was with my confidence in gunfights and my callouts. I didn't even realize but learning the game as a solo accelerated my ability to gather and use information and in turn communicate that information. Quickly learn that getting pushed by multiple people sucks and that I want want to be the person pushing. Take control of the situation yourself don't let the person trying to kill you control it.
The main way I clear solo anxiety is learning maps like woods and customs. Spt also helps give you a feeling a power and also helps learning basically everything risk free. I literally learned woods, factory and customs, weapon modding, hideout management and economy just from that singleplayer. Me likeis
Its my first wipe and I purposely went into a raid last night with my best shit and was one-tapped. I have overcome gearfear, and Tarkov still has many wipes. I love Tarkov and your videos help a ton, thank you.
first wipe and i got too much t4-t5 gear to use lmao every raid i run full kits and its so fun and i always kill like 2 ppl a match or ill just die to a 1 tap of m62
@@evanbeck6670 i got over “gear-fear” by dying….quite a bit. If you do t use it, you lose it anyways because the game wipes about every 6 months. It’s the Tarkov circle of life. Besides, you have a better chance of surviving with better gear.
I just got the game a few days ago. Definitely trying to learn to play solo as none of my friends have the game yet. I don't really care about losing gear since wipe is around the corner but I Definitely suffer from hesitation. I'm still getting a grasp of the game and everything I have to keep track of and between that and everything going on in a raid the info really can be overwhelming to process fast enough to make a decision.
This is my 2nd full wipe playing only solo and I'm still trying to learn what a good way to play is and I'm currently focused on what guns I can consistently buy (for cheap) and make my money back hopefully in one raid by only playing interchange cause i know interchange by heart mostly my first wipe was the mosin now this wipe just started a week ago is the aks-74u slightly modded and its been working
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Another thing I'd suggest as a solo player is don't just immediately shoot the first person you see if they don't see you. A lot of times good teams are not playing ontop of each other, waiting 3 or 4 seconds can reveal 2, or even 4 other people you did not see. Once you know their true numbers the decision to take the fight, run, or if in a good spot stay quiet and let em pass becomes easier to get right.
Amazing video, I usually play with my friends on trios and squads but sometimes solo'ing just feels 10 times better and I get to task way more efficiently solo
Hey Jesse, coming to this late but I very much appreciate the content. I spend about half of my Tarkov time solo and the other half in a duo. I would say that 80-90% of my solo time is spent on a scav due to this solo anxiety. I hope to decrease that percentage after watching this video! Thank you!
what helped me is playing like nothing matters. between the eventual wipe, the certainty you will die at some point if not alot, no point it hoarding gear you wont use. always use my best stuff that gives me best chance of living. and for the most part it works! and not to run everywhere as it makes more noise
I'm Lv 4 and have 2mil. This video really helped me out. I don't have many tools to get loot out of raids. But, knowledge is power, solo is power. And completing the loop is what I haven't done. I need to do it though. That really put perspective into me returning to the game after loses. Thanks Jesse.
One big way I have helped myself be able to actually play my PMC a lot is literally run SCAV until my stash is pretty much full and I have lots of spares guns and stuff so that I have essentially throw away gear to put on my PMC that I don't care if I lose, it has made it so that I can actually use my PMC now, might not be the best way but I have used my PMC already 10x more then I did the last time I played.
If you’re going to play solo exclusively, map knowledge is arguably one of the top most important things you can have on your side. Do some practice raids, then some low kit runs to get a feel of the maps. It will save you.
100%. knowing key locations of where players most likely are, where they spawn, where loot is and what routes to take can get you a long way as a solo player. Maps are the most important thing you can learn imo as well, because even an awful player can extract if they know the ins and outs of the map they play. The only exception might be something like factory, but that's because it often plays more like a meatgrinder (But it's still invaluable to learn)
I hate HATE the sound and Crack of getting shot in the head 😅 thats what scares me the most. Thats what keeps me from playing sometimes. The jumpscares and getting shot from a distance. Scary stuff man
First wipe and I just ran factory and interchange til I got sick of them. Never dropped below 100k roubles because I'd just run stashes on woods. Finding Thors, Ash12s, Troopers, M4s, etc etc to this day. Woods is my insurance policy
The majority of my 1300 hours has been as a solo, and all of these things are so true. ESPECIALLY that movement is key. Absolutely crucial. And rubles are easy to come by. You’re always one scav run away from a free kit. And despite ammo differences, any gun CAN kill any PMC (Altyns aside).
I started this wipe 2 weeks ago. The first thing i did was grind my scav karma to 6.0. I got to 6.0 at level 13 and then I focused on hitting level 15 and getting flea. Knowing I can just go scav every 5 minutes or so helps me feel more confident in bringing good gear on my PMC since I can just get more money and gear easily. I had every hideout upgrade possible, before level 2 traders, done before flea and now I have a ton of quest and barter items ready for me to level up. My next goal is to buy a Red Rebel so I can farm reserve as a PMC easier.
