Hi,

Please change the exfil bro program from 7 Days maximum on account creation to lvl 7 on any profile in the account, an early achievements perhaps. I've purchased this game for someone who played the tutorial on GZ and would probably come back if I pitched this to them.

Thank you for your consideration,

Solo got kneecapped in 1.1. You still pay the full cost of every quest, every death, every failed setup, while shared progression lets groups skip chunks of that friction entirely and catapult to the endgame through unlocks.

I've seen folks whining about Twitch Drops, but shared progression keeps accelerating squads toward endgame way more than a couple of free kits. Solo players need some lovin', maybe an armband, that'll do the trick.

Future Tarkov seasons feature an optional specialization track. Progressing through the season grants your permanent character a reward quest chain to then earn the specialization unlock on your permanent character. Enabling some activity draw to permanent while still allowing folks to focus those wanting wipes and seasonal content. Doesn't mean every season has a specialization as a reward, but maybe a theme.

The first specialization could be Locksmith

Permanent Character progression

After the season, players who succeeded would recover lockpick sets, key blanks, tension tools and technical manuals. The specialization would develop in stages:

• Apprentice: Can attempt basic mechanical locks with crude, consumable picks.
• Journeyman: Can identify lock difficulty, works faster and makes less noise.
• Locksmith: Can attempt higher-grade doors with specialized tools.
• Master Locksmith: Completes a multi-map capstone quest and can obtain blank keys that, on location you impression the door, pick it, and can choose or not to use the key to lock it behind you (optional comedy) key and also unlock the door that way. Buy LIMITs and per container max would be a fair balance. You earn a permanent SPEC tool that can clone a door to this blank key, 1 future use after the door is also unlocked upon keymaking, sound effect and all. So the tool takes an equipment slot too for balance.

Lockpicking alerts other players with loud sounds. A normal key remains brief, quiet and reusable; picking a lock might take 15–40 seconds, create audible metallic sounds and consume the tools with a fail chance. Multiple options for balance, especially keeping rare valuable keys elevated on the flea market by demand.

Legacy unlock system

Completing the season opens an event quest as a reward to the permanent PMC profile. Changing event quest rewards, the specialization in this example, resets the quest chain and has a cooldown period (possible Hideout tie-in? - single persistent location with levels for the long craft option for balance). Could be cool to have a selection screen where you see the badges for the seasons you've earned to switch. (Possible to add a reset timer buyout in TarCoin for the impatient or selection regrets.)

Master Locksmith’s Skeleton Key tool

A visually distinctive, season-marked key with unique artwork.

• 1 durability, consumed after opening one door.
• Maximum of one in a container at a time.
• Barter available perhaps tied to vendor reset, found in raid requirement could be an option too.
• Account-bound: cannot be sold on the Flea Market or transferred to another player, or dropped in raid. (Optional that it disappears on death like Rusted Bloody key for balance.)
• Fits inside a Key Tool, Documents Case or SICC case.
• Opens one ordinary mechanical key door.
• Does not work on electronic keycard locks, extraction doors, event doors, quest-exclusive doors or other deliberately protected locations.
• Requires a longer, louder unlocking animation than using the proper key.

Once per interval a player would choose a mechanically locked room to clone the key for, and for balance it could possibly required a different key styling (would work best as crafts, with long timers). It would not eliminate the normal key economy because owning the real key would still be faster, safer and usable repeatedly.

Persistent specialization

The season might permanently unlock Locksmith as an equip able specialization on persistent characters. It would permit the use of ordinary lockpick kits on most doors, while the Skeleton Key remains the rare solution for preparing a future run payoff to a locked room with a single charge to use after the unlock occurs upon creating the key.

To prevent permanent characters from accumulating every seasonal advantage, only one Legacy specialization could be active at a time. Changing specializations could require a hideout interaction and a significant cooldown - could be punishing but keep this engaging on perm characters to make switching reset and equip that particular season's reward.

Some market incentives would be that specializations and other huge gameplay implements cost TarCoins, optionally or occasionally based on reward.

Future reward concepts:

Smuggler Season: Build relationships with hidden couriers to unlock rotating dead-drop locations where one secured item of a certain size, pending the container, can be delivered.

Field Surgeon Season: Complete medical recovery missions to unlock a specialization that can stabilize one blacked limb per raid and/or use a defib and perform as a medic on a fallen party member.