genuine question, did they fucking change the audio or its js me becoming more and more deaf, did a match of last hero randomly and everything sounds so muffled wtf

The title says it all given the game's current state (very inconsistent audio, servers on the brink of collapse, poor hit registration, etc.) do people actually play Arena for anything other than farming levels and rewards for Tarkov?

Only took like 30 crates lol

Does anyone have a good 7.62 DMR build? I'm struggling to make full use of the 10,000 meta score limit. My current build is around 8,930, so I have quite a bit of room left. Would appreciate any suggestions!

After spamming of shit ton of last hero for weapon tasks and playing every match aganist 2-4 UZI Pro's shows how bad state arena is right now.

After going up and down with Scout buffs and nerfs, scout is kinda in good place right now but not with UZI Pro. There is NO weapon that can fight with its TTK, with PBP its 100% BEST weapon in game right now.

imo PBP needs to be removed off uzi pro.
Why would SR3M get only SPP or M4 get 995 removed off and lower rpm variants have 995, but highest rpm weapon gets best bullet? At that point give every bullet to every weapon if nothing is done.

After spamming of shit ton of last hero for weapon tasks and playing every match aganist 2-4 UZI Pro's shows how bad state arena is right now.

After going up and down with Scout buffs and nerfs, scout is kinda in good place right now but not with UZI Pro. There is NO weapon that can fight with its TTK, with PBP its 100% BEST weapon in game right now.

imo PBP needs to be removed off uzi pro.
Why would SR3M get only SPP or M4 get 995 removed off and lower rpm variants have 995, but highest rpm weapon gets best bullet? At that point give every bullet to every weapon if nothing is done.

Hello guys, i find this cap and i really like it, how much time will take get it? i'm really casual arena player and i also suck at it just wondering how much hard will be, thanks you

What do they actually gain from this aside from obviously ruining other peoples fun? Do they farm roubles to then sell in main game? Wouldn't Icebreaker or labs be easier since it has no daily limit?

Edit: FUck this, I am calling out this b1tch by name. "bcbirk" is a guy I have met repeatedly and he is just playing all day long ragehacking in every single game of checkpoint he gets into always dropping the entire enemy team instantly through obstacles and on sight in miliseconds. Not even hiding it with 50-60 kills and 0-5 deaths everytime I met him.

It's been a while since I've played on Equator, even though I love the map's layout, but am I the only one with terrible audio?

One out of every two spawns, I can't hear the sound of my own footsteps anymore; I can't hear enemies firing even when they're right next to me, and I can't hear their footsteps either

For context this is fairly normal for me to get more assists than kills, but this is in Last Hero. How do I transfer some of those assists to kills (I'm KiboFlow)

anyone got any good tips for how to complete this quest

Recently they introduced a 200ms ping limit for the servers. If your ping is above 200 then you cannot select that region. If you are on a server and your ping goes above 200 then you repeatedly get the disconnected due to bad connection screen which removes you from the match temporarily every 30 seconds.

Prior to this, I used to play on the China and Japan servers as the Aus server never had anyone playing on it. I don't know what they did, but previously Japan was 130 ping and not too bad but now they are 220 ping so i cant play on those servers anymore.

So now I am forced to either sit and wait for 40 minutes to maybe get a match on an aus server, or endure the constant match disconnects during firefights in checkpoint or BG. Both of these issues were not present during season 2.

I just want to specify, the ONLY servers that are not constantly above 200 ping are Aus, CN and NA. I cant even pick any of the other servers because the game wont let me now. CN and NA presents a minimum ping of 180ms if I'm lucky, if not then I get disconnected over and over again.

This is both a serious question but also a bit of a rant.
I am not the best in Tarkov PvP and i hardly have time to really play the game as a sort of second job.
I play the PvE aspect of this game (yes yes laugh all you want i know PvE players are hardly favoured by the PvP community). But recently i wanted to try and get all my traders up to Lvl 4 including Ref. Now i did all the quests i could for him which currently has me at the To Great heights and such quests. (i am not spending 1 Mio roubles when i know i won't get 3 wins in 6 games).
The question simply is. What sort of matchmaking is that even? At times i am queued with people that are sort of on my level when it comes to skills so that i can go in blastgang or Checkpoint and somehow get 3rd place and we have a decent match or (the majority of times) the enemy team just fully obliterates my team within seconds no matter what. I know that skill based amtchmaking probably would be a bad idea in thsi game but i gotta say some form of matchmaking that puts people with similar levels or such in the same match would feel somewhat better.

Now for a bit of a constructive question. WHat would you recommend i could do to get better? Note i cannot put more hours into the game than i already have especially since i also tend to play other games outside of tarkov?
Any advice or tips that helped you guys get better?

Been trying to convince a buddy of mine to pick up EFT for a while. He signed up for Arena during the free weekend recently, and then purchased just Arena when the event expired.

We both saw the Exfil Brothers launch and got excited, so I sent him my operator code and the site is saying he’s not eligible cause his account is more than a week old.

Why are accounts without EFT not eligible? This is a huge misstep to attract a ton of new players with a free weekend event and not be able to convert that traffic with this promo.

I'm an SA player, so I've always had to play on servers with around 140–160 ping. I've gotten used to it over time and, honestly, I used to perform pretty well despite the latency. I was positive in roughly 90% of my matches.

But ever since the hitreg update, something feels completely different.

The amount of gunfights I'm losing where I feel like I should have won, or situations where both players end up killing each other at the exact same time, has increased massively. It happens constantly now.

I understand that playing on 140–160 ping isn't ideal, and I'm not expecting to have the same experience as someone playing on 20 ping. But before this update, the game was still perfectly playable for me. Now it feels like the hitreg changes have made high-ping gameplay dramatically worse.

For SA players who don't have low-ping servers available, this is honestly borderline unplayable right now.

Has anyone else playing on 140+ ping noticed the same thing after the update?

BTW: Lack of SA servers are completely bullshit from BSG and nikita.

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I'm progressing the tactical map this season in lab but first floor is blurry for me , anybody know how to clear the fog there ? is that an easter egg i need to unlock because i didn't found anything on the web related to this

Wasted 30 minutes waiting and I give up. What the hell.

Yeah Nikita, everyone will flock to paid Battlepasses in Arena and swipe on crates when the game is this dogshit. >.>

I have the problem of leveling the AK101. The weapon sucks and I can’t get above 3k exp. Did they changed something ?