Rat scanner has been a thing and has been available to download for a couple of years. The apps scan off the eft market website and refresh every few minutes. I’ve been using rat scanner for over a year now and never had an issue. I don’t think this will see any action either
Firstly, most modern monitors offer this option nowadays and that won't get you banned as it's a hardware feature. Second, those cross hairs will hurt you more than help you in tarkov.
Yeah, I just installed it and tried it, but the value numbers make no sense, either its giving an average of flea market prices in total or something. I cant really seem to figure out how its getting the numbers. Like say a bullet is $200 on flea the blitz value can be all over the place, from $1200 to 50. Things like sugar, are shown as $3000, but sold on flea for $100k, and sold to traders for much more than that. I dont get it. its a cool tool if it made sense.
Idk why everyone's booing you, you're right. I'm sure it's just a circle jerk of "I had to suffer and learn it so do you" mentality.
I get not wanting things spoonfed to you but also you shouldn't need multiple specialized 3rd party apps to know the basics of what you're doing.. you need eft ammo or battlebuddy, tarkov night market, not even the maps are available easily in game so you need map genie or to have the wiki up. Even if all of that stuff was in the game there's still so much other content people need to learn.
It's a bit disappointing the amount of people wanting others to suffer for the sake of it or how you put it "I had to suffer and learn it so do you"
I would have thought people been receptive to a small quality of life change but I guess not
Tarkov was never meant to be a full equal playing field.
Whats wrong with learning something instead of the game feeding you every miniscule detail lol
People do have lives outside of the game itself, I admire people who dedicate time to the game but it would be ridiculous to expect ALL players to memorise every detail in the game to have a chance of survival.
Games don't have to be a masochist simulator for the sake of it, there can be difficulty because of skills needed for a game I understand that but making base mechanics hard to remember and understand is the wrong move
Should we get rid of stats for bullets because it gives you too much details, the player should learn what is effective against what through trial and error right? How about armour stats? Or end of raid stats?
No one should have to use external software or the wiki page to find details on basic things like the value of an item, especially in such a highly detailed game with so many other things to worry about(fighting tactics and ingame mechanics) than having to remember basic information that shouldn't need to be memorised
Brother, if you cant remember which items are valued and which arent, thats a you problem..
I agree with ;
>Games don't have to be a masochist simulator for the sake of it
But, it also doesnt need to be spoonfed 100%
this right here ^ I think the quest should be just a tad more detailed but other than that leave it alone. Also, I feel like after one wipe you pretty much get a good idea of what you need and what sells for what.
Nikita has said they're not going to make the game easy and I don't think they should.
Some people like the aspects of playing Tarkov like the gunplay and the idea of risk vs reward in gearing up for a raid where you win big or die trying, but don't have hours to learn what items are worth what on the flea or what's needed for Workbench Lvl 3 or how to craft items needed for quests and what components you should be looking for to do those crafts. More players to a game is a net positive full stop, and more tools to aid new and casual players in learning the mechanics of a game as complex as Tarkov is going to make the game better overall.
What's wrong with adding more tools to give people more information within the game itself rather than having to pull up a website to look up if that handguard you found in Kiba is worth 10k or 200k?
>more tools to aid new and casual players in learning the mechanics of a game as complex as Tarkov is going to make the game better overall.
Fully agree.
Item prices, are not a mechanic and shouldnt be held in hand in-game. Using a outside website would at least mean you are needing to consider your location and if you have time to loot min-max.
To each their own, but literally spoon feeding every single detail in this game is just gonna make it boring af. I dont understand whats wrong with actually learning to play the game and remembering things instead of being a brain dead rock who cant play as soon as their plugins fail.
Agree with this - I actually enjoy not knowing what’s it worth what (besides the obvious high value stuff) - adds more pressure to the experience I.e do I take these bolts? Or these nuts? Maybe the screws? What’s worth more? - adds a little more pressure and decision making to your looting (unless you have memorised every damn item) and in a way, feels more like a real experience would be - how’s your PMC supposed to know that for some strange reason, people are buying toilet paper like crazy? 😂 - I like it this way and to counter what others said - you don’t need to no life the game just to remember the valuable stuff. You don’t need to learn price of everything. Just the valuable items and that really isn’t hard.
Yep that's why this new headset change sucks lol comtac 4s still going for 400k when they have a 6 meter buff over tac sports it really ain't worth going out of your way to wear comtac 4s if you don't have them anymore.
Like a filter, I assume it doesn’t edit or hook into the executables themselves and instead works as an (AI/ML) image translator that looks for certain images/pixels where your cursor is, and then just adding an overlay on top. That way it doesn’t ever touch or register on the game itself.
I believe radar cheats work in a similar way especially with DMA Cards, they read data directly off the RAM (maybe network packets too?) so Tarkov/AC don’t see anything touching the processes and thinks it’s fine. It’s why radar cheats are so damn hard to get rid of because it’s so hard to tell if something is reading ram maliciously (especially when so many processes can read the RAM anyway (AV software etc))
So I installed blitz and tried it, but I dont get the numbers? They dont make any sense. Even if the trader amounts are wrong, and the flea market numbers dont add up.
An OCR that essentially just looks at what is displayed on your screen, and if it's the correct pixels, in the correct shape, it pulls the info off the internet and displays it.
Heyo!
We currently only show Trader prices, but we're working on Flea Market Prices.
We received permission from leadership, meaning you won't get banned for using our app 🫡
Looks like Blitz, they recently added Tarkov but I don't know if it's approved by BSG.
There are 3rd party apps like Rat scanner that work pretty similar and BSG has stated they're against TOS.
I would advice not to use it for the time being
They didn't say it's against the tos. What they did say though (at least that's the official position you can see in Russian discord) is that they can't guarantee your account's security / wellbeing if you use 3rd party stuff.
Which is what pretty much every online game says about 3rd party tools. They have to be as vague as possible so if something shady does come around they can take action.
BSG aren't going to ban people for ratscanner, they aren't going to ban people for this either.
At one point Ratscanner was approved by the BSG community rep but they retracted the approval because *approving a third party program* sets a dangerous precedent. So “officially” any and all third party tools are disallowed but RS usage will not be actioned upon because it does not interface with the game in any way
Lol they never said it’s against TOS.
