Even if sometimes you want noting more than to leave it for good. And once you go Tarkov, you never go back. EFT is both the most rewarding and most infuriating shooter experience you’ll find out there. That unique gameplay loop is one of the most hardcore, satisfying but also frustrating loops we’ve ever seen in a game. All that is left for you to do, is make it out alive and fill your finite stash with all the goodies you managed to escape with. Scavengers), player-controlled Scavs and of course other players. The passage above describes your average raid you go in with whatever you see fit, fight and loot your way through hordes of Scavs (A.I. Everything you manage to escape with is yours to keep, but if you die, you lose everything on you. The goal of EFT is – as the name suggests – escaping from the fictional Eastern European region. As I am finally opening the heavy iron gate separating me from the extraction, another Scav starts shooting at me and all the juicy loot in my overly filled backpack flashes before my eyes.Įscape From Tarkov (EFT) is a super realistic military shooter made by Russian developer BattleState Games. I’m now not only dehydrating, but also limping, and without bandages to stop the bleeding. On my way to the extraction, a Scav pops out from behind a stack of concrete slabs and blasts my left leg off. After fighting my way through the train yard at Customs with a mere Makarov, I looted a dead scavenger.

What’s Escape From Tarkov about, you ask? Here’s a little taste of a recent raid of mine: My fully modded AK-47M had run dry a while ago. Some aspects of this Escape From Tarkov preview may be outdated when you are reading it.

As of writing (January 2020), the current version is 0. Escape From Tarkov has been in a alpha/beta stage for well over 3 years.

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