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This is a realization I'm coming to with Escape From Tarkov. I love firearms and customizing them in real life. I like games that make that a priority. I like the open market. But it's all about metas now. No variability. No realistic encounters (just finding cheesy ways to abuse the mechanics of the game to your advantage). As such, I stopped playing about a year ago, and after revisiting a couple weeks ago, I don't think I'll really be playing ever again.

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>all about metas now.

How long have you played? Ever since the Flea was introduced, there has been a consistent meta that largley ruins the game. That meta might change through various wipes, but there has always been a preferred way to play.

Asking for people who aren't familiar with the Escape from Tarkov game mechanics: What is a 'meta' and what are 'wipes' in this context? And in which way did 'the Flea' ruin the game?

Wipe: Tarkov is still in beta, as such balancing, leveling and the economy aren't worked out yet, so periodically they reset the game to square one: you lose your progress, along with everyone else, and have to start from the beginning. This is called a wipe. (at first I thought this would be annoying, but many players find it exciting, it renews the game, and early stage and late stage wipe play very differently.)

Flea and meta: the flea is a market between players instead of only having npc stores. It changed the way the game works, as people with a lot of money can always have meta loadouts. meta in this context refers to the best performing configuration of items, so the meta is x weapon with y ammo etc. (meta is a common term: for example in overwatch the various heroed are dubbed in the meta or out of the meta depending on the latest game mechanics updates)

meta is an acronym of Most Effective Tactic(-s) Available

haha, thats nice. I believe that's a backronym though.

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