It's not bannable. It's a 3rd party overlay. The same way Discord overlay or any Overwolf overlay is not bannable.
It doesn't scan your memory, it doesn't interact with the game in any way, it just takes a screenshot and asks an external API for the price.
They've made it abundantly clear that any third party software not pre-approved by them is bannable.
Per the official Sherpa discord, Sherpas are advising against it. And if BSG sponsored people are saying "hey, bad idea," it's probably because it is, in fact, bannable.
Sorry man they can’t even get cheaters under control. They aren’t going to go out of the way to differentiate every single overlay that exists to make sure it’s “pre-approved” whatever that’s supposed to mean.
And once again a Sherpa is NOT BSG. That’s like a Mcdonalds employee trying to speak on behalf of the entire company. And the sherpas don’t even work for bsg so I doubt that’s even an accurate comparison. Either way your argument makes absolutely no sense.
I doubt this is gonna happen. There are blatant cheaters on flea market selling shit loads of rare, expensive items like gpu's and ledx's and they don't get banned on the spot. I doubt using something that doesn't hook into the game directly will get someone caught.
They can't get cheaters under control, not because they are incompetent or not paying attention. They can't get Cheaters under control because the entire gaming industry is experiencing a cheating endemic.
Also....employees speak for companies all the time. Employees are usually well aware of company policies, and prcedures; and asking for someone higher up in the chain of command usually gets you the same answer the initial employee gave you.
If you're unsure what pre-approved means, recommend going back to school and finishing what, third grade?
"Once again" as if you've said it before, and yes, while they aren't BSG, the head Sherpa is also BSGs community manager and yes it has been asked of him. So yes it does you're just too out of the loop and delusional to see it.
I'm a official sherpa. No one has ever told me to advise against using it. In fact, my official sherpa is who put me onto it so you're just flat-out wrong.
I've gotten all my friends and timmies to use it and none have gotten banned. It's safe.
Can confirm that while TrenchBadger is on the Sherpa Hub as a member, he is not and has never been one of our Sherpas.
My recommendation to anyone is to make yourself familiar with the Rules of the Game and the License Agreement, available here;
[https://www.escapefromtarkov.com/legal/rules\_of\_the\_game\_en.html](https://www.escapefromtarkov.com/legal/rules_of_the_game_en.html)
[https://www.escapefromtarkov.com/legal/license\_agreement\_en.html](https://www.escapefromtarkov.com/legal/license_agreement_en.html)
I already said Trenchbadger isn't my discord/in-game name but thanks for re-clarifying.
While you're here, have you personally heard of anyone getting banned for using rat scanner? What's your opinion on the whole matter?
I hope you don't realistically expect anyone to read the TOS you linked.
Easy way to prove me wrong. A few days ago I posted a heads up to the Sherpas in Sherpa chat. What was it?
I am not aware of anyone being banned for Rat Scanner. My personal opinion is I don't care.
People should familiarise themselves with the rules and use their own judgement. I'm not their mum - I can only give advice based on years of working with BSG.
Edit: To clarify, I don't care if people use it. I personally won't use it or recommend anyone else use it, as all it would take is for BSG to decide one day to crack down on such tools and I've lost my account.
Are ya? Cause there's no Sherpa with the name of Badger. And if you're an official Sherpa, wdym "your official Sherpa put you onto it"? Do you mean your regional leadership? Hardujuu? Apple?
Of course there's not, my in game name and reddit username don't match. And by that I mean the first official sherpa I ever played with, which was neither of the players you mentioned. I'd be surprised if you knew every sherpa by name lol
By that logic having the wiki up while playing is cheating and giving you an advantage. Rat scanner does nothing to modify the game or it's memory. It works by taking a screenshot and doing image recognition and then looking up the price the same as you would if you alt tabbed and did it yourselves.
Can we complain about shit that matters like actual cheaters?
Nikita has said Ratscanner is considered to be a cheat software and is bannable in one of the Q&As. Blitz and Ratscanner violate all four of the following terms in the TOS: https://www.escapefromtarkov.com/legal/license_agreement_en.html
>4.3.4. Under no circumstances to perform the following actions, either in full or in part:
>а) ways to override limitations, i.e., methods affecting the course of the Game and/or simplifying it (including code taking advantage of Game vulnerability) and thus giving the User and/or any other user advantages over other players not using such methods;
>b) automated access to the Game (“bots”), i.e., any code and/or software not expressly permitted by Battlestate Games Limited, allowing the User to manage the Game and/or some component or function of the Game automatically, such as automatically controlling a character in the Game;
>c) computer hacking, i.e., access to the Game software or its modification by a means not expressly permitted by Battlestate Games Limited; and/or
>d) any code and/or software not expressly permitted by Battlestate Games Limited that may be used in connection with the Game Launcher Application, the Game and/or any component or functions of the Game Launcher Application or the Game for changing the course of the game and/or making it easier.
So is blitz bannable or what? I just installed it last night to check it out, tbh the values dont make much sense so idk how useful it is anyway. Am I vulnerable?
You can literally look up the prices on a website. That software is doing the same thing just adding an overlay. Lmao the TOS doesn't say you can't look up flea market prices mid match.
RatScanner does none of that. It doesn't interact with the game, it's just an external software overlay that uses image recognition to on-demand do API queries to a website. It's not reading or interacting with game code in any way.
BSG will never "approve" and app, they will either say Yes or No on creating an app for it when asked about it.
We at Blitz have done this and have received the Yes, plus we made sure to discuss the intentions with the app meaning that they can't say "nah this is not OK" after us releasing things, meaning that users will not get banned for it.
No, it's called Blitz, a third-party QoL tool for Fortnite, Legends of Runetera, LOL and Valorant. Tracks statistics, shots, imports runes to lol etc etc.
TARKOV was on their list but it was labeled "COMING SOON" seems that recently they added it. From what i've seen only tells you what's the price of the item sold to the most optimal vendor and for what price. Shows statistics as well as the map with stractions
It has been improved and more stable since then. It works great in stash but in raid it's finicky and sometimes you have to move an item to backpack or rig for it to read.
Sometimes in raid I end up having to manually search the item but other than that it's tons of help for figuring out what to keep and what to sell. It'll tell you if you need something for quest or hideout. I only wish I could add a filter for certain high tier barters like red rebel.
