Streamer becomes the first person to actually Escape from Tarkov, and it only took them two and a half weeks
Escape from Tarkov is a game of patience. It’s about waiting as much as it is shooting. You want to gather as much loot as you can and scurry back to your base to rebuild and recuperate. But nobody actually escapes. Not until now. Developer Battlestate Games only added the ability to escape from Tarkov entirely when the hit extraction shooter launched on Steam with version 1.0 last month. In just two and a half weeks, a streamer by the name of ‘Tigz’ has put 150 hours into the game and has seemingly become the first to make it out of the eponymous city.
Escape from Tarkov has long had a place on our list of the best FPS games, but the addition of four endings in the 1.0 update elevates it from a tense-but-rewarding game to a do-or-die situation. I simply must exfiltrate at all costs. The final, most challenging ending to actually flee Tarkov retains all the game’s core mechanics, but as Battlestate’s head honcho Nikita Buyanov told us before launch, it’s more Call of Duty campaign like in its PvE approach.
I warn you now, Tigz’s video has major story spoilers for a successful exfiltration from Tarkov. The streamer, who has nearly 100,000 YouTube subscribers and 180,000 followers on Twitch, made the impressive escape live on stream in front of thousands of excited viewers.
If you want to experience this ending for yourself, don’t read any further. You’ve been warned. Spoilers begin now. Last chance. Okay, so Tigz’s stream showed that you reach a ship, and are welcomed aboard by soldiers. You sit down for a well-earned rest, before fighter jets scream overhead and threaten to sink your vessel.
The cutscene then sees you break into the ship through the busted door, getting inside just as a nuclear warhead detonates on the horizon. This confirms numerous fan theories about how Tarkov would end, and how we would escape.
If you accidentally read all this before playing out the endgame for yourself (don’t say I didn’t warn you!), don’t worry too much. There are still three other ending scenarios to find. Presumably one of them is a failstate that involves dying on your attempted escape, perhaps by getting caught in the atomic blast. Maybe another sees you survive the explosion but fail to extract, leaving you to live in the sewers of Tarkov like a Fallout Ghoul or something. The only way to find out is by putting the hours in… or watching a streamer do it for you.
