It would be pretty funny if the entire 30 minutes were just Aqua dying endlessly while trying to talk

Aqua: “they need to stop adding all these knick knacks and actually fix the bloody game.” Also Aqua: “I want to smoke cigarettes and share.”

Aqua and Hal out here risking it all to hear from the people, true bravery. It was honestly nice to hear some general positivity from those actually playing the game!

I think Juncker hit the nail on the head when he said that this wipe died hard and fast. The last few events brought a lot of people back, including me, but the first month of wipe was so bad in my opinion it made me rage quit and walk away for months.

That Juncker kill was insanely funny timing wise.

Honestly I think a big part of the community is just tired of seeing issues that haven't been resolved in years, some of those even progressively got worse like the audio problems. We don't want new content, we want what we have already to work the way it's supposed to. We don't want to feel like everytime we win or lose was because of a bug or something... We want the game to be challenging , not unfair.

What’s hilarious about Tarkov giving way to a new genre is that it was never supposed to be this. It was advertised as a persistent world survival fps game lol

Interviewing players who play hard late wipe will lead to skewed results. Those are the gamers who will be playing regardless of whats going on in the state of the game

Such a cool idea to get these raw interviews, and even a special appearance from Juncker! Let's goooo!

800 hours in the game.... so as a new player. Excellent

I think the biggest thing they fumbled on this wipe was the audio, at the start of the wipe it was actually almost better to just turn your audio off, it was literally impossible to tell the direction and distance of noises.

You rock aqua i love seeing an upload on the main channel and its absolutely worth the wait for quality content like this well done!

I've never played Tarkov. I've watched every Tarkov video of yours. I've watched every Tarkov video of General Sam's. I only care about Tarkov because you have fun playing it. If you don't have fun playing it, I'll watch you play whatever. I can't wait to watch you play Armored Core and the Shadow of the Erdtree tho.

Excellent journalistic piece from AquaNewsNetwork. I'm a very new player, started really playing this year, but I've followed the game since its early days and I'm excited to see what work they implement for this next wipe.

Thanks for doing this, hope you'll do another in a few months. I miss this game and want to come back, but... The thing that really made me exhausted is all the random quests that you don't have control over. I can't waste my time hunting for some obscure key or item again. Give me only quests where I have control of the outcome. There isn't even any motivation to play 'well' if you're just gonna get locked behind chance/grinding time anyways.

The sound of breeze through tree branches literally gives me anxiety because of Tarkov. Its not nature, its woods, and there are sweatys with thermals.

A very well informed video but with the goofy typical Aqua shinanigans, 10/10 video

This is my very first wipe and I have touched Streets only one time. I've learned the bosses, loot spawns, the flea, the guns. I love the game, especially playing it with friends but besides that, SPT has been my jam

I bloody love this. Trust Aqua to go out there and nail it when it feels like noones else is creating good tarkov content. You are a gout ridden god sir, take a bow

I still remember that wipe when they put a level treshold on Kappa, that single thing broke something fundamental in Tarkov and I knew the very second we got that info that the "goal" in the game for most of the playerbase was just removed with that single change. Tarkov doesnt have a real goal anymore at all and it is very important for any game to have at least something!

this has been one of your best videos recently! Keep up the good work aqua, hope this blows up

Great video Aqua. Good editing, and a much needed questionnaire. Thank you! 👍🏻

This is such a good video. I thought it was just going to be some gimmick but you actually got answers. Awesome vid

I guess technically this is my second wipe, but I have the majority of my hours in this one. I have had so much fun this wipe! I love the grind to get to flea and how the game just transforms after it. I wish the game gave you more information about ammo, armor, the maps... Overall, my two biggest gripes are the audio and quests.

Im glad to see that I have my 5 seconds cameo at 3:23, was fun playing aqua.

I like this, it's quite wholesome and a clever format to talk to in-game players great vid👍

Would love more of these videos, pretty entertaining

okay the guys who actually interviewed are real ones. those guys are going places. this video was super cool

Just like some of your old rust stuff, your old and new tarkov stuff even if I stopped keeping up is amazing.

