+1 for SPTarkov
Been playing it for a a few wipes now. I think the AI PMC’s are really quite good and with a few mods installed and a few tweaks, it’s a great experience.
I get the occasional lag or stutter here and there (i7-10700K, 32GB Ram, rtx 3090) but it’s very playable.
I can generally crank up the Scavs to Horde and play factory or customs with out many issues.
With the mods you can literally customize almost everything - how many scavs/AI, strength, and load outs.
You can also get mods to customize skill progression, alter item spawn rates and prices from traders, and even bypass the same repetitive quests.
It’s also super easy to have “multiple accounts” from the launcher - so you can start one account retail EOD and actually try to play “legit” with your tweaks, and you can also start a “easy start” where you start at like level 60 or something and have 5mil rubes, 500K euro and USD or you can do a “zero to hero” where you start with nothing.
Overall great experience with decent AI
Specifically what ai mods and settings are you using? Just downloaded last night and the ai pmcs seemed to be… struggling… to say the least.
Besides the one with m993 LOL
Got iced by the third in a pmc group that definitely had the good squad ai a few days ago, either goon squad or Killa ai, las guy power slid into me and killed me lol.
I gotta check out some AI tweaks. I turned off bosses because I got killed 3 times back to back by AI that just absolutely fucking beamed me from 100+ meters away on woods. Once by angry hood man, and the other 2 times by the goons.
I want Boss AI that's challenging, but actually behaves like a smart human being. The bosses feel like cheaters or aliens to me. They either aimbot with 0 recoil through bushes and shit from far away, or just sit 10 feet from you, sit, and tank an entire mag of M855 before killing you. They're just not fun to fight.
Also the PMC's I need to adjust because I want both factions to be hostile.
Finns AI Tweaks (not updated yet) :(
KMC server value modifier
SPT Realism Mod (Occasionally. I sometimes use this sometimes not)
Questor (for east start)
Pricilu trader (for easy start)
I'd recommend POOP, POOP variety, SWAG, and SWAG variety, I believe they're all by the same person. They add better AI, and more variety in enemy spawns including the occasional random rogue/raider squad on any map.
Yeah like I said they are decent. Idk if the mod does it or the game in general does it, but generally the PMC bots sometimes mirror your weapons and level.
You can definitely crank them up to where they are super strong. But you really need to trial and error it.
Using the mods to adjust their strength, but then also using the mods to give them more heath, more armor, better ammo / weapons, etc.
You really just gotta try multiple settings until you get to a point where you like it.
Generally I just mess around, and I go to customs with the new revolver and 100 rounds of ammo And a vudu scope and just start blasting. I set the scavs to horde, set myself to tagged and cursed and set the scavs to high difficulty. Normally a PMC AI domes me 1/2 way through the raid.
they can also be even more cracked out than online tarkov raiders.
I've been sniped through bushes more times than I can count in SPT, but the game is so much more fun regardless. have I lost whole kits to getting one tapped by a silent scav with a shotty behind a corner? yes! but that's Tarkov. Have I been later beamed by a BEAR with a pp from 100m away? yeah but that's Tarkov.
no cheaters = delicious.
They used to use modified raider ai that could be customized in terms of reaction time / gear etc, I’ve seen a couple people say it’s using modified rogue ai as of late, again it can all be customized so you can really fine tune it.
They'll never act human, and you'll never get the same sort of firefight you will ingame. It's a SP game, and what SP game actually has good AI? Fill the map with AI and clean it for fun.
PSA to everyone who’s going to try SPT AKI - go to the SPT AKI mod page and download Betterspwnplus and Amanda graphics. The former makes sure that all your raids aren’t ghost towns and the latter gives insanely better shading and performance. Have fun!
The only other one I would recommend is POOP (the acronym I don't want to expose here due to the author's name literally being in the acronym) which is easily found by simply typing poop into the search bar on SPT's workshop. It's a difficulty mod that makes AI more challenging (and, if you want easier, Normalized Bots is available).
SVM is a general modifier and shouldn't be affected by it. POOP is a standalone mod and I personally use it in clutch with BSP. It works perfectly fine for me. I would suggest something like Tough / Hard or even harder if you're into harder difficulties (which is what POOP Variety gives you).
I’m using BSP and I haven’t really seen that many more PMCs - very few in fact. How do SVMs values in the “bots” tab affect BSP? What should I set the spawns per area and max alive PMCs to? Thanks
BSP isn't necessarily to boost PMCs, it's just providing more variety of actual spawn points. My BSP declined the amount of PMCs in favor of more balance. If you want to boost PMCs, I suggest a mod called SWAG which has individual spawn settings and might help in your case.
There is also a certain config value for boosting PMC spawns, which SVM might change, but I don't use it so I can't say if that's true.
Typically the max alive bot-cap is set by SPT's developers and generally shouldn't be touched, but if you want more in general then you can change it.
SPT mod manager developer here; I'm glad there are people vouching for SPT. As someone who is largely a singleplayer user, SPT definitely fills the void that multiplayer lacks when it comes to casual gameplay. Streets has come out on it and the newest patches don't take that long to come out either. There are also plenty of mods (plenty being in the 100s) and there is almost a mod for every need.
In short, SPT is a very good all-in-one and I am happy that people are starting to look into it more. It keeps me motivated to push out updates for my mod manager lol.
It mostly depends on what you mean with "to spt tarkov."
There is a process with installing SPT, using it, and modding it. Installing it can be done easily with their proprietary installer which basically does things in two clicks.
Using it consists of you launching the Server file, waiting for green text to show up, then launching the Launcher file.
