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Starting post with disclaimer – love Tarkov I think it's one of the best games ever made. It has so much potential. Good, that's out of the way, now I'm here to talk about something we've all been wanting for a very long time.

A change to the terrible, cheesy AI mechanics. An AI overhaul is needed, in both thinking and execution.

Right now, AI will shoot you with bullets. This leaves very little room for balance. Either they will laser beam you, or miss you. There's no middle ground. Especially high tier AI, you get one tapped due to AP ammo.

I propose we migrate to a damage per second tick system. Please, hear me out.

What if, combined with a varying delay, enemy AI cause a varying amount of damage with a system called damage ticks.

For example, a regular scav would be shooting at you in bursts, and after a 0.5s of firing – hits you for 10HP damage to limbs/thorax/head every second you remain in their line of sight.

Now with a Raider, the delay would be much less. But they wouldn't one-tap you. Instead it'd be 20 damage tick every second you remain in line of sight, to thorax, but also a massive deal of suppression.

Now Killa for example, deals 33 damage per 1.5 seconds, is nearly instant in reaction, and can target your head with these damage ticks. This way, you can check an angle, take damage and heal. On top of this, suppression could be overwhelmingly high but in waves.

Obviously these values can be tweaked. But right now, the cheesiest thing without a doubt is simply getting one tapped by any level of AI. In my honest opinion, that should be rare. Only enemy PMCs should present that level of danger. AI should be dangerous, and a guaranteed threat (with damage ticks meaning you can't constantly repeek without healing).

We could also take it a step further and allow Armour to protect you against these damage ticks for a small durability cost.

I really don't care for upvotes or whatever, I just want this terrible AI system to be changed. Why should we always settle for less? Why not a system that's actually unique and not AI aimbots?