Overview
- A live-action trailer revealed the 15/11/25 date, which studio head Nikita Buyanov publicly confirmed for the 1.0 launch.
- Battlestate deployed patch 0.16.9 to finalize systems, adding Targrad Tales, one-way Arena-to-PvE Zone progression sync, and AI/audio improvements.
- Content creators, players, and media will be able to try a pre-final 1.0 build at exhibitions listed on the official Escape From Tarkov Telegram channel.
- Specific 1.0 features remain undisclosed, with reporting pointing to main story content and the Terminal map as possibilities that are not yet confirmed.
- The full release ends an approximately eight-year public beta that began in 2017 and included hundreds of updates to the extraction shooter.