Escape from Tarkov

Twirlywoos · 25 Nov 2015 at 00:06

Escape from Tarkov is a new narrative hardcore MMO mix FPS of / TPS and RPG genres. Protagonist finds himself in the modern Russian city sunk into anarchy: only the fittest will solve the mysteries of Tarkov and get out alive. In dangerous simulator Combat & hazardous environments uses multitude of system modules for full gameplay immersion and sense of reality.

Closed beta of Escape from Tarkov by Battlestate Games studio is planned for Q1 2016 - sign up at http://www.escapefromtarkov.com

Escape from Tarkov - hardcore story multiplayer online game is at the intersection of genres, FPS / TPS and RPG. The hero of the game is in modern Russian city where anarchy: only the fittest will reveal all the secrets Tarkova and get out of it alive.

Combat Simulator in hazardous conditions using a variety of system modules for immersive gameplay and a sense of reality. Closed testing Escape from Tarkov by Russian studio Battlestate Games will start in the first quarter of 2016 - sign up in the ranks of the beta testers on the project

website: http: // www.escapefromtarkov.com

Twirlywoos · 27 Nov 2015 at 02:34

Some guys have been doing some digging on MHQ and they have discovered that this is a reskin of an old game which has the same assets, music called Russia 2028. The video is pre-alpha that was published in 2012. They believe that Escape from Tarkov will be using Unity not Cry Engine.

The same devs then made a pre-equal to Russia 2028 called Contact Wars

So this leaves open some questions, what happened in 3 years? Is this a reskin/rebrand of 2028? Also we all know that Russians love Microstransactions so will this game feature it?

Game Background

Events take place in the fictitious Norvinsk oblast (province), a special economic zone created as a transitional area between Russia and Europe. Great business conditions for big international companies attracted not only law-abiding firms, but corporations with shady dealings. Two years ago, Tarkov, the biggest city in the province, became a scene for a scandal caused by a transatlantic company. Six months later a political struggle escalated into armed conflict between UN peacemakers, the Russian military and two private military companies. Borders of the province were closed and those who ended up in the middle of a local war were separated from the outer world.

Today Norvinsk oblast has become a scene for active agents of two private military companies hired by two sides of the conflict. USEC works for the scandalous international corporation Terra Group and provides local skirmishes in order to obstruct investigation of the company's activity by local authorities. Moreover, according to intelligence, USEC affords protection for the illegal practices of a foreign company. BEAR, which, on hearsay, was created by the direct order of Russian government, and operates as part of the official Norvinsk authorities and searches for any clues of illicit activity of the Terra Group.

With every new day the situation in Norvinsk oblast becomes stranger and more complicated. Panic reigns as the city is plunged into armed conflict: citizens flee while those who stay begin to scavenge whatever they can. Taking the new realities as a matter of course and huddling up into well-armed gangs, scavs start their own battle for territories. Today, Tarkov is divided by unseen borders set by bandit groups. Up-for-anything, they won't stop short at killing innocents or waging a war against two private military companies.

Players will enter the battlefield as surviving ex-mercenaries. After choosing one's side, USEC or BEAR, the protagonist starts off in the middle of the city. Tarkov is blocked by UN forces and Russian military, supply lines are cut, communications are lost – in these realities everyone decides by himself or herself, how to survive and get out of city.

http://www.develop-online.net/press...hots-revealed-for-the-new-russian-mmo/0213958

Twirlywoos · 27 Nov 2015 at 14:37

Boycey0211 said:
Russian early access?

Never heard a bigger alarm bell in all my life.

Where has Early Access been mentioned?

Twirlywoos · 24 Dec 2015 at 01:47

Twirlywoos · 24 Dec 2015 at 01:51

For those who have questions about EFT, we've managed FAQ.

Q.What is Escape from Tarkov? Who is the developer?
A.Escape from Tarkov is a hardcore story-driven MMO that combines FPS/TPS with RPG elements. It is being developer by Battlestate Games, the Russian game studio based in St. Petersburg.

