Today was the Escape from Tarkov community podcast on Sneakyru007’s Twitch channel. Battlestate Games COO Nikita Buyanov answered some questions about the ARENA mode coming to Escape from Tarkov and here is everything we learned. Enjoy 🙂
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So what do you guys think? Do you want COMPETITIVE Tarkov?
Why don’t they just add a ton of cloths and let us dress ourselves how we want ffs. Don’t see why it’s an issue to let people be creative, they want more diverse outfits? Then make them cheap or free so more people use them. I see a million default pmc outfit before I see even one flannel.
I don't know a lot about welding but thermite doesn't sound like any kind of welding I've seen.
thermite is not for welding lol. termite eats metal 😀
Well when arena hits, gone will be the days of learning pvp raid by raid and if you’re behind now on pvp skills you’re going to get left in the dust. Truly believe it will hurt the casual fan base because the skill gap is just going to expand. I enjoy tarkov for what it is, save the competitive stuff for the battle royale craze.
When are we getting our free content for eod edition….
The fact then Eod doesnt get only a different mode free of charge is insanely Suspect from battlestate. 140$ thats more than twice as a Brand new game at launch at gamestop With good servers. Like what?! I think its been like 4 years since some people bought eod with nothing in return . So ass
Tarkov boiled down to just PVP will make them realize how shit the PVP is in tarkov.
I don't like the price change for clothing, to me it just seems like that gives higher tiered players with huge bankrolls to have more fun with asthetics.
If they dont want arena to be considered DLC to EOD holders then they need to make it completely separate and nothing to do with EFT.
I think it would be cool if they had some kind of set loadout type of thing where players get a randomized loot pool for their gear and have something where you can customize those pools for private games, and maybe having some kind of scavs vs un where player scav loot vs people with adars and un gear, stuff like thats I think would be really cool.
I've always been more interested in the PvE focused, open world/map to map vision for the game more than area tbh, especially after how quickly most of the community ripped through this past wipe. It feels like the more I play EFT, the more I realize almost every other system in the game is designed around EFT being a PvE, open world urban survival game where player encounters are rare, not the round to round, PvP heavy, small map stopgap game mode we've got now. I'm happy Arena will accommodate the players who are more interested in the PvP aspects of Tarkov, but I'm more hoping Streets might finally give us more of the PvE focused, open world urban survival feel Tarkov is clearly intended to eventually become.
Cmon nikita i need the middle east servers
man i wish there was a night mode for labs… someone flip a switch and the entire map turns into like night factory just imagine the tactics
Thanks for the update and as always focused and coherent delivery
$150 for EOD version of the game and arena will cost more? Idk about that fam. I have just basic and I might get arena, but If I bought EOD I'd be fu**ing livid.
I just finished shooter born in heaven
Jeez, 40$ for the base game, 140$ for EOD, and extra for competitive, which will include better servers. I for one feel like it's milking way too much money out of the playerbase. It would also, probably, promote a certain pay2win aspect of the game. Let me explain. Arena currency is most efficiently obtained by surviving. I don't think ratting will be an issue though, considering the fast pace of the gamemode. This currency can be used to buy entire gearsets, which means we will start seeing more and more presets on the players we kill, making certain weapons/armors way more prevalent. My worry is that it will be more cost efficient to play a little arena with little to no risk, get some points, and buy yourself a decent/good loadout to use in normal EFT. Not only that, the fast paced aspect of the game will definitely allow more people to reliably get better at the game, with little risk (given the arena points and the gear presets). This issue is subtle, just like how EOD players start with max stash and a 3×3 Secure Container (2nd best in the game, a huge advantage tbh). In the end, this game being an RPG, unfairness is very prevalent, but the Arena Mode seems to just widen the gap even more between the players who are willing to spend hundreds of dollars on the game VS the ones who barely got a Standard Edition.
