This modpack contains SPT version 3.8.3 which runs on Tarkov Client 29197. This client version is required to play this modpack. If you don't have a clean version of this client, use the downgrade patcher to go from the live Tarkov version to the correct client for this mod. Download Patcher for 3.8.3 https://52sierra.net/patcher/ Patcher and installer by [SIERRA]: https://ko-fi.com/52sierra Check the battlestate launcher for updates and make sure you have created a character on your account. Close the battlestate launcher and copy-paste the tarkov client "Escape from Tarkov" folder to a non-problematic location of your likings like C:\ Tarkov client installation folder "Escape from Tarkov" is normally found in C:\Battlestate Games\ You may rename your folder to your likings but be sure to not include any non-english or special characters such as > or / Download the installer 7z file and unzip using 7zip Run the installer exe file. it will sometimes require user input to continue. The location of the patcher folder does not matter. The console will prompt you to choose a tarkov folder. Choose the one you created earlier and copied Tarkov files into. (don't choose the official bsg folder for live Tarkov) The rest of the process is fairly automatic. After the install, you may use the folder as a normal spt installation. Extract this modpack into your SPT folder created using the steps above and overwrite all files. The server should default to port 127.0.0.1 port 6969 Fika is included, so if you know how to configure that, you can. Run Aki.Server to start the server Run Aki.Launcher Go to settings and make sure your game path is correct to your Folder for this install. Set the URL to http://127.0.0.1:6969 Click the white arrow on top right and it should connect to your server OVERVIEW: This modlist is a labor of love that took over two years to complete. My goal was to create the best version of tarkov that I wanted to play that is as hardcore as possible, but still fun. Not only am I using mods, but in many cases I put lots of effort into tweaking the mod configs. The default SAIN preset is called "Realistic" and was custom made to be as realistic and immersive as I could make it. There is a good mix of chads, timmys, rats, and of course watch out for the rare and deadly gigachads. Just about every setting has been looked at, tweaked, and refined with feedback from the community and I am proud to say its in the best state it's ever been in. FYI there is even a difference between USEC and BEAR PMCs. USECs are a bit more skilled with scopes and will engage you at longer ranges, whereas BEARs are extra deadly in close quarters. You've been warned! The biggest changes I made was to the progression of the early game. You'll start with an EOD size stash, but only with the standard gear and less money. USECs will start with more dollars and less roubles. Your starting secure container will be a 1x3 waistpouch, and in general the secure containers can only hold meds, ammo, keys, money, and keycards. No more stuffing valuable items up your ass. The risk is real. The only exception is Bitcoin, because that just makes sense that you would be able to immediately transfer the bitcoin to a secure wallet. Once you have access to the workbench in the hideout the other secure containers can be crafted, and I tried to make the ingredients required as progressive and immersive as possible. Also to help with the early game inventory clutter, each trader has at least one new container type item for sale that is relatively inexpensive that will help bridge the cap between other items like the Scav Case, Medical Case, Item Case, Weapons Case, etc... All container sizes in the game have been tweaked for proper balance and progression. Prapor sells a small ammo pouch that can go in your secure container and allow you to hold more ammo there. Therapist sells a Medicine Pouch that will allow you to hold more medical items in your secure container. Stash size upgrades from the hideout are not as expensive as before, since it's harder to stack roubles in my world with the tweaked economy. In my perfect Tarkov world the flea market wouldn't exist, but some of my friends who I play with complained about this, so the Flea is back, however all items sell at a premium, and you can't list any items. Items can only be sold to the traders. In your stash SHIFT + ALT + LeftClick will auto sell any item to the trader who will buy for max value. Fence has also been nerfed a bit Therapist heals on the post raid screen are more expensive than usual. It might make sense to save your money and heal manually with meds in your hideout. Door Breaching. Door Breacher mod adds a new breacher round that can be loaded into shotguns and used to blast open locked doors. At level 1 Mechanic will offer these as barters. At level 2 mechanic will start selling them to you, but they are not cheap ~ 15k roubles a piece. Lock Picking. At the workbench medical tools can be crafted into lockpicks. You have a lockpicking skill that will increase the more you practice. Different doors have different difficulty so start with easier doors to gain experience and work your way up. Lockpicks can go in your special slot Gingy Key Chain and WillerZ wallet can go in your special slots. Some small SMGs, sawed off shotgun, and FN40GL are allowed in the pistol slot. I reduced the amount you have to spend to upgrade the traders in some cases (Peacekeeper). I always found that bottleneck annoying. Realism Mod with Medical changes Enabled. If you're used to normal Tarkov this will be the hardest thing to get used to, but I promise once you make the change you will never want to go back. I