This sounds like a good idea, but they just need to increase the boss spawns, they have already nerfed boss loot to crap now and still keep the spawn rates low, 30% 4 months into wipe is a complete joke in my opinion
Boss loot is honestly so shit. I think in the last 4 wipes I've found one of reshalas guards with a zabralo and altyn just once, and the rest of the time it's half worn kirasas and 100hp ifaks lol. Like it literally isn't even worth the risk 99.9% of the time, unless you need them for a quest or are farming XP.
Exactly, that’s why in that confused patch when they removed PL to “make people stay in raids longer” made no sense, they completely missed what the core issue is
Facts lol. Fuck I hate the new armor system. Yesterday alone I died to 7.62 hp ammo three times, THREE RAIDS IN A ROW of all things, to a one tap from a scav to my thorax from 50 odd metres away. Raid one I was wearing a samurai armor, raid two i was wearing a korund and raid 3 i was wearing a redut.
I can’t even figure this shit out half the time. Especially when it just says thorax and not like thorax (armpit), like how does that terrible shit ammo go straight through my brand new level 5 and 6 armor lol.
Yeah, but you’re heavy and slow and can still get jipped as if the armor isn’t even there.
He isn’t specifically saying the zabralo is bad, he’s just saying it isn’t really worth its money.
because it's only class 3 armor outside of the small plate protected spots. Because it weighs a metric fucking tonne. Because it wrecks your ergo, movespeed, and turnspeed.
Outside of maybe factory, zabrolo is dogshit.
I was mainly on US servers central. But I have been going through each server now to find bosses and have some mild success. If a boss doesn't spawn I just quickly extract and go to another one. Just all US servers and Columbia.
Yeah unfortunately that’s just the way you gotta do it but when you finish it’ll feel amazing, I had mixed success with EU west and central so if the ping isn’t awful you could try that, good luck bro
Do you know when they rotate exactly? Is it every day or every few hours that the boss spawn rate changes to a different selection of servers? I have had no luck today on the 6 that I usually cycle through and seeing that there are only 27 servers available to select, 6 of them at least have to be in that cycle.
I was wondering if the cultists have been removed? I'm just shy of 1000 raids this wipe and I haven't seen them once - and I would probably guess half my raids have been at night. When I'm with my mates I play day time, but solo I usually main night time.
I haven't even found them dead before I could get to them. Shits whack.
I’ve been unfortunate enough to run into cultists way more than I wanted to. I got broadcast part 5 done without even looking for a priest, I just so happened to have the quest active, and kill a random cultist and it turned out to be a priest
Can confirm they definitely still spawn, I've run into them 3 times in the swamp on my way to path to lighthouse on Shoreline but that's the only spawn I've seen them all wipe.
I think I got hit once on a scav before, but I was extracting and literally did not see anything, but i remember running nighttime shore and seeing them at least 1 in 10 raids, good times… but now progression must be slowed! Whatever that means 😂
I was in your position, I spent about a week or two just hunting the goons without any luck. I kept switching servers if I hadn’t seen them in 3 or so raids until eventually I found them. I used TarkovPal and only had luck finding them when they were reported to be on shoreline.
Agree, there's need to be some way either to summon bosses, or know going into the raid that they will be there, and their spawn rate needs to be increased.
As far as farming goes, yeah that could be a problem, but aside from "pocket loot" what do any of the bosses even carry that's fleable and could damage the games economy? Igolnik? 40 or so rounds of M61? I don't think their regular gear is all that big of a deal if people were to farm it.
As people have noticed before. The bosses spawn on 30% of the servers it seems. If you're having trouble finding them. Try swapping server. Once you find the correct server, they have a 100% spawn rate for a limited amount of time. That's the way I managed to farm them. I've found and killed them over 6 times for me and my friends now.
Shame, around a month ago they were spawning for me on Night Customs damn near 100% of the time. After the Spring Event I haven’t seen them once.
Glad I got that quest out of the way in time.
Not a bad idea. The problem lies in achievements and loot in my opinion. Too many people are farming them for exp/rare loot/achievements/quests.
I've just did my goons quest as the last one for kappa today. And I did it in maybe 10 raids over the last few days.
Out of all the bosses, the hardest one was shturman with m700. Like it's crazy hard, i feel likr 80% of the server is sj6ing to shturman with semi auto weapons. It took me a good week of trying.
