Tarkov Enviornment is making an influence on the world of esports, having entered its closed beta state on December 17 following the deployment of a profitable, first-ever event. It was a monumental occasion that noticed some top-tier gaming expertise take to a stage at DreamHack Hannover, with a whopping €100,000 prize pool hanging within the steadiness. When the mud had settled, it was GamerLegion that stood victorious, and following the occasion, we caught up with the squad to get their ideas on this all-new shooter.
For these not within the know, Tarkov Enviornment is an offshoot of Escape From Tarkov, an intense, difficult, and deeply sensible extraction shooter that has been round since 2016. It boasts complicated ‘navy’ mechanics, genuine physics and weapon dealing with, and it’s notoriously unwelcoming to newcomers, providing nearly no ‘hand holding’. Tarkov Enviornment is a conventional, session-based multiplayer sport that makes use of nearly all of those options and mechanics, but it surely’s excellent for an esports ecosystem, which is being developed.
Let’s hear what GamerLegion needed to say after successful the grand prize on the planet’s first Tarkov Enviornment event.
To Be The First
GamerLegion has made historical past by turning into the first-ever Tarkov Enviornment champion. As a five-man squad, Cocao, ThaTAce, StrngerPing, Codex, and FURL3x stormed to victory towards some powerful competitors, specifically Virtus.professional, which was the favorite to win the occasion. In a dramatic playoff spherical, GamerLegion was despatched all the way down to the decrease bracket by Virtus however made a valiant comeback to safe the win within the grand last towards the exact same group that nearly ejected them from the working.
On the time, Tarkov Enviornment hadn’t been launched in any capability, making it a singular expertise for GamerLegion – and each different group concerned. That was a sentiment echoed by GL’s Codex once I requested what that felt like:
‘It was fascinating and thrilling. So many new issues you possibly can study, determining and creating metas for Tarkov Enviornment. It was very thrilling to spend hours upon hours day by day to study. General the sport felt good to compete in, in fact, some issues may be higher, however from a place to begin it has good potential.’
For essentially the most half, Escape From Tarkov has struggled to draw an informal viewers as a result of the problem it presents is so off-putting. After I requested ThaTAce about his expectations for Tarkov Enviornment’s success in right now’s esports market, he remained optimistic regardless of that reality:
‘I believe the sport has a superb probability to succeed for the reason that comp FPS scene is principally dominated by tacshooters similar to VAL or CS and there’s no competitors for sensible shooters like Tarkov. I doubt it’ll be greater than CS or VAL however I’m fairly positive if the devs change some issues it’ll discover its area of interest and do fairly properly.’
To The Way forward for Tarkov Enviornment
There’s loads of anticipation round what comes subsequent for Tarkov Enviornment. At current, followers the world over are wrestling with persistence as Battlestate Video games rolls out the closed beta in waves, that means that some gamers are having to attend longer than they’d like for his or her shot on the sport. For GamerLegion, greater than a style of Tarkov Enviornment has already been secured, and the group is raring to do extra within the area, in keeping with FURL3X:
‘I’m very excited concerning the future tournaments and the competitors in Tarkov Enviornment, we need to work and turn out to be the very best group on the planet. We find it irresistible.’
I additionally caught up with Battlestate Video games’ Head of PR, Dmitri Ogorodnikov, who assured us that extra data will likely be delivered very quickly:
‘In January we’ll announce an in depth plan for esports in Enviornment, with locations, prize swimming pools, and every part – so please look ahead to it.’
There’s an thrilling future in retailer for Tarkov Enviornment and for Tarkov followers the world over. I can’t wait!