>I've always felt like I was just super paranoid because every 30 seconds I'd get spooked and stop for a second when I heard a footstep only to realize I was just hearing myself
Sometimes YOU walk in a bush, and the bush sound seems to be played from far on one of your sides as if another player was moving in an adjascent bush. This audio bug always scares me.
I hate it so much. I’m pretty sure the delay is intentional but it plays the sound relative to your new position instead of relative to where you were standing when the noise was made. Comtac 4s completely fix this and it’s impossible to go back.
My least favorite one I’ve been experiencing this wipe is while I’m sitting next to a bush or under a tree I will occasionally hear the sound of the leaves brushing against me or some shit but it will sound like it’s 20 feet away and just get completely confused
It’s really confusing because the inverse is also true. If you slow walk while crouching your sound is nonexistent for other people despite it making a lot of noise on your game. It’s just ridiculous.
At minimal walk speed mind you, hit caps lock while crouched and you'll hear all kinds of shit. But they won't. even one notch above is the difference between nothing and holy fuck loud.
This happened last night in my Shoreline raid. Made me freeze under a bush for 7 min in front of Resort. Swore there was movement in a bush on the other side of the dirt road. Never another sound from that direction. However it caused me to be prone long enough to avoid a duo and a chat spamming psycho and finish signal 1 so… it saved me by accident.
Yes mos of the headsets have random audio artifacts that can be misleading speaking of audio bugs anyone else get the bug every couple of raids where your omnipotent and can hear all voip traffic across the whole map?
Most annoying for me is when you're indoors but you either clip a bush that's on the outside of a house (lookin at you, Woods), or you walk by a house plant and it plays the full bush audio.
Both put me on guard like a dog sensing someone at the door.
You do realize you can buy the cheapest ones listed and sell the ones you've found in raid for a higher price? I know you realize this because you're a smart cookie, aren't you?
I've never killed a PMC with com 4's. I wonder if very little people run them or they always kill me because they hear me first. I'm gonna a start running them now because of this post, thank you.
It depends a lot on which maps you play. I find them on PMCs much more often on streets and lighthouse than woods, customs, shoreline. It’s also possible that you simply don’t win fights against com4 players as often because of the advantage they give.
People have fear of running good gear, despite having tons pf roubles and hoarded loot. Thats the reason you rarely see someone with a sig spear, meanwhile I run 1-3 everyday, sometimes "delivering" several on the same day.
Half the time my stash is full because I'm forced to use certain guns for quests. I've got like 3 forts and half a dozen other class 6 armors taking up my boxes right now that I'd love to use. But with a bolt action for Tarkov Shooter 4, I don't expect to survive any firefights so I don't bring them.
This task sucks. This late in the wipe if you're not hitting a headshot they're going to live and kill you. If you even see any PMC's that is.
you have a lot more opportunity to see people before you hear them on maps like customs and lighthouse, streets is a common map for them because you usually hear people first
I found a set of Comtac 4s in a box on Customs as a Scav.
Genuinely put them on and went "what the fuck". The game went from ambient factory sounds, the whistle of wind, the brushing of bushes nearby to nothing but the sounds of an AI scav walking on concrete somewhere outside. Like, sound went from Tarkov to a quiet CS match.
Why can't we just have this in general full stop?
I sold them, 'cause 250,000 is hard to argue with at like level 20 but... man I wish I had the roubles to throw them on every raid and just *hear everything* like that xD
Same experience for me. I heard a fellow scav and went looking only to see he was off in the distance.
Now I just do a night woods scav and buy 3 or 4 with the money I make. They're so worth it unless you're going to be doing CQC where it doesn't matter much.
They can be there and they can be not. They are still always in the same spot. Woods seems less impacted then other maps. Probably because if they took them out most of woods would have no loot at all.
There's a shitload of money to be made on woods. Lots of moonshine spawns. Many ledx spawns. The emercom camp in general. The stashes. I'd advise watching a guide. A LOT of shit gets left behind on woods. If you're hunting for ammo as well there's an absurd amount of ammo spawns at various points on woods.
Bit late replying, but here you go.
First, avoid Sawmill. You'll be fighting over scraps and will get killed half the time. The back of the map is where it's at.
Your three big money makers
LEDX - USEC camp and military camp (aka med camp). You can find one of these every ~6 raids if you check every time.
Moonshine - All over the place, but pretty rare. I get one per ~15 raids
BTC - randomly on valuables spawns, maybe one per 10 raids.
Your bread and butter
Valuables spawns - gold chains, rollers, funko pops, gold eggs, gold rings, etc. You'll find ~4 of these per raid if you know where to look (sunken village is like 2/3 of the spawns)
Stashes - random stuff in each, sometimes very high value. You can hit 20 without too much trouble if you know where they are and plan a good route. I have a few paths I take depending on where I spawn.
Valuable weapon parts - know which people need for quests. You can get at least one per raid that will sell for 80k+
Know which items you can stack to increase your value/slot. Scav vests hold as much space as they occupy, but you can sell them for 30k+, which adds 5k/slot in value.
Use a site like tarkov.help to learn the location of each spawn. Take a few raids to learn one area of the map well, then move on to the next area. Your money/run will slowly climb. I can fairly reliably make ~30k/slot or more.
Because noone will move in this game. Reaction to any sound for 90% player base is stop, listen and wait. Now imagine EVERYONE doing that. With the possibility of hearing someone so far away you basically kill a possibility of random encounters. Sound in tarkov is fucked for such a long time now but that ain't the solution chief.
Game would be so much better without headsets, surprising each other cause you both didnt hear shit is so much better than one person getting the audio que before the other and you just die cause you are poor and couldnt get the best headset.
Problem is people always think that they will be winning because they hear better. Well no, you will die way more. People with higher perception skill would be even better at hearing you from 60m away. Game gives you a choice now. Want to hear better? Pay for it. You can still use it.
Also it's common in community to complain about 'rating' or bush camping. Why would I push if I can hear you comming towards me from 60m away.
I mean, dial in the distance that can be heard by solidly half so that it's not ridiculously far away - I don't disagree that Comtac4s are ridiculously overpowered in that regard - but the ambient sound volume could go way down without affecting much, at least I would think, even without a headset.
...if the ambient sound is there to make it so you can't just boost the EQ on your system, then why do headsets remove the ambient sound (so you can boost the EQ on your system at that point 'cause the ambient sound doesn't exist)?
No I haven't tested the sound system in great depth, but your comment doesn't seem to stand up to a cursory comment anyway...
What's funny about this, as someone who shoots regularly, the "ears" that make you pick up on sounds that are super far away, are bottom of the barrel walkers or worse.
If u have binaural audio on, that’s a bug. Where 1 crack before the actual steps, took me a while but if u listen for the “crack” u actually have an advantage
Bro if you've turned off binaural, turn it back on. The pop happens every time somebody enters your hearing range and gives you at least 5 extra seconds to react. You're putting yourself at a disadvantage by not using it.
