Hey everyone, there is unfortunately an editing error at around 2:27. The queue time was at 45 minutes. Funny enough, I made a correction to this but proceeded to upload the wrong draft of the video. oof

Advice that you definitely didn’t ask for so apologies lol: Definitely upload to this channel. Tarkov has a long lifespan but you’re a talented creator who shouldn’t be tied to any one property. Space out other games for a while, like do a non tarkov vid every three-four videos, then increase the rate as you become noticed in other games, atleast that’s how got away from iceberg videos. Love the channel man, can’t wait for other game coverage.

-Shoots a single scav "We've awoken the hive!"

AI PMCs scream "Friendly down" when you kill a scav nearby😂

I work 45 hours a week and last week my wife and I had our first child. I hadn't played tarkov in well over a year but then PvE released and it allowed me to get back into playing. Blue collar tarky for sure

SPT does have multiplayer, but not officially. The devs are against it, but there's "the other mods" as people refer to it commonly. MPT / Fika (same thing, just rebranding) allows you to install it as a mod for SPT, and enables multiplayer connection. The host runs the server as normal, and other clients just open the launcher without opening their own aki.server. Just have to change like 2-3 fields containing the IP you want to play off (usually local host, you change this to the IP of the host if they either port forward / host via VPN.) It's very simple to set up and we're able to use basically all the mods we want alongside it. I'd highly recommend checking this one out if you want to chill on pve tarkov with some friends without dealing with BSG's... whatever it is. We also tried SiT, or Stay in Tarkov. It's an entirely different client to SPT, we weren't super impressed but it's *functional.* There's a community dedicated to converting mods from SPT to SiT but it's a small work force, definitely a niche in a niche.

SPT took me out of regular Tarkov when I learned that in SPT I can queue for Factory and load into the map in literally 8 seconds. The PvE mode having such long queues for singleplayer is just ridiculous honestly. Host the server on the player's PC in that instance.

Another win for SPT is the SAIN mod. This mod has multiple "personalities" for PMC AIs ranging from rat to gigachad. I have had PMC AI push me, jump in the air past a door and mag dump at me with m995. I have stomped into crackhouse to immediately be gunned down by the 5th man in a group of PMCs waiting in the corner camping the bodies...Best part, you can adjust the difficulties from a macro to a micro level!

PVE is a great mode for people who want to just play with the lads and have some fun

ur videos make tarkov less painful

7:52 is probably the funniest thing I have seen, the way he just says " And Tagilla himself" just makes me laugh so much

One thing I've done in SPT is elongate the missions. I simply went into the files and added a 1 onto the start of every raid timer so now every raid is roughly two hours long. I'm done having to race through and can leave at my leisure. And thanks to SWAG and Donuts mod, the world is constantly being populated so I don't have to worry about empty maps even if I'm in Streets for over an hour.

"14 hour shift at the ball crushing factory" Ya thats me lol.

This explains my problem with Tarkov perfectly. To get good enough to be competitive, you really need to spend a TON of hours, and I simply don't have the time. By the time the wipe comes, I am roughly level 25 or so even if I start playing day of the wipe, and that's been the case since Tarkov first came out, and yes, I can only play roughly every second or third wipe.. Coming home from working a 12 hour shift at the mill, and immediately getting killed the first 5 minutes of every raid by some sweatlord that's unemployed and plays for 12 hours a day really wasn't fun. With this said, I already own the game, I won't be buying an upgrade to get PvE mode, if they don't make it available to everyone, then I am simply done with Tarkov.

spt now has online coop by the way

Regarding the coop and SPT, it's an issue of technically yes it exists, but not in any way endorsed or supported by the SPT team. Because it gives BSG the power to Nintendo them

I have over 1000 hours in Tarkov and PvE was a godsend I actually enjoy playing it and I don’t question if every death is a cheater obviously SPT is better but for people who don’t do modding it’s a good alternative

SPT is solely the reason I got into Tarkov in the first place. I'm not up to the task of learning the game with the challenge of PvP added on top I want a more stalker like experience than a true multi-player experience

I had a friend who refused to play Tarkov for like two to three wipes do to the hackers and "turbo sweats". He works really crappy hours and had no chance to grind so he was always behind the rest of the wave. The second he heard of PVE he got back on. I know and expect the "skill issue" esque comments but its just nice to have everybody back on Tarkov for once.

