The game’s troubled launch has unleashed a torrent of negative reviews on Steam.
The full 1.0 release of Escape from Tarkov did not proceed smoothly. Players have encountered issues both at login and during gameplay.
The head of Battlestate Games commented on EFT’s rocky launch:
…we’re working to stabilise the backend [servers] — with so many people trying to log in, our login servers and website are being overloaded much faster than expected (even though we’ve added a lot of extra capacity). The game servers themselves are functioning normally. We’re improving the situation by the minute. Sorry for the inconvenience, but this seems to be part of the Tarkov launch-day experience. We won’t rest until everything is stable.
Traffic to the website has surged tenfold, while load on the launcher and authentication center has increased fourfold.
He also remarked that EFT drew a lot of attention on Twitch and provided player numbers:
Reviews are “mostly negative”, yet the game is topping Twitch charts with roughly 300,000 people online right now (about 40,000 on Steam). We’re preparing more fixes and continuing to work on the servers.
Nikita Buyanov reacted to a phrase circulating in the community after some players experienced problems launching Escape from Tarkov:
Someone joked that if you want to “escape” Tarkov, you first have to get into Tarkov. Have you managed to get in yet?
Source: iXBT.games