The Most Useful Tarkov Tips I've Learned After 4000 Hours

After a considerable amount of time spent in raid (and just staring at my stash), I've learned a few tricks that might come in handy for both new and veteran players. But these are just my tips.. and I want to hear what useful stuff YOU have learned. Post them in the comments and we can make a part 2 using your suggestions and tips!

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[precise]

My first wipe. The most precious piece of advice that everyone told me, but I desperately wanted to ignore is, IT'S ALL TEMPORARY. That gun? Temporary. That armor? Temporary. Unless you hoard things in your stash like a museum, none of it actually matters. That said, the quest you've been having trouble with? Temporary. You'll get it eventually. A certain map is Chad heavy? Temporary. Hideout/vendor/level progression frustrating? Temporary. Pain is temporary. Glory is forever.

[cameronkline]

On the insurance screen or any of the pre raid screens you can press tab to go back to your inventory, then tab again to go back to whatever screen you were on

[dracborne]

One tip I love is binding slot 4 to press 4 and slot 5 to release 4. I put a heavy bleed med on slot 4 and a light bleed med on slot 5. This is great for a quick bleed fix mid fight. As long as the heavy is on press it will prioritize the heavy but if you only have a light bleed, it will ignore the press and fix the light bleed on release.

[tropicalfruit]

My tips would be:
1. Use the guns that you stash, otherwise you end up with 50 guns that you won't use because they're too good - you didn't pay for them, treat it as scav gear. Sometimes I mod these found weapons a little to my liking but generally speaking if it looks like a good gun I will save it and use it later, probably with a scope of my own choice. Don't just stash guns and let them collect dust, it's more fun to use them. Although modding your own weapon is also cool and if you're good you always have enough of stashed guns to chose from.
2. Disengage and flank. Some fights are just impossible to resolve head on or they feel like the enemy has the better position. What I learnt in 800 hours of this game is that people get extremely fixated on your last known position and even if they flank they usually have no patience for a big flank. You have high chances that if you disengage and are unseen, even after sometimes 15 minutes of flanking you'll see enemies not far away from the spot you last saw them/checking your last position. That also works both ways, be aware that you can be flanked, especially in prolonged fights so don't just sit in one place as even a proper flanking player only knows your last position and this is what they will be aiming to flank.
3. If you have trouble ranking up Jaeger sell him condensed milk, usually you lose next to nothing for that. For skier, above 60 durability ADARs for ~18k will break you even (though selling the lower to fence and all the rest to skier when it;s below 60 durability is still pretty okay way).
4. Use secure containers properly. Don't hide items that have no value when not found in raid in them unless you need them for a barter/craft/hideout. Right now a military filter is 500k but unless you need it for crafting it's nothing too special to a trader. If you're after cash, hide items that have most value to the traders in your container so that if you die you still earn the same-ish money. Other than that keep items like meds inside. CMS, Surv12, ibuprofen, vaseline, splints, these are all things that you often don't use every raid and spending money on them every raid actually adds up. Salewa, CMS, vaseline, hemostat, alu splint and you got 85k worth of meds in your pocket that you might lose. It saves SO MUCH money to just keep these "long-term" items in your container.
5. If you're building a gun, build it to the purpose you need it to be, there are times when "lowest recoil" is not the best build. Think about ergo, some snipers with silencer are a pain to use because they are sitting at 15-20 ergo which could get you killed. Perhaps slap as much ergo as you can if you're gonna suppress it, consider not suppressing - show them who's boss. Maybe size is important to you, some guns could be guns you're gonna switch for something better if you get a kill but maybe you don't want to wait a day for insurance to get it back to you, an MP-7 with 20 rounder, MP-9 with 20 rounder takes just 2 slots! Maybe you're going stash hunting and you want to maximise your space in your bag and you're bringing a weapon "just in case" then how about a just okay ADAR with 20 rounders? They take less space and you get 40 bullets in 2 slots instead of 30. So while often "low recoil" is the thing you;re looking for, sometimes it makes you forget that perhaps you need something else for your task.

[TATT]

Clearing a malfunction life hack. Re-bind “inspect weapon” and “clear chamber” to the same button. Make “clear chamber” active when the button is released…. Press to inspect release to clear malfunction. Your welcome!

[Leotardoification]

If you extract with your scav and want to do another scav run, just put your scav loadout on your pmc and run with him instead to lvl up and make use of the pouch.

[shottskii]

"theres no right or wrong way to play tarkov and you can't fall behind"
Damn I needed this. The pressure and addiction is real.

[rctrafford]

I love that everyone is giving more tips in the comments. This is so nice seeing this community not shit on each other for once. Lol.