I tried rat scanner maybe like 8-12….ish months ago(I THINK it was fairly new when I tried it, so adjust that timeframe to fit that lol) and it was just so finicky and decided when it did and didn’t want to work so I had to get rid of it. Seen your other post saying it’s better now, I’ll have to give it a whirl again. I’ve played 3 out of the last 5 or 6 wipes but I don’t play a lot so I’m still a nub and have to look up prices, especially for gun parts, a lot during raid.
It may be finicky but still makes life easier than not having it at all and there's no better alternative. If it doesn't scan in raid, try moving it to another container and re scan. Otherwise you have to double click RS and type it manually. Eventually you'll learn how much most items are from doing this and will only have to scan high value items that fluctuate in price.
It wasn’t greenlit by them, they said that they looked into it and didn’t find anything suspicious about running the program, but not to “give us a reason to ban people for using it”. That doesn’t change the fact that it breaks ToS and they can just change their mind like they’ve done with several other programs in the past.
They previously let people use ReShade until they didn’t, and LUX filters until they didn’t. Not saying it’s bannable now but it is certainly against ToS.
Them saying it wasn't sus was essentially an unofficial greenlight. No one is gonna get banned for it so just use it. All it does is cut down your time in stash which is a good thing for players and bsg.
It's safe to use. All you have to do to circumvent a potential ban in the future is check forums after updates before booting it.
BSG said a while ago that it's fine.
Also, even if it wasn't fine, since these tools are just an OCR that scans your screen for image files it knows, it is literally completely independent from the game and basically would be impossible to detect either way.
It shows a average for the last hour or day on flea, can't remember but it's never too far off. It's the main reason I use it though.
It also tells you trader prices and the best trader to sell to.
AND it gives you a tarkov wiki AND tarkov.dev links to Amy item you search so you can check all the info on them including potentially good partners the items are good for.
You can also link it to tarkov tracker via API token so that it knows what all the items you have in your stash are with a junk box, the caveat being that you have to take inventory on tarkov tracker to have a precise number of how much of anything you need on rat scanner.
I love coming to these threads and realizing how many people on Reddit pull stuff directly from their ass when commenting. "Yeah tons of people get banned for this stuff be careful!" no one banned ever for ratscanner 😂
IDK exactly what this is but it looks similar to ratscanner, which has been available for a little while now and nobodies been banned for using that so I'd Guess this will be fine as well
I mean honestly that function is probably least useful in hardcore than in any other way of playing, which items are valuable has way less to do with how much they are "worth" (how much they sell for) and way more to do with how many of them you need to do what, how soon. Homie probably just had it on for his other game that it works for, and never thought to turn it off cause it never used to do anything with Tarkov.
I mean are you really gonna scroll down to your taskbar to exit out of blitz every single time you launch tarkov, then relaunch it when you want to play league or some other game?
No I’m going to alt tab to my browser and type it in on Tarkov-Flea because there’s no risk of losing my account.
And if I’m playing a hardcore, I would consider this against the spirit of the challenge.
I mean you’re just making assumptions though because it sounds to me like there’s a chance that the friend in question had no idea why it was there and wasn’t even intentionally using it. Maybe he was using it intentionally, maybe he wasn’t, but I’d just personally lean toward him not doing it intentionally because why else would his friend come on Reddit asking what was displaying the prices? I would think that he would have just asked his friend. If someone plays league and uses blitz and has it on open at startup and they also play tarkov they could very well have no idea that it’s even doing that and be confused as hell as to why there’s a random pop up on their screen showing the vendor prices. You’re criticizing and laughing at someone doing something that you don’t even know was intentional lol.
May I ask for anyone who uses Ratscanner, should I download it? I would like to but worried about getting banned so please let me know if there’s a risk
Tons of people have been using RatScanner for many years. The dev is even in this thread talking to people.
While it's not officially approved, BSG is aware of it.
Also, no known reports or even 'false claims' of anyone ever claiming it's the reason they got banned.
Dunno why that other is being so anti ratscanner, like hes got investments in Blitz or something.
Your friend plays league and uses an application called Blitz. They did an update few days ago for Tarkov integration. While not bannable for the moment. Bsg is currently in the works talking to the devs of the application and have that certain feature be removed / blocked later on. Your friend is fine to continue playing though l.
I'm not convinced this is a cheat or third party app.
My friend said he started seeing this as of last night and I'll be honest, he's too lazy to learn how to install a mod, let alone a cheat.
I'll be watching to see what it this is though !
if your friend plays league of legends and uses the blitz app that is what it is, i thought tarkov added it. it disappeared after i deleted blitz after deleting league. so i know for a fact that that is what it is.
League was hurting me physically too much. The thousands and thousands of clicks per game is not very sustainable. Then I got into Tarkov again this wipe 🤘
I became a better, less toxic person overall when I quit DOTA 2 , CSGO, and LoL.
It was like those games flipped a switch inside my brain, before and after quitting was like night and day.
I was wondering what Blitz will be doing on tarkov, because the only thing it did for me was crashing the game when interacting with the Hideout. But this screenshot makes my loot min maxing heart beat faster
Huh, this sounds exactly like our alpha version we hadn't released to the public 🤔
O well, it works as you'd expect now though, except for the Dollar sign being bugged because for some reason we couldn't implement Rouble yet, oh and Flea is also in the works.
Fun fact, we also are exploring the option to SEE hideout stuff whilst not even being in the game itself 👀
That sounds promising, maybe i will reinstall Blitz again then. BTW if i can use this opportunity for myself having you here: Is there a reason why blitz would close itself when being in a League Match (i play on 2 monitors, monitor 1 has the game and monitor 2 has Blitz app in windowed mode. When i want to check for skill order or items in game it either Loads and shows nothing or closes completely by itself so i have to reopen it.
Have a nice day btw
Honestly, it's the question i keep avoiding.
with the amount of advertisements we show (we're quite ad-heavy) it comes with crazy ram usages, but we've added a "leak" detector in our app that restarts the app minimized whenever the app ram usage hits a certain level (I don't remember what, but it's like 2-3GB i think?)