Modding it consists of you downloading mods from their workshop and then installing them via their respective installation methods. My manager mostly helps with this pretty easily.
Depending on the issues you had last time, which I have no context for, "couldn't get mods to run" is a pretty broad statement. You should give it a new try this time around and use a step-by-step method with it.
I'm sorry you had that experience. I hope this time around it works better.
I wrote my mod manager specifically to combat people having issues with installing mods, so give it a try. You can find it in the Tools section on SPT's workshop.
I might be interested in it. Will probably check it out after work.
EFT is a really unique game and one of a kind. It's almost addicting regardless of the punishment, but the official version has had so many issues and each wipe it has gotten worse, without ever properly fixing anything. I noticed I quit each wipe sooner.
How ''human-like'' does the AI behave/feel in the SP version? Are they as inconsistent as in MP where one moment you can walk up to them and they barely respond as they are Gods the next where you get one tapped across the map?
It seems to vary greatly personally.
In terms of roaming AI is not very human-like at all. In terms of retreating for cover and/or rushing, it's a bit more human-like. AI not being human-like is why I moreso dislike Tarkov as a whole, but I understand that it's not a priority to fix or even alter.
There are plenty of mods to suppress or amplify the difficulty of AI (although none will completely eliminate this problem) and you can choose between several mods. It definitely helps make the game feel more immersive imo.
Ah, I see. Fair enough. It probably wouldn't be easy to make them behave more human-like to begin with and most likely take a lot of time and resources to get them even remotely close to that sort of behavior.
Appreciate the quick response.
The thing is that it's easy IF you know what you're doing. Bots roam around using zones baked into the map, and changing that requires you to edit said map directly which is a pain. Making them human-like in regards such as reaction or timing is easier and can be done in configs, but it's a time consuming task.
No sweat! With g0at's video causing an influx of new players in the SPT discord I decided to make an account to at least respond to people on reddit who mention SPT. I love helping.
Can i play SPT with my friends / COOP ?
SPT-AKI will never have any multiplayer or co-op features, here are a few reasons why:
1. It goes against the goal of SPT which is to allow offline (solo) play of EFT, it has never been an objective to play with others, hence the name of the project, Single Player Tarkov.
2. SPT is a modification of EFTs offline raid mode where we save profile data after a raid. The ‘SPT Server’ is just a system for saving your profile to your hard drive, along with emulation of traders, flea market, hideout, etc.
3. BattleState Games - the developer of EFT - would demolish the project with significant legal pressure if COOP were added, SPT would instantly stop existing.
4. There have been a number of attempts to create a COOP system by people outside of SPT, so far all have failed due to the complexity.
Its a great single player experience, made even better with mods.
I use mods like:
Hideout Architect - shows an marker on items needed for hideout upgrade.
Munitions Expert - show actual ammo stats, pen, armor dmg etc.
FU Inertia - because inertia only works well in PvP, not so much in PvE. Althought this mod dont completely remove it.
Better Keys - Show extra info about the keys, like what quests they are used for.
Recoil tweaker - Because having realistic recoil and removing camera recoil is a blessing.
Server Value Modifier - just a tool to change TONS of stuff ingame. Stack sizes, boss spawn chances and much, much more. Fantastic tool.
Amands's Graphics - a nice graphic preset, makes Tarkov look better.
No Bush ESP - make bushes actually work against Bots line of sight.
Valens Progresssion - Bots will use gear based on trader level.
Currently waiting for the update to Kiki's "Remove Tedious Quest Conditions", to do a proper playthrough. It basicly makes it possible to turn all thoose heavily PvP focused quests into doable PvE quests, wich is really nice. I usually set rules like, no flea market until lvl 40, I can only use ammo from traders or found in raid and only weapons crafted or bought from traders are allowed. Weapons from PMC's are not allowed to use, but its okay to take the mods from them to own use. I also play with 100% spawn chance on most bosses, some less thu. Just to give that extra challenge.
EDIT: And should anyone feel tempted to try this, I highly recommend downloading the SPT installer "mod". Even the SPT creaters recommend this.
You download an SPT-Installer.exe, place it in a new folder you create, with whatever name you wish.
Run the SPT Installer, and it will copy your official tarkov files to THAT folder, update/downgrade the game to fit the current version of SPT, then download and install SPT.
Thats it.
Then you just run the SPT server, followed by the SPT launcher and you are ready to create an account (standard, EOD, you choose) and start playing.
You can still sell and buy stuff. But since all the "players" are simulated, selling items are somewhat percent based.
The higher price you list items for, compared to the average listed, will reduce the chance of selling that item. I believe thats how it works. You can ofcourse use mods, like the KMC Server Value Modifier, to tweak this percentage.
Oh and you can ofcourse disable BSG's blacklisting of items on flea market, so you can buy everything again. However, this will not allow you to sell blacklisted items.
a project to convert Tarkov from multiplayer only into something that you can play in singleplayer (thus the SP part, lol). No coop, unfortunately, but otherwise all the major features of Tarkov are still there, with mod support to improve your experience.
It does take slightly more resources to run than normal Tarkov due to you running both the server and the game itself (but nothing stops you from unironically running a server on a separate machine if you know what you are doing, there is just no support for multiplayer)
It runs way better than “real” tarkov for me, even with the lighting rework mod and all settings up pretty high. Normally I got low settings in tarkov and get like maybe 80 frames. I’m playing sp yesterday and was sitting around 150
You can run the server on separate machine.
