The Survival-FPS Escape from Tarkov is, especially for beginners, a great challenge. High demands are placed not only on observation and aiming skills, but also on the movement control as it’s unusual for many. Since the beginning of the beta phase, EFT has been accessible to all buyers – this novice guide is designed to help newcomers with the first steps in Tarkov. EFT- Beginner guide: Learning by dyingYou are a member of a mercenary group located in the Russian industrial city of Tarkov. Your task is to collect as much valuable equipment as possible in one of the ten map sections, and finally leave the contested location alive while using one of the provided exits.At the same time there are other players roaming around who want to get a full backpack as well – as yours will be a good option for them to snatch.

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Also the other enemy, AI opponents called ‘Scavs’, are on the map trying to stop you, and you shouldn’t underestimate them either. One tip in advance: in the beginning you will most likely die frequently, but don’t worry.

Learning by dying is the key – welcome to Tarkov! This could have been you.Before the full release, developer also wants to integrate story elements to combine the different scenarios. Which is already in development as quests got added a few ago. If you want to get started with the beginner’s guide, simply read on. Beginners Tips: The basicsEscape from Tarkov is a realism-orientated hardcore shooter, which means you barely have any visual support to percieve your surroundings in the game.

You attentively have to look for ammunition, health packs or map displays. You are able to see important information, such as how many shots remain in the magazine by pressing the corresponding hotkey. The game character then executes a suitable animation – in this example: the magazine will get pulled out and the bullets will be counted. Alternatively you can switch to the inventory and read the ammunition of your equipped weapons there, but this will distract you from the game, and this might be dangerous. The best immersion comes when you fully make use ofthe existing functions.

And yes, the counting of fired bullets is quite effective to keep the overview and be ready to fight. The immersion gives you the feeling of being in the middle of the action.The movement and altitude control also requires rethinking by casual players: the physical performance as well as the running speed can be regulated in several grades in Escape from Tarkov. To be able to move quietly, you must go slowly. And in order to effectively utilize different coverings, but at the same time maintain visual contact with possible targets, you need more than the three familiar altitudes of standing, squatting and lying down. In Escape from Tarkov, Battlestate Games have installed a total of five intermediate stages between the crouch and the upright stand.

Also with the aid of leaning and sidestep functions, a skilful Tarkovian makes it possible to bare only the most necessary part of his hitbox in order to be able to take opponents under fire. The basic understanding of the movement and body features is essential for survival in Tarkov. The first raid in Tarkov: The equipmentBefore you go on a raid you first have to choose your equipment and get everything ready. Three items are necessary to pack in the safe container: A medpack for general health, a splint for bone fractures and a bandage to stop bleeding wounds. Depending on which edition you purchased of Escape from Tarkov as well as the choice of the mercenary group, you will have different equipment at your disposal. An example of equipment is as follow: Choose a gun and drag it into the character slot. A vest is useful for stowing ammunition as well as a backpack so you can store your loot.

In the beginning the ammunition is still on a pile, meaning you have to sort it into the appropriate magazines. After sorting the ammunition, the magazines will need to get placed in the respective weapons. During the raid you are, of course, able to reload your weapon with the hotkeys. By now you notice that Escape from Tarkov has a realism concept that is consistent with the smallest of details.

Before the raid you choose your equipment. You wont risk anything if you play offline.Once more, because it’s so important: Familiarize yourself with the controls before starting the game. When you feel ready, start with an offline raid on the Customs map and choose if you want to play with or without Al opponents. The latter we recommend for novice players, who want to become familiar with the controls at first. Though this is also possible in the starting area of Customs, as there won’t be enemies to target you.The advantage of the offline mode is that you won’t lose your equipment the moment you die.

However, after a round all the collected loot falls to the floor. Which is why a Raid in this mode is currently only useful for testing and practicing. At the left the big warehouse and at the right a small shed with the first loot crates. Eyes peeled: Noticing lootHere we go!

Start your first raid by entering the blue cabin behind the spawn point. In the cabin you will find various loot piles, which you should search. Activate your tactical torch with the T key, so you can see better in the dark. In a later stage, if you have upgraded your weapon, you can also use this hotkey. T stands for tactical.

We emphasize for that at this point, because in each successful round of Escape from Tarkov tactics play a decisive role. A flashlight doesn’t only enlightens the environment, but also blinds your enemies close at range. On the other hand when you use your flashlight, you are easier to spot by the enemies.The next stop will be the large warehouse. At the left end of the entrance you will find a military box. Who would have thought to find a military box at this place?

