A lot of confidence comes from learning a map. Questing is so messed up that it makes you do different maps, yes you can skip those quests but then you will hinder your progress. For a new player it's a huge challenge to learn a single map. People who have 1000s of hours and know every single creek of the map will always be on top as they can listen to the surroundings and will know exactly where you are.

This is why I never went into groups tbh. As a beginner, I just bit the bullet and never went to groups. To this day I play 95% of my time solo. This probably resulted in me having a tougher period earlier but having only yourself to rely on makes learning MUCH easier since the equation is much simpler. If you're in a team a lot of things out of your control can go wrong making the experience much harder to learn from, even if you die less.

One of the biggest tips and things I’ve learnt from playing EFT is to not just always camp. I’ve become a much more aggressive player because I spent so much time before always just sitting in a place, listening out for players, and waiting for them to come to me. And doing that all the time and still dying is so annoying. I’d rather push and take the chance than just sit in one place for 10 minutes only to get one-tapped anyway. Definitely still play it safe and use tactics appropriately, but sometimes being the first to push can be beneficial, and it’s also more fun.

Great video, solos are truly where people can shine once they get over their anxiety with it. Love the info, keep the good shit up Jonny!

love the entire raid at the end, would love hearing more of your reasonings for the decisions you make. great great video!!!

playing solo can actually give you an advantage regarding reaction time. especially if the squad you’re up against is bigger. they might have to think twice to make sure they aren’t shooting a teammate whereas you can just blast at anything that moves

Great video - I love playing with my friends in a squad, but they really only like playing at the beginning of a wipe, while I like to play here and there throughout. I know most maps pretty well, but lack confidence, I’ll keep this stuff in mind, thanks!

Thank you, I was getting hella discouraged playing by my self just need 2 find that confidence and try get better. Thanks for the video

Definitely good tips and a good video for newer players, been playing a few years 99% solo, and I sort of subconsciously knew most of what you were saying here, was just nice to hear it put into words, and even though I may not have "learned anything new" it was still an enjoyable video to watch, like an comment for the algs

Very helpful, I am finally over solo anxiety after playing for about a month consistently after buying the game late last wipe. Will be sharing this with my noob friends, thanks!!!!

really good video, I'm on my third wipe and even I get the solo fears now and then. This will definitely help me in future raids. Thank you sir!

Thank you for this! I struggle so bad to go in solo, but I'd like to. Once I learn the maps a bit more, maybe in practice mode, I think using these tips will help me get more confident doing solo raids.

Really good video, very informative thanks 👍

Great video Jonny ! Keep up the good work !🤟

something big I learned solo playing is that rushing once you deploy is a big no-no, once you spawn you wanna move carefully and use all the scrub, bushes or rooms to your advantage for hiding which gives you a good chance to listen carefully and assess the situation on the map

Wtf this guy only has 5k subs? Ive watched like 5 videos already, and thought hes someone whose been doing this for years. Very well spoken, educational content on point. Keep it up bro.

I have a thousand plus hours in this game. This video is great for newer players wanting to do more solo. Good advice my man!!

Loved the video & the advice man! Glad to see you clapping teams in Tarkovski!

honestly love your vids so much

I feel like you're talking to me in this one :D Great stuff Buddy!!! Love it.

I understand the logic of : better stuff = better chance to win, but thats mainly why players are scared, and most of the time it's better to build a "cheap but efficient build" the first months to get rid of that. Because most of the time, beginners will die because of lack of knowledge (map, mouvement etc) and not really because they tanked 2 more bullets. Your video show that perfectly.

Finished the video, this is all such good advice, I feel motivated to play Tarkov now

After I learned the maps and was able to play solo I realized that I shouldn’t be stressing because I was getting better

5th wipe soon to be 6th, hands down the best video I’ve seen on EFT! I’m terrified of going solo but all these points make perfect sense.

Great Video! Keep up the good work! Also, your mic quality, bro, insane!

This popping up on my feed after always playing solo with anxieties was extremely helpful 😂thank you

THIS IS WHAT I NEEDED TO DO, NO WONDER I COULDN'T GET INTO TARKOV! I still have solo fear... THANK YOU 🤘

i already know all of this but sometimes its good to come back after a bad game and wash all that rage away and understand my mistakes better thanks bro

Thank you so much this helped me improve a lot more

Good insight and advice. GG on the raid at the end.

"Switch your mentality to learn from deaths, rather than being upset by them." Great bit of advice man, 😄

As a solo main it's wild to see a whole video on it. I forget that most people play with other people!

Bro i just started EFT and i needed this video, thank you.

Excellent video!