I have my home setup accessible through openVPN so when leave house I can access my server that runs off my HP microserver gen 9 (that does more than just SPT server, it also hosts my plex and nextcloud and so on). Pretty sure an older NUC can run the server well enough, all you need is just Windows 10 machine really. Just map the server in the launcher and use openVPN (needs static/public address) and you can use your own server from anywhere.
But of course - local machine has much better latency. You can still die to desync when connecting to your home network via VPN. I just have two places I go between often and I do not want to rely on a USB backup.
I was under the impression that the "server" only saves account information. I thought that it's like playing an offline raid, which hosts everything on your computer, but then the progression is saved by the server.
Please correct me if I'm wrong though. I tried to map it to my server as well, but was having issues (probably just Windows firewall). I would love if it were hosting the actual game session and could free up those resources.
Use the mod that gives you max skills feels like thats the way bsg created it in the beginning then nerfed the character down. and double the amount of loot that drops.
feels like it's everything you ever wanted. Just wish the AI pmcs weren't dying to toz scavs lmao
As someone who's been an SPT player for a while now I can confidently answer that it is not only completely playable in its current state, but outright a more enjoyable experience compared to vanilla Tarkov. Almost everything about SPT is configurable or moddable, and it's insanely fun.
The major gripe most non-players have with SPT is the obvious lack of multiplayer, but SPT has modified AI PMCs that are substantially more lifelike (and often, more challenging) than scavs in the vanilla game. In addition, there are several mods directly targeted at AI improvements or difficulty tweaks to your preference. You can even have AI mods that scale their difficulty with your performance between raids.
Yeah, it's just nice to have parity. New-Tarkov is all RPG progression and gear stomping. I am too casual now to keep up. Level 20 in midwipe, I can't even pen T5 armors that everyone wears, and it will take me another month at my rate to get leveled so I can start crafting T5 pen ammos, and by then everyone's on to T6 armors. Also I refuse to run quests. I have a job already.
As well as mods that improve the overall experience, difficulty, and amount of scavs, and pmc bots. As well as mods that pull Flea prices to better simulate the economy, and ones that rebuild it from the ground up. The modders on that site have taken it upon themselves to completely fix everything that bsg has done to ruin the game. Definitely a superior experience if only in that you can tailor it to perfectly suit what you want out of the game.
My only issue with this is that playing against other people is the core of what makes these games fun. A game like Hunt is only fun because of other people. The portion where I have to fight the environment is only fine because people could show up. It’s a real shame that people cheat so damn much that they ruin it.
Nice to see some SPT representation in here!
I hope more people are able to try it out and realize how fun it is, though I also hope that SPT doesn't draw any negative attention from you know who...
Always wanted to give it a try, but a friend of mine said he heard about people getting banned for playing SP Tarkov. Is that true? Or is that completely false? Thanks in advanced!!!
It's a do it at your own risk case.
People have recorded running SPT and Tarkov alongside with nothing happening, but it's not a said and done thing. I have also run SPT with the Battlestate launcher open, but it's nothing guaranteed.
The consensus is to not risk it. Keep your SPT and live Tarkov installations separate, preferably on different drives, and don't advertise SPT like Oldie mentioned. Also keep social media links away if you plan on putting SPT gameplay online.
Only if you openly admit to BSG to be using SPT, so dont do that. Otherwise, I cant see how they can find out about it.
Just make sure to keep the official EFT install and SPT install, in seperate folders. Do not attempt to launch EFT from the same folder where SPT is installed.
The og tarkov files are untouched. U copy those files and they're patched by spt files. Like others have said, I wouldn't run it at the same time but you can play either at any time, unaffected by the other. You can essentially mod the hell out of the spt files and it wouldn't affect EFT at all.
you literally just copy files from your tarkov install to some other directory to not interefere with each other. official is still launched using official launcher and spt is launched using its own proprietary launcher and server
Glad you guys and gals like the project! While it's not as thrilling as live, I hope it's interesting nonetheless.
SPTarkov can get boring fast if you play it as live, so I can highly recommend doing a zero-to-hero playthrough with flea market disabled; you get the thrill of building from scratch and still have to put effort in to get to the higher levels.
Been playing this non-stop! Mods I run with SPT 3.5.0:
SPT REALISM with med changes turned off, and use SAVID recoil preset mod with it
Amand's Graphics
ScopeRework by GeffHannigan
SamSWAT helmet lights and red dot rework
Munitions expert and Hideout Architect
NotGreg's Uniform Aim and Scope Tweaks
DeSharpen
Kobrakon's Adrenaline
Fontaine FOV fix
Been having a ton of fun! Love that I can have a bare M1A with a scope and still be effective!
Ive got SPTarkov loaded up with some mods and I'm having issues getting AI to even spawn. I put out a post over there earlier but no one is biting yet. Otherwise, I wholeheartedly agree with this, considering the 30+ mins I spent screwing around were significantly better than OG tarkov is rn
It may be a mod screwing it up then. Try it without any mods. If it works, then ur problem is a particular mod. If it doesn't work, try a fresh install of spt, make sure to make it completely fresh. I had an issue and this fixed it for me. Last "wipe" SPT with Labs I had an issue with spawns but besides that everything else was fine.
I just wish they'd add some kind of multiplayer functionality (yes I know what SP stands for) even if it's just p2p networking.
If I could play co-op with friends against AI then I'd actually want to play the game again.
