r/EscapeFromTarkovPvE

Something about this map. My duo partner and I seem to have something new or unique happen every raid. We’ve made it up to the 4-man BD group before Pier door, but the two of us just cannot make it through together.

Past the point of frustration, and looking for any help or any one to get us out. Burned so many keys and attempts we are just done.

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back to 3 full cases

I'm postive that PKP for gunsmith part 25 dosen't exist in this game here's why.

I've been farming Kaban for last 3 days, as of now I killed him 20th time (just extracted) in those days and that's the list of guns he had

RPK-16 - 1 time

PKM - 3 times

M60 - 8 times

MK43 - 8 times

I read from other posts from last like 5 months and most people are saying PKP have about 30% chance to spown. I also died to him 2 times, but that those times he also did not have PKP becouse after death from him i see only dmg form 7.62x51.

Am I have such bad luck or is it bug becouse with BSG you can never know.

So this isnt really a huge issue but just something I noticed. I just finished tearing down the broken wall and have nutrition lv2 water lv1 and rest area lv3 but it doesnt look like im getting any of the hydration, energy, or health buffs out of raid. I have more than enough supplies for it to bot be an issue but I was curious why they dont seem to be applying at all. I tried restarting, clearing cache, amd turning the Gen off and on but the values stay around 1.1 regardless. Am I missing something?

When i played PVE 2 years ago it was perfect. PMC, Scavs, Boss. Everything was frenetic, but now it’s just bosses or dead maps.

Custom: dormitory are always empty unless reshala is in there, same for center-map. I found PMC only on main street (1-2) and some on the building next to old gas station.

Woods: literally can’t find PMC

Interchange: literally can’t find PMC, specially by night i am stuck in chumming’ skier quest.

Shoreline: Can find some PMC but they are in places where you wouldn’t go unless you are specifically looking for them.

Factory, streets and ground zero seems to be fine but i noticed a drop in PMC presence in street

Hi I have trouble looking for golden skull rings as title mentioned. I have so far collected 3 and my scav case are lacking this final piece of item to start building.

I just started playing again after a long time and gave PVE a shot but this is really bad. Im 6/6 for killa trying to complete the first mission on interchange and this is insane. Seems like they couldnt figure out how to tweak AI even after all these years. Is there any way to change the settings or something since this is PVE or is it all on the BSG side? I found a website with boss spawn rates on some other post and most of them were at least 50% or more with multiple bosses being able to spawn in the same raid. I get that maybe people want some challenge in PVE but maybe have this level locked like flea market? Or like the free healing until level 10 and then make bosses spawn?

Yo, i'm a returning player and am trying to get used to the speed of the game again, so naturally I want to hop into PVE to get a feel.

I cant seem to load into my scav raid. I've tried a lot of different troubleshooting but to no avail.

What gives? Thanks for the help/advice!

I've been working towards Kappa and am down to my last two quests, Tarkov Hunter: Evil Watchman and Stray Dogs. Because of this, I've been running Customs almost exclusively, and I've noticed a considerable change in how the map plays compared to earlier questing there.

In around 25 consecutive raids I have encountered a single PMC - a lonely USEC at Big Red. There have been no PMCs anywhere around dorms within the quest area, nor anywhere outside of that. Generally, as a raid starts there are some distant gunfire which quickly stops. The rest of the raid is eerily quiet. I've alternately been running around actively looking for PMCs or sat at dorms and waited out the clock, and everytime to no avail. This has happened over an over again without fail.

Either something is off with the game or I've been having the most rotten luck I've ever heard of.

It should be said that it wasn't like this before. Before recently I would often run into groups of PMCs around dorms, and there would be continous fighting across the map. Now it's just silent.

Anyone knows what's up or have similar experiences?

Hi Everyone, i played 8 hours so far and there are a lot of things i like but also dislike.

1. How do you find Exits without having a Map open 24/7, so far i only found exits without a map by hugging the wall and since i only have a single monitor i cant have a map open at all times.