At a raid it’s useful to look for green boxes. Consider, that when you open crates and doors you will attract the attention of your enemies, as it will make some noise. This affects both human and AI opponents – so in an online raid, extreme caution is required. These greenboxes contain the precious military loot The first enemy contactAfter you familiarized yourself with the different controls leave the training grounds by going through the iron door of the second small cabin. Notice: some doors are easy to open, some open towards you, others can only be locked open with a key while again others can’t be opened anyhow.

You will get through this steel door without using violence.For the next step keep to the right and approach the railway crossing. From here, if you have activated PVE, you can count on Al opponents. Carefully approach the remaining freight train using the environment to stay in cover. Avoid running, especially in dangerous environments as this will cause a lot of noise. Only use this when you need to escape because you get shot from an unknown direction. In addition, the sprint consumes stamina, which in turn affects your ability to aim steady.

To reach your goal you should go slow. Make sure to use anything as cover in Escape from Tarkov and avoid open terrain.If you have crossed the rail, you will find a bridge full of car wrecks and crumbling barricades. But this post-apocalyptic romance is deceptive: The Scavs, indigenous looters, are most likely patrolling further on the road.Here you should have your first contact with the enemy, use your learned skills to kill the enemies without revealing too much. Since there are no HUD elements to aim at, only the realistic targeting via iron sights or installed target optics remain. This can sometimes be real work. Under visible pain, the player looks at his first killed opponent.

Finding loot and using the itemsNow the fun begins: Take the belongings of the dead enemy. For this, you have to search all the bags on the person. Oh, let’s not forget: Don’t get shot by the sniper, who could hide on the nearby factory roof, while looting. Hello are you still there?Well, fortunately! Treat possible injuries with the medication you brought along. If you ever lose blood or break a bone or two, use the bandage or the rail. To help you, open the tab ‘health’ in the inventory and hover over the injury to determine its nature.

After that drag the appropriate treatment to the affected body part. Leave it there for a while and you are done!To keep in mind: be careful when using items to treat yourself, keep your ears open so you can react when enemies approach. On the left you can check your current state of health, including the injuries you have.

To the exit!If you are still alive at this point, you might feel the urge to escape. And that’s what Escape from Tarkov is all about – get your bum out of there with a well filled backpack by using one of the exits. By doing this you will get to keep the (online) loot and valuable experience points along with survival multipliers.From your current position on Customs you still need to walk some miles to get to the exit. So get on your way and follow the road until you reach another railway junction. Behind it you will find another gas station, where Scavs are often patrolling.

Fight them, if possible from a superior position and with enough cover. Also, in some situations, its advised to avoid some enemies that are not directly on your path. The brave ones can try to snatch a Snickers from the gas station.At the gas station go to the left and follow the wall on the right side of the road till you see a hole in the wall. Be extremely careful as there is a small checkpoint at the end of the road, where Scavs, some of which are heavily armed, have settled down. In the meantime, if you already got your hand on a long-range weapon such as an AKS-74U, use it to kill the Scavs while staying behind cover. Not so lucky? Not a problem, move from cover to cover and sprint the last steps to the wall.

Almost there!Now go past the wall and get through the wire mesh gate. Beware of the snipers located on the factory roof! In front of the hall, to your left, is a railway line. Follow this till it takes a right turn. Directly at the curve there is a bunker entrance hidden in the bushes on the left side.

View QuoteBeen watching videos here and there and yeah, it definitely seems to be a slower paced, more tactical game. I get an old school dayz vibe from it, sans zombies anyway and much more detailed (Never played standalone). I also like how weapon modding seems to be done. Real world attachments and real world limitations.

Can't just throw an aimpoint on an ak74, gotta have the right mount and optic combo. The way they do sound and earpro looks interesting too. Havent seen anything else try to incoporate that amount of detail. Can't wait to get home and give it a try. View QuoteYeah, the learning curve seems a bit steep.

Hardest part is getting over the fear of loosing your gear and learning how to deal with armored players.There’s always the option of spawning in as a “scav.” You get free gear as a scav that you can keep (also applies to any loot you find as well) if you manage to extract. What you spawn with is completely random though. I spawned with just a sawed of mosin with no front sight earlier. Before that the game gave me a pistol. Friend of mine got an ak on that run.

Scav runs seem pretty low key compared to playing pmc’s as you lose nothing if you die. Other benefit is as long as you don’t shoot at the npcs or other scavs, the scav npcs will ignore you and even help you fight players pmcs.I’ve also found it useful to utilize the offline mode to learn the maps.

