Escape From Tarkov Releases New Screens

The first of two packs of screenshots featuring the enhanced graphics in their upcoming FPS/MMO Escape from Tarkov.

Since its Closed Alpha launch, the game is being constantly improved in anticipation of its soon-to-come Beta testing phase. Developer Battlestate Games is working diligently on several important items, such as, large-scale online testing and performance optimisation.

Upon release, Escape from Tarkov will feature massive upgrades to its visuals, courtesy of significant engine upgrades, which will make the game's graphics even more lifelike than before.

Key graphical changes include:

• Improved shaders with added Physically Based Rendering (PBR) features
• Ambient light portals (improved indoor lighting)
• Complete and improved sky lighting in full daylight cycle
• New Screen Space Ambient Occlusion
• Contact Ambient Obscurance
• New tone mapping
• Eye adaptation
• Improved SSR (screen space reflections)
• New color correction
• Reworked and improved most of the materials and textures of characters, weapons, and objects
• Optimized terrain and vegetation

Escape from Tarkov is a hardcore story-driven MMO featuring elements of FPS and RPG. The events take place in the Russian city of Tarkov, which has been sealed off by roadblocks and sunk into the chaos of local warfare between private military companies. Escape from Tarkov's Hazardous Environment Combat Simulator employs a number of custom system modules to create incredibly immersive gameplay and make players feel the reality of what is happening in the game.

The closed beta-testing of Escape from Tarkov is planned for 2016.