Hope this guide helps you guys out. The next video will be another gameplay analysis. Let me know how your progress goes below!

You absolutely killed it with this video. Excellent points, professional delivery, good pinch of humor, no wasted space...just damn dude. Stay focused, pace yourself, don't forget where you started, and always protect your brand. You got my sub.

Bro it’s crazy what my heartbeat does in this game when I haven’t even encountered combat during the raid yet. Like why tf am i so nervous!? Yet i can run a scav raid all day long and never feel a thing. Well, until I pick up an item I need for a task or something…

What got rid of it for me was Arena, and how well i am at it. Using all the variety of kits just gives me more confidence in all fights now in regular tarkov

Great video man! Keep up the good work, you'll be huge in no time. The quote of the start of the video really got me

Yo man! I'm so excited to see another content creator with quality content and a will to help the community! Cool video and good luck on your journey mate. 😊

I love how you make your videos, not long but they have a lot of useful information. Keep it up man!

Mid way through this vid I fs thought you’d be among the few tarkov KZfaqrs with over 100k subscribers and I was very surprised to see how much work you put in. Thank you and keep it up brother

Loved this vid, happy to sub! I also wanted to add something that really helped me this wipe, as I am an anxious person (and not super great at tarkov lmao): One of my first goals was to lose my entire starting stash. Just straight up. It was not The Fear, it was The Goal. I played as best as I could, but when I got shot in the neck by a scav who bodied 14 of my rounds, the silver lining was "Okay, good, that's another starting kit down." Weirdly it made the loss sting *so* much less, and it really helped me come to terms with the realization that dying and losing gear doesn't hurt *that* bad, unless you're beating yourself up for it too.

Great video man! Keep up the good work. You won my subscription :)

quality video brother, looking forward to your next content

Thanks my dude you're a smart guy, I've been struggling a bit with my mental health for a while and honestly this video helped explain all my tarkov jitters. It's all about how you take things in and stay positive so that you don't get mentally foggy!

Wanted to say one, amazing video. And two I got like six of my homies into tarkov recently and I think this video is a perfect one to send them. Honestly gear fear isn’t really an issue but you still hit some points I can’t really seem to get them to understand fully. Appreciate the work it took to make this and I hope you see the growth you seek g. Sleep well.

Good stuff brother, as someone with 3k hours in the game it is hard to preach how to improve without sinking 1000s of hours, with arena I definitely feel the game is now going to boom with peoples gun skill. good breakdown of each topic that feeds into that gear fear feeling. Im hoping the player dynamic will shift to a more consistent and fearless time in raids but only time will tell... All the best to you in the future!

Great video! excellent points routing out the deepness of gear fear!

You sir have more than earned my sub, this is gonna help me tons.

Cheers man. I was a new player and ive been feeling the burn lately. this video really helped me there. gonna kick a nice sunday afternoon just wiping the gear fear and getting into it. good luck with the channel! +1 sub

1000% got my sub with this video, well done

Very surprised you have less than 1000 subscribers at the time I’m watching this. Very well put together video and the growth based mindset can be applied to many areas in life.

Great video bro and honestly really helpful

Dude really great video! keep it up!

I've been playing Tarkov on and off since Alpha and this is by far the best "how to get over gear fear" vid there is. It covers the problem, what it is, what usually causes it , and how to solve it in actionable steps. Fantastic job

Extremely good video and understanding of what’s actually going on. Awesome work on this one man thanks for taking the time!

Amazing guide and overall video, subbed.

One of the best Tarkov videos I've ever seen

Just stumbled across this video. Great points and advice. Subbed and waiting for the next video.

Great video bro

Honestly this video was amazing. I feel that arena has really made me lose any fear of losing a kit and im more confident in my aim then before.

Great job my guy! It's good to see someone put some actual effort into their video. Hope the algorithm keeps you rolling! Got my sub.

peak video man ty

I'm surprised to see you're at only 967 subs with this quality of content. Look forward to seeing you grow, as I'm sure you will - subscribed!

Nice video bro, keep up the good work and you gonna surely grow your channel.

