A Boss has been removed from the game
"Yoooo" was one of his voice lines. His funny introduction always cracked us up whenever he joined the call. Obviously this isn't a normal boss in the game, this was my very good friend Bill.
He was a really good player, and very relaxed too. I never heard him angry at this game, or rage quit or anything like that. He let everyone play the way they liked, and was relaxed no matter the way he played.
He could gigachad, he could rat. He was good at both. Frequent server wipes, he was almost like a baked Killa. One time he wiped Factory then blew himself up with a grenade. I was more of a sniper rat, so when it was just him and I we would sit in bushes and he would smoke. If he heard a PMC he would go "PMC!" move slightly out the bush, laser the guy then go back into the bush and smoke. Zero temptation for loot. It makes me laugh everytime I think about it.
He taught me many things, especially his "Smoke Spots" where we would hide when he needed to smoke. My favourite was the one on Interchange, on top of the box by the trucks that requires standing on the ledge of the shelf. Many conversations were had there, many doobs smoked. If you asked for anything he would give it. Ask to loot his kill? He's chill with that too. He taught me the memes, like the penis helmet and the dong grip, his personal favourite was the Slender mask.
He was very supportive of all our playstyles and always complimented our gameplay, stating that we usually are all good too but in truth he was the best. Bar the top Twitch streamers he was really up there, an OG too he started playing when the game first came out. He loved the game very dearly, and it was by far his favourite besides maybe Counter-Strike.
He got the whole friend group into Tarkov. Me and Tom the Bomb, who by extension got binbag, Bee, Thebloodking518 into it. Some more who stopped playing too. If he wasn't the hard carry he was, none of us would experience Tarkov and it wouldn't be as big a part of our lives. He's going to be really missed, and the influence he had on us in the game will stick with us forever.
A brother and the best PMC. Rest in Peace, TamOShanter.
Edit: thank you for the support. we're all real life friends so most of us are together right now just talking about him.
Edit 2: I'm glad to have seen him immortalised and memorized even in doobs in your personal smoke spots even if just for one night. I'm going to log off, but thank you
Edit 3: Day after. My friends are glad for the support and all the people who have honoured him. It sounds deep, but it's proof to me that people never really die as he already lives on in memory and personally in mine and my friends' mannerisms that he will have influenced.
People have asked how he died and while I understand no disrespect has been made, it feels disrespectful to say and I love him and respect his family far too much to reveal that.
But it doesn't matter how he died, the Tarkov community. His favourite community... Let him live on for one more night, and continue to. Thank you all. I'll work on a smoke spot video or something when I get my PC working again. He would have shown you, so it feels fair.