Escape from Tarkov News

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[p][/p][p]Balancing changes in Escape from Tarkov:[/p][p]All timers for waiting for information from traders in story chapters have been reduced by 25%:[/p]

• [p]Falling Skies;[/p]
• [p]The Ticket;[/p]
• [p]The Unheard;[/p]
• [p]The Labyrinth;[/p]
• [p]Batya.[/p]

[p]The duration of most crafts in the Hideout that are required for completing story chapters has also been reduced by 25%.[/p]

[p][/p][p]Balancing changes in Escape from Tarkov:[/p]

• [p]The cost of various items in Ref assortment has been adjusted.[/p]

[p][/p][p]Since its release, Escape from Tarkov has sold over one million copies.[/p][p]In the first month alone, players spent a total of 135,000,000 hours (or 15,410 years) in the Norvinsk region. This is equivalent to over 200 million full Customs raids, had each lasted until the final minute of the timer.[/p][p]To date, more than 500 PMCs have successfully escaped from Tarkov and reached one of the game endings.[/p][p]To celebrate this milestone, we have prepared a special promo code for all players:[/p][p]ONEMILLIONPLUS[/p]

[p][/p][p]We present the Escape from Tarkov 1.0.0.5 patch notes.[/p][h3]Changes[/h3]

• [p]The Winter season will be enabled on all locations after the full update of game servers and clients.[/p]
• [p]Fixed the loading wheel icon showing throughout the starting mission;[/p]
• [p]Fixed the camera lock and character movement lock that occurred when using consumable items before the second cutscene on Terminal;[/p]
• [p]Fixed the inability to complete a specific task in the Batya story chapter in PvE mode;[/p]
• [p]Fixed the lock for weapon operations and looting that occurred after looting a character that got killed while using a stationary weapon;[/p]
• [p]Fixed the abrupt interruption of consumable item animations in certain cases;[/p]
• [p]Fixed the incorrect spawn points for Zryachiy and his guards on Lighthouse;[/p]
• [p]Fixed the audio artifacts when quickly skipping trader dialogue lines;[/p]
• [p]Fixed the item icon display issues when trading while using active filters;[/p]
• [p]Smoothed out the BTR movement;[/p]
• [p]Fixed the incorrect message layout in the Messages tab;[/p]
• [p]Fixed several localization errors;[/p]
• [p]Fixed several visual geometry bugs across all locations;[/p]
• [p]Fixed several interface issues.[/p]