Only 2 maps I’ve really played are “ woods” and “factory” though. View QuoteGear fear is a demon that never leaves. Scav runs are more laid back until you find a shit load of good loot, get shot in the stomach and are in a race to find an extraction point before you bleed out.Spoiler alert, you always bleed out first.Never play at night unless you have NVG's. Never take anything into a match you aren't more than happy to lose until you have the extraction points for the map memorized.Learn how to do hatchet runs on factory for quick cash.You used to be able to spawn in as a SCAV and go around assassinating SCAVS with ease as the only SCAVS that would become hostile to you were the ones that saw you kill another SCAV but now once you kill one every single SCAV on the map becomes hostile to you. View QuoteYou'll get there, it just takes a little bit. I really recommend using your USEC/BEAR over scav runs because you will level your character which is important for skills and for traders.The most important thing in this game is ammo. Whatever gun you use, the best pen ammo will be so helpful.

If you are not using the best pen ammo you are seriously shorting yourself. When I made the move from 2nd/3rd best ammo to the best my survival rate went up dramatically. At this point I solely use HK416s, so M995 ammo is my bae.My buddy and I are at the point where we just full kit labs anytime that we play. It is insanely profitable and you get pretty constant action/pvp which I really like. The other maps can prove for some fun, but I'm not as into the longer distance engagements and I enjoy the cqb of labs.Here's my typical loadout - people will rag on the pricey helmets and faceshields.

Yes they get shot through pretty easily with good ammo like I said above. But there are rare occasions where they will stop a few shots that would have otherwise killed you that I think makes them worth it. Originally Posted By Petes1552:You'll get there, it just takes a little bit. I really recommend using your USEC/BEAR over scav runs because you will level your character which is important for skills and for traders.The most important thing in this game is ammo. Whatever gun you use, the best pen ammo will be so helpful. If you are not using the best pen ammo you are seriously shorting yourself.

When I made the move from 2nd/3rd best ammo to the best my survival rate went up dramatically. At this point I solely use HK416s, so M995 ammo is my bae.My buddy and I are at the point where we just full kit labs anytime that we play. It is insanely profitable and you get pretty constant action/pvp which I really like.

The other maps can prove for some fun, but I'm not as into the longer distance engagements and I enjoy the cqb of labs.Here's my typical loadout - people will rag on the pricey helmets and faceshields. Yes they get shot through pretty easily with good ammo like I said above. But there are rare occasions where they will stop a few shots that would have otherwise killed you that I think makes them worth it. Originally Posted By mmsurber:Buddy of mine and I have been playing the shit out of this every night for the last two weeks. Mostly doing scav runs or using budget gear and hoarding/selling the good stuff.

Getting more confident now having learned the maps and going in with decent kit, coming out on top in fights. Gear fear was hard to get over and still working on it since I’ve gotten some bad ass shit I’m too paranoid to take out with me.You'll get there, it just takes a little bit.

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I really recommend using your USEC/BEAR over scav runs because you will level your character which is important for skills and for traders.The most important thing in this game is ammo. Whatever gun you use, the best pen ammo will be so helpful. If you are not using the best pen ammo you are seriously shorting yourself. When I made the move from 2nd/3rd best ammo to the best my survival rate went up dramatically.

At this point I solely use HK416s, so M995 ammo is my bae.My buddy and I are at the point where we just full kit labs anytime that we play. It is insanely profitable and you get pretty constant action/pvp which I really like.

The other maps can prove for some fun, but I'm not as into the longer distance engagements and I enjoy the cqb of labs.Here's my typical loadout - people will rag on the pricey helmets and faceshields. Yes they get shot through pretty easily with good ammo like I said above. But there are rare occasions where they will stop a few shots that would have otherwise killed you that I think makes them worth it.I appreciate that. Especially on the face shields. I’ve had good success running with Zsh-1s so far.Last night my buddy and I did a run on woods as he needed to kill twelve scavs for Prapor on there.

Had some of the coolest frickin engagements. Following that we did a scav run on Customs and outmaneuvered a pair of full kit dudes and extracted with easily 750k (Ru) of shit. All we had was an SKS (my buddy) and a Vepr (me) with ten round mags. View QuoteFor sure! Zsh-1's are solid and much more budget friendly than the other helmets that you can put a face shield on. I ran those a lot when I was saving up for thicc cases.Those maps are so much fun if you're in the mood for that style of gameplay. Creeping through the trees, long engagements or stalking another group.I will say that is probably the most exciting thing in the game is the come up within a single match.

Start with some raggy scav weapons and end up taking out way heavier geared players. That is one of the fun things about this game. Being out geared doesn't mean that you have no chance. Originally Posted By Petes1552:You'll get there, it just takes a little bit. I really recommend using your USEC/BEAR over scav runs because you will level your character which is important for skills and for traders.The most important thing in this game is ammo. Whatever gun you use, the best pen ammo will be so helpful.