Today I wanted to do Glory to CPSU quest, It happened that there was some PVP in the building, I killed 2 guys and was last man standing. When looting another PMC showed up, I was full of loot, We talked for a while, He had the same quest and some freaking how We slowly met in the hallway, visited the room for a quest, didn't kill eachother to the end and We then split our own ways. I was Shocked XDD
Literally started playing 2 weeks ago, down to my last 6k rubles, managed to find sawed off in a crate kill a scav and die just minutes away from an extract point.. Bit frustrating but, got some insights so to speak from that
I had to come here after playing my 4th wipe. I’m late this wipe. Have hit lvl 42 before with 4.14 K/D This wipe last weekend, at lvl 8 got killed 10 times in a row. I’m pretty sure down to cheaters. I now come here with this problem. Thanks for the vid man!
I need videos like this. I've watched Summit2g and OPDreski play this game and was always mesmerized by how it looks and plays. I purchased this instead of Stalker 2 thinking it'll be easy. Welp, as I loaded in and seen nothing on the HUD but my stance and stamina, I knew I was done. I was so scared. Killed 6 folks and 3 more showed up and I got 2 tapped. Okay so this is a FPS Souls experience. I'll love this journey. OHHHH I'm doing the single player mod. Hope this guide still helps lmao.
Best way to get over being scared of playing solo for me was by putting urself out there over an over again and just being ok with dying and knowing jump scares will come no matter what. Years of dayz play helped a lot tho with Tarkov solo
Playing exclusively scav extremely often can kill your confidence as a PMC, you don't want to risk anything and you get used to a certain type of gameplay where it's risk free. I have 2000+ hours but I think I've only maybe played 200 solo simply because I'm just too terrified of squads. 1v1 fights are fine, you just need to get a good instinct going, when to run away, when to kill his friend and make him rage quit etc.
I love playing solo rather than with friends. Solos has helped me respect what engagements to push and how to handle the adversity of taking on multiple enemies. Stay humble solo players
"You don't have to take every fight." Any chance you would consider doing a video on evading and escaping? It would be nice to see how you disengage, break contact, and avoid a re-engagement or a new fight, followed with a breakdown/analysis of the clip.
I haven't heard anyone recommend this yet, but following change EFT for me. Get your scav level up so you start spawning with decent gear. Once you do this you can either compete with a lot of pmc's or find decent enough gear laying around to start engaging them. I noticed I survive about 90% of my scav runs. So it clicked, PLAY LIKE A SCAV. What does this accomplish? One, it gives you the practice of pvp without the fear. Two, you get your scav level up and increase the quality and quantity of loot you get to bring home
Tbh I played solo my first real wipe but next wipe started queueing with friends and lost my edge in solo, when they die I still kinda have it, yet when I go solo I'm just overtaken by the anxiety even tho when I play in duos trios I will prioritise my friends' life, so thanks for the tips. (Sorry if I made some mistakes here and there)
I play both duo and solo, mainly solo. How i got over it and just started playing on my own was - 1. Addiction - the game is good, i must play 2. Saying fuck it and going low risk high reward runs in factory for just PvP. Go get yourself 500k, buy 5 sets of pistols with headphones and go ham with pistol pvp. Exposure therapy basically and youre forcing yourself to do well if you want to win the fight, AND it doesnt matter too much since its just a pistol and headphones if you do die.
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Do you play Tarkov solo or in a squad?
Both
Im slolo
I prefer a chill duo
None of my friends play anymore
This is my second full wipe and have only played solo. This is my first wipe trying to ouch hard on quests and it’s been hard but fun at the same time
As someone who has played mostly solo a majority of wipes since 2018, my biggest advice is, accept you won't be able to loot your kills as often. If you see or hear at least two people in a squad and you kill one of them, 70% of the time, the best thing to do is to just run the hell away. Unless the squad is really good, they will become static, trying to figure out where you are and where their friends are. Use that time to run away and just keep looting other things. Cause most likely, as they're trying to find you and you're looting, you're going to find items with a value way higher than the gear of the guy you killed. Accept that looting PMC kills is a privilege of squads who can cover each other and your survival rate will get much higher while still getting the fun out of PvP.
Another big tip is to ambush. Don't start a fight with a squad unless you feel that you can kill one of them for sure. After you kill that guy, you either run away or you run to a different position to shoot the next guy. There are many squads that I have fought that seem to think they're fighting another squad even though it's just me cause I keep moving and shooting at them from different positions. This can also be used to box squads in cause players who usually play in squads poop their pants when they're alone. Therefore squads in a fight will group up and stay closer together where you can box them in somewhere where you can just sit in a good spot and shoot them as they try to push, or you box them in and use the time for them to find the courage to try to find you and kill you to run away and go loot the good stuff.
