Russian Developer Battlestate Games Releases Latest Patch for Escape from Tarkov
Battlestate Games, the Russian developer behind the popular first-person shooter Escape from Tarkov, has released a new patch that focuses on fixing and optimizing various issues in the game. The patch includes over 30 fixes, including improvements to bot spawning, movement speed, and other quality of life changes.
What to Expect from the Patch
The patch, which is set to go live at approximately 6am CT (or 3pm Moscow time), addresses several key issues in the game. Here are the patch notes:
Fixes
- The “Next” button that prevented players from accessing the main menu after a raid
- Freezing on the unloading screen in the main menu after a raid
- Spawning issues with bots and players
- Taking damage from players or bots using stationary weapons
- Bots flying in the air
- Errors preventing players from exiting a location with the car extract
- Animation issues with checking the chamber and firing mode
- Performance drop in areas with multiple crafts in the hideout
- Possible spamming of friend request notifications
- Incorrect voice lines for “Scav Killed”
- Inconsistent breathing sound volumes during a sprint for different characters
- No breath sounds for characters after using up their stamina scale
- The “Get items” button being blocked if the player previously tried to collect a weapon with no space around it
- Increased movement speed in the crouched position under certain conditions
- Crafting skill progress points not being gained until restarting the game
- No sound of footsteps on metal stairs when moving sideways
- Resetting of the skill “Mag Drills” progress after leaving a raid
- Incorrect calculation of the selling price and commission for the cultist knife
- Clip clipping issues with gear
- Highlighting issue with the option to report a player on mouseover
- Incorrect display of the contusion timer after multiple hits
- Ability to delete system chat messages
- Problem with shooting by pressing the LMB after reassigning the key
- Ability to reload weapons with magazines from a backpack and safe container during a raid
- Elite skill level bonuses not applying if the elite level was obtained in the hideout
- Rain coming through certain objects on the “Woods” location
- Simultaneous playback of multiple lines in the voice selection screen
- Bugs with collisions and culling on various locations
- Fixes to various bugs in the game interface
- Various errors in the game client and server performance
- Localization edits
Optimizations
- Server optimization [iteration #2]
- Various client optimizations