PvE is such a godsend. I bought EOD in 2017, but the game was way too hardcore for me, so it was 150 euro wasted. I adored the game, but i didn't enjoy it a bit. Now i can't remember when a game gave me so much fun. I Hope they continue to tune the experience, i'm really hooked now

Im so glad that they added PVE. I had almost completely stopped playing due to limited play time making me struggle in PVP. i had 0 access to good ammo. and as soon as i got it unlocked it would be time for a wipe. glad i can actually progress now! thank you for all the content.

the look of defeat when the dog started barking and the background went black lmao

"Lee Harvey Oswald is back, and they gave him an Assault Rifle" Absolute gold

You did a great job explaining the good and bad of PvE. I personally really enjoy it. I'm 40 with a family so it works best for me.

Fika is a popular coop mod for SPT so there is (at the moment) literally no reason to pay extra for the official PvE unless you really want access to the fleat market ig...

no cheaters, can play with all my friends with little confusion, we been loving it

The amount of joy a Leviticus baldurs gate video would bring me is immeasurable

I love the term blue collar tarkov. It actually brought me back to the game.

Yo Leviticus you're lookin big bro

"WHY ARE THERE SO MANY SCAVS?" Because it makes it more fun. Literally one of the most fun raids I've had since I started playing was when I was stuck in the Green Screen building on Customs and every time I was done killing something and went to med or reload mags within 10 seconds I heard more scavs show up. Shit was wild.

I'm too busy with work and school to play Tarkov, and couldn't even keep up with the game's wipes when I didn't have to do all of that, (highest level I've been is 14) many years ago. But this PvE mode has brought back all the fun of the game I had once and it was great! The AI PMC's need some tweaking though, they instantly head-eyes from like 200m too often, and don't count concealment when shooting, so some areas are guaranteed death if you accidentally end up in a bad position while the PMC squad rolls by Otherwise a lot of fun! I was actually thinking of seeing when you'd drop a video as soon as I heard news of it coming out, glad to see if right after work too!

The PMCS in tarkov pve it’s so wild being level 30 on factory about 60m away absolutely insane aiming, then the bots seem to team up. Its kinda wild

Just a correction on the SPT Co-op stuff, the devs of SPT are now recognising that it's something people want, and advise looking for mods like Stay In Tarkov and Project FIKA, which are both full co-op mods.

Spt is literally pve tarkov with MODS

I definitely noticed the weird PMC/Scav interactions on a few occasions. On factory as a scav, I watched Tagilla run around everywhere but where a PMC was, I hear the USEC voice line, Tagilla runs around offices, Bathrooms, and does a lap around the map. On Ground Zero with the swarming, I could not get to my objective building, the wine store. I was surrounded by Scavs and PMCs. I was pinned on the ramp across from the vehicle extract between the two buildings. I ran out of meds but managed to get to the extract. The next raid, I get into the wine store, but kept getting shot and pushed by Scavs while trying to look for the bottle. There were scavs and PMCs outside sometimes chillin, sometimes fighting, but never consistent. I ended up not finding the bottle and making another miraculous extract after getting down to my last mag and no meds again.

glad to hear you branching out to other games to enjoy cant wait for the stalker gamma vid!

0:08 Leviticus is hella based today.

PMCs also spwan at weather station on shoreline

Note yes you can co-op in the spt mod, you always could. the other person just directs themselves to your ip/sni and boom they’re there. The mod more or less just a private server. The old (now defunct) JET branch had a ‘fun time’ server that was more or less just a private server running a shit ton of mods. AI performance has a lot to do with server performance. In the mod you’ll notice that they’re pretty fucking scary to fight if you keep everything ‘as in raid’ since you’re running that server way more efficiently than bsg can. You see this in a lot of other games. They also seem to have it set to their own internal highest level, based on experience with offline raid mode.

