A brand new Tarkov patch arrives tomorrow. Credit: Battlestate GamesBattlestate Games has revealed that Escape From Tarkov 14.5 will launch tomorrow, and with it being a numbered patch followers predict it to carry a lot of huge adjustments with it.
Escape From Tarkov patch 14.5 might be put in at 8:00 am BST / 3:00 am EDT tomorrow, April 3, with the set up course of anticipated to take 5 hours. Escape From Tarkov servers might be down between 8 am and 1 pm BST, that means the game won’t be accessible to anybody.
However, the prolonged downtime ought to carry with it some huge adjustments to play with. While the patch notes haven’t been revealed, with them sometimes launching because the set up course of begins, the very fact that is a numbered patch quite than a technical replace bodes effectively for this being a main patch with new content material.
The last patch, which launched the current in-game event, was simply a technical replace and the previous few updates have additionally been listed as such. These updates sometimes don’t carry too many huge adjustments with them, and generally are simply behind-the-scenes adjustments. However, a numbered patch like 14.5 sometimes brings some new options or quests, and given it has been a whereas since we acquired some new toys the neighborhood is getting very excited.
There is, nonetheless, a probability that each one the enjoyable stuff that might be added with the patch might be locked till the Spring Never Changes quest, which requires 1,000,000 bonfires to be lit, is accomplished. At the time of writing 542,892 bonfires have been lit, however with it being a long weekend for a lot of progress on which may sluggish down over the approaching days that means we might be ready a whereas to get our fingers on the following stage of the occasion.
Of course with this being the midpoint of the wipe, we aren’t anticipating huge adjustments like we noticed back in December, however it’s a secure wager to imagine there might be one or two new additions. We may see the addition of the streamer gadgets from the streamer problem a few months in the past, and one other secure wager could be the promised Ground Zero matchmaking queue for gamers over stage 20, who’re at present unable to play the map as a PMC.
As ever, the neighborhood can be calling for some improved safety in opposition to cheaters, with neighborhood hubs nonetheless being crammed with posts complaining in regards to the scenario. It’s most likely unlikely that any main enhancements will include the 14.5 patch, however we all know that Battlestate Games is consistently banning thousands of accounts every week.