Escape from Tarkov is taking further steps to crack down on cheaters by providing gamers a money bounty – within the extraction shooter’s in-game forex, anyway – for reporting ne’er-do-wells.
The favored shooter has lengthy been waging struggle towards cheaters, naming and shaming hundreds of banned gamers by dropping lists of usernames as proof that “justice has been served”. Even so, cheats stay – builders Battlestate Video games mentioned they banned over 11,000 in a matter of weeks earlier this yr – so the sport’s creators are actually introducing the bounty system.
Formally referred to within the recreation’s newest patch notes as “compensation for reporting gamers who violated recreation guidelines”, the bounty system is pretty easy in observe. Gamers who efficiently report a cheater – in different phrases, you may’t simply money in by reporting everybody you see – will obtain an quantity of in-game cash as soon as the cheater is confirmed and banned.
It’s not specified how a lot cash gamers will obtain for his or her efforts, although devoted bounty hunters will obtain a mixed quantity for efficiently reporting a number of cheaters.
The system is dwell now alongside newest patch 0.14.9.5, which additionally provides merchandise wishlists, some tweaks to PMC and Scav AI, and the power to play its PvE Zone mode offline. You would possibly recall mentioned PvE mode as being on the centre of a participant backlash to a brand new $250 version of Escape from Tarkov revealed in April, to which it was unique regardless of a previous top-tier model of the sport promising that each one future DLC could be included without spending a dime. After some preliminary resistance, the studio later relented and allowed homeowners of the older Fringe of Darkness bundle into the PvE mode.
