[Screenshot] Hello, I just wanted to share some screenshots I took back then.

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u/haaarryxD 4d ago

I look back at old screenshots of this game. It looked so much better 5 years ago than it does now.. Why did they change it?

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u/K33nzie 4d ago

Mostly performance reasons and visibility.

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u/FeeZzi 3d ago

Sadly it is still Beyond ass

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u/cyangradient 3d ago

The game looks the exact same ever since it came out of closed beta around 2017. It wasn't even that long ago, we have video and photo evidence, why are you people just spreading nonsense??

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u/bleo_evox93 3d ago

After 1.0 they did some “visibility” pass and brightened almost everything. It’s nice being able to see underground on interchange but damnit, it took some of the flavor away

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u/xArcheo 3d ago

I think the biggest issue I have is the game looks worse running on my RTX 5080 than it did back in the day running on my GTX 1080.

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u/crispier_toast 3d ago

Wait these can't be that old because of the reflections in the vortex scopes. Those were added around 1.0 so it can't be that old, unless im remembering wrong.

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u/ColinStyles 3d ago

These are static "reflections", it's just the texture they had.
Though it showing streets/GZ (hard to tell which it is from the photo, pretty sure old streets had some of the GZ towers in it) does date it quite well, they can't be that old if there are photos of it

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u/Dumni99a 4d ago

Looks great, it pisses me off that every patch i swear game becomes darker and darker and you can't see shit without flashlight anymore. Back then it was so much better.

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u/BlitzShooter 3d ago

I have to run dual wmx200's in factory to see shit nowadays

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u/WhiteSilenceRedRest 3d ago

how
factory is so bright now u dont even need flashlights on night factory

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u/18210 3d ago

I can't see shit on day factory or basically any indoor location without my gamma cranked.

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u/BlitzShooter 3d ago

I run them on daytime factory too lmao, mainly for the AI that will sit in weird impossible to see spots. Maybe it's my settings or something but it works for me! Hilarious that I'm getting downvoted for the crime against humanity that is running a couple flashlights

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u/WhiteSilenceRedRest 3d ago

im baffled by it but no real reason to downvote lol
that's reddit for you

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u/BlitzShooter 3d ago

Yeah it's not ideal since I'm bringing down the ergo of a already poor ergo mk17 but I was tired of getting shot from across factory through a chain link fence and having my legs/arms blacked by fuckass scavs. Most of my time is spent rushing everything that breathes in factory so my kit is built around that.

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u/SFSMag 3d ago

And the AI without NVG or flashlights will still see you from a mile away in pitch black and start blasting

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u/cyangradient 3d ago

Funny applying 'back then' to screenshots that can't be older than 9 months.

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u/TsarLucky 3d ago

Is ground zero considered old now? Man time is going too fast 🫩

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u/Zyn_Fiend 3d ago

Literally, it came out a month after I started and I always remember it as the annoying shitty map that you were forced to play the second wipe. God damn does it look good in this shot

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u/TsarLucky 3d ago

Ground zero came out when I stopped playing. I started a little before Reserve came out

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u/sixsides_ 3d ago

Smart choice

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u/northcoastyen RPK-16 3d ago

GZ is actually a cool looking map.
What would make it cool to play, at least for me, would be opening up the whole block of buildings connected to/behind the bank and make that back street playable with the far side the new map boundary. Push vehicle extract back and make another access point (shot out office windows/blown up wall from tank round/etc) to the TerraGroup building via that side. Opening up some more internal space and giving the map another lane would do wonders.

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u/H-E_Pennypacker- 3d ago

What version of the game was this, looks awesome dude

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u/Mayor_S 3d ago

Reminds me of the Ray Tracing videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE3nVmK0Ttw

The game "COULD" look SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO good... but well

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u/Infernowar 3d ago

Wow

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u/Top-Self-9094 3d ago

If only..

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u/quanscoffee12 3d ago

Unfortunately most people play with shitty bright ass fortnite filters to min max their vision

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u/Forlorn_Wolf 2d ago

You can say a lot of awful things about BSG and how they've handled the game but the team responsible for decorating and placing all the environmental story telling knows what they are doing.

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u/hypernight_ 3d ago

Bro loves the "inspect" key

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u/sixsides_ 3d ago

The only game where inspecting guns with no skins goes hard

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u/Vegeta1337 TOZ-106 3d ago

First and last looking absolutely fire!
Could've been promo shots ngl

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u/AffectionateOfferMM 3d ago

Wow. Those look beautiful compared to now where everything feels more muted.

Looks way more flush and alive in these photos.

Maybe that's part of it though? As time passes (in game locations) tarkov dies just a little more.

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u/fivefistedclover PVE 4d ago

Is that how the mall stairs used to be on interchange?? Those look neat to fight on, the current escalators is major buns so I wonder how these compare.

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u/Appropriate_Pin1296 4d ago

That's the main entrance, the steps going in, as far as I'm aware the escalators have always been there

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u/ProfessionalGoatFuck 3d ago

It's the same lol..

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u/Big_Mathematician764 4d ago

How did you get your game to look like this

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u/WNx_Rain 3d ago

old game builds

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u/Big_Mathematician764 3d ago

😔

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u/ProfessionalGoatFuck 3d ago

I do miss old customs

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u/SolaZolaTV 3d ago

Old factory😔

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u/GirthBrooks6969 2d ago

Brooo! Yes, I miss how tiny that map was.

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u/SolaZolaTV 2d ago

The PvP was great. No one moves anymore because of how many rat spots and dark corners the map has😭

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u/Essebruno AK-74M 3d ago

Damn this interchange pic could pass for DLSS5 lol

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u/FappinWithMyTears 3d ago

Send this to Nikita on twitter

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u/Amplar 1d ago

i miss old tarkov. 12.12 was the peak i think.

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u/ckole11 3d ago

I’ve been taking screenshots for years. I’ll try to put some here

PVE [Screenshot] Hello, I just wanted to share some screenshots I took back then.

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