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The Wiggle That Killed Tarkov
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- Published on Apr 18, 2026
- After reviewing the clip extensively, it is more likely that the user "HostilePuppy_YT" could see me in his POV, and cheating is not likely. He was the guy who shot me through the mountain. I feel terrible for this mistake. This affirms my stance that I will not be releasing any more footage from the experiment. He has been very understanding and I will address this publicly in a future video.
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Man this is going to stir the pot. Someone hand me some popcorn! You did a great job on the video. Something I would of loved to see was more detailed statistics of the experience. My only fear now is every creator is going to go replicate this video for views and then the whole integrity of creators will go to shit. Guess we will see.
Edit: for the people misunderstanding what I mean about integrity of creators - First person to do in a proper informative manner (g0at) can get away with it. Every person from here on is doing it for the wrong reasons (any creator who makes a video the same as this to be informative).
Common Pestily W. Seen a few Tarkov streamers like Veritas really angry about this video and thinking that this stuff is common knowledge when it really isn't.
love to see you reacting on this. lot of the big guys just gone quiet. this need to be echoed more
Integrity dropping from telling the truth? Yikes
Nothing to fear, you guys are the voice of the community. Noone will listen to me or the next nobody just trying to enjoy tarkov when we say cheaters are ruining the game. If something is to be done about these issues, the creators must come together and bring this to light, show BSG that tolerating cheaters for the sake of profits is not a way to go forward. Too much is too much. Or we can all just pretend there aren't cheaters in at least half the raids and let this circle of madness continue until the last legit player quits...
Please be vocal. I count 21 reddit threads that have now been deleted. Edit: over 50 now and that's just from the last hour. Please speak up Pestily.
I’ve reported every single person that’s killed me for two wipes because I’m a spiteful, angry little man.
Turns out I was probably right 50% of the time.
Good vid
That feeling when you were most deff right. It sucks but it also feels good. Too bad they didnt message us when we got one banned tho, would made playing more worth it.
no streamer item for you too Sam, it will be removed next patch
I blame Aqua for everything.
@Radiant-Edge Ha!
Sam bud... Occasionally if I lose a legit fight I won't report, but 99% of the time it's worth it lol
I'm not even a Tarkov player, Im just here for our mutual hate for cheaters
Same, but I'm confident that there are MANY wall hackers for Apex.
same dude
same
I'm here cause I hate smurfs in rocket league. Different faces of the same shit
@mhammadalloush5104 Smurfs? Well, that sounds familiar! Greetings from Dota 2, lol
"He knows I have ESP, and he doesn't like it" Actually the funniest line in the whole video. Even the cheaters don't like the cheaters lmao
The motivation for the cheating is being the strongest one in a session. Remember any MCU or DCU movie where two heroes meet for the first time. They don't like each other. At all.
@baycosinus lolwat, comparing cheaters to heroes. Superheroes are standoffish in first encounters because its the easiest excuse to have the two face off to entertain fans in a what if scenario. Terrible analogy.
@baycosinus the motivation for cheating is having a smol self esteem and even smoller pp. People should stop even remotely acting like there is any justification for cheating and start treating cheaters as the small dick loosers they just simply are. Like seriously not even going salty mode here, cheaters are just pathetic and should know it since they already deep down feel like it we should do everything to confirm it for them to realize.
@baycosinus lol no the motivation to cheat is being a terrible gamer and and crying for attention to pretend your good at all.. which obviously arent.. Thats the nice way to describe a cheater.
90% of them became cheaters from tired of dying to cheaters bro... feelsbadman
2y ago this was posted & nothing has changed. RIP tarkov
Bro for real I was going to get back into tarkov for the full release but boom I was reminded by this vid and it pissed me off. I know I'm bad but now I'm just going to think everyone's cheating.
haven't played tarkov yet but the videos are fkn awesome lmao From the sweats to the rats (omg the rats) it's still a lot of fun
@GiddyuporShutup It's just as bad now. Because all the "casuals" left and went to PVE. And now you have all those no lifers and cheaters left.
@SwissMarksman yeah I keep up with it I have played now here and there on the hardcore wipe. It's not for me I'll just play arena here and there or pve or even a different game.
I've stopped playing Tarkov around four years ago, but recently came back to it. The only reason I started playing again is because they added PvE. A few months later, I find this video-only to realize that the reason they added it was because this went viral, and the devs knew they could no longer gaslight critics and that sales were going to drop.
"Welp. That's it for this game. We should just release the game (even though it's not finished) and move on to the next project. But before that, we should add a PVE mode. (And charge players for it)" It sounds crazy, but they actually had an incentive not to publicly admit their game was full of cheaters. They kept it secret, knowing full well that people were going to be outraged.
BSG is the type of company to ban the wiggle instead of fixing cheating
Anything to protect their bottom line, they want to keep cheaters in the game because they profit off of them
I dont even think RMT is the main problem anymore, it seems people are straight up hacking now for whatever reason I dont understand how its fun.
Also I wouldnt be surprised if BSG makes more money from hackers/RMT people buying new accounts after getting banned then the actual community at this point in development
The whole get a discount if you buy multiple copies thing is 1000% the kicker
YES
And this returns memories of years ago where the Tarkov devs were making the outrageous claims that their game, by its very design, was impossible to cheat in. And everyone laughed.
My own friends told me I was insane when I said people had to be cheating and yet here we are...
@Zanaki113 had a friend that quit cod for tarkov because he didn't want to deal with cheaters anymore lol. All anti cheat does is at least stop the rage hackers lol
The worst thing you can do gloat about how your game is uncheatable, they'll accept it as a challenge and wear it like a badge of honor. After all, breaking the rules of a game is not even a foreign concept in gaming culture, some games even encourage it.
if anyone heard that and just believed it, they deserve to play this game as it is.
I was able to finally escape tarkov thanks to this video, many thanks
Im now only playing SP Tarkov mod :( no online more..
@firemusic412 sp tarkov sounds like the most boring thing of all time
@satanicchocobo9705 better than getting killed by cheaters
@satanicchocobo9705 keep in mind that there are mods that range from adding guns to changing recoil to adding new clothing to adding new items etc
same, gonna play some chill games for a while and get my life back lol
In case you're wondering if it's gotten any better, its actually even worse now.
It's RMT so good. And bans so wide. But take a ling time to ban people, so they just make more money from rmt to buy 100 accounts with no doubt.
What do you think, if tarkov released on steam?
Building a PC right now and one of the games I was looking forward to was tarkov. That’s unfortunate to hear
@Zacharyr222Just play the PvE mode
Just bought tarkov w the 50 $ giftcard i got. I regret it. Wish i got rust instead
It makes me furious to think of how many hundred hours I spent getting killed out of nowhere when I thought I was simply being outplayed
honestly yeah, i barely survived any raids, let alone any combat, but thats because my computer was shit and it would freeze for like 1/4 of a second every time i got shot, but now im wondering if the ones where i was just shot out of nowhere are cheaters
me too,man...me too!!
true but when I have a bad taste in my mouth after a death, now I know it was prob a cheater
@glizzygulper8948scavs are cracked some wipes but others they are trash. The out of nowhere deaths in the other hand …..
The worst part is if you look back at other cheaters doing this kind of video showing their jank cheats you really cannot tell if any death was legitimate or not. Wether it's desync, a jank aimbot that's slower than players reaction, or just straight cheating and playing it off well. Hell ppl can be just using radar to easily locate you and still have to use their fps skills to kill you. It's soo bad.
all i take from this as a solo player is wiggle if im in a bad spot and theres like a 60% chance i make it out alive.
just uninstall this garbage lmao, imagine still trying to cope play with all the cheaters.
After this video, they're just gonna kill everyone on sight. No chance now. These people are TRASH.
