Escape From Tarkov Beginner Guide – Gear, Map

Welcome to Tarkov, a place where bullets curve around corners, doors scream louder than you do, and you’ll question every life decision you’ve ever made. If you’re new, this Escape From Tarkov Beginner Guide will help you understand what’s happening before the game inevitably crushes your hopes again.

Escape From Tarkov Beginner Guide – Gear, Map

1. What You’re Actually Trying to Do

Tarkov has a very simple loop once you strip away the chaos:

  1. Go into a raid
  2. Try to make money
  3. Hear something
  4. Panic
  5. Die
  6. Pretend you’re done with this game
  7. Boot it back up five minutes later

If that cycle already feels familiar? You’re on the right path.

2. Raid

You spawn in. Maybe it’s Customs, maybe it’s Woods, maybe it’s somewhere dark where you can’t see anything.

For a brief moment, you think:
“I’m going to play slow. I’ve got this.”

Then someone three buildings away takes a shot, and before you even finish turning your camera, everything goes blurry and you’re on the death screen.

No, your ping is not the issue.
Yes, that person really saw you through 40 bushes.

Welcome to Tarkov.

3. Gear

You’ll stare at your stash like it’s your real bank account.
You’ll have enormous arguments with yourself:

“Should I bring this armor? What if I lose it?”
“What if I just go in naked?”
“Is a pistol enough? Maybe a pistol and a wish?”

Here’s the truth:
You will lose stuff.
You will lose a lot of stuff.

Bring the gear.
Use the gear.
You bought it to die with it anyway.

4. Creatures

There are three main creatures in this ecosystem:

Scavs

They either can’t hit you from five feet away, or they’ll erase you before you finish leaning.
There is no middle ground.

PMCs

You will rarely see them.
They will always see you.
They appear, delete your chest cavity, and loot you like you were a piñata.

Your Own Teammates

They will swear they know where you are.
They will not know where you are.
They will shoot you.
Then apologize while taking your ammo “so it doesn’t go to waste.”

5. Maps

Customs

You don’t go here because you want to.
You go because every quest forces you.

Factory

Blink and the raid ends.
Perfect for when you want instant adrenaline or instant regret.

Woods

The entire map is built for snipers.
Every tree is legally allowed to shoot at you.

Streets

More GPU usage than actual gameplay.
You will hear gunshots, then find out your frames died before you did.

6. How to Move Without Instantly Dying

Movement in Tarkov is its own set of rules.

  • Walking slowly keeps you alive
  • Sprinting tells everyone your exact location and the color of your socks
  • Crouching helps until you forget to stand up
  • Jumping is a cry for help—nothing more

If you jumped in Tarkov and survived, consider it a blessing from forces beyond comprehension.

7. Loot Logic

Tarkov’s looting rules are very scientific:

  1. If it fits in your bag, take it
  2. If it doesn’t fit, rotate
  3. Rotate again
  4. Rotate more
  5. Eventually it will fit
  6. If it still doesn’t, panic and drop something worth more

You will spend more time rearranging rectangles than shooting your gun.

8. PvP

Here’s what truly happens during combat:

  • You hear gunshots
  • You freeze
  • You try to figure out where the sound came from
  • You slowly swivel like a tank turret
  • You die
  • The kill cam shows someone you never even looked at

Congratulations, you just experienced Tarkov PvP.

9. Medical Treatment (Tarkov’s Version of Anatomy)

Tarkov’s medical system follows very strict logic:

  • Get shot in the arm? Your legs stop working.
  • Break your leg? Your thorax is now gone.
  • Forget a CMS kit? Your entire raid is already over.

The game teaches you quickly: bring meds or prepare to crawl to extraction while crying.

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