If there’s one factor I’m an absolute sucker for it is a actually good, dense city map for a shooter. The combo of cramped quarters and lengthy sightlines. The funneled alleyways and fight corridors. It is a fixed recipe for amped-up worry and pleasure you may solely get in an atmosphere designed to carry way more individuals than ought to ever be in a single sq. mile. Which might be why I stay within the woods with no person else round.
I digress, nonetheless.
Escape from Tarkov’s (opens in new tab) upcoming 0.13 patch will introduce the long-awaited Streets of Tarkov map, an space of dense city buildup filled with buildings, wrecked vehicles, and disintegrating infrastructure. The trailer for the patch, posted on Youtube (opens in new tab) and above, reveals off some environments and extra. The patch will supposedly additionally embody a brand new boss. Possibly these guys on the APC we noticed final yr. (opens in new tab)
Alongside the brand new footage of the Streets of Tarkov location, the trailer features a bunch of neato weapons and tools—which is why everybody’s right here taking part in Tarkov, anyhow. It consists of the brand new AUG bullpup rifle, SR-2 submachine gun, RSh-12 assault revolver, and the under-barrel GP-34 and M203 grenade launchers. There’s additionally a brand new handguard for the AK and a brand new tourniquet, in addition to a peek on the new lightkeeper dealer.
Gamers are of the opinion that this trailer releasing means we’ll see the 0.13 replace, Streets of Tarkov, and the following recreation wipe on December twenty eighth or twenty ninth, however there isn’t any official launch day or time but, not to mention patch notes, from Battlestate.
In any other case, this has turn into a chance for the Tarkov group to crack clever concerning the map, which has been teased for 2 years now. “My grandpa informed me that this map would come out sooner or later,” stated one. “Historians at all times inform how the Nice Tsar Nicholas II laid the primary stone of those streets that we’ll quickly go to,” stated one other. “I had 2 youngsters whereas I used to be ready for this map, I informed them tales that it could come out sooner or later,” commented a 3rd.
You’ll find Escape from Tarkov on its official web site, escapefromtarkov.com (opens in new tab).
