Welp, that's the end of tarkov for me.
10th raid in a row which I've died. My stats are 25 raids, in which I have never. I'll repeat that, I have never seen a player who's lower level than me.
I'm simply not good enough at the game for it to be playable. Money isn't the issue, I have a mill, I don't care about losing my gear every time i die. I just can't have fun dying to Mr suppressed vector with class 6 armour.
I tried kedr with SPV to leg meta, it worked okay. I killed a squad. Then a players scav shot me less than 10 minutes into the raid.
All my quests require keys which I don't have, or find in raid items which i don't survive to get.
Getting to level 15 is an insurmountable challenge. I get about 300-1000 xp per raid. Watching the xp bar go up by an inch per hour is torturous.
As for scav runs, I've died 3 times in a row to "friendly" player scavs. I thought the point of karma was "what goes around comes around" but I've now learned in tarkov it means "if you're a good boy for 300 hours of scav gameplay, you'll get the chance to buy some gear." Negative karma apparently means nothing since you're matched against players with good karma.
I can't find a single aspect of the game I enjoy anymore. I'm hopeless. Even if i wait for the next wipe to have a "level playing field" there will be people at level 30 before I get to level 5
It's been a good 3 years.
Bye tarkov.
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EscapefromTarkov/comments/sqbue9/gg_tarkov/