Love seeing tarkov creators diversifying

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

The only thing I don't like about PVE is the infinite scavs that spawn on every map. I had to push through 45 scavs just to do some streets quests. I prefer PVE compared to PVP right now due to all of the cheaters in the game right now unfortunately.

A NEW VIDEO ON MY BIRTHDAY THANK YOU FOR LEVITICUS!

ramblings of a madman is what I live for, no other game sends some one this far gone mentally

SPT co-op does exist, and I've been playing it with friends recently, it's quite fun. Although it isn't endorsed by the SPT team.

SPT has co-op and its easy to set up

0:10 A man of the people. LEVITICUS 2024

SPT has multiplayer functionality as other comments have already stated. I just wanted to chime in and say that the only two advantages that PvE Mode has going for it so far is: 1. No local resources are spent running the AI in your games. This saves you a mountain of performance because BSG's servers will be conducting the AI and doing all the calculations, not your own system as it is in SPT. However, MPT allows you to subvert this advantage by having another computer host the SPT/MPT server and perform all the calculations to conduct the AI. You'll have to deal with P2P latency if you're trying to play with friends, and deal with P2P security issues if you're hosting it publicly. 2. Game updates are immediate as opposed to waiting for the SPT devs to research and reiterate for the next wipe's patch. However, this is a double-edged sword. Not everyone wants to update right away, and not everyone especially wants their progress wiped at the hands of BSG since it's PvE (although I do not know if they will wipe, which is also a double-edged sword in itself because some people would want to reset their progress on-demand or have multiple profiles for something like a Rags-to-Riches run). I'm personally still running patch 0.13 which is before the Ground Zero release and Shoreline rework, mainly because I didn't want to update right away so that the modders can update their packages, and because I don't have a lot of time to spend playing Tarkov but also didn't want to lose all the progress I made -- updating major patches can cause a lot of issues if you use your existing profiles from the previous major patch, including losing stuff from your stash. So to boil it all down, PvE mode doesn't really have any advantages at all.

Correction, some of the devs collaborated with modders to make a mod that allows co-op..

PvE is actaully huge for EFT

Can't wait to see what you branch out with! Love the content

SPT does have the ability to play with friends through Project Fika but can be tricky to set up if you don’t know your way around port forwarding or using a service like Hamachi and configuring .json files. My best friend and I got it working and with mods like SAIN 2.0 making the AI better than actual EFT and stuff like Waypoints expanding the AI’s pathing it’s a better experience for us. I’ve been killed by an AI PMC with the “Giga Chad” behavior profile and he jumped around a corner and hosed me down. It left me in awe. That being said, I totally understand someone not wanting to jump through all those hoops to experience a more relaxed offline mode. “Blue Collar Tarkov” sums up PvE Zone perfectly. Great video as always!

im actually having a blast playing PVE tarkov. i was given the unheard edition from a buddy because i refused to purchase it myself. turns out I would have 100% bought it. i love the persistent progression. i myself work 84 hour weeks and seldom do I have time off to grind any game let alone tarkov which wipes every 6 months. im actually close to maxing out all my traders for the FIRST TIME EVER. SPT bans your account and is too tedious for me to set up blah blah blah. i do love PVE mode. i dont like the shorten raid timers though...

