The developers behind Escape from Tarkov have revealed their plans for 2024. The new Escape from Tarkov: Arena, as well as the original Escape from Tarkov, are both receiving plenty of promising additions next year.

Escape from Tarkov: Arena fully released on December 17, 2023, giving Tarkov fans a more fast-paced, arena-style way to enjoy their favorite game. While fans have their fair share of issues with the new title, some users have enjoyed the lower-stakes version of Escape from Tarkov's usually intense feel. However, the new game still has plenty of missing features or problems that need addressing. Thankfully, its developers have robust plans for the near future, as well as interesting additions for the base game of Escape from Tarkov.

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As reported by Insider Gaming, Escape from Tarkov's developers revealed during a Twitch stream that in 2024, Escape from Tarkov: Arena will receive a redesigned matchmaking system, new ranked play system, three new modes, four new maps, balance changes, additional presents, a 1.5 million roubles bonus for all players who logged in before January 5, 2024, and the ability to link Tarkov: Arena profiles with Escape from Tarkov profiles. As for Escape from Tarkov in 2024, the extraction shooter will receive weather-based seasons, an uncapped version of the Ground Zero map, a significant rework of the game's visuals and vegetation, and a new endgame scenario where players can actually escape from Tarkov.

What's Coming to Escape from Tarkov: Arena in 2024?

• Redesigned matchmaking system
• New ranked play system
• Three new modes
• Four new maps
• Balance changes
• Additional presents
• 1.5 million roubles bonus for all players who logged in before January 5, 2024
• The ability to link Tarkov: Arena profiles with Escape from Tarkov profiles

What's Coming to Escape from Tarkov in 2024?

• Weather-based seasons
• Uncapped version of the Ground Zero map
• Significant rework of the game's visuals and vegetation
• New endgame scenario where players can actually escape from Tarkov

This roadmap probably comes as promising news to most Escape from Tarkov players, following Escape from Tarkov: Arena's rocky launch. Thankfully, its developers seem to be highly motivated to help the new game reach a respectable state. This news comes after Escape from Tarkov's recent update, which also saw a rough launch. Once the patch worked as intended, the update introduced new guns, a reworked recoil system, new movement mechanics, the new Ground Zero map, and a new boss.

Escape from Tarkov took a hardline stance against data mining its game files this past summer, threatening legal action against any who do so. While this has become a common practice in many games' communities in order to learn about future content, some Escape from Tarkov players were using this method to learn about boss spawn percentages, ammo damage, and other details that gave them an unfair advantage over those who weren't privy to this information. In the interest of maintaining a level playing field for Escape from Tarkov's unique and competitive format, its developers took serious action.

Although arguments could be made for some other intriguing PvPvE games, Escape from Tarkov is one of the most unique and expansive extraction shooters on the market. The game is usually credited with kickstarting the extraction shooter genre, and with good reason.

Escape from Tarkov

Escape from Tarkov is a player-versus-player first-person shooter in which players are dropped into an area and attempt to collect equipment and escape with their lives.

Platform(s)

PC

Released

July 27, 2017

Developer(s)

Battlestate Games

Genre(s)

Shooter , Survival