Escape From Tarkov devs reveal Flea Market changes in June 19 update

Escape from Tarkov devs Battlestate Games have revealed a few changes to the Flea Market following the most recent technical update, though, some fans aren’t too pleased with what has been changed. 

With Escape From Tarkov being ever-changing, Battlestate Games are continually new updates to add new content, make sure that things run smoothly, and generally ensure that the shooter and looter title is balanced for both new and veteran players.

However, their most recent technical update has sparked a little bit of backlash after the devs decided to make some pretty big changes to the way the Flea Market works – specifically, with what items players can sell.

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The Flea Market and Traders are used to build up cash in EFT.

With the technical update dropping on June 19, the devs noted that now, players can only sell guns on the flea market if they were found in a raid. On top of that, the ability to barter with the flea market is also limited to items that are found in a raid. 

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This means that items that are looted following a kill on another player, are no longer eligible to be sold on the flea market. This has, obviously, upset a few players who had modeled their play style around killing enemies and selling the unneeded gear. 

Battlestate Games@bstategames

The technical update is complete.

Changes:

1. From now on you can sell guns on the flea market only if it was found in raid.
2. Barter on the flea market is only possible with found in raid items.
3. Various technical improvements of anti-cheat system https://twitter.com/bstategames/status/1273982581562884096 …

Battlestate Games@bstategames

In 15 minutes, we plan to perform technical update of the game to improve the stability.
Maintenance will take about 2 hours #EscapefromTarkov

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Some players suggested that the flea market would completely become a thing of the past because of these changes as it has pretty much become rendered useless.

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Others pleaded with the Devs that an update should be made to make enemy gear count as  ‘found in raid’ items so that they can continue to play in the same way as before, but, perhaps, cut the prices of those items.

WayTooBasikkTTV@WayTooBasik

Replying to @bstategames

In the next update we will be removing the flea market and in 12.8 there will no longer be any loot or traders.

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Royal@Royalxkillerx

Replying to @bstategames

You need to make it so if you kill a pmc there loot is considered found in raid, cause logically if you kill and get there loot in raid you technically found it in raid, it would make fighting so much more with it

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However, some fans backed the changes from Battlestate, noting that the game is purposefully meant to be difficult and that these changes only ramp up the difficulty.

bobbleheadztv@bobbleheadztv

Replying to @bstategames

i love those complainments about this, but do they all know that this is a HARDCORE shooter, there are not much casual things, rip those casuals and go play cod :) (german english is best english!)

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Jc Custer@Jcuster28

Replying to @bstategames

The complaints make me laugh. Game is supposed to be hard. The game is built for you to die and not make it out. When you do you can still USE the PMC'a you killed gear or sell it to traders. Maybe make traders give more money or make ammo cheaper is only thing I'll give into

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Of course, with the changes only being in their infancy, it’s unknown as to whether or not the devs have considered reverting things.

We’ll just have to wait and see if it turns enough players off of playing Tarkov to be considered a major problem.

Tarkov devs respond to backlash over change to quest rewards

A brief change to Escape From Tarkov quest rewards, along with a developer’s apparent response brushing off player’s concerns, has rubbed the Tarkov community the wrong way.

On June 22, Tarkov players discovered that a valuable reward, the T H I C C Items Case, for two of the game’s quests had been removed and replaced with a regular Items Case.

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The T H I C C Items Case is a valuable item most players grind to collect.

Besides having an amazing name, the T H I C C Items Case is incredibly valuable because it provides 196 inventory slots inside, while only taking up a total of 15 - which is why its temporary removal irked so many players who had yet to unlock it after the May 28 character wipe update.

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After players started discussing the Case's removal as a reward for the Therapist's "Private Clinic" and Prapor's "Perfect Mediator" quests, a Battlestate Games developer with the name 'ShiroTenshi' replied to players on the official Tarkov forums essentially saying, "If you don't like it, don't play it," - which did not go over well, to say the least.

"Having things change unexpectedly is one of the many things that can happen when playing a game that is still in development and not finished," Shiro wrote. "Everything would eventually reset anyway with the next wipe. It being fair or not has nothing to do with it. Continuing the development of the game, which will involve continued changes to said game, is the goal here."

"I am sorry you feel cheated from these changes, but if that is the case then playing during the development stage may not be for you," they continued. "After the game has full release, these sort of things will not happen so you may want to wait until that point."

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After ShiroTenshi's response was posted to the Tarkov subreddit, Battlestate Games Cheif Operating Officer Nikita Buyanov replied apologizing to players and telling them, "If you see any statement - look for my nickname or name, if it's not - than don't take it seriously."

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Shortly after apologizing to the playerbase, Battlestate reverted the changes, one again making the T H I C C Items Case a reward for both quests.

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"Hey, I guess it was too harsh to do a live changes like that," Buyanov wrote on Reddit.

"I will not say anything else - cases are changed back. I definitely didn't predict THAT impact."

So, while the initial response from developers might not have been what players were looking for, to say the least, Battlestate did end up reverting the changes.

So you can once again get out there and grind for your own T H I C C Case.

Escape from Tarkov devs reveal more changes after 12.6 patch

After over a year of waiting, Escape from Tarkov players were finally given the chance to start from a level playing field after Battlestate Games implemented a full character wipe on May 26.

The long-awaited wipe was not the only thing added to the game, however, as they also made many changes, that were well received, during the latest patch.

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New gunsmith and looting changes have also been added in the follow-up changes to patch 12.6.

Escape from Tarkov’s 12.6 update introduced many new changes such as adding captchas to the flea market to reduce suspicious activity, as well as some new gameplay features and bug fixes.

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Battlestate devs were not finished there, however, and surprised fans by revealing that they had brought about some more improvements on May 31.

The EFT devs shared that they had made changes to the mechanic’s gunsmith quests and to some of the traders’ offers, which will help players a bit more during the early stages of their playthrough.

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Some changes right after the 12.6 hit
- Mechanic's gunsmith quests now start from LVL5 (was 10)
- Changed many traders offers to be more easy-to-buy in early game (mk12 gasblock on LL1, Glock and magazines for It for roubles, increased restock count for various popular items

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As well as increasing the restock count for many of the go-to items on the market, they revealed that they had made some looting improvements as well in the follow-up patch.