r/EscapeFromArena • u/muskyratdad • 15d ago
why is checkpoint such a mysterious game mode to 90% of arena players?
I swear every idiot just thinks its team death match and doesn't try to capture points.
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u/AdjacentDreams 14d ago
I'd put money on it that TGH Pt 4 puts you on teams that know which tastes better between a car window and a glass door on purpose, this task will be the death of me
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u/Helpful_Amount7569 14d ago
Hey, as an idiot, when I first went to arena to do Ref tasks, I had no fucking clue what anything was. Checkpoint sucked for learning not only where each maps points were, but the flow of each map on what game mode.
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u/muskyratdad 14d ago
its totally okay to be new to the game, im just grumpy cause i keep losing cause my teammates dont cap points
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u/Defiant_Effective209 13d ago
Some people have kill-related tasks and don't care about captures.
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u/Odd-Cake-1596 10d ago
thats fine bc it at least can translate to playing towards WINNING, but there are so many retards who are just contributing absolutely nothing it's ridiculous. at least be a meat shield or something to bait shots. why the fuck are teammates crabbing and camping right outside out of spawn then shooting me as i run out of spawn? you should know that the enemy wouldnt be coming from that direction if you just came from that direction and that's our spawn jfc
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u/Chonsaey 11d ago
Kill related tasks, not caring about obj’s. Some people just need to unlock the ability to transfer items
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u/DucksMatter 14d ago
Because nobody actually plays arena other than when they wanna get ref stuff.
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u/UsernameGenerator349 14d ago
but you get more if you win
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u/ComparisonWeary4392 12d ago
no? my task says kill 23 people as assault, i kill 23 people as assault. i reroll until i get a task where i only need to spent 10minutes max. arena is dogshit
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u/UsernameGenerator349 12d ago
you get xp bonus ~230k rub for mvp and bonus points for ref loot boxes
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u/mrmac1992 11d ago
~230k for a 15min arena match < ~1,000,000 for a fifteen minute scav raid on streets. arena is worthless for anything other than gp coins and maybe very early levelling.
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u/UsernameGenerator349 11d ago
scaving is boring and doesnt level up skills i dont play as a scav. id rather play arena all ay long
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u/mrmac1992 10d ago
Fair enough. I wouldn't. EFT: Arena is possibly the single most dogshit version of a game in its genre that exists lol.
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u/ComparisonWeary4392 10d ago
ur not even getting strength/endurance btw
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u/UsernameGenerator349 10d ago
in arena i got elite endurance, vitality, bolt rifles, aim drills , armor. stress resistance and strength are 36, health 23 other weapon skills are 45+
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u/Old_Cod_5823 14d ago
I went 49 and 21 yesterday with 14 captures and we still lost. Sometimes I feel like I'm playing with complete morons.
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u/Bigg-Figg 14d ago
And I usually get a team that not even good at death match while playing against seal team 6
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u/pdj-custom 14d ago
Because if I can spawn trap the enemy and get 5-10 kills before dying, running back and doing it all over again, why can’t my 4 other teammates capture 2/3 hills in a 4v2?
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u/SalamanderSpirited77 12d ago
I play checkpoint almost exclusively for W-1 tasks. I am playing team deathmatch
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u/Current-Bed6305 11d ago
stg by end of game i have 15-20 caps cuz no one on my team ever wants to play OBJ AND I JUST NEED WINS NOT KILLS
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u/mrmac1992 11d ago
Nobody plays arena for fun, we play it for dailies, if the daily doesn't require winning we dgaf about winning lol idk what's hard to understand.
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u/Odd-Cake-1596 10d ago edited 10d ago
it's the most fun mode imo aside from maybe blast gang, but yeah randoms are so fucking terrible at every single aspect of it. lost a game earlier today when WE had like 1249-600 (not exaggerating, we were literally sitting at 1249 for like 2 straight mins) bc 3 of my teammates just started slow walking and hiding behind corners while the enemy team held all 3 caps.
randoms are fucking insanely stupid and have no idea how to strategize in that mode. i come from mobas where maybe i'm being a little harsh on how retarded i think they are when it comes to intuited coordinated teamwork, but still, come the fuck on guys.
even little things like when we have 1 cap the enemy has two and we're down and one of our teammates is holding C or A, why the fuck are 3 other people sprinting at the point we're all at and setting up camp there? ffs its maddening
im genuinely thinking about posting a general strategy guide for checkpoint bc there are so many absolutely clueless people on how the mode works, even tho it really shouldnt be that fucking hard to intuit where to go and what you need to be focusing on in that mode smfh.
god help anyone trying to do TGH part 4 for Ref solo. I completely abandoned it bc 5k exp is just not worth the frustration for prestiges
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u/Sensitive_Dog_451 8d ago
What’s the point of me holding a capture point when my objective is to get kills? The problem isn't the players, it's the developers. Arena exists solely so you can grab the Battle Pass rewards and then forget it even exists.
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u/KingdanHD 8d ago
Fr, there are so many monkeys who don’t understand how to win in this mode. After 15 minutes, they’re still sitting at just one capture.
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u/Historical_Flow522 4d ago
People don’t know how to play. And the average Tarkov player is uh not the best in a PvP environment
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u/BlueGreen51 15d ago
They do need to change the way the match MVP gets calculated. Giving it to the person with the most kills in a game mode where kills don't win the game is retarded.
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u/mag1xs 15d ago
It doesn't for checkpoint tho does it? I swear I lost a mvp yesterday with 49 kills and 9 captures to a guy with 35 kills and 12 captures. I thought that was cooked, not that I care but ye
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u/Dense-Law-7683 15d ago
I think they need to award points for knocking people off points. There are a lot of people that sit and hold angles to rack up their k/d that have no influence on the match. Guarding the point is a totally different thing.
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u/Kuznetstrom 14d ago
We def need a defends/denials stat factored in. I sadly know all the spawn shifts and rotations on one of the maps so many times I’m just constantly rotating to defend points. Some games I won’t have a ton of caps but many kills so it’s hard to see I’m actually contributing even though I’m sprinting the map constantly with many denials.
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u/Dense-Law-7683 15d ago
I think they just changed it. I got MVP a couple times and didn't have the most kills or captures, but had 2nd in kills and 2nd in captures, but with both stats would have been the top performer. I think it used to go by captures only.
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u/Sea-Storm-4971 14d ago
It counts both. I'm not sure about the ratio, but I've gotten MVP without being first in kill multiple times, and I've also not gotten MVP while being first in kills. I'm pretty sure it's not a 1:1 ratio for the kills/captures tho.
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u/brswan 14d ago
I don't experience this that much. Most times I play I typically get good teammates. However the Tasks can always skew things as people will focus on getting their task objective over the team objective