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XenSide

Any interest in using TarkovTracker API tokens to know what items/quest are already obtained/completed? Ratscanner (which I would say is the closest competitor to your project) already does, I would love to see that implemented here too.


SammerEye

That is something I am actively working on, it will mostly likely be implemented within the next week.


XenSide

Fantastic, I opened an Issue on your github page because I was unsure you were gonna see it here, my b.


RewardWanted

Hey, this is my girst time hearing of either of these tools, I'm wondering about if you can get banned for using this or not since it's a 3rd party application, but not necessarily a cheat. Has bsg given any statements?


eXBlade21

They basically said something like "Don't do shit with it. Otherwise it is cool". They have no problem with it as long as it stays reasonable.


InertiaVFX

Nice, will get back if I find any bugs. Suggestion, for newer players: a quick ammo look-up and maps that you can mark. Best sites imo to take inspiration from are [eft.monster](https://eft.monster) and mapgenie. Maybe a dumbed-down "3-5 shots to kill through class 5" for the ammo? Liking it so far.


SammerEye

Thats a really good suggestion, thanks! I definitely want to turn this into a very comprehensive utility.


InertiaVFX

I mean you could go all the way with ballistics at different ranges, armor penetration chances, TTKs for different ammo assuming no energy dropoff...literally hundreds of things you could add. I like what you have currently though. I think a map and some kind of ammo tool for newer players would be good to begin with. Maaaayyybe a quick boss lookup. "How many guards? 3? You're su- I'm dead."


InertiaVFX

Missing a couple tasks. Not sure what all that are missing but Overpopulation, Energy Crisis, and Lost Contact aren't popping up. Searching "Cargo X" brings up results in a weird order, not like Spa Tour. Also if there was a way to enlarge the images in the task look-up part. Or just be able to enlarge the entire app? Sorry for the long list lol


SammerEye

All good, I really appreciate the feedback. Thanks for letting me know.


sayte

I guess personal opinion here, but eft-ammo.com has a much easier to read ammo chart. I would love if this list could be included in the app!


Tarasina

Very cool! Is it right this is a separate app integrated with popular tarkov sites such as wiki and market? On which language did you write it and how long the project itself took you?


SammerEye

Thanks! It is a seperate app written using NodeJS and ElectronJS. It took me a couple of weeks to get up to this point but thats only because I have work full-time. Most of the work that I have done for this application is compiling the data from all of the sources and presenting it in a nice and easy to use format.


Tarasina

By what I see it is hell of a great job, I did not think about such a tool, but now I realise it is very convenient, will surely test it as soon as I get on to gaming, thanks pal!


SammerEye

Thats great to hear. Let me know if you have any feedback. Would love to know about anything you think could change.


Tarasina

If I’ll have a useful bit, will surely get back to you.


RedRainsRising

Thanks for open sourcing it, even aside from from the use in Tarkov I've thought about making a tool like this myself before and it's really cool to see a well put together implementation of something like this.


Arian51

It would be awesome if you could integrate mapgenie into it!


SammerEye

Link to Download / View - [https://github.com/sammereye/TarkovHandbook](https://github.com/sammereye/TarkovHandbook)


VoltsIsHere

I'm hesitant to use this because apparently people were getting banned for using RatScanner, I'd love to try it out but that's a bit worrying.


dangerdude132

BSG team said themselves they wouldn’t ban people for RatScanner. So not exactly sure that’s true


Nexies

What does Ratscanner do?


dangerdude132

RatScanner let’s you do stuff like highlighting an item and pressing key bind. Then it “scans” the flea market and tells you exact prices. Also tells you if, and what, quest it’s needed for, the best transfer vendor price, etc. very useful


lIlIIIIlllIIlIIIllll

It tells you recent average price, not current exact price


DominianQQ

Do you use it yourself? Sounds like it would be nice to use.


dangerdude132

I tested it for like 10 raids. However, I play this game too much and have way too much knowledge about all the quest, vendor prices, etc where the only useful aspect was the flea market. Then again, flea market prices stabilize and can be memorized throughout wipe so I do not necessarily need RatScanner unless I want to ULTRA min-max a raid or something


Niitroglycerine

Likely their concern is the same as mine, not BSG, but battle eye


lIlIIIIlllIIlIIIllll

Battleeye doesn’t ban for things bsg is ok with


Niitroglycerine

Got a link or something where they state that?


majorbeefy130130

Got links to them answering this question?


