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How to Buy and Download Escape From Tarkov Closed Beta

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  • if you want to buy and download Escape from Tarkov’s beta, you will need to purchase one of the four editions the game offers currently.
  • The minimum price you need to pay for the game is $45 with the highest-end version going up to $140.
  • The Edge of Darkness Limited Edition offers lifetime access to all DLCs that will be published for the game.

Here’s a guide on how to buy and download Escape from Tarkov’s beta if you want a fresh survival shooter experience that isn’t a classic battle royale. The game is available in one of the popular digital storefronts and if you want to buy and download Escape From Tarkov’s beta, you have to download it directly from the website. There is still no official release date and the only way to experience the game right now is in its closed beta state by purchasing a key that offers instant access. Here is a guide on how to buy and download Escape From Tarkov beta in 2021. 

Buy and Download Escape From Tarkov’s Beta: Which Version to Choose?

Before you buy and download Escape From Tarkov’s beta, there are multiple purchase options available that you need to choose from. These are your options: 

Standard Edition ($45)

  • Guaranteed instant access to closed beta
  • Digital copy pre-load
  • Basic stash (10×28 cells)
  • Bonus equipment 

Left Behind Edition ($75)

  • Guaranteed instant access to closed beta
  • Digital copy pre-load
  • Increased size of stash (10×38)
  • Bonus equipment 

Prepare for Escape Edition ($100)

  • Guaranteed instant access to closed beta
  • Digital copy pre-load
  • Greatly increased size of stash (10×48)
  • Additional equipment and resources in stash:
  • Initially good standing with all in-game traders
  • Bonus equipment 

Edge of Darkness Limited Edition ($140)

  • Guaranteed instant access to closed beta
  • Digital copy pre-load
  • Huge size of stash (10×68)
  • Additional equipment and resources in stash:
  • Initially good standing with all in-game traders
  • Unique in-game ID
  • Free access to all subsequent DLCs (Season pass)
  • Bonus Equipment 

Where to Access Escape From Tarkov Beta?

Escape From Tarkov’s download option is not available on the website until you purchase the game. here is how you can buy and download Escape From Tarkov’s Beta:

  1. Head to https://www.escapefromtarkov.com/registration 
  2. Click on Registration
  3. Enter your desired username, email and other details 
  4. Once the registration process is complete login into your new account
  5. Head to: https://www.escapefromtarkov.com/preorder-page 
  6. Choose the version you want
  7. Make the payment via credit card, PayPal or other supported methods in your region

How to Install Escape from Tarkov Beta

Once you purchase the game you are now ready to download and play Escape From Tarkov’s beta. 

  1. Head to https://www.escapefromtarkov.com 
  2. Head to the Profile Page 
  3. Click on Download 
  4. A launcher will download 
  5. Double click the launcher and choose where you want to install the game
  6. The download will begin 
  7. Click on Play once the download is complete 

Login to your Escape From Tarkov Account and you are ready to go!

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Abhimannu Das

Abhimannu is a PC esports writer at AFK Gaming. With over seven years of experience in esports journalism, he has worked on a myriad of games and their ecosystems including Valorant, Overwatch and Apex Legends.

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Escape from Tarkov is a hardcore and realistic online first-person action RPG/Simulator with MMO features and a story-driven walkthrough.

With each passing day the situation in the Norvinsk region grows more and more complicated. Incessant warfare in Tarkov has sparked massive panic; the local population has fled the city, but those who stayed are looking to improve their fortunes at the expense of others. Having accepted the new reality, savage Tarkov locals — «Scavs» flocked into well-armed gangs and started the redivision of the city. Nowadays, Tarkov is separated by unseen borders, controlled by different groups. Gain-greedy gunmen would go to any length to have their way, including the murder of civilians and direct confrontation with the two private military companies.