If you are not using the best pen ammo you are seriously shorting yourself. When I made the move from 2nd/3rd best ammo to the best my survival rate went up dramatically. At this point I solely use HK416s, so M995 ammo is my bae.My buddy and I are at the point where we just full kit labs anytime that we play.

It is insanely profitable and you get pretty constant action/pvp which I really like. The other maps can prove for some fun, but I'm not as into the longer distance engagements and I enjoy the cqb of labs.Here's my typical loadout - people will rag on the pricey helmets and faceshields.

Yes they get shot through pretty easily with good ammo like I said above. But there are rare occasions where they will stop a few shots that would have otherwise killed you that I think makes them worth it. Originally Posted By Petes1552:You'll get there, it just takes a little bit. I really recommend using your USEC/BEAR over scav runs because you will level your character which is important for skills and for traders.The most important thing in this game is ammo.

Whatever gun you use, the best pen ammo will be so helpful. If you are not using the best pen ammo you are seriously shorting yourself. When I made the move from 2nd/3rd best ammo to the best my survival rate went up dramatically. At this point I solely use HK416s, so M995 ammo is my bae.My buddy and I are at the point where we just full kit labs anytime that we play. It is insanely profitable and you get pretty constant action/pvp which I really like. The other maps can prove for some fun, but I'm not as into the longer distance engagements and I enjoy the cqb of labs.Here's my typical loadout - people will rag on the pricey helmets and faceshields.

Yes they get shot through pretty easily with good ammo like I said above. But there are rare occasions where they will stop a few shots that would have otherwise killed you that I think makes them worth it.What's your thinking behind keeping a mag case in your gamma container?Late response, sorry. Actually a few reasons -A 60rd mag of M995 ammo is about 50k roubles +/- depending on the market. This way I carry 8 loaded 60rd mags, but only risk 2 at a time (1 in gun, 1 in rig for reload, 6 in mag case).I never have to pack mags during a raid as I already have about 500rds good to go. When I run through a mag or reload, just swap the used one into my mag case and the loaded one into my rig. I can't explain how much of a QOL this is.

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Speeds up your game play quite a bit if you want it to.Also I have 12x2 slots left for mags off people/raiders that I kill. On average I take about 250k worth of mags/ammo out of labs raids that I pull of of raiders or players. That is worth more than a majority of things that I could fit into that slot. 60rd mags for AK/M4 are about 20-25k ea empty.It still leaves me with 3 1x1 open slots that I can fit high price items into.Overall it really is a combo of I've found it to be efficient profit/loss wise and that it is a big QOL help that I never have to pack mags. Originally Posted By Petes1552:Late response, sorry. Actually a few reasons -A 60rd mag of M995 ammo is about 50k roubles +/- depending on the market.

This way I carry 8 loaded 60rd mags, but only risk 2 at a time (1 in gun, 1 in rig for reload, 6 in mag case).I never have to pack mags during a raid as I already have about 500rds good to go. When I run through a mag or reload, just swap the used one into my mag case and the loaded one into my rig. I can't explain how much of a QOL this is. Speeds up your game play quite a bit if you want it to.Also I have 12x2 slots left for mags off people/raiders that I kill. On average I take about 250k worth of mags/ammo out of labs raids that I pull of of raiders or players. That is worth more than a majority of things that I could fit into that slot. 60rd mags for AK/M4 are about 20-25k ea empty.It still leaves me with 3 1x1 open slots that I can fit high price items into.Overall it really is a combo of I've found it to be efficient profit/loss wise and that it is a big QOL help that I never have to pack mags.

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View QuoteOne of the best things that I have learned. Not sure if you are into watching streamers at all - but QuattroAce is by far my favorite one to watch game play wise and where I picked up using a mag box last wipe. He is Russian so you I don't understand much of what he says, but you can learn a lot about movement and little tricks like the mag box from some of these guys.Other tip is that I pre-pop goldenstar.

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It lasts for 10 minutes as a painkiller and gives a little hydration. This allows me to just cruise around and not have to worry about getting a blacked out limb and being immobilized during a fight. They are about 20k for 10/10 uses, so depending on your bank it may or may not be worth it. There has been plenty of times before I started doing this that I would be moving mid fight, get a blacked out leg and just be screwed as you can no longer sprint. This may not be as worth while on other maps since labs is so condensed, but I figure 10k (5x use) for a 50min raid is a small cost to avoid that issue. You can also do the same thing with ibuprofen or other meds, I just prefer goldenstar at the moment.