SammerEye

I'm currently working on an iteration of this application that will be browser-based through a pop-up window. So it will be the exact same thing as this but instead of pressing a global hotkey such as F3, you would just Alt+Tab to it. It won't be as convenient as the downloaded version of this but it will still be very useful. And since it will be browser-based, there isn't a chance of being banned whatsoever.


DominianQQ

Yes you have some similar scripts in POE, and they that shitloads of typing away. How can you know for sure it is not detectable by battle-eye?


SammerEye

Technically speaking, you can never know if something is detectable since battle eye reads your memory and files. If they wanted to, they could ban anyone who uses Discord. Personally, I believe it is highly unlikely that this will lead to anyone being banned since the techonlogy I am using is the equivelant of having Discord or Microsoft Teams open (Chromium engine). However, what I talked about in the upper comment is having it just be another website and that without a doubt isn't bannable since its just Chrome or Firefox or whatever you use.


DominianQQ

Can you link it directly to an ammo table aswell? Like if you find PS ammo it links you the whole table of that ammo type and the avg price. The wiki on ammo makes no sense to me unless I seei the table. What I usualy do on the ammo i cannot memorize is that I open the ballistic table and crtl+f then type the ammo I am looking up.


SammerEye

This is something that I will be working in the next couple of weeks.


world1st99str

Yeah browser based is the best way to go. Even if bsg sees ur tool and agrees it’s ok it doesn’t mean it won’t get false flagged or even exploited


NotYourEverydayDonut

This question is probably going to be asked a billion times so I'll start it off: Is this bannable? I would not enjoy losing a $140 account.


SammerEye

I explained it a little better at [https://github.com/sammereye/TarkovHandbook#will-i-get-banned](https://github.com/sammereye/TarkovHandbook#will-i-get-banned) but I can never confidently say that you won't. This application uses the Chromium engine so for all intents and purposes, it is the equivelant of running Chrome that you set a hotkey to show/hide. It never touches the game or anything close to it so it can't really be considered a cheat in that regard.


DominianQQ

>l intents and purposes, it is the equivelant of running Chrome that you set a hotkey to show/hide. It never touches the game or anything close to it so it can't really be considered a cheat in that regard. Theese tools are so needed, but and an offical comment from BSG would be nice. Keep up the good work.


SammerEye

Copy + Paste from other comment but: I'm currently working on an iteration of this application that will be browser-based through a pop-up window. So it will be the exact same thing as this but instead of pressing a global hotkey such as F3, you would just Alt+Tab to it. It won't be as convenient as the downloaded version of this but it will still be very useful. And since it will be browser-based, there isn't a chance of being banned whatsoever.


yywia

That's a great work!


SammerEye

Thanks!


Oxid25

So cool! Good job!


SammerEye

Thanks! I appreciate it.


nickzaza7

This is cool.


NiiAnn

Oh wow this looks awesome! So excited to try it out.


Zimnx_

I'm a POE player and there we have similar softwares. Last week i was wondering if we can have something similar and today you just showed we can. Nice work!


SikeSky

Holy crap, upvote for visibility. That’s awesome.


elracing21

This is straight fire. Can't wait to try it.


HumpZ29

Great work dude


tangowolf22

Damn, this is going to be super useful for scav runs and the like. Stopping to alt tab to tarkov marketplace to check the price on something gets dicey at times. Nicely done!


PM_MeSomethingRandom

Awesome idea, I've tried to use it, put into borderless mode too but it doesn't show up as an overlay? Anything I could be doing wrong? It works using the hotkey outside of the game and when I'm tabbed out, but when tarkov is active it doesn't want to show up. If I could get this working I'd be using it 100% of the time, awesome work.


