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As we witnessed last week how randomly killing a high-profile streamer can get your account nuked overnight, I might as well share my personal tips on how to "mostly" play Tarkov without being paranoid about every player you end up killing in-raid.

Again this is aimed for anyone who can't record and store their footage every single time you boot up Tarkov.

• Avoiding social contact with other players in-raid is the easiest way to NOT get wrongful/spiteful reports when you outplay them. Specially when you run into a chad outside a PvP hotspot and kill him with two EKO bullets to ankles or something like that…

I know avoiding PvP goes against the reality of many Tarkov players but unfortunately that is main source of piling up "sus" reports on your account as we know it (imagine NOT looting every dogtag and also cross referencing if you killed a streamer with "ban privileges").

• Night raids are the best for questing and avoiding pretty much everyone. You can also easily run them without night vision with some simple monitor settings. Also, most major streamers run daytime raids only. Night time also provides lower FoV and reaction time to AI Scavs making them easy targets for head shot streak XP farms.

• Another aspect of Night raids is that almost nobody runs Thermal sights anymore since they either can't afford/access it or they don't want to risk getting clapped by cheaters when they remotely "gear check" everyone in the first 30 seconds when a raid starts.

• Another unusual tip that I would give is always VOIP if you think you heard another player or social contact is inevitable. You can go ahead and ask if they are a popular Tarkov streamer and explain that you don't want to risk getting manually banned for killing them (be careful as it could sound like you are cheating). I would honestly record those interactions just to see the reaction of in-game players after the recent events.

• Play your PMC as you play your Scav that is grinding Fence Rep. Try to avoid shooting your gun during the whole raid, unless you are certain that the target is an AI Scav. The goal here is avoid any and all sources of false reports on your account. No workaround for this if you are doing PvP quests unfortunately.

• Play on servers that are not used by Tarkov streamers (self-explanatory). Major condolences if OCE servers is your only option.