You also have to accept that if you run into a squad at close range as a solo player and you have no way to run away or reposition, you're dead 90% of the time. But instead of being sad about it, try to do as much damage as possible. Send one or two of them back to the lobby, chances are they won't play another raid until their friends are done with theirs so you can probably get one or two raids done before they're into their next one. Dying wastes their time much more than yours and is something to feel good about as you kill two people in a 4-man squad. They might get their gear back, but they won't get their time back.
Those are probably my biggest tips for playing tarkov solo and that's the end of my TED talk.
This is such a good comment and so damn accurate.
Huzzah! A man of quality!
Very good advices my friend. Will use them in my raids.
how do you know what the people you are fighting think of
@@alexandermccabe556 You will never know. All you need to do is to try anticipate their next move and reposition yourself.
accepting you will always be at a massive disadvantage was the hardest part for me to deal with. that and going from complete dead silence to the loudest gunfight in history in a matter of seconds. i'm not afraid of losing my kit, i'm afraid of the sound design haha
especially when the enemy has the loudest gun ever to exist, that shit sometimes makes one side of my headphones stop working for a little bit
@@DaBiggestGobbo the mjolnir no supressor
So often died because I've jumped so bad from the sound😂
I know I hate it it scares the f**** outta me
lmao best way to put it
I think there is difference between gear fear and solo anxiety. I'm not scared of losing expensive gear. I just have super anxiety playing solo. Getting jumpscared by a bush camper solo vs with squads hits really different. Fighting 1 v many is so much adrenaline that my hand wont stop shaking for hours after.
bro same
bro that adrenaline foreeal be shaking like crazy i feel that so much, im a solo player, tarkov is only game thats ever done that to me....
I guess the only real way to counter the adrenaline would probably be just experience and the ability to not give a fck abt the loot or game tbh
Yess broo I cleared factory one time and my hand was shaking so bad
@@TACTICALKAOS1 Keep doing it over and over! run to those fights! become desensitized to it, after you've done a tonne of raids that feeling will go away i promise
"Don't have much time and you may only have time for 5 to 10 raids"..... yall got time for 5 raids?!?!?
Nope 🤣
It’s more like 2-4 if I have the mental energy lol
Well depends I mean could be in raid for 30 seconds
15-20 mins per raid
1 to 3
Once I am in a raid as a solo I do really well. I find fights while solo so much easier like when I am in a group fighting a three man feels scary but when I am alone I feel so much more in control. The issue is when I am playing alone I will take like 10-20 minute breaks in between every raid because I have no one pushing me to play so I just sit there building up confidence to play.
Same sit there build guns and im like hmmm
I'm the exact same, every time I'm actually in raid I have a great time but because the game is intense I have to work myself up to do it. I usually end up watching Tarkov videos on the other monitor sitting in my stash more than actually playing. This is still true even after 1600 hours entirely solo, wish I could get over that. I guess there's still some form of gear fear there even though I don't value gear much at all and know it's easy to get.
Great tips, and one extra incredibly important piece of advice is to ALWAYS FOLLOW YOUR INSTINCTS. As soon as you doubt yourself in this game, it will punish you for it. If you get that feeling that you're in a bad spot, move. If you think you heard something nearby, check your corners, turn on tac device, look around, be ready to shoot, ect. If you spawn somewhere specific and feel like you're going to be pushed, you probably will be. Chances are your gut feeling is correct and any time wasted being indecisive can be punishing, especially when no one is there to save you as a solo.
That’s so true. Too many times I hesitated or second guessed myself I’ve died. lol
That's a real thing too
Undercover cops are told to follow their gut and if they say they have a bad feeling about something they don't have to do it - it's recognized as a valid reason
Yep, just telling myself „you can do it“ always makes me play so much better, because the second I doubt myself I will just sit still with my heart racing for no reason and wait for the enemy to find me.
I'm definitely much more evasive when I play solo. A bunch of times when I'm fighting a squad and I think I can't kill all of them, I'll just kill a few and run since more likely than not the remaining ones will go into "protect my buddy's stuff" mode and won't pursue.
I feel like squads that play longer together do not do that though. I duo a lot with my buddy and we never really watch each others body, we try to get weird angles or we chase the guy that killed me or my buddy like a madman
I just got into solo play after running ONLY duo for my 300 hours of gameplay (300 hours is not alot for this game) and honestly the only tip i can give for solo anxiety is to have a plan. You tell yourself you're gunna do THIS obj, loot this area, and take this extract out if you spawn in THIS side of the map, and just generally don't wander from your idea. I find myself always getting killed and panicking when I wander around too much. Think about your ways out of situations, you aren't shroud, or landmark, when the alarm bells in your head are popping tf off telling you you're going to die, bug the hell out man. Pick your fights and only fights you feel like you have an advantage in. Heard an anonymous man ahead of you in a bush somewhere you don't know on your way and feel he has the better position? back up and swing around and put yourself at the advantage. This game doesn't force you to take all the fights that come, at the time they come. You have control. Every sighting, sound, creak and crack is an enemy. So many players don't have that advantage, they run in squads or duos where they have to keep spatial awareness of their teams at all times, communication gets muddy, confusion hits when someone dies, use it!