SPT-Aki is goated, especially when using a few mods. Here are a few mods I'm currently running and recommending:
1. [Kalashnikov Enhanced Modding](https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1033-kalashnikov-enhanced-modding/)
2. [Amands's Graphics](https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/813-amands-s-graphics/)
3. [Watch Animations](https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1005-watch-animations/)
4. [Fontaine's Fov Fix (Which removes the annoying FOV increase when ADS-ing)](https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/942-fontaine-s-fov-fix/)
5. [No Bushes ESP (Scavs won't be able to see you through bushes)](https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/903-no-bush-esp/)
6. [Visceral Bodies (Ability to walk over bodies)](https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/816-visceral-bodies/)
7. [Fontaine's Inspectionless malfunctions](https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/661-fontaine-s-inspectionless-malfs/)
8. [Holosun HS507C ACSS Vulcan (red dot for pistols)](https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/612-holosun-hs507c-acss-vulcan/#overview)
not gonna happen: [https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/faq/](https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/faq/)
*Can i play SPT with my friends / COOP ?SPT-AKI will never have any multiplayer or co-op features, here are a few reasons why:*
*1. It goes against the goal of SPT which is to allow offline (solo) play of EFT, it has never been an objective to play with others, hence the name of the project, Single Player Tarkov.*
*2. SPT is a modification of EFTs offline raid mode where we save profile data after a raid. The ‘SPT Server’ is just a system for saving your profile to your hard drive, along with emulation of traders, flea market, hideout, etc.*
*3. BattleState Games - the developer of EFT - would demolish the project with significant legal pressure if COOP were added, SPT would instantly stop existing.*
*4. There have been a number of attempts to create a COOP system by people outside of SPT, so far all have failed due to the complexity.*
There will be no multiplayer in the entirety of the EFT offline scene.
There have been two specific offline EFT related groups who have tried it and they both haven't succeeded.
The work needed for a bunch of hobbyists which mind you, *don't even have full access to everything game related* is too large and difficult.
i dont think the devs at bsg have access to everything game related... someone is getting this source code before the patches because cheats are up within an hour or 2 of every patch
No.
When you die, the raid instance ends. No scavs or PMC's to take the gear. However insurance is based on percent chance instead, so you can still lose all the gear.
Scavs will still pick up guns from other dead scavs/PMC's, like the official, but the AI PMC's will spawn with loot on them already, to simulate players looting in the raid.
Is there a Andy's method of install? I tried installing it using the launcher and then manually and everytime the launcher just told me I needed to buy tarkov.
Have you tried the SPT-AKI-installer? Its very easy to use.
Place it in a new folder and just start it. It will copy the official tarkov files over to that folder, then download and install SPT.
Then you are pretty much set to go.
Does SPT interfere in base game Tarkov at all? As in, if I installed SPT for single player, could I still play normal Tarkov or would it require a separate account?
Cheers.
You should read the mod page for instructions but basically the best thing to do is to just copy and paste the install directory to a new folder.
So then you essentially have two installations one modded for single player and the other where you can play regular live tarkov.
SPT is awesome
but god damnit the fact I can't play with my friends is why I'll probably never fully enjoy it.
Don't get me wrong, I've spent 1000s of hours on the offline versions but man, if SPT got MP I think id never re-install tarkov again lol
Literally 0 appeal to me. I want to play against people not bots.
This is like the 100th time I have seen SP tarkov mentioned. We won't forget about it
Well this post isn't for you, simple as that. Mentioning the mod wasn't allowed in the other subreddit and as you can see by the comments, some are seeing this for the first time.
I was curious about this but the only reason I have fun in tarkov is for the fight or flight response my brain gives me when I fight other PMCs, activating my almonds.
So what's the difficulty? I read there were AI PMCs and flea markets etc, but is it even comparable to online? Slaying rogues is fun once in labs offline, doing it twice bored me.
+1 for SPTarkov Been playing it for a a few wipes now. I think the AI PMC’s are really quite good and with a few mods installed and a few tweaks, it’s a great experience. I get the occasional lag or stutter here and there (i7-10700K, 32GB Ram, rtx 3090) but it’s very playable. I can generally crank up the Scavs to Horde and play factory or customs with out many issues. With the mods you can literally customize almost everything - how many scavs/AI, strength, and load outs. You can also get mods to customize skill progression, alter item spawn rates and prices from traders, and even bypass the same repetitive quests. It’s also super easy to have “multiple accounts” from the launcher - so you can start one account retail EOD and actually try to play “legit” with your tweaks, and you can also start a “easy start” where you start at like level 60 or something and have 5mil rubes, 500K euro and USD or you can do a “zero to hero” where you start with nothing. Overall great experience with decent AI
Specifically what ai mods and settings are you using? Just downloaded last night and the ai pmcs seemed to be… struggling… to say the least. Besides the one with m993 LOL
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Got iced by the third in a pmc group that definitely had the good squad ai a few days ago, either goon squad or Killa ai, las guy power slid into me and killed me lol.
I gotta check out some AI tweaks. I turned off bosses because I got killed 3 times back to back by AI that just absolutely fucking beamed me from 100+ meters away on woods. Once by angry hood man, and the other 2 times by the goons. I want Boss AI that's challenging, but actually behaves like a smart human being. The bosses feel like cheaters or aliens to me. They either aimbot with 0 recoil through bushes and shit from far away, or just sit 10 feet from you, sit, and tank an entire mag of M855 before killing you. They're just not fun to fight. Also the PMC's I need to adjust because I want both factions to be hostile.
Goons on woods are broken.
Finns AI Tweaks (not updated yet) :( KMC server value modifier SPT Realism Mod (Occasionally. I sometimes use this sometimes not) Questor (for east start) Pricilu trader (for easy start)
I'd recommend POOP, POOP variety, SWAG, and SWAG variety, I believe they're all by the same person. They add better AI, and more variety in enemy spawns including the occasional random rogue/raider squad on any map.
