I'm a casual timmy, played the game on and off for years and recently picked it back up 2 weeks ago. I've done about 80 PMC raids since then, and have survived 17. I'm level 10. I have 2 PMC kills, 1 of which was on a naked pistol wielding level 2 player.
I really want to play this game and actually progress, but it feels completely impossible when I'm dying to 2K+ hour veterans almost every game. I've been trying to complete Prapor's convoy quest for the past 8 raids. Every raid I've made it to the camp safely, and there's some 5000 hour gigachad already there who headshots me as soon as I come within 50 meters of him.
I know, the entire point of Tarkov is that it's hardcore, no punches pulled, dog-eat-dog, but for fucks sake I just want to complete this quest so I can get cool guns to mod.
Obviously, the answer is "git gud". And yeah, I agree with that, I suck ass. But Tarkov makes it so difficult to actually get better at this game. I don't have time to play 8 hours a day, and Tarkov is so clunky & unoptimized that maybe half of my time is actually spent in a raid.
Of course, there's no real solution to the casual problem. We can't make it so veterans with thousands of hours can't interact with people like me. I'm just screaming into the void because I suck dick