The players will have to experience living in the skin of one of the mercenaries who survived the initial stage of the Tarkov conflict. After choosing one of the sides – USEC or BEAR – the player’s character starts to make his way out of the city. Tarkov is sealed off by UN and Russian military, supply chains are cut, communication with operational command is lost, and in these conditions everyone has to make his own choices of what to do and how to get out of the chaos-ridden metropolis.

Tarkov city, Norvinsk region. Present time.

The events of the Escape from Tarkov take place in the fictional Norvinsk’s region Special Economic Zone that became a gateway between Russia and Europe. Preferential conditions for large international companies, however, have not only attracted law-abiding businesses, but corporations of dubious intent as well. In Tarkov, one of the largest cities of the region, a transatlantic corporation became the ground zero of a political scandal. Six months later, the political standoff escalated into an armed conflict involving UN peacekeepers, Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and two private military companies. The region’s borders were sealed off, and those trapped in the middle of this local warfare flare up were isolated from the outside world.

The confrontation on the edge of darkness.

The most active forces in the Norvinsk region are two private military companies, hired by the sides of the initial conflict. USEC, employed by the notorious Terra Group international corporation, vigorously engages in armed clashes, hindering the investigation of Terra Group activities, carried on by local authorities. Moreover, according to intelligence agencies, USEC provides armed cover to illegal work and research of the foreign companies, whereas BEAR, allegedly created on direct orders of the Russian government, is employed by the Norvinsk region officials to uncover any evidence of the Terra Group’s illicit activities.

The time has come.
  • Story-driven scenario based walkthrough as one of the multiplayer gamemodes. Complete raids on large scale locations with your friends or alone.
  • Explore many of the unique and authentic locations of Tarkov city and it’s suburbs: citizen blocks, chemical plant area, AA military base, the heart of Tarkov city, private living zone and others in realtime weather conditions and time of day changes.
  • Discover concealed locations — reserved facilities and stocks, sealed TerraGroup offices and underground warehouses.
  • Find useful information and items which will help to understand what is going on in the city.
  • Cooperate with ex-enemies, change the priorities to unfold the mysteries and escape from Tarkov alive.
Live through immersive combat experience.
  • Behold the system module HECS — Hazardous Environment Combat Simulator.
  • Feel your character via health and physical characteristics, including hydration, energy, blood pressure, bloodloss, fractures, contusion, intoxication, exhaustion, tremors and so on.
  • Control your character freely — smooth speed and stance changes and transitions, leaning and proning.
  • Be aware of real-life ballistics and projectile hit physics.
  • Get ready to feel the weapon as it is in real life. Get used to physical concepts of weapon operating — jamming, overheating, wearout, reloading, aiming, charging and, of course, shooting.
  • Discover the most advanced weapon modding system ever. Change everything you want to expand your weapon’s tactical abilities.
  • Interact with the environment to gain situational domination — switch lights, commence tactical entry with door interaction system.
Stay alive and pay attention.
  • If you die, you’ll lose everything you took and found in a raid. Organize your backup inventory kits, use secured containers and insurance.
  • Treat yourself, your gear and weapons properly. Apply the large variety of medicines to stay alive and focused. Repair your armor, firearms and cold steel. Purify water and sort out your food rations.
  • Manage your inventory in a classic slot-based way. Organize and modify your chest rig like a real professional.
  • Utilize special equipment like NVGs, radio headsets, ballistic vests and helmets.
  • Loot fallen enemies and containers to get a vast variety of items to use and barter.
  • Get experienced — earn points and level up. Near 100 unique skills to train via a repetitive actions principle.
  • Cooperate with strangers or get shot by your friend in the back — there are no rules.
Beware of Scavs.
  • The louder your scream — the faster they come. Get your trigger finger ready.
  • Confront AI driven civilian savage scavengers (or Scavs) and play as a Scav with pre-set random gear, weapon and health condition.
  • No need to worry about death — you will not lose anything from your main character.
  • Get out alive while playing Scav and then transfer his loot to your main character stash.
Fit in and get settled.
  • Experience a large amount of non-combat activities.
  • Communicate and trade with NPC merchants, gain their trust to get special goods and quests.
  • Adapt to the economy, which changes in real time according to other players’ operations and events, controlled by AI.
  • Sell your loot in rag fairs and auctions.
  • Become a trader with your own store, runners and specials.
  • Work with your stash, heal your character, repair and modify weapons, examine items, chat to learn news and gossip.
  • Establish your own combat group with unique abilities.