2. How do i know where to find what item, the stash space is so limited, i already spend my money on the Therapist Materials Container but i cant get the drill or nails for the hideout Storage upgrade.

3. Since the game doesnt really have color coding i just pick up items that i think could be usefull and anything that is purple and not a backpack, how do i know what items i should look for or keep?

4. Whats the fastest way to level? Many trader levels are locked behind my own level even if i already have everything else like reputation or value sold to them, also the market says i can buy ARs and some scopes at level 25 or 40??? Im level 8 after 8 hours and i did most of these on factory where i already got a lot of kills, how long does it take to reach lvl 40, 150h?

5. This isnt a question but ANY Tip is welcome that could improve the fun i have with this game <3

i need to kill 20 pmc inside the mall, thing is in all the raids i did on interchange ive never saw a pmc inside the mall lol.

if you guys have, where inside the mall?

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How are you guys finding cultists?

I looked online and Tarkov.dev says cultists have a 25% chance to spawn on night time customs and a 12% chance to spawn on night time factory.

Every night time customs I run I get blown to pieces by the 3 Goons and I’ve run a hundred night time factory raids and never seen them.

Is there anything I’m missing? Any tricks to it? I just want a marked key :(

Edit: The very first raid I did after making this post was night factory and I got absolutely smoked by Sektant. One tapped me head eyes with no warning whatsoever from 65m away

I’m in need of some help on ice breaker! I’ve made it to wedge but just seems to be an issue getting past the engine room. If you are willing to help I would greatly appreciate it. Happy raiding everyone

Hi everyone, i am in desperate need of help clearing icebreaker for the first time, i only need to get to the chained door so i can load directly in to the map

So anyone feeling generous hit me up

Imo Tarkov absolutely needed open world to be great. the game is alright how it is but can you imagine how much cooler it would have been if you had multiple hideouts across the zone with safezones and taxi services?

as someone who has played stalker its very easy to see how tarkov took inspiration from it, and stalker is a GREAT game but it wouldnt be great without its open world elements. tarkov is alot like stalker only differences is it excels in many things and lacks open world. if this game had open world it would have easily been the top game of 2026 and one of the greatest mmorpgs of all time and i dont think anything will ever change my mind. bsg strayed away from the idea after realizing it wouldnt work with how unoptimized and resource hungry this game is, and instead of just dividing segments with loading screens and safe zones and only loading the segment of the map the player is in they scrapped it entirely so they could push the 1.0 out the door since it wouldve taken a while to implement. this just screams incompetence to me, they shouldve known from the start that their vision wouldnt work, part of being a game developer is knowing your limits so that your not pushing out empty promises, because your playerbase is gonna expect to see anything and everything you imply. they shouldve either kept quiet about all the 'Broken Promises' or hired or teamed with more competent developers.

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this is a map i illustrated over

Red=Maps

blue = Possible safe zones

purple = pve only sections between maps that could either be trader hubs/bases with taxi services, or accesible hideout locations for the player between maps, adding incentive to travel and stay in certain locations depending on your needs

Imo the entire reserves location being abandoned is so comical considering throughout the game you find out there ARE infact valuable assets there the russian government would not just leave behind, i think reserves being manned (kinda like the water treatment plant) would make alot more sense, ruaf holding with raid events where it gets temporarily overrun and you can treat the map as usual. even if the base was lightly manned with troops who have low funding equipment, and a commander who grants the player access and cooperation via quests and thus turning d-2 into a safezone and hideout that allows easy access between shoreline and reserve for later on in the game

the way the game would play would be:

Start on ground zero, Main objective: find a way out of the area. you then encounter your first safezone trader hub ran mainly by therapist out of an armed hospital compound or wherever shes at

do stuff for her to find your way into streets and maybe encounter prapor who is rising in power capturing more territories

rest of the early gameflow would involve finding paths to other maps (this would be the tour segment of the story) until you find a good paper trail to work off of

there shouldve been several major different ending that all depend on who you worked with out of prapor, mechanic, jaeger,therapist vs peacekeeper, skier(basically the UN) and then kermin/lightkeeper.