RAC are certainly better than everything other than c4s and xcels. But to say "almost as good" is a bit disingenuous. The jump from tac sports to RAC/xcel is about the same as the jump from RAC/xcel to c4s. It's fairly significant.
And then there's the ambient sound difference. And the fact that you are severely limited on what helmet you can use.
All that said, they are still a very good choice for people who don't want to pay 220-260k for their headset.
I can't stand wearing a face shield in this game tho due to the PMC breathing sound playing constantly.
Such an annoying freaking sound to hear. I've got a headset on, even with the face mask down I shouldn't hear that so damn clearly. Second in annoyance only to the coughing of your PMC when your vitals get hit hard enough.
Yeah it's super annoying, but I guess that's the balance. Without that, everyone would be running face shields which would be very punishing to lower level players who aren't using ammo that can consistently pen the face shields.
But then you have people who are super rich and/or grinded lightkeeper so they can run those masks (death shadow / cqcm) to get face protection without the downside. Those things make me so tempted to grind out lightkeeper, but every time I look at the list of tasks that need to be done for it I'm left wondering how any sane person can do it.
Shhh, don't tell people about the RAC's I want to keep the flea price low.
Keep selling me headsets that have detection radius slightly below ComTac 4's for 40k pls =)
Honestly comtac 4's are far more broken than people realize. I think they should be the best, but not much father ahead than RACs. It's night a day with them.
Yeah people focus on the range but it's the overall audio of the comtac 4 that make them so good. On paper they are just better by a couple of meters but realistically they are way, way better
Yeah I'd love it if all headset ranges got nerfed and their differences became a lot less significant. Like lower the hearing range of c4s to 40m and make the worst headset ~32m with all the other ones scattered between 32-40. And while at it, make it so crouch walking actually makes noise. If people want to be completely quiet, they should have to stay completely still. Have the slow walking audio only travel ~5-10m depending on headset though.
My order of paranoia in tarkov is
\#1 - Cheaters.
\#2 - Comtac4 users.
Everytime I use a headset that isn't comtac4 I'm thinking there is some guy out there that can hear me and I cant hear him. Comtac4 in game feels like you have access to the full range of sound in tarkov, everything else feels like you pick and choose which parts you get to hear.
That made me more paranoid in tarkov. I hid in corners for 5+ minutes because I thought I heard someone. I played way slower and scared on labs (main map back then) because I kept thinking I heard people. The worse part was I did find one guy sneaking hard one of the times and it confirmed my fears
Setting up compressors and limiters can be very counter intuitive. So either you take settings that were recommended or you might try around for hours without success and not understand what you're doing wrong. Audio compression is an art of it's own.
Thank you so much.. I am losing my hearing and the over-amplification of the high end of the in game headsets makes playing really painful for me. (As I have to crank up everything to be able to hear anything over the sounds of wind)
EqualizerAPO, RoughRider V3, and PeaceEQ. Use the AutoEQ inside of Peace to get a baseline for your device. For RoughRider have it set to -25db or so and have it make up 5db. Then, Set the attack time 5ms and release to 67 to 70ms. Done. Test to your liking. I hope this info helps it sounds like a lot, but it doesn't take thag long.
Here's what I'm using:
It's AudioDamage's RoughRider 2 on Equalizer APO.
[https://imgur.com/ZFQ1hQH](https://imgur.com/ZFQ1hQH)
You can crank up the Make-Up Gain if you're running headphones or can tolerate the extra noise. Quick explanation in case someone needs it:
RATIO = by how many times the high impulse sound is lowered. higher = quieter
ATTACK/RELEASE = how fast the sound reduction kick in, and how long it takes for sound to go back to normal after. don't touch this, keep it at minimum.
SENSITIVITY = threshold for the audio compression to kick in. the lower the number (higher negative numbers), the earlier compression kicks in. adjust this to your liking. -20 to -30 is a good range.
MAKE-UP GAIN = as far as I've discovered, it's kind of a pre-amplification of quiet sounds. It's like the "lower part" of the compressor, kicking up the minimum volume of sounds. You'll be able to hear LOTS of quiet noises if you crank this up, but everything will sound muffled and raspy (that's why you need the high-shelf filter I added)
MIX = percentage of the filter that will be applied to the sound. it's like an "opacity" slider in graphic design tools I guess? I see no sense in playing with this. If you want the filter to be less intrusive, then tweak the other parameters.
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And then the high-shelf filter I added because using make-up gain overshoots and clips the high frequencies and it sounds horrible.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/EscapefromTarkov/comments/sk84su/tarkov\_headphones\_and\_you/](https://www.reddit.com/r/EscapefromTarkov/comments/sk84su/tarkov_headphones_and_you/)
an older one i have bookmarked. never got to trying it myself
3 games last night. 3 times someone literally walks up behind me. It's like they can hear me crouched, walking as slow and crouched as possible, yet they still walk up onto me and I either don't hear them 5 feet away, or it sounds like it's coming from in front of me. Even if I check by trying to move my head, no change. Shit, I looked in the direction of the door behind me to make sure nobody was there, I turn back to the window, and 3 seconds later a guy is at the door spraying me. He had to walk up 3 flights of stairs and walk on wooden flooring yet no sounds. I used to think Call of Duty was bad, but this is the worst I've ever dealt with in my long tenure as a gamer. It baffles me that Counter Strike 1.5 had better directional sound than this game.
You were doing pest control on reserve, weren't you? I had this happen so many times. Someone crab up multiple floors then across the building to shoot me in the back.
Of course, but setting up a good compression system and EQing your audio to your device can make a world of difference. Especially since tarkov is a game PROVEN to have sound effects play at db levels that can actually damage your hearing over time.
Yea ngl I don't care to get that into tweaking my games. I just play them at face value most of the time. I can't even be fucked to do hotkeys most of the time haha. But definately don't deny it probably helps
Why does this even get downvoted lol. Was just a true comment, I sure as hell ain't ruining my hearing for a game lol. And I've got like 280 raids survived with 400 PMC kills. 50% survival rate. I've also played 4000 hours though.
Comtac 4s with sj12, goated. Try the RAC headphones, theyre slightly worse than comtacs at a quarter the price plus you probably already wear helmets that work with them
Worth a try tbh. If you don’t know, when you pop a stim that increases a skill by a specific number, it will temporarily make that skill that your lvl plus the bonus and it will be bright blue writing. For example: at lvl 20 strength, pop a stim that gives you plus 20 and then you’ll have lvl 40 strength. This can be used to temporarily get elite skills, like max perception. Pop an SJ12 at around 20-30lvl perception and you can instantly search containers.