@kingterry6045 I mean the issue is, whats similar? DMZ? Even more incomplete then tarkov. Hunt? good game, just different. Ill continue to log on after a wipe. Play two weeks to a month. Then delete it. i usually take two wipes off in between anyway. Not like they change enough anyway from wipe to wipe.
@DevinPoli that is the worst waste of time I’ve ever heard. Unless you’re having fun then go for it, but mindless grinding and getting killed by cheaters is like self torture.
@DevinPoliSPTarkov. Just Google it^^
Human psychology in this instance is so interesting. Normally, someone would probably be pretty hesitant to let on that they're cheating, but the moment they know you're also cheating, you're suddenly in their "group" and warrant a base level of trust above the average player.
humans are naturally tribal thus will stick around to there community
It might be because they think that the opposite team has just as much to lose as they do and they relate to it, what do they lose? One tarkov account.
Tribal
its because the whole fact that the interaction can only be done though cheating its why we have "stings" to catch criminals.
It unironically is a fractal of our broader world.
Cheaters being psychopaths.
Also at the top of the leaderboards ;)
2 years and nothing has changed.
i thought cheating was decreased those last times.. not playing tarkov since year tho
I think it must have gotten tamer, hacking might be prevalent, but they are far less likely to kill you atleast, I've only died once to someone I had no idea where was.
@Lawrence417 no i been cheating for years and only ever lost accounts on purpose when i was figuring out with trial and error how BSG manually bans. since i figured out a formula im prestige 2 with kappa on a 2k hour account that ive been exclusively cheating on since hour 0, perks of being in a super close knit community! only a handful of people have access to what I have access too, very secretive so you know the risk of detection is super low. legit been undetected since release for years. they have logs that are updated when x product gets ban reports, this one has 0 other than manual bans from IRRESPONSIBLE CHEATERS.
the take away is IF YOU CHEAT **RESPONSIBLY** WITH GOOD CHEATS, you will NEVER be banned.
yall can get bent and call me a liar but this is 100% true and factual info. google what a DMA is ♥
Would like to add to this just to keep this comment going and make sure people who watch this video in the modern day are kept up to speed, give likes to TheRealRoty's post to keep the post up so people are aware of the current state of the game.
Here to support the statement that they still haven't done anything about the cheating problem, the terrible optimization of the game, the pay to win aspects, and have continued to disregard their players. They spit in the communities face with the Unheard Edition being a big scandal that even the news commented on at large. People with the best PC rigs struggle to get stable frames at 60 FPS on medium to high settings on several maps. And there's more I won't even get into, there's a lot you can pull out over the span of so 8 years the closed beta has been out for, so don't give Nikita the benefit of the doubt.
Don't support Tarkov, support the other extraction shooters that don't ask for 40 dollars MINIMUM, BSG (and mainly Nikita since he is the one that decides every bad decision like the Unheard Edition) have had 8 years to listen to the community, and instead did their best to ignore it all and do the bare minimum for the community, time and time again.
A lot has changed. Every sane person that watched this video has successfully "Escaped from Tarkov" and haven't looked back since. Also SPT-AKI community grew like 10 fold, last time I checked like a year ago, it's probably even bigger now. A single player version of Tarkov with extensive mod community to rival biggest modding games like Cyberpunk and TES series. Where you can take out all of Nikita's brainrot out and enjoy the game how you feel it.
I quit the same day this video was posted and the only Tarkov I've played since then is SPT.
Meanwhile in the Tarkov Reddit;
“Skill issue, hackers aren’t in Tarkov.”
the eft sub is a shithole
I've been convinced for over a year now a majority of the Tarkov Reddit are hackers who spend all day gaslighting people that hackers don't exist.
@janintelkor No one is talking about this video in the reddit, you are getting shadow banned for mentioning this video right now.
Raid is needed mock the mods daily that they do it for free.
@janintelkor On the main sub people are getting banned for even mentioning this.
As it turns out, there's no such thing as getting tarkov'd. There's just running into cheaters.
Sometimes there is with power-slidding Killa, or other scav boss. But you're right
getting tarkoved %
60% cheaters
20% AI (scavs, bosses, etc.)
9% game just screwing you over
1% other (basically combination of the few or bad luck)
Idk, I never met any cheaters, they don't bother me but I mostly play at in-game night with good gear etc.
Every RIP I have is normal, I usually fire at people first because Im stealthy
Idk, but for me EFT is one of the least cheater-infested games I played, it's pure fun
@olgagaming5544 "Good" kits, cheaters avoid woods because it's basically just new players (kits that aren't worth anything), if there is one in the lobby, you're too far away with a kit that's not worth anything. Go play on streets 50 times, or reserve, you'll find out real quick that there are cheaters.
This video is proof, why deny it? 125 raids and at least 60% of them had some ESPing? How the fuck can you deny that?
@olgagaming5544 clueless
dude, the escape from tarkov subreddit went completely tyranical over this, deleting every post talking about this, posting the video isn't allowed and talking about you gets you shadow banned. it's crazy how much they are trying to control this information
Really bizzare behaviour from the moderators, we can only assume they are regular wigglers themselves
It breaks rule 7. It's pretty clear why. Trying to turn it into a conspiracy is just being irresponsible.
@bobbymccullough3210 they deleted discussion even when the video wasn't posted.
They locked all discussion including the clip from the WAN show that doesn't break any rules.
Your comment is proof that mods know they can just lie to people and some of them will suck it up.
They are baby minging
@bobbymccullough3210 Probably because the mods cheat too
I rewatch this video every so often. It's like a vaccine to protect against re-downloading Tarkov.
Same. Except I also get some streamer highlights, and some of those guys remind me of how bad the game and the culture is too.
The frustration of not knowing kills me. I don't mind losing, I hate not knowing if I lost fair and square.
it's the worst.
on the other side, every kid whos bad at the game everyone that kills them is a cheater ;D
You probably didn't
Knowing you died to hacks isn't much better
This makes me feel so much better for never cheating in Tarkov. Look at the things I've achieved while playing without cheats and while surrounded by cheaters. I'm awesome.
True :D
I too appreciate my own loyalty and hardship for however many wipes now.
Same here. Last year I only play night raid in low traffic servers，and I got 20.1kd（99% are ai scavs）I never went to Labs Lighthouse Reserve，and most of time I just sat in a corner wait 20 minutes then started to loot and kill bots.
Same here I got a 7kd and almost at capa 🫡
4 wipes level 80+ each time.. never once cheated or played with a cheater... cant touch the game now
You set the Tarkov subreddit on fire. Well done comrade
Absolute clown moderators in the pocket of BSG. Dudes are probably profiting off of covering this up. Too bad that subreddit is measly compared to RUclips so the mods can suck a fat one.
bro its so stupid they took it down for the most pettiest of reasons possible basically because he was also cheating that its not allowed but thats the whole point of the video to show how hes cheating to clearly prove that others are cheating such a petty and delusional rule
@plantgaming2v254 It's fucking plebbit, what else could we expect?
@gtahackerhunter ikr its just reading it just made me realize that we are the same species like the video clearly proves that their are cheaters and that their anticheat needs to be fixed but they are just so delusional for some reason that they are like he cheated so this whole video is invalid i seriously am flabbergasted on how they clearly didnt watch the video and see video evidence on how people are cheating in tarkov
@plantgaming2v254 exactly.
> Is aiming at you and adjusting based on the direction you're moving through solid objects without any sort of prior knowledge that someone's there
> Laser locked on your head through foliage
"Is this guy cheating? I have no evidence whatsoever!"
...
To be fair - he's trying to be INCREDIBLY generous to this shyte game.
Or, my favorite: "I've played thousands of hours in _insert game_ and I've never come across a cheater, ever!"
The fact that he confirmed there were cheaters in 60% of his raids, probably means about 90%+ of raids have cheaters.