I get the idea behind competitive tarkov but BSG want so much time for something that they shouldn't take much time. Besides that they are starting this when they should be focusing on maps that we have waited years on. I mean come on dude… the game came out almost 5 years ago and there isn't a single player that has taken a step inside the city the game is named after. think about that… at LEAST make sure we get maps for what the game is meant for before you go on your cash grabbing esports phase. not to mention so many fans are going to be annoyed that 2025 (the game coming out after for anyone who doesn't know) is not going to be bought because no one will want to wait or spend that kind of money on a dev team that has shown they don't put in the work.
I hate the fact that you lose gear in arena. I will reserve final judgement until release. As is it sounds like a terribly horrible, stupid idea.
Arena will kill normal tarkov that took to many players for competition
All I’ve ever wanted was arena mode
An arena without a risk to lose your equipment would be so good
I seem to remember veritas talking about the zeroing issue months upon months ago and no one wanted to listen. The solution is simple, keep the default but let us change it in the hideout and save the new zeroing to the sight, this will let people who don't want to mess with it keep the existing system and allow people who do want to change their personal zeroing do so.
I don’t want to be accusing anything, but I commented in the discord and videos of tarkov for something like arena mode. I hope the idea for it came from me, cause this is my favorite game
EOD should have access to it regardless of it being dlc or not, we pay over 100 dollars i think we kinda deserve it
arena mode chad = king of peekers advantage what a joke
Arena sounds like paying for high stakes raids on factory.
imagine paying to get tarkoved in arena mode
by the sounds of it, i would rather play arena over the open world. As I play the game for PVP and recently people have been playing extremely slow.
If they want Money (eod owner) for Arena then there should Not be interaction with the "normal" eft
the ghost step thing had me think I was going insane, I was running around like crazy trying to find the fucker lol, also I found another crazy audio bug(I think). I shot a scav in the head from about 100Meters away, he was wearing no helmet, and when the bullet hit his head, it made a loud ass metal ting sound. it was really weird.
Every cod is an AK meta, which I love
Imo gear should not be transferred between modes. Or at least make it so you can transfer gear into arena but not out of it.
Arena is about to be hacker paradise lol 😂
EFT Arena= Contract Wars 2.0 😀
Arena feels like a waste of development time. Something tells me it's going to flop worse than Firestorm did. I wish they'd scrap it and just focus solely on completing the game we have now as well as the singleplayer.
I'm gonna have to wait till I see set in stone details about the arena to form a proper opinion, but right now, not necessarily the biggest fan
Anybody else experiencing massive frame drops after 12.10?
damm … im from dubai and need that server 🙁
2:22 Can rezeroing the gun help with this? It’s a fun gun but the overshooting sucks. I picked one up as a scav and even with pst gzh it still overshot at mid range.
3:28 You can use gear from your EFT account in Arena? I thought Arena was supposed to be a separate game? Wasn’t that the justification for making EOD owners pay for it again?
This is some bullshit… I bought EoD so I wouldn’t have to purchase anything else from tarkov in the future. The game for EoD cost me 250$ Canadian. Now I have to buy more? Wtf? I could have bought like 6 games on steam, and now this arena is gonna cost me more??
Wtf dude, i bought EOD for a reason to get everything without buying anymore and now he says "Oh no its not an DLC, haha now you all gotta buy it 😛 " thats the dumbest shtt to annoy your customers who already paid the highest amount to not pay again.
Completely NOT interested in Arena.
''People have a lot of money''
Me with 0 roubles in stash: yeah
I smell a lot of lawsuits with this decision 🤷♂️
imagine if you spent $150 for eft for bsg to pull this shit on you.. glad i didnt
I won't play it but this is a really good thing for Tarkov. There's a split in community where one side wants the game to have a ton of realism and the other side wanting it to be a more of a casual experience. Arena will take the most of the casual playerbase of the game and with that it's going to be way easier to put more hardcore content into Tarkov without constantly getting huge backlashes every single time.
I know it’s not the same game but it kind of reminds me of the arena in S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow of Chernobyl,
It just came to my mind wouldn’t it be kinda cool if there is a arena in every raid where you can just go and queue for a 1v1 or 2v2 or whatever and the winner can leave the raid instantly with all the gear, loot and some sort of price?
It’s just my personal opinion but I like the idea.