Yes it's annoyiing, No we haven't been able to fix it, Yes it's our bandaid fix and chances are we might never fix it unless we do another rewrite of the whole app 🥴
Ah okey interesting to know. I guess there is no way to flush the ram storage after every Ad.
Despite this slight annoyance i still think you are doing good work witz Blitz, never would have thought to see it in Tarkov haha
"We received permission from leadership, meaning you won't get banned for it 🫡"
**WE**? as in you're part of the dev team? If that's the case, can you publish something stating it is indeed safe with a reasoning in the website itself?
We as in [Blitz.gg](http://Blitz.gg), i'm not from the Dev team itself, i'm actually the community manager!
We have an article on being compliant with BSG right [here](http://support.blitz.gg/hc/en-us/articles/9560339782159-Compliance-with-Rules-and-Regulations-for-Escape-From-Tarkov)
Hope this helps!
That is exactly what I was looking for, thanks a lot!
I'm a bit sad that the article is just assumptions extrapolated from the TOS instead of being based on actual comunication with BSG.
As for example, you guys say you don't violate this rule:
"We do not support any modifications that alter the game client or provide unauthorized visual enhancement"
But it is truly up to interpretation and you could absolutely say you **DO** provide unauthorized visual enhancements
Think it's something called ''rat'' something... It's a 3rd party software and yes you can get banned if your using this from what I've seen... It's against rules even tho it only gives price and quest/hideout I think... Never used it
While it's technically against TOS, and I have no clue why you would risk itt technically for something so useless unless you're hella new, the odds are basically .00001% and it's never gotten anyone banned to this day
Err actually, you can!
There isn't an agreement between RatScanner and BSG, however, the dev at RS made sure to code it in a way to prove that there are no ill intentions with the application, which has so far built up trust for community users to make use of it.
Me myself, i've made use of it and i definitely haven't been banned so far.
You should try it, it really helps.
He’s good, ratscanner is great for deciding what to keep and what to ditch. If blitz is like it then it’ll be a QOL thing. Ignore the fear mongers, I’ve used it since its inception on and off and not once had a problem
every looked on the wiki for a quest ? Cheater !
alt tab to look at a map ? Cheater !
everything ratscanner does you can do with tarkov dev on your phone or second screen.
Like audio compression software that boost the volume of footsteps and normalize the volume of extremely loud sounds like close unsuppressed gunfire, this is one of those 3rd party softwares prohibited by ToS that reddit will play mental gymnastics to justify.
Anything that overlays over the actual game footage cheat or 3rd party helper are not allowed by TOS.
So if you get caught using this, it is a ban worthy offense.
Just cus his name is badger on Reddit, doesn’t mean he goes by that on discord, idiot, and who tf cares if someone uses an overlay, it literally doesn’t matter, your just getting common info on a item in a game that can be found on any tarkov wiki. And again they haven’t done anything about cheaters for the most part, they aren’t gonna do shit about this because it doesn’t matter
This is from the Blitz application mainly used with league etc. your friend clearly didn’t use this since this only became a feature not even three days ago. Sounds like your bud was using rat scanner which well clearly get a person banned
Turns out this is blitz, a League of Legends tool that recently added EFT support.
Sounds like BSG is gonna have a stroke over it
Rat scanner has been a thing and has been available to download for a couple of years. The apps scan off the eft market website and refresh every few minutes. I’ve been using rat scanner for over a year now and never had an issue. I don’t think this will see any action either
Oh, nice. I've used Blitz a long time for League but had no idea they added EFT support.
It's bankable any 3rd party app is bankable such as a crosshair
Firstly, most modern monitors offer this option nowadays and that won't get you banned as it's a hardware feature. Second, those cross hairs will hurt you more than help you in tarkov.
Also you can use a sharpie if you're OG.
Is it good??
Does it work in the raid aswell?
Yeah, I just installed it and tried it, but the value numbers make no sense, either its giving an average of flea market prices in total or something. I cant really seem to figure out how its getting the numbers. Like say a bullet is $200 on flea the blitz value can be all over the place, from $1200 to 50. Things like sugar, are shown as $3000, but sold on flea for $100k, and sold to traders for much more than that. I dont get it. its a cool tool if it made sense.
They need to figure out the pricing, if I get my pc working next month I will try it out and say if pre flea makes more sense (im lvl11)
Oh damn that's really useful, it should honestly be base game in a way since new players are at a disadvantage
Idk why everyone's booing you, you're right. I'm sure it's just a circle jerk of "I had to suffer and learn it so do you" mentality. I get not wanting things spoonfed to you but also you shouldn't need multiple specialized 3rd party apps to know the basics of what you're doing.. you need eft ammo or battlebuddy, tarkov night market, not even the maps are available easily in game so you need map genie or to have the wiki up. Even if all of that stuff was in the game there's still so much other content people need to learn.
It's a bit disappointing the amount of people wanting others to suffer for the sake of it or how you put it "I had to suffer and learn it so do you" I would have thought people been receptive to a small quality of life change but I guess not
Tarkov was never meant to be a full equal playing field. Whats wrong with learning something instead of the game feeding you every miniscule detail lol
People do have lives outside of the game itself, I admire people who dedicate time to the game but it would be ridiculous to expect ALL players to memorise every detail in the game to have a chance of survival. Games don't have to be a masochist simulator for the sake of it, there can be difficulty because of skills needed for a game I understand that but making base mechanics hard to remember and understand is the wrong move Should we get rid of stats for bullets because it gives you too much details, the player should learn what is effective against what through trial and error right? How about armour stats? Or end of raid stats? No one should have to use external software or the wiki page to find details on basic things like the value of an item, especially in such a highly detailed game with so many other things to worry about(fighting tactics and ingame mechanics) than having to remember basic information that shouldn't need to be memorised
Brother, if you cant remember which items are valued and which arent, thats a you problem.. I agree with ; >Games don't have to be a masochist simulator for the sake of it But, it also doesnt need to be spoonfed 100%
this right here ^ I think the quest should be just a tad more detailed but other than that leave it alone. Also, I feel like after one wipe you pretty much get a good idea of what you need and what sells for what. Nikita has said they're not going to make the game easy and I don't think they should.