Q.Will the game be free to play?
A.No, the game will be distributed as buy to play, bought once and for all. There will be no microtransactions in the game. However, we do intend to release paid DLCs later on.

Q.Will the Escape from Tarkov be a session-based shooter? What game modes is it going to have?
A.In the classic meaning of this term - no, the game won’t be session-based. It has several playing modes. The player only has one life, and, with dying, he loses everything that was brought to the location or found in it.

The first and essential mode will be available with the game release, the story mode. The game session (typically an hour or hour and a half long) will take place on a large, about 5-10 sq. km., open location. The player will have to consecutively clear all of these raid scenarios, with several possible exits, each determined by the game story. By completing one scenario, the player unlocks the next one. Players can return to the previously unlocked scenarios in search for particular loot or more detailed exploration (which can lead to the uncovering of side quests and locations)..
When all scenarios (there will be around 10 of them) are completed, a free roam mode will be unlocked. In this mode, player can move around a 15 sq. km. area without any time limits. Moreover, the game is going to have an Arena mode, which closely resembles gladiator fights.

Thus, although EFT technically does have a session in the scenario mode, it is only determined by the story, where player’s character has to escape from Tarkov. The free roam mode will have no time limitations, and in the Arena the game session will be limited by death either of player’s character or his adversary.

Q.Will Escape from Tarkov have a story?
A.Escape from Tarkov is a story-driven game, despite ins online foundations. Everything happening in the game will be determined by the story of either main chain of events or by numerous side quests. Side quests, by the way, can be handed out by traders, but some of them can only be discovered and solved by the player, without any hints whatsoever..

https://m.facebook.com/escapefromtarkov/posts/1509077522719896

More info here:
https://m.facebook.com/escapefromtarkov/posts/1509077522719896

Sounds good so far.

Twirlywoos · 10 Jan 2016 at 17:48

Smrtka said:
Twirly I just found out about this game DUUUUDE its insane ! we need to get some bf guys into this.

I was excited about it too at the start but the more this game develops the more uninterested I get.

On Dec 30th they put up their pre-order page and despite their attempts to calm the storm they are failing. It's so typical of Russian developers, in a country where hacking is rife it becomes more feasible to develop a p2w/micro-transaction game instead.

Check out the pre-order page. 4 Different levels of "Early Access" type incentives.
http://www.escapefromtarkov.com/preorder-page

Despite denying that the game will have no microtransactions the pre-order bonus/incentive ******** strikes again. For a developer that is generally unknown they should have either gone early access or kickstarter.

Game just looks like a glorified DayZ without the Zombies. I'll keep an eye on it though as they are active in answering community questions/concerns over on their FB page. Don't ever expect me to pay for Alpha or Beta access. Encouraging this act is not good for consumers or the gaming industry.

Twirlywoos · 10 Jan 2016 at 22:13

DarkCypherNZ said:
First post, but this game stinks of WarZ and everyone should know how that game turned out.

I would advise that no one put any money into this game.

It's madness to preorder this game. Wait until the Alpha and Beta and if they close it behind a paywall then wait for someone like TB to review it.

Twirlywoos · 11 Jan 2016 at 14:54

That is not a new video, all he has done is complied bits from what has already been shown.

Twirlywoos · 3 Feb 2016 at 10:50

Mark A said:
You and that other guy should stop with the pre-emptive thumbs up for games that have yet to be released. This could very well be a pile of crap and then that thumbs up will look a bit silly .

You're right, there should be a double thumbs up

edit - Updated with Eng Subtitled video

Twirlywoos · 3 Feb 2016 at 11:17

Thekwango said:
he can't help himself - when (if) the game turns out to be a bucket of steaming stuff he'll say he knew all along that would happen

Takes a lot of variables for a game to be considered rubbish. If the core gameplay mechanics for this genre are done badly wrong then I will criticize it and I can only do that if I get to play beta builds. Therefore I cannot predict the future with this game as there is no history to go by unlike other franchises.