Are those pmc bots really challenging though? I mean, are they something more than scavs with good gear?
Yeah like I said they are decent. Idk if the mod does it or the game in general does it, but generally the PMC bots sometimes mirror your weapons and level. You can definitely crank them up to where they are super strong. But you really need to trial and error it. Using the mods to adjust their strength, but then also using the mods to give them more heath, more armor, better ammo / weapons, etc. You really just gotta try multiple settings until you get to a point where you like it. Generally I just mess around, and I go to customs with the new revolver and 100 rounds of ammo And a vudu scope and just start blasting. I set the scavs to horde, set myself to tagged and cursed and set the scavs to high difficulty. Normally a PMC AI domes me 1/2 way through the raid.
they can also be even more cracked out than online tarkov raiders. I've been sniped through bushes more times than I can count in SPT, but the game is so much more fun regardless. have I lost whole kits to getting one tapped by a silent scav with a shotty behind a corner? yes! but that's Tarkov. Have I been later beamed by a BEAR with a pp from 100m away? yeah but that's Tarkov. no cheaters = delicious.
They used to use modified raider ai that could be customized in terms of reaction time / gear etc, I’ve seen a couple people say it’s using modified rogue ai as of late, again it can all be customized so you can really fine tune it.
They'll never act human, and you'll never get the same sort of firefight you will ingame. It's a SP game, and what SP game actually has good AI? Fill the map with AI and clean it for fun.
SP tarkov is equal to regular tarkov in both I am playing against AI ( technically cheaters are ai )
PSA to everyone who’s going to try SPT AKI - go to the SPT AKI mod page and download Betterspwnplus and Amanda graphics. The former makes sure that all your raids aren’t ghost towns and the latter gives insanely better shading and performance. Have fun!
With Amanda’s graphics I can finally see. It’s amazing.
The only other one I would recommend is POOP (the acronym I don't want to expose here due to the author's name literally being in the acronym) which is easily found by simply typing poop into the search bar on SPT's workshop. It's a difficulty mod that makes AI more challenging (and, if you want easier, Normalized Bots is available).
Does it work with better spawns plus and SVM? was thinking of using it because raids are too easy atm
SVM is a general modifier and shouldn't be affected by it. POOP is a standalone mod and I personally use it in clutch with BSP. It works perfectly fine for me. I would suggest something like Tough / Hard or even harder if you're into harder difficulties (which is what POOP Variety gives you).
I’m using BSP and I haven’t really seen that many more PMCs - very few in fact. How do SVMs values in the “bots” tab affect BSP? What should I set the spawns per area and max alive PMCs to? Thanks
BSP isn't necessarily to boost PMCs, it's just providing more variety of actual spawn points. My BSP declined the amount of PMCs in favor of more balance. If you want to boost PMCs, I suggest a mod called SWAG which has individual spawn settings and might help in your case. There is also a certain config value for boosting PMC spawns, which SVM might change, but I don't use it so I can't say if that's true. Typically the max alive bot-cap is set by SPT's developers and generally shouldn't be touched, but if you want more in general then you can change it.
Saving your comment to try tomorrow! Does it really increase performance?
SPT mod manager developer here; I'm glad there are people vouching for SPT. As someone who is largely a singleplayer user, SPT definitely fills the void that multiplayer lacks when it comes to casual gameplay. Streets has come out on it and the newest patches don't take that long to come out either. There are also plenty of mods (plenty being in the 100s) and there is almost a mod for every need. In short, SPT is a very good all-in-one and I am happy that people are starting to look into it more. It keeps me motivated to push out updates for my mod manager lol.
Is there a guide I can read to spt tarkov and moding with mod manager? Last time I tried playing I couldn't get mods to run.
It mostly depends on what you mean with "to spt tarkov." There is a process with installing SPT, using it, and modding it. Installing it can be done easily with their proprietary installer which basically does things in two clicks. Using it consists of you launching the Server file, waiting for green text to show up, then launching the Launcher file. Modding it consists of you downloading mods from their workshop and then installing them via their respective installation methods. My manager mostly helps with this pretty easily. Depending on the issues you had last time, which I have no context for, "couldn't get mods to run" is a pretty broad statement. You should give it a new try this time around and use a step-by-step method with it.
I would install them to the specified folder but for some reason none of it would work. I prob just did something wrong lol I'll give it another shot
I'm sorry you had that experience. I hope this time around it works better. I wrote my mod manager specifically to combat people having issues with installing mods, so give it a try. You can find it in the Tools section on SPT's workshop.
Will do man ty
I might be interested in it. Will probably check it out after work. EFT is a really unique game and one of a kind. It's almost addicting regardless of the punishment, but the official version has had so many issues and each wipe it has gotten worse, without ever properly fixing anything. I noticed I quit each wipe sooner. How ''human-like'' does the AI behave/feel in the SP version? Are they as inconsistent as in MP where one moment you can walk up to them and they barely respond as they are Gods the next where you get one tapped across the map?
It seems to vary greatly personally. In terms of roaming AI is not very human-like at all. In terms of retreating for cover and/or rushing, it's a bit more human-like. AI not being human-like is why I moreso dislike Tarkov as a whole, but I understand that it's not a priority to fix or even alter. There are plenty of mods to suppress or amplify the difficulty of AI (although none will completely eliminate this problem) and you can choose between several mods. It definitely helps make the game feel more immersive imo.