The mass majority of my anxiety went away when I finally drilled it into my head that I have control, and the more you play like a lost roomba hugging and bouncing off every wall, the more you'll get killed.
Another tip that helps it to talk to yourself (LMAO). But trust me, it helps, joke about what's going on, think out loud, make light of the situations.
There's an infinite well of enjoyment you can get from this game, in victory and death, don't let it be cornered by the whims and wills of whenever your friends wanna play, jump on, grab a mosin, put a sock on your head and go be a goblin.
Map knowledge is the greatest asset in Tarkov
Goated, all of this is so true. Primarily solo almost 400 hours and it can hurt, but embracing the suck allows the HUGE come ups where you wipe a three/four man and manage to extract with 3 new kits. Also, nothing beats that adrenaline rush when you take out a member or two of an enemy squad, you hear the rest repositioning, and you take that deep breath like "Let's go". Internal music activate. Win or loss, absolute rush.
I am currently working at overcoming my cowardice, there were days the last weeks were I only zoned in as a scav because that wasn't es stressful to me. But as of late i've been embracing the way of the mosin man and it contributed in overcoming my gearfear. Some weeks to go and I will have left the anxiety behind me
Something that helped me when I was in that mindset was, I spent like 2 or 3 days worth of play time doing only scav runs on lighthouse and built up a stash of guns, ammo and armor, and went from 1mil roubles to 25mil, then I realized that I could spend all day dying and still have enough gear and money to keep playing for a week and when I got to that realization my gear-fear went away (I still don't like dying but that's mostly due to me being in the middle of a task or feeling like I could have done something better to win the fight, but I don't care about losing gear at all anymore, even early wipe when I haven't built up a big supply of stuff yet).
Night raids helped me to seems more scary but in reality less ppl and easier to move around without being spotted
Loosing a mosin is now losing gear fear soon as you have 1 to 2mil in a kit you want go in with it lossing 100k in a mosin kit will do nothing for u
@@CitizenLoc thats not true at all, the mosin is just the insurance that i can easily replace my gear, i went in with my best gear and a full modded m4 and lost it, which didnt bother me due to me realizing that the mosin will get me back anything i want
The best advice a chad gave me( and it worked) do plenty of factory runs, or run 1 factory raid when you start playing. After 30 factory raids you start to get cocky. I fully understand if you almost wet your pants after finding a ledx though
This is my third wipe, I'm a father of six kids, got wife and full time job. So my play time is only when they all go to bed before I go to bed. And I can say my first wipe I was scared, I avoided every fight and only fought if I had too. At end of that wipe I got to level 44 and had so much stuff erased at wipe that last wipe I didn't have gear fear anymore as I know it all goes away one way or another. I will say each wipe I can tell I have gotten better, I still die a lot but I also have won fights I would've never thought I could first wipe I played. I have played a couple games with other players but to be honest I enjoy playing solo way more. Just take it slow, learn maps, learn ways to make money and just die and learn from it. You will see progress I promise
you can raise your progress by insane amounts if you just type + in any lfg channel of any tarkov discord. your chances of dying will be 1/5 and your chances to kill will be 5x. if you're not a complete masochist there is no reason to play this game in any group size below 5. especially if you do not have to opportunity to devote your entire being to the game.
Thanks!
I feel like Jesse reached into my brain and described exactly how my last week and a half of Tarkov has been with that intro.
Dude same. I'm also having really bad disconnects and crashes after every raid. Making it not very enjoyable. I've just been running factory and only scaving to make some money without back to back to back losses
Jessie: "Don't take the entire squad on at once"
Police girl: hold my beer
She must've been using outplayed on that one
If it's the video I'm thinking of she wanted blood or possibly dog tags lmao
As someone who's played over 2000 hours as solo, maybe another 500-100 in groups one of my favorite tricks I've learned is if you're near loot, wait and hide until not only they start looting, but their teammate starts moving and just walk behind them; often times this screws up comms where they think it was a teamkill, giving you a lot of time until your name pops up in their death screen to abuse the advantage.
Being in the military and having my other military friends play I just to explain the simple acronym we are taught in the infantry is SLLS which stands for STOP.LOOK.LISTEN.SMELL WHILE THE LAST part doesn't apply in games like video games but the rest does especially in methodical shooters or games irl like paint ball or airsoft.. It's used irl hunting in combat and in games people don't seem to understand that even in a game like tarkov if you chill out for a sec between movements you can pick up alot of what's going on around you and get idea of where enemy combatants or animals or players in a game are.
