Tarkov Ballistics

  New and improved for 2021! (last updated January 16th 2021)     So you just started playing, and wonder. What gun to get? What ammo is the best? What does each ammo even do? This can be a highly confusing situation for new players with 89 weapons and 130 different cartridges to choose from. With this guide I hope to help you clear up some of the confusion. The ever-growing weapon selection in EFT features: 8 assault carbines 25 assault rifles 7 bolt-action rifles 1 machinegun 6 marksman rifles 17 pistols 17 submachineguns 7 shotguns 1 grenade launcher The basic traits of a weapon are the caliber it fires, and the firing mechanism, or the action. The caliber dictates the size and weight of a weapon. Heavier calibers that generate large amounts of gas pressure in the chamber require a heavier frame to withstand the pressure. The action determines in simple terms, how the weapon loads the next round into the chamber. The game fea...

Let's talk about wipes. They should not exist. Because they are just a mechanism to cover up a symptom of a flaw in the game. That flaw is predictability. Predictability is the enemy of excitement. All video games use the idea of intermittent treasure some various degrees to keep players entertained. And the genre of the game does not matter. Here is an example: RPG: Player finds a monster's cave. Player fights the monster. Player kills the monster and loots its corpse, or its valuables, which might be contained in a treasure chest. Now this is the important part: The player does not know exactly what is in that chest. You can find something nice but you do not know what it will be. This part alone is the motor that drives most gameplay systems in practically every video game there is. Looting monster corpses, mining rocks, searching containers, scanning with radar, sneaking around a corner. All of these things you can do in a video game have an unpredictable ...