Kord Breach Season Modifier Planner

Always on, and it applies to every raid you play, which is worth more than it looks on paper.

It came out of the reprice untouched at 3 points and got better anyway, since the drain reduction went from 15% to 20%. That is unusual on this board, where most things that got stronger also got more expensive.

The catch is what it locks out. It blocks Sprinter, so the two mobility positives are an either/or rather than a pair, and it blocks Exhaustion, which is 5 points of income you cannot have alongside it.

Cheaper than it was and still narrow. Keys are purchasable, and running one dry rarely decides a raid.

The comparison that hurts it: 5 points out of a 50 point ceiling also buys Hercules outright, and that one you feel in every raid rather than on the occasional locked door.

In its favour, it blocks nothing, which on this board is worth something on its own.

Players agree. Nikita named it the least-picked modifier of Season 1 on the 12 August Tarkov TV.

Strong on Woods, Shoreline, Lighthouse and Ground Zero. Close to dead weight on Factory, Labs or Interchange.

The effect went from 50% to 75% at the same 5 points, which is the largest straight upgrade anything on this board received. Whether that is enough depends entirely on where your quests send you.

It blocks nothing, so it never costs you a second pick the way the mobility and skill modifiers do.

Painkillers are sold by Therapist at loyalty level 1, run for 80 seconds, and no longer carry the old dehydration penalty.

So this is a shorter version of something you can simply buy, tied to carrying juice.

The duration tripled, from 10 seconds to 30, and that is the difference between a rounding error and a real heal.

Still worth comparing against what the game already sells. Propital gives Health Regeneration +1 for 300 seconds. This gives +2 for 30. Regeneration also spreads across body parts over time rather than healing them all at once, so even 30 seconds moves less health than the +2 suggests.

Two effects, both permanent, and now 5 points rather than 3. For scale, +10 stamina is roughly 10% of the leg bar and 20% of the arm bar. SJ6 is around +30.

It is the most restrictive positive on the board. It blocks Exhaustion, Polyphagia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, which means taking it rules out 7 points of income and both of the other energy modifiers at once.

That last part is worth being clear about, because it reads like a free point and is not. Youth reduces energy drain by 20% and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome raises it by 20%, so they would cancel exactly, and the game will not let you take both. If you want the cheap energy negative, you cannot have this.

A flavour perk with an unknown payout, and BSG has not said how much or exactly how often.

At 1 point it is close to a rounding error in either direction, and it is one of only two positives on the board that cheap. It blocks nothing, which makes it the usual way to spend a stranded final point.

Cheaper than it was and considerably stronger: 2 points instead of 3, and the free starting level went from 10 to 25.

Still narrow. Bolt-action elite gives steady aim for the first 3 seconds regardless of stamina, plus faster mastering gain. It only pays off if you plan a dedicated bolt-action season.

Incompetent explicitly excludes Bolt-action Rifles from its slowdown, and the two do NOT block each other, which makes them one of the better-value pairs still available: 10 points of income against a skill penalty your main weapon is exempt from. Average does block this, so the two starting-skill modifiers are an either/or.

The task chain that shares this name is one BSG has named as staying strictly solo under the new group-shared objectives, so a squad cannot carry you through it however the rest of your season is planned.

Doubled in price to 2 points and still among the best value on the board. It roughly doubles the mileage of everything you eat and drink.

The matrix made it more important, not less. It covers Polydipsia and most of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, turning 4 points of cheap negatives into a net gain, and it is the only modifier that can: Hypodipsia is blocked by Polydipsia, and both Youth and Polyphagia are blocked by Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Diet blocks neither.

Fixes the worst part of a fresh start, which is panting ten seconds into any movement.

It went from 3 points to 5, which is the largest proportional rise on the positive board.

It also blocks Average, so the comparison people used to make between them is now a decision rather than a comparison. Hercules covers the part of a fresh start that actually hurts for 7 fewer points, and taking Average instead means giving this up along with Prodigy, The Tarkov Shooter and the 10 points Incompetent would have paid.

Applies to every rotation, every extract run and every disengage.

