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g0at exposing cheaters in his INCREDIBLE video that everyone knows by now about is a huge confirmation to all the people who shame those who ask for single player versions of tarkov to play and enjoy.

This game has so many incredible aspects to it. The guns, the customization, the maps, the lore, the hideout, the atmosphere, the risky gameplay, the variety, etc. There's so much passion in the design and detail in the game that no other game has really offered to me. No other game can I customize an M4A1 with nearly this amount of detail, get all this really cool gear, go into a raid and engage in tense atmospheric gunplay.

As a single player experience, they could do SO much to this game. This isn't to say get rid of multiplayer, but putting a larger focus onto a single player environment supported officially by the devs would bring an immense amount of players back. The worst feeling with the high risk high reward gameplay of tarkov is knowing that in a majority of your raids, someone is playing illegit and can just fuck you over. Losing everything because some dickhead wants to download ESP and hacks.

Not only would it fix this negative feeling of being pushed away from tarkov like I have due to cheaters and other multiplayer issues, but it would give BSG an avenue to really explore the game's aspects that aren't available because they're so stuck on balancing PVP. Imagine Dark Souls/Elden Ring type situation where FromSoft spent all their time on PVP when they could be making the amazing PVE parts of the game that everyone loves and earned them a GOTY status. Imagine the amount of freedom and cool shit that could be added if they started turning focus towards a single player experience. But instead, they get constantly bogged down with all the multiplayer PVP broken aspects that they can't do anything more.

Don't get me wrong either, I'm incredibly hyped for Arena. The ability to have firefights in a good solid environment, kinda like the colosseum in Elden Ring, is an amazing idea. But this games huge failing right now is that they keep adding in all these long cool progression ideas, like Lightkeeper, and making the wipes longer and harder to deal with, and expanding the hideout and features you can do in the hideout like the gym, but everything with progression is blocked behind multiplayer. And why would I play when you have cheaters running rampant, extract campers, etc etc. It drives people away and kills the game.