I prefer solo in EFT because I enjoy the freedom of doing what I want when I want without coordinating with others. I watched this video and I realized that I already do all of these tips, which is great because it confirms that I have a good mindset for solo play. Thanks for taking the time to make this video!

Good video my dude. I've tried to get friends to play but they hate it. I love it...and I suck at it. But theres just no other game that really raises my heart rate when I win a fight (or lose one:)

Awesome video!

You are spot on! great content!

As someone with 5500 hours in this game, I can confidently say that this is one of the best and most comprehensive ways of explaining the mentality to survive Tarkov. I don't play solo anymore just because I can get bored without anyone to talk to, but I just might run a few extra raids by myself and see how it goes. Im also going to send this to a few of my friends that think Im a carry. Especially because Im constantly telling them they have to make their own decisions like which gun to run in which map, which ammo, which meds etc. I never give them a yes or no answer, I only tell them the possible pros, cons, and scenarios any given item or mindset will come with each raid, and let them make their own conclusions. Give em the info, and let them work it out. This video does that expertly, and Im definitely subbing.

That intro hit hard. I started solo and did decent enough, getting to mid level 30 my first wipe but after that brought in a friend and we both found a few randoms whom turned into our steady group. A few wipes of that and I stopped playing solo, I wouldn't play without at least one other person online. If I did play solo I was a nervous wreck and died a lot. Skipped the last entire wipe and now I am back playing but solo for now, due to short play times and weird hours, so have to get back into it. Strong Solo Anxiety so far but working on it. My goal is to get far enough so I can run a dedicated kit for most raids so I get use to things and not worry about losing gear again.

Great video bud! :)

I needed this. Im 1700 hours but my mechanical skill is undeniably worse than the worst ai. And ill be honest the surviving with a group is what i started to depend on. And i knew it but couldnt really bring myself to do more than run scav. Gonna go run pistol runs in reserve, get myself in some situations and work out how to get out of them. Better now than at the start of next wipe

very informative, thank you

started off playing as a group and relied on my team for map knowledge for 2 years. finally started playing solo, looked up maps on my phone, damn it’s fun.

Great video man, love the thumbnails 👍

Yo Boosock, had to subscribe b/c this video spoke to my soul

Great video👍

GREAT Video

Best video to explain for my newcomer friends.

Map knowledge is everything

hey thanks for makin this

I needed this one. I have so much anxiety and this is my 6th wipe 🤣🤣 I'll sit in my stash and watch twitch rather than play the game 🤦🏾‍♂ I have to get over it. This is the wipe!

I've been playing solo for most of my hours in Tarkov. At first, I was dying a lot, and it was harder to learn things, but the good part is that you learn to rely on yourself, not others. Two days ago, a friend bought the game, so I'm walking them through it and try to play safer, so they don't die a lot. This actually helps me as well, as I tended to either be super aggressive or super slow and cautious, which got me killed quite a lot. Now when playing with my friend, I try to get a blend of both, going cautiously and looking around for any danger, so he can kill scavs and get the hang of things, while on the other hand, getting aggressive when we encounter PMCs to protect him and to get more comfortable with pushing teams myself. I was getting raids with max 1 kill before, while now, I get 3-4 PMC kills per raid, which is a good improvement for me.

I never have had solo anxiety, because i dont have anyone to play with. I also kinda like it since i can listen to podcasts in the background

What kinda helped me with gear fear was honestly just reaching a high level and seeing that all these good kits i was worried about losing became way easier to obtain myself, and that overall my main objective is more important than my kit, id rather run my best gear and get a hard task done than go in undergeared and immediately lose if i get into a fight or die to some player scav hiding in a bush

GREAT VIDEO , ALL I GOTTA SAY!

I've got near 1000 hours, but I haven't done any solo raids outside of questing since I bought the game. Seeing as the new wipe is coming along, it might be time to change that up a bit. Thanks for the info.

As a veteran player I've watched a lot of these types of videos and I often if not always cringe whenever I see a title like this pop up but I must say this is a very well done video. I found myself agreeing with every point you made and finding nothing to disagree with. Very well done 👍

Insane gameplay

coming back to the game after a wipe and a half off, and goddamn. game is hell sometimes but so satisfying to succeed when i do, haven’t played even a duo this wipe and am struggling but the game only gets better fr

Would love to see you break anxiety in other games down like this.

This is the best video I have ever seen after watching this I am now a labs main who wins every fight and has 200 billion mega gigga rupee, thank u for these tips it made me the best Roblox player of all time.