I’ve got 1000hrs in tarkov (just under 1000 officially) and I’m not nearly as good as I could be. I first bought the game in 2021, but I didn’t really start putting my head down and learning the game until several wipes after I bought it. Took me close to 500hrs to get halfway decent. If I would’ve spent my time actively using these tips, and not caring after I die, I’d be a lot better than I am now. I’m still leagues ahead of where I started, I can pretty much play the game casually and have fun, but I have a long way to go, and I want to keep getting better. I still find myself getting stuck in fight or flight (freeze is actually the third response) and I mostly freeze up. I’m gonna actively try to not do that, because I know how easy it is to make money and get that same gear back. Loved the content. Keep it up brother!

Great video. very well thought out :}

Sick vid pal, executed very well!

Was surprised when I saw your sub count at the end of the video, the quality is that of a 10k+ channel, hopefully your hard work pays off mate keep it up!

Commented on your last vid but I can't believe you have so few subs. Your videos are awesome. Keep going brother

This just good advice for life, no just tarkov lol. Good shit

Legend, great video and love the accent

Music at the end earned the sub

Very nice guide! Thanks you!

Great video brother, en just 7 min. You explain many important things to improve in this game

Very underrated channel, although I see you only have a couple videos so far. I sincerely hope you stay with it because I have no doubt this channel will be very big pretty quickly if so.

Full support, subbed, great great video

1:05 Dang, that's applicable to all aspects of life. Thank your for sharing that.

It's a fantasticly done video. You got the like and sub. 👍

ive had issues around using higher value equipment in raid, even though i have more than enough money laying around to make up any losses. so forth, ive made myself think a certain way. if i found it in raid, i can use it because i found it. if i can buy more, i can use it because i can get it again. so far, its working quite well, especially after messing around in SPT for a bit. it made me lose a good chunk of my gear fear, and it made me realize how good i can actually be if i tried.

The way i get a little bit of anxiety off me, is by playing music in the background. Some of you may ask "Music? If you listen to music, then you can't hear footsteps", and that may be true, but i don't have volume set to 1000%, just enough so i can hear it, and i can hear somehow steps. Since i started listening to music while i play tarkov, i just started to kill more and more players much easier. I started to play more aggresively and so on. That may not help many people, but that's my solution for anxiety. Have a nice day guys :D.

Really good video man! I'm currently eyeing up the next wipe, since I just don't have the time to play much ATM. I watched thousands of hours but only played like 70 and never got higher than level 12 I think. I tried Arena, but going up against full auto M4/AKs with my SKS and dogshit ammo seems like a waste of time. I currently play Battlebit: Remastered to get my aim and recoil control as best as it can be. I also have over 100h in Kovaaks, so if you have a specific playlist, I'll gladly try it out!

Best video I’ve seen today. Keep that shit up

Easiest sub of my life

This is gg. Tyvm man, great job

Definitely feeling the anxiety due to awful track record in PvP encounters. Playing on and off since 2020 with 1300 hours under my belt and I still feel like most human opponents outskill me. Knowing that the opposition clicks on my head way faster and more precisely than I ever can really discourages me from ever going past the early wipe, as the fellow forever Timmies also quit and most tasks now require me to kill PMCs and/or play the newer, much more PvP orieneted maps like Reserve. Having to spend so much time sitting in loading screens vs. the time I stay alive if I don't rat out the half the raid is just soul crushing, as I love the game concept and the thrills it can give. Perhaps one of these days I'll just give up on tasking and just dry to bulldoze PvP, maybe something will finally stick.. And yeah, Arena exists now but that's just not Tarkov as it's missing all the things that makes Tarkov interesting to me: varied asymmetrical locations, PvPvE, looting etc..

You’re 100% right about Arena. I’ve only played a couple days of arena and I already felt much more confident in my pvp skills this wipe. So much that I even attempted Stirrup on factory for the first time ever (in my previous wipes, I’ve just skipped it entirely). And I shit you not, I completed it in only 2 raids with no deaths (1st raid: 1 pmc kill, 4 scav kills and successful extract; 2nd raid: 2 pmc kills and successful extract). Before Arena was added, I was abysmal in all pvp fights I had in tarkov to where I’d win in less than 1 in 20 fights.

Subscribing! Great video. I have just recently lost my gear fear (mine comes from DayZ A LOT) but you are like a Tarkov therapist. Great content

Bro, I've been significantly better this 3rd wipe, and you hit all the points im experiencing. I think Arena also helped me to try out different PvP tactics without gear fear so that it's easier to replicate at least the same attitude in an EFT raid.