I know this is a good video because I've repeatedly come back to this video for confidence throughout the last year when I feel down while playing a lot of solo raids.
im over here with solo anxiety not because gear fear. but that sound of getting head clapped just freaks me out so much. thank you for your videos.
Yeah this sound is so fucking loud and when you get shot out of nowhere.
I remember not to long ago after doing a ton of rat runs I had enough cash to do a bunch of factory runs and at first I was kinda scared but after seeing what that armor will actually do it gave me a ton of confidence
Always wise words, sir. The first Tarkov content creator I started following, and still my favorite.
hey big dawg, just wanted to say that your game sense and mindset advice is fantastic and I'm very happy and grateful that you made this amongst several other guides this game is very intimidating but with good guidance you can have so much fun even as a level 1 trying to gun down level 40 players with sweat pooling on the ground beneath their chairs.
Even after 1400 hours in tarkov, still gaining new insight from this video. Great stuff.
the most important tip that I can offer is to learn. the. maps. Knowing what locations are player hotspots, where scavs and players spawn, where loot is and where extracts are can go a very long way as a solo player.
I'm still fairly new to the game, but I've gotten pretty far in just getting comfortable in some of my regular maps. It became much more easy to avoid squads and not get 180 1-tapped by scavs and I also know where to look for certain loot so I'm not running around like a headless chicken. Learning combat is very important, but I honestly think learning the maps themselves is even more important
WOW, for an actual gamer trying to learn tarkov... this information was invaluable. something you definitely learn from many of game playing and i skipped that simply watching this. Thanks Jesse
My biggest thing iv learned this wipe(.13.5) is to walk. Sprinting around is actually vary noisy and iv walked up on people that had no clue I was even there and I had the ability to either kill or just keep walking to my extract/ also your more likely to see fast moves and actions rather then slow smooth ones this has saved me a lot
as someone with no friends that only solos I feel this video to my core
let’s play
@@chinofromthebay1135 this comment restores my faith in humanity. your hospitality is awesome
I've been playing since 2017 and just recently discovered a way of reducing solo anxiety that works really well for me. A lot of the time I don't feel like I'm ready to commit to a specific kit, weapon, map etc... The result is me running some half-assed budget kit instead of the good stuff sitting in my stash, because good gear isn't going to save you if you aren't comfortable using it.
My advice for anyone struggling is to sell EVERY gun you acquire and if you like a specific weapon enough, build it yourself. Buy the gun and make the same thing yourself with the money you get from selling what you aren't using. The mental difference of using gear you acquired for free opposed to UTILIZING gear you PURCHASED for the purpose of performing better is night and day. You can safely say, "Yeah, I bought this shit. You see this shit? It's mine. This is my kit and I'm gonna bring the pain!" ...opposed to... "I really don't wanna lose this gun pls stop shooting at me ;_;"
Kinda crazy it took as long as it did for me to realize such a basic concept. Nobody buys a bad car and drives around worry-free. They're anxious the whole time about it breaking down. The same kind of logic can be applied to the kits one brings in to raids
This is actually the right answer for me anyway. This is wipe... technically 3 but really 2. I'm level 12, and last wipe I only ran mosins, SKSs, stock PP19's. Rat guns. This wipe I decided to start building 5.45 AKs (the loss of 7.62 PS helped that decision) and I started running AK after AK with a sight, laser, and foregrip and it made me run more guns. And guess what? I survived more often, because I had something that was half decent at putting rounds into a target rather than some scav 50% durability bullshit.
Find a gun you like and build on it yourself. Remember you can make another one.
Absolutely amazing tips. This is exactly what should have been said for a RUclips title like this.
Awesome video. I'm new to tarkov so every footstep I hear (or every sound I hear that sounds like a footstep) my blood pressure and heart rate rise lmao
Love this guide Jesse. Been playing solo with great success for years now but it's still nice to get tips. My problem in tarkov is actually playing with groups. I'm so used to "everything in front of me dies" that if I do find a group to play with I'm the one that struggles the most.
Thank you so much for this Jesse! This is my second wipe and this wipe I'm playing a lot of solo. This helped me a lot!
One of the best things I brought from Siege is shoot first. If you think someone is around the corner and you need to push that corner using some ammo on no one is better than losing it all when you die. Has gotten me lots of kills in dorms and underground of reserve. Peekers advantage is also huge in this. I've only ever won fights holding an angle when people dont know I'm there or I'm literally lvl 5 or 6ed out with armor.
