You Won't Be Able to Select the Map You Scav On, Eventually
Right now, player scavs are more powerful and potentially lucrative than ever before. As more items, maps, bosses and ways of earning rubles in-raid have been added into the game, so to have player scavs. In addition, getting your scav karma up to a maximum of 6, combined with buffs from the intelligence center, means you could be scaving into a raid every 5-7 minutes. Just having Streets exist in the game means there are literally millions of rubles just laying around waiting to be looted by players. And if you know where to look, with a bit luck, you could walk out of Streets a very rich breeki boy. And while people aren’t upset with scavs being an effective way of making money, many have made their disdain heard about the sheer number of p-scavs on maps like Streets. They can spawn in as early as 6 or 7 minutes into a raid, which as a PMC is not something you want to see. If I’m going to die, let it be from another PMC who outplayed me, instead of a humble scav who caught me with my hand in my pants reloading or healing. It kind of makes every other map obsolete. One potential mechanic that was talked about in the most recent TarkovTV podcast was the removal of allowing player scavs to choose which map they would like to load into. Now initially, that seems like a rather drastic and scary change; players all have their own habits when it comes to running their scav. What maps they like to loot, what their goals are in that particular moment in time, and removing the ability to pick where we go is certainly not something to ignore. If this change does get added at some point, it’s going to ultimately shake up how players engage with their scav to such a degree where previously never scaved on maps will be getting lots of love, one way or another. It’s definitely one of the more divisive adjustments that were talked about, so let’s break this down and see whether or not it’s a positive or negative change in general.
