It's lore monday! This week, we're talking about Scourge, and what he's looking for in the lab... 👇

Here’s what I’ve got after a few mins of thought: Keep: * Gunplay * Pacing * Core gameplay loop (looting focus, shifting directives, odd/random loot discovery) Change: * Netcode - have to NAIL this down. One of Tarkov’s biggest, most glaring issues is the Netcode problems from day 1 * The “forever time gate” that permeates Tarkov months and years after the content has been done. Build a schedule that shortens the waiting for late-comers season to season. * Get rid of the secure container or put it behind a quest chain (like hunger - in order to get it you have to finish a ~12-quest chain for the basic one and expanding it is a rather large talent point investment and it breaks when you die). Add: * Give us more. Have the world feel “lived in”. Not just a “hideout” but “settlements”. Group goals. Agriculture, built structures from heavy resource investment and/or modify the landscape with dynamic events that can be shaped based on meta-level actions of the playerbase and permanize them until the next wipe/season - think like old anarchy online where players modified the game because of player story arc events that “directed” the game at different time intervals. Ex: Create a huge crater on the moon because you couldn’t get to a large explosive in time, or advance a faction’s storyline more than an alternative, which decides the way the story goes. “Event”-ify the content, but make it dynamic (as opposed to “another scav labs event”). * These could be community opposition goals where factions fight to see which side“wins” * Have factions we can join * Have benefits and consequences for who we decide to align ourselves with from those factions and MAKE US CHOOSE. - for example: if we align with the “corpo” element, then alienate us from the rebelling faction, BUT THEN give us better “augments” or tech or faction weapons (or a crafting/trader guild 👀) that clearly denote we’ve aligned with the corpos/rebels/traders/smugglers/etc. THAT WAY if/when the game wipes (assuming there is wipe style progression or seasons) there is automatically replayability by choosing different faction alignment and getting their tech or perks etc instead. * Give us a more open economy that can be shaped by players. Hire an economist like Eve online. * If we play Switzerland and try to make everyone happy equally, we never get peak gear from any of them. We just get “mid”. * Lock out certain perks or abilities we could’ve otherwise learned because of decisions we made and factions we chose. That’s some ideas off the cuff. Excited to see what comes of the game.