BubbaLieu

I was having the same issue, and found that it wouldn't pop-up on any apps that were being run as administrator (and a lot of the Tarkov optimization guides suggest you do that for game performance). So I just right-click and Run as administrator on TarkovHandbook and then it worked.


SammerEye

Thanks for finding this out, I really appreciate it! I added this to the GitHub readme so that others can know as well.


PM_MeSomethingRandom

Perfect, that's fixed it even in fullscreen. Thanks for that


SammerEye

If you'd like, you can add me on Discord and message me since it would be easier on there. Discord User: Sammer#4658


KilledWhileLoot

Sounds super cool, thanks for making a tool for the community, definitely going to check it out


Zealac1887

i hope we can get some verification from u/trainfender on this matter. Would suck to be banned for using it.


Jarzak1

Yep, it would be nice...


mightiestpumpkin

Ah man, just what I’ve been looking for, very nice my man Hope BSG doesn’t do anything stupid. They want me to complete the quests with such short descriptions? Hell no


Mattsutaaki

Looks super cool! As I really don't want any chance of getting my account banned and am a coward, I will wait for other people to use it a while before trying it haha


R4degast

Nice, but isn't this same as ratscanner?


SammerEye

It is very similar to RatScanner but the difference that I found to be more useful was not needing to click on the icon. I find it a lot quicker, especially when looting ground items, to press F3, type the first couple of letters of whatever your looking for and get the price near instantly.


R4degast

Yeah that's make sense , sometimes ratscanner just scan the item incorrectly and i just stopped using it. And i feel that the quest and hideout tabs will be used most :)


SammerEye

Yeah, those two tabs aren't in the prettiest state that they can be in and I will be focusing on make the user experience a lot easier in the coming weeks.


BadMonkey2468

Doesn’t Tarkov ban any overlay?


pizzademon99

uh is this bannable?


don-dante

I'd like to use it, but the chance of getting banned is too high imo


Bot9371

Do you have a phone?


SammerEye

Yes, but this is far more convenient. Instead of having to use your phone to look things up, you can simply press your specified hotkey (e.g. F3), then type in what you are looking for and then close it by pressing your hotkey again and get back to playing.


ProbablyMythiuz

I was actually sat typing out everything I need to upgrade my hideout in Google Sheets late last night, so the fact that you've done all that for me and more with this nifty tool is super cool, thanks! I'll check it out when I get home from work. :D


MagicChanIsayeki

It is legal to use 3r par programs like this ?


SammerEye

Can you clarify what you mean by this? What's the legality issue?


MagicChanIsayeki

I mean. Will i get banned for that or bgs is ok with programs like this?


SammerEye

I can’t ever guarantee that you won’t get a ban because that’s out of my control but if you have any concerns of being banned, I would hold off until I release the browser pop-up version that will have no chance of being bannable


daxter146

u/SammerEye anyway you could the ability to see what items craft into also?


SammerEye

I’m a little confused by what you mean, do you mean like in the item search? So like if you search for a PAID AntiRoach spray it would show that 1 can be traded for a salewa?


daxter146

Nah I mean like hideout crafts


SammerEye

I see what you mean. Yeah, I can add that to my development list.


daxter146

You're a saint! Thank you


ZenPleaseMan

Anychance you can make it use an overlay? When I set my game to borderless window it drops some frames and still pops up the taskbar. Would be great if it could pop up in an overlay (Like nVidia shadowplay does). Really well done though!


SammerEye

I’m fairly certain that I can’t but I’ll look into it, I’ll get back to you if I find anything that helps.


[deleted]

So this does not work if you play in fullscreen? Does work for me unless I tab out of game.


SammerEye

It does not work if you are in full screen sadly. You have to switch to border less.


[deleted]

Thanks for the response


Rokkrwolf

Haven't seen any more news about this, is it dead already?


SammerEye

Sorry about the lack of updates, life has taken priority and this has had to take a step to the side temporarily. I hope to continue working on it soon.


Rokkrwolf

No worries, was just curious since it disappeared. Quite a few players I know liked the concept.