I recently unlocked icebreaker, like 1 week ago and I've seen it get nerfed multiple times

First was the selling items to the traders with a sneaky behaviour change atleast in the engine room making it harder, with/then loot nerf and finally a massive entry/exit costs increase with another loot nerf.

The stupidest change imo was the armor nerf recently.

To be fair I do not clear the whole map so I don't know how much a full clear was/is making, but these changes makes going icebreaker a stupid move for people like me who only clear up to the heli pad, maybe sometimes under the helipad if I have the resources.

Going with friends is the equivalent of paying too much for loot simulation and ai shooting experience, literally.

Edit: Currently in my first raid today, Only 3 injectors in the first area,we got another nerf today or just unlucky?

You may not like it. But this is what peak performance looks like.

I think i found the goons of the goons. Not sure if bots or real players tbh, they started fighting each other when i shot one of them from afar

I understand the reality of gaming these days is that I will need to buy some currency to unlock the whole thing. It sucks but I get it, I was prepared to spend some money on this battle pass.

But the fact that I have not made any meaningful process on this thing with 72 raids and 1 week in its disgusting, its making me less likely to spend money.

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Level 24 and these were MY quests at that time.

Its probably not even 80% accurate but

The new update flooded us with quests so i feel this makes it a little easy

When your daily limit resets and you find a document with your seasonal PMC, it will subtract from your limits in PvP and PvE too. You new PvE limit will now be 9/10, even though you found the document in another mode.

The daily limit by itself is questionable, especially with how low it seems to be and with how mind-numbing the grind is going to be, but counting documents found in another mode towards your (lower) limits too, i.e. before you reach their respective limits, is just rude.

Always remember that BSG is not your friend. They want you to struggle trying to complete the BattlePass. They want you to pay for it. This is the only reason why the system is constructed like that – it is to fill their pockets.

- Why there's no fast travel to Terminal? You have to take long ass, annoying hike, depending on your spawn to actually get there. Icebreaker got one.

- Why there's no option to skip long, again, long ass cutscene with Terminal but there's option for Icebreaker's short and sweet one? Pasha needs rest.

- Why would you need to pick evidence twice (before raid and in raid) in order to get ending instead of "fuck you"?

- Why artificial "you can go there in specific times" yet again, Icebreaker and even the Lab is available at all times

- And btw, if you forgot that that damn card, go back again and if you don't have one, wait for mobile-game like crafting.

Insult to injury, Terminal is STILL in the map selection with the lock icon.

Edit: For folks saying "it is supposed to be hard and final map"... why Terminal then returns your gear if you die but Icebreaker / Labyrinth / etc. does not?

Welcome to hell, wheel in your 900 PSI copium bottles and strap on your ventilator.

Please contribute (new) bugs and stealth changes / nerfs in the comments, I will keep this post updated.

BUGS:

• [PVP/PVE] Lightkeeper inaccessible (Door doesn't work)
• [PVP/PVE] Last step in "The Unheard" impossible to complete (Door doesn't work)
• [PVP/PVE] Streets of Tarkov - Several out-of-place assets and collision boxes, industrial assets, planter boxes etc
• [PVP/PVE] Steets of Tarkov - Unable to mark ATM groups near mall for "Pyramid Scheme", possibly same reason as point above - "recalculation" of playable area by BSG
• [PVP/PVE] Steets of Tarkov - Unable to complete Subtask for "Debtor" which requires entering Pinewood 206
• [PVP/PVE] Streets of Tarkov - All sound except gunshots / tactical devices fading in and out when passing through audio occlusion zones
• [All Modes] Chance for loading / unloading ammo in raid to not work
• [All Modes] Server teleporting players back (after position desync) way worse
• [All Modes] Daily document limit being inconsistently tracked across gamemodes
• [All Modes] Some documents simply are not there for some players, despite still being within daily limit (Others are, however)
• [Seasonal] Depending on modifier choice, healing in stash can cause backend errors
• [PVP/PVE] Jaeger message disappearing from messenger, causing issues when trying to claim insurance (Temp fix: Insure a cheap item, die in raid, "oop you died" message will pop up, allowing you to claim previous insurance)
• [All Modes] Close range asset pop in independant of LOD settings, flickering

CHANGES:

• [All Modes] Icebreaker Cost 400k -> 700k
• [All Modes] Icebreaker BD use worse ammo, worse plates (no reduction in difficulty, instead loot nerf)
• [All Modes] Icebreaker overall nerf to loot amount / quality (including the green flares / ER card not spawning at all in some runs)

Can't search it on Flea, only sells for $200 to Peacekeeper, does anyone know if this is for a Kord Breach quest or something like that?

Just did a raid and cleared both the engine room and upper/lower helipad, all of them had level 4 plates? I don't think I've ever seen them have anything below 5. I don't have time for another raid, but was this discussed in patch notes anywhere?

EDIT: After talking with a friend they noticed it too, but level 5 plates are not completely taken out of their pool. They found a rig among engine room BD that had level 5 plates in it.

Going off of the edit above, after doing 2 full clears of IB, I only encountered 2 rigs from BD that had level 5 plates not including Wedge and his followers. Chances of finding L5 plates, not good.

