We did it!
We hit the 1K milestone on @Twitch! I’m not the best at recognizing milestones and stuff like that, but this one feels big.
Thanks for the support y’all. I truly appreciate it.
Balancing changes have been made to #EscapefromTarkov:
● Decreased reaction speed for the boss Wedge and his guards;
● Increased bot detection speed on the Icebreaker;
● Added flashbang and gas grenades to the Black Division bot arsenal;
● Added additional Rogue spawn points on Icebreaker.
Prestige changes are good from a player retention standpoint as each prestige takes you deeper into a task line that as a new player you'd have not explored. You can master the early game, and streamline later prestige while getting deeper in the game.
It only hurts from an old player standpoint because "back in my day" arguments that alienate new players viewing prestige like a second job. Anything to encourage new players to go get their pocket watch and bring life into raids is a win IMO.
Gladiators, as part of the playtest in #TarkovArena, we’ve temporarily adjusted the TeamFight mode!
Our team has reworked the timing of all key match phases to make rounds more dynamic and reduce downtime between fights.
● Key changes:
- The Capture Point now appears 20–40 seconds after the gates open, depending on the Arena size.
- The Cleanup Crew spawns 60 seconds after the Capture Point appears.
- The Poison phase begins 20 seconds after the Cleanup Crew enters the field.
- Total round duration (from gate opening to Poison activation) has been reduced from 155 seconds to 90 seconds.
● Additional changes:
- TeamFight no longer has class restrictions within a team.
- Capture time has been reduced to 7 seconds (except on the “Bowl” map).
- Capture speed now scales with the number of players involved, similar to the CheckPoint mode.
💰 During the event, all TeamFight rewards are increased by 50% (including BattlePass XP).
⏰ The playtest will run until May 12, 10:00 BST / 5:00 AM EDT.
We’re looking forward to your feedback in the comments — your input may shape the future of the mode.
If you don’t want to play Tarkov Arena, just say it with your whole chest.
Like… it’s fine if you don’t want to play it. I don’t want to play Lighthouse, so I get it. But you also don’t need to grandstand about ‘business practices’ and ‘protecting people who don’t own Arena’.
@veeron Kappa should be a reward for doing all the side quests. Prestige should be the reward for completing the main story. If one side seems too easy/hard then they should rebalance the difficulty.
You should Escape and then be able to prestige. I’m not sure why we’re over thinking it so much. You functionally beat the game — reset and do it again, or don’t and do it later.
We really don’t need to reinvent the wheel here.
A new in-game survey is now available for #EscapefromTarkov players, focused on the Prestige system.
Your responses will help us better balance new Prestige levels, their difficulty, and the value of rewards, as well as improve the current system.
You will receive a participation reward in your in-game messages after completing the survey. Every opinion is important — thank you for helping us make the game better!
@xzeuii Kappa should be a reward for beating the side quests. Prestige should be the reward for beating the story. If the story isn’t hard enough, then make it harder. It makes 0 sense to beat the story (with some endings actually nuking the city) and then pretending it didn’t happen.
Fuck.
@EhCanadien_ was easily one of my favorite people in this space. I laughed so hard every time we played (or whenever I pulled him up).
He actively cared about every person that stepped into his chat and made sure that we knew it.
He will be missed.
It is with a heavy heart that I share our beloved goose @EhCanadien_ is no longer with us.
If not for him, a lot of the success and growth ive had including all of my friends would not be had today.
Brother, I’ve cried into you and you’ve been there all times just literally last week you helped me with my first video ever.
You will forever be New Dawn both in heart and spirit.
His family has setup a donation link to a rescue of his choice https://t.co/tNTGx6h0W2
May your soul forever rest in peace Tyler❤️
I think since it's been 5 years now, wanting everyone to be poor and struggling can now officially be stored in the same filing cabinet as "delete inertia," "12.9 Labs", and "12.7 HK" or whatever...
I started playing this game in March 2021, in the middle of the bitcoin wipe where everyone had unlimited rubles. It's been FIVE YEARS and people still have gobs of money...
Tarkov can still be fun without every single aspect of the game being unbelievably tedious.
I've spoke a lot about drops recently so I decided to save all my New Years Tarkov drops and sell them all at once to see how much money is actually been given out, this result is only from Dec 22nd to Jan 4th. Make of it what you will