The new Escape From Tarkov wipe has had a rocky launch to say the least, with a lot of technical issues making it difficult for some players to play. A new patch was released yesterday that was supposed to fix a lot of the issues, but since its release, players have reported that there are still a lot of technical problems.
When the big 0.16.0.0 patch launched, Tarkov players were excited to get in and play with some of the new content that was added, but were quickly met with a lot of technical issues. Some were obviously down to server load, with thousands of players trying to log in for the start of the new wipe, but others seemed to be more fundamental issues with the game.
Players reported issues such as micro-stutters, major performance drops, and being kicked from raids as soon as the map loads. There were other issues as well, such as losing gear despite successfully extracting, dying but keeping all of their kit, and some quests bugging out and not giving proper rewards, including unlocking traders.
All of this created a very mixed start to the wipe for many players, and developer Battlestate Games acted pretty quickly to get a patch out last night that was supposed to fix most of the issues. The big list of Tarkov patch notes targeted a lot of the biggest issues players were facing, and it looked like this should fix the new wipe.
However, shortly after the patch launched, players reported that some of the issues had not been fixed as intended in the patch. The biggest one seems to be that PvE raids still have a chance to not save properly, meaning you can extract from a raid and not get your gear at the end of it, which is a pretty big issue for an extraction shooter.
The good news is that Battlestate Games is aware of this and is working on another patch that should fix this, and the other issues that remain broken. In a post on the official Escape From Tarkov social media accounts, they announced another patch is coming soon.
One issue that will likely take a bit longer to fix is the performance of Escape From Tarkov, with many players noticing a drop since the most recent patch. There’s a good chance that the engine upgrade to Unity 2022 likely has something to do with this, so it may take a while to get performance levels back to what it once was. However, in the recent TarkovTV stream it was announced that one of the main focuses for 2025 is to improve performance and optimization, so it is at least something the devs are aware of.