This wipe they also made progression a bit harder. For me, not having ps 762 in T1 prapor made me start the wipe in a bad mood already...

I don't ever have the time to watch your streams Aqua but I love seeing you on youtube!!!

This was cool and a great take from many people, Thanks really enjoyed this.

I think the fact you could do this in tarkov. load in a kit and INTERVIEW people mid raid makes this game. you have just enough freedom to have fun and rp, so it kind of atracts people from the MMO RPG type. The combat itself is also fun and "realistic" enough to also atract the giga chads from cod and other fps shooters. I have played 4 wipes with a break inbetween and i still can always launch this game with friends and have fun. This has all been said before but thanks for the fun video man i really enjoyed it and the several war crimes that were commited

great content! And just an overall good original idea. Nice Aqua thumbs up

Really relaxing and well done video. I haven’t played in years for my long list of reasons but it makes me sad that people who are even die hard fans are waning away

Tarkov peaked for me in 2020 December

"I love Jaeger quests!" - noone has ever said anything like that, except aqua

started in 2017 quit in 2020/2021 and i just drop by to tarkov from time to time just to see how the game is going. this video is my 1 stop shop, thank you for this journalism.

Honestly this was the wipe that I put more time into than the last 3. Which is pretty nuts when I look back on it! I have really enjoyed this one. And i played probably like 100 raids straight of streets once the optimization got a little better. So fun.

My friends and I were planning on coming back after the last wipe because we were stoked for streets... then they released the "city block" of tarkov and we just kinda... didn't. Then audio broke, and that put an even bigger damper on beating my head against a wall doing the same quests over again... Sad that it's fallen apart like it has, but hopefully they can recover it soon.

There is a magic to the start of a wipe where everyone is the most excited to play. So much of the community simply is not interested in the late game stuff including myself. BSG really needs to find a way to capture the start of the wipe enjoyment of the game. I think there are a bunch of solutions, some of which other games in the genre have done. and BSG could take some inspiration from that.

God bless Aqua having the patience, willpower & determination to sacrifice his life time and time again to get us the answers we need to hear

On top of the problems everyone else had, BSG wouldn't send me confirmation e-mails for the first 2 weeks, so I couldn't log in for the early wipe. I just gave the entire wipe a pass, I only reached L10 and never even found the key to do the pocketwatch quest. Hoping this next one is better.

This is my second wipe, and I never new that this whole thing was going on, I feel like I’m in the honeymoon phase of playing a game, where I don’t really notice the flaws and I’m just enjoying it, granted I don’t play it to often, maybe like 7-8 hours a week depending on school

Great stuff Mr. Aqua. Surely next wipe will be better.

Over 5k hours at this point, but probably closer to 3k of actual game time. Been playing since late 2019 after watching your videos playing EFT for a few months. Tarkov is completely a different game than the one i was introduced to. A huge part of the thrill was learning the unique systems and actually having gear fear running around in squads of five crapping my pants because I found a GPU or something. I didn't mind the flea market change, and I certaintly understand BSG's viewpoint but it was the final nail in the coffin for much of the playerbase and casuals. Whats worse is how unbalanced the game is and how many low level players cant compete. Around 2020, low level players could buy a hunter with m80 and still have a chance against big boys with altyns and slick armors, but it was fair fight nonetheless. Money was easy to get, but people spent it as quick as they got it and could save for big ticket items like the red keycard and have something to work towards beside Kappa. Many players would build weapons that were aesthetically pleasing and still have a good outcome without min-maxing. Mid level kits are now unviable and nerfed to the ground with higher pricing or they are locked behind the traders where you need to complete tedious quests. Calibers like 9x19 are almost useless unless you can get your hands on a mag that will empty in two seconds but costs you like 75k and hours of your time crafting it. Expensive kits feel unrewarding with unrealistic high recoil for a game that strives to be one of the most realistic. They keep on messing with audio and loot spawns. AI still has never gotten fixed and is often incredibly overpowered in certain situations (especially rogues on lighthouse). Streets was teased for years and was kind of a let down and failed on launch. The woods expansion felt useless to me and led to a bit of a walking simulator situation without many fights. Maps like Interchange are kind of unplayable in their current state and areas like Kiba are incredibly risky for mediocre loot. The only maps really worth playing are Shoreline and Customs. The only people that benefit from BSGs changes are people that sink a thousand or more hours into a wipe that is honestly only fun and balanced for the first few weeks. I haven't even wanted to touch the game for the past year beside the first few days of wipe. None of the issues we have had for years have been resolved and when they add content it adds more problems. They punish the entire playerbase's experience talking about hackers that have actually posed more of a threat now then ever because players are working significantly harder for the kits they lose.