[Ceriva]

that last tip was the most helpful one. im playing the game with my wife and we are realy bad in engagements but as long as we get a smile out of it we will keep trying

[catbox]

When you’re cornered and you hear two or more people. And one of them goes to flank you. Just voip and say something like this. “Hey man, can your friend flank me a little faster please.” I find it usually destroys their sense of the element of surprise and can buy you some time. Also always bring a smoke grenade. 27$ so it’s usually cheaper than the scav knives. Smokes have saved my runs countless times. Also bring a bunch of mags for fire superiority and suppression because no one is going to peek you if you keep sending rounds at them.

[XoloVT]

My experience: I’ve played two wipes. My first wipe was last wipe and I didn’t even start from the beginning. I had major gear gear and didn’t know how to store or Tetris and didn’t understand ammo types. This wipe what I did differently is familiarized myself with a specific map. Ran it made money. Remembered the map like the back of my hand and moved on. I only scavd a specific map and knew where and what to get. Knew what to hold onto and what to sell. I have a dumb looking inventory but better then last wipe. I have two scav cases 6 items cases two thicc items cases 4 weapon cases and 50mil. If I wanna make money I scav and grab smart shit like m cable, sugar, lupo beans, condensed milk, etc. or I bought the right dorms keys and rushed safes and ran out.
TLDR
- learn maps stick to one for a bit if you have to.
- BIND HEALING ITEMS
- Learn what stims do. Propital OP
- Learn what misc. items and gun parts are good to pick up and sell
- Learn where rare ish items spawn i.e safe items like jewels or streamer items they always sell to therapist for good money with the exception of smoke mask sell to ragman
- Get rid of gear fear
- Learn ammos, can’t afford highest pen? Go higher flesh dmg and leg meta.
- Everytime you find food eat it if you’re low
- Run offline raids against scavs
- Play with homies
- Watch streamers, you’ll pick up tips and tricks they use

[BlackGhoast]

The Tip that will safe alot of time for everyone: When you are in the insure Screen b4 the raid, press TAB to go back to your stash and grab whatever you forgot. Press Tab again and load into the raid!

[Dutchman]

Btw, the instant reloading weapons during healing animations works whenever the gun isn't in your hands. You don't have to be just healing, you can switch to your side arm and load a mag by pressing tab, right clicking a mag and selecting install or right clicking the gun and selecting reload/unload

[IntenseMX]

If you die alot, bring food and water with you and just wait out first 15-20 min of the raid, most heavy players will generally fight it out/extract and you can continue with your game. This helped me alot at the start. Another Tip is as PMC just bring a pistol, and find good comfy corner, scavs will rush you because you're under geared and you can then easily take them down and loot up if you're broke :)

[pf]

I'm only 20 hrs in but loving the game. Hated the first play but a buddy gave me the best tip!
It's an RPG not just a shooter. Enjoy the grind and lessons learned! You always win, either lessons or gunfights . Both are fun if you just have the right mindset! Enjoy it!! And yea.... Learn the maps, finding the extracts can be a right pain !!!!

[theskyrock]

When loading mags, if you right click on a mag and hover over "Load Mag" you can automatically load an ammo of your choice into the mag and completely fill it. Also helps you figure out how much of a certain ammunition you have left so you can prepare by buying more or less if you are worried about running out (or if you want to flex)

[buddybubble]

Tips from someone whose first serious shooter was tarkov:

Don't pay too much attention to your statistics, you can push every point in one way or another and nothing is really meaningful. Except for the "overall accuracy"^^

You can generate sales at Skier and Peacekeeper by exchanging Rubles for Dollars/Euros. Often the cheapest and fastest way.

Single shot hip fire with the laser on ALWAYS hits where the laser is aimed, no matter how far away the enemy is.

It is possible to play an entire wipe using just the Vepr 136 and its PS ammo. At both it never will! lack! It doesn't matter whether it's day 1 (a strong combination there) or just before the wipe.

[icydom_]

1. When you use Flea Market, you can easily put your mouse on the middle top text "Flea Market" then fastly refresh the market over and over again by pressing space
2. While going to raid, when you are in the insurance screen, press TAB to quickly go back to the stash, you can change your gear and then press TAB again to get back there

[Koronia]

This is my first wipe and I come from stealth games mainly so avoid the CQBs as much as I can. I find learning the autopilot player routes the more effective than learning how to push corners/prefire. If you're not good at pushing corners in a building. Consider exiting the building or that CQB zone altogether and think about where your opponent is possibly headed and ambush them down the line or bait them to a more favorable zone to fight in.

Also lying down peak shooting is very strong. Will turn a gun with notable recoil to very little recoil.

[crazydrunken-mq]

When you are insuring your items right before looking for group, you can also press tab to go back to your stash. You can also press tab again to go back to the insurance menu.