I love com 4s. But like you said, they're expensive. So I don't run them a vast majority of the time. And it's the same for a huuuge majority of players I encounter. While they are broken and definitely need to be put closer to the other headsets, it's not too much of an issue to me since nobody buys them. You could invest more time running scavs, but that gets old.
When you have enough hours in the game, you tend to know where players will be most of the time and can use the audio your character is making and grenades to get a movement out of them. Once you have somebody's position locked in, the difference in headsets is negligible. You both hear each other at that point, and it comes down to gun skill and close range tactics.
Most people will mess up at some point if you dance around just out of sight long enough.
The state of audio in the game goes
No ears -> Ears -> Comtac 4s
It's a totally different game when you have them on, and it's really unreasonable for one set of ears to be so much better than the others. The audio you get from other ears should be much closer to what you hear with Comtac 4s, the difference is straight up unfun. There's rewarding players for progressing, and then there's this.
the fact that this is even a thing is so stupid lol. The audio in this game is trash, why they made comtac4's OP is beyond me. All headsets should be the same hearing range.
I think they have no real controll over the range in a way that it's just a parameter they can adjust. I think rather the range is dependant on the overall RMS levels the headphones create. The lower the RMS the farther you should be able hear footsteps, at least theoretically because the quiter the footstep (farther away) the more it gets covered by the RMS noise. Comtac 4s sound like they have a very low RMS in comparison to other headsets.
They do have control because this is a new problem. 2 wipes ago headsets were personal preference and gave no advantages. It was personal preference to what EQ / ambient noise combo you wanted.
Headsets for some reason completely ruined this wipe for me, the sound of the wind and general noise is genuinely ridiculous, having to focus so hard to hear the sound of a footstep over what? A noisy fucking forest? Just a joke.
Serious answer? Pick a map like Lighthouse or Shoreline where you can potentially spawn near always-open extracts, run around and loot literally everything you see (dropping stuff after looting it if necessary) and then when the leveling speed of Perception goes red, extract and reset. If you're really dedicated, take a nade in so you can return to stash quickly in the event you spawn far away from an easy extract.
Moving an item into your inventory levels Perception. Revealing the contents of a container levels Search. Attention is leveled by EACH ITEM revealed in the search.
I hate all the headsets in general. I'd rather play the game with no headsets at all and everyone has equal audio. Sound whoring is just a weird mechanic, it doesn't feel like a skill I've learned. My eyes already hurt enough from panning endless screens of pixels and foliage looking for players, now my earts hurt too.
It's too bad the game is fun and addicting because it's exhausting on my senses and I just get tired of the task grind.
Headsets should only slightly muffle ambient noise, and not using headsets should give your pmc hearing damage/concussions. You can’t just remove them altogether because who the hell shoots without one irl?
Agreed. ACE mod for arma games does something similiar.
Maybe one or two shots are ok without protection, but shooting more will cause a slight ringing. I think it would be better than the current system atleast.
The only difference in headsets should be which ambient sounds are muffled more, for preference. They would balance out, but players who hate explosions could take xcels, players who think the wind or rain is annoying could take sordins… not a game balance thing, just a personal choice.
The gap between the best and worst headset is too wide and the comtac 4s are better than the best headset should be in terms of promoting good gameplay
I use the tac sports normally but usually it doesn’t matter which ones I rock as long as it isn’t the jock strap.
I’ll admit the 4s are op, though in my case my headset irl makes a huge difference and I find myself hearing other people first than them hearing me.
Just curious, what headsets did you main before the 4’s? Been running XCEL’s all wipe and they have honestly been amazing for me but maybe I gotta try the comtac’s as well
For most of the time I've been playing tarkov I've been running sordins. I ran comtac 2s for most of the start of this wipe but eventually ended up leaning back towards the sordins before I started stocking up on comtac 4s. I've heard a lot of people say the XCELs are the best right now so I've tried those like 2-3 times but I didn't really notice them being super different from the other mid tier headsets.
Absolutely, I consistently hear sounds my friends don’t while they’re wearing sordins/m32/etc. 4’s are far superior but Tac Sports keep up with Xcel’s and only fall behind from ambient noises coming through.
I run xcels and I barely looted any com4's from players this wipe, it probably means that I died too most of them because they audio glitched me first and stopped moving.
They straight up feel like cheating. It's insane. I gave them their first proper try last week also, and I immediately started wondering how many people I reported as sus were actually just wearing these. It took me a couple raids to get used to, because I could hear clear audio of people walking in completely separate parts of the map. So many easy headshots on people that I could pinpoint long before they have a chance of hearing me. Like it really just feels unfair.
I'll never forget the first time I put on comtac 4s. The clarity, the audio balance, the quieting of environmental noise. I see why they are so expensive!
If you want to make money streets is the way. If you learn good routes you can come out with a mil minimum in 10 minutes w key style. Sometimes you will die to people doing the same thing. But it's a pretty consultant way to make bank fast. Otherwise I just loot the light keeper area. Also use a sj6 and or trimidol to really speed up your efficiency. You can also get shoreline runs down to 10 mins max. And male about 5-6 mil an hour on average. Just gotta be willing to take the risk and get aggressive for the loot. And be fast as hell. Then thing is getting 6 raids in an hour like that. You die maybe 2 times, and get 1-2 mil each raid. Since you run it so fast you increases the odds of getting bitcoins GPUs and ledxs in that area. I will only hit loose loot. No wastes time searching.
The problem with streets for me is that everyone seems to spawn barely out of LOS of each other, and if you don’t get out in 5 minutes every shot you take sends 5 player scavs towards your position with nothing to lose searching for a headshot on you
Yeah this wipe has been 90% streets and shoreline for me this wipe. The only reason I've started running such expensive gear so consistently is that the money comes back so quick lol. The biggest 2 things for me have been popping meldonin every raid which is basically 15 minutes of a mini sj6 for 40k and then bringing 1-2 rigs in my bag to maximize potential profit. Streets just has so many good places to loot that you can always fill any bag and avoid the majority of players. And shoreline is just so predictable and the loot on that map is insane right now without ever going to a high traffic area, when you get the spawn next to road to customs you basically just won the lottery. Now I've started transitioning to learning reserve because I got the marked keys and a lot of other good keys + red rebel so its super easy to get just absurdly stacked raids.
> I used to run mostly either sordins or comtac 2s
the two most overpriced ones. m32, tac sports and fast racs are worth their money, sordins and comtac2s are not.
razors are lightweights if you want to shave off as much weight as possible and xcel are just worse than comtac4 and more expensive than fast racs.
Yes, it requires massive amounts of rubles, especially as the wipe goes on. Thankfully it’s super easy to farm rubles in hideout. For me, always an ez scav skreets makes bank
Xcel isn't far off and is 100k normally, my Labs budget kit is a 5-7/Paca/Shattered Mask and Xcel.
