There’s a full ballistics model, including penetration and even ricochets. Individual limbs can be wounded and healed using an assortment medical supplies such as first-aid kits, morphine and even splints. Directional audio plays a key role in situational awareness. You can breach a door multiple ways, including quietly easing it open to peek around corners. There’s also a linked set of campaign missions in the works, one that will connect its series of maps into a unified narrative experience.Īs far as the guts of the thing goes, EFT has got all the bells and whistles you’d expect from a high-end military simulator like Arma 3. EFT also features a small collection of vendors, each with their own unique set of missions that will allow you to curry favor and lower prices with them. There’s an Elder Scrolls-style leveling system that includes perks for just about everything you do in-game. There’s a bunch of Russian and NATO-style small arms, each with swappable optics, furniture, gas blocks and even trigger assemblies.
For firearms aficionados, understand that the game is as wide as it is deep. The development goals for this game are pretty ambitious. If you’re frugal, this stack of loot will get you pretty far. The laundry list of in-game items that you get with a basic purchase is hidden behind account creation right now. Whatever you have on you in a battle can be looted once you die, meaning that even the newest players carrying the most basic gear can see a huge payday with a few well-placed shots. What makes the game so exciting is that, while matches are session-based, with small groups pitted against each other in a world populated by AI enemies, gear is persistent. The game has been in closed beta for a while, but I returned to it this past weekend for the first time in a year to find a stable and satisfying experience. The fiction of the game pits two teams of military contractors against each other in a remote Russian village. I’ve been following Escape From Tarkov ( EFT) since I first heard about it in 2016. It features utterly brutal gameplay and an in-game economy to match.
The Windows PC game is an ultra-hardcore, military simulation-grade first-person shooter. It’s called Escape From Tarkov, and it’s only available directly from the Russia-based developers at Battlestate Games. The survival shooter genre has dominated Steam for a few years now, but one of the most interesting new titles isn’t being sold there.