Yes, it's all about the overall size of the sample. Up to 10 matches versus over 100 or 1000, we'd have a really decent idea where 10,000 matches should stand. Even then, are we going to sample randomly or would there be a much different result when teams or clans get involved...
Yep. And as he said, most of them won't bother with you until you get close to them. I've had situations like that where they literally faked not realizing i am there. Then they turn around and head eyes me instantly with just one shot. Scavs even.
Sorry but it was totaly bullshit...
This is just no real Player-experience! LISTEN
This 60% per Map means that there are only 5% of PLAYER are cheater, cuz u have 10-14 PMCs per map - just mathematics.
AND i will never see whos cheating like him to hunt them.
AND i will never meet all of the 10-14 PMCs per map like Counter Strike, max half of them.
This facts he just did not think about. So Tarkov dosent have a cheater problem, it has a cheater-call problem...
5% are just not much guys!
After all we even dont know on wich server he played...
In statistics there are a lot more cheater on russian servers then europe for example!
He gave us just 5mins of uncomment raw informations with that stupid 60% but tonns of clickbait-video-material.
His Video will push cheating and cheat-calling and is just toxic for tarkov.
I hope u can see guys, not everyone can do good studis, even if he is a cool guy......
@cartrips9263 yup, i wish there would be another game company to just make this game over with a different name and a good anti-cheat
@cartrips9263 If there isn't a cheater lasering heads, then the cheater(s) are busy looting the map dry without even coming within line of sight with another player the whole game.
Basically confirmed what I could feel with my own gut instinct. The game's literally a dumpster fire of cheaters right now.
sadge
Always has been a dumpster fire.
My gut instinct has been telling me this for years bud, it's only gotten worse and will continue to get worse. Tarkov is slowly dying in front of us unless BSG and BattlEye do something even more drastic to combat cheaters, until then the game isn't worth playing right now.
Bro I swear most of the time I bring in good gear I get smoked but do some loot runs with cheap load outs and I do fine.
@Linnitup7755 That's why everybody has gear fear. If there were no cheaters, imagine all the wins with the good gear. It just confirms my suspicion that I was being hunted because I had good gear on with good ammo. If I take a AK 5.45 in, I get kills and extract. Take in meta shit, my first encounter is instant death almost every time. Shit is so wack. The lack of integrity makes me sick
The 1st cheater I ran into (in a scav run) he flew to dorms, grabbed through the locked cult door and gave me the loot from it, then flew off into the sunset
At least some cheaters are wholesome and somewhat nice. Not all, but some.
second come of jesus
Mary Fking Popins.
everyone have a different view but for me, cheaters that give me loot is still bad, i did not earn that legit when i accept loot from a cheater i may aswell cheat myself because its just not fair
@lajf28 Aye they still are bad, even if not immediately. Free loot for people who wouldn't normally get it, that causes an imbalance in the economy over time.
had to come back to this classic
This basically means that every raid you didn't get killed by a cheater, was because they LET you live. They were probably looting, and you didn't cross their path so they avoided you. This is sick.
basically if they dont wanna kill you is because there selling the account. there mostly just questing and shit. dont wanna make themselves obvious
😭😭
@ByDimilibs Being a level 55 BEAR this season, I find myself getting taken out a lot more often as my crew is left alone to live. Especially in LH
And this is why I started playing SP Tarkov..
I love the underlying game, but cheaters are just too much.
@60FpsGoodness SP tarkov? Hell nah new levels of gear fear unlocked
Honestly I love watching this because you can tell that the moment they realize you have ESP they're on high alert. Suddenly they don't have a massive advantage. It's like a predator meeting another predator and it's VERY interesting.
@Ok-um5ho It's not generally hard to find pirated copies of cheat programs, so a lot of them probably didn't pay for it. But given how many different cheat programs there are advertising pretty steep prices, it's likely a lot of people are paying for it.
Given that the cheats are selling in the range of $100 a month, not many 8 year olds could afford to do it, and they're not likely to get away with using Mommy and Daddy's credit cards undetected. So you're mostly left with nobody but 30+ year olds.
And there's always the simple argument that if you think a couple bucks on a cheat program is a big issue, maybe you should get a better job, slacker. While I don't have that kind of money, the fact is that people who can afford these cheats are actually doing better financially that those who can't, which implies they're actually doing better at that outside world thing than you or me.
I do feel like you're projecting here a bit though. People playing games with cheats doesn't in any way suggest they're addicted to games, nor that any "high" they get from gaming requires cheats.
It's more like someone who just plays on easy mode, which is statistically more likely to be someone who isn't terribly good, and therefore someone who doesn't actually play that much. I.e., the opposite of someone who is addicted.
@Ok-um5ho yeah! its like dude ...im 35, i got 2 kids and maybe only 4h to play in a week or two ..SAME FOR YOU!! why the F*** are you hacking and make me losing this precious time
@GloryToNazarene still no excuse man... im 35 ..2kids and over 4K hours of pubg since 2017... working over 50h+ a week (lineman). never hacked even as a teen and never will. those ppl a just Puss and weak.
@Ok-um5ho I think that have sense that older people is the one that cheats, because they have works and things to do outside and the pay a little to progress faster and have fun, they dont care about if is ethical or not
@Ok-um5ho this makes no sense, you expect "8 year old kiddie hackers" to be able to afford cheats or know how to code their own and are surprised that 30 year olds who actually have the money to afford cheats are cheating?
Luke's explanation of why the cheater wiggle hurt to see reminded me of when Bungie was starting to crack down on cheaters in Destiny a few years ago, because I remember seeing screenshots from a cheater discord where one of the cheaters used the phrase "eyes up Guardian". No matter what game, cheaters hold nothing sacred.
Heard about you from a War Thunder forum. Apparently some guy pulled off something similar on WT by infiltrating hacker communities, and then sent the source code to Gaijin. Supposedly 20,000 accounts got banned yesterday.
Keep doing gods work my guy.
the thing is. Gaijing does not hate the wt community (when they are not leaking)
An even higher number than that 40,000
oh really? explain the grind@lunatic22231
when they say “infiltrating”, they mean going on unknowncheats and sending a pasted source lol. i mean its what ItsGamerDoc does, he thinks he’s a cheat developers nightmare when he does exactly what i described.
I play war thunder mobile and umm wow. I do play arena breakout too.
Today I learned that *I* the average player that just wants to gear up go out and have fun - Is the sucker in Tarkov. I am the bottom of the food chain that basically fuels cheaters. Thank you
Yea man...I just tested it, used up all my money for lvl 6 gear and got aim locked to the part my armor wasnt covering 80% of the time. Only place that I survived with this shit is factory, even against other people with gear. I won those fights cuz they werent cheating. Even a 3 man took so long to kill me cuz some bullets hit legs and arms, but not for the cheaters
@ajuslucky5432 It's so sad... Not to cry, but leaves a hole in the soul to know what the state of the game is
It REALLY sucks knowing that these fucks see my horrible KD that im UNDER LEVEL 5 with SHIT GEAR and they still hunt me down and kill me. Fucking pathetic. Needed a reason to quit this shit show and I now have it.
A microcosm of real life.
11-12 Months later and absolutely nothing has changed, well done BSG!
How u know
@Blind_Hawk
200 hour 14 k/d players, while some of the best players or rats struggle to get to 10 k/d.
Not saying its impossible but the likelyhood of so many low hour high k/d players is easy to explain
@julianfuchs5328How many are there? I also have 200 hours despite playing since december 2020.
Nothing changed? You can't be serious, right?
IT'S WORSE THAN EVER!
@VioIetteMolotovHow do you know it is worse?