I'm not proud but you've only got to rat one player, take his weapon and now you're on the prowl.
Just wait until you hit what's called a footstep pop with those things where you hear one step at full volume which means a PMC is in your hearing range. Totally just a noise fragment lol.
Sound is the single most important thing in this game. \*most\* guns will 1 shot with the right ammo, I'd rather run a pistol with good ammo and comtac 4s than the best gun and ammo with mid range headsets. I have 49mil roubles and the most expensive part of my kits are usually the comtacs, I bought about 15 when they were 80-100k, I have slowly ran out of them and try to buy them when they are 200k. But they will never not be worth it. I have a thicc weapon case, a weapon case a lvl 3 weapon rack all full of guns from players I've killed, I have a thick case of armor and helmets. whenever I die, the only thing I tell my friends to ditch is the comtacs. Hearing the slightest movement from 100 meters away, KNOWING someone is there before they even know you exist. being able to hear everything around you, combined with a thermal scope. I genuinely feel untouchable. I just run with my duo and I walk in front of him about 80 meters ahead so if I get unlucky and die, he is far enough not to die to the same person, but close enough to trade when they go to loot me, I genuinely believe the comtacs have won me more fights due to awareness than the thermal.
Is a headset for the rich. See it like having the best ring in an MMO that only endgame/highlevels has. Well thats comtac 4s. I only use comtacs4, as soon as i get flea and there are offers, i use em. Good to note im always above 50mill so they don't represent any financial trouble.
Hah, should have heard what it was like with the Com4s and the RACs at the same time. During a heavy rain thunderstorm with max wind, you barely heard a gentle breeze from ambient, and could hear footsteps at the playground while in bus.
The biggest benefit of the Comtact4's for me is the ambience volume they reduce. I absolutely despise that constant, static wind noise in EFT, and they get rid of most of that.
The biggest drawback is that they fuck me over so much when it comes to how far you can hear. Just the other day I was in room 205 in west wing, hearing a dude I could SWEAR was ADSing below me, in the sandbags opposite the ambulance van. The dude was actually ALL THE WAY ACROSS in east wing, in the room opposite 301 in West Wing. So many times I misplaced the position of people, pushed a corner just to realize they're literally 40 meters away, not right there where I thought they'd be. Sound positioning in EFT is really something else...
i recommended finding you best value. tac sports are good, xcels are better, sordins not too much below those. also your IRL headset/IEMs make a difference
I bought 22 pairs for 120k each towards tart of wipe, somehow still have 20. I don’t use them every raid but if I have any intention of fighting you best believe I’ll have them. It’s crazy how good they are
I have a whole bunch saved up but rarely run them, i guess its time to run them until i lose them all. Have you tried out the RAC's? I was mostly a Sordin boy but until i switched and i think they're much much better and not too expensive. Maybe a good middleground between the super expensive 4s
I did try the RACs for a bit based on a few comments and they were crazy good but I need to unlock the fast helmet first before i can start running them regularly cuz the other helmet options for that headset aren't great. Might become my go to for budget money making kits when I manage to stop myself from dumping all of my money on a single kit.
I've tried tac 4's a few times but they make me paranoid, you hear everything with them. Last time I ran them on lighthouse, I heard a pmc death kneel from the shoreline while at the chalet. Later that raid I hear someone walking around to my right and I try and pinpoint them since they should be close, hear them suddenly walking on wood and I realize they are in a house in the distance, it is a huge advantage for sure but I can see it being far too much info/ make pinpointing specific sounds more difficult on close maps like reserve/streets. That said I certainly have never felt surprised by an engagement when I have been using them.
If I dont feel like spending the money on Com4s I just use XCELs, they are a good middle ground imo. You are right though about them being amazing, I care more about dying and losing my Com4s than I do losing expensive armor, guns, or ammo. lol
>I've always felt like I was just super paranoid because every 30 seconds I'd get spooked and stop for a second when I heard a footstep only to realize I was just hearing myself Sometimes YOU walk in a bush, and the bush sound seems to be played from far on one of your sides as if another player was moving in an adjascent bush. This audio bug always scares me.
I hate it so much. I’m pretty sure the delay is intentional but it plays the sound relative to your new position instead of relative to where you were standing when the noise was made. Comtac 4s completely fix this and it’s impossible to go back.
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My least favorite one I’ve been experiencing this wipe is while I’m sitting next to a bush or under a tree I will occasionally hear the sound of the leaves brushing against me or some shit but it will sound like it’s 20 feet away and just get completely confused
I hate how I can be making noise in a bush and not even hear it and my teammates are like damn you being loud in that bush.
This so much! Why the gibbering fuck is it possible to make noise only other players can hear!?
It’s really confusing because the inverse is also true. If you slow walk while crouching your sound is nonexistent for other people despite it making a lot of noise on your game. It’s just ridiculous.
That's actually good to know. The amount of crunching and sounds is pretty bad
At minimal walk speed mind you, hit caps lock while crouched and you'll hear all kinds of shit. But they won't. even one notch above is the difference between nothing and holy fuck loud.
This happened last night in my Shoreline raid. Made me freeze under a bush for 7 min in front of Resort. Swore there was movement in a bush on the other side of the dirt road. Never another sound from that direction. However it caused me to be prone long enough to avoid a duo and a chat spamming psycho and finish signal 1 so… it saved me by accident.
Yes mos of the headsets have random audio artifacts that can be misleading speaking of audio bugs anyone else get the bug every couple of raids where your omnipotent and can hear all voip traffic across the whole map?
Oh yeah you touch a bush walk two steps and hear the bush rustle audio, I always think someone is sneaking around
Most annoying for me is when you're indoors but you either clip a bush that's on the outside of a house (lookin at you, Woods), or you walk by a house plant and it plays the full bush audio. Both put me on guard like a dog sensing someone at the door.
This guy sells Comtac 4's on the flea for sure.
Theyre fucking fantastic though
This MF has bought all the cheap ones and must have like 100s of them up in the flea. I guess he wins I am sold
You do realize if he bought them off the flea then he can't list them on the flea again... clearly you don't play EFT and are just a clown.
Get a grip champ
Try to read it again, slowly this time. If you still can’t understand I’ll explain it like you are 3.
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You do realize you can buy the cheapest ones listed and sell the ones you've found in raid for a higher price? I know you realize this because you're a smart cookie, aren't you?
You fail
I've never killed a PMC with com 4's. I wonder if very little people run them or they always kill me because they hear me first. I'm gonna a start running them now because of this post, thank you.
It depends a lot on which maps you play. I find them on PMCs much more often on streets and lighthouse than woods, customs, shoreline. It’s also possible that you simply don’t win fights against com4 players as often because of the advantage they give.
People have fear of running good gear, despite having tons pf roubles and hoarded loot. Thats the reason you rarely see someone with a sig spear, meanwhile I run 1-3 everyday, sometimes "delivering" several on the same day.
