“This time, I have to choose to leave temporarily-Escape from Tarkov.”
The famous “Battle Royale” game Escape from Tarkov performed regular file deletion on May 28, and all players started the game from scratch. This means that at the beginning of this new file, apart from the different versions of the game when the player purchased the game, all tasks need to be repeated, pulling the player back to the same starting line.
This is not the first season restart of Escape from Tarkov. Before that, Tarkov had already deleted files many times. Because the game is still in a closed beta version, and because of Tarkov’s game mechanics, the purpose of Tarkov’s season restart is actually to ensure good operation of the game.
Yet, accidents always follow one after another. Escape from Tarkov is more difficult this time than before. These reasons are both in-game and out-of-game.
Very unique game – Escape from Tarkov
When I first met Escape from Tarkov, I thought it was a “realistic” and “hardcore” game. Almost all the guns in the game, the game official has purchased the copyright of the guns. The large-scale gun transformation system in the game, the separate life worth system of all parts of the body, and the dark game environment… These game elements make Escape from Tarkov very hardcore.
Like most “Battle Royale” games on the market. In the battle of Escape from Tarkov, the player reached one of the several evacuation points specified in the map within the specified time and survived. Players take the loot seized in each game to sell it outside the game and get “Ruble”, or the player can leave the props for their own use. Players can buy better equipment after getting the ruble, and then choose to carry the equipment to the next battle.
Each player has a unique “safe”, and players can put the collected items into the safe. If the player dies, all items except the safe will not be returned.
If a player buys a full set of guns and armor before the start of a game, the player will have more powerful combat power in the game and dare to go to richer areas to collect loot. But, if the player takes nothing, take a small knife into the game to search for loot, and put it in the safe, this behavior is called “running knife” by the player.
Each game mode is not omnipotent in Escape from Tarkov. Players may purchase a full set of equipment but be killed by runners and game AI. It may also bring only a knife into it, but escape the battle with all the props and equipment. This stimulating “gambler psychology” makes many players fall in love with this game.
Since January this year, Escape from Tarkov updated Simplified Chinese and more and more Asian players have poured into “Tarkov”. This happens to collide with the annual file deletion and large-scale update time.
The Escape from Tarkov’s official “strange” operation
First of all, the game official reduced the income of runner players in the update. Tarkov now adds a new limit to the items obtained in the safe in the battle situation: If the player leaves the battle situation because of death, the battle situation will get There is no check mark in the lower right corner of the items, and it is impossible to trade through Tarkov’s very important “flea market”.
“Flea market” is a unique game mechanism in Escape from Tarkov, which is equal to the player trading place of ordinary online games. Players put items in the “flea market” for all other players to buy. But because these props are brought out in the game map by various game channels, according to the difficulty of obtaining items and the difference in demand, the price will be very different.
Because of the opened service and the restrictions on items, it is difficult for players to get items to be sold in the “flea market”. Many items in the flea market have no price, and the prices of a large number of items have skyrocketed. Most Chinese players only play games in January this year, and the price collapse in the flea market has affected many new players.
At the same time, the official increased the level restrictions of the flea market, only players above level 10 can enter the flea market. In Escape from Tarkov, it is very difficult to upgrade the game level. In a battle situation, you can gain experience by killing enemies and searching for equipment. In the early stage, players are short of funds, equipment is backward, and it is very difficult to upgrade early. It will be much later to unlock the flea market.
The above-mentioned official changes to the game made the already difficult game worse, making new players even worse in the early stage. Many players have become more and more difficult to complete the tasks of merchants, resulting in more and more players already giving up Escape from Tarkov Idea.
Although this major change raises the threshold of the game again, it makes this “RPG+FPS” game more difficult. But this is definitely not the main reason for the complaints and dissatisfaction of most Asian players early this season. The main reason why Asian players are dissatisfied with the game official is the official lock ping of the region. The chain reaction brought by the lock ping has lowered the gaming environment of the entire Asian service by one grade.
More and more cases of cheating
Every FPS game has annoying cheating, and Tarkov is no exception. Cheating has grown at the speed of light for a time, with the majority of Asian players cheating, spreading across all game servers. As early as before, there have been many rumors of players asking for Tarkov’s lock area.
And Tarkov officially did just that. Escape from Tarkov started to lock the area for Asian players. Once the ping value of Asian players exceeds a certain limit, the game will be forced to pop up. Earlier the ping limit was still 180. According to the announcement, the official is gradually lowering this ping limit to between 150 and 160.
A large number of Asian service players were to avoid cheaters. They could only go to the European service, the American service, and the Russian service. However, when the official made this move, they could only return to the Asian service. clothes.
Because of the lock ping, a large number of cheating players can only come to the Asian service, even if they may not live in Asia at all. Such a large number of cheating players are concentrated on a server. For ordinary players, they may be killed by other players just after entering the game, or they will be snatched by the cheaters after only a few seconds of survival.
If the equipment brought into the game is not valuable, there will not be too much regret if it is lost. But if the player spends a lot of money to buy good equipment and enter the game, and is killed by the cheater, then the player will lose too much in this game.
Then most players will have the following choices: 1. It can only be patient to continue to play the game and pray that the cheater will not be met in the next game. 2. As a result of a bad mentality, I will not play “Escape from Tarkov” for the time being. 3. Join the ranks of cheaters. 4. Purchase Escape from Tarkov Currency. Only when Roubles buys better equipment will it be possible to fight against other players.
The poor game environment will gradually let more ordinary players choose to buy currency and cheat. Although it is said that many people originally created for “coolness” or cheating for other reasons, it is undeniable that the gradual deterioration of the game environment also “forced” players to buy and purchase game currency to cheat. A series of effects on players caused by lock pings are reflected in this way. Even if players know that “purchasing game currency” and “cheating” are unethical behavior, it has become the choice of many players.
In this way, at the beginning of the Tarkov season, the difficulty of item transactions increased, the studio is generally used as a fraud to earn in-game currency, and more and more players want to buy game currency. The studio is unscrupulous under the circumstances of favorable conditions and all three.
With the need for players to purchase Escape from Tarkov currency, the studio will start cheating in the game to make money, and the large-scale admission of the studio will make the game environment worse. The more important thing is that the lock ping is certain. To a certain extent, it infringes on the rights of the player as a consumer: because the player purchased Tarkov is the European global version, the lock ping means that the European global version has become empty talk. The player who opened the accelerator (even) was officially referred to as a “fraudster” by Escape from Tarkov.
Even so, for some old players, because they are familiar with the game mechanism, skilled in operation, and good at using map advantages to snatch loot, they can make up for the overall imbalance of the game caused by the purchase of EFT Roubles and cheating. So which game group of Escape from Tarkov’s current game environment is the most damaging?
The answer is “Mild Players”.
Final Summary
As an online game FPS game with RPG elements, players can only complete the former “RPG” elements by spending time and effort. The current environment of Tarkov requires that you do not buy EFT Currency, do not cheat, and technical players spend more time to complete Tarkov’s RPG elements.
Many “mild players” may play Escape from Tarkov just to have fun, or they may gradually become more and more loved by the game. However, the adjustment of the game version of Escape from Tarkov, as well as the increase in the purchase of currency and cheating, forced many “mild players” to “out” Tarkov.
Restrictions on the opening of the flea market have been raised, restrictions on items have appeared, pinging, cheating, buying currency, etc. These in-game and out-of-game reasons gradually squeeze the capital of “mild players” to survive this season.
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