Escape from Tarkov

fantasticCG · 26 Dec 2019 at 18:34

Does anyone know if this starts at midnight?

Zenduri · 26 Dec 2019 at 19:01

fantasticCG said:
Does anyone know if this starts at midnight?

If what starts?

[TBR]MadMark · 26 Dec 2019 at 19:11

Remember the gifts last for a year or slightly longer if they forget to reset them when they issue the new gifts next year. Also when there is a wipe you will need to log in to your account and retrieve them.

The gifts are a nice touch, other years weve had fully tricked out M4's and SA58's and item cases etc.

neckbeardthethird · 26 Dec 2019 at 19:26

I've been using this for the past few days with good success. no armor, no helmet, no rig, just the pistol... it's ridiculous, makes both glocks seem pathetic.

neckbeardthethird · 26 Dec 2019 at 19:31

Some of the newer players may not be aware but adding a laser to any gun will drastically increase the accuracy of your point fire (hip fire), not because you can see where you're aiming but because it literally reduces bullet spread automatically as seen in the video below

fantasticCG · 26 Dec 2019 at 19:33

HybridX said:
If what starts?

The sale

Zenduri · 26 Dec 2019 at 19:47

Oooh not sure, i think it is at midnight, the black friday one started at 9pm i think due to the time difference from russia

scouser_jmc · 26 Dec 2019 at 22:53

Looks like the sale is up

CliffyG · 27 Dec 2019 at 08:39

I wasn't going to do it but i just did it... Just wish i'd waited before doing a pre-work game. Found a vase and a full fuel can but can't carry them so camping the stash hoping someone comes along with a bag!

CliffyG · 27 Dec 2019 at 08:50

Nice, clicked receive on the website after the upgrade applied and have the whole lot of rewards again along with the extras.

fantasticCG · 27 Dec 2019 at 14:55

Purchased looking forward to venturing out!!!!

Zenduri · 27 Dec 2019 at 16:58

CliffyG said:
Nice, clicked receive on the website after the upgrade applied and have the whole lot of rewards again along with the extras.

Ignore my stupid question you answered in your post. Which version did you get?

CliffyG · 27 Dec 2019 at 17:22

Went from standard to EOD.

Vince · 27 Dec 2019 at 17:29

Is this worth playing again yet? Have they sorted out the performance and stuttering?

Zenduri · 27 Dec 2019 at 18:22

Vince said:
Is this worth playing again yet? Have they sorted out the performance and stuttering?

There is some odd stuttering but its a lot less than long ago apparently. I heard its linked to player scavs spawning.

I find it runs reasonably well on med-high on my bag of **** cpu

Zenduri · 27 Dec 2019 at 18:25

I expect with the influx of new people around xmas the prices of nails and screws will prob go up as well as other items for the hideout

Vince · 27 Dec 2019 at 18:34

HybridX said:
There is some odd stuttering but its a lot less than long ago apparently. I heard its linked to player scavs spawning.

I find it runs reasonably well on med-high on my bag of **** cpu

Might be worth another go then. My spec says it should be perfectly fine but it wasn't very good.

neckbeardthethird · 27 Dec 2019 at 18:46

In terms of stutters performance is still ropey, just not as ropey before. It doesn't matter how good your rig is you will get stutters during raids, putting LOD down to 2 helps a little (especially on the new map) but it's a problem which they seemingly don't know how to fix as it's been there since the very first day of release and at no point has ever looked like being eliminated even after switching to the newest version of unity engine which was meant to improve things a lot.

Personally i don't think it's ever getting fixed, if they knew what was causing it they would try and fix it as it's the single biggest issue with the game... but they never get close to eliminating it so i've come to the conclusion that it's just something you have to accept about the game.

Zenduri · 27 Dec 2019 at 18:55

neckbeardthethird said:
In terms of stutters performance is still ropey, just not as ropey before. It doesn't matter how good your rig is you will get stutters during raids, putting LOD down to 2 helps a little (especially on the new map) but it's a problem which they seemingly don't know how to fix as it's been there since the very first day of release and at no point has ever looked like being eliminated even after switching to the newest version of unity engine which was meant to improve things a lot.

Personally i don't think it's ever getting fixed, if they knew what was causing it they would try and fix it as it's the single biggest issue with the game... but they never get close to eliminating it so i've come to the conclusion that it's just something you have to accept about the game.

I heard that until just before .12 patch the programming was being done by artists as they didnt have a dedicated programmer but that has now changed and they have some people who are dedicated and arent programming on the side