Its real cost is not the 3 points. It blocks Marathon Runner, so you pick one mobility positive rather than both, and it blocks Third Leg, which is the cheapest and most freely offset negative on the board. Taking Sprinter means giving up that point and the Therapist discount attached to it.

Whether that trade is right depends on whether you notice run speed more than stamina drain. Both are always on, and only one of them can be.

Fine, and unexciting. Bleeds are cheap to treat, and 2 points buys more elsewhere.

It also takes Hemophilia off the table literally rather than in practice, since the two block each other. That is 2 points of income you are choosing not to have, on top of the 2 you are spending.

It reduces hydration drain by 20%, where Polydipsia only increases it by 15%, so on paper it more than covers its opposite number.

That comparison is academic, because the two block each other. You cannot take the cheap hydration negative and cover it with this; you are choosing between paying 2 points for less drain or being paid 2 points for more.

Diet is the answer to both. It costs the same 2 points, covers hydration and energy together, and blocks nothing.

It mirrors Chronic Fatigue Syndrome exactly, 20% against 20%, at the same 2 points that negative pays. That looks like a wash you could take for free, and the game forbids it: the two block each other, as does Youth.

So the energy modifiers are a choose-one. Polyphagia is the narrowest of the three, since Youth adds stamina on top and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome pays you instead of charging you.

Diet covers most of the same ground for the same price, covers hydration as well, and blocks nothing.

Better than it was: fracture chance went from 15% to 25% and fall damage from 15% to 20%, at the same 3 points.

Genuinely useful if you play maps where you drop from height a lot, such as the Shoreline resort, and middling everywhere else.

It blocks Osteoporosis, which was the first lockout BSG ever showed and is now one of seventeen. Taking it forgoes 3 points of income.

New on the live board. It was not in the preview at all, so any guide written before launch does not mention it.

It speeds up how fast skills level rather than raising what they can reach, which makes it worth most to players who intend to grind toward elite thresholds and close to nothing to anyone who does not.

It sits inside the tightest block group on the board. Average and Incompetent both lock it out, which removes the two things it would most obviously have been paired with: it cannot offset Incompetent, and it cannot be wasted on Average. In practice that means Prodigy belongs in builds that fund themselves some other way, since the 10 points Incompetent pays are off the table the moment you take it.

The game gives no mechanic here, only a Latin motto. "Audentes fortuna iuvat" is "fortune favours the bold", and that is the entire effect text on the creation screen.

So there is nothing to weigh. At 1 point it is one of the two cheapest positives on the board, and taking it is a bet that whatever it does is worth more than nothing.

Its opposite number, Unlucky, pays exactly the same 1 point and blocks it outright, so the game treats them as a genuine pair even though it describes neither.

Divisive, and the incompatibility matrix made the case against it much harder. 12 points is a large share of a 50 point ceiling, and it blocks four other modifiers: Hercules, Prodigy, The Tarkov Shooter and Incompetent.

That last one is the real price. Incompetent pays 10 points, and Average forbids it, so the true cost of this pick is 12 points spent plus 10 points you can no longer earn.

In its favour: every skill at 25 on day one includes the quiet ones people forget, such as Vitality, Health, Metabolism, Stress Resistance and Attention.

Against it: Hercules covers the part that actually hurts for 7 fewer points, and the level 25 hard cap forfeits every elite perk for the entire season.

The headline pick, and the reprice changed what it is. It fell from 21 points to 12, which is now a similar share of the 50 point ceiling to Average rather than most of your budget.

It also blocks nothing, which is rarer on this board than it sounds and is half of why it plans so easily. Average costs the same and forfeits four modifiers; this costs the same and forfeits none.

What that means in practice: it used to demand nearly every negative on the board and leave you almost nothing else. The same negatives now buy Kappa and a full set of quality-of-life positives alongside it.

A 3x4 secure container from raid one compounds economically for the whole season, and nothing else on the board does that.

Against it: Kappa requirements are being eased this patch, quest kill objectives are now group shared so a duo or trio can rush it far faster than before, and Unheard and EOD owners already start with a Gamma. It still reads better for solo players than for anyone with a regular squad, but the case against it is now about whether you need it rather than about whether you can afford it.