This saved me buy and investing time in this game. Thank you
Simultaneiously it raised the cheater count in this game too
the wiggle used to be the universal sign of being friendly in multiplayer shooters, back to arma 2 dayz mod days, it hurts my soul to know cheaters have taken it for themselves now
It’s like raising your hand to wave at someone while there’s a gun hidden behind you’re back, there’s just something wrong with it
Even worse; used as a sign for other small weenie beta cuck cheaters to signal a truce; being part of their in-group. Honor among thieves, I guess? Fck them…
You know someone is younger than you when their reference is arma 2 :P
@slopcrusher3482 ever heard of rust? :P
@simz04 When did it happen before Arma 2? I remember the wiggle being very common when FrankieonPC released his Arma 2 DayZ mod videos.
7 Months later and absolutely nothing has changed, well done BSG!
140 quid early access since 2018. problem?
Bro i cant even play tarkov this wipe cause i server disconect every 2 raids even after i clear my cache
and the game is still unoptimized on a 8 core CPU and 6600 XT. lmao
fucking russian scammers
what did you expect from russians? integrity?
I must be really lucky then. I've had *maybe* 2 cheaters this wipe so far and only had server connection issues during the Halloween event
So what have we learned? Wiggling is the key to survival in Escape From Tarkov.
Right, if someone shoots at you, back up & wiggle then shoot them
wiggle on all fronts
There is a large amount of cheater in EFT,that's what we learnt
And how you will see what they wiggle back if you don't have the cheat?))))) emmm...?!?!??!
just walk and wiggle every 5 seconds
It's crazy to live in a world where so many people have zero integrity. I can't empathize with why that is.
The 1 year anniversary is coming right up, maybe "The Wiggle 2: New year, Old story" Honestly would love comparation if anything changed
Cheating situation is the same oh and Vacuum cheating is a thing now.
@hopedream11 Vacuuming was always a thing
this video is an AD for cheats - you got played thinking this guy was making a change
@_Afterdawnthe ad is bsg wont do anything about it
@thealonestargazer hahahaha look at the bigger picture my man.
Cheaters helping each other is like landlords forming union.
It's like a game within the game.
cheaters united
this got me good
watch white knight cheaters come along and only take out cheaters smh weird meta about to happen in tarkov
@jgalvan09 that happened in the video. One dude said his KD was too high I had to lower.
this is one of the most, if not THE MOST important Tarkov videos ever made. You're the content creator that Tarkov doesn't deserve, but desperately needs. Thank you for your work.
dear god ur pfp….practice retention, go outside and meditate, channel your s*xual energy into lifting weights, install site blocker browser extensions, i believe in you, you’re better than this, you are loved and you are valid, do not let addiction consume you like this
@sparda_you can’t be getting your nipples triggered by some picture on a RUclips pfp right?
@sparda_ Based.
@ahahuehafook4207 glad to see someone that doesn't have an IQ below 100, p*rn should be abolished
2 years later this video is still a gem
Haha dude imagine someone started a hacking task force where a bunch of dudes hack just to kill the hackers. What a meta that would be
This needs to happen white hats vs the black hats
No way, papa Homeless here, i love you dude!
there's already people out there doing that but the problem is they still kill regular players too so what are they even doing
hi homeless, watcha doin here
ayeeee! my man! love ur vids
Just here to see the wiggle after finding out about it from the 250$ for the game drama.
don't worry, if you upgrade your 250$ edition to the next 340$ one you will get less cheaters for 6 months!!!
For an extra 250 on top you get esp and a wiggle hotkey.
@TheBuddhalintfor 6 months is so accurate
at this point i am wondering if some of the high end cheats are provided by bsg themselves just so they can cash out twice for each copy they sell to the cheaters
I’m posting this before premium servers are announced for a monthly subscription.
there should be separate lobbys for cheaters. Like a shadow ban, when a person doesnt know they are only put in the games against other cheaters
Exactly that's where they will be kept isolated and will not buy new game again, but developers don't do it because if cheater gets banned they will buy the game again.
well thats not enough, think about the market, they are screwing it by obtaining ridiculous amount of high value loot
A few games have done this
@Legoldos the market should also be separated. So cheaters will play and trade with other cheaters in their toxic little world. And non cheating part of the game will be healthy and cool. Everybody wins
Impossible. That implies they can detect every cheater at all times to be able to match them together. If they can do that, they can just remove the cheaters to begin with.
I genuinely can't play competitive multiplayer any more without this video in my head
This is going to definitely light a fire under BSG's ass.
This video is only been out two days as of right now and it's caused so much controversy inside the community and they want to damn you for it.
You might even get banned for it but you know what? You're a hero in my eyes man. I think you may have saved this game.
ofc he will be banned, he cheated. doesn't matter what reason
@Timmeke_ BSG refused to address this problem for years and would copyright strike videos talking about the horrible exploits and how easy it is to cheat. They deserved it
@weasle2904 ok? I didn't even speal about bsg. This guy should be banned. Sure he did wake up everyone and bsg but still, he should be banned
@timmeke_8213 That's the point of the video though. If he gets banned for making a video... cool... but you're still left with all the other cheaters he just showed exist, because they're probably not going to catch a ban, and if they do they'll just grab another account... knowing how cheating communities work in other games, and how many people have dropped this one, it probably won't even be a new account but someone else's who stopped playing and either sold theirs or got phished for it.
@timmeke_8213 mate, truly the most academic stance on the issue 😂
I've experienced such a wide range of emotions playing tarkov, I did not expect this type of heartbreak to be one of them.
I saw it coming and everyone told me i was mad for calling cheaters out
@AlexGavProd havent thought it would be so bad.this leaves me speechless.
Truth boa... Like, im upset.... i knew, but the proof is heartbreaking
Same homie
I’m on my 5th or 6th wipe, I bought $5000+ worth of computer stuff JUST so I could play this game after seeing it on you tube I’m no good at it, but I love playing it. I’ve wondered how I’ve gotten worse at pvp over time (thought I was losing me reflexes, probably am) but in all the time playing I’ve only reported 1 player once for suspect play because I acknowledge I’m crap, but now I’m gutted after watching this.
60+% of raids... I'm done with tarkov. Probably the greatest and most informative tarkov vid I've seen so far but this also hurts so bad.
Don't take it to heart. He only showed about 10-15 people blatantly convincing. Only about 8%. On par with most competitive games.
@Pulp95 Dude why? You're literally the problem
@Pulp95 Do you not love this game?
@Pulp95 I get it, You die to cheaters constantly but don't want to quit the game so you have to even the playing field. You're not the only one who's resorted to that, a few of the guys I used to play with did it too but does it not ruin the game? Like I feel that knowing where everyone and everything is would just suck the joy out of the game
@blakeolinger1220 Im literally not because I've only killed kids with 20+ KDRs and given away prob 30+ ledx these past 3 weeks
Tarkov would own 100% of my free time if they actually stopped cheaters
Apparently it’s too lucrative for them to stop it, so instead you have a cycle of cheaters getting their way for a few months, eventually being banned, then repurchasing, all by design to keep recurring sales.
@Evenstephens76 Exactly, They even used to have a page on the BSG site for bulk purchase discounts. I'm not talking like 3-5 copies of the game for your battle buddy's. It was like huge discount for buying 20-50 copies or something ridiculous like that. Tell me who the hell that was meant for? who is buying that many copies of the game at once?
It's tinfoil AF but I really do believe that BSG works hand and hand with the cheat devs or even possibly are the ones who release the cheats themselves just to ban the cheat users so they buy another license. Normal players are literally just cannon fodder for no life streamers and for hackers doing paid sherpa runs or RMT'ing. That's why BSG makes the game so stupidly and unreasonable grindy to encourage cheating... Bet they make soo much money from a select few whales who pay for RMT or hackers to clear lobbies for them. They are russian after all... russia is nothing but corruption, its just how things work there... I wouldn't trust any russians ever.
Holy shit. I was one of those who thought I'd only encountered a handful of cheaters in 1000+ hours. My mistake was assuming they wouldn't work so hard to hide it.
