Escape From Tarkov Shares Preorder and Beta Rewards as It Nears 1.0 Launch

Today, November 5, marks 10 years to the time Battlestate Games unveiled its extraction shooter, Escape from Tarkov. And now, 10 days from its 1.0 release, the developer has revealed preorder and beta rewards.

Escape from Tarkov is simply a hardcore MMO substance of first-person shooter / third-person shooter and role-playing gameplay. Players request to find a mode retired of the isolated Russian metropolis of Tarkov, past deadly hazards, and unearth the mysteries of the city. It's been playable successful aboriginal entree signifier since making its debut successful 2016, and it's yet coming to Steam arsenic portion of the 1.0 motorboat connected November 15.

For anyone reasoning of preordering the shooter up of its November 15 merchandise — oregon those who've already preordered it — players tin get pursuing awards:

• Clothing set: USEC Legionnaire Olive
• Clothing set: Bear Sumrak Reverse
• PMC Dogtag: Immortal
• Prayer Armband: Head, Eyes
• Hideout Style: Echo of Battle
• Shooting Target: Hatchling
• Mannequin: poses

Escape from Tarkov preorder and beta rewards. Image credit: Battlestate Games.

While those volition beryllium disposable to each who preorder, there's besides a fistful of further goodies for players who person the Unheard and Edge of Darkness (EOD) editions:

• Gamma Container: Battle-worn
• Hideout Style: Forgotten
• Prayer Armband: Loot
• Shooting Target: Ace of Spades

Unheard Edition owners besides get:

• Prayer Armband: SEBU KOMAR
• PMC Dogtag: Acolyte

Information astir the peculiar PMC dogtag, unsocial armband, and customization for owners of the Edge of Darkness variation "will beryllium announced later."

"Today marks 10 years since the merchandise of the precise archetypal Escape from Tarkov trailer. As the beta trial comes to an end, we privation to convey you for your enactment and for the accidental to make a beingness that has agreed players each implicit the world," the squad said. "Countless updates, TarkovTV episodes, and in-game events — nary of this would person been imaginable without you, our players.

"On November 15, we volition crook a caller leafage unneurotic with you. In the meantime, we invitation you to cheque retired the rewards that volition beryllium disposable for preordering and participating successful the beta test."

Escape from Tarkov's 1.0 merchandise hasn't been without controversy, however. Fans criticized Battlestate Games aft the developer confirmed players volition beryllium required to repurchase the afloat crippled if they privation to play it connected Steam.

It'll beryllium absorbing to spot however Escape from Tarkov measures up against the existent extraction shooter darling, Arc Raiders. It has a highest concurrent subordinate number of 354,836 connected Steam, making it 1 of the biggest extraction shooters ever connected Valve's platform. Another cardinal rival could beryllium Bungie's upcoming Marathon.

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