I've only been playing the game for a week now and so far I've been loving it. I had been playing a ton of fantasy/scifi games lately and was hit with a massive "military sim" craving out of nowhere, and was reminded that Tarkov existed while browsing the Project Zomboid sub. After playing the first couple days I couldn't put it down and splurged on the Edge of Darkness upgrade despite being a massive noob. I've just never played anything like it, the tension is there but not so debilitating that I don't want to play. If it weren't for scav runs and offline play to practice the map and controls, the "gear fear" probably would've already weeded me out of the game day 1.
Though the reason why I'm making this post is basically just to make an observation, I've noticed that it seems like most threads I see here are negative in someway, for a variety of reasons. Be it cheaters, issues with bugs, issues with audio, weapon balancing, scav AI, all sorts of things. I'm wondering if this is the kind of game that's the inverse of "it gets good 100 hours in". Would you say that Tarkov draws people in then beats them down into jaded spiteful players? I've only ever played Customs, Woods, and a little bit of Factory, is this all isolated to the newer maps? Should I expect to hit a wall as a bad/average player progressing into harder maps? I hope that isn't the case cause I'm still really enjoying it so far.
In either case, like I said, just an observation on the community as I've seen it this past week.
