Here to report the situation is a little better
Performance wise I don’t know if it’s improved, but it isn’t good. In the Customs map I still lose 10 fps if I aim with a weapon with no scope, it just makes no sense. And got drops down to 30 fps on the bridge. With settings medium/high, and a standard 1080p and gtx 1080. Also getting a lot of mouse lag.
The stuttering might have gotten better, but it’s still there. I also got a problem with framerate seemingly going bad, but my fps monitor not showing any problem. So I suppose problems about frame pacing. It still feels very rough.
I’ve got this game for what, two years? Until today I’ve never even attempted an online match. I just don’t even bother trying because I never managed to survive ONCE in a offline game against bots. The big problem is long range shooting with crap weapons with no scope, very high recoil, very poor feedback, very bad visibility, and very clunky controls. It’s very, very hard for me to aim, and while the AI is braindead, once they see you they shoot quite well. Add in the damage in this game that makes everything blurry and makes you move super slow, and it’s easily explained why I get nowhere.
Oh, the newest change is that if you get killed not only you lose all your inventory, but now there’s offline downtime too. It wants you to spend healing items “offline” as well, or wait. I don’t know how much it takes by default.
For the first time I tried three matches online. As the standard “NPC” only, just not to risk the one weapon I have. Just the factory map that is the only level that I know where’s one exit. The first time I thought that if I hid in a corner and just wait till the end I could still recovery my inventory. But nope, it seems to count it as if you died.
The second time I also waited till the end, and then reached the exit. Everyone was already dead by then. I simply looted the leftovers no one wanted. But it was still kind of nice bringing something back and have at least one more back up weapon.
The third time I got to collect more stuff, killed two bots. But I think a third killed me. It was too dumb to be a player. I’m just very, very, slow to aim and shoot. And you often spawn with weapons that are very bad and single shot (not that auto would be much better, with that recoil). It’s already super hard to kill a single bot for me, I don’t think I’ll ever manage to kill a player, unless I get very, very lucky.
But I didn’t have problems in the way of servers/instability. Just the usual not very smooth performance and movement that feels like going through thick marmalade (that I might even like, considering it promotes tactical action instead of Call of Duty).
I think fullscreen isn’t working, so vsynch cannot be disabled, and with it the mouse lag delay/smoothing is quite bad.
They seriously need to throw some bones to casual players. I don’t know how. I’m not a good player, I keep complaining how Destiny 2 is too easy to even be fun. Tarkov instead isn’t simply “hard”, it’s downright inaccessible. Maybe they should remove the timeout for playing those NPCs.
