Fans eagerly awaiting the Escape From Tarkov wipe have been given an uncommon Christmas reward as an alternative – NPC scavs have now been tooled up with grenade launchers, one of many recreation’s strongest – and terrifying – weapons.
Due to Escape From Tarkov‘s looting, this means that you are more likely to be fragged by tooled-up Scavs, but it also means that it’s extra doubtless it is possible for you to to loot a grenade launcher of your personal from the physique of a scav that you’ve killed, that means this extremely deadly weapon is now going to be extra frequent forward of the wipe, which can reset the stock and progress of all gamers.
The occasion was introduced on Twitter, as with different Escape From Tarkov occasions.
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— Battlestate Games (@bstategames) December 25, 2022
With regards to the wipe, there’s nonetheless no info on precisely when that will likely be. Clues appeared to level to a wipe final week and a few gamers even steered that the wipe would possibly come about right now (December 26) as a consequence of some numbers decoded by a number of the group.
Now, the perfect guess is that the wipe will come earlier than the Twitch Drops marketing campaign for the sport, which will likely be working from December 29 to January 7. With this in thoughts, the sensible cash now appears to level in direction of a wipe on December 27 or 28, as in any other case, gamers will likely be getting new objects solely to lose them when progress is wiped just a few days later.
In the meantime, the entire earlier occasions are nonetheless working within the recreation too: stims at the moment haven’t any adverse unwanted effects, expertise are levelling sooner, the flea market at the moment has subsequent to no charges and melee weapons are actually staggeringly highly effective. Finally, player-on-player fight has been incentivised as canine tags are value a ton of cash too.
Eager followers are ready for any actual information of a wipe, however we’ll discover out when BattleState Games tweets about upcoming downtime.