There is a Seperate mod for SPT that introduces coop to it i wont name what it is because it might be a bad idea legally speaking but it does exist and its actually very stable and well made

Awesome video and analysis, I needed that. Thank you for bringing us reliable and entertaining info, as always. "Blue collar Tarkov" player is the perfect term for someone like me that has very little time to invest on games and don't want to deal with cheaters every raid. I still chose to play spt because: - I have no friends to play Tarkov, so no use for multiplayer features - I'm terrible at fps games although loving them so the idiotic AI is still a pretty hard challenge for me lol - spt features many mods that enable me to customize the game even more to my tastes and skill level.

your content is really getting high quality :D

All of my friends are playing on SPT, but I'm just too paranoid to play it. The fact it isn't officially supported, and is a bit dubious in regards to legality with coop mods, means I just simply don't trust it. So many people keep telling me "it's fine" or "something something local server undetectable blah blah blah", I just keep seeing a future where BSG cracks down on unofficial modding ahead of their own modding release, and everyone who ever had SPT installed gets hardware banned. Likely? Probably not. But possible? Yes. So I'm not taking that risk at all.

About coop, there is a mod for coop in SPT, that works quite well and doesnt require a 250$ version of the game. You should really make a video about SPT at some point.

I love your content man, make more!

Me and a buddy were doing a shoreline raid, and we went to Pier for one of the marker quests. As we arrived we heard yelling of PMCs, so we started nading to flush them out. There were a total of 3 BEARs, 3 USECs, and 4 Scavs all inside the pier house. Each Scav had a 5.56 weapon and UN Gear on (Helmet and/or Armor). Not sure if this kind of thing was intended, but it felt like we interrupted an arms deal or something, felt really cool. Also, nuts having 10 AI to fight in a small building lol

maybe fix lighting instead of adding more bs

1 view 27 seconds bro you fell off hard

to make the matching faster the regular tip still applies, choose all the servers with good ping do decrease matching time.

5:18 Thank you for your words of wisdom, Dogvivi

"If you worked a 14-hour shift at the ball-crushing factory, this is the best way to experience Tarkov." If I worked at a ball-crushing factory, I probably don't want to fill my spare time with exactly the same thing.

I was on shoreline doing signal pt.1 ... encountered a group of PMCs and by the time I was done killing them, another 4 man just walked up and joined the battlefield. Truly a Tarkov hood classic

SPT has a mod called Project Fika that allows you to open your SPT server for other clients - essentially, multiplayer singleplayer Tarkov. It works amazingly. My friends and I have been playing it a lot recently, its super easy to set up and we can run all the mods we want to customize the experience to our own desires (even on each client, ie our newer friend uses radar while the rest of us have it disabled). The absolute best part, imo, is the fact that I can just leave the server running for my friends to jump on and play whenever they want.

I've really enjoyed it. Knowing I won't have to grind some of those quests again (unless I choose to join a wipe in the future) is a good feeling. Getting access to some content I never could earlier will be great too - lightkeeper and such. If they keep working on it, it will be awesome I think. I've also really enjoyed playing it with a few of guys I used to play pvp with. Much more chill. Zero cheaters too.

bro what, im definitely looking forward to those next videos you are contemplating. Definitely upload to here. This was never a "tarkov" channel to me anyways, but i might be in the minority. I like your style and i hope to catch the bg3 video. super interested

Didn't see this in first comments, but SPT HAS multiplayer branch. It's called MPT and it works like a charm (not 100% sure if this is a mod from the same dev, or not, but I've tested it with friends and it does it's job)

Heyo, SPT does have a functioning mod called Project FIKA and it does work. There are even people hosting dedicated SPT multiplayer servers. The advantages of SPT is load times (Factory takes 20 seconds, bigger maps

As a soldier PVE mode is so useful. Ive been gone for training for a while but when I get back its not like im gonna be 3 months behind wipe, im able to pick up and play like I never left and im genuinely looking forward to getting back and just relaxing for a day or two

One thing in PvE I noticed is that PMCs do kill scavs.. if they wander within smelling distance. I've seen this kind of scenario multiple times: Scav stands around, PMC runs next to it, yells "bandit sighted" and mows the scav down, meanwhile me, another scav, stand 10 feet away from the now dead body having a staring competition with the PMC. I can just walk away, I can have the first shot, or I can walk closer to the PMC at which point he will open fire. So yes, if you play as Scav, it's almost far too easy to kill PMCs cos they aggro you at 5 meters away, not at 200 meters.

