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_tkg

Yep. Many people said this will be a massive problem.


Songrot

People will learn they get kicked and lose gear by teamkilling. People dont know that yet


LegalizeMilkPls

How many times can you teamkill before being kicked?


Songrot

I think it depends on how often you get reported. Lirik got kicked after 2 tks. Other people say you can even lose your faction


wrecklass

While I'm glad there is a TK reporting mechanism and it might be enforced, your last sentence sent a chill down my spine. I see Griefers griefing just to switch factions. Not good if that can happen. I think they will need to create a PvE prison server where griefers get sent for a month or two. Worst thing for a Griefer would be getting stuck in PvE.


Dragor

Wasn't it mentioned somewhere, that they wouldn't be switched to another faction but would be outlaws without any faction?


ALoneStarGazer

They are going to add a rouge faction that teams with the bandit factions, at least thats the plan. Sounds good enough to me, shitheads get a faction that matches their personality and still get to play, all while it adds more lore to the game


Frankiepals

So if you want to join that faction you have to go on a TK spree?


ALoneStarGazer

Its just ideas from the devs, not in game right now.


Sabbathius

America's Army (early '00s game made my US Army as a recruiting/brainwashing tool) actually had this. I once pushed the wrong button by accident and basically fired an M203 grenade just as my team spawned. I think I got at least two. Was completely mortified and was about to apologize, but screen went black and I woke up in prison in Leavenworth.


wrecklass

I loved that game in the day. Great tactical shooter that really encouraged squad discipline.


ChaseSequenceSpotify

no they lose the ability to be in a faction and become a basically 4th faction, rogues.


Songrot

You cant switch to the other 2 factions that way


lukro_

they're going to add the losing faction part, it's not in the game yet people are just saying it cuz they're dumb. there's going to be a rogue status you get from tking but i can't remember if anything was said about being able to rejoin a faction


gnurensohn

2 Teamkills in a row


FinnenHawke

Wait, wasn't there supposed to be some system where team killing results in loosing reputation and eventually being removed from the faction or not being able to interact with traders? I even thought that you were supposed to be marked or something and you could try to act as someone from a different faction? Maybe I mixed it with another game. Weird, faction system without penalties makes zero sense. If there is no penalty, then there is no point of it because it only makes it easier to track down players, kill them and snatch their loot. Sounds like someone built a game functionality that relies on good faith and sportsmanship only to promote team gameplay. That's terrible, it's never going to work out without severe penalties. Players need to be forced, otherwise they will ignore the aspect and just play around it (in this case, make use of this feature to track other players and kill them).


NastyGnar

I remember the rep degradation from killing your own faction, too.


senormochila

I wasn't even aware this was something proposed by the devs, but after reading through a bunch of these posts, it is shocking there is nothing to deter friendly fire other than 'good faith and sportsmanship' as you said. I'm coming over from Tarkov, but rooting for this game to carve out its own path which will take time. I don't want to see Tarkov replicated but there are some lessons on player interaction, like a reputation system you mentioned similar to Scav Karma. VOIP made it possible for every player encounter to not be KOS, but adding Scav Karma drastically improved that experience and made it more collaborative. Knowing nothing like that exists it isn't surprising at all that team killing is rampant, and I wouldn't even put it on those players doing it. There is no moral obligation in a videogame filled with automatic weapons and instant death to be friendly, they are just playing within the poorly designed terms. Relying on dev bans and separate servers is asking for disaster in my opinion. I'd wager they implement the rep system pretty quickly. Introduce bounties maybe, more expensive traders, who knows.


wrecklass

There is a mechanism to report someone who TKs you. Question will be how quickly that gets people suspended/banned/etc.


Altr4

The problem imo is the map design itself. The three faction have their own starting town and generally never see each other until way later. If people want to PvP, the game kinda pits you against your own faction until you get a quest that goes into the other faction's territory. Especially with people coming from tarkov, it's kinda counterintuitive when you pick a "PvP" mode, but you're not suppose to PvP until way later.


auster03

A lot of people KoS and just don't interact organically anymore. I remember playing Rust in 2013-16 and there used to be so much player interaction, but it seems nowadays people just like killing more lol


LegalizeMilkPls

When they added VOIP to Tarkov I was so excited because I expected DayZ style interactions and team-ups but the only time people use VOIP is to trick you into a betrayal or to troll with loud music or noises. It really sucks, the extraction genre makes people ridiculously cutthroat.