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EFT was announced in 2015, the first alpha was in 2016, and the beta has been going on since 2017. There is still no release date, and the amount of hype and hatred around the game goes through the roof Let’s see what separates EFT from release

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Why can’t the game be released tomorrow?

Escape from Tarkov / Escape from Tarkov is a hardcore realistic storyline is an online multiplayer game that combines the features of the genres of FPS / TPS, combat simulator and RPG with MMO elements. (c) escapefromtarkov.com

From the description on the site it follows that an important element of the EFT should be the story module. Its implementation requires a full pool of locations, a system of merchants-at-locations, and a system for moving from one location to another (basic implementation of the «open world»).

Adding a story module as a free update to an already released game will not work either — these changes will completely change the gameplay of the game and such a move can be met extremely negatively.

What are the key elements that separate a game from release?

Early map selection window with «Private Sector» location and Arena

  • At least three new locations and a number of changes to familiar locations. The critical ones are the Private Sector, Tarkov Streets and the Terminal. Among the changes should be the expansion of locations for the mechanics of merchants-at-locations.
  • Trader-on-location system. The current system with «offline» merchants should be a thing of the past by the time of release — all merchants will have a physical representation in the game locations that will need to be visited for questing and trading with NPCs. The first iteration of this mechanic should appear in the next content update.
  • «Open world». At the moment, all locations are available to players from the very beginning (with the exception of the «card» Laboratory), but on release the situation will change dramatically. The game will start on a single «training» map «Private Sector» from which the player will move to the Streets of Tarkov and will gradually open transitions to other locations. If now all exits lead to the Vault, then on release, most of the exits will move us to neighboring locations. Transition mechanics will be available for the first time for the maps «Streets of Tarkov» — «Laboratory» — «Factory».
  • Enhanced hitbox system. At the moment, each body part, except for the head, has one hit box. After the introduction of the extended hitbox system, armor plates in body armor will cover only those parts of the body that they cover in reality.
  • Expansion of the range of explosives and grenade launchers.
  • Redesigned role-playing system.
  • Increased number of factions and bosses with unique behavior patterns.
  • Standalone addon — EFT:Arena. The arena is planned to be released before the release of the game.

This is something that can be said with some confidence. There are still hundreds of announced mechanics and several locations, but they can smoothly move into DLC and post-release additions.

What is the timing?

This year they promise to release at least two major content patches — with the expansion of the Lighthouse and the first iteration of the Streets of Tarkov. The release is not earlier than 2023. Buyanov does not want to delay the release even more — fatigue from many years of development is already affecting (initially, the release was planned to be arranged in 2019in a much shorter form).

What after the release?

  • Development of EFT and Arena with content updates and DLC
  • Release of a version for consoles (Microsoft is interested, there are prototypes of gamepad controls in the studio)
  • Creation of a single-player game in the Russia 2028 universe.

Competitors

Several more games have been released in beta in the extraction royal genre since the release of EFT:

  • Hunt Showdown is a fairly successful representative of the genre with a touch of Western, the last major update in January.
  • Vigor — EFT console clone from Bohemia. Last major update in February.
  • BF2042 Hazard Zone — failed DICE attempt at extraction royal. Most likely dead.

As well as several games just getting ready for release:

  • The Cycle: Frontier is a generic sci-fi variation on the EFT theme from Yager.
  • Call of Duty MW2/Warzone 2 — apparently the next CoD will have some kind of PvPvE mode instead of co-op. The Extraction format in Call of Duty has already been tested in Zombie BOCW and VG modes, so we can expect something interesting.

