Game notes for my endeavours in Escape from Tarkov

First raid EVER and I survived

Preface

I bought Escape from Tarkov(EFT) preorder / beta access on january 28. 2022 because I needed something to waste my sparetime on... time will tell if I get hooked.

This page is intended as my own personal reference card to stuff I probably will forget if I do not write it down somewhere :-D

My Rig

CPU and Graphicscard are watercooled.

I could bebefit from a new motherboard, CPU and RAM but i get +60 FPS consistently with this rig so i am inhaling the copium for yet some time to squeeze maximum lifespan out of my +5 year old CPU/MoBo/RAM LUL

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Part Information Motherboard Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. Z97X-UD5H CPU Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4.00GHz, Haswell 22nm Technology RAM 32 Gb Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 800MHz (8-8-8-24) Storage 512 Gb Samsung NVMe MZVPV512 Graphics card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (ZOTAC International) Monitor LG ULTRAGEAR (3440x1440@144Hz), Samsung SE790C (3440x1440@60Hz), HP E23 G4 (1080x1920@60Hz) Keyboard Cherry MX Board 1.0 TKL Mouse Logitech MX Master 3 Soundcard Argon HA2 (Burr Brown Japan PCM2702) Amplifier Schyte SDA-1100 Headset AKG K240 MkII Mic Thronmax MDrill One Pro Pants Levi's

Usefull websites

• Escape from Tarkov Market.
• Escape from Tarkov ballistics.
• Escape from Tarkov changes.
• Escape from Tarkov Official Wiki.
• Escape from Tarkov in game time.
• Escape from Tarkov server status.
• Escape from Tarkov news from Battle State Games.
• Escape from Tarkov interactive maps. The wiki also got maps. Re3mr's maps are quite good too.

Gear / Loot

Quest items

The EFT WiKi have a great list of Loot that you should hold on to for quests-purposes. Chech it out and get familiar with it... you could even print it out and put it on your wall so you have it handy at all times ;-)

What keys to keep

• Pestely's S-F Key Tier List Complete. (12.12.xx.yyy)

Key Tool

The Key Tool would be handy to obtain as soon as possible.

• Barter for one from Therapist Level II (PMC level 13).

Documents case

• Barter for one from Therapist Level II (PMC level 13).

Mr. Holodilnick thermal bag

• Barter for one from Jaeger level II (PMC level 15).

M4A1 post Raid #1 upgrade

• Replace front sight/Gas block with MK12 Low Profile Gas Block bought from Mechanic for ~5100 RUB
• Replace Carry Handle with any optics of choise - Skier got Walter MRS reflex sight for ~13000 RUB

Console commands

This section contains Console commands that i use.

FPS Counter

Press the tilde key ~ on your keyboard to enable the console command interface (either on the menu or in raid).

• Enter fps 1 in the console bar that appears at the top of your screen and press enter.
• Alternatively, enter fps 2 for advanced information
• Enter fps 0 to turn off the counter completely.

Graphics settings

Version 12.12.15.18346

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Object LOD: -> 2.5 Overall visibility: -> 1000 Anti-aliasing: TAA High -> Off (Disabled because DLSS is enabled) Resampling: 1x (Disabled because DLSS is enabled) NVIDIA DLSS: balanced HBAO: Colored -> off SSR: -> Off Anisotropic Filtering: -> Off Nvidia Reflex Low Latency: -> Off Sharpness: No effect on fps. Lobby FPS Limit: No effect on ingame fps (duh) HighQualityColor: -> Off Disabling PostFX entirely: 94 -> 100 FPS FOV: Min FOV -> Max FOX: No change (may have difference on your system) Only use Physical Cores -> Off: No change. Automatic RAM cleaner: Nothing (32GB RAM though) Texture Quality: No change. Shadow Quality: Ultra -> Medium -> Low: 100 -> 100 -> 103

12.12 Weapon builds

• Tarkov's LOWEST Recoil 5.45 Builds - Budget to Best AK Build Guide -

Advice'n guides

Hip Fire / Point aim

Rengavr made a video about EFT's 'built in' hip-fire cross-hair - watch it! it's goooood and explain the secret B-25U feature.

Game mechanics

• When doing Scav-runs if cases/boxes/crates are closed but empty on examination it means that they probably was looted before you loaded in. If they are open they were looted after you loaded in. this also applies when doing PMC runs but in this senario you will normally not encounter closed loot-containers as I understand it.