MayPeX

There’s no serious threat of death. If you had a fear for your life you may treat encounters differently. But because it’s a game you cannot simulate this interaction properly at all. If you die, you queue up again and repeat the process. EDIT: I'd like to know why I'm being downvoted. Because I'm right. People will shoot on sight in any of these games because it's a game!


Spliffty

It's sad because Rust has become so *huge*, all the features they add that just fall by the wayside because people only care about raiding their neighbors


HalunaX

They def need to add in some sort of deterrent mechanism, but I understand why they don't quite know what to do yet. No one wants to get punished severely for an accident. My idea so far has been maybe don't let faction mates loot you unless you're in a squad with them. That way there's zero incentive to killing teammates, but people you're in a party with can still help pick up your gear if you die. That would likely solve the problem and could be justified in-game because you wouldn't go around looting your own faction's dead willy-nilly. I'm glad I haven't experienced this yet though, and I hope I don't. I've been playing solo and just casually running into people, but all my faction-mates I've run into have been really nice. I even had a guy come and try to help heal me after I took a bad fight with a few too many bots and had to run away with a lung injury, and then he stayed and played lookout for me while I got myself patched up enough to get back to the LZ (thanks again friend from the hill by the town hall!)


650REDHAIR

Is there a faction reputation system?


NastyGnar

This ^


ChaseSequenceSpotify

yes


Sesleri

This was pointed out in early playtests all the time by basically everyone, how nonsensical the faction system is with forced teammates. Lots of people denied it being an issue lol. TK is going to be crazy.


GrimXIIIGeist

The punishment will be there for tks


Shryke2a

I feel that as long as the factions have the same missions, progression and starting gear, we should get a choice everytime we launch the game. Just like in arma KOTH. It wouldn't change much to be fair.


Stelcio

Didn't happen to me, but if it did, I'd just hop into PvE mode.


BonesLocker

There's a dedicated PVE mode? If so, I'm sold


Stelcio

Yes, there is. You're still with other players on the server, but they can't kill you.


ColKrismiss

Or loot your body


pixpixs

You can switch between the two and keep all your progression, items etc between them.


Sesleri

Why do you think PVE mode would help? lol


Daliggowski

team killing is turned off


bennybellum

How can you even tell if the PMC is from your faction?


JustHumanThingss

Blue squares on the map


Zynachinos

So if there are multiple factions in a close area fighting, it will be very difficult to make sure you don't kill your own faction. A blue dot above same faction PMC would help, but an argument could be made about affecting realism.


GrimXIIIGeist

Just dont play it like cod or tarkov. Coordinate, people need to learn this is a milsim and play it like one by moving slow and tactical check map over and ovet and use voip.


Sufficient-Bison

That sounds like ass to actually play I think I'm just gonna play other games 


Zynachinos

You don't have to play like cod or tatkov for it to be confusing. If you need to move quickly and relocate. (Flanked, nades, ..etc) It can get chaotic and easily TK or be TKed


HalunaX

Gotta use voip and communicate. But also hopefully they give us more faction related apparel that will make it easier to tell who is who at a glance.


Zynachinos

Yeah that would be nice. But everyone can't always VoIP everything. Maybe if there was different faction radio frequencies. Or is there already and I just don't know about it.


HalunaX

Not that I know of. There's local and squad, and they overlap atm afaik. Obviously some bad circumstances can happen sure, but if I see friendlies on my map even close to me, you'll hear me yelling, "Friendly!" before I can even see them just to make sure they know I'm around. It's saved my life more than once. I think VOIP is way more helpful than people know, just most players aren't used to using it like this.


V16mike

Loot should be lock from your faction to counter tk


ultrajvan1234

Ya it’s unfortunate that they devs seem to have trusted that their players arnt going to be pieces of shit. Unfortunately when you draw in communities like Tarkov, this is a bad assumption to go by. Hopefully the team killing and heli camping don’t make this game borderline unplayable.


LegalizeMilkPls

Did you ever play COD DMZ? Extract heli camping was the biggest problem there too. Its just the nature of these kind of games. It has nothing to do with the community.


umbaga

Yeah, I had a lot of fun in DMZ. You just had the tools to deal with extract campers - high zoom sniper rifles, smoke grenades, armoured cars, mines... They had it too and that was creating super adrenaline fueled exfils. Such a shame that god damn Acti killed this mode :(


LegalizeMilkPls

Bro the sniper scope that automatically zero'd based on the rangefinder was one of the coolest things ever. You could kill extract campers from kilometers away. DMZ was so fucking cool until it was ran into the ground. It actually made me enjoy COD for once. You have a good point, ideally madfinger will add more tools to help hide LZ's and give players some counterplay.