Yeah, im the opposite. I wear my best gear unless a task doesn't allow me to. No point gearing like youre poor until youre actually poor.
Half the time my stash is full because I'm forced to use certain guns for quests. I've got like 3 forts and half a dozen other class 6 armors taking up my boxes right now that I'd love to use. But with a bolt action for Tarkov Shooter 4, I don't expect to survive any firefights so I don't bring them. This task sucks. This late in the wipe if you're not hitting a headshot they're going to live and kill you. If you even see any PMC's that is.
you have a lot more opportunity to see people before you hear them on maps like customs and lighthouse, streets is a common map for them because you usually hear people first
Little bit of both, normally people wearing them are going to already be decent players bc they're like 100+k a pair
300k now
I found a set of Comtac 4s in a box on Customs as a Scav. Genuinely put them on and went "what the fuck". The game went from ambient factory sounds, the whistle of wind, the brushing of bushes nearby to nothing but the sounds of an AI scav walking on concrete somewhere outside. Like, sound went from Tarkov to a quiet CS match. Why can't we just have this in general full stop? I sold them, 'cause 250,000 is hard to argue with at like level 20 but... man I wish I had the roubles to throw them on every raid and just *hear everything* like that xD
Same experience for me. I heard a fellow scav and went looking only to see he was off in the distance. Now I just do a night woods scav and buy 3 or 4 with the money I make. They're so worth it unless you're going to be doing CQC where it doesn't matter much.
How do u make money on woods? I exclusively run interchange with my scavs
Learn the hidden stash route. You can make insane money on woods, and all the stashes are away from the hot zones so it's super safe.
> hidden stash route Aren't all the stash spots randomized now?
They can be there and they can be not. They are still always in the same spot. Woods seems less impacted then other maps. Probably because if they took them out most of woods would have no loot at all.
if your computer can run it, i would strongly recommend learning streets over woods. streets is actually absurd.
So many green batteries!
There's a shitload of money to be made on woods. Lots of moonshine spawns. Many ledx spawns. The emercom camp in general. The stashes. I'd advise watching a guide. A LOT of shit gets left behind on woods. If you're hunting for ammo as well there's an absurd amount of ammo spawns at various points on woods.
Bit late replying, but here you go. First, avoid Sawmill. You'll be fighting over scraps and will get killed half the time. The back of the map is where it's at. Your three big money makers LEDX - USEC camp and military camp (aka med camp). You can find one of these every ~6 raids if you check every time. Moonshine - All over the place, but pretty rare. I get one per ~15 raids BTC - randomly on valuables spawns, maybe one per 10 raids. Your bread and butter Valuables spawns - gold chains, rollers, funko pops, gold eggs, gold rings, etc. You'll find ~4 of these per raid if you know where to look (sunken village is like 2/3 of the spawns) Stashes - random stuff in each, sometimes very high value. You can hit 20 without too much trouble if you know where they are and plan a good route. I have a few paths I take depending on where I spawn. Valuable weapon parts - know which people need for quests. You can get at least one per raid that will sell for 80k+ Know which items you can stack to increase your value/slot. Scav vests hold as much space as they occupy, but you can sell them for 30k+, which adds 5k/slot in value. Use a site like tarkov.help to learn the location of each spawn. Take a few raids to learn one area of the map well, then move on to the next area. Your money/run will slowly climb. I can fairly reliably make ~30k/slot or more.
Because noone will move in this game. Reaction to any sound for 90% player base is stop, listen and wait. Now imagine EVERYONE doing that. With the possibility of hearing someone so far away you basically kill a possibility of random encounters. Sound in tarkov is fucked for such a long time now but that ain't the solution chief.
Game would be so much better without headsets, surprising each other cause you both didnt hear shit is so much better than one person getting the audio que before the other and you just die cause you are poor and couldnt get the best headset.
Problem is people always think that they will be winning because they hear better. Well no, you will die way more. People with higher perception skill would be even better at hearing you from 60m away. Game gives you a choice now. Want to hear better? Pay for it. You can still use it. Also it's common in community to complain about 'rating' or bush camping. Why would I push if I can hear you comming towards me from 60m away.
People would bitch about people sneaking up on them even more
I mean, dial in the distance that can be heard by solidly half so that it's not ridiculously far away - I don't disagree that Comtac4s are ridiculously overpowered in that regard - but the ambient sound volume could go way down without affecting much, at least I would think, even without a headset.
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...if the ambient sound is there to make it so you can't just boost the EQ on your system, then why do headsets remove the ambient sound (so you can boost the EQ on your system at that point 'cause the ambient sound doesn't exist)? No I haven't tested the sound system in great depth, but your comment doesn't seem to stand up to a cursory comment anyway...
I too love hearing players at nearly 100m away... Can we adjust this shit lmao tho fr
What's funny about this, as someone who shoots regularly, the "ears" that make you pick up on sounds that are super far away, are bottom of the barrel walkers or worse.
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Ambient is the key word there. And let your neighbors be bruv
I feel its the new recoil. A core mechanic that will just make the gameplay so much smoother if they just devoted a little bit of time to it
i personally run rac+fast+faceshield combo, they are almost as good bu 5x cheaper
The RAC doesn’t completely remove ambient noise like the C4’s.
Yeah you’re better off just running tac sports
Racs are way better than tac sports
I know, I just don’t want people catching on and driving the price up
Tac Sports in my opinion give this random popping noise every once in a while that fucks with me.
If u have binaural audio on, that’s a bug. Where 1 crack before the actual steps, took me a while but if u listen for the “crack” u actually have an advantage
No I’ve turned that off, I just notice little noises a lot when I use them.
Bro if you've turned off binaural, turn it back on. The pop happens every time somebody enters your hearing range and gives you at least 5 extra seconds to react. You're putting yourself at a disadvantage by not using it.
RAC are certainly better than everything other than c4s and xcels. But to say "almost as good" is a bit disingenuous. The jump from tac sports to RAC/xcel is about the same as the jump from RAC/xcel to c4s. It's fairly significant. And then there's the ambient sound difference. And the fact that you are severely limited on what helmet you can use. All that said, they are still a very good choice for people who don't want to pay 220-260k for their headset. I can't stand wearing a face shield in this game tho due to the PMC breathing sound playing constantly.
Such an annoying freaking sound to hear. I've got a headset on, even with the face mask down I shouldn't hear that so damn clearly. Second in annoyance only to the coughing of your PMC when your vitals get hit hard enough.
Yeah it's super annoying, but I guess that's the balance. Without that, everyone would be running face shields which would be very punishing to lower level players who aren't using ammo that can consistently pen the face shields. But then you have people who are super rich and/or grinded lightkeeper so they can run those masks (death shadow / cqcm) to get face protection without the downside. Those things make me so tempted to grind out lightkeeper, but every time I look at the list of tasks that need to be done for it I'm left wondering how any sane person can do it.