Learnt it on CS. Made a similar "investigation" since i wanted to prove a friend that VAC was worthless (I'm talking maybe 7 years ago, don't know now since I haven't touched the game for a long while).
No aimbots or anything. Just my years of experience, ESP and exclusive casual matches. As long as people wasn't suspicious of me...i had no issues. Then i decided to make it more obvious (looking at walls following people etc) and after people started calling me out for it...i finally got banned.
That's the thing with cheaters... people expect some dude spinning around like the tasmanian devil and headshoting everybody from miles away. And while that is a possible scenario... Most cheaters won't be very obvious about it
[LONG POST. TLDR AT THE END]
When I found this out last year I felt the same way. At that point I clocked about 850 hours into the game over the previous year. There were always moments when I thought “wow that death was so sudden, there’s no way I could’ve possibly reacted to that,” but I considered the fact that perhaps the Tarkov player base was just that good, after all I’d lined up a few hundred clean headshots myself at that point and knew how quick death could rain in Tarkov.
Then I saw a similar video to this and it was terrible. I actually loved this game, and still love it, but now whenever I play it I just get sad because I know that the game and I myself as a player will never grow. Growth can only happen when every player is given the same opportunity to survive, but I could be the best Tarkov player in the world and die in 40-60% of my raids just because I don’t have ESP and the next guy does. I could go on a 10 kill game and then load up and die in the first 10 seconds. There’s rarely an opportunity to survive when you might’ve died in Tarkov, because so many of your deaths come from hackers.
I even began thinking that it’s a conspiracy, the issue has existed for many many years now so it feels like battlestate isn’t taking any issue. They made changed to the black market that prevented hackers from profiting as much, but in reality the ones who suffered the most were genuine players. Hackers can survive raids easily, players have a much harder time surviving raids in lobbies full of hackers, the amount of loot that players can sell on the black market was drastically reduced whereas now hackers just need to bunker down in raid for an extra 10 minutes and they can sell everything they looted.
It appears to me like battlestate is fine with the hacker issue because after the hackers sell their rubels or keycards online, they get banned and buy another copy of the game and do it again. The existence of hackers incentivizes players to buy rubels online, because they lose all their gear and money dying to hackers and then they want a little more just to keep pushing for another month. This way, the hackers profit off of an issue they created, and battlestate profits by allowing it just long enough for the hackers to profit and come back again to profit some more.
TLDR; Battlestate Games pimps out their players to hackers, hackers which then profit off the players desperation to stop being pimped. Battlestate doesn’t sell games, they’re selling a business venture to hackers and software developers. For hackers, buying a new EFT account is just like buying a tool to replace windows, BSG is the manufacturer of the tools and the person who sold you the house next to the hacker, the player’s either move out or pay the hackers to fix the windows which hackers broke.
@urbansekkt6355 Now do that on Faceit and you'll realize that 80%+ is cheating.
to quote my friend when I caught him out fly hacking in Minecraft after playing together for like 3 years at that point "I wouldn't have gotten away with it for this long if I used it while people were watching"
#60%
This video just gave me my final reason to quit Tarkov. Thank you for shedding the light on what most of us figured was happening all along.
Same
dont forget to request a charge back from your bank as you didnt purchase the game ;)
@aaronjohnson4525yeah im gonna do that tonight and I’ll repurchase access to their beta when they resolve the issue
@aaronjohnson4525 is this a real thing?
@Lawrence yes a charge back isn't like a refund it's a forced refund if you have no recollection of purchasing it but you have to say you didn't purchase it
"When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals."
- Mom’s Ravioli 2023
Can’t think of a more stupid quote. God I hate quotes on RUclips videos
When the ones enforcing the law are not only allowed to but encouraged to break the law themselves to get other people to break the law so they can enforce the law, you are ruled by criminals. (sad thing is this actually happens all the time)
That Scav dying after reaching the garage is sadder than Titanic.
Lmao, titanic sad? The accident sure but you probably meant the movie? Lol. But ok, I will light a candle for that scav.
@null.dev. ☝️🤓
@null.dev. I'm pretty sure since the title of the Movie is "titanic", he's talking about the movie. Whenever someone talks about the actual ship I feel like they usually say The Titanic
@null.dev. It's a horror movie for us dude
I was a server admin for a rather popular Dayz mod server back in the day. After that experience, spending countless hours trying to catch and ban cheaters, I've never looked at games the same since.
CAn you tell more ? :D
I remember if they had multiple servers, it would save your position. So when you got the drop on some players, they would take cover, disconnect after getting your position. Then they would reconnect on another server in the same spot, flank you completely safe from fire, jump in your server and shoot you in the back. Not a hack but still cheating by gaming the system.
@HonkHill-ev4hk ah man loot saving over multiple servers was the meta, i would disconnect in mil zones, connect on an other server, loot, disconnect and do it again until i was geared XD
Wonder how many innocent people you banned
Curious bout the server name lowkey not for a like "aha I knew there were cheaters there" or drama sorta deal just more wondering if I know the name or played there for muh nostalgia based dopamine kick.
It's absolutely heart wrenching to have conformation this was going on. Thanks for going through the effort for this video
Yeah knowing everytime you call out a cheater its correct is finally enough, I'm sending this video to all my friends.
bro, its been known since 2018, when real gamers quit the game, welcome to PC i guess
If only they developed this game for console.
@BoangAmerikano it's not about pc. This game currently suffers the worse from hacking, out of any game on the pc market today that has kept up its relevance.
@Nevergeist anime pic means fag dont talk to me
Almost 3 years later and im still dying to the most blatant cheaters 💔🙏🏻
Why do you even bother playing
Thanks to everyone from the WAN show! You guys are awesome. The last half of the video has a good interview with Luke. You will like! Cheers
*BSG activates nuke* 👀 👖 💩 💥
Still dont agree with the ethics of cheating but I understand your fustration
At the very least he owes you a bottle of syrup.
This video hurt. I only played this wipe for a couple weeks and for now I'm out. Thanks for doing this!
Veritas TTV is watching it now. He is so salty about it 🤣!!!
Such a wild video... Honestly, from one creator to another. Well done. This was a GREAT watch!
Thanks for stopping by my man. I have been watching you for a long time.
Glad to see Bigfry giving support. I think we all knew this but it was great to "actually" see it. Thank you for standing up, more people should.
I hope you cover this on your channel, even as a shorter chopped up react and discuss kind of video on the main channel. You've been highly critical of BSG in the past and for good reason, now I think you might've just found another
Love ur work @bigfry
Make a video on this bigfry!
A big thank you to Luke from Floatplane/LTT for letting me know about a video that i might have otherwise never found
Same here!
sameeeeeee
100% agree
I am on board with the luke gang
@l-l me also lol
this is one of those videos that you can always come back to and enjoy
Luke's response was brutal to listen to. The disappointment in his voice shows how much he loves this game, and how these cheaters just destroy that enjoyment.
it sounds borderline unhealthy to be honest, caring so much about a game man..
@ItsBoyRed if this was your take away, the video went right over your head.
With what he is showcasing, basically advertising what cheats could actually do to "help" especially when you suck at the game, is probably doing the opposite of what he is intending to do. Know his heart is in the right place, but he's basically giving free advertising for the hacks out there.
@Gaetano.94 disagree. My take away from this is why so many people refuse to come back to this game. It’s a extremely common issue swept under the rug and ignored by the developers. It’s the number 1 problem facing the game currently, next to connection / desync issues. I never once watched this and thought “I need cheats”.
Unless Tarkov decides to take this issue head on, most of the community will shy away from the game.
@JoshuaHaasua I hope you're right, I haven't played in a long time because of it.
I've quit playing tarkov this wipe because of this and I can't possibly put to words how much I appreciate the work you've done here your a Saint amongst men.
