Joining a raid as a Scav means that players won’t lose the gear they’re bringing in, but they also aren’t gaining any substantial gear. Joining a raid as a PMC, however, is where the real risk is involved. Before joining a raid, players must choose what existing gear they want to bring in with their PMC, but whatever gear a player brings into a raid is permanently lost if their PMC character dies. However, if a player extracts from a map successfully that gear and any new loot found is k

As stated before, escape from Tarkov guidefrom Tarkov is currently the hot topic on many live streaming platforms. That’s right, both Twitch and Mixer are currently heavily engaged in the title. Though there has been recent drama within the streaming community, with the now Mixer exclusive streamer, Ninja, and Reverse2K recently breaking up their friendship over an argument had during a Fortnite session. The argument in question was unsurprisingly about their rivaling streaming platfo

While Battlestate Games have done a beautiful job so far, the introduction of a clear tutorial that explains all of the game's mechanics would lead to a larger playerbase and, therefore, greater longevity for the game. I hope to continue to watch the map size and player count grow, but even as it is now, Escape from Tarkov is a game that wrenches your heart out of your chest in the best way possi

The main way players are going to be defending themselves against other players and the AI Scav units is through the guns they’ve either brought into a raid or that they found during a raid. Like many FPS games in the genre, Tarkov has plenty of different guns to choose from and equip. Naturally, those different types of guns use different types of a

Whether or not that--along with the company's reasoning for denying female PCs--is actually true has been called into question, however, given that Escape From Tarkov does actually have women in it. They're present as NPCs, and given that the game's main factions are military-based, it would stand to reason that women might be involved in that. Plus, it's not as though women haven't been prominent members of the Russian military for decades, and even though the game's Russia is technically fictional, its "lore" would still reflect that of the real Russia. Then there's the fact that Battlestate isn't the first company to say that adding female characters is too much work; Ubisoft famously said the same in 2014 when discussing Assassin's Creed: Unity 's online mode and Far Cry 4 's director said it again later that y

Though the game released in beta a couple years ago, it has only recently risen into the sort of mainstream buzz it’s currently experiencing. Though Escape from Tarkov may look similar to other games like Day Z and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds , the game’s systems and objectives can be a bit confusing to navigate at first. For example, some players might have trouble with tasks like extracting from maps or splitting ammo in the inventory scr

Escape from Tarkov has a ton of potential. While games like PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds have adopted a large map and large player count, they have done away with the fear and emotion that players feel when risking their life and their equipment. If you die in those games, you just leave the match and start again. If dinner is ready early, you can just quit out of the game. Escape from Tarkov understands its audience and has crafted a game specifically for t

It isn't often that games are able to nail down realism. Try as they might, they've simply never been great at conveying worlds at a true 1:1 scale. Look at a game like Red Dead Redemption 2 , which seems dead set on portraying a realistic version of the Wild West , though that almost always involves more monotony than entertainm

Red Dead Redemption 2 is still a great game, though the realism doesn't always enhance the experience; it simply makes it feel slow. Players spend equal amounts of time in over-the-top gunfights and action-packed heists as they do methodically searching a cabin in the woods. Enter Escape From Tarkov , the FPS currently taking Twitch by storm, that captures realism in a way better than most other ga

For those who may not know, containers are pieces of gear in Escape from Tarkov that allow players to hold extra gear on their character. However, the containers are special because gear inside the container will remain on a player’s character permanent, even if the player died and did not extract from a raid successful

Now, the developers behind Escape from Tarkov , Battlestate Games, are giving out free in-game loot drops to players who tune in to watch streamers playing their game on Twitch. A fitting move by the development team, now that the holiday season is officially wrapping up. Getting those free loot drops isn’t all too difficult, but there are a few steps that players need to go through before they can snag their free g