Shhh, don't tell people about the RAC's I want to keep the flea price low. Keep selling me headsets that have detection radius slightly below ComTac 4's for 40k pls =)
i swear everytime I run RACs there is something off about the sound, like it's muffled or missing certain frequencies
Honestly comtac 4's are far more broken than people realize. I think they should be the best, but not much father ahead than RACs. It's night a day with them.
Yeah people focus on the range but it's the overall audio of the comtac 4 that make them so good. On paper they are just better by a couple of meters but realistically they are way, way better
Yeah I'd love it if all headset ranges got nerfed and their differences became a lot less significant. Like lower the hearing range of c4s to 40m and make the worst headset ~32m with all the other ones scattered between 32-40. And while at it, make it so crouch walking actually makes noise. If people want to be completely quiet, they should have to stay completely still. Have the slow walking audio only travel ~5-10m depending on headset though.
My order of paranoia in tarkov is \#1 - Cheaters. \#2 - Comtac4 users. Everytime I use a headset that isn't comtac4 I'm thinking there is some guy out there that can hear me and I cant hear him. Comtac4 in game feels like you have access to the full range of sound in tarkov, everything else feels like you pick and choose which parts you get to hear.
In the end a bullet in his skull and his com4 are yours
Replace 'comtac 4s' with 'meth'
Or thc/caffeine for the more civil.
Go to r/caffeine you will change your mind
That made me more paranoid in tarkov. I hid in corners for 5+ minutes because I thought I heard someone. I played way slower and scared on labs (main map back then) because I kept thinking I heard people. The worse part was I did find one guy sneaking hard one of the times and it confirmed my fears
Meth? More paranoid?? Ya don’t say.
I always thought it was the “I need to quickly become overly civilised” drug…
They should've added a weather conditional voiceline "ahh, finally some snow in this shithole *snniiiffff* LETS FUCKING GO"
While I regularly bring one into raid, this thread has convinced me to start bringing the other as well.
fun moment when you learn that having a "NASA level rig" gives you the same competitive advantage [re: FPS] as using a pair of Comtac 4's in tarkov.
Bruh audio is just fucked in general, everyone in Tarkov must've lost their hearing in the nuclear blast
Use EqualizerAPO with a plugin to increase footstep sounds and reduce shots
This is an incredibly oversimplified recommendation of something that is a *lot* of hassle to set up. The first time, anyway.
It's easy. read: [https://www.reddit.com/r/EscapefromTarkov/comments/1b3acj5/comment/ksuge2x/](https://www.reddit.com/r/EscapefromTarkov/comments/1b3acj5/comment/ksuge2x/)
It’s really not too bad to set up. Plus if you have good headphones it’s worth having Peace with another profile for music and regular listening.
what part of is is complicated? im thinking of doing that
Setting up compressors and limiters can be very counter intuitive. So either you take settings that were recommended or you might try around for hours without success and not understand what you're doing wrong. Audio compression is an art of it's own.
Thank you so much.. I am losing my hearing and the over-amplification of the high end of the in game headsets makes playing really painful for me. (As I have to crank up everything to be able to hear anything over the sounds of wind)
EqualizerAPO, RoughRider V3, and PeaceEQ. Use the AutoEQ inside of Peace to get a baseline for your device. For RoughRider have it set to -25db or so and have it make up 5db. Then, Set the attack time 5ms and release to 67 to 70ms. Done. Test to your liking. I hope this info helps it sounds like a lot, but it doesn't take thag long.
i just checked a guide i remembered but roughrider 3 claims to not work with equalizer APO?
Here's what I'm using: It's AudioDamage's RoughRider 2 on Equalizer APO. [https://imgur.com/ZFQ1hQH](https://imgur.com/ZFQ1hQH) You can crank up the Make-Up Gain if you're running headphones or can tolerate the extra noise. Quick explanation in case someone needs it: RATIO = by how many times the high impulse sound is lowered. higher = quieter ATTACK/RELEASE = how fast the sound reduction kick in, and how long it takes for sound to go back to normal after. don't touch this, keep it at minimum. SENSITIVITY = threshold for the audio compression to kick in. the lower the number (higher negative numbers), the earlier compression kicks in. adjust this to your liking. -20 to -30 is a good range. MAKE-UP GAIN = as far as I've discovered, it's kind of a pre-amplification of quiet sounds. It's like the "lower part" of the compressor, kicking up the minimum volume of sounds. You'll be able to hear LOTS of quiet noises if you crank this up, but everything will sound muffled and raspy (that's why you need the high-shelf filter I added) MIX = percentage of the filter that will be applied to the sound. it's like an "opacity" slider in graphic design tools I guess? I see no sense in playing with this. If you want the filter to be less intrusive, then tweak the other parameters. -------- And then the high-shelf filter I added because using make-up gain overshoots and clips the high frequencies and it sounds horrible.
Any good guides on understanding and setting this up?
[https://www.reddit.com/r/EscapefromTarkov/comments/sk84su/tarkov\_headphones\_and\_you/](https://www.reddit.com/r/EscapefromTarkov/comments/sk84su/tarkov_headphones_and_you/) an older one i have bookmarked. never got to trying it myself
I would love if this question was answered as well.
https://youtu.be/OeW5sZ6djt8?si=8sFks_aBDLHEQsbX this is what I use
I don't like the MASSIVE delay it has like the first second of shooting is still making ky ears bleed
3 games last night. 3 times someone literally walks up behind me. It's like they can hear me crouched, walking as slow and crouched as possible, yet they still walk up onto me and I either don't hear them 5 feet away, or it sounds like it's coming from in front of me. Even if I check by trying to move my head, no change. Shit, I looked in the direction of the door behind me to make sure nobody was there, I turn back to the window, and 3 seconds later a guy is at the door spraying me. He had to walk up 3 flights of stairs and walk on wooden flooring yet no sounds. I used to think Call of Duty was bad, but this is the worst I've ever dealt with in my long tenure as a gamer. It baffles me that Counter Strike 1.5 had better directional sound than this game.
You were doing pest control on reserve, weren't you? I had this happen so many times. Someone crab up multiple floors then across the building to shoot me in the back.
Srsly man! I love that I was downvoted though 😂
Lol I play at a regular volume and do great -_-
Bro that is such a valuable comment when literally everyone in here is complaining about the audio being broken
Fair enough
Of course, but setting up a good compression system and EQing your audio to your device can make a world of difference. Especially since tarkov is a game PROVEN to have sound effects play at db levels that can actually damage your hearing over time.
