The creators of Escape from Tarkov presented a New Year's special stream, TarkovTV. Battlestate Games boss Nikita Buyanov decided to talk about plans for the game in 2026:
First quarter of the year:
- Expansion of integration with Steam.
- Reconnect rework: developers want reconnection after a crash to take 10-15 seconds.
- Optimization of internal systems, speeding up loading and unloading. The developers want: "Pressed the button - and you immediately found yourself in the raid."
- Reducing memory consumption.
- "Serious" performance boost, especially on Streets of Tarkov.
- Vegetation rework.
During the stream, there was an awkward moment: EFT servers crashed and the developers took a break while it was being fixed. Buyanov joked that "this is a video" (a screensaver about the servers crashing in the background), but some players also reported connection problems at that moment.