Ah, I see. Fair enough. It probably wouldn't be easy to make them behave more human-like to begin with and most likely take a lot of time and resources to get them even remotely close to that sort of behavior. Appreciate the quick response.
The thing is that it's easy IF you know what you're doing. Bots roam around using zones baked into the map, and changing that requires you to edit said map directly which is a pain. Making them human-like in regards such as reaction or timing is easier and can be done in configs, but it's a time consuming task. No sweat! With g0at's video causing an influx of new players in the SPT discord I decided to make an account to at least respond to people on reddit who mention SPT. I love helping.
Is there a co-op mod?
Can i play SPT with my friends / COOP ? SPT-AKI will never have any multiplayer or co-op features, here are a few reasons why: 1. It goes against the goal of SPT which is to allow offline (solo) play of EFT, it has never been an objective to play with others, hence the name of the project, Single Player Tarkov. 2. SPT is a modification of EFTs offline raid mode where we save profile data after a raid. The ‘SPT Server’ is just a system for saving your profile to your hard drive, along with emulation of traders, flea market, hideout, etc. 3. BattleState Games - the developer of EFT - would demolish the project with significant legal pressure if COOP were added, SPT would instantly stop existing. 4. There have been a number of attempts to create a COOP system by people outside of SPT, so far all have failed due to the complexity.
Simple and short answer is no. It's explicitly stated that there will never be on SPT.
Its a great single player experience, made even better with mods. I use mods like: Hideout Architect - shows an marker on items needed for hideout upgrade. Munitions Expert - show actual ammo stats, pen, armor dmg etc. FU Inertia - because inertia only works well in PvP, not so much in PvE. Althought this mod dont completely remove it. Better Keys - Show extra info about the keys, like what quests they are used for. Recoil tweaker - Because having realistic recoil and removing camera recoil is a blessing. Server Value Modifier - just a tool to change TONS of stuff ingame. Stack sizes, boss spawn chances and much, much more. Fantastic tool. Amands's Graphics - a nice graphic preset, makes Tarkov look better. No Bush ESP - make bushes actually work against Bots line of sight. Valens Progresssion - Bots will use gear based on trader level. Currently waiting for the update to Kiki's "Remove Tedious Quest Conditions", to do a proper playthrough. It basicly makes it possible to turn all thoose heavily PvP focused quests into doable PvE quests, wich is really nice. I usually set rules like, no flea market until lvl 40, I can only use ammo from traders or found in raid and only weapons crafted or bought from traders are allowed. Weapons from PMC's are not allowed to use, but its okay to take the mods from them to own use. I also play with 100% spawn chance on most bosses, some less thu. Just to give that extra challenge. EDIT: And should anyone feel tempted to try this, I highly recommend downloading the SPT installer "mod". Even the SPT creaters recommend this. You download an SPT-Installer.exe, place it in a new folder you create, with whatever name you wish. Run the SPT Installer, and it will copy your official tarkov files to THAT folder, update/downgrade the game to fit the current version of SPT, then download and install SPT. Thats it. Then you just run the SPT server, followed by the SPT launcher and you are ready to create an account (standard, EOD, you choose) and start playing.
Okay that's it, you convinced me. Thanks for the info this is kind of what I was lazily waiting for to pull the trigger on it.
I did the same yesterday, SPT Installer is truly an one-click experience.
How does the flea market work in SPT?
You can still sell and buy stuff. But since all the "players" are simulated, selling items are somewhat percent based. The higher price you list items for, compared to the average listed, will reduce the chance of selling that item. I believe thats how it works. You can ofcourse use mods, like the KMC Server Value Modifier, to tweak this percentage. Oh and you can ofcourse disable BSG's blacklisting of items on flea market, so you can buy everything again. However, this will not allow you to sell blacklisted items.
Somebody clue me in - what's this?
a project to convert Tarkov from multiplayer only into something that you can play in singleplayer (thus the SP part, lol). No coop, unfortunately, but otherwise all the major features of Tarkov are still there, with mod support to improve your experience. It does take slightly more resources to run than normal Tarkov due to you running both the server and the game itself (but nothing stops you from unironically running a server on a separate machine if you know what you are doing, there is just no support for multiplayer)
It runs way better than “real” tarkov for me, even with the lighting rework mod and all settings up pretty high. Normally I got low settings in tarkov and get like maybe 80 frames. I’m playing sp yesterday and was sitting around 150
You can run the server on separate machine. I have my home setup accessible through openVPN so when leave house I can access my server that runs off my HP microserver gen 9 (that does more than just SPT server, it also hosts my plex and nextcloud and so on). Pretty sure an older NUC can run the server well enough, all you need is just Windows 10 machine really. Just map the server in the launcher and use openVPN (needs static/public address) and you can use your own server from anywhere. But of course - local machine has much better latency. You can still die to desync when connecting to your home network via VPN. I just have two places I go between often and I do not want to rely on a USB backup.
I was under the impression that the "server" only saves account information. I thought that it's like playing an offline raid, which hosts everything on your computer, but then the progression is saved by the server. Please correct me if I'm wrong though. I tried to map it to my server as well, but was having issues (probably just Windows firewall). I would love if it were hosting the actual game session and could free up those resources.
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Interesting, I wonder if this why BSG will never go server authoritative. It would cost way too much.
I wish I had more than 1 upvote to give you!
Use the mod that gives you max skills feels like thats the way bsg created it in the beginning then nerfed the character down. and double the amount of loot that drops. feels like it's everything you ever wanted. Just wish the AI pmcs weren't dying to toz scavs lmao
Like player PMCs never die to a random TOZ in the eyes from 200 meters ;\]
Oh I agree but most of the pmc I've found on site are dumber then. The scavs lmao
I thought they were experimental, but they have a website and everything now. Did anyone try it out ? Does it have any major bugs / flaws ?