Glad u brought up the SPT area.

Honestly I went over to spt and haven’t looked back, to go against the point of being bad and moving to pve, I was on pace for getting kapa about halfway through the full wipe but after their shenanigans I went to spt The amount you can customize and change the difficulty it’s amazingly done

"Lee Harvey Oswald is back and they gave him an assault rifle" Ok that one got me

Great video. Spot on with video. I noticed on factory PMC’s don’t stop responding. It’s a constant flow no matter how long you stay in the raid. I walked out killing 9 pmc

This is why I love SPT since even in multiplayer the queue time is only restricted by the players loading in using the multiplayer hosting function. Also, they PMC bots in SPT are so much better since you can give them personalities, and you can expand the patrol routes of AIs.

I love your content. COD Zombies got me, funny as.

multiplayer SPT has been the best tarkov experience of my life.. I use Tagilas voice line and skins and its amazing

Yoooo! My fav Yapper! I like Timmies VS Terminators.

I've found on woods, between saw mill and med camp there's usually two to four pmc's that wander between those points and sniper rock in the fields

Glad you are going to branch out into other games. Who knows how much longer folks will be into Tarkov so hopefully you can find the next game that catches on in the community.

Loved this vid.

I’ve been playing Co-op SPT AKI and it’s been so good I haven’t even thought about the official PVE

i work 70-90 hours a week and pve tarkov has gotten me back into my tarkov grind... I love it

can't wait to see what kind of headwear you're going to have for the Baldur's Gate videos

Honestly, blue collar tarkov is the best description I've heard, for either the PvE mode or SPT. On the coop note, there is a mod for SPT which allows it (Fika), but you do need a decent understanding of port forwarding to use it, so I guess that would be a benefit for Battlestate's PvE mode. Other than that, SPT is just better, mostly due to how customisable it is.

Heres the best thing about PvE. When I die.. I know I died legitly. When there is a 100% chance that a cheater is in every raid (which it is), then the online game is done for most people.. its a scam of a game, more like a Carnival game.. its meant to play and lose.. its that simple. Just play PvE, and have fun with the game, like all games are supposed to be.

As formerly avid SPT player, I can say the thing that I liked most about it was the local hosting, because my internet kind of suck even at my house, let alone when I have to travel to a different country every 2 weeks for work purposes... Unfortunately, I really haven't been feeling it for months now and have only jumped in to see the snow maps for a short 20-30 hours and then just haven't gone back.

There's actually a mod for Spt that allows you to kinda do a co-op with friends, its not that lengthy of a setup too, its called 'project fika'. It's not created directly from the creators of spt but the community around it and i find it so much more fun than what I have in actual tarkov.

great video as always ^^ Wanted to let you know that there is in fact a mod to make SPT coop. A friend of mine has gotten it to work. And bugs have slowly been patched out. As I only recently have gotten SPT to run on fedora. I haven't tried it my self yet. But they have been having fun with it :D

im blue collar and work 13 hour days. PvE being blue collar tarkov is hilarious and accurate

Man I'll be looking forward to that STALKER video. Your witty words make me laugh at the horrors of Tarkov, although I'm still to experience it.

Blue Collar tarkov was the best addition ever, I work 12 hr shifts back to back alot of weeks and with the little time I can gather at the end of the day I'm able to sit down without fear of losing a bunch of gear to giga squads or hackers! They will have to make some obvious changes in the future but I think this really is going to be one of the features that most players will buy tarky for, only downside is that they would continue to charge a ridiculous price for it.

I love your view on pve, i can relate to that.

Part of the ship, part of the crew. Worthy sub to a fellow coworker at the crushing factory.

SPT does have a co-op mode, and it is called Project Fika. Now with that said, it does have one major drawback which is....that only the server host can start raids. that leads into players hosted on your server without their own personal progression profile while your server is offline, and ability to go into a raid alone because the host has to start the raid.

Best ad for spt ever

Can confirm, the train works and is glorious. But sometimes the boss will randomly push it when you're waiting