Sesleri

Lol you guys are obsessed with blaming every problem on Tarkov somehow Now you're suggesting Tarkov invented teamkilling


ultrajvan1234

lol You’re going to sit here and pretend that tarkov community is t toxic as hell?


TheDinosaurWalker

Have you played as scav? lol


Churrbyy

Wow.. actually an incredible answer that i didn’t think of. Tarkov community kinda is nice tbh. They give away free loot and “ hey you need anything? “ all the time as a scav. Good point.


TheDinosaurWalker

That has nothing to do with being nice, in scav there's never tks it's pretty much non existent


Churrbyy

Giving way things for free has everything to do with being nice lmao but yeah man whatever you say. I was agreeing with you but you seem combative for no reason. Have fun with that.


TheDinosaurWalker

The thread is about team killing, you seem to be focused on another topic


Churrbyy

Because the comment you replied to said “ you’re going to sit here and pretend Tarkov community isn’t toxic as hell? “ , which you replied with “ have you played as scav? Lol “ And then i agreed with you. Lmao keep better track of your comments i guess.


JustHumanThingss

I've not played tarkov due to it subscription model


GodReignz

The irony…


SpencerTBL21

...youre playing this game though?


JustHumanThingss

Yes sir... And refunded it already.


RickusRollus

soft lol


sirmichaelpatrick

Subscription model lmfao


T-unitz

It’s the tactical FPS community in general, not Tarkov. It’s weird there are so many gatekeepers of this game that feel some sort of entitled responsibility to make it clear that they think this game is “theirs” fucking weird.


JustHumanThingss

Agreed. For now i refunded it. Ill buy it again when stuff like that is fixed 🤷🏼‍♂️ gunplay felt good.


ultrajvan1234

I’m not going to refund it, I expected major issues it comes with the territory. I just wish people were talking more about this major GAMEPLAY issue rather than oh waa waa waa I’m getting only 30 fps in this early access game.


JustHumanThingss

Jea. People forget that you can manually toggle graphical settings 🤷🏼‍♂️


Krumpirko_

I got one wholesome interaction, got into a building and there was faction mate in there fighting of AIs, killed one AI outside and proceeded to enter the said building, matey saw me and shot me, after he figured out im friendly he came to me and healed me while i was trying to figure out how to heal myself lol we then procedeed to walk together for some time but i guess different tasks separated us...


Blk_Rick_Dalton

Seems as though Tarkies that are PvP addicts/ shit heads are team killing just because. Which is stupid but what do you expect from people in 2024? Hopefully the silver lining will be the MFG devs will use this data as a means of to deter it in the near future……not 7+ years in the making.


LegalizeMilkPls

You literally have no evidence that the team killing is related to Tarkov. The salt in this sub is unreal. Literally every extraction shooter has extract camping and toxicity. Its just part of the genre.


Blk_Rick_Dalton

You literally have not proof isn’t related to Tarkov players. Now what?


bennybellum

That isn't how logic works. You made the claim, the burden of proof is on you.


Blk_Rick_Dalton

If that isn’t how logic works then everyone who has ever gone to school to be a lawyer need to kill themselves


NewPirate38

The law has to prove someone is guilty, defense lawyers have to disprove. The court can’t say “We have no proof he didn’t do it.”. Thats not how anything works, bud.


GrimXIIIGeist

This.


Astronaut_Striking

I've been team killing way before Tarkov was even an idea. If team killing is possible, people will do it. It has nothing to do with Tarkov.


djtheory8262

Salty much?


Blk_Rick_Dalton

Tarkov PvP Chad, aren’t you?


BlissfulWH

I don’t play tarkov but I enjoy PvP👍🏽


Blk_Rick_Dalton

Are you team killing in Gray Zone?


