PMC Karma Will BREAK "Realism" - New Tarkov Partisan Boss
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Nikita's tease of the new Partisan boss further confirms that PMC Karma will be coming with the August wipe.
While we don't have many specific details about PMC Karma, we can draw some conclusions from Nikita's hints, the existing Scav Karma
feature, and through logical reasoning skills.
PMC Karma will throw a wrench in the gameplay loop, be a pain in everyone's ass, and contradict the lore of Tarkov.
If the new boss, Partisan, hunts down "Bad Karma PMCs" - from the perspective of Tarkov Lore, what is a PMC? Nikita likely meant the PMC
Players, but Rogues are also "PMC's" and so are Raiders. The Goon Squad is also "PMC's". From a "hardcore realism" take, there is no
difference between the Player PMC and the Goon Squad. Both are EX - PMC operators that kill people in Tarkov. If anything, the Rogue
Bosses should have worse Karma than any Player PMC. From the Stray Dogs task, Jaeger tells the Player: "I've sent a man to negotiate
with them, maybe even guide them to the right path, but those savages decapitated him and sent his head back to me, with the letter I
wrote for them"
Surely an act like that would warrant negative PMC karma - along with the fact that the Rogues Bosses kill USECS and BEARS the same
so wouldn't it make sense for Partisan to hunt the Goons? They're just PMCs in fancy clothes Ragman doesn't sell.
See why it likely contradicts the lore? The Player USEC is no different than a "Rogue" USEC - both
were abandoned by Terragroup command and left to die in Tarkov; the Lighthouse Rogues and Goons simply made their own local command.
What about the Kill USECs/BEARs tasks? Surely BSG thought about this, but there are multiple tasks requiring the player to shoot Player
PMCs of the same faction. How is PMC Karma going to be counted? Nikita previously mentioned that the "booby-trap boss" will hunt
down extract campers, but surely the PMC Karma mechanic won't be relegated simply to extract camping. Plus, what counts as "extract
camping" to BSG? Is someone sniping around the Scav House on Woods extract camping Outskirts? Is someone in dorms extract camping the car?
I'm not defending extract camping, but it is a very loose term, and surely can't be the only way to be considered "low Karma." So what
will count against your "PMC Karma?" If killing Players of the same faction counts against your Karma, like Scav Karma, do you get
a free pass when you have an active task? Nikita said that we will have to find out for ourselves, but it could get ridiculous very
fast.
With the current version of Scav Karma, you can still lose Karma for killing another scav who started the fight depending on
circumstances. This brings up another point, PVE. Will PMCs of your faction be friendly? What happens when they shoot at you first,
because they're just AI and don't even know what their faction is. Currently, if you are a scav with bad Karma, AI scavs have a free
pass to shoot you, which is fair, but if you were to shoot an AI scav, no matter the circumstance, you would lose Karma. If killing members
of the same faction lowers your PMC Karma, the Co-op gamemode will need drastic AI improvements to not become an utterly broken cluster.
The final points of this video is this:
Do you remember when Scav Karma was first introduced? Scav Karma didn't stop Player Scavs from shooting other scavs on sight,
and to this day a lot of Player scavs still play like Karma doesn't exist. No matter what PMC Karma entails,
for at least the first month of wipe, Players will play as if Karma doesn't exist.
If PMC Karma seeks to reduce PVP, it will end up killing Tarkov, or will be an annoying mechanic that just gets in everyone's
way. I play Tarkov for many reasons, but the main hook of the game is the unmatched PVP gameplay. Say what you want about balance, realism,
performace, or cheaters, Escape from Tarkov is successful because of how FANTASTIC the PVP side of the game is. PVP is the meat and potatoes
of Tarkov, and BSG better guard it with their lives to keep the game alive. Tarkov's msot controversial features have been those that
changed how PVP works - the biggest being Inertia. The addition of Inertia pissed off more players than any other controversy (besides
the Unheard Edition) and PMC Karma WILL be a BIGGER ISSUE if it is not very carefully implemented.
This is all just speculation, and once these features are in the live game I will be sure to upload sequel videos as more details are available.
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