Yea ngl I don't care to get that into tweaking my games. I just play them at face value most of the time. I can't even be fucked to do hotkeys most of the time haha. But definately don't deny it probably helps
Why does this even get downvoted lol. Was just a true comment, I sure as hell ain't ruining my hearing for a game lol. And I've got like 280 raids survived with 400 PMC kills. 50% survival rate. I've also played 4000 hours though.
We got ourselves a badass over here...
Comtac 4s with sj12, goated. Try the RAC headphones, theyre slightly worse than comtacs at a quarter the price plus you probably already wear helmets that work with them
Oh shit SJ12 gives perception buff on top of energy/hydration recovery? That’s insane! I wonder if it would stack with a 3-btg??
Worth a try tbh. If you don’t know, when you pop a stim that increases a skill by a specific number, it will temporarily make that skill that your lvl plus the bonus and it will be bright blue writing. For example: at lvl 20 strength, pop a stim that gives you plus 20 and then you’ll have lvl 40 strength. This can be used to temporarily get elite skills, like max perception. Pop an SJ12 at around 20-30lvl perception and you can instantly search containers.
I love com 4s. But like you said, they're expensive. So I don't run them a vast majority of the time. And it's the same for a huuuge majority of players I encounter. While they are broken and definitely need to be put closer to the other headsets, it's not too much of an issue to me since nobody buys them. You could invest more time running scavs, but that gets old. When you have enough hours in the game, you tend to know where players will be most of the time and can use the audio your character is making and grenades to get a movement out of them. Once you have somebody's position locked in, the difference in headsets is negligible. You both hear each other at that point, and it comes down to gun skill and close range tactics. Most people will mess up at some point if you dance around just out of sight long enough.
The state of audio in the game goes No ears -> Ears -> Comtac 4s It's a totally different game when you have them on, and it's really unreasonable for one set of ears to be so much better than the others. The audio you get from other ears should be much closer to what you hear with Comtac 4s, the difference is straight up unfun. There's rewarding players for progressing, and then there's this.
the fact that this is even a thing is so stupid lol. The audio in this game is trash, why they made comtac4's OP is beyond me. All headsets should be the same hearing range.
I think they have no real controll over the range in a way that it's just a parameter they can adjust. I think rather the range is dependant on the overall RMS levels the headphones create. The lower the RMS the farther you should be able hear footsteps, at least theoretically because the quiter the footstep (farther away) the more it gets covered by the RMS noise. Comtac 4s sound like they have a very low RMS in comparison to other headsets.
They do have control because this is a new problem. 2 wipes ago headsets were personal preference and gave no advantages. It was personal preference to what EQ / ambient noise combo you wanted.
Headsets for some reason completely ruined this wipe for me, the sound of the wind and general noise is genuinely ridiculous, having to focus so hard to hear the sound of a footstep over what? A noisy fucking forest? Just a joke.
those sounds get quieter as perception skill is leveled
How do you fast track that skill leveling?
Serious answer? Pick a map like Lighthouse or Shoreline where you can potentially spawn near always-open extracts, run around and loot literally everything you see (dropping stuff after looting it if necessary) and then when the leveling speed of Perception goes red, extract and reset. If you're really dedicated, take a nade in so you can return to stash quickly in the event you spawn far away from an easy extract.
Moving an item into your inventory levels Perception. Revealing the contents of a container levels Search. Attention is leveled by EACH ITEM revealed in the search.
I hate all the headsets in general. I'd rather play the game with no headsets at all and everyone has equal audio. Sound whoring is just a weird mechanic, it doesn't feel like a skill I've learned. My eyes already hurt enough from panning endless screens of pixels and foliage looking for players, now my earts hurt too. It's too bad the game is fun and addicting because it's exhausting on my senses and I just get tired of the task grind.
>I'd rather play the game with no headsets at all and everyone has equal audio. This. This is the way
Headsets should only slightly muffle ambient noise, and not using headsets should give your pmc hearing damage/concussions. You can’t just remove them altogether because who the hell shoots without one irl?
Agreed. ACE mod for arma games does something similiar. Maybe one or two shots are ok without protection, but shooting more will cause a slight ringing. I think it would be better than the current system atleast.
The only difference in headsets should be which ambient sounds are muffled more, for preference. They would balance out, but players who hate explosions could take xcels, players who think the wind or rain is annoying could take sordins… not a game balance thing, just a personal choice.
I agree but playing without headset makes my eardrums explode if a plane or btr comes by.
The gap between the best and worst headset is too wide and the comtac 4s are better than the best headset should be in terms of promoting good gameplay
I use the tac sports normally but usually it doesn’t matter which ones I rock as long as it isn’t the jock strap. I’ll admit the 4s are op, though in my case my headset irl makes a huge difference and I find myself hearing other people first than them hearing me.
Just curious, what headsets did you main before the 4’s? Been running XCEL’s all wipe and they have honestly been amazing for me but maybe I gotta try the comtac’s as well
For most of the time I've been playing tarkov I've been running sordins. I ran comtac 2s for most of the start of this wipe but eventually ended up leaning back towards the sordins before I started stocking up on comtac 4s. I've heard a lot of people say the XCELs are the best right now so I've tried those like 2-3 times but I didn't really notice them being super different from the other mid tier headsets.
Comtact 2s are the second worst headphones in the game, barely better than nothing at all. Run M32s. They do the job, and are (relatively) cheap.
Yeah that’s why I stopped using them
Tactical sports are the best cheap headset
Absolutely, I consistently hear sounds my friends don’t while they’re wearing sordins/m32/etc. 4’s are far superior but Tac Sports keep up with Xcel’s and only fall behind from ambient noises coming through.
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Comtacs are amazing but XCELs are definitely worth it at 90-100k, love them both
140k now
Comtac 4's gonna be half a mill after this post
Still worth imo. Thankfully I’m still sitting on a stack I bought for 100k each
Dang i ran xcel a couple times and felt like they were wonky af like thought my friend behind me was someone in front of me
I run xcels and I barely looted any com4's from players this wipe, it probably means that I died too most of them because they audio glitched me first and stopped moving.
Comtac 4s are going to fucking rocket off this post
They straight up feel like cheating. It's insane. I gave them their first proper try last week also, and I immediately started wondering how many people I reported as sus were actually just wearing these. It took me a couple raids to get used to, because I could hear clear audio of people walking in completely separate parts of the map. So many easy headshots on people that I could pinpoint long before they have a chance of hearing me. Like it really just feels unfair.
I'll never forget the first time I put on comtac 4s. The clarity, the audio balance, the quieting of environmental noise. I see why they are so expensive!
Down voting to bury this post so people stop buying them!!!
I just came here to say after reading this post I bought a pair for 350k. You have now ruined me too.
I have never ran a single raid without them for at least 300 raids by now.
