Grunklestank

For those of you familiar with Phil Town's Rule 1 Investing:

Rule 1 was my first real exposure to investing, and now that I'm a ways down the road and have also spent time learning from many others, I still consider it a great starting point and still employ Rule 1 strategy despite broadening my knowledge.

I've spent countless hours listening to and reading Phil's stuff at this point, and I am grateful for his teaching, but there is still something I have yet to really hear him discuss and explain.

What happens when you pick a great company that has ALL the right metrics... and well... nothing happens? For reasons unknown, the stock price just never takes off and growth fails to materiali

Many streamers do this, but why? I thought it was common knowledge that the speed/movement penalties from backpacks was still not implemented in game.

I see several people doing this in Labs, so it's not an insurance thing...

Anyone know why?

I have never even seen this game in true 1440 res. It has always just stretched 1080p out to 1440 for me, and never actually run in 1440 - I'm assuming it's the same for everyone else?

Today I was playing, did a few raids, then randomly restarted my game, and could immediately tell that something was different visually. When it loaded back up, it was magically in true 1440 res. I have no idea how this is even possible. I changed literally nothing and was in raid as usual less than 2 mins before.

The strangest thing is, the game is still set to 1080 res in my Graphics settings - but it's actually running in 1440 now. I have it set to 1080 in settings because you get a performance hit i

TX-15, T-5000, SR-25, MP9... like... why would anyone run these other than perceived "cool factor"???

They all cost more, and their stats suck (almost universally worse across the board) compared to the cheap comparable guns that they're ostensibly to serve as an upgraded, next-tier option to.

I really hope they consider buffing the ergo/recoil/accuracy stats on these new guns, making the "old guns" worse, or adjusting costs on both... something :(

Interested in what Nikita said - not the streamers. Don't have 3 hours to watch it all :(

1. Do they spawn every time the alarm is pulled? Like 100% chance? I swear I cannot find any raiders anywhere on the map half the time the alarm goes off...
2. Where do they spawn when the alarm goes off? Is it completely random? Are there set spawn areas?
3. Do they despawn at any point after the alarm stops going off? Or are they on the map permanently once they spawn in?
4. Does the arrival of the train (like the event itself) have anything to do with raiders spawning in? Or is the alarm the only thing that triggers their spawn?

Thanks all.

Day or night, thermals just look horrible. Its something with the "lighting" that makes them have almost no contrast. Looks like crap inside AND outside the mall.

Its like the entire map has some weird ambient heat signature...

Am I crazy or did something change in .12? I ran thermals a lot during the last month or so before the wipe and I never remember it being like this. Thermals were actually incredibly good looking & deadly inside the mall. They just flat out suck now.

Or can they spawn in later into the raid? I feel like if they're on a map, then they'll be there at the very beginning of the raid, but I'm not 100% positive on that.

Anyone know for sure?

Patrol of 3... 2 of them rush at me and all I hear is one of the grenade voice lines, explosion, and then I peek the corner... the 2 that rushed at me are dead like 6 feet in front of where I was taking cover behind a wall... and the 1 in the back that did not run at me is still standing there. Apparently he's the one that threw the grenade at me and it killed the other 2 LOL. I proceeded to shoot him in the head.

I had no grenades and it was 4 mins left in raid - no one else on the map - just me and those 3 bots.

Great shit.

Anyone else ever seen something like this? Just wondering.

Literally watched him take out the kit 10 feet in front of me & I counted the seconds (probably fast-counted actually).

Didn't Nikita explicitly say that players would never be able to stop this particular animation once you started it?

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:: EDIT :: https://www.reddit.com/r/EscapefromTarkov/comments/dyyyww/another_eft_podcast_nikita_shroud_drlupo_klean/

see #26

Daddy needs a loooooooong barrel with insane accuracy for the big city snipes.

Pretty please?

I love running DMRs. But as it currently stands, the only reason to run a top tier DMR (i.e. RSASS, TX-15, etc) is to swing around your giant Tarkov peen for all to see. You're literally paying for a name.

For example, you can build an ADAR just like a TX-15. However, the TX-15 costs (only) about 10K more. What do you get for this 10K more spent on the top tier 556 DMR? 2 more ergo, 3 less recoil, and the exact same accuracy.

Same with an M1A vs an RSASS. Even with the price reduction today, you can build an M1A for almost the same cost as a meta RSASS with 30 less recoil than the RSASS! Only loss over the RSASS is 2 ergo and .002 accuracy on the M1A!

Could we get a noticeable stat

I've been on this task for almost 3 weeks now. Haven't found a single Blackrock that's actually marked as "Found In Raid."

Besides Pscav'ing in on Factory, hiding, and then checking the bodies for one - does anyone else have any tips on how to actually complete this task? Is that really the best I can do? I swear I'm gonna find a red Labs keycard before I find 2 damn Blackrocks off scavs...