Escape from Tarkov officially reached version 1.0 in November 2025, nearly nine years after its initial early-access debut in 2016. The hardcore extraction shooter drops players into hostile zones to scavenge valuable gear and then fight—or sneak—their way back to an extraction point. If you don’t extract, you don’t keep the spoils. Although the full release arrived in November, a December 1 patch added the long-promised Terminal map, completing the game’s set of locations and finally giving players a definitive way to leave Tarkov. Forbes covered the update.
Streamer Tigz is credited as the first person to complete a full extraction on the new Terminal map. Game director Nikita Buyanov watched the run live and celebrated the feat with a post on X, while the official Tarkov account congratulated him for “being the first to Escape from Tarkov. You survived. But at what cost.”
The finishing sequence, shown in the video, finds Tigz moving through a shipping-yard dock amid stacked containers. After exchanging fire with opponents he reaches the designated boat extraction. As an on-screen timer counts down, he repeatedly mutters “It’s too good to be true”—and, after holding out through the clock, an ending cutscene plays: Tigz’s character boards the boat and escapes.
Buyanov later described that particular outcome as the game’s second “worst” ending. In Tigz’s version the player survives the escape, but Tarkov itself meets a catastrophic fate—the map is obliterated, effectively nuked. Not exactly a happy epilogue for the city.
The post-run ending text suggests the character fled purely to survive: they “ran for the sake of survival” and never saw the wider consequences—each step becomes “a link in the chain that doomed the city.”
With one player already out, the community has shifted focus to unlocking the best ending—one that some fans speculate would allow a character to both escape and somehow save Tarkov along the way. Buyanov teased on X that whoever achieves the best ending first “will definitely have something special” from him.
Escape from Tarkov is available as version 1.0 on Windows PC; if you want to test your survival instincts—or chase that elusive best ending—you can jump in and try to be the next player to make it out.
Source: Polygon