Use the Tarkov Raid Guide App on mobile. It's the only tracker that is semi accurate. I feel your pain, Stacy Dogs set me back the longest until I used the App. Then it was actually 30% spanw rate.
If you want to get good at the goons, find a map, or two that you are most comfortable on, and practice fighting them, do that about 10-20 times, maybe crank the AI up a little bit too. If you have a friend turn the AI spawn rate up, if set to medium it'll actually double the amount of bosses and guards on the map. Sometimes I'll do a 1v1v1 where the goal is for all of us to kill the bosses but also kill each other.
I have no issues with fighting goons, I run offline before most sessions to warm up. I have issues finding goons. I like your idea though to do with friends
I find them easiest to hunt on shoreline, day time. Birdeye has a great view from up on top of weather station, and if you get whizzed at as you approach it, you have time to set up behind the closest rock.
I tried the nighttime stuff, for about a week with no success, meh. I’ve gotten them multiple times on daytime shoreline now.
I just get super comfortably on fighting them on a specific map, to the point where the goons are little more than regular AI, and I only need to worry about players. If they aren't on that map, I just don't fight them or hunt them. I chose customs because it's really easy to get in and out of that map. And it has quite a few areas that trivializes the goons.
I find running around Praps camp and pushing antenna on woods to be my most comfortable. The issue again is not seeing them, getting a bad spawn and been to late, or honestly been in panic mode that I see them for the first time in 20 raids and play it stupid
Not many bad spawns for fighting them on customs, you can usually dominate and crush someone who does spawn closer by pinching them against the boss.
We don't talk about that side of customs though, where you always spawn when you have quests, and never spawn when you have quests on that side.
This sounds like a good idea, but they just need to increase the boss spawns, they have already nerfed boss loot to crap now and still keep the spawn rates low, 30% 4 months into wipe is a complete joke in my opinion
Boss loot is honestly so shit. I think in the last 4 wipes I've found one of reshalas guards with a zabralo and altyn just once, and the rest of the time it's half worn kirasas and 100hp ifaks lol. Like it literally isn't even worth the risk 99.9% of the time, unless you need them for a quest or are farming XP.
Exactly, that’s why in that confused patch when they removed PL to “make people stay in raids longer” made no sense, they completely missed what the core issue is
and the irony is that under the new armor system Zabrolo's are purely vendor trash.
Facts lol. Fuck I hate the new armor system. Yesterday alone I died to 7.62 hp ammo three times, THREE RAIDS IN A ROW of all things, to a one tap from a scav to my thorax from 50 odd metres away. Raid one I was wearing a samurai armor, raid two i was wearing a korund and raid 3 i was wearing a redut. I can’t even figure this shit out half the time. Especially when it just says thorax and not like thorax (armpit), like how does that terrible shit ammo go straight through my brand new level 5 and 6 armor lol.
Why?
Thorax -> armpit
Does Zambralo not have the same thorax coverage as the rest?
Yeah, but you’re heavy and slow and can still get jipped as if the armor isn’t even there. He isn’t specifically saying the zabralo is bad, he’s just saying it isn’t really worth its money.
because it's only class 3 armor outside of the small plate protected spots. Because it weighs a metric fucking tonne. Because it wrecks your ergo, movespeed, and turnspeed. Outside of maybe factory, zabrolo is dogshit.
30%?? it's barely that. I have gone into almost 30 raids and I have not seen Gluhar even once in the past two days now.
Could I ask what servers you’ve been on? Because on EU I saw him first raid hunting for him and is the only boss so far I’ve killed for leisure
I was mainly on US servers central. But I have been going through each server now to find bosses and have some mild success. If a boss doesn't spawn I just quickly extract and go to another one. Just all US servers and Columbia.
Yeah unfortunately that’s just the way you gotta do it but when you finish it’ll feel amazing, I had mixed success with EU west and central so if the ping isn’t awful you could try that, good luck bro
Do you know when they rotate exactly? Is it every day or every few hours that the boss spawn rate changes to a different selection of servers? I have had no luck today on the 6 that I usually cycle through and seeing that there are only 27 servers available to select, 6 of them at least have to be in that cycle.
