Escape from Tarkov

Ground Zero

The Ground Zero location, situated in the city center of Tarkov, has been added to the game.

Location features a large number of infrastructure facilities of the modern city: banks, cafes, restaurants, stores, pharmacies, and so on. All this is towered by the skyscrapers of Tarkov. In the very center of the location is the main Russian branch office of TerraGroup, where the original conflict began. The most violent clashes between USEC PMC operatives and OMON took place on the facility's premises.

The location is intended for beginner players from level 1 to 20;
PMCs of higher levels (20+) will not be able to access the location;
Scavs will have access to the location at any player level;
New starter quests have been added to the location;
Visual cues for new players have been added to the location;
Quests "Debut", "Checking" (renamed to "Background Check"), "Shortage", "Supplier", "Gunsmith - Part 1" received updated text descriptions.

Vaulting and obstacle interaction

Obstacle vaulting has been added to the game;
There are two types of vaulting:
Climbing the obstacle and remaining on it. For example, climbing a crate to fire at the enemy from top of it;
Vaulting over an obstacle. For example, jumping over a small fence to take a shortcut.
Each of these types has different animations for different heights, different parameters of stamina and arm stamina consumption, and different action speeds, depending on the negative effects;
During a sprint, you can jump over obstacles without the goal of climbing them (Vaulting);
If vaulting is performed while walking, the loudness of such actions will be noticeably lower than jumping and sprinting;
For the convenience of overcoming obstacles an option has been added to the game settings: "Vaulting over medium obstacles", where you can choose "Auto" or "Hotkey". If you select "Auto", your character will climb over medium and low height obstacles by himself. If you select "Hotkey" you will need to press the "Jump" key to initiate vaulting, but this way you can control the character's actions more precisely;
The character now stops if he hits a wall while walking or sprinting.
Shoulder transition

The ability to move firearms from the right shoulder to the left shoulder and back has been added to the game. This can be useful when you want to fire from the left side while behind cover;
Shoulder transition is available during walking, crouching, leaning, and other actions;
Shoulder transition is not available while prone and overhead and side blind firing;
Positioning the weapon on the left shoulder imposes a penalty - the weapon has additional sway when moving.
Controls settings

Warning: All controls settings have been reset to default.

Added "Shoulder transition" action, default key is "Mouse4";
Added "Vaulting" action, default key is "Space", press type is "Continuous";
The "Jump" action has been reassigned to "Spacebar" key with "Release" press type. Try these controls settings in-game before changing them.