Review of the Escape from Tarkov beta version

Many have heard, but not everyone knows personally how difficult it is sometimes for fighters who plan to escape from Tarkov. About what the Battlestate Games project is at this stage of development, we tell in a brief review.

  • Developer: Battlestate Games
  • Publisher: Battlestate Games

Social networks and instant messengers continue to broadcast disturbing information about armed clashes, allegedly becoming more frequent on the territory of the former economic zone in the Norvinsk region.

It is reported that looting is rampant in the closed city and entire groups consisting of local residents, as well as former operatives of law enforcement agencies, are rampant.

According to the authorities, this information is not true. The purpose of its distributors is to divert public attention from the facts related to the illegal activities of the British company.

Earlier it was reported that employees of the military organization USEC, protecting the interests of the infamous corporation Terra Group, opened fire on the security forces of one of the private security companies based in Tarkov.

The conflict was promptly resolved by joint actions of the UN peacekeeping forces and the RF Armed Forces, however, it caused a serious political outcry, in connection with which the authorities made a joint decision to isolate the region until the situation was clarified.

At the same time, our portal managed to contact a verified source, which is currently in a closed area. We tell about what is really happening at the moment in Tarkov in our review.

Kill or be killed

Escape from Tarkov, a session first-person shooter, can hardly be attributed to one specific genre — the developers initially planned a hybrid, and turned the bias into a tactical simulator. The notorious Stalker feels like a blood relative, and the Arma project feels like a brother in spirit.

But if in the latter the emphasis is placed on the well-coordinated team work of small detachments performing combat missions, then in Tarkov the fighters act, relying primarily on their own skill.

As such, there is no story mode here, but the universe can still be explored on thematic forums or on the game website. In addition, the world of Tarkov is presented in the official RAID mini-series, which is available for viewing on official resources.

At the very beginning of the journey, players will once and for all decide on which side their fighter was originally on — whether he served in USEC or was part of the BEAR squad. Do not be deluded by the illusion of belonging to the idea of ​​the chosen faction — in Tarkov, the concept of «ours» almost does not exist.

You can be sure that the first player you meet will put a bullet in your head, because he, like you, simply will not have time to study the identification marks of a stranger. Kill or be killed is the only valid principle in the restricted area.

Getting out is not so easy

The general essence of the game is utterly transparent: players choose one of the seven available locations and time of day, and then go on a so-called raid in search of junk. The time of each session is strictly limited. The main task is to get out, taking with you as many valuable resources and equipment as possible.

The death of a fighter promises a complete loss of loot, as well as all equipment, except for items previously hidden in a small case — it is impossible to steal anything from there, you can be calm about its contents.

For the sake of realism, you are not displayed on the map, and you will not have the map itself if you do not buy it in advance. In the silence of desolation, the bushes rustle loudly, the plank floors treacherously creak underfoot, even the shutter of the fire interpreter can draw attention to you. In addition, AI-controlled bandits roam the territory — the locals call them wild.

By the way, you can enter a raid every 20 minutes as one of them. Your character will not gain experience, but no one will shoot him this way. Wild starts with random equipment, can take something out of Tarkov and transfer everything to your stash, up to his own weapons and gear.

Each map in each individual session has its own random set of exits from Tarkov. Wild varieties usually have more, some can only be used by them. Sometimes evacuation will require a condition to be met, for example, pull the locking mechanism, wait for the transport to arrive, or pay a ransom.

And all this splendor is brightened up by stunning panoramas. So natural and believable that it takes your breath away and hurts your heart. The most powerful work has been done with sound and weather, the graphics border somewhere very close to reality. The effect of immersion in the process is achieved immediately and sinks into the soul forever.

Build the cannon yourself

In Escape from Tarkov, close attention is paid directly to weapons. All guns are recreated in detail according to the drawings of real prototypes, and moreover, they can be disassembled literally in parts, which opens up prospects for reassembly and various kinds of modifications.

