Extraction Shooter Escape From Tarkov Finally Has a 1.0 Release Date, 8 Years After Initial Launch

Eight years aft its archetypal launch, first-person extraction shooter Escape from Tarkov has a mentation 1.0 merchandise date: November 15, 2025. That's implicit 8 years aft Escape from Tarkov archetypal entered beta, and 13 years aft archetypal improvement began.

Developer Battlestate Games announced the merchandise day alongside spot notes for update 0.16.9.0, which serves arsenic an “interim milestone” that brings a important fig of improvements and changes. Meanwhile, the improvement squad is focusing connected optimizing the last mentation of the game.

The main highlight, Battlestate Games said, is synchronization betwixt EFT: Arena and EFT PvE Zone. Its “key feature” is simply a one-way sync: advancement successful EFT: Arena volition sync with PvE Zone, but advancement successful PvE Zone volition not sync with EFT: Arena.

“This one-way synchronization includes the summation of the trader Ref, the quality to transportation currency, synchronization of Tactical Clothing sets and Battle Pass rewards, on with respective different innovations,” Battlestate Games said. “Additionally, improvements person been made to force AI systems and in-game audio.

Escape from Tarkov update 0.16.9.0 spot notes:

Changes:

Added synchronization betwixt Escape from Tarkov: Arena and Escape from Tarkov PvE mode.

The main diagnostic of this synchronization is that it lone works one-way (excluding regular tasks), meaning the advancement successful EFT: Arena syncs with PvE mode, but not the different mode around.

Trader Ref

• Added Ref to PvE mode with his related tasks and commercialized offers;
• Arena's task lines successful PvP & PvE modes present incorporate a peculiar statement indicating the crippled mode;
• These tasks tin beryllium completed simultaneously successful some modes.

Item transfer

• Added the quality to transportation currency (Roubles, GP coins, Lega Medals) and loot crates to PvE mode;
• Items and currency from PvE mode cannot beryllium transferred to EFT: Arena;
• Item transportation crippled mode enactment enactment is disposable astatine Ref’s services tab;
• Item transportation betwixt Arena and PvP mode stay unchanged;
• Item transportation limits are separated betwixt the 2 EFT crippled modes, not affecting each other.

Tactical clothing

• Obtaining covering successful EFT: Arena unlocks it successful some PvP and PvE mode;
• Obtaining covering successful PvP mode unlocks it lone successful EFT: Arena;
• Obtaining covering successful PvE mode does not unlock it successful PvP mode and EFT: Arena.

BattlePass

• Earning rewards successful BattlePass present besides unlocks them successful PvE mode;
• The already earned BattlePass rewards, including commercialized offers and clothing, are besides unlocked successful PvE mode.

In-game tasks

• After completing tasks successful EFT: Arena, you person rewards into your in-game stash and tin transportation them to either PvP oregon PvE mode.

Trader standing

• Trader lasting summation from EFT: Arena transfers into some PvE and PvP mode:
• Completing tasks successful PvE mode gives trader lasting lone successful PvE mode;
• Completing tasks successful PvP mode gives trader lasting some successful PvP mode and EFT: Arena.
• Note: Trader lasting successful EFT: Arena and PvE mode whitethorn disagree owed to PvE trader lasting not transferring to EFT: Arena.

Character experience, skills, and limb mastery

• Experience, skills and mastery leveled successful EFT: Arena transfers it to some PvE and PvP mode:
  • Gaining acquisition successful PvE mode does not transportation it elsewhere;
  • Gaining acquisition successful PvP mode besides transfers it to EFT: Arena.
• Note: Experience, skills and mastery successful EFT: Arena and PvE mode whitethorn disagree owed to PvE acquisition not transferring to EFT: Arena.

Character wipes

• In the lawsuit of a quality hitch (global, personal, oregon Prestige) successful PvP oregon EFT: Arena, lone PvP and EFT: Arena advancement volition beryllium reset:
  • Progress successful tasks related to PvE mode and EFT: Arena volition not beryllium reset.
• If you execute a quality hitch successful PvE mode, your advancement volition beryllium reset lone successful PvE mode:
  • Progress successful tasks related to PvP mode and EFT: Arena volition not beryllium reset;
  • Progress successful tasks related to PvE mode and EFT: Arena volition beryllium reset.

• Readjusted the wide AI detection system;
• Readjusted the AI detection strategy done smoke;
• Improved the AI force detection system;
• Improved the AI looting patterns;
• Improved the AI grenade launcher aiming system;
• Improved the AI detection strategy erstwhile the AI is hiding successful vegetation;
• Several Boss behaviour fixes;
• Fixed the situations erstwhile an AI would driblet their NVG to the player;
• Fixed the circumstantial situations erstwhile the cultists would halt shooting the player;
• Fixed the contented with AI PMCs not patrolling the territory connected Factory;
• Fixed the respective situations erstwhile Rogues would occurrence the stationary AGS-17 extracurricular their detection sector;
• Fixed the situations erstwhile bots were spawning successful beforehand of players;
• Fixed the situations erstwhile a bot radical would summon an state adjacent to the player.

• Fixed the incorrect measurement of definite sounds;
• Removed the M67 grenade fuze ignite sound;
• Fixed respective issues with dependable occlusion connected Streets of Tarkov and Customs;
• Added sound cancelling and microphone sensitivity options for dependable chat;
• Fixed the issues with abbreviated clicks and dependable artifacts erstwhile utilizing VoIP;
• Fixed the contented with players inactive proceeding VoIP aft disabling it successful the settings;
• Added the quality to quick-swap microphones to usage successful VoIP;
• Now, if the idiosyncratic encounters a microphone error, they tin enable/disable dependable chat to person incoming dependable streams;
• Added the quality to set VoIP volume.

• Changed the surgical kit auto-use precedence to legs.

• New balancing changes to the Hardcore Wipe mechanics:
• Returned entree to the Flea Market astatine level 35 with the quality to spot 1 Found successful Raid point astatine a time;
• Reverted the trader prices to the values earlier the Hardcore Wipe;
• Reverted the Scav cooldown to the values earlier the Hardcore Wipe;
• Returned the missing commercialized offers astatine Therapist Loyalty Level 4;
• Returned the quality to insure items astatine Prapor and Therapist, and disabled security astatine Fence.

• Fixed galore ocular issues, incorrect culling, entity ballistics, decals, and lighting crossed each locations;
• Fixed the quality to usage gestures portion jumping to summation an advantage;
• Fixed the quality behaviour erstwhile attempting to equip a grenade portion utilizing the bipod;
• Fixed the in-raid compass interaction;
• Fixed the incorrect Glock 18C recoil erstwhile shooting successful tiny bursts;
• Fixed the quality to adhd incompatible attachments connected an equipped weapon;
• Fixed the contented with max level skills not leveling correctly aft utilizing a stimulant;
• Fixed respective ocular issues with Hideout zones;
• Fixed the Ammo utilized and Overall accuracy statistic during section PvE raids;
• Fixed the RShG-2 detonation visuals successful thermal optics;
• Fixed the quality to equip regular and helmet-mounted headsets astatine the aforesaid time;
• Fixed the origin of Error 228 erstwhile auto-sorting stash successful definite cases.

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