Today I was able to finish my part 1-3 of Tarkov shooter for the first time, solo. During the process, I went broke & I also took a break. Throughout the 6-7 hours it took me.. I learned woods pretty well. After completing those quests, I’m now level 15 with access to flea! I’m stoked, not only because this is my first real time playing this game, but I’ve made so much progress just because I’ve made myself uncomfortable, forcing myself into areas that I knew were hard for me! No matter what, I just kept buying that gosh darn mosin and went back in. This can apply to life, sometimes we need to make ourselves a little uncomfortable, push ourselves. If we just do what makes us comfortable, who knows what will be on the other side of your success?
Happy raiding!!!
One of the largest benefits I've seen first-hand from playing solo is now when I play in squads with my friends I'm more confident when I'm 1vX and I can visibly see other teams of players start to scramble and make mistakes when you remove one of their meat shields.
watched half the vid loading into a raid and kept telling myself, "keep the advantage" did that and killed a lvl 47 and walked out perfectly fine, awesome video
I acually don't play eft. Just came around cause your explainations are sooo valuable and can be transfered to other games. So I learned something that hopefully will help me get better at Marauders. Thanks a lot!
best tip video i think i have ever seen and takes the time to explain exactly what he means amazing much appreciated bro
I went solo from day one lol . I play with friends a lot too . They all loved the game too but they get frustrated much easier .
just running around shoreline gets my hands so sweaty from the anticipation. and just in general i struggle with choice paralysis
Also, I find it useful to view PMCs as "XP Piñatas" as opposed to "Loot piñatas".
If you kill someone, it may be better to just leave their body and get out with that xp rather than risk getting killed and losing that xp trying to get some loot.
Holy shit I thought you got your xp regardless of if you extract or not.
@@ThrobRoss you get an xp bonus for surviving. Which i didn't know.
7:40 woh woh woh woh, hey now, when I’m on attempt number 15 of trying a task I did so fast previous wipe I forgot about it, and a team jumps me and I hide like a little rat. The thought of these guys tacticooling it up in the coms while I’m just watching them praying nobody sets me. Feels like a movie lol
Anyone who quit playing tarkov should watch this, and make an appearance again. We miss you guys. I've got 1400 hours as a solo on top of a full time job. I learn so much from this game💯 Thanks For the vid dude. Stay strong solos
I started playing this game mainly solo and overcame that anxiety. Then more friends started hopping on for the last 2 wipes. This wipe it’s been me on my own. Now I get major solo anxiety again lmao.
0:35 - 0:55 basically sums up my whole tarkov adventure, played one wipe and never came back cause of this
I used to be really scared solo'ing and get really anxious and then upset when I"d die, especially to bugs and stuff like that. Experience is the best teacher. Nowadays even when I die as a solo I can at least take in stride and go again.
Lost all my gear as a level 10 pmc, felt bad. Got off and came to this video, and heard you talk about confidence in choices. Just ran a scav run and locked in during a fight against a squad. I thought about running but then your video came to mind so i stood my ground. I just walked out with 2 level 20 PMC juice builds, i walked in with a Mosin and a dream
I have always played tarky solo... always will.. its epic. The things that gets me is the audio. Have not play much in the last 2 years mind you. But have a dabble every wipe some times more than others.
Awesome tips, thank you. Quite new to the game and solo ALOT. Feel I’ve taken something from this and can make better decisions in a raid!!
This was something i had over this weekend, no one in my group was really online Saturday, ended up only playing one raid on customs (it was a great raid, 15 scavs kills, literally left the raid with 2 bullets left, one in a spare mag and one pack bullet). Albeit i was playing very different than when im playing in my group, a lot slower and wasnt pushing all the fights around the map, just lurked around and hunted scavs for hobo quest.
thank you for making a good video on helping with this apprehension that im sure many of the newer\casual players may face.
I can't like this enough times, thanks Jesse. Gonna try solos out.
4 or 5 man raids can be good but it REAALY takes a lot of communication and teamwork. And even then it takes a lot of practice. You really need to telegraph where you're moving constantly, and you need to keep a mental map of where your teammates are moving. You need to know your callouts really well.
But, when you have a good functioning 4 man, it really makes you powerful on the map. You have the strength to push just about any situation and win or at worst lose a man and be able to make sure he gets his insurance.
great tips love the mind game ideas - shooting out a window and throwing a random nade
As my first wipe and starting halfway through and as a solo player I didn't play with a duo until level 13. I have a 20% extraction rate and am still on starting quests. I joined up with someone on discord I met over voip who helped me through my quests and he kept telling me how impressed he was with my confidence in gunfights and my callouts. I didn't even realize but learning the game as a solo accelerated my ability to gather and use information and in turn communicate that information. Quickly learn that getting pushed by multiple people sucks and that I want want to be the person pushing. Take control of the situation yourself don't let the person trying to kill you control it.
