EFT: New Tarkov street map scheduled to be released this summer

According to current plans, Streets of Tarkov should be playable in the summer! Source: Battlestate Games

In the Escape from Tarkov community, there seem to be only two big topics at the moment. The vast majority of players are waiting for the next survey, while others finally want to see and explore the new, much-announced map “Streets of Tarkov” in the game. As announced by developer and publisher Battlestate Games, Streets of Tarkov, or SoT for short, should be the largest map in hardcore FPS and offer space for up to 40 PMCs at the same time.

After the last presentation of the map as part of the third teaser video, which premiered about eleven months ago as part of Summer Game Fest 2021, it has been quiet for a long time about the main project within the genre-defining shooter. Perhaps the most important piece of information that emerged from the said teaser is in the description of the video on YouTube. There it says SoT should be implemented with upcoming game update 0.13. Now there is news.

The streets of Tarkov will probably still be playable in the summer

Escape from Tarkov director Nikita Boyanov announced via Twitter that the first edition of Streets of Tarkov will be released before the start of fall 2022. what does that mean?

“The most common question – when does it come out on the street? It is being done. We hope to see the first iteration before fall.” Nikita Buyanov Twitter

In all likelihood, Streets of Tarkov will not be released in one piece. We at Battlestate Games are already familiar with the procedure for integrating new maps into individual parts. Maps such as Shoreline or Lighthouse currently, will initially be activated in a basic version and will be expanded to new areas at a later time. We expect the same in Streets of Tarkov.

As can be seen from the quoted tweet, work is currently underway to complete the map. It is hoped that the first version of the SoT will be available to players before the onset of fall. However, hope is of course not an assurance or a guarantee, so it may take longer before we are allowed to put our shoes on the streets of Tarkov. At this point, we can only hope that the developers at BSG will make as good progress as they currently hope for themselves.

According to Buyanov, the big problem that still needs to be solved is performance. “Right now, performance is a critical point,” the game director adds in response to his announcement yesterday. This statement is not surprising, given that Battlestate Games is already having problems making performance on some maps consistently good and further improving it.

Due to the fact that all the maps implemented so far have a significantly smaller scale and are organized much more horizontally than most likely large parts of Streets of Tarkov, the performance problems are not surprising. This is another clear indication that Streets will also be released in divisions and may not initially accommodate 40 PMCs per raid. After all, Buyanov himself talks about the “first edition” about which the release in the summer is supposed to be.

Escape from Tarkov – Battle of Concordia (Tarkov Streets Teaser #3)

Here you can see the latest themed map video content. Streets of Tarkov aims to offer inner-city gameplay that we can’t even begin to experience in Tarkov at the moment. SoT features urban valleys, parks, construction sites and of course many buildings, corridors and rooms where closed combat will be part of the agenda.

The gameplay scenes shown, in which the fight takes place, are also impressive. For example, the explosion of a grenade shook the entrance and led not only to tearing objects from the wall, but also to the circulation of dust, which greatly affected visibility and lighting. Will this also be implemented in the game? This will be new and also a reason why optimization is more difficult than previously known content. You can read the other hints found in the joke in our related article.

Society wants something different

So while Battlestate games are currently apparently focusing on Streets of Tarkov as well as preparing for the next survey, many fans really want other things. Reading the dozens of comments below Boyanov’s announcement of the first iteration of Streets, a certain tune emerges: “Take your time with new content, improve what’s already there.”

Many members of the active community would prefer to see a patch that improves performance on maps that are already available. For example, one would like more modern CPU and GPU usage, more stable frames and eliminating known issues that lead to low frame rate.

User Chris writes something like: “Please perform everywhere, the game will be 1000000% better if it runs at 140fps smoothly and then you improve all the little things” – please improve performance everywhere, the game will be 1000000% better if done Running them at 140fps will run smoothly and you can then improve on the little things.

Swavilo is also looking forward to the new content, but is also unhappy with the current performance: “This is exciting. I feel that in 3080 tarkov you should get 160 frames per second on all ATLEAST maps.” – That’s exciting, but I think with 3080 I should get At least 160 fps on all maps.

And because all good things come in three packages, we’re mentioning this comment as well. Liam writes: “If there’s a major patch that contains an improvement, I’ll fit in, although I’m sure it doesn’t fit into your timeline for pre-release features.” , although I’m sure that doesn’t fit into your schedule for pre-release features. “

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