If you want to try your hand at a shooter where you need to survive and be part of an army disguised as a private military company, then turn your attention to Escape from Tarkov.
You will go on combat missions and complete missions to earn EFT roubles and spend them on improving equipment, buying insurance, performing operations at the auction and simply purchasing ammunition and weapon accessories.
What you need to know about Tarkov
This is a dangerous territory, in which there are many bandits and representatives of PMCs, and everyone is no stranger to looting.
If you die, you will lose literally everything that was on your character, but will retain your game level.
You need to take into account ballistics when shooting and the quality of the weapons you will use, because your damage, accuracy and ability to solve problems to eliminate opponents depend on this.
You will be able to go on combat missions and raids, but for the latter you need a special pass, which can be bought for Tarkov rubles, or obtained from random caches, of which there are thousands in neutrally dangerous territories.
Weapon
You will be able to use any weapon that you find in the world of Tarkov. These can be pistols, machine guns, rifles and shotguns.
It’s best to choose a weapon to suit your playstyle, but assault rifles remain the best weapons for combat at different distances, especially if you collect all the necessary accessories for them. A sniper rifle is also perfect, but you need to get a silencer and an extended x6 level scope for it.
Equipment and ammunition
You need to know that Tarkov has different types of ammo that differ in their quality and overall condition.
For example, cartridges can be rusty, which significantly increases the chance of misfire and wedge, but they are cheap and are the main drop and the reason why there is no point in engaging in battles with bandits.
What equipment do you need:
- Helmet – protects against headshots, gives you a chance to survive even a direct hit.
- Body armor – has different degrees of protection and weight, which affects the running speed and damage to the body that you can withstand.
- Unloading is a special vest that has many pockets and compartments for storing cartridges and others. By the way, this is a great trick that allows you to carry more equipment in combat sorties. You simply take more unloads and fill each one.
- All types of accessories for weapons – sights, silencers, fire stabilizers.
- Medicines to continue fighting even after being wounded.
Combat sorties
To receive new equipment and complete tasks to level up your agent, you need to go to dangerous territories where you need to find equipment, collect everything you need and take it to a military base to decide how to use it there.
This is a dangerous zone, in which there are many bandits and representatives of other PMCs, so always be on guard so as not to die at the most crucial moment.
Insurance
Players will always run the risk of losing their valuable equipment and, first of all, weapons with a large number of enhancing accessories, and in order to always save valuable items you need to insure them before the start of hostilities.
To do this, you need EFT rubles, and then you don’t even have to switch to a wild agent.
Quests
As your gameplay progresses, you need to learn to interact with different groups of NPCs and develop a level of loyalty that will open up new opportunities and better prices with different non-player characters.
Thus, by interacting with merchants, you will receive better prices and a longer time of using a wild character, and then also the opportunity to buy lots of weapons that come to them after the death of other characters and players on the battlefield.
Wild character
Every player who wants to receive valuable items and earn rubles in Escape from Tarkov can do this not with their own hands, but by renting a wild character.
This is a special agent who has neutrality towards all PMCs and bandits in general, moreover, all players who kill a wild hero will receive a fine with the merchant faction, except for actions in defense when you yourself start shooting.
Initially, the wild character has disgusting equipment of rusty weapons and ammunition, but as the level of trust with the merchant faction increases, you will receive longer use of the wild character and quality starting equipment.
Your main task is to use the temporary hero for its intended purpose and take out as valuable and expensive items as possible that will help you either strengthen the main agent or earn rubles in Tarkov from their sale.
What to spend money on in Tarkov
Each player strives for the ideal equipment, which will ultimately help in battles against other players while playing on the main character.
Sometimes, instead of looking for it, it’s better to just buy it if you have enough EFT rubles.
You can buy an assault rifle like an AK, or a SCAR, depending on the chosen side of the conflict, with a sight for it with x2 or x4 zoom – but no more, otherwise you will have limited visibility in close combat.
Next, you need a silencer and fire stabilizer so that you always have the opportunity to improve your accuracy and hide the location of the start of the battle, which will make it more difficult for the enemy to detect you and start returning fire, during which time you will have a good chance of destroying your target.
Conclusions on earning and spending rubles in Escape from Tarkov
Tarkov is a full-fledged shooter with an emphasis on survival in difficult territory, where there are enemies all around and death means the loss of all valuable property that still needs to be found.
You will play on the side of one of the private military campaigns and strive to obtain not only weapons and equipment along with ammunition and accessories for weapons, but also rubles in Tarkov in order to buy everything that you lack or cannot obtain on your own.
Quests will help you with this, which will help increase the level of loyalty with merchant factions and other non-player characters. The higher the degree of trust, the more favorable the prices for the sale and purchase of equipment and weapons that were obtained during hunting and combat sorties.
The merchant faction can rent out a wild, neutral character who has no enmity with PMCs and bandits and can, without hindrance, search and bring to the base all types of weapons and equipment that will be useful to you, or they can be sold profitably.
The higher your level of trust with merchants, the longer you can use such a character and the better his starting equipment.
Try not to reduce this loyalty, otherwise you will, on the contrary, receive a reduction in the time you use a wild character and the overall quality of the weapon that is given to you at the start.
When you spend your accumulated rubles in Escape from Tarkov, try not to forget about purchasing insurance for valuable weapons and accessories that will remain with you, even if you die in the combat zone. This will allow you to use the main agent much more often, but do not forget to keep valuable property in a warehouse if you are afraid of losing it, or insure it.
Links that were used when writing the article
- https://skycoach.gg/blog/escape-from-tarkov/articles/escape-from-tarkov-how-to-make-money-fast – a guide to a general understanding of the value of rubles and ways to quickly receive them from Skycoach.
- https://escapefromtarkov.fandom.com/wiki/How_to_Play_Guide_for_Escape_from_Tarkov – tips on how to quickly and correctly start playing Tarkov from game developers.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTu43aK0Y_s&ab_channel=NOAURA – video guide with tips and analysis of the starting gameplay in Escape from Tarkov.