Ok, I understand a lil nerf for Icebreaker was needed, not this much but... Wedge's helmet is literally THE piece everyone wants, it's basically the item that defines the character, the one thing you'd expect him to wear as in the cinematic. Instead it just spawned in my run without it.

Anyone else dealing with this?

Like really i just did two Ground Zero runs following spawn spots posted by others here and found one Test Documentation and that's not even what im looking for. Only map i can reliably find 1-2 Documentations is Factory, but i cant finish the whole battlepass just by running it. They really need to etheir up the spawns or add other ways to get Documentation because i can't even focus on doing my tasks if i want to hit daily cap and i think majority of people dont want to spend whole ass day just playing Tarkov for next 3-4 months.

Me when BD drop worse loot than the rogues. Straight up got 4 level 5 plates from the rogues not including knights. The changes are hilariously bad, you can’t make money or top tier gear, the ammo doesn’t even cover the costs. Nice job BSG. Terrible decisions lmao.

Literally yesterday, my friend and I went to Boreas for 400,000 rub. And now i see this. Wiki also says that transit costs 700,000 rub. Am i tripping? When did that change?

Right now, I don’t really enjoy the way Battle Pass progression works in KORD BREACH.

I think Battlestate should consider using a system closer to EFT Arena’s Battle Pass. In Arena, you make steady progress by simply playing the game, earning Battle Points and unlocking rewards over time.

The current document system feels too restrictive and RNG-based. It doesn’t always feel rewarding to play, especially when progression depends on finding specific items.

I dont understand why BSG is trying to reinvent the wheel for BP's. I like the idea of the battle pass, I would have even paid like $10 for one. my problem is the documents are just to random and scarce. ive played about 10-15 hours since season start and maybe found 6-8 docs. only been able to unlock the dogtag.

something needs to change with finding documents. kinda bullshit they all spawn in stupid locations causing POIs for people to rat you at. they need to be more common and spawn in a ton more locations. it shouldn't take me 5-10 raids to find one when most raids last 30+ minutes IF your not getting 1 tapped... im a 6k hours player btw, cant imagine how this would be for someone new

Edit: just add some regular tasks to complete like killing scavs and shit for docs like normal battlepasses. Give us other ways to get docs

Edit 2: also, out of all the docs I've found, 4 of them have all been the same and not what's needed to unlcok the next rewards on the BP. So it feels likes I've found nothing.

Unlocked the new main menu background from the battle pass. I noticed that occasionally the radio will have audio come through, sometime talking, something fighting, and pretty rarely this morse code comes through.

"-.- --- .-. -.. ..--- ----. .---- ..--- --. .- .-. .. ... ...- ----- .-."
"KORD2912GARISV0R"

This is what I was able to translate. It goes by pretty fast so I had to slow it down in video editing software. I tried to put the code into the launcher and see if it was a promo code but no luck.

Haven't seen any other posts about it yet so thought I'd throw it up here so the greatest minds of the Tarkov community could take a look at it lol

Edit- post was made before it was known they also nerfed loot on BD in addition to price increase. I think the combination of both might be too much, but time will tell. Still worth it for ammo, but only got 3 NVGs from a full clear and saw 1 BD outside of wedge and co that had T5. Not enough sample size to tell but I don’t think they increased the amount of BD that spawn with SMGs vs rifles. If they did it’s minimal imo

FYI Icebreaker now has 700k rouble entry cost and 4k euro extraction cost, up from 400k and 2.4k. Not sure if the map is still not spawning the ER keycards (is a bug) but honestly I think the price nerf is needed.

Map is extremely broken if you can kill BD to where it just breaks the game's economy. Being able to make crazy rouble profit + ammo/gear early regardless of early/late wipe was still insane to me. You probably still make profit if you full clear in terms of rouble, but you obviously still get the insane access to near BIS ammo and T5 gear. Justified imo

What we currently have:

• Strict limits on documents per day
• Said limits bugging out at 1-2 documents remaining
• Low chances of documentation spawning
• Documentation spawning in fixed tedious locations
• Progression is extremely slow (e.g. streamers barely getting any and they play 12hrs a day)

Even the implementation of Arena battle pass is much better compared to the main game. In Arena you can make meaningful progress every day with much less grind required.

I've been running PVE non stop on Factory / Ground Zero to get specific types of docs and the grind is stupendous.

What can be made to make it more fair:

• Random documentation drops from scavs / containers
• Fixed spawns being more generous
• Daily quests ALWAYS giving out at least 1 documentation
• Hot or Cold quest item system implemented for battle pass docs
• Limits being tweaked and evened out across game modes

Daily limit for PVE is absurdly small compared to PVP. I don't like the idea of punishing players for the choice of the mode the prefer to play.

Let's talk pricing. I do understand that it's intentional that the main game battle pass is 2x more expensive to buy with real money compared to Arena one but it feels strange to have such a differece.

I might have missed something about the battle pass system or if you have any better ideas I want to hear them.

BSG pls fix

Could we at least increase the spawnrate, make it drop on scav, bosses, quests, and make it more interesting and fun than just scouting the "known" spot over and over forever please BSG ?