1 minute in and boy, has this man explained everything im dealing with in perfect detail. gonna check my walls after this to make sure he's not living there

When I played the game from around 2020-2021, I experienced all these things, the thing that helped me heaps was playing solo while in a discord raid with friends preferably those who can server deafen you when you need it. It helped my morale since when dying in a game like tarkov, being alone and the spiral it can create gets to you really fast. Also if you die 3 times in a row, take a break its not going to get better. Just for reference, my playtime is 2500+ but I stopped playing, so I'm not entirely sure how tarkov operates now. One last thing, never be afraid to make a move, never, doubt yourself and thats all your enemy needs to make a play that moments earlier you could have prevented had you followed through.

I think I have a squad fear. Playing solo feels much more comfortable to me. Having teammates around makes me feel constricted in may tactics. Since I'm almost always on point, I need to "feel" them with my back, keep their firing angle in mind, predict their movements almost as often as the enemy's, keep the group together, calling nades, giving orders... this distracts 50 to 80% of my attention depending on squad size. And don't you hate it when a mate lags behind for some important reason and tries to catch up sprinting to your exact location through the bushes?

one day i was fed up with dying so much that i just didnt care anymore and the next raid i went into i decided to play super aggressive. that raid i killed 4 pmcs and safely extracted, i learned how important it is to not just wait for the enemy to push you or to try and stay quiet when they already know you are in the area. sure there are times when you do stay quiet and ambush the enemy but 9/10 times the right play is to be aggressive.

Glad I’m not the only one who feels the anxiety

Never realized it until now, but I definitely have solo anxiety. I was naïve coming into this game, invited friends to play, then got used to it.

Like a minute in and I relate to that tarkov is scary

Personally when I was starting off, I would play scan my first few times, cause there is no loss, only gain, then once I get the keybinds and mechanics kinda learnt, I will hop into my first pmc

I played for about a year and got "okay" at it, but I definitely had that solo anxiety. I enjoyed the game but always got curb stomped.

I have tried committing to Tarkov a few times now, and I always end up discouraged. One of my biggest issues is that I don't want to pay so much extra money just to get a gamma container. However this video and the recent patches have piqued my interest in the game once more, so I will give it another go. Fundamentally, I love what Tarkov is. I just get discouraged when I put in so much time and feel like I've still learned nothing from my experience. The learning curve is massive.

I though I was the only one experiencing it, thx

After two days of Tarkov I got pretty discouraged by the fear of being on my own in the game. I saw this scrolling through beginner videos and think the term solo anxiety almost immediately connected with the situation I was in. I played a few rounds with the mindset of all losses can always be regained and felt a lot less anxious running around.

As a new solo player, not having a single clue of where to go is my biggest enemy. That combined with the "loosing money" part makes me 2nd guess every move and freeze a lot of times because even if i had a full bag it's a matter of pure luck if i find an extract or not. And as i don't even know any of the maps extracts leave alone more or less frequent loot spots, i don't have a reliable, easy get money back route. I'll probably take your advice running offline raids for the next few weeks.

Good timing

I picked the game up 3 days ago and love it picking it up pretty quickly , also some advice it’s not cod don’t just run around and play like you really are trying to stay alive like your real life depends on it lol

This is something I've had to explain to discord lfgs a lot since buying the game recently, but not everyone is searching for groups because of 'solo anxiety' or because they just want to be carried. Some people like myself just don't see the point in playing this game solo too often. Maybe if there were no AI scavs at all I would enjoy it more, but if i wanted the solo experience i feel like i could just get it from a different game. I personally look for groups because that group aspect of the game is whats most appealing to me. Hectic group clips are why i finally bought into the game. So when a player posts in discord that theyre new and looking for a group, the first response from the sweats thats been playing since day 1 shouldnt be " oh just go in solo, its the only way youll learn"

I only ever raid solo and I love it. At endgame my main goal is to take on the biggest juiciest squads i can find and pick them apart. Live or die I don’t care there is nothing more rewarding than taking down a squad on your own

I played my first 2 wipes with completely alone and learned everything I know alone with only googling some things I didn't know. I find it WAY easier to play alone and survive more by myself.

As a new EFT player, recognizing fellow scavs from PMC's is hardest to me

Another tip I have is don't rush though raids. If you find a really valuable item such as a ledx which just so happens to be a quest item, don't rush to extract and take your time. Act quick, don't be quick.

Great video, more solo content please

This is a great video, and as a player with 7000 hours, I still suffer from solo anxiety, but not because of rubles- i just do not enjoy playing solo because its boring (and the teammates not watching my back is also a problem). The only map I am comfortable with soloing with is factory and every map if it is a scav run. A tip for new players struggling with solo anxiety, remember that the game wipes and its best to spend it all before Nikita takes it away. Spoken from a person who totally did not have >200mil stash value taken away during wipe.

