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[Discussion] TarkovTV Summary - 08.05.26 - 6PM GMT+2
Damirka and Nikita hosted another TarkovTV today, here is the summary of everything which was said/announced and spoken about. Feel free to add stuff in the comments i may have missed or were only said in Russian which i couldn't translate unfortunately.
Special Promo Codes:
- POWERMOVE
- EAGLEEYE
- CARGOSHIP
Intro:
- Lot of plans for Tarkov this year
- Things are different now - since last year was difficult because of the release - this year will have more content and stuff to look forward to.
- Focused on technical site of the game right now, the current state is not final - 'Old evil engine code' is getting fixed.
- Icebreaker Event is 'almost here', coming in May, with special boss.
- Unity Update will be later implemented on Main branch
- Memory problem fixes and BattlEye Updates
- Current direaction of the game -> technical fixes/updates and new content (deep gameplay features)
- Rebalancing to make the game more enjoyable the game for new players and veterans -> Tarkov is getting more and different kind of things to make the game more appealing to new audience or returning one
- Road to Tarkov 2.0 starts this year
- Reworked Prestige requirements, first 4 prestige will be lowered (will be shown on socials)
- PvE Prestige is coming soon™
- 'Helper'/Quest Finder Assistant coming to the game to find quest objectives better
- Insurance system rebalance (sped up/quicker returns)
- Starting level of hideouts will be lowered
- Major Overhaul of all Quests (Sidequests) to lower the RNG and make the game more enjoyable (more variety, etc.)
- Trader rep will be rebalanced
- Loot/Loot places and Trader inventories will be reworked
- Kill conditions in tasks will be counted for the group.
- More support packages for beginners
- 'Welcome Back' Bonus Program
- Spectator Camera for your team mate (as an item), let's you see through the eyes of your team mates
- Bonus Program for inviting friends
- Adding GPS to the game (one simple version, another one with a map)
- Squad sizes will be lowered to max of 4
- Overall Entrance barrier will be lowered for the game
Patches and upcoming stuff:
- 'Development for Tarkov will never be stopped'
- Episode-Based Singleplayer Game in Tarkov Universum, as a mobile game
- Talking with many companies about bringing Tarkov to console
- New Event on Customs coming after this TarkovTV (Glukhar and Reshala 100% on Customs, regular scavs will be replaced with guards, player scavs will be reduced)
- Unheard Edition for Steam is coming soon, maybe tomorrow.
- Unheard owners get to use all purchasable skins on either faction (so you can play USEC clothes as BEAR and vice versa) and bonus effects for your whole group
- New stuff will be added for other editions, aswell
- Event on Shoreline coming.
- Icebreaker location will stay after event
- Merch store is coming (first one might open in Japan)
- Twitch Drops coming in May with special Twitch Drops items:
- Upcoming streamer challenge for 'small' streamers (up to 250 viewers ish)
- June Big Event and gameplay overhaul for Lighthouse
- Ingame Store coming, with new currency (no p2w stuff, just cosmetics)
Tarkov Coins - new currency (purchasable for real money and can be FIR on all locations)
- new unheard edition clothings coming
- Summer (weather season) is coming in June
- Event coming to Factory
- Streets of Tarkov optimizations (will make to run streets 'very good')
- July or earlier: Seasonal system gets introduced, Season 1 'KORD BREACH'
- Season after season after season rotation - forever (with wipes)
- new gear, weapons, quests, modifiers, perks, etc. -> every season will be different/unique
- Perks will be like a RPG game system
- Perks can allow players to get Kappa right at the start, limit flea market, etc.
- Black Division Clothing coming in Seasons.
- something will be special only for seasons, other things may be in all zones
- New Streamer items get added (you can find them right now on Nikita's Twitter)
- Wild, Wild, Woods Event coming after S1.
- Unity, FSSR 4.0 Upgrade
- more events later this event (big halloween event)
- weekly based event system (every single weekend something special will be ingame)
- new Location upcoming, raid-based, at end of the year (with new boss) - End of Line Map (underground nuclear power plant) with Event
End of Line - Map Sneak Peek (other screenshots can be seen on socials of BSG)
New Free Game upcoming on Steam - For customization and Testing of Guns
Upcoming Mechanics:
- Clan system DLC
- Scav Life DLC (with minigames in hideout, hanging out with friends, etc.)
- alive - unconscious - dead states and healing for being knocked-out
- some peaceful AI coming
- Special Containers with Presets (to equip yourself faster with loadouts)
- abillity to skip prestige requirements for ingame currency (roubles, not Real Money)
- transparent magazines
- free pve weekends
- skill system overhaul
- night raid overhaul - with different bonuses, AI (like BD)
- Mod support
That's everything for Tarkov, the other part of the stream was for Arena.
u/TheRealSchmede — 6 days ago