Thank you! Accepting inevitable death helped me enjoy the game much more! I was that guy waiting for scav runs lol
Hello from Haiti! A lot of good advice and if we put into action we'll definitely be a better solo player.
that guy at 11:53 reminded me of Todd from Breaking Bad with that polite demeanor yet dangerous intent
The main way I clear solo anxiety is learning maps like woods and customs. Spt also helps give you a feeling a power and also helps learning basically everything risk free. I literally learned woods, factory and customs, weapon modding, hideout management and economy just from that singleplayer. Me likeis
Its my first wipe and I purposely went into a raid last night with my best shit and was one-tapped. I have overcome gearfear, and Tarkov still has many wipes. I love Tarkov and your videos help a ton, thank you.
Also my first wipe, have about 10 hours of playtime so far, and still have bad gear fear
How did you overcome it personally
first wipe and i got too much t4-t5 gear to use lmao
every raid i run full kits and its so fun and i always kill like 2 ppl a match or ill just die to a 1 tap of m62
Avoid holding angles, this wipe desync is the worst ever
@@evanbeck6670 i got over “gear-fear” by dying….quite a bit. If you do t use it, you lose it anyways because the game wipes about every 6 months. It’s the Tarkov circle of life. Besides, you have a better chance of surviving with better gear.
I just got the game a few days ago. Definitely trying to learn to play solo as none of my friends have the game yet. I don't really care about losing gear since wipe is around the corner but I Definitely suffer from hesitation. I'm still getting a grasp of the game and everything I have to keep track of and between that and everything going on in a raid the info really can be overwhelming to process fast enough to make a decision.
i keep rewatching this video over and over and over.
Mate, loving the content. I'm a pretty new player and this kind of content is second to none. Like and subscribed my man!
This is my 2nd full wipe playing only solo and I'm still trying to learn what a good way to play is and I'm currently focused on what guns I can consistently buy (for cheap) and make my money back hopefully in one raid by only playing interchange cause i know interchange by heart mostly my first wipe was the mosin now this wipe just started a week ago is the aks-74u slightly modded and its been working
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Another thing I'd suggest as a solo player is don't just immediately shoot the first person you see if they don't see you. A lot of times good teams are not playing ontop of each other, waiting 3 or 4 seconds can reveal 2, or even 4 other people you did not see. Once you know their true numbers the decision to take the fight, run, or if in a good spot stay quiet and let em pass becomes easier to get right.
Amazing video, I usually play with my friends on trios and squads but sometimes solo'ing just feels 10 times better and I get to task way more efficiently solo
also I notice I usually can do way better solo than with my teamates, I honestly don't know why
Hey Jesse, coming to this late but I very much appreciate the content. I spend about half of my Tarkov time solo and the other half in a duo. I would say that 80-90% of my solo time is spent on a scav due to this solo anxiety. I hope to decrease that percentage after watching this video! Thank you!
How's it going
I decided to take a break from Tarkov. It's been 18 months. You guys, I think I did it - I escaped Tarkov.
Impossible, they said it could not be done
You think you've escaped but 18 months without playing and you are still watching tarkov videos. You've escaped nothing.
Was looking for the comment about the pic of kid Jesse at the end, lmao. The face is the same today! Awesome vid as always man.
what helped me is playing like nothing matters. between the eventual wipe, the certainty you will die at some point if not alot, no point it hoarding gear you wont use. always use my best stuff that gives me best chance of living. and for the most part it works! and not to run everywhere as it makes more noise
Playing since alpha, never been in any squad. Solo tarkov is great experience.
You are missing on too much fun from teamkills :D
Great video Jesse, stay well broski
Sup Jesse just joined your DC. Nice touch with the questions first before actually joining. Cheers
I'm Lv 4 and have 2mil. This video really helped me out. I don't have many tools to get loot out of raids. But, knowledge is power, solo is power. And completing the loop is what I haven't done. I need to do it though. That really put perspective into me returning to the game after loses. Thanks Jesse.
One big way I have helped myself be able to actually play my PMC a lot is literally run SCAV until my stash is pretty much full and I have lots of spares guns and stuff so that I have essentially throw away gear to put on my PMC that I don't care if I lose, it has made it so that I can actually use my PMC now, might not be the best way but I have used my PMC already 10x more then I did the last time I played.
If you’re going to play solo exclusively, map knowledge is arguably one of the top most important things you can have on your side. Do some practice raids, then some low kit runs to get a feel of the maps. It will save you.
100%. knowing key locations of where players most likely are, where they spawn, where loot is and what routes to take can get you a long way as a solo player.
Maps are the most important thing you can learn imo as well, because even an awful player can extract if they know the ins and outs of the map they play. The only exception might be something like factory, but that's because it often plays more like a meatgrinder (But it's still invaluable to learn)
These were great tips Jessie, I only play solo, much appreciated!