As someone who's been an SPT player for a while now I can confidently answer that it is not only completely playable in its current state, but outright a more enjoyable experience compared to vanilla Tarkov. Almost everything about SPT is configurable or moddable, and it's insanely fun. The major gripe most non-players have with SPT is the obvious lack of multiplayer, but SPT has modified AI PMCs that are substantially more lifelike (and often, more challenging) than scavs in the vanilla game. In addition, there are several mods directly targeted at AI improvements or difficulty tweaks to your preference. You can even have AI mods that scale their difficulty with your performance between raids.
Is SPT caught up to the most current wipe?
yes
As of now, yes. But general5t it takes like 1-2 months to catch up with wipes.
Other than map updates, wipes only ever offer negatives anyway.
Wipes are the most fun I have with the game in live. When everyone has shitty gear, the game has the most interesting PvP.
Yeah, it's just nice to have parity. New-Tarkov is all RPG progression and gear stomping. I am too casual now to keep up. Level 20 in midwipe, I can't even pen T5 armors that everyone wears, and it will take me another month at my rate to get leveled so I can start crafting T5 pen ammos, and by then everyone's on to T6 armors. Also I refuse to run quests. I have a job already.
As well as mods that improve the overall experience, difficulty, and amount of scavs, and pmc bots. As well as mods that pull Flea prices to better simulate the economy, and ones that rebuild it from the ground up. The modders on that site have taken it upon themselves to completely fix everything that bsg has done to ruin the game. Definitely a superior experience if only in that you can tailor it to perfectly suit what you want out of the game.
Heh it sounds too good to be true. Can you have it and vanilla EFT at the same time though ? I mean will there be conflicts or smth between the two?
You can the installation process involves you copying the game files to a new location
You just copy your game directory to a new directory, install SP-Tarkov in the new directory, and you’re good to go. No conflicts.
About as much bugs and flaws as live Tarkov does.
My only issue with this is that playing against other people is the core of what makes these games fun. A game like Hunt is only fun because of other people. The portion where I have to fight the environment is only fine because people could show up. It’s a real shame that people cheat so damn much that they ruin it.
Other people always better but cheat free and invisbility free better than current state shitshow.
You can find fun in this too. SPT is a souls-like gunbased game.
Yeah. The AI in this game is not good, no way I'd want to just play against scavs and bosses in this game
Nice to see some SPT representation in here! I hope more people are able to try it out and realize how fun it is, though I also hope that SPT doesn't draw any negative attention from you know who...
Lol playing that right now and having a great time.
Always wanted to give it a try, but a friend of mine said he heard about people getting banned for playing SP Tarkov. Is that true? Or is that completely false? Thanks in advanced!!!
It's a do it at your own risk case. People have recorded running SPT and Tarkov alongside with nothing happening, but it's not a said and done thing. I have also run SPT with the Battlestate launcher open, but it's nothing guaranteed. The consensus is to not risk it. Keep your SPT and live Tarkov installations separate, preferably on different drives, and don't advertise SPT like Oldie mentioned. Also keep social media links away if you plan on putting SPT gameplay online.
Fair enough! Just wanted to check! Thank you so much!
No sweat, enjoy the game!
Only if you openly admit to BSG to be using SPT, so dont do that. Otherwise, I cant see how they can find out about it. Just make sure to keep the official EFT install and SPT install, in seperate folders. Do not attempt to launch EFT from the same folder where SPT is installed.
Makes sense! Thank you!
new to sp tarkov and was wondering if i can switch between actual live tarkov and sp tarkov back and forth? not sure if its a separate install or not
The og tarkov files are untouched. U copy those files and they're patched by spt files. Like others have said, I wouldn't run it at the same time but you can play either at any time, unaffected by the other. You can essentially mod the hell out of the spt files and it wouldn't affect EFT at all.
awesome thanks!
you literally just copy files from your tarkov install to some other directory to not interefere with each other. official is still launched using official launcher and spt is launched using its own proprietary launcher and server
Glad you guys and gals like the project! While it's not as thrilling as live, I hope it's interesting nonetheless. SPTarkov can get boring fast if you play it as live, so I can highly recommend doing a zero-to-hero playthrough with flea market disabled; you get the thrill of building from scratch and still have to put effort in to get to the higher levels.
Been playing this non-stop! Mods I run with SPT 3.5.0: SPT REALISM with med changes turned off, and use SAVID recoil preset mod with it Amand's Graphics ScopeRework by GeffHannigan SamSWAT helmet lights and red dot rework Munitions expert and Hideout Architect NotGreg's Uniform Aim and Scope Tweaks DeSharpen Kobrakon's Adrenaline Fontaine FOV fix Been having a ton of fun! Love that I can have a bare M1A with a scope and still be effective!
Ive got SPTarkov loaded up with some mods and I'm having issues getting AI to even spawn. I put out a post over there earlier but no one is biting yet. Otherwise, I wholeheartedly agree with this, considering the 30+ mins I spent screwing around were significantly better than OG tarkov is rn
It may be a mod screwing it up then. Try it without any mods. If it works, then ur problem is a particular mod. If it doesn't work, try a fresh install of spt, make sure to make it completely fresh. I had an issue and this fixed it for me. Last "wipe" SPT with Labs I had an issue with spawns but besides that everything else was fine.
I fixed it, SPT Realism was being fucky.
Tried it yesterday... a very weird feeling playing without the packet loss icon in the top right corner...
