Escape from Tarkov is notorious for its relentless level of difficulty and high demands on realistic and immersive gameplay. With Patch 0.12.4 comes two new features in the survival shooter, which take this principle to the extreme again: the mechanics »overweight« and »fatigue«.
The two new systems in patch 0.12.4
1. What does the new fatigue effect entail?
The fact that game characters have an endurance bar that is emptied by actions such as sprinting or jumping is nothing new in Escape from Tarkov or video games in general. For Patch 0.12.4 developer Battlestate Games came up with a new trick.
Escape from Tarkov divides your stamina display into "arms" and "legs". Actions such as aiming, throwing grenades and melee empty the arms bar, while jumping, sprinting and changing body positions affect the legs bar. As soon as the arm endurance is used up, the leg bar also begins to fade.
The fatigue effect takes effect when your character's stamina is kept at a low level for a longer period of time: the higher the fatigue effect, the further the energy consumption of your actions increases – a vicious cycle of effort.
2. What does being overweight entail?
The principle of being overweight in Escape from Tarkov may be familiar to players from titles like Fallout 4 or The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim: If there is too much stuff in the inventory, running and sprinting are no longer possible, comfort functions such as fast travel are also deactivated.
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In Escape from Tarkov, certain weight values for weapons, equipment and loot with patch 0.12.4 also have effects, but they are much more serious: For example, your own noise level is increased if you carry too much stuff with you. The speed of your own movements is also limited, while the consumption of endurance skyrockets.
Incidentally, these are not the only major changes in Patch 0.12.4 for Escape from Tarkov: We recently reported that Battlestate Games developer is making important changes to the popular Map Interchange with the new update.
The patch notes of update 0.12.4 at a glance
Patch 0.12.4 for Escape from Tarkov does not currently have a release date. Developer Battlestate Games has not commented on this either in the livestream or in the official blog post.
All official Patch notes from update 0.12.4 are as follows:
Added
- Interchange has been revised.
- The light on Interchange has been updated.
- New interactive objects, new extracts.
- Various problems with culling, physical collisions have been fixed.
- New mechanics, overweight. The character receives various negative effects or properties while carrying a certain weight (increased noise level of the equipment, limitation of the movement speed, increased endurance consumption, etc.).
- Added fatigue effect that occurs when the character keeps stamina at a low level for a long time. The energy consumption increases with this effect.
- The character's stamina meter is now divided into "arms" and "legs". The endurance of the arms is used when aiming, throwing grenades and in close combat. Leg endurance is used up when sprinting, jumping, changing body positions, etc. Leg endurance also begins to dwindle when arm endurance drops to zero.
- The "Trade", "Flea Market" and "Inventory" buttons have been added at the bottom of the user interface for quick access.
- New hand grenades based on the prototypes VOG-17 and VOG-25.
- The resolution of the screen is automatically determined when the game is started for the first time and adopted as the default setting.
- New weapon mods.
- New character customization outfits
- New BEAR top called "Telnik"
- New BEAR pants called "Tiger"
- New USEC top named "TIER2"
- New USEC pants called "Commando"
- New SCAV top called "Olimpic Jersey Russia"
- New body armor, tactical vests, backpack, helmet, active headset
- Grenade box.
- New exchange items and new trading options that require this loot.
- New options for making in hiding.
- New quests with new outfits as a reward.
optimization
- Smaller light optimizations.
- Smaller optimizations of the decals.
- Various optimizations for server stability.
Fixed
- Fixed an issue where saving the weapon preset, all inventory and trade actions could freeze.
- A part of the errors in the inventory display with a screen resolution of 2k (or 1440p) has been fixed.
- Fixed an issue where AI bodies could disappear after or during a reconnect.
- The display of notifications when receiving weapons from a SCAV box has been corrected.
- Fixed an issue where the production timer was not updated when the generator ran out of fuel.
- Fixed a bug that made it impossible to enter the hiding place after transferring graphics cards from the Bitcoin farm.
- A bug has been fixed where the context menu – for objects brought in by SCAV – did not appear.
- Fixed a bug that prevented the item from being inspected after production.
- Fixed a bug that occurred when pressing the sprint button twice with a pistol or melee weapon and the character ran in place.
- One is no longer thrown into the main menu after the error "The inventory / stash is full" occurred.
- Fixed a bug in the hideout that made it possible to open a window for the transfer of objects from the first person view.
- Fixed pop-ups that could not appear in the center of the screen.
- Fixed a bug that caused a pop-up window with a list of missing items to appear behind the screen.
- Fixed a bug that caused flea market errors when there were exchange offers.
- Various other bug fixes and corrections.
Changed
- The parameters of the stimulants were adjusted, the negative effects were reduced.
- The weight of various items has been adjusted.
- The flea market is now available from PMC LVL 15 (previously LVL 5).
- Small reflex viewfinders were scaled down (Aimpoint, Romeo, Trijicon).
- Accuracy values in weapon properties are now displayed in angular minutes.
- We have added the weapon name to the default weapon preferences to which they refer.
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