Released February 10th, 2026.

Excerpt from the article:

Changes:

• Temporary collaboration event with Escape from Duckov:
• Players can take part in an in-game duck hunting task in Escape from Tarkov. After completing the task, players will receive a set of exclusive rewards in both PvP and PvE mode;
• Added Steam Rich Presence support for Steam players, displaying current in-game activity;
• Improved the game room startup algorithm to reduce game server launch time. We will continue working to speed up and improve matchmaking in future updates;
• Added a visual effect to optical sight lenses;
• Improved the grenade throw synchronization to reduce cases of grenade position desync during throws;
• Improved the AI behavior during looting;
• Added a new container for posters;
• Added a chapter switching sound effect in the Story Tasks interface;
• Changed the in-game weather season to early spring.

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Lets get this place active! 6 months since the last post. How's everyone's wipe so far?

Trailer: https://youtu.be/1Jlyhs7yOLY

So.. tripwire mines confirmed. What's your dumbest plan on how to use them?

Is it just me or do the matching times really suck? 4am and i've been searching for 21min and counting. I actually wish they could change it so we could host our own PvE servers or run it locally to have instant queue times. I've got a nice 24 core rack server with 384gb of ram just waiting for Tarkov...

RIP

As someone who owns the cheapest version of the game witch was still 60 USD I believe and was told be friends that EOD edition was not pay to win but pay for convince this is disgusting.

Edit: said friend is still defending this somehow...

Seems like they boosted the EXP gain across the board since yesterday--I'm getting up to 11k EXP on a win, and 6-7K EXP on a loss. For both those numbers I did pretty well, but I looked at the breakdown, even matches I lost with poor combat performance, I was getting a 5500 EXP for the match, which is 2k ± up from the old numbers. Makes T3-4 preset grinding a little more palatable, but the later presets will still take forever.

Haven't seen an announcement or patch notes on this, so it might be one of those lever-tweaking things they do server-side.

• Fixed incorrect ammo penetration and damage calculations in some situations.

• Fixed the ability to inspect and modify unexamined armor lying on the ground.

• Removed the display of integrated armor component prices on the trading screen.

• Fixed the incorrect behavior of Rogues when defending the water treatment plant buildings on Lighthouse.

• Reduced the loudness of footsteps on snow.

• Fixed the inability to complete some quest conditions.

• Fixed an issue that caused infinite loading into a raid when playing as Scav in some situations.

• Fixed visual effects of bloom and sun glare on all locations.

• Interchange color correction is now closer to other locations.

• Fixed the lack of fog in optical sights in some situations.

• Fixed the inability to pick up some items, including quest items.

• Fixed the ability to pass through solid obstacles in some situations.

• Fixed the ability to transfer items displayed in the Hall of Fame for quests.

• Fixed the Airdrop loot appearing as not Found in Raid.

• Increased spawn points for Scavs on the Ground Zero location.

I'd love to start playing EFT but I'm also frugal when it comes to purchasing, how often is there a sale and what is the expected sale price?

Hello, as per title I'm trying to play EFT through Lutris. I used the installer on the website and everything seem to be working (launcher starts and game launches) but I can't join raids. Tried three times a scav raid but I always get disconnected when it's actually time to join.

Anyone knows what could the problem be?

Thanks in advance!

edit: nevermind, found a guided installation video from last year and it looks like multiplayer isn't supported at the moment

Patch notes: https://www.escapefromtarkov.com/news/id/277?lang=null