I really love the mechanics of Tarkov, as stupid as they are sometimes. The atmosphere is so unique and it's my first extraction shooter so I have an affinity for it. What keeps me from playing it is the crashing. There are only so many times you can crash mid-raid and lose quest items, gear, or a fucking LED-X before you just lose the will to really get in there.

the most fun ive ever had in any video game is tarkov pre inertia. when i could run around and be flashy in tarkov zipping around and killing people it was so addicting. especially fighting others who also where really good at running and killing

"Quickly get the cameras" that was the funniest LMAO !!!

Ok, the concept of the video is amazing, wow!

what I always keep in mind, the quests we have now, are all the sidequests of the main quests of tarkov

Excellent edit Trout! 🙂

always a great vid

Always a good day when theres a main channel upload

I just started playing FPS games in December, and this is my first wipe playing tarkov. I've been having a ton of fun playing. I will say the most annoying part is the weight system. If you're carrying a good kit you're just gonna be overweight 24/7. Also by the time you loot a single pmc you're gonna be like 50kg and you have to run to extract immediately.

Lmfao when he said I can make and got dced I literally laughed out loud hard

Since they are playing this late in the wipe probably means they like the state of the game. To get a wider & more clear result you somehow got to get the people who don't play right now to give their opinion.

the desync in the opening scene really sets the stage

Any other game audio: Hear footsteps on metal to your left, hmm must be on metal to my left Tarkov: hears footsteps on metal to my left, three buildings over and stepped on a paper clip

i love the pain of tarkov its what made me pick the game up in the first place, now i cant stop coming back even if i die from audio problems or hackers i still love the game and probably wont stop playing please send help

I haven't watched you in a few months Aqua, i've missed you so much.

I got a notification for this video last weekend, I was wondering where it went.

This was an awesome video, I love the little RP VOIP moments. Like without VOIP, this video wouldn’t have been possible unless you used discord. But you’re tainting the way that his interviews naturally happened. Like you can do all kinds of stuff with VOIP and create all sorts of situations out of it. This is one of those shining examples. Nice video booger boy!

I was recently having a shootout with a player. I was chugging nades into the 1st floor and shooting suppressing fire up the stairs. He was fighting me in a different part of the building on the ground floor. Both of us thought the enemy was somewhere completely different because of the sound. You simply can't locate anyone. Not even of they are next to you.

The thing with Marauders is the weapon animations drive me crazy, also it seems to have lost most of its community because of the game mechanics. Yes, on paper Marauders should have a bigger playerbase than Tarkov; more forgiving, less in-depth healing items, leas armor/ helmets, not nearly as many ammo variations, no super hard quests, etc etc. however we’re not seeing that, and that’s why imo Tarkov will never be dethroned.

My man sounds like a reporter walking on foot in the hood asking dealers to "interview" with him hahaha

12:13 BRILLIANT SHOT I was hoping you would do that as soon as I saw you go for the gun

I played tarkov for about 250 hours since 2019, and each wipe i reached lvl 20 something and i usually stopped playing around that, other players that could invest more time into playing the game would be way ahead and it made the fights end really quick and because of them i would take longer to progress in the quests because i would find someone camping in the quest places. i stopped playing tarkov around february. Maybe when arena comes out if its good and fun i will probably start playing again.

Ive been "teased" the ultimate survival game for years. Feels like a pvp arena 90% of the time.