Me too. I pop back on every once in awhile, but it really took the wind outta my sails encountering moments that were clearly someone cheating.
Its sad the people who think he is a bad person for this...
You think this is extra bad this wipe? No... This is how it has been for years, there is always a cheater in your lobby, no matter what.
I'd recommend checking out Singleplayer Tarkov. I swapped over to SPT because I just can't deal with live anymore, never looked back.
I mean if you enjoy it, why quit? I've had the same gun 12 raids now because I haven't died, and maybe got 25 dogtags with just this same gun, and I'm not cheating, so its definitely playble still.
What is happening at Tarkov reddit is sick. They are deleting all posts that are informing about this situation, even those that are not breaking ANY rules of forum. Imagine how desperate and powerless they must be if they are taking such actions...
typical reddit mod fashion. Power hunger fanboys or actually hired by BSG.
@stormtroopers8653 both true
@dagggnu yep. Considering how BSG loves kissing big streamers' ass I'm not surprised at all.
freedom of speech is overrated where the devs cpme from ;)
It's their cash cow, it's called the infinite account glitch 😂😂
OLD Timer here: The thing that messes with me the most is as the years went by my deaths in the game became more and more suspicious. There were many intense pvp fights where I would know where they are roughly by using sound and just wiggle at the wall towards their direction and some times they would just run away..... deep down I had a feeling something fishy was going on in Tarkov and then the wiggle that killed Tarkov came out and all my my instincts were validated.
Fever Dream feeling for sure.
Been done with Tarkov but this further sealed that nail in the coffin
This video is the concrete mold I pour over the coffin of tarkov that I already buried.
Yeah and the fact Nikita doesn't care shows that bruised egos dont make for good game development
facts
i wonder how much in terms of % of players quit the game already
Such an awesome game, ruined by it’s developers. Happens alot these past few years ngl
This explains so much. I played this game for about 2 years, was never "Great" at it, but I was probably average. I remember so many of my deaths being the typical "How did they even know I was there?" Deaths aside from the other "Ok no idea where that dude shot me from". This also explains times where I would go AFK and hide my PMC in the most obscured vacant location, only to come back after 10 minutes to the post raid lobby to see a PMC killed me. There were so many instances where that happened. Seeing how common the cheaters are in this video, confirms my suspicions. I'm glad I stopped playing this game last year.
Nah you simply suck at this game.
Can't believe you lasted 2 years. When I first played the game it was great.. but when I came back and cheating had literally become the meta I quit after a few sessions. Nothing could be more frustrating.
I play diet tarkov now. Arena Breakout.
Cheaters are super common in survival games tarkov in particular because they went round on huge banning streaks but then ended up with them cheaters just getting new accounts and using cheats again..
@blakearius xD guess im so salty for not buying into such a stupid community
This is the most solid proof of Tarkov's rampant cheating problem I've ever seen. Downloading this video right now so I have it saved locally. It won't be lost to history.
@JKLOLOMG1101 i played a bunch of old fps games competitively for years and have seen tons of cheaters in different contexts as a result, tarkov's cheats ramped up a lot since the flea market got added considering people could make money off of it. it's been fucked ever since then, i don't know percentages but i'm willing to bet at least half of tarkov's cheaters are people who do it purely for RMT reasons
That's good, just encase bsg might flag the video. They have a history doing that to channels exposing the broken bullshit in the game.
Hard to believe this is 3 years old and the game hasn't changed at all. BSG is actively supporting this behavior on their platform.
100% right. I went on myself abouut 2 years ago and bought some walls and these mf were def doing everything they did in his video. Even had a few streamers straight up pull up on me without any knowledge.. just rolled up and POP. Dudes were live too. It's fucking insane this stuff isn't a crime.
Now it's even more getting Salt into your wounds with the Playerstats you can directly look up. Getting killed by a blatant guy with absolutely blatant stats only to see that he's still doing his thing few months later is so ...
Luke absolutely sold me on this! I don't play Tarkov, but the human element of this is real interesting.
Almost like this is a promo to make the rp of tark funner and a new aspect
human element just ruins everything. people literally can't help but to be a piece of trash if it means short term fun.
@NevergeistBut it’s so weird u take out all the fun Things of the Game like They have to be trash irl
It’s an amazing game unlike any other. Give it a try
@Nevergeistit’s human nature. Even in the highest level of competition in sports people cheat to get an edge. I’m sure a lot of streamers cheat as well
This is absolutely going to hurt Tarkov so hard, I know how hard it is to make anticheat but damn, they're going to absolutely have to try to pull all the stops to get rid of this
I mean they don’t, they just use battleye. There’s no effort.
all they have to do is take a fkin screenshot
@neaumusic that's not how anticheat works
Personnally I didn't need this proof to suspect the game to have some cheaters. I'm pretty sure everybody has been killed a weird way, multiple times. Sometimes you could think you're just bad, but when you're pretty sure you were stealth and made quite no noise, and got killed the short moment you're in sight of another player that you couln't see : it's reasonable to think that there is something else than just skill.
@jackawaka theres lots of anti cheats that work like that
g0at had about 15K subscribers when I watched yesterday. Now he has 41K. Well deserved after this video.
He saved us from "tHeRe aRe Not MaNy cHeAtErS iN TaRkOv" guys forever so yeah
This is literally investigative journalism for FPSs
Luke refenced channel in LTT WAN show, so lot ruclips.net/video/_FqH1rqQrQg/video.html 11:29 you can see subs going up.
talk about cheating for profit lol, i don't see any reason for him to of embellished the stats since 12 clips and a 20 minute edit out of 125 raids just plain old don't support his stats.
i wonder how much the WAN show helped
Cheating in video games should be a crime
It's insane how they'll ignore the cheating problem, and then get upset that people play the single player mods.
Russian game dev management
w8, tarkov have single player mods?
@TheR1ko Yup, it's called SPTarkov / SPT
How dare someone make this game enjoyable. It's supposed to be hardcore!
Russian game development culture tbh
I can't even imagine BSG getting this under control at this point.
And its not just Tarkov, I feel like most online games these days are becoming plagued with hackers. You can't stop it, but there are steps to slow it down with 2-point authentication, phone numbers, ect.
lol at this rate battle state will be shut down and the devs will end up getting hamburgalered by himars in Ukraine.
@BigMcLargeTrav Tarkov is way worse than most, the fact that the game is client authoritative makes cheating extremely easy and virtually undetectable in many cases. There are potential avenues they could take to mitigate this but really don't seem too interested. Rather they make bandaid fixes like making it harder to participate in RMT to decentivize for-profit cheating. Doesn't have any impact on the majority of cheaters who only do it for a recreational advantage though.
Nope theyre done if they want to save this game they need to give it over to a different company with better resources. Nikita is too petty to even think about somthing like that
@BigMcLargeTrav all games have cheaters its how quickly you deal with them thats what needs to change. If you use cheats you shouldnt expect to have your account for more than 48 hours. ESPECIALLY THIS GAME
Playing games, similar to this game makes me realize that most of the time if you’re not cheating, you’re literally missing out on a player base that is treating you as an NPC they can play with
that's why I'll never play games like gtao/rust/dayz ever again
It's in Halo, Call of Duty, and Battlefield too. As well as MMOs like WoW and ESO.
They are sharing discord, chat, etc. And have been since the days of instant messaging.
Hacks get updates quicker than legitimate development, too.
@dicksawyer5818 nobody is taking action... they only ban "nobody"s who are suspected to be cheating...
These companies need to step up and sue these cheat engine developers... what do they expect... do they expect the average person to sue these bastards?
Guys this stuff has been going on since the original tom clancy’s ghost recon…. And probably before that as well.
@frank.e.wildcat I know it is rampant in Rust as well. That is my favorite game. Good, active, admins on smaller servers with regular players are normallly okay. I always record my game and so do my friends. It is normally pretty obvious....
