A popular map in Escape from Tarkov is being massively revised: Interchange will receive a total of five extraction points with an upcoming update – and will no longer include only two (or three) options for leaving the card.
Why is Interchange revised?
The Map Interchange is extremely popular with the Escape from Tarkov community. However, there is a problem that has been criticized by many players for over a year: Since there are currently only two extraction points, There are numerous campers lurking therewho are just waiting for other players to make their loot easier.
Developer Battlestate Games would like to put a stop to these so-called »extraction campers«: with an upcoming update, Interchange is to be expanded by three new exit points so that it can be found on the map a total of five extraction points gives. If you add the paid exit at the power plant, there are even six exfil zones!
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This should make it significantly more difficult for campers to intercept players on their way to extraction from the combat area: Instead of concentrating on just two possible escape routes, campers will have to keep a total of five different extraction points in mind with the next update – which is what extraction camping means to them difficult and making it easier for other players to escape.
The developers have not yet revealed where the new extraction points will be.
By the way, here you can watch a somewhat older video from Interchange, which gives you an impression of the battles in the shopping center:
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A raid in Escape from Tarkov is not automatically completed and successfully completed, for example if you kill a boss or collect the most valuable loot. Instead, extraction from the combat area is still pending after each raid.
This requires players find one of several possible outputs. However, they are not always open: every participant in a round is assigned random exits. Sometimes a certain key is required, sometimes an exit remains completely closed due to chance.
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Lighting and shadows are also revised on Interchange
Incidentally, the additional Exfil zones are not the only change for Interchange that Battlestate is planning: The lighting on the map should also be adjusted so that players in the card's parking garage can no longer be unfairly discovered by other players who play Escape from Tarkov without shadow or with a reduced representation of shadow.
Numerous fans on Reddit criticized that they could be discovered by enemy players, even though they were should have remained invisible in the shade – which of course affects the balance of Escape from Tarkov.
There will also be an “interactive lighting” on Interchange: players can use the map Switch light on or off. It is activated via the card's power station, but this triggers an alarm – but some of the new extraction points can also be opened at the same time.
When does the interchange update for Escape from Tarkov come?
When the next interchange update for Escape from Tarkov will not be shown in the livestream of the developers of Battlestate Games. We have already reported on the plans and roadmap 2020 for Escape from Tarkov.
On Twitch you have the possibility to watch the livestream of the developers again, where Battlestate Games is about planned changes for interchange in Escape from Tarkov.