Twirlywoos · 4 Feb 2016 at 19:31

Updated previous post to include video with English subs

Twirlywoos · 27 Feb 2016 at 23:25

Click on EN subs.

Edit - Tony that is just a video which chops bits from Dev Diary 1 and previous videos.

Twirlywoos · 18 Mar 2016 at 20:01

Twirlywoos · 30 Mar 2016 at 22:10

Dear friends!

We are, just as you, eagerly waiting for the first live stream of Escape from Tarkov, where you will see with your own eyes, how the Alpha version of the project looks and plays like.

We are also happy to announce that, instead of one stream, there will be two, both live, at the different time; one for our Russian-speaking audience, and one for English-speaking.

Both streams will be broadcasted on our Twitch channel on Saturday, April 2nd.

https://www.twitch.tv/escapefromtarkov

The stream will be presented by the project lead Nikita Buyanov and Alexander "Kiba" Kovalchuk, with estimated running time of 1.5 hours.

We have tried to choose the time that would be convenient to the most of us:

The first stream - in Russian - will be broadcasted at 16:00 Moscow time.

The second stream - in English - will be broadcasted at 18:00 UTC (21:00 Moscow, 19:00 CEST, 14:00 EDT, 11:00 PDT).

Both stream replays will later be uploaded to our official Youtube channel.

Thank you for your support and see you on the stream!

Twirlywoos · 2 Apr 2016 at 13:06

Stream starts in an hour. 2pm

https://www.twitch.tv/escapefromtarkov

Twirlywoos · 4 Apr 2016 at 23:53

Bit of a disaster? That's an understatement lol

Delayed Stream, Buggy, Cancelling the English version and then the rage quit

They did release a statement after though and I understand their reasoning. Typical Russians though

However I still have high hopes for the game.

Statement taken from Facecrap

Dear friends!

Let us elaborate a little on what has happened to the stream and why it has turned out this way.

The main reason for stopping the Russian stream and postponing an English one was that the aspects of the game that have already been working were not showcased the way we originally intended, i.e. lacked the quality we initially aimed for. This led to the decision that was eventully took - Russian stream was stopped, English one cancelled.

That was, in part, caused by lack of time we dedicated to set up the streaming on Twitch and in part by the lack of testing of the Alpha build version we attempted to show the gameplay on.

We indulged in our desire to show you as many features and content as possible, and that was a mistake on our part, as all of the newest additions were not properly tested due to critical shortage of time - for instance, the game server could not handle its interactions too well, leading to 1-hour pause before and half an hour later.

However, we'd like to point out that this was just a test stream of the Alpha version, an it wouldn't be correct to judge the final quality of product based on it.

We are greatly disappointed by these course of events and would like to once again apologize to those who dedicated their time to watch us. On our part, we take it as our responsibility to conduct a new stream on the level both you and our game deserve, showing everything we planned to show properly. All the mistakes we've made up to now were learned from, and won't be repeated again.

Thank you for staying with us.
Respectfully yours,
Battlestate Games Team

https://www.facebook.com/escapefromtarkov

Twirlywoos · 22 Jul 2016 at 20:29

New Screenshots

http://www.escapefromtarkov.com/news/id/30?lang=en

Twirlywoos · 24 Nov 2016 at 13:08

30% Pre Order discounts currently
http://www.escapefromtarkov.com/preorder-page

I am still treading carefully with these developers, so if you are pre-ordering do so at your own risk

Twirlywoos · 25 Dec 2016 at 22:36

Twirlywoos · 31 Dec 2016 at 22:05

and the hacking begins

https://www.reddit.com/r/Escapefrom...ripters_in_the_alpha/?st=ixdrz62o&sh=f647bf5b

doesn't matter how good the game looks or plays if the anti cheat is not as good as Blizzard's approach then I can't be dealing with a game genre like this.