I used to have gear fear purely because I didn’t know the maps but now I do it’s gone

I have around 400 hours of tarkov and 200 of those were in this wipe. I play since the customs expantion and I've never had so much fun. I finally decided to not try and play the game the way I did, and it worked. I've finally lost my gear fear. I died more this wipe than in all the other ones, but I am now killing a lot of players and, most importantly, having a lot of fun. Great video man, keep up the good work

I have been working on my gear fear seems to come and go all depends what I'm wearing. My gear fears mainly based around my weapon. Not too worried about my armor. I seem to be finding it a lot this wipe but I definitely discovered the ridiculousness of my fear and I have 100% been pushing more fights lately my main problem was after losing a gun fight I would dwell on that fight and pretty much tell myself over and over again. I'm bad I shouldn't have lost that next time play it safer lol obviously you can see how this would snowball into doing. Absolutely nothing what would help me was pretty much doing what you said Take control sometimes even if I'm uncomfortable with aggressiveness I will push myself through that after all it's just a game and why did I purchase a game Definitely not to sit hiding in a bush I tried it to take that uncomfortable feeling and I try to divert that uncomfortable feeling to my enemy I bring in some 5 second fuse grenades. It's awesome towards the area that you think they're in. Most people think the grenades going to go off pretty much immediately after they hear it land the three to four seconds that that thing sitting on the ground just cooking makes just about everybody move around they've already accepted their death so now the only thing they're thinking about is possibly avoiding it so they move without thinking either the grenade will get them or you'll get them when they move

I've played a few wipes now and this is the wipe where Ive truly gotten rid of my gear fear. If there is one thing ive learned from playing this game the past 4 years is that once you get a solid understanding of a few maps and know where to look, there is plenty of good gear to be snatched up. Armor, guns, ammo, meds, and attachments are all over the place. Use those findings to build better and better weapons that can help you snowball even harder. Sure dying with a nice kit sucks, but hopefully by the time you do die with it you'll have gotten 2x the value out of it (which gets easier if your finding more gear as you go). If you do roll with a team, I personally still like to insure things in the chance that it might come back either from a buddy stashing it for me or the enemy just doesnt have the time/space to take it with them, wont always get your stuff back but its better than nothing.

I struggle massively with nervousness and shakiness in Tarkov. EFT is very hostile game to newcomers no matter how experienced gamers they are. Ground ZERO helped a bit in patch 0.14 and should be utilized by newbies a lot to get some raids under their belt early. The video provided several useful tips but it also runs into the overarching problem with EFT--the game feels like work. Recording your sessions, analyzing deaths, writing down solutions feels like work rather than joyful gaming experience. When I work, I at least get paid. I would like to add a few tips for others that helped me: 1. Utilize Ground ZERO map 2. Set a specific goal and try to achieve it in each raid, do not just run in mindlessly 3. Use Scav runs as often as possible 4. Learn travel times from certain spots on maps to frequent extraction points 5. Achieving lvl15 and access to the Flea market massively helped with my gear fear. I'm not afraid of losing money, I'm afraid of losing gear I can not buy. Flea market solves this problem at least partially even if you have to pay premium for some gear or mods.

good video. liked and subbed

Amazing video

If you have gear you are afraid of using in your stache SELL IT NOW. Use the rubles to get something you are okay with and run that. Then slowly add to your comfy kit. Add a better med or a nade then get comfy with that. Then one day, the kit you run all the time is the same as the chads everyone is afraid of. Hope this helps, gl on your raids

Nailed this shit. Good job babe!

Solid vid bro. Nice pacing and design. One thing about the captions though, make it so that it just appears on bottom center as opposed to zooming from left to the bottom center. Tbh, vid doesn't even need those ADHD captions.

great tips!

im 3 wipes old. what works for me is to reach 6 rep fence and do scav runs for money and pmc runs for going crazy and do quests. scaving gets me so many guns and armors that i dont have to buy anything except for bullets and mags. now i have so many guns that i probably wont use ever. also scaving in shoreline expansion gets you almost half a million each run with a 10 minutes cooldown, so good.

You open with a narration of the thoughts in my own head?? how?? who are you and how did you read my freaking mind on a point-by-point basis???? Creepily perfect analysis. Thank you!!

