u/spatialflow

For real though is anybody questioning this? Like what the fuck even is a kord? I swear I can't go 5 seconds without seeing KORD BREACH anywhere I go in Tarkov-land and I've been kinda wondering KORD BREACH what even is a kord?

I looked it up KORD BREACH and it turns out maybe it's kind of a translation of some Estonian word, which seems to loosely mean something like "regime" or "order" or "system." I dunno but KORD BREACH that's all I could come up with, like maybe it's trying to suggest some kind of regime change or something? I have no idea KORD BREACH but I just keep seeing those words plastered all over everything and it's just really KORD BREACH making me start to wonder what the fuck a kord even is?

I was thinking the other day about how much more treacherous the NPCs would be if they simply didn't constantly announce their own presence.

Imagine if scavs didn't shout something at you as soon as they see you, but would just start shooting and moving. Same goes for PMCs and bosses/guards. This one single little change would make every PvE raid hair-raising. You'd be moving slowly and checking every single corner and listening to the wind just like you do in PvP.

Then also think about stuff like how Kaban will lay down suppressing fire with his MG based on where he last saw you. Give that ability to other NPCs, for example some random scav with a Kedr. Sometimes NPC scavs will literally crouch-walk sneak-up on you. Give that ability to other NPCs. Maybe there's some way you could have scavs spawn as 3/4-man squads that act like a boss with a couple guards in escort.

I dunno but anyways I think it would only take one or two very tiny changes to the AI to create a real hardcore PvE experience, and it wouldn't require things like the unstoppable proliferation of Black Division all over the Norvinsk region. Literally just make the AI stop talking and you've changed how the game works for PvE players. Give common NPCs a couple of more advanced abilities on top of that and you've got an extremely hardcore experience IMO, without the need for any sort of cheesy shit.

Put the stats on-par with something like the RK1+B25. Gain a little bit of recoil control, but lose a little bit of ergo. Maybe even give it a little horizontal recoil buff just to be cheeky (come to think of it, maybe that's how the RK1+B25 should work too...)

Anyways just a little something extra to incentivize the use of bipods. Otherwise it's just for extreme drip. But yeah I mean just think of the possibilities for badassitude here, especially with something like an RPD.

Fair warning, I have no proof of this. I wish I had happened to have been recording, or could have reacted fast enough for a screenshot. But I swear to fucking gosh golly gee whiz that I witnessed this:

When you're loading a match, your character is standing there looking around, occasionally pulling a mag out to check the ammo, putting it back in, looking around more, etc...

I swear to gosh fucking golly that my PMC character pulled the mag out and checked it, and at that exact moment, I got a notification that my mag drills skill had advanced to the next level.

Has anyone else ever experienced this? It seems like such an infinitesimally-small chance of this happening, but from what I saw it's got to be the case that you actually get a tiny amount of mag drills skill just from the loading screen where your character is checking the mags.

I was just sitting at the "select your character" screen and my random scav was just kinda standing there vibing with my PMC, and they both kinda turned and looked at each other for a second like they were homies or something, and it gave me a thought.

What if, as a PMC, you could bring your random scav along with you into a raid as your companion? You could give him commands just like you can do as a scav once you max out your Fence rep.

But maybe something like...level 20 PMC? And only in PvE mode? Or even lock it behind a quest or something? Like add a quest that requires you to locate/use the co-op extract on some map, and that will unlock the ability to bring a scav companion with you.

I dunno I'm mostly a PvE player so this probably wouldn't make sense in the PvP universe. But I think it would be an incredibly cool addition to the PvE game. You get whatever random scav you've got lined up at the character screen. Just click the box to bring a scav squire into battle with you. Maybe it would cost something, like it would reset your scav timer or something. Anyways yeah that's the post.