An Escape From Tarkov Podcast
Lots of stories on this episode of the EXFIL - MTB kicks off the show with a story about the upper level of interchange when his partner (in a duo) was killed and then MTB proceeded to wipe out the entire 5 man team that surrounded his area. 
While it would have been easy to stop there he went on to talk about an epic fail on Factory when he went in with a ‘full chad’ setup - Exfil helmet with ear covers and face shield, raid backpack, meta AK, etc.  Basically meta chad except for one thing… he forgot a chest armor and ended up getting killed with 1 bullet to the thorax from a patrolling AI scav.  Ronal was quick to point out the easy lesson here!
Shout out to Nickk this week as he sent in a (very sad) story about a severe case of dehydration.  Specifically, he was leaving a raid as a THICC PMC on Labs and died in the elevator extract with 1 second left on the exfil timer due to dehydration.  While this seems crazy, if you’ve been playing this game long enough you have probably experienced some kind of death, maybe not dehydration, but something nearly as unlucky.  After reading the story MTB and Ronal give tips related to handling all of the debuffs and perhaps the most interesting point made is one about how long you actually spend dealing with severe debuffs compared to your total playtime.  It is likely in the seconds or minutes compared to the hundreds of hours spent running around and looting.  Think about how you would act in these scenarios because you may only encounter them a few times in your Tarkov career.
Nvidia Filters.  From color correction to vibrance enhancing, the recent conversation (mostly on reddit) has been related to the stance @bstategames took on twitter saying these would be turned off with the 12.5 patch but Nvidia did it early.  While the business implications are interesting the hosts also do not shy from giving their opinion on 3rd party software modifying games.  There are certainly cases that can be made for particular players that need correction, but the hosts navigate through the various thought processes and camps related to 3rd party correction.  You might be surprised where they land on this issue.
Lastly, Ronal talks about some settings at the end of the episode that may really help your FPS in game.  Specifically he talks about what the textures setting does to your CPU and GPU load and some tricks you can utilize to optimize your in game FPS.  This is in direct response to the Nvidia filters going away and people looking for ways to get more out of their in-game settings for the 12.5 patch.
Goodluck out there!  Let us know how you feel about the color correction settings going away!
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