Nikita Buyanov, the COO behind Escape From Tarkov, has just addressed the community’s concerns regarding the upcoming changes, the release of the Unheard Edition, and what the EoD edition is finally getting.
Judging by the comment on Reddit, it appears that Nikita is really trying to fix things up, rather than bring more petrol to the fire. He just confirmed that the PvE edition will be accessible to EoD owners for free, but will arrive at a later stage.
But what’s more important is that the developer has also decided to add MOD support for the PvE mode after the release of the game, which is feedback taken from the most recent MOD called SPTARKOV.
Furthermore, there will be new EoD perks coming to the game. You can find the full statement by Nikita, below. Last but not least, the developer said that they will keep on working on the game, updates, etc.
Over on Reddit, he said:
Let me continue my feedback on the current situation. First of all, I would like to say that I am very sorry that fans and the game community in general are experiencing these feelings. Unfortunately, I somehow did not foresee the fact of such a reaction and now I have drawn conclusions for my future decisions.
Now I will briefly summarize the main points:
- About PvE access – we decided to just open it for EoD owners for free, but we will do it in waves. As I said before – we don’t have server capacity right now. We will start this process as soon as possible
- We also decided that we will add MOD support for PvE mode after release of the game
- About the Unheard edition – we will not remove it, we want to keep the option for those who want to support the game more. But we will balance items, perks in this edition, as well as we will provide more rewards for those, who upgraded with the old price
- New EoD perks will be balanced too. We will remove prioritized matching option to keep everyone in the same spot. And we will add more unique stuff to highlight the EoD version in general. We will provide the final list of the new EoD perks asap
- We continue to work on patches, new content, events, and the game release itself no matter what
Thank you for your time, love and hate, and thank you for your increased attention to the current situation.
So, what do you think it’s going to happen? I mean, as things stand at the very moment, it appears that Nikita is really trying to fix things and get over the problems due to the Unheard Edition releases.
Well, it was about time to see this happen. Not only the modded version, but also the EoD edition owners… they should get a lot more than just that.
Big true.