18-04-2025
New ‘Escape From Tarkov' Roadmap Shows Full Release Coming This Year
Tarkov will launch this year.
A new roadmap has been released for Escape From Tarkov, which reveals the upcoming patch schedule and confirms that the full 1.0 official release of Escape From Tarkov is still coming this year.
The new roadmap was revealed on the TarkovTV live stream earlier today, and revealed that there will be at least four major patches in the coming months, and seemingly before the next wipe, then Tarkov will launch into 1.0 in 2025. There was no specific release date given, but it is seemingly official confirmation that Tarkov is on track to launch this year.
Of course, release dates have been teased before, with late 2024 being the first date teased many years ago. That has obviously come and gone, and it looks like late 2025 is now going to be the main release window for Tarkov.
The somewhat worrying part of this roadmap is that there doesn't appear to be any kind of wipe within it. The roadmap details patches until August, which is usually the latest we would expect a summer wipe, but the patch title is listed as 0.16.9, suggesting that it will not include a wipe. This question was asked by a fan, however no concrete answer was given by the devs, and it seemed they did not know the answer. Given this is usually a very straightforward question they tend to answer, my gut is saying there will be no wipe before launch.
The stream ended with a very brief look at the upcoming Terminal map, showing a few of the locations we have seen in screenshots but in video form. And we got our first look at what cut scenes will look like in Tarkov and on the Terminal map, with a couple of screenshots being shown of NPCs.
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Outside of the launch speculation, we got a lot of news about upcoming optimisations, including improvements to almost every map. There is also an expansion of Interchange listed for the August patch, which better include some reworked extraction points, otherwise I may never play that awful map again.
A big audio rework is promised, yet again, and should arrive with the June patch. We've obviously seen countless audio reworks come and go with mixed results, but the short clip we saw of this in action did look impressive.
There's also some teased new weapons, updated animations for AK weapons, and a lot of the usual changes you would expect to see with Tarkov patches, along with more than a few very cool quality of life improvements that should remove some of the smaller annoying issues Tarkov still has.
There isn't the massive amount of new content we are used to, but we know almost all of that is being saved for the launch patch, so it should not come as too much of a surprise that these are more focused on optimisation and improvements before the release.
While no concrete info was given, it was also announced that Escape From Tarkov: Arena will be coming to Steam sometime soon, following its recent launch on the Epic Games Store. Nikita also confirmed that the main Tarkov game will eventually come to Steam, but don't expect that to happen anytime soon.
During the TarkovTV live stream, a number of promo codes were also released, which will give you some free in game items if you redeem them in game. You'll need to activate these codes in the Tarkov launcher, and when they have been activated you will get the items delivered to you using the in game mail system. However, you'll need to be quick as these promo codes tend to only last for a few hours.