I hate HATE the sound and Crack of getting shot in the head 😅 thats what scares me the most. Thats what keeps me from playing sometimes. The jumpscares and getting shot from a distance. Scary stuff man
First wipe and I just ran factory and interchange til I got sick of them. Never dropped below 100k roubles because I'd just run stashes on woods. Finding Thors, Ash12s, Troopers, M4s, etc etc to this day. Woods is my insurance policy
been waitin on this one, love the vids man keep it up
nice video for me. 1200hrs in game started to play alone a few days ago.
The majority of my 1300 hours has been as a solo, and all of these things are so true.
ESPECIALLY that movement is key. Absolutely crucial.
And rubles are easy to come by. You’re always one scav run away from a free kit. And despite ammo differences, any gun CAN kill any PMC (Altyns aside).
I started this wipe 2 weeks ago. The first thing i did was grind my scav karma to 6.0. I got to 6.0 at level 13 and then I focused on hitting level 15 and getting flea. Knowing I can just go scav every 5 minutes or so helps me feel more confident in bringing good gear on my PMC since I can just get more money and gear easily.
I had every hideout upgrade possible, before level 2 traders, done before flea and now I have a ton of quest and barter items ready for me to level up.
My next goal is to buy a Red Rebel so I can farm reserve as a PMC easier.
Today I wanted to do Glory to CPSU quest, It happened that there was some PVP in the building, I killed 2 guys and was last man standing. When looting another PMC showed up, I was full of loot, We talked for a while, He had the same quest and some freaking how We slowly met in the hallway, visited the room for a quest, didn't kill eachother to the end and We then split our own ways. I was Shocked XDD
Dude seriously great video thanks so much
Literally started playing 2 weeks ago, down to my last 6k rubles, managed to find sawed off in a crate kill a scav and die just minutes away from an extract point.. Bit frustrating but, got some insights so to speak from that
I had to come here after playing my 4th wipe.
I’m late this wipe. Have hit lvl 42 before with 4.14 K/D
This wipe last weekend, at lvl 8 got killed 10 times in a row.
I’m pretty sure down to cheaters.
I now come here with this problem. Thanks for the vid man!
I need videos like this. I've watched Summit2g and OPDreski play this game and was always mesmerized by how it looks and plays. I purchased this instead of Stalker 2 thinking it'll be easy. Welp, as I loaded in and seen nothing on the HUD but my stance and stamina, I knew I was done. I was so scared. Killed 6 folks and 3 more showed up and I got 2 tapped.
Okay so this is a FPS Souls experience. I'll love this journey.
OHHHH I'm doing the single player mod. Hope this guide still helps lmao.
Best way to get over being scared of playing solo for me was by putting urself out there over an over again and just being ok with dying and knowing jump scares will come no matter what. Years of dayz play helped a lot tho with Tarkov solo
Another banger Jesse!!
thumbnail looks so good , instant watch
Playing exclusively scav extremely often can kill your confidence as a PMC, you don't want to risk anything and you get used to a certain type of gameplay where it's risk free. I have 2000+ hours but I think I've only maybe played 200 solo simply because I'm just too terrified of squads. 1v1 fights are fine, you just need to get a good instinct going, when to run away, when to kill his friend and make him rage quit etc.
I love playing solo rather than with friends. Solos has helped me respect what engagements to push and how to handle the adversity of taking on multiple enemies. Stay humble solo players
"You don't have to take every fight."
Any chance you would consider doing a video on evading and escaping? It would be nice to see how you disengage, break contact, and avoid a re-engagement or a new fight, followed with a breakdown/analysis of the clip.
Me staring at my stash watching RUclips and this is in my recommended. Thanks Jesse!
I haven't heard anyone recommend this yet, but following change EFT for me.
Get your scav level up so you start spawning with decent gear. Once you do this you can either compete with a lot of pmc's or find decent enough gear laying around to start engaging them. I noticed I survive about 90% of my scav runs. So it clicked, PLAY LIKE A SCAV.
What does this accomplish? One, it gives you the practice of pvp without the fear. Two, you get your scav level up and increase the quality and quantity of loot you get to bring home
That is the best ever clip!
12:00
Tbh I played solo my first real wipe but next wipe started queueing with friends and lost my edge in solo, when they die I still kinda have it, yet when I go solo I'm just overtaken by the anxiety even tho when I play in duos trios I will prioritise my friends' life, so thanks for the tips. (Sorry if I made some mistakes here and there)
I play both duo and solo, mainly solo. How i got over it and just started playing on my own was -
1. Addiction - the game is good, i must play
2. Saying fuck it and going low risk high reward runs in factory for just PvP. Go get yourself 500k, buy 5 sets of pistols with headphones and go ham with pistol pvp. Exposure therapy basically and youre forcing yourself to do well if you want to win the fight, AND it doesnt matter too much since its just a pistol and headphones if you do die.