Existence itself: How much bass would you like to have in your Voice? Jonny: Yes.

i started playing this game with my brother 2 years ago, and while we were both really good (not pro level) in fps games, tarkov made very sure to curb our confidence down several magnitudes, all our experience and skills we thought we knew went out the window the moment we walk into situations where we get blindsided by enemies constantly even at point blank range and get decimated, after about 2 months of agony we both quit the game. 6 months later i tried to solo the game with very cheap tactics in an effort to minimize losses (mainly doing runs with only a pistol or hatchet, or spamming factory with a scav hoping to at least get out with what i spawned with) and after 3 months of that i quit again. my brother similarly returned with 3 of his friends to try and play the game as a team, and they all got decimated every single time, despite all consistently being in diamond league or apex predator in apex legends. i'm even debating whether i should try to get my bf to play tarkov with me but it might just destroy our relationship.. i think the main reason i keep trying is because i invested a LOT of money in my pc to reach the standards needed for games like EFT and starcitizen, plus really expensive headphones & dac just to gain some kind of edge against other players. but ultimately it was pointless because i realized that the main problem was EFT's abysmal ping across 99% of its servers, since i'm in the southeast i'm stuck with either playing in chinese servers (which everyone knows is a nest of cheaters), or australian servers (just barely playable at 189 - 230 ping), so i'm now debating whether or not its even worth it to invest on starlink just to play this gods forsaken game. i know my internet isn't the problem since i'm paying a premium for highspeed optic fiber internet service, its EFT's dogshite servers that make life impossible.

Genuinely the biggest thing that got rid of my solo anxiety was a combination of learning budgeting and memorizing maps. I could play reserve with my eyes closed and kill a squad with an AKM cheaper than a ulach.

this video 11/10

My personal tactic to overcome anxiety and gear fear: - Go to a map you know well - Do not expect to survive, but fight for your life. Out of ammo and wounded? Charge with a knife. - If you lose you gear, do a scav run to cool down and think about what mistake you made. - If you have a gamma pouch, use it. Don't store stuff you already have and are afraid to lose (except maybe key storage), use it to extract rare stuff that you can sell.

Never heard this said better than in this video

You see, for me who runs SPT, I get anxiety from EVERYTHING. Being a jumpy person as is I don't handle when I start HEARING gunshots after a long time has passed without them. I'm fine with handling combat and in the moment I love it. Because I don't really care much about my loss of equipment nearly as much as I would on live. But it's just the sudden jumps that get me hard.

you deserve so many more subs and likes and shit, this is so helpfull

I totally overcome solo fear as i was playing Tarkov a few months ago... I wasnt scared to engage fully geared chads in pvp and win over them. I had zero gear fear as i am the most powerfull being in Tarkov: The PACA warrior.. I was using non-modified or just lvl1 trader mods for weapons, PS ammunition - Lately PP for 5.45 AK´s , if you meet chad just aim for the eyes.. :) Also was a big fun playing in this way because you knew that every single nade and bullet chad shoots at you is probably 10x more valuable then loot you have... Laying down traps on frequented spots, taking down chads one by one by single eye shot.. And if you think i am just a bush camper then you are really mistaken xD

Heres a tip if you always stay on edge or if you experience anxiety while playing. Literally turn ur volume down to nothing until you get used to the game and its loop. Youll have a much easier time exploring with ur eyes than stressing over every imprecise and sudden loud sound

My biggest issue with solo play and tarkov as a whole is the fact of how much gear can affect a pvp encounter my first wipe I died so much i had to go into raid with just a knife no armor no helmet I had nothing and the reason I died so much was due to people camping quest spawns mainly the machinery key spawn in dorms I started pretty late in the wipe so I was running an sks with ps and I just couldn't kill any PMCS camping the spawns because of their armor while their m4s tore me to shreds

I learned this game solo and I’m glad I did because I’m a lot better at making split second decisions in fights and taking engagements with other players. 4 wipes played so far and I’m really enjoying it now that I have a couple good friends from school. I’ll give my money run to the people who look at this comment and read it alll Hit up night time reserve and loot black pawn and dome and use the red rebel extract. takes 20 minutes and I rarely ever get into fights and even if I do I normally win then because most people I run into are low geared players without night vision. I’ve made over 1.8 million in a single run before and this wipe it’s been a big reason why I have 31 million roubles. Dont be afraid to run solo because you might die or get 1 tapped by a godly scav. This game is made to be extremely difficult. Even the top players die and lose a run that’s going really well.

what i learn from playing tarkov is just to not let gear fear get to you because in the end everything is gonna be wiped and everyone is gonna be back to square 0

Funny enough I've only played this game solo since the beginning. So these days I get tons of anxiety when playing with a teammate and feel so much better alone xD

It may also help in other games too!

anxiety is the best sensation to feel immersive