On the off chance somebody has a similar problem to me: check your mouse sensitivity. Might sound unrelated, but at least partially my gear fear was caused by a string of very pathetic deaths during encounters with other PMCs. I panicked in fights and couldn't hit seemingly easiest shots either in cqb or at range. Turned out I f'd something up when converting my mouse sensitivity from other game I play to Tarkov and it resulted with an almost x2 higher sens from my regular one, which when combined with paniced state made hitting shots extremely hard. After fixing this, I instantly felt more confident in PVP, because I could rely on my aim once again, instead of thinking that as soon as I encounter somebody I'd whiff every shot and die.

derserved my sub

My friends can't keep up cause I play WAY more than them but still the best moments in Tarkov for me has been when we got together and made the coolest plays together as a team. I wouldn't trade sharing moments with my mates for being the best ever.

I tried going super aggro like shoes or vinny but the players on my servers play in 3 mans and camp so I’ll get one or two and the third one that hasn’t moved the whole raid gets me. Now I rat on streets and feel fulfilled

Best gear fear advice I’ve gotten “it’s not my gear it’s just my turn with it”

Great video dude. You should make a settings video. It looks like you're playing on stretched res :)

Already at the level where id rather play solo, but you make really good points, i hope this helps newer players so they dont die of a heart attack 😂

Just started the game a few days ago, and I told myself I’d just play around, figure things out, without really thinking about loosing gear and money. Once I got the basics, I’ll wipe my account and have a fresh start without all the mistakes I’ve made the first few runs. And I don’t have this MPC anxiety do begin with, as I don’t really care for my stuff. Good tips for newcomers I believe

Us Timmy's thank you you absolute champion

You should have mentioned Single Player Tarkov mod, great way of removing gear fear and learning the game!

Cool infos ty bout that

Cant wait to see the exact same video next wipe

Not rare for me to comment hoping the algo picks up a vid, but I do have to say as someone who gets overly nervous in fights after 6 wipes I wanted to say thank you for this advice, I will be using it to great effect.

I don't think doing a Google sheets breakdown of your deaths is necessary but it's true that the only way you learn to play well in Tarkov is by dying. Playing Tarkov has 2 main aspects: knowledge and Momentum. Knowledge is learning all the environments and mechanics of the game which you can only do by playing a lot, or playing with/watching others who know more than you. Momentum is about realising that Tarkov is a net positive game, it honestly doesn't matter how bad you are, you will always progress and earn more money and items, especially if you play Scav often and just loot everything. The economy of Tarkov grows over a wipe and everyone benefits, so you might as well use what you've got because you'll be able to buy most of it again

Shit slaps dude keen to see what else you make - Cryo

Started pretty late into the wipe so I’ve been running glocks on ground zero bodying chads in full kit

I'm a very competitive player and I'm very prideful besides easily being scared by loud and sudden noises, with these two together, I can never get rid of the excessive heart beat increase and adrenaline.

Would using Factory in both offline and online act as a replacement for Arena? I did not buy the game when it was bundled with EOD because I didn't want to permanently start with major advantages each wipe, and I don't want to drop a bunch of money to use an entire game as a training tool when Tarkov should have better training tools at base added instead.

Excellent therapy session disguised as a tarkov guide

For me playing a ton games like tarkov dayz rust etc help for gear fear

simple mindset and it actually works for real life challenges as well

Nice video

great vid 💯 and whats your res??

If I feel jumpy or even if I don’t I warm up in Arena first. Then to regular game.

My best tip to get rid of gear fear is just don't insure any of it. Going into raid knowing if you die you will lose your gear rather than having a bit of hope you 'might' get it back.

Thanks

quite a funny video but to really stay true to the title i think you forgot a crucial argument to get over gear fear: That Exfil with faceshield, that redut and that meta m4 will never be the reason you survived/died if it sits in the stash. you have to use it to make it a good kit otherwise its just expensive metalparts and fabric. preaching that helped me over gear fear years ago and everybody i was the sherpa off since then.

Its taken me 4 wipes to get over gear fear. But after a while you judt get over it. Once you get the flea market and get some good scav routes to make money its all replaceable.

Nice video man! Thanks! Would mind sharing your graphic settings? I feel like I would benefit from less textures and more frames

you say be solo because they cant keep up... i say its because i cant keep up with them and when i try i get demolished

i lost my gear fear but the only map where i get anxiety is playin streets :D the map is so huge and i dont know it 100% like the other maps but it does get better and i play alot better on streets now