It's almost 2026 and the only thing that changed was they hide it better
This creates doubt in every single player, every single round and every death. That is going to be very difficult for Tarkov to overcome. This is going to have lasting impacts
Good. BSG has been sitting on their hands for too fucking long. I quit playing the official version when it became apparent that BSG wasn't going to do anything significant to stop the cheaters. The offline mods can be lonely and less challenging by a wide margin, but at least I can play the game without worrying about getting aim-botted and wall-hacked.
I think your putting it mildly, the % of cheaters in EFT is 75%-85% of the total players and BSG is ok with it because for reasons unknown to almost every commenter here (myself included) lots of ppl like playing this game with cheats, if BSG "fixed it" (remember fixing it doesn't mean patching the game it just means allowing cheats to be detected) their total player number will go down, BSG won't fix it ever and I'd bet a months salary on that!
Is it going to be difficult to overcome? Isn't this the norm? I am asking legitimately because I gave up PC multiplayer FPS over a decade ago... because cheaters were rampant and it was just no longer fun. At one time, privately ran and somewhat moderated servers were a common thing. Cheaters existed but they were easy enough to sniff out and ban. Once that stopped being a common thing because the publishers needed everybody in the company servers for MTX and silly achievement trinkets... I knew it was all downhill and I nope'd out of the genre.
So I guess I'm surprised that anybody is surprised by this content... I just assumed that this would be the norm... that everybody involved in these games just deals with it. I've played maybe four hours of GTA:Online... and was killed by griefers a bunch of times... and probably a few cheaters... and then was showered by money hacks by another half dozen cheaters. I seriously did nothing be get wrecked while occasionally pocketing millions of hack dollars. It was a bizarre experience. As far as my old man gen-x ass can tell, online gaming is a wasteland.
2 years ago i made this ruclips.net/video/8yCVW6wYND0/video.html. The was good then, don't what happened.
@control_the_pet_population The only thing you can do is play games with servers with active admins. There will never be an anticheat to stop every hack because new hacks come out and can't be kept up with and never will be. Sometimes admins ban legit players but sometimes an admin is the only way to get rid of a hacker before his hack is added to the anticheat database because they can watch a player and tell when he does completely fake bs a real player would never do.
GTA Online is a cesspit and always because the developers couldn't be fucked to balance the game and wanted to sell Sharkcards and other garbage, they'd rather make money off the players who want to to pay to be overpowered than to make a balanced enjoyable mp game. I'd only ever play GTA Online on a private server with friends but even then, it's far less fun than I had with the SA-MP mod
Watching Luke drop the spoiler for this video before it was released was awesome. Usually its Linus
Linus leaked it first as he didn’t know this video wasn’t out yet and then Luke kinda let loose and spilled ALL the beans
he dropped it faster then a next gen cpu he is reviewing 🤣
This is a necessary evil. Whatever was paid for the cheats and the new account pales in comparison to the value this insight has given the community and hopefully worth a proper responce from Nikita & BSG.
BSG is selling the cheats lol no joke but who knows
Agreed
they wont respond
Its confirmed what I have experienced. Today I died twice within one minute of spawning and have died many times to the headshot situation described.
@gracjansm that is a very reasonable expectation. I have hope they will respond, but a very realistic amount of hope. I feel like ego and their pride in their product plays a much much much bigger part in the management of the company than it really should considering how Goat expects the video to get stricken with a claim.
0:10 uhhh no, this is BSG were talking about.
Bsg? Battle star galactica?
@kiquian2voy245battlestategames, the company developing tarkov
I don’t know why people still get defensive about that like it’s false, Nikita said it himself that banning cheaters and them repurchasing the game was part of their sales model.
As an LMG's fan, this is the first time I heard Luke being this sad
its a fkn game lol he should grow up
@Coilzzit’s not just a game it’s a time investment to have fun something to enjoy or distract you it’s not to meant to make you question everything and hate life
@Coilzz then why are you here?
@Coilzz its like saying to a professional musician, "its just music who cares" if he can't play music anymore thats so dumb
@discountstrelok505 he's here to be a hater that needs to take his own advice and grow up.
EASY FIX: After raid has finished you get a message from Peacekeeper saying "My guys found some footage you may wanna see!" And it's a Kill Cam!
you say easy fix but you gotta remember that it took BSG over 6 months to add a grouping system to their game, even if the concept is easy, the spaghetti code the game runs on will likely make it take years to implement a system like this
@ImThatCatYT I feel like thats more because they have so many things on their plate. If they were to focus on 1 specific thing they wanted to put in the game I think they can implement it pretty quickly.
@ImThatCatYT To be fair, they can just steal the radar ESP and just have it play back the last minute of your life, a rough map, and the same LOS feature the cheaters have.
Die after being in someone's LOS for less than a second ? You know who you're dealing with.
Not even memeing too, they probably have all the informations needed server side, and it would avoid having to create an actual killcam which has to be more trouble than most people think it is.
And it would give us, legit players, some peace of mind, knowing this particular death was simply an unfair fight.
I'd rather see them introduce 4 or 5 more types of AK platforms to the game, along with some more gimmick hockey masks and things.. than actually have a crack at fixing real issues.
Guy Fawkes mask when Nikita ???????
This is absolutely heart breaking .... Tarkov officially died for me today .. but it was needed and I am glad I watched it. Thank you for making this and risking your relationship with bsg
damn same i’m just reading the comments realizing i won’t open it today, i have 2k hours and play everyday, just can’t open it anymore/: ggs man we had fun
Single Player Tarkov Dog
@2cuntsgaming That takes the fun out of it.
@BarneyGumbl3 i played tarkov for the tactical aspects,, eventually you will be able to play with friends .. only a matter of time.
its been like this for years man, the wiggle trick is not new
It' 2026 and that video is even more relevant than it was when it was first uploaded.
@pigeonmom7027couple days away. Merry Christmas.
I honestly am broken after watching this, knowing that my routine/tactic in maps is likely being seen by people and they are just ignoring me because I don’t have something they want or I’m not in their way feels so demoralising.
It invalidates everything about the game and it’s direction. The worst part is (like Luke said) is this ‘bro’ attitude they have. Like ‘us’ versus ‘them’. There’s no respect.
I do love this game. I learnt how to build a PC and playing tarkov was partially one of the reasons why because I was so tired of the triple A generic shooters. I wanted something with an atmosphere where the tension is overwhelming…and knowing it’s all tarnished as badly it is really is painful. Thank you for making this.
Yeah pretty disheartening knowing that every time I went, “omg I survived that raid” only really meant “I survived because they let me survive”
@13thBN yeah, not everytime ofc but knowing there were times that happened and not knowing how many is just horrible.
So you quit bc nobody chases you, but I quit because everyone chases me
@TheAlbin0zebra he quit because the only reason he didn't get chased was he didn't have the loot they wanted. You quit because you got chased because you had the loot they wanted.
@TheAlbin0zebra my point is ‘even a win isn’t really a win’ because you just didn’t interest them enough…but equip a full kitted weapons with level 4 plus gear and they’ll make their way over.
So all that special gear you save in your stash is just going to increase your risk of them targeting you.
I am a Korean Tarkov streamer. The video was really meaningful. This season is really serious. I will share this video with my community so that other Tarkov users can see it.
Thank you for making a good video.
Badscav on his horni alt lolol
한국인중에 Tarkov하는분들을 많이 본적이 없는데 한국에서 하는분들이 있다는거에 대해서 감사하게 생각합니다. 그리고 한국분들에게도 이런 이슈를 알려주셔서 정말 감사합니다.
you A holes were a plague on west coast servers years ago, do they not have eastern servers? lol.
Hey don't get too serious about it you know.... it IS a video game after all.
