Escape From Tarkov‘s main new 0.14.0.0 replace is dwell now. It brings with it the entire many options introduced final month, together with a brand new map, Floor Zero, designed particularly for newcomers, in addition to a vaulting system, new armor and hitbox modelling, and rather more.
The brand new location is within the metropolis heart of Tarkov, surrounded by skyscrapers and filled with “banks, cafes, eating places, shops, pharmacies, and so forth”. The realm is designed for gamers from stage 1 to twenty, with starter quests designed to ease newcomers to the usually brutal extraction shooter. Gamers over stage 20 will not be capable of entry the realm in any respect.
Hitboxes are actually extra detailed, with explicit areas of the physique being subdivided into smaller hit zones. The pinnacle, for instance, now contains three newly distinct areas: the neck, the throat, the face. The abdomen and pelvic areas have been equally divided, whereas forearm hitboxes have been “diminished in diameter.”
All of which issues as a result of a brand new armor system has been added within the replace, which incorporates 37 ballistic plates that match to the hitbox divisions. These plates have explicit specs, equivalent to energy, materials, harm absorption, ricochet and extra. You’ll be able to scavenge for them, commerce them, and in the event that they’re broken, restore them.
The opposite main function is “vaulting and impediment interplay”, which provides choices for clambering over or on high of obstacles within the sport world. Tarkov is aiming for realism, so new methods to work together with its world are an enormous deal, and vaulting is simulated such that – for instance – doing it whereas strolling makes much less noise than when sprinting.
There are various, many different modifications in the total patch notes, together with a brand new boss, the power to maneuver weapons between shoulders, extra real looking weapon recoil, and extra.