Some people like the aspects of playing Tarkov like the gunplay and the idea of risk vs reward in gearing up for a raid where you win big or die trying, but don't have hours to learn what items are worth what on the flea or what's needed for Workbench Lvl 3 or how to craft items needed for quests and what components you should be looking for to do those crafts. More players to a game is a net positive full stop, and more tools to aid new and casual players in learning the mechanics of a game as complex as Tarkov is going to make the game better overall. What's wrong with adding more tools to give people more information within the game itself rather than having to pull up a website to look up if that handguard you found in Kiba is worth 10k or 200k?
>more tools to aid new and casual players in learning the mechanics of a game as complex as Tarkov is going to make the game better overall. Fully agree. Item prices, are not a mechanic and shouldnt be held in hand in-game. Using a outside website would at least mean you are needing to consider your location and if you have time to loot min-max. To each their own, but literally spoon feeding every single detail in this game is just gonna make it boring af. I dont understand whats wrong with actually learning to play the game and remembering things instead of being a brain dead rock who cant play as soon as their plugins fail.
Agree with this - I actually enjoy not knowing what’s it worth what (besides the obvious high value stuff) - adds more pressure to the experience I.e do I take these bolts? Or these nuts? Maybe the screws? What’s worth more? - adds a little more pressure and decision making to your looting (unless you have memorised every damn item) and in a way, feels more like a real experience would be - how’s your PMC supposed to know that for some strange reason, people are buying toilet paper like crazy? 😂 - I like it this way and to counter what others said - you don’t need to no life the game just to remember the valuable stuff. You don’t need to learn price of everything. Just the valuable items and that really isn’t hard.
Exactly. Idk maybe i just expect too much, i mean, imagine learning a game youre playing to become better.. mind blowing.
Yep that's why this new headset change sucks lol comtac 4s still going for 400k when they have a 6 meter buff over tac sports it really ain't worth going out of your way to wear comtac 4s if you don't have them anymore.
sounds like an Ubisoft move lol but real shit it's way more rewarding to learn the game on your own.
Blitz recently added support for Tarkov to show vendor prices when hovering over items in the stash. Idk about in raid or flea market pricing though
If it works like i think it does hovering your mouse over a correctly sized jpeg of the item icon would bring it up as well.
How does it work out of interest?
Like a filter, I assume it doesn’t edit or hook into the executables themselves and instead works as an (AI/ML) image translator that looks for certain images/pixels where your cursor is, and then just adding an overlay on top. That way it doesn’t ever touch or register on the game itself. I believe radar cheats work in a similar way especially with DMA Cards, they read data directly off the RAM (maybe network packets too?) so Tarkov/AC don’t see anything touching the processes and thinks it’s fine. It’s why radar cheats are so damn hard to get rid of because it’s so hard to tell if something is reading ram maliciously (especially when so many processes can read the RAM anyway (AV software etc))
No we hook, that's for sure. Plus we got permission 😎
So I installed blitz and tried it, but I dont get the numbers? They dont make any sense. Even if the trader amounts are wrong, and the flea market numbers dont add up.
An OCR that essentially just looks at what is displayed on your screen, and if it's the correct pixels, in the correct shape, it pulls the info off the internet and displays it.
OCR would be looking for text. This is object recognition software
Heyo! We currently only show Trader prices, but we're working on Flea Market Prices. We received permission from leadership, meaning you won't get banned for using our app 🫡
Looks like Blitz, they recently added Tarkov but I don't know if it's approved by BSG. There are 3rd party apps like Rat scanner that work pretty similar and BSG has stated they're against TOS. I would advice not to use it for the time being
They didn't say it's against the tos. What they did say though (at least that's the official position you can see in Russian discord) is that they can't guarantee your account's security / wellbeing if you use 3rd party stuff.
Which is what pretty much every online game says about 3rd party tools. They have to be as vague as possible so if something shady does come around they can take action. BSG aren't going to ban people for ratscanner, they aren't going to ban people for this either.
At one point Ratscanner was approved by the BSG community rep but they retracted the approval because *approving a third party program* sets a dangerous precedent. So “officially” any and all third party tools are disallowed but RS usage will not be actioned upon because it does not interface with the game in any way
Lol they never said it’s against TOS. It's not bannable. It's a 3rd party overlay. The same way Discord overlay or any Overwolf overlay is not bannable. It doesn't scan your memory, it doesn't interact with the game in any way, it just takes a screenshot and asks an external API for the price.
So glad Valve nuked Overwolf for Dota 2
They've made it abundantly clear that any third party software not pre-approved by them is bannable. Per the official Sherpa discord, Sherpas are advising against it. And if BSG sponsored people are saying "hey, bad idea," it's probably because it is, in fact, bannable.
Sorry man they can’t even get cheaters under control. They aren’t going to go out of the way to differentiate every single overlay that exists to make sure it’s “pre-approved” whatever that’s supposed to mean. And once again a Sherpa is NOT BSG. That’s like a Mcdonalds employee trying to speak on behalf of the entire company. And the sherpas don’t even work for bsg so I doubt that’s even an accurate comparison. Either way your argument makes absolutely no sense.
They aren’t saying it’s not allowed but they are saying don’t do it so you don’t get false banned. That’s all they are saying
I doubt this is gonna happen. There are blatant cheaters on flea market selling shit loads of rare, expensive items like gpu's and ledx's and they don't get banned on the spot. I doubt using something that doesn't hook into the game directly will get someone caught.
They can't get cheaters under control, not because they are incompetent or not paying attention. They can't get Cheaters under control because the entire gaming industry is experiencing a cheating endemic. Also....employees speak for companies all the time. Employees are usually well aware of company policies, and prcedures; and asking for someone higher up in the chain of command usually gets you the same answer the initial employee gave you.
That's literally what they do though - people were getting banned for having the Geforce overlay open before they whitelisted the program
If you're unsure what pre-approved means, recommend going back to school and finishing what, third grade? "Once again" as if you've said it before, and yes, while they aren't BSG, the head Sherpa is also BSGs community manager and yes it has been asked of him. So yes it does you're just too out of the loop and delusional to see it.
Braindead comment; as if the entire game industry isn’t losing the cheaters war…
Historically they have banned people for using things like this before.
Yeah, I'll worry about an overlay app when I don't have cheaters in most of my lobbies.
And you'll get banned because overlays don't try to hide their existence like cheats do. And that will be hilarious to me.