Plz try marauders, we need more Korean players (and players in general)
When I first played Tarcov it was great. Truly immersive experience.. then I came back 9 months later. I had been given a nice specked out weapon as a promo, I hid in some grass not moving, I wasn't gonna lose this thing, Suddenly some guy came running up behind me and stabbed me, he knew exactly where I was. The second round I got the drop on two guys, approached slowly, 1 then baited me while the other poped out less than half a second later for a headshot, nobody could do that if they were surprised. 3rd round I heard someone moving around.. I didn't move for 3 minutes and just waited rifle pointed at the door from the room corner, he blew me away instantly. It's ridiculous that a game about realism is just a battleground for people robbing the intention of the experience. I miss that original experience alot.
First example, yea cheater for sure.
Second example? you have to understand you make a lot of noise when you walk, I really think these two heard you.
Third example is peekers advantage. Depending on the patch it can be real bad, it is real bad right now with the current patch, was bad 3 wipes ago too. Being aggressive rewards HEAVILY in this game, you have a very big advantage.
This is why it is so hard to discern legit players from cheaters. If you play a lot, you will know what is possible and what is impossible. I can tell you from experience, gun fights don't end in 10 seconds. Sure if you play with friends, 1 might get dropped but even against veteran Tarkov players, you have a proper battle.
@j4ck3t Yeh I can't be 100% sure on those last 2, In that second instance. I had stopped moving and was camping around a corner. While they were running around full speed seemingly unaware for at least a minute or 2. It was a perfect ambush spot, there was no easy way to flank me but I'd still need to be lucky for them to come my direction, just a big box in the middle of the mall alley, out of nowhere they went quiet, 1 peekabood from the right side of the box super quick while the other head-shotted me from the left all in less than half a second. It truly felt like I was punished for being extra careful and sneaky instead of rushing them before they noticed me through the wall.
Just make tarkov for consolle, problem solved🤷♂️
Get good. Cheaters or not by the small descriptions I noticed you are a passive player that doesn’t like to move alot. In eft that player is often a dead player
@StorIARUclipss There are blocks, complete components, that allow you to cheat on console.
This is why SPT exists. Simple solution.
Bots don't give you the rush of PvP. Might as well play regular single player game.
Dude I hope all the Tarkov streamers get a chance to see this unedited. The entire platform is a fraud.
I mean... I'm sure some of them are also doing this....
@Traodeatrue like statistically a portion of them have to be
100% it's like a cheating syndicate honestly like if u put faces to places its wild
Wasn't Lvndmark banned for cheating? Thought he was using esp?
They see this all the time man, all u gotta do is let your self die a bit and ur gtg
Confirms everything I've suspected all along. So often in Tarkov I had situations where I thought to myself: Impossible that my opponents always knew so exactly my position. Now, unfortunately, everything makes sense...
Someone did this years ago, but looked at Labs specifically. He went on a large number of raids with ESP and saw that nearly all raids had at least one cheater in it.
yes
ruclips.net/video/959-ts_WLGE/video.html&ab_channel=EULGaming This is the video you're referring to it got blurred out now but the audio is still up
I did this in 1999/2000 with Quake 2 and counter-strike. Found plenty of cheaters. This is why I started playing coop games with some old guys around 2008. I can only imagine it's much worse now. Back then not alot knew enough to build a nice gaming PC. The community was smaller and better. Now every lil dickhead is online. I mostly stick to Coop / MMO now.
this is one of the best videos on cheaters of all time.
It's comforting to know that most cheaters sound like scumbags too
Cuz they've got nothing to do in life so what else should they do? Cheat and talk like a completely braindead moron
Not surprising.
They sound like young pimply virgins
Its ok having pimples and be a virgin but those guys distinguish themselves by cheating and thats pathetic
i mean how miserable you have to be to cheat in a multiplayer game
@kingoietro99 Disturbingly miserable. I'm miserable, and cheating in games would give me literally nothing because I'm not a sadist. Cheaters are pretty much just horrible people who want other people to have a worse time, and that's how they get enjoyment.. Horrible mechanism in a horrible brain.
Luke's praise for this video was well-earned
This confirms my gut instinct to not even bother playing this game. I didn't know how bad it was. Wow.
Problem is its not just this game, its pretty much every FPS, just depends on how they are cheating
You had no idea, that gut instinct is barely grasping the message.
You should take away the key T from your keyboard so you cant ever end up writing this piece of shit game by accident.
This wipe was the peak of cheating
@12thejsm but the problem with cheaters is hilarious right now. I played before 1 entire wipe, the one from the start of 2021 (or end of 2020, dont remember) and on that wipe I reported literally only 3 people, the 1 guy I was sure he is wallhacking, and the other 2 I was almost sure that they were cheating... I came back to this game this wipe and gues what, I don't remember a single day when I Havent played with at least 1 cheater, fucking hell I've played even with guy who was spinboting, I thought that this cheat is only in CS games. The problem with cheaters in online games is real, but that problem in EFT is on another level dude.
@demjan96 skill issue... people get better at games
@12thejsm nope. not an issue with csgo at ALL anymore. seriously. if you want proof watch anomaly's recent video called "hunting cheaters" or something like that.
Nothing changed to this day
"Even knowing that playing the game is wasting my time, I have other things that I could waste my time on better" Is a beautiful way to say it. Spot on!!
i wonder how many times i survived a raid just because i "wiggle" from time to time while holding an angle.
i’ve done this for years just to satisfy my ADD when i’m playing slow for a quest or something. Wonder the same thing, if i happen to get lucky and wiggle in the right direction lol
@swiftypines Totally going to start doing this at random
ive tested this anecdotally and sometimes when theres a spooky chad pushing me, sometimes i will literally be left alone. Hackers dont wanna get Toggled on either. just like playing poker lmao
exactly waht i was thinkin
Same, I like constantly wiggle lol
10/10. I've never played Tarkov but this was insanely well made and educational.
My friends always tried to covince me to start playing it.
Thanks to this video I will never start to play it.
I’ve been wanting to play this game but as someone that isn’t great at FPS anyway I def will not be buying this game until something is done.
Stay away from tarkov, its pretty much a death simulator at this point
best tarkov video ever
Cheaters are the reason I stopped playing the game. Played it since 2018, but haven't touched it this wipe. I know Tarkov has many cheaters, but I didn't know it was this bad. Made me question everybody. Got really paranoid. The ear-deafening silence from BSG about the severity about this problem is just a big slap in the face. Are they actively trying not to adress this? You, g0at, have done a lot to bring this issue to light. Thank you!
bsg posted the standard pr answer on reddit, made it sticky so everyone has to read it. its just a joke. "we do everything we can" "there are soon coming new updates" "its your fault for not reporting" "now report more so every cheater gets banned" "thank you for bringing the attention to an already know issue"
the good thing is that they are too stupid to give a real response and will lose a lot of players and hopefully have to get some anticheat because videos like this will be now everywhere on youtube.
BSG deserves the shit for this, for sure....but at the same time...no one is shitting on BattleEye which is just hilarious.....
@Mark-O-V BattleEye sux for sure, but BSG is responsible for using them instead of someone else. Also, a replay after the round close where you can spectate other players would really hurt the cheaters.
SPT AKI is the way for now, you can play with bots, locally
@gradeyundery4939 What's funny is it is the exact same format from posts that were made years ago about cheaters. Nikita is being eviscerated, even on the fucking reddit, for it.
I'm absolutely loving this. Like, I've fucked off from Tarkov for awhile and haven't even been on Tarkov-related content on RUclips or reddit over the weekend. I went and ate some IHop this morning, went to a gun show (Note: M1 Garands, Mauser 98's, and many other older weapons are much smaller than you'd think IRL), did a bit of shopping, sat through a tornado about an hour ago, and now... Now I'm blissfully reading that BSG, Tarkov, the reddit, and everything has gone fucking NUTS in the last day or so.
Quite a turn of events, and it's only Sunday!