I love the sniper role playing cowboy 😂I wanna play with that guy!!

Love the interview

looking forward to road to vostok, i really hope it carries the tarkov feel in a singelplayer setting

2:37 MOM GET THE CAMERA WE MADE IT

Love the junker cameo

This is my first wipe, started playing in march and i just hit level 24. I've been having a really good time for what it's worth, just need to find some people to play with haha.

2 min in and aqua fumbles a nade in marauders, lmao never change

watching Aqua is like jumping in Aqua! feels like a drug rush

great interview dad from you and by you. also daddy jaeger is the best questing imo the weird shit and hard shit

THE JUNCKER! THIS WAS A GOOD VIDEO. I REALLY MISSED YOUR TARKOV VIDEOS AQUA.

The point of the quests is to acclimate new players with the maps and to teach you mechanics. It is so you will interact with high traffic areas and learn the game. I'm on wipe 5 so it doesn't help me and its understandable to call them boring.

I loved this game for a time but when my life picked up I kinda lost interest because of the constant time constraint, When I came back the starter quest keys had 1 use and for some reason that was the last straw I don't wish any Ill will for battlestate their game helped me through a rough patch in my life and the friends I made on it are still with me today I just find the game to challenging to enjoy anymore... which is really a shame because of how revolutionary it was when I found it. Love the stuff you do Aqua, thanks for making this vid and thank you for being such a cool dude over the years It's been fun!!!

Great video

Bro the quest path idea is genius!

30 minute Aqua video lets fucking go

Just bought Marauders, gonna give it a shot now!

The worst part about the cheater situation is that it completely removes the self-improvement aspect of dying. When you go into a fight and die, you should be able to learn from it and realise what you did wrong. Now, you can get killed out of the blue and be sat there wondering if someone was watching you from an angle you weren't expecting, or if they could see you through a wall the whole time.

I took a nap while listening to this it was very relaxing

first guy in the interviews with chat sounded like nogeneral who does awesome coaching vids haha

They could add so many small things. The cigarettes, drunkenness, drug effects that go along with some of the injectors that buff you, Branches in the quest process, Different leaning karma could buff different venders or traits... Not mention all the technical problems....

I don't even play tarkov anymore but I keep watching Aqua's videos. And then for a second I consider playing again but then I just start up another more casual shooter instead.

Really put words to how I feel. Thanks aqua

For me it’s just the market. I used to run interchange pcs back when the electronics sold for like 15-20k and would make bank. My best experiences in tarkov were ratting around vacuuming up loot. With the market changes it just doesn’t hit the same anymore.

I found it funny that the guy said the community is being to hard on BSG, I don’t think they are being hard enough. For far to long whenever you complained about the game on the forums everyone just jumped in to talk about how you are bad at the game, or BSG doing the best they can. It allowed these issues to remain in the game for to long while they did dumb stuff like give us new guns instead of fixing core issues. Now that the community has started to turn against them I’m interested to see how fast some of these problems get resolved.

Top tier journalism from Mr. Watershooter himself. 11/10

23:36 what he's describing here is the Bandit vs. Hero system in the original Dayz back in the ArmA 2 days.

Tarkov is so insanely good when it works but recently the moments it works have been getting rarer. There are a million different things you can argue about regarding design choices etc but i think the number one issue currently is quality of the code base. They really need to sort out performance and stability and once that is in an acceptable state i hope they take a critical look at changes they in the moment to combat issues like RMT and movement / inertia cause these feel really badly implemented

Been watching Aqua long before Tarkov and I'll watch him long after!

U guys made some great points and amazing hints at questing but mannnnnn I would really love them to add a way to get camo or jus weapon customization that would be bad ass but at the same time blessed they haven’t bc it would turn into call of dookie

This was a really cool video.

Nice content, Personally I love the game, no other game has given me this experience. The main issue for me though with this game is that a casual player can not keep up the pace of streamers who play +8h/day. I would love to be able to get kappa and or lightkeeper, I just don't have the time for it to complete all the tasks