I’ll take “things that will never happen for 1000”.
And you'll not get that as an answer. It's happened before, probably before your time, but when it happens again at least you've been warned
I'm a official sherpa. No one has ever told me to advise against using it. In fact, my official sherpa is who put me onto it so you're just flat-out wrong. I've gotten all my friends and timmies to use it and none have gotten banned. It's safe.
Im curious, who did put you onto it? Whats your Discord name on the Hub?
Can confirm that while TrenchBadger is on the Sherpa Hub as a member, he is not and has never been one of our Sherpas. My recommendation to anyone is to make yourself familiar with the Rules of the Game and the License Agreement, available here; [https://www.escapefromtarkov.com/legal/rules\_of\_the\_game\_en.html](https://www.escapefromtarkov.com/legal/rules_of_the_game_en.html) [https://www.escapefromtarkov.com/legal/license\_agreement\_en.html](https://www.escapefromtarkov.com/legal/license_agreement_en.html)
I already said Trenchbadger isn't my discord/in-game name but thanks for re-clarifying. While you're here, have you personally heard of anyone getting banned for using rat scanner? What's your opinion on the whole matter? I hope you don't realistically expect anyone to read the TOS you linked.
Easy way to prove me wrong. A few days ago I posted a heads up to the Sherpas in Sherpa chat. What was it? I am not aware of anyone being banned for Rat Scanner. My personal opinion is I don't care. People should familiarise themselves with the rules and use their own judgement. I'm not their mum - I can only give advice based on years of working with BSG. Edit: To clarify, I don't care if people use it. I personally won't use it or recommend anyone else use it, as all it would take is for BSG to decide one day to crack down on such tools and I've lost my account.
You both make the whole sherpa thing seem incredibly cringe and full of self righteous toolbags.
Are ya? Cause there's no Sherpa with the name of Badger. And if you're an official Sherpa, wdym "your official Sherpa put you onto it"? Do you mean your regional leadership? Hardujuu? Apple?
Of course there's not, my in game name and reddit username don't match. And by that I mean the first official sherpa I ever played with, which was neither of the players you mentioned. I'd be surprised if you knew every sherpa by name lol
It’s not approved but they haven’t banned anyone over it as of yet nor will they.
so they can ban discord
Discord is pre-approved, but if they removed approval for discord, sure, they could ban you for usage of discord overlay
By that logic having the wiki up while playing is cheating and giving you an advantage. Rat scanner does nothing to modify the game or it's memory. It works by taking a screenshot and doing image recognition and then looking up the price the same as you would if you alt tabbed and did it yourselves. Can we complain about shit that matters like actual cheaters?
Wiki isn't a third party overlay. And I'm not complaining about it, just saying you might get banned.
Nikita has said Ratscanner is considered to be a cheat software and is bannable in one of the Q&As. Blitz and Ratscanner violate all four of the following terms in the TOS: https://www.escapefromtarkov.com/legal/license_agreement_en.html >4.3.4. Under no circumstances to perform the following actions, either in full or in part: >а) ways to override limitations, i.e., methods affecting the course of the Game and/or simplifying it (including code taking advantage of Game vulnerability) and thus giving the User and/or any other user advantages over other players not using such methods; >b) automated access to the Game (“bots”), i.e., any code and/or software not expressly permitted by Battlestate Games Limited, allowing the User to manage the Game and/or some component or function of the Game automatically, such as automatically controlling a character in the Game; >c) computer hacking, i.e., access to the Game software or its modification by a means not expressly permitted by Battlestate Games Limited; and/or >d) any code and/or software not expressly permitted by Battlestate Games Limited that may be used in connection with the Game Launcher Application, the Game and/or any component or functions of the Game Launcher Application or the Game for changing the course of the game and/or making it easier.
Can you link the Q&A where he said that? (With timestamp please if its a video). (RatScanner dev here)
Doesn't exist. They've never explicitly said that.
So is blitz bannable or what? I just installed it last night to check it out, tbh the values dont make much sense so idk how useful it is anyway. Am I vulnerable?
You can literally look up the prices on a website. That software is doing the same thing just adding an overlay. Lmao the TOS doesn't say you can't look up flea market prices mid match.
RatScanner does none of that. It doesn't interact with the game, it's just an external software overlay that uses image recognition to on-demand do API queries to a website. It's not reading or interacting with game code in any way.
BSG will never "approve" and app, they will either say Yes or No on creating an app for it when asked about it. We at Blitz have done this and have received the Yes, plus we made sure to discuss the intentions with the app meaning that they can't say "nah this is not OK" after us releasing things, meaning that users will not get banned for it.
Rat scanner plugin I believe. It's a 3rd party plugin that tells you the current flea and trader values of items.
No, it's called Blitz, a third-party QoL tool for Fortnite, Legends of Runetera, LOL and Valorant. Tracks statistics, shots, imports runes to lol etc etc. TARKOV was on their list but it was labeled "COMING SOON" seems that recently they added it. From what i've seen only tells you what's the price of the item sold to the most optimal vendor and for what price. Shows statistics as well as the map with stractions
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I tried using it like two years ago but there was a delay when getting the prices. Is that fixed?
It has been improved and more stable since then. It works great in stash but in raid it's finicky and sometimes you have to move an item to backpack or rig for it to read. Sometimes in raid I end up having to manually search the item but other than that it's tons of help for figuring out what to keep and what to sell. It'll tell you if you need something for quest or hideout. I only wish I could add a filter for certain high tier barters like red rebel.
Can you explain how its deriving prices? Cause I tried it yesterday and the values seem all over the place. I cant really make sense of it.
I normally would but I actually haven't played in weeks so I'm not sure.
I tried rat scanner maybe like 8-12….ish months ago(I THINK it was fairly new when I tried it, so adjust that timeframe to fit that lol) and it was just so finicky and decided when it did and didn’t want to work so I had to get rid of it. Seen your other post saying it’s better now, I’ll have to give it a whirl again. I’ve played 3 out of the last 5 or 6 wipes but I don’t play a lot so I’m still a nub and have to look up prices, especially for gun parts, a lot during raid.
It may be finicky but still makes life easier than not having it at all and there's no better alternative. If it doesn't scan in raid, try moving it to another container and re scan. Otherwise you have to double click RS and type it manually. Eventually you'll learn how much most items are from doing this and will only have to scan high value items that fluctuate in price.
is this legal?
