The Escape From Tarkov story kicks off with your PMC lying down in the TerraGroup offices immediately after a mysterious blast knocks out all communications in the city. After spending some time ...

Step one in surviving Tarkov? Accept pain. By the time you’re reading this in 2026, everyone else has already finished the early wipe rush. They’ve got their hideouts upgraded, their flea market ...

Welcome to the Field Guide - a series of tutorial videos for Escape from Tarkov by Battlestate Games. In this series we will introduce newcomers to the mechanics and nuances ... From classic action ...

Jaime Tugayev is the News Editor for DualShockers with over a decade of experience, and a much longer love for fantasy, shooters and strategy games. No trader in Escape From Tarkov is as strange as ...

Happy holidays! In the cheery snowscape of Tarkov, 'happy' means you're alive. That's as good as it gets around here. Missing in Action is the first quest of the 2026 festive event in Escape From ...

To start Falling Skies, you need to find the crashed plane on the Woods map. It's right next to Jaeger's camp, located west of the ZB-016 extraction. Once you've discovered the crashed plane and made ...

Jaime Tugayev is the News Editor for DualShockers with over a decade of experience, and a much longer love for fantasy, shooters and strategy games. The city of Tarkov is home to many mysteries. Some ...

The main way of progressing through Escape from Tarkov is by leveling up. This is how you unlock new offers from traders, quests, things to build for your hideout, and most importantly the Fleamarket.

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