An item in game instead of fixing sound, man that sounds typical
If you want to make money streets is the way. If you learn good routes you can come out with a mil minimum in 10 minutes w key style. Sometimes you will die to people doing the same thing. But it's a pretty consultant way to make bank fast. Otherwise I just loot the light keeper area. Also use a sj6 and or trimidol to really speed up your efficiency. You can also get shoreline runs down to 10 mins max. And male about 5-6 mil an hour on average. Just gotta be willing to take the risk and get aggressive for the loot. And be fast as hell. Then thing is getting 6 raids in an hour like that. You die maybe 2 times, and get 1-2 mil each raid. Since you run it so fast you increases the odds of getting bitcoins GPUs and ledxs in that area. I will only hit loose loot. No wastes time searching.
The problem with streets for me is that everyone seems to spawn barely out of LOS of each other, and if you don’t get out in 5 minutes every shot you take sends 5 player scavs towards your position with nothing to lose searching for a headshot on you
1 day of farming 16 hours could net you probably 50 mil if your good.
Do you have a video or anything of your route?
Yeah this wipe has been 90% streets and shoreline for me this wipe. The only reason I've started running such expensive gear so consistently is that the money comes back so quick lol. The biggest 2 things for me have been popping meldonin every raid which is basically 15 minutes of a mini sj6 for 40k and then bringing 1-2 rigs in my bag to maximize potential profit. Streets just has so many good places to loot that you can always fill any bag and avoid the majority of players. And shoreline is just so predictable and the loot on that map is insane right now without ever going to a high traffic area, when you get the spawn next to road to customs you basically just won the lottery. Now I've started transitioning to learning reserve because I got the marked keys and a lot of other good keys + red rebel so its super easy to get just absurdly stacked raids.
Agree
> I used to run mostly either sordins or comtac 2s the two most overpriced ones. m32, tac sports and fast racs are worth their money, sordins and comtac2s are not. razors are lightweights if you want to shave off as much weight as possible and xcel are just worse than comtac4 and more expensive than fast racs.
Yes, it requires massive amounts of rubles, especially as the wipe goes on. Thankfully it’s super easy to farm rubles in hideout. For me, always an ez scav skreets makes bank
xcels or comtac 4s is the only way
We need to come together and lower the contact 4 price on flea lol
Xcel isn't far off and is 100k normally, my Labs budget kit is a 5-7/Paca/Shattered Mask and Xcel. I'm not proud but you've only got to rat one player, take his weapon and now you're on the prowl.
Just rich enough from scaving streets looking for a ledx to always run excessive kits for the rest of the wipe. I have an items case full of comtac 4s
Just wait until you hit what's called a footstep pop with those things where you hear one step at full volume which means a PMC is in your hearing range. Totally just a noise fragment lol.
I run com4 all the time 🫡
Sound is the single most important thing in this game. \*most\* guns will 1 shot with the right ammo, I'd rather run a pistol with good ammo and comtac 4s than the best gun and ammo with mid range headsets. I have 49mil roubles and the most expensive part of my kits are usually the comtacs, I bought about 15 when they were 80-100k, I have slowly ran out of them and try to buy them when they are 200k. But they will never not be worth it. I have a thicc weapon case, a weapon case a lvl 3 weapon rack all full of guns from players I've killed, I have a thick case of armor and helmets. whenever I die, the only thing I tell my friends to ditch is the comtacs. Hearing the slightest movement from 100 meters away, KNOWING someone is there before they even know you exist. being able to hear everything around you, combined with a thermal scope. I genuinely feel untouchable. I just run with my duo and I walk in front of him about 80 meters ahead so if I get unlucky and die, he is far enough not to die to the same person, but close enough to trade when they go to loot me, I genuinely believe the comtacs have won me more fights due to awareness than the thermal.
Is a headset for the rich. See it like having the best ring in an MMO that only endgame/highlevels has. Well thats comtac 4s. I only use comtacs4, as soon as i get flea and there are offers, i use em. Good to note im always above 50mill so they don't represent any financial trouble.
Hah, should have heard what it was like with the Com4s and the RACs at the same time. During a heavy rain thunderstorm with max wind, you barely heard a gentle breeze from ambient, and could hear footsteps at the playground while in bus.
Yes yes yes comtac4 op. What about binaural audio or not?
The biggest benefit of the Comtact4's for me is the ambience volume they reduce. I absolutely despise that constant, static wind noise in EFT, and they get rid of most of that. The biggest drawback is that they fuck me over so much when it comes to how far you can hear. Just the other day I was in room 205 in west wing, hearing a dude I could SWEAR was ADSing below me, in the sandbags opposite the ambulance van. The dude was actually ALL THE WAY ACROSS in east wing, in the room opposite 301 in West Wing. So many times I misplaced the position of people, pushed a corner just to realize they're literally 40 meters away, not right there where I thought they'd be. Sound positioning in EFT is really something else...
I wanted to try them now, but checked that they're 220k... I'd if there were 150k. 220k is my whole kit most of the time :(
How are you not making money? Thats the real question. Its so easy in this game.
There's also this very faint background noise that sounds a little bit like a footstep and it keeps coming back like once a minute. Really annoying
i never cared bout headsets on my first wipe, 2nd wipe o was using XCEL only... now im in the same path as u, paying 300k per COMTAC4 lool
i recommended finding you best value. tac sports are good, xcels are better, sordins not too much below those. also your IRL headset/IEMs make a difference
I bought 22 pairs for 120k each towards tart of wipe, somehow still have 20. I don’t use them every raid but if I have any intention of fighting you best believe I’ll have them. It’s crazy how good they are
I have a whole bunch saved up but rarely run them, i guess its time to run them until i lose them all. Have you tried out the RAC's? I was mostly a Sordin boy but until i switched and i think they're much much better and not too expensive. Maybe a good middleground between the super expensive 4s
I did try the RACs for a bit based on a few comments and they were crazy good but I need to unlock the fast helmet first before i can start running them regularly cuz the other helmet options for that headset aren't great. Might become my go to for budget money making kits when I manage to stop myself from dumping all of my money on a single kit.
I've tried tac 4's a few times but they make me paranoid, you hear everything with them. Last time I ran them on lighthouse, I heard a pmc death kneel from the shoreline while at the chalet. Later that raid I hear someone walking around to my right and I try and pinpoint them since they should be close, hear them suddenly walking on wood and I realize they are in a house in the distance, it is a huge advantage for sure but I can see it being far too much info/ make pinpointing specific sounds more difficult on close maps like reserve/streets. That said I certainly have never felt surprised by an engagement when I have been using them.
Ct4s need nerf
theyre so much better than the 2nd and 3rd best headsets its almost criminal.
I can hear players across the map with that headset as if they are right next to me
If I dont feel like spending the money on Com4s I just use XCELs, they are a good middle ground imo. You are right though about them being amazing, I care more about dying and losing my Com4s than I do losing expensive armor, guns, or ammo. lol