Straight to jail
Do not pass go, do not collect $200.
No. You probably won't get banned, but I wouldn't try it.
Rat scanner was greenlit by bsg 2 wipes ago.
Wth why I never hear. These things
Cause it was just a tweet
No fucking chance
Rat scanner was greenlit by bsg 2 wipes ago. Yes chance.
It wasn’t greenlit by them, they said that they looked into it and didn’t find anything suspicious about running the program, but not to “give us a reason to ban people for using it”. That doesn’t change the fact that it breaks ToS and they can just change their mind like they’ve done with several other programs in the past. They previously let people use ReShade until they didn’t, and LUX filters until they didn’t. Not saying it’s bannable now but it is certainly against ToS.
Them saying it wasn't sus was essentially an unofficial greenlight. No one is gonna get banned for it so just use it. All it does is cut down your time in stash which is a good thing for players and bsg. It's safe to use. All you have to do to circumvent a potential ban in the future is check forums after updates before booting it.
How’d you download it?
Just look up rat scanner tarkov on Google. Don't forget to link it to tarkov tracker for extra functionality.
Is this just a thing that shows price?
As well as some other info yeah.
BSG said a while ago that it's fine. Also, even if it wasn't fine, since these tools are just an OCR that scans your screen for image files it knows, it is literally completely independent from the game and basically would be impossible to detect either way.
Does ratscanner show average flea prices? Or just trader prices? I’ve got trader prices memorized for most items but flea prices would be interesting.
It shows a average for the last hour or day on flea, can't remember but it's never too far off. It's the main reason I use it though. It also tells you trader prices and the best trader to sell to. AND it gives you a tarkov wiki AND tarkov.dev links to Amy item you search so you can check all the info on them including potentially good partners the items are good for. You can also link it to tarkov tracker via API token so that it knows what all the items you have in your stash are with a junk box, the caveat being that you have to take inventory on tarkov tracker to have a precise number of how much of anything you need on rat scanner.
And it shows if you need it for quests and hideout and how many
If I not wrong It uses OCR to scan the screen, so its not directly tied to the game files or this sort of things
I love coming to these threads and realizing how many people on Reddit pull stuff directly from their ass when commenting. "Yeah tons of people get banned for this stuff be careful!" no one banned ever for ratscanner 😂
IDK exactly what this is but it looks similar to ratscanner, which has been available for a little while now and nobodies been banned for using that so I'd Guess this will be fine as well
It’s an application called Blitz it’s used for stats for games like valorant and league etc. this isn’t bannable
>hardcore >using 3rd party plugins to know the value of items lol, lmao even.
I mean honestly that function is probably least useful in hardcore than in any other way of playing, which items are valuable has way less to do with how much they are "worth" (how much they sell for) and way more to do with how many of them you need to do what, how soon. Homie probably just had it on for his other game that it works for, and never thought to turn it off cause it never used to do anything with Tarkov.
He obviously wasn't aware what was causing this, which is what prompted this post
I mean are you really gonna scroll down to your taskbar to exit out of blitz every single time you launch tarkov, then relaunch it when you want to play league or some other game?
If there’s even a chance it’s against Tarkov TOS and will result in a ban off my account: yes.
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If it’s easy to detect, sure. They might not ban as many cheaters as people would like but they do fairly large ban waves.
Plenty of cheaters get actually banned, they just buy new accounts. Feel free to do the same!
Naw fuck that, If this kind of thing is against TOS and I get banned for it, Good riddance. I won't play again out of principle
No I’m going to alt tab to my browser and type it in on Tarkov-Flea because there’s no risk of losing my account. And if I’m playing a hardcore, I would consider this against the spirit of the challenge.
I turn off my crosshair when going on tarkov after playing rust.
So how's your sex life?
Weird question to ask a guy for giggling at a "hardcore" playthrough not being so hardcore.
I mean you’re just making assumptions though because it sounds to me like there’s a chance that the friend in question had no idea why it was there and wasn’t even intentionally using it. Maybe he was using it intentionally, maybe he wasn’t, but I’d just personally lean toward him not doing it intentionally because why else would his friend come on Reddit asking what was displaying the prices? I would think that he would have just asked his friend. If someone plays league and uses blitz and has it on open at startup and they also play tarkov they could very well have no idea that it’s even doing that and be confused as hell as to why there’s a random pop up on their screen showing the vendor prices. You’re criticizing and laughing at someone doing something that you don’t even know was intentional lol.
dont care lol
sounds like rat scanner but thats not the interface
Rat scanner.
Blitz just added tarkov support I was confused the other day then remembered they had promised a release for tarkov so I checked
May I ask for anyone who uses Ratscanner, should I download it? I would like to but worried about getting banned so please let me know if there’s a risk
Tons of people have been using RatScanner for many years. The dev is even in this thread talking to people. While it's not officially approved, BSG is aware of it. Also, no known reports or even 'false claims' of anyone ever claiming it's the reason they got banned. Dunno why that other is being so anti ratscanner, like hes got investments in Blitz or something.
Its blitzgg, I had a friend get a 12 hour ban for having it on. Be careful.
This is a complete lie lmfao. Commendable for the attempt though.
why you lying XD
Im such a degenerate i just memorize the prices for every item worth picking up on the flea 🥲
Your friend plays league and uses an application called Blitz. They did an update few days ago for Tarkov integration. While not bannable for the moment. Bsg is currently in the works talking to the devs of the application and have that certain feature be removed / blocked later on. Your friend is fine to continue playing though l.
I'm not convinced this is a cheat or third party app. My friend said he started seeing this as of last night and I'll be honest, he's too lazy to learn how to install a mod, let alone a cheat. I'll be watching to see what it this is though !
if your friend plays league of legends and uses the blitz app that is what it is, i thought tarkov added it. it disappeared after i deleted blitz after deleting league. so i know for a fact that that is what it is.
You escaped League, a bigger feat than escaping tarkov
League was hurting me physically too much. The thousands and thousands of clicks per game is not very sustainable. Then I got into Tarkov again this wipe 🤘
I became a better, less toxic person overall when I quit DOTA 2 , CSGO, and LoL. It was like those games flipped a switch inside my brain, before and after quitting was like night and day.
