Developer Battlestate Video games has launched an announcement apologising for the poor state of Escape From Tarkov on its 1.0 launch. In an announcement on social media platform X, sport director Nikita Buyanov wrote about how the studio plans to chop down on technical points by bringing in additional servers to satisfy the demand. Together with this, he has additionally famous that the studio is engaged on updates that may repair a few of the technical points.
“Servers get full actually quick so we[‘re] including an increasing number of servers worldwide to chop matching occasions extra,” wrote Buyanov on X. “We’re additionally fixing the entire incoming bugs, and as I mentioned, we’ll proceed to enhance and repair the sport for the subsequent months.”
Together with this, Buyanov additionally thanked gamers for the curiosity and assist they’ve proven in Escape From Tarkov, whereas additionally acknowledging that the extraction shooter nonetheless has legacy bugs from its alpha days which have nonetheless made it by way of to the 1.0 launch.
“The discharge was tough for certain, sorry for that. However we’re prepared to proceed preventing for every part good towards unhealthy. We are going to proceed to supply to you, precise followers of the sport, issues that you’ll take pleasure in. We have to lastly crack this efficiency issues, outdated stuff and legacy bugs which [are] left. Sure, lots of issues had been mounted in launch model, nevertheless it’s not sufficient.”
The studio itself has additionally posted an official assertion on Steam, confirming that it’s certainly engaged on technical updates that may repair just a few core points with Escape From Tarkov. The replace will goal points when downloading Escape From Tarkov and EFT: Area by way of Steam and the studio’s personal BSG launcher, cases of error 228 when interacting with merchants, and points with incorrect lighting when interacting with merchants.
Within the meantime, the studio has requested gamers making use of Nvidia Easy Movement to disable the setting, since gamers have been experiencing points with beginning Escape From Tarkov up with the setting enabled. A compensatory reward has additionally been promised to gamers within the “close to future” – a Bear Basic and USEC Evening Patrol set. Gamers that already personal these things will get the equal quantity of in-game credit.
“We perceive that this won’t be the whole listing of the problems that gamers are dealing with and the issues that aren’t included within the listing may even be addressed with the upcoming patches,” wrote the developer.
Escape From Tarkov’s 1.0 launch was additionally met with the title’s official launch on Steam. Nonetheless, reception has been fairly crucial, with many gamers complaining concerning the myriad of technical points plaguing the PvPvE extraction shooter. On the time of writing the consumer opinions for the title on Steam are at the moment sitting at an mixture of “Blended”, with solely 46 % of the English consumer opinions being constructive.
Buyanov has additionally beforehand said that the studio is likely to be bringing Escape From Tarkov to consoles. Whereas particulars haven’t but been confirmed, the developer is probably going environment friendly methods to translate the shooter’s extra complicated UI/UX to change into extra controller-friendly.

