While the game is still in Closed Beta, we’ve been thinking about its potential. Escape from Tarkov can transform into many things, and one of them is an open-world survival shooter. Battlestate Games never announced any of these changes, but Escape from Tarkov will undoubtedly try to reach a new level of heights by traversing to it.
Many people think that Escape From Tarkov will be all about Raids. Instead, that will make the game annoying and unplayable, knowing the fact that the game allows people to team up. That’s one of the game’s matchmaking issues, which should also be fixed. We’re still in a Closed Beta phase, and a new patch is coming out very soon, which should include the Hideouts feature. Now that the Asian servers are live, Battlestate Games can progress faster than just dealing with the unresponsive and laggy servers because of the high load.
Multiple times, Battlestate Games has stated that they aim to bring Quality before all. Therefore, the company is struggling to find the best parameters for becoming a new blockbuster. It’s time for progress, and we know it.
Open World Addition, Every Player’s Dream
Every Escape From Tarkov player dreams about the upcoming Open World so they can roam around the whole map without having any borders. What we think is that Escape From Tarkov will be locking the raids after their first-time finish. If there’s a locking system, the players will have nothing to do except join the Open World, which will add a SURVIVAL purpose to the game and make players consume food and water to satisfy their thirst and hunger.
For now, no one is pushed to carry any of those items unless he’s planning to stay for a more extended period inside a raid. While the game is in beta, there’s nothing more to play except to do the currently available Raids. Below you can see the whole map, with the highlighted zone being planned to become an Open World, despite having the map as Raid instances.
In Open World, players will roam freely while trying to find better loot by killing NPCs (Scavs) or real players. We assume only the PMC option will be available to join the Open World instance rather than play as a Scav. Knowing the way the AIs and the method of their development and parameters set up, they inevitably choke the Server’s performance more than a human player.
Therefore, is much more likely to anticipate an Open World full of players (being able to spawn both as Scav or PMCs) rather than having bots on the map. Having bots will hurt the competitive survival genre, but it will also give players a chance to grab extra loot. One way or another, the Open World feature is coming to Escape From Tarkov, it is just a matter of time when its first Open World Beta going to occur.