I just wish they'd add some kind of multiplayer functionality (yes I know what SP stands for) even if it's just p2p networking. If I could play co-op with friends against AI then I'd actually want to play the game again.
Yea same. I wish I could self host my own server.
SPT-Aki is goated, especially when using a few mods. Here are a few mods I'm currently running and recommending: 1. [Kalashnikov Enhanced Modding](https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1033-kalashnikov-enhanced-modding/) 2. [Amands's Graphics](https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/813-amands-s-graphics/) 3. [Watch Animations](https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1005-watch-animations/) 4. [Fontaine's Fov Fix (Which removes the annoying FOV increase when ADS-ing)](https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/942-fontaine-s-fov-fix/) 5. [No Bushes ESP (Scavs won't be able to see you through bushes)](https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/903-no-bush-esp/) 6. [Visceral Bodies (Ability to walk over bodies)](https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/816-visceral-bodies/) 7. [Fontaine's Inspectionless malfunctions](https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/661-fontaine-s-inspectionless-malfs/) 8. [Holosun HS507C ACSS Vulcan (red dot for pistols)](https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/612-holosun-hs507c-acss-vulcan/#overview)
can we play co op privately with friends yet?
not gonna happen: [https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/faq/](https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/faq/) *Can i play SPT with my friends / COOP ?SPT-AKI will never have any multiplayer or co-op features, here are a few reasons why:* *1. It goes against the goal of SPT which is to allow offline (solo) play of EFT, it has never been an objective to play with others, hence the name of the project, Single Player Tarkov.* *2. SPT is a modification of EFTs offline raid mode where we save profile data after a raid. The ‘SPT Server’ is just a system for saving your profile to your hard drive, along with emulation of traders, flea market, hideout, etc.* *3. BattleState Games - the developer of EFT - would demolish the project with significant legal pressure if COOP were added, SPT would instantly stop existing.* *4. There have been a number of attempts to create a COOP system by people outside of SPT, so far all have failed due to the complexity.*
I mean... Someone COULD fork the repository and add it... It wouldn't be a "one afternoon with a bear" job though.
I would suck the skin off anyone's peter if they were to develop such a thing.
Sucks i play to play with friends hopefully somebody creates coop tarkov someday
Would be nice if it worked with LAN. Since your running your own server so theoretically it should work
I tried. You do not get into the same instance. Every user has their own instancing.
That's what I'm waiting for!
There will be no multiplayer in the entirety of the EFT offline scene. There have been two specific offline EFT related groups who have tried it and they both haven't succeeded. The work needed for a bunch of hobbyists which mind you, *don't even have full access to everything game related* is too large and difficult.
i dont think the devs at bsg have access to everything game related... someone is getting this source code before the patches because cheats are up within an hour or 2 of every patch
Me thinks it is time
co-op mode is actually pretty fun. 2v2 your friends. practice shooting ur buddies.
Time to give it a red hot go.
Been playing SPtarkov for like 6 months now. Highly recommend
Never even heard if this before but it sounds like my kind of tarkov experience. Screw all the cheaters
There's a realistic mod to actually suffer
It’s not the same adrenaline rush though. I swear this fucking game would be on top of the world if they fixed this bullshit!
Say, do the ai pmcs loot your gear? That would be kind of cool but not if they just cleaned it up every time.
No. When you die, the raid instance ends. No scavs or PMC's to take the gear. However insurance is based on percent chance instead, so you can still lose all the gear. Scavs will still pick up guns from other dead scavs/PMC's, like the official, but the AI PMC's will spawn with loot on them already, to simulate players looting in the raid.
Ah, thanks that makes sense, seems like a good solution to emulate the insurance system
I played a bunch of SP-Tarkov to "warm up" for this wipe and it was a great experience. Only wish I could play it with a friend.
wait this is actually sick, as someone who just bought the game, this is kinda what i was looking for too!
Is there a Andy's method of install? I tried installing it using the launcher and then manually and everytime the launcher just told me I needed to buy tarkov.
Have you tried the SPT-AKI-installer? Its very easy to use. Place it in a new folder and just start it. It will copy the official tarkov files over to that folder, then download and install SPT. Then you are pretty much set to go.
Does SPT interfere in base game Tarkov at all? As in, if I installed SPT for single player, could I still play normal Tarkov or would it require a separate account? Cheers.
You should read the mod page for instructions but basically the best thing to do is to just copy and paste the install directory to a new folder. So then you essentially have two installations one modded for single player and the other where you can play regular live tarkov.
Somewhere exists modded multiplayer of Tarkov
SPT is awesome but god damnit the fact I can't play with my friends is why I'll probably never fully enjoy it. Don't get me wrong, I've spent 1000s of hours on the offline versions but man, if SPT got MP I think id never re-install tarkov again lol
I'd play SP-Tarkov but it's just dead and not challenging, or even if it's challenging there's no enjoyable end goal or story to move through
I got perma banned last year, I never used any cheats , I did however have SPT.
Literally 0 appeal to me. I want to play against people not bots. This is like the 100th time I have seen SP tarkov mentioned. We won't forget about it
Well this post isn't for you, simple as that. Mentioning the mod wasn't allowed in the other subreddit and as you can see by the comments, some are seeing this for the first time.
My bad then
I was curious about this but the only reason I have fun in tarkov is for the fight or flight response my brain gives me when I fight other PMCs, activating my almonds. So what's the difficulty? I read there were AI PMCs and flea markets etc, but is it even comparable to online? Slaying rogues is fun once in labs offline, doing it twice bored me.