recommend you go read the Realism mod page so you understand all of the changes. Tourniquets only work on limbs. HP is not healed with IFAKs etc... Surgery kits can be used to heal HP even when you are not at zero. The most important thing to know is that you can't treat your torso with gear on, so double tap P key to automatically remove any item that prevents healing. If you don't like this you can turn off "Gear blocks healing" in config. To counteract the added difficulty of these features I've boosted your PMC health by 20%. Realism also adds hazards into the game, so make sure you read up on that as well. Stances - Realism mod adds weapon stances into the game. When you're in the standard gun ready stance your arm stamina will drain. This can be turned off in the config with "Enable Idle Arm Stamina Drain", but I recommend leaving it on and getting used to it. Try to stay in low ready stance to avoid idle arm stamina drain. High ready will give you a sprinting buff, but will drain arm stam. By default holding F and mousewheel up or down will adjust your stances. You can also use the arrow keys. You can also bind a key to cycle through stances. Spacebar is set to Active Aim, hold it down to hip fire effectively with less arm stamina drain. Spacebar will still work for jump / vault. Boss Spawns have been tweaked. In general the bosses may show up in some places where you don't expect them. There is a small chance you might encounter Killa in Factory, or Tagilla on Interchange for example. Loot is boosted on certain maps such as Interchange and Reserve, but with these rewards come the risks. The Goons will spawn in more maps as well to keep you on your toes. All marked rooms have been boosted and should have more interesting and varied loot. Use F12 in game to open the mod menu if you need to make any changes. MODLIST =============== Realism Mod - configurable with the GUI and F12 menu in game. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/606-spt-realism-mod/ Fika https://discord.gg/project-fika Server Value Modifier - configurable with the GUI. Load "Toma" preset to make changes https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/379-server-value-modifier-svm/ Amands Graphics https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/813-amands-s-graphics/ SAIN AI with Realistic Custom Preset (highly recommended) https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1062-sain-solarint-s-ai-modifications-full-ai-combat-system-replacement/ That's Lit - Works in conjunction with SAIN AI to make the bot reactions more realistic. brightness, cover and foliage have more of an impact now https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1453-that-s-lit-logical-ai-vision/ SWAG / DONUTS https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/878-swag-donuts-dynamic-spawn-waves-and-custom-spawn-points/ Looting Bots https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1096-looting-bots/ Questing Bots https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1534-questing-bots/ Big Brain https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1219-bigbrain/ Waypoints Expanded https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1119-waypoints-expanded-navmesh/ Backdoor Bandit - Adds shotgun breacher rounds to bust open locked doors. Blow open doors with explosives. Customize to sync with Fika. Extra crafts added for more immersive progression https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1154-backdoor-bandit-bb/ Borkels Realistic night vision and thermal mods https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1303-borkel-s-realistic-night-vision-goggles-nvgs-and-t-7/?highlight=bork https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1510-borkel-s-big-realistic-thermal-package-bring-real-life-realism-to-your-thermal-s/ Borkel's Bloody Bullet Wounds https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1740-borkel-s-bloody-bullet-wounds-particles-splatters/ FOV fix - customize the FOV zoom for any optic level and adds a non-scope FOV zoom similar to Arma3 https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/942-fontaine-s-fov-fix/ Skills Extended - adds new medical and lockpicking skills into the game. https://github.com/CJ-SPT/Skills-Extended Leaves Relooted https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1603-leaves-relooted/ Leaves Loot Fuckery - highly customized https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1587-leaves-loot-fuckery/ Balanced Overhaul Of Bullet Spawns (BOOBS) - adds more variety to ammo spawns https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1339-balanced-overhaul-of-bullet-spawns-boobs/ Keys in Loot - Makes keys actually findable in-raid https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1738-keys-in-loot-kil/ Useless Key Blacklist https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/760-useless-key-blacklist/ Progressive Container - adds the crafts for the secure containers to the workbench. Customized by me to require more immersive ingredients. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1582-progressive-container/ Reflex site and Scope overhaul - For added realism and QOL https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1327-eft-scope-and-red-dot-sight-overhaul-by-geff-hannigan-reupload/ Stash Search https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/2848-stash-search/ Search Open Containers - Loot open containers without having to close them first https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1265-search-open-containers Use loose loot - dropdown menu to Eat or drink items directly from the world without having to put in your inv first https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1264-use-loose-loot/ Vocal Players - Your character will automatically play in game voice lines when throwing a grenade, reloading, killing, etc I took this out because it was causing issues. Hultafors dead blow hammer - A usable Melee item that is Tagilla's sledgehammer https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1040-hultafors-dead-blow-hammer/ RPG-7 - added for lulz. It's buggy but fun. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1726-rpg-7/ Helicopter Crash Sites - similar to an airdrop, but cool as hell. Customized to sync with Fika. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/659-helicopter-crash-sites/ Better Bullet Cracks - Improved bullet whiz sounds https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1960-better-bullet-cracks-bbc/ Visceral Dismemberment - Adds some gore into the game. To remove it, delete VisceralDismemberment.dll and VolumetricBloodFX.dll and 'ssh' folder from Bepinex/plugins folder. Bright Lasers - Brighter lasers for your guns. No more blue laser, best laser. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1880-brightlasers/ Dynamic Maps - In Game map that is actually useful. Don't use it to cheat please. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1981-dynamic-maps Water Hydration Boost - More immersive water, realistic drinking times. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1994-water-hydration-boost/ Sometimes it Snows - Has since been renamed to All the Seasons. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/2052-all-the-seasons/ Dynamic External Resolution Patch https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1259-dynamic-external-resolution-patch-derp/ Healing Auto Cancel - Automatically cancels applied med kits when the body part is at full health and is not bleeding or broken https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1779-healing-autocancel All Found in Raid - Any item brought out of raid will have Found in Raid status. (looted PMCs) Downloaded from Fika Discord. Mod made by Lacyway Guiding Light - New trader and Questline added. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1622-guiding-light-95/ Virtuals Custom Quest Loader - Required for Guiding Light https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/885-virtual-s-custom-quest-loader/ Keymaster - Trader that unlocks at level 30, allowing you to purchase any key in the game. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/272-lock-picking-attorney-redux/ Loot Value - see the trader sell value of any item by hovering mouse. SHIFT + ALT + LeftClick to quicksell to traders https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1606-lootvalue/ More Checkmarks https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1159-morecheckmarks/ Limited Trader stocks - Traders will more often be sold out of certain items https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1638-limited-traders/ Tyfon UI Fixes https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1860-ui-fixes/ Quick Move to Containers https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1859-quick-move-to-containers/ Task List Fixes https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1114-task-list-fixes/ Choo Trader Modding https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1795-trader-modding-and-improved-weapon-building/ Realistic Trader Icons - I prefer them https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1141-realistic-trader-icons/ Kaeno-TraderScrolling - allows you to scroll the traders left / right because I added a few https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1508-kaeno-traderscrolling/ WTT - The Long Lost Heads of Yojenkz - Add more heads to use for your character. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1858-wtt-the-long-lost-heads-of-yojenkz/ War Heads - Add more heads to use for your character. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1796-war-heads/ WTT - Head and Voice Selector - Allow you to change your head and voice after character creation from the overview screen. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1788-wtt-head-and-voice-selector/ Small Cases and Fanny Pack - Adds more containers into the game. Highly customized by me. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1318-deprecated-small-cases-now-with-fannypack/ CNN Containers - Adds more containers into the game. Highly customized by me. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/881-cnn-containers/ Handy Toolbox - A new storage container for all your tools and parts! https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1129-handy-toolbox/ Easy Ammo Names https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1763-easy-ammo-names Kiki-BiggerStash https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/79-kiki-biggerstash/ Expanded Task Text https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/2853-expanded-task-text-ett/ Quick Weapon Rack Access - Quick access to the weapon rack without opening the hideout first https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1887-quick-weapon-rack-access/ Custom Asset Importer https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1731-arys-custom-asset-importer/ Auto Deposit https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/2027-autodeposit/ Inventory Organizing Features https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/2122-inventory-organizing-features https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1152-inventory-organizing-features/ Magazine Inspector https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1236-magazine-inspector