Escape From Tarkov Dev Has An Awful Take On Women In War

Various stats, such as strength or endurance, are improved passively as you play the game. A persistent hideout is also in Tarkov , meaning there is a high currency and resource sink for all players to invest in. Hideouts can provide passive income through gear and special items you can trade to traders or the flea market— Tarkov's variant of an auction house. With all of the loot variants available on guns and the persistent PMC stats available, Tarkov is more of an RPG survival game than a Battle Royale ti

Over Twitter, Tarkovescapezone.com Battlestate recently responded to queries over whether or not Escape From Tarkov would get female PCs with a definitive no, writing that playable female characters wouldn't fit the "game lore," and adding that the "huge amount of work" it would take to add in extra animations and gear fitting eliminates the possibility. The game has been growing in popularity recently due to Twitch streamers broadcasting their gameplay, and the heavier spotlight led to Battlestate's female character comments from 2016 being uneart

The company made its announcement alongside a statement addressing those comments, tweeting that they had been said by one employee and "didn’t reflect the official position of the company." Despite its decision to exclude female player characters in Escape From Tarkov , Battlestate also wrote that it "always respected women in wars and military wom

Whatever your choice, its outcome influences how you act later. If an experienced player spared you and helped you find the exit, maybe you'll take mercy on the newbie you spot through the scope of your sniper rifle. Or maybe you were put down like a rabid dog, and will return the favor. Sometimes, you come to regret those choi

The past decade in gaming has seen this problem arise in many different game development studios, excluding female player characters due to the projected workload it would add, and this isn't even Battlestate's first time running into a controversy over it. Comments from the company made in 2016, about Escape From Tarkov 's vision of war being too stressful for women and only a place for "hardened men," are now also getting negative attent

In 2016 Wccftech interviewed Battlestate Games developer Pavel Dyatlov about the prospects of the game. During this interview the question of female soldiers being represented was brought up to Dyatlov and he almost immediately rejected the idea. His first response to the question was, " We considered that, but we came to the conclusion that women are not allowed to be in the war ." The interviewer corrected Dyatlov by saying that women are in fact allowed to see combat these days, but the developer did not change his stance on the issue and stated that women can't handle the stress. Battlestate Games has since released a statement to point out that the article in question is three years old and that the company as a whole does not share the same values of just one of their developers. They went on to say that the developer in question was reprimanded for his statements, but the game still does not have female charact

Tarkov is commonly associated with stress, frustration, cheaters, and the kind of hardcore feel that inevitably creates elitism. More than one casual shooter session with Tarkov buddies has inevitably developed into crushing the lobby while shouting 'welcome to Tarkov' every time we drop someone. That'll show the gamer dad chasing a quick game of Fortn

Players who reach level 5 can access the Flea Market, Tarkov's take on an auction house. Players can purchase nearly everything they need from other players. It can range from quest items to new guns and armor for your next r

Escape From Tarkov does not care about being fair. This game is not a shooting gallery where the last man standing takes all. You don't fight large, epic bosses that are dangerous. This is a survival game where you need to scavenge as much as you can and get out. Bad calls will be made and it will end your character's life. Don't be discouraged, however. Certain mechanics are in place to make death not as painful, but get used to the fact that you can lose dozens of hours of progress in half of a sec

Whether or not that--along with the company's reasoning for denying female PCs--is actually true has been called into question, however, given that Escape From Tarkov does actually have women in it. They're present as NPCs, and given that the game's main factions are military-based, it would stand to reason that women might be involved in that. Plus, it's not as though women haven't been prominent members of the Russian military for decades, and even though the game's Russia is technically fictional, its "lore" would still reflect that of the real Russia. Then there's the fact that Battlestate isn't the first company to say that adding female characters is too much work; Ubisoft famously said the same in 2014 when discussing Assassin's Creed: Unity 's online mode and Far Cry 4 's director said it again later that y