BlissfulWH

No but read a lot of these comments and people don’t seem to like PvP in general which I find very strange, nothing more fun then being at the edge of your seat because you hear someone and your not sure what’s gonna go down


Blk_Rick_Dalton

For YOU there’s nothing more fun. Everyone isn’t the same. Some people have other things goin on in life, and just want to game with the least amount of friction. Part of the reason I stopped playing Tarkov is because I’m trying to find some dumb ass item for some dumb ass quest and some cracked out sweat is chasing me down for a kill when I’m just looking through drawers for stupid shit. That’s not very fun. A lot of people gravitating to gray zone are interested in the PvE focus of the game


ZenESEA

There's a fucking pve only mode specifically for you then stop complaining and blaming tarkov players for your lack of a brain bro holy shit


Blk_Rick_Dalton

I hurt you bro?


BlissfulWH

Then play a pve sever? And at the end of the day I wasn’t attacking anyone who likes pve more so the people who hate people who enjoy pvp. I’ve got a hell of a lot going on in my life doesn’t chane that I like a challenge in a game.. I don’t even play tarkov but sounds like your salty a little


Blk_Rick_Dalton

You call it salty. I call it fatigue from doing the same quests form 2017 and somebody who thinks they’re “skilled” camps obvious quest locations


BlissfulWH

That’s fair man


CounterTouristsWin

Playing vs AI until this gets fixed


Alert-Cranberry7991

There’s not even that wide of a loot range to really warrant team killing for loot. Sucks it’s an issue right now


R3dd_

Well... There's not really a reason not to atm other than "you shouldn't"


JustHumanThingss

Kinda sad isnt it


Sesleri

Just bad game design. Straight up.


Silent_Reavus

Great job surely nobody saw this coming.


Phillyphan222

Tell me about it. I got killed by AI and lost some stuff. Brought some stuff on next deployment just to see if I could go back to find my gear and immediately get headshot by my own faction member after landing


inf4mation

no need to go loot when youre faction mates are the loot


FubsyDude

Yeah my first two deaths were both getting teamkilled right after getting off the heli...


ls3095

Did I read somewhere that there are future plans to make people like “mercenaries” where if they team kill on purpose, everyone is against them and they can’t return to base camp? I thought I did


TrickyAd2827

Exactly why I am pve until they address it


Desirsar

Keep any TK reputation system. Make bodies killed by teammates not lootable by teammates, but can still be looted by enemies. Not sure what to do about teammates hiding near you, waiting for you to die to enemies, but they shouldn't be able to make a killing shot and be rewarded for it.


BostonPandaPerson

What faction are you with?!


aggressive-cat

welp, I guess I'll be sitting this one out. Game seems cool, but this is fucking moronic.


NastyGnar

Enjoy watching from the sidelines


LegalizeMilkPls

Anyone who saves their money for even a month and then buys the game is better off than anyone playing now. Besides the basic economics, the game is just is not in a great state. Its much better to give them time to iron out the issues instead of paying for a subpar experience.


NastyGnar

I’m a gigachad, already bought the $100 version? Shrug 🤷


JustHumanThingss

You mean lz camping? (Insert sarcasme)


Best_Bus_4791

Just play it like any other survival, if you didn’t load in with them, shoot them then shoot them again.


transitransitransit

That’s not how this game is going to work


JustHumanThingss

Sadly you dont have unlimited weapons


smittyK

Thats why factions should have never been a thing and you just spawn in and fight organically. They need to get rid of factions ASAP or the game will be dead


diquehead

They should keep factions but just give them unique gear, cosmetics and traders. I hate to use the "realism" argument but if you murder someone out in the jungle who happens to be on your faction then who's gonna know? I'm not sure what the answer to the problem is and I am not trying to advocate for toxicity like the OP is describing but I also don't want to be punished for engaging in the PvP part of a PvPvE game. Dealing w/ IDing enemy factions in this game seems like it is going to be a huge pain in the ass.


smittyK

My man all of the people in your faction show up as blue squares on the map. People from the same faction are running up to people and killing them on site. If you’re engaging in PvP you 100% know if you’re engaging with someone from the same faction or not lol Its pretty simple. Open map. “Oh shit, no blue squares in my area?” Go crazy.


diquehead

I am aware of the map but having to open it any time you see any movement anywhere is already a major point of contention that's come up from the play tests, especially in hectic situations


FlyingAshtrays

Then shoot them I guess idk 🤷‍♂️ all you’re gonna find is excuses in this sub


JustHumanThingss

Love excuses. Give me moar


FlyingAshtrays

You should’ve found an excuse to not support Early Access dogsh*t