Thus, before attaching the chosen scope to the weapon, you will first have to be puzzled by the bracket that is suitable for it. There is no Picatinny rail on the gun — forget about the flashlight or laser.

Stock, handguard, chamber — all integral parts of the weapon can be removed and replaced; magazines have to be manually loaded with cartridges and carry interchangeable cartridges with them in order to quickly reload at a critical moment, and so on.

Also with equipment: body armor and head protection are not intended for beauty, but protect a specific area on the body; tactical headphones muffle unnecessary noises, outerwear and backpacks are your precious slots for resources, ammunition and medical supplies.

All swag is stored in your personal vault — the only place where all property is safe. It is this pantry that is the center of the universe of every stalker in Tarkov. This is not an old pack of cigarettes, nails and bandages — but the sweat, blood and nerve cells of a player who managed to break out of the perimeter at the last minute.

Life in an old bomb shelter

Each soldier has a personal shelter — some dilapidated dungeon in a godforsaken bunker. However, this area can be improved and seriously upgraded to greatly simplify your further stay in the zone.

By investing in the development of money and extracted resources, you will soon be able to build an electric generator and connect a number of devices, expand the storage for supplies, organize a medical block and an intelligence center, put a workbench.

There are a lot of modules, each is built with a meaning and a specific purpose, for example, to open up the possibility of crafting food, drugs and weapon modifications. With the right approach, your sewer pit will eventually become a guarded sector with a video surveillance system and a bitcoin mining farm.

During the raid in Tarkov, injuries can cause concussion, bleeding, and even cost you limbs. The defeated operative returns home in a very shabby state, and here a shelter will come in handy, where you can quickly lick your wounds and restore strength. In addition, the fighter needs food and water.

Each character’s action affects his personal skills, as it was done in Skyrim — the longer you use a particular weapon, the more confidently you hold it in your hands. Similarly, endurance, metabolism, stress resistance and a bunch of other vital skills swing. Some shelter modules allow you to speed up the development of the hero.

A good product will easily find a buyer

It is also worth mentioning the merchants, of which there are already eight people in Escape from Tarkov. You will have to develop social skills for the sake of these comrades, because they are your only true friend in the game.

Traders can give orders, which will have to be completed as part of one of the races. As a reward — replenishment of the cache with valuable bonuses and a reputation that reveals the potential of vendors.

But they are valuable not only because of the stalls — you can insure your equipment from merchants before sending them to the raid. In the event that you are killed, and the clothes are left intact, trusted people will return the lost within the next day.

Due to individual characteristics, goods and services vary, such as repairs — some repair better, but more expensive, others really ruin the item, but charge a nominal fee for repairs. A vendor named Peacemaker sells imported weapons, while Skier sells home-made guns, and Elvira Khabibullina, Therapist, sells medicines.

But the whole economy of Escape from Tarkov rests not only on these eight, because from a certain level, users get access to the flea market — a local auction where you can sell everything that other players don’t need.

There are so many subtleties and nuances in Escape from Tarkov that only a dozen weighty guides can cover everything. However, already at the first dive, many questions will disappear by themselves. Tarkov is a hardcore game, it does not forgive mistakes and punishes inattention. For a full-fledged return, two things are required — good iron and nerves of steel.


Escape from Tarkov has been in beta for a long time, but it has already been brought to a state that release versions of many projects often cannot boast of.

The developers have finally dealt with most of the optimization problems, from which the game gives a consistently high FPS, provided that your PC strictly meets its requirements.

As for the summary, it’s impossible not to fall in love with the work of Battlestate Games at first sight. Even if it’s not at all yours, even if it’s too difficult and nervous, no matter how much you don’t want to swear and yell, bouncing from another sudden “olive tree”, you have to admit that it’s very difficult to get out of Tarkov, but it’s definitely worth a try.