Map hints

Shoreline

• Visual guide to the 37 Caches by Pestily.
• Buy a cheap weapon and nothing else and go to Shoreline and locate the sniper rock. Kill the 1 or 2 sniper scavs that spawn there. Watch this for a tutorial on how to get on top of the rock to loot them. They always have either a scoped Mosin or sks and semi decent loot for a new player. Extract at path to lighthouse, or road to customs. Rinse and repeat for ez loot.

Video guides

• Efficient task/quest guide to max out Traders fast.
• Level 1 Trader Loadout Guide.
• The BEST Advice for New Tarkov Players to Get Better FAST - This may be a hot take, but grinding Factory, in both offline and in live raids, is the best way for new players to get good fast.

Nvidia Settings

• VOX_E's Tarkov OPTIMIZATION Guide 2022 - Nvidia Control Panel Settings (22. jan. 2022)

Graphics settings

• VOX_E's BOOST Your FPS in 12.12 - Best Tarkov Graphic Settings (8. jan. 2022)

Errors

Stuck on "Awaiting session start"

Stuck on "Awaiting session start" should be exclusively on your scav ; if you're stuck on "Awaiting session start" specifically for more than 5 minutes ; it's a good indicator that you're desynced and need to Alt+F4 and restart the game.

Scav Voicelines in english

This list is incomplete and translations are unconfirmed/not verified ;-)

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Voiceline Translation Stryomnoye mestechko "Stryom" means fear, "mesto" is a place. Kind of like "This place is giving me shivers" Khot' mne tut pizdets kak ne nravitsya, no vykhoda u nas net Although I don't f*cking like it here, we don't really have a choice A vot tut drugan moy byval, tochno Oh! My friend was here once, that's for sure! I kto tak voyuyet? Tak tol'ko debily voyuyut! Who even fights like this? Only idiots fight like this! A, bashka bolit.. Bukhat' nado men'she Argh, got a headache. I should drink less. Paskuda! Used to describe a bad person who has done bad deeds; Suka-a-a! Biiii*ch! Vot khuy! What a d*ck! Chiki-briki, pal'chik vykin' Chiki-bricki is a phrase that is meant to describe an act of cutting something off. "Pal'chik vykin" means "throw a finger away". Basically a Russian version of "This little piggy went to the market" with a finger (toe in case with piggy) that was cut off. Nu davay, davay! Come on, come on! Davay, davay-davay! Come on, come on - come on! Davay, mochi ikh! Come on! F*ck them up! (this one doesn't actually have swear words in it, "mochi" literally means make somebody wet (not this way, you perv!) by trying to drown them (assuming in a barrel or bucket of water or something). "Ikh" = them. Basically a call to kill somebody. Mrazota! Another word to describe somebody nasty and bad as a person, this one has a hint of "disgusting". Khe, s utra vypil - den' svoboden A catchphrase from Scav, that means "He-he... have a drink in the morning and free up your day" (meaning this was the only thing planned for the day) Osobenno von tot parenok v belom, krasava blin Especially that dude wearing white, what a legend! (legend is pretty far from original here, but it's used in a same way by English-speaking society) Urod! Descriptive for a person who has done bad deeds, literally means "Ugly", but in this context it's used as a "Ugly f*ck!" Ot medvedya yeshcho nikto tselym ne ukhodil! No one has yet escaped from a bear alive! (he's using "tselym" though, it means "in one piece") Khuyar' medvedya! F*ck the bear up! (referring to a member of PMC "Bears") Da yobushki-vorobushki No way to translate this literally, it has a meaning of "For f*cks sake". Blya, rabotayem, rabotayem F*ck! Work them over! - would be the closest way to phrase it. Scav means "let's work!" literally, meaning that killing is the job here. Gandon yebuchiy! F*cking condom! (condom could be used as quite an offensive way to describe a person who have done bad deeds) Poshol, poshol! Move, move! Shcha k barygam, a potom - po babam First to the pawn shop and then to b*tches. (He doesn't actually say "cutie", but he means pretty loose women here) Dostalo uzhe vso eto I'm so done with this already. Chto, zabyl kto te baton v budku zakidyvayet? Did you forget who's d*ck you're sucking? (He's saying this in a bit funnier way: "Did you forget who's throwing his baguette into your doghouse?" ("Budka" means a doghouse, oftentimes used to describe head, lol)) Ey, uyobok! Nu kak tam tebe, pechot!? Hey, f*cktard! Is it getting hot yet!? Khm Hmm. (would you guess?) Kak zhe zayebalo vso I'm so f*cking done.