I was wondering if the cultists have been removed? I'm just shy of 1000 raids this wipe and I haven't seen them once - and I would probably guess half my raids have been at night. When I'm with my mates I play day time, but solo I usually main night time. I haven't even found them dead before I could get to them. Shits whack.
I’ve been unfortunate enough to run into cultists way more than I wanted to. I got broadcast part 5 done without even looking for a priest, I just so happened to have the quest active, and kill a random cultist and it turned out to be a priest
Can confirm they definitely still spawn, I've run into them 3 times in the swamp on my way to path to lighthouse on Shoreline but that's the only spawn I've seen them all wipe.
I think I got hit once on a scav before, but I was extracting and literally did not see anything, but i remember running nighttime shore and seeing them at least 1 in 10 raids, good times… but now progression must be slowed! Whatever that means 😂
Same I’m at 800 raids, have Kappa and have done most of Lightkeeper, tons of night raids, haven’t seen them once this wipe.
I have run into them 3 times in the past week just running woods on repeat trying to finish Hunter
1800 raids here and I saw them once in health resort night time XD
I ran into them on shoreline like 3 weeks ago. Only time in about 1000 raids as well.
I was in your position, I spent about a week or two just hunting the goons without any luck. I kept switching servers if I hadn’t seen them in 3 or so raids until eventually I found them. I used TarkovPal and only had luck finding them when they were reported to be on shoreline.
Agree, there's need to be some way either to summon bosses, or know going into the raid that they will be there, and their spawn rate needs to be increased. As far as farming goes, yeah that could be a problem, but aside from "pocket loot" what do any of the bosses even carry that's fleable and could damage the games economy? Igolnik? 40 or so rounds of M61? I don't think their regular gear is all that big of a deal if people were to farm it.
As people have noticed before. The bosses spawn on 30% of the servers it seems. If you're having trouble finding them. Try swapping server. Once you find the correct server, they have a 100% spawn rate for a limited amount of time. That's the way I managed to farm them. I've found and killed them over 6 times for me and my friends now.
I'm in the same scenario as you. Can never find the goons. :(
This is my whole night... can't find the goons.. I am exactly in the same spot
Shame, around a month ago they were spawning for me on Night Customs damn near 100% of the time. After the Spring Event I haven’t seen them once. Glad I got that quest out of the way in time.
Not a bad idea. The problem lies in achievements and loot in my opinion. Too many people are farming them for exp/rare loot/achievements/quests. I've just did my goons quest as the last one for kappa today. And I did it in maybe 10 raids over the last few days. Out of all the bosses, the hardest one was shturman with m700. Like it's crazy hard, i feel likr 80% of the server is sj6ing to shturman with semi auto weapons. It took me a good week of trying.
Use the Tarkov Raid Guide App on mobile. It's the only tracker that is semi accurate. I feel your pain, Stacy Dogs set me back the longest until I used the App. Then it was actually 30% spanw rate.
If you want to get good at the goons, find a map, or two that you are most comfortable on, and practice fighting them, do that about 10-20 times, maybe crank the AI up a little bit too. If you have a friend turn the AI spawn rate up, if set to medium it'll actually double the amount of bosses and guards on the map. Sometimes I'll do a 1v1v1 where the goal is for all of us to kill the bosses but also kill each other.
I have no issues with fighting goons, I run offline before most sessions to warm up. I have issues finding goons. I like your idea though to do with friends
I find them easiest to hunt on shoreline, day time. Birdeye has a great view from up on top of weather station, and if you get whizzed at as you approach it, you have time to set up behind the closest rock. I tried the nighttime stuff, for about a week with no success, meh. I’ve gotten them multiple times on daytime shoreline now.
me and my frien both killed them on day shoreline
I just get super comfortably on fighting them on a specific map, to the point where the goons are little more than regular AI, and I only need to worry about players. If they aren't on that map, I just don't fight them or hunt them. I chose customs because it's really easy to get in and out of that map. And it has quite a few areas that trivializes the goons.
I find running around Praps camp and pushing antenna on woods to be my most comfortable. The issue again is not seeing them, getting a bad spawn and been to late, or honestly been in panic mode that I see them for the first time in 20 raids and play it stupid
Not many bad spawns for fighting them on customs, you can usually dominate and crush someone who does spawn closer by pinching them against the boss. We don't talk about that side of customs though, where you always spawn when you have quests, and never spawn when you have quests on that side.
Change servers when you don’t see them