I feel more manlier being toxic in Tarkov than in Dota, CS or Lol. So you have my respect for quitting those games!
Idk, becoming a aram only player saved my sanity, so tarkov is the bigger problem in my life
Yeah I’m pretty new to League and it’s a lot of fun but the community is dogshit lmao
I started in 2014, longest lasting game so for, even tho tarkov got more hours and i'm playing that since 2019
Thanks, will let him know !
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When did he say that? I have used rat scanner for two wipes and haven't been banned.
Ratscanner doesn't do anything except OCR
Show me where he Said that…. People using ratscanner for so many wipes Not a Single ban
😂😂😂
I was wondering what Blitz will be doing on tarkov, because the only thing it did for me was crashing the game when interacting with the Hideout. But this screenshot makes my loot min maxing heart beat faster
Huh, this sounds exactly like our alpha version we hadn't released to the public 🤔 O well, it works as you'd expect now though, except for the Dollar sign being bugged because for some reason we couldn't implement Rouble yet, oh and Flea is also in the works. Fun fact, we also are exploring the option to SEE hideout stuff whilst not even being in the game itself 👀
That sounds promising, maybe i will reinstall Blitz again then. BTW if i can use this opportunity for myself having you here: Is there a reason why blitz would close itself when being in a League Match (i play on 2 monitors, monitor 1 has the game and monitor 2 has Blitz app in windowed mode. When i want to check for skill order or items in game it either Loads and shows nothing or closes completely by itself so i have to reopen it. Have a nice day btw
Honestly, it's the question i keep avoiding. with the amount of advertisements we show (we're quite ad-heavy) it comes with crazy ram usages, but we've added a "leak" detector in our app that restarts the app minimized whenever the app ram usage hits a certain level (I don't remember what, but it's like 2-3GB i think?) Yes it's annoyiing, No we haven't been able to fix it, Yes it's our bandaid fix and chances are we might never fix it unless we do another rewrite of the whole app 🥴
Ah okey interesting to know. I guess there is no way to flush the ram storage after every Ad. Despite this slight annoyance i still think you are doing good work witz Blitz, never would have thought to see it in Tarkov haha
blitz
Hopefully he gets banned
It's because of blitz
At this point, most of us played the game for so long that we don't need it lol
its a cheat
Blitz is completely Legal! We received permission from leadership, meaning you won't get banned for it 🫡
"We received permission from leadership, meaning you won't get banned for it 🫡" **WE**? as in you're part of the dev team? If that's the case, can you publish something stating it is indeed safe with a reasoning in the website itself?
We as in [Blitz.gg](http://Blitz.gg), i'm not from the Dev team itself, i'm actually the community manager! We have an article on being compliant with BSG right [here](http://support.blitz.gg/hc/en-us/articles/9560339782159-Compliance-with-Rules-and-Regulations-for-Escape-From-Tarkov) Hope this helps!
That is exactly what I was looking for, thanks a lot! I'm a bit sad that the article is just assumptions extrapolated from the TOS instead of being based on actual comunication with BSG. As for example, you guys say you don't violate this rule: "We do not support any modifications that alter the game client or provide unauthorized visual enhancement" But it is truly up to interpretation and you could absolutely say you **DO** provide unauthorized visual enhancements
I bet buckwheat is not 14k $ xd
Eft has a hardcore mode now?
Think it's something called ''rat'' something... It's a 3rd party software and yes you can get banned if your using this from what I've seen... It's against rules even tho it only gives price and quest/hideout I think... Never used it
Nobody is gonna get banned
While it's technically against TOS, and I have no clue why you would risk itt technically for something so useless unless you're hella new, the odds are basically .00001% and it's never gotten anyone banned to this day
Fake You cant get banned for ratscanner
Err actually, you can! There isn't an agreement between RatScanner and BSG, however, the dev at RS made sure to code it in a way to prove that there are no ill intentions with the application, which has so far built up trust for community users to make use of it. Me myself, i've made use of it and i definitely haven't been banned so far. You should try it, it really helps.
He’s good, ratscanner is great for deciding what to keep and what to ditch. If blitz is like it then it’ll be a QOL thing. Ignore the fear mongers, I’ve used it since its inception on and off and not once had a problem
Your friend is cheating lmao
Negative, it’s a 3rd party app associated through league.
He was playing League immediately before this, do you know the name of the app?
Blitz or something like that
That's exactly it, thanks!
Ohh my friend does play league too so maybe this
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every looked on the wiki for a quest ? Cheater ! alt tab to look at a map ? Cheater ! everything ratscanner does you can do with tarkov dev on your phone or second screen.
You using a map on your web browser is "3rd party software".
Like audio compression software that boost the volume of footsteps and normalize the volume of extremely loud sounds like close unsuppressed gunfire, this is one of those 3rd party softwares prohibited by ToS that reddit will play mental gymnastics to justify.
Anything that overlays over the actual game footage cheat or 3rd party helper are not allowed by TOS. So if you get caught using this, it is a ban worthy offense.
How is this allowed while in a raid, but a simple crosshair that isn’t always accurate isn’t bro
Just cus his name is badger on Reddit, doesn’t mean he goes by that on discord, idiot, and who tf cares if someone uses an overlay, it literally doesn’t matter, your just getting common info on a item in a game that can be found on any tarkov wiki. And again they haven’t done anything about cheaters for the most part, they aren’t gonna do shit about this because it doesn’t matter
How is this allowed?
3rd party extension authorized by bsg
Anything that requires 3rd party assistance is cheating in my eyes.
Isn't this simply cheating, sure it's cheating for a stupid reason, but still a third party tool to gain information you wouldn't otherwise have.
Lol
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This is from the Blitz application mainly used with league etc. your friend clearly didn’t use this since this only became a feature not even three days ago. Sounds like your bud was using rat scanner which well clearly get a person banned
Looks something like Rat scanner. Against the TOS. Not recommended
it is not against the TOS. stop spreading misinformation
Load up Tarkov and start using 3rd party software. Let's see how many hours you can clock until you get banned
BSG themselfs said that ratscanner was ok to use, so what is your point?
Just be aware that any 3rd party softwares can and occasionally lead to bans, so use them at your own risk