Escape From Tarkov replace 12.9 is dropping on December 24 and can add each the Woods growth and provoke a personality wipe for all gamers. Developer Battlestate Games dropped the information early Wednesday morning following a livestream. You can learn full patch notes for the replace, which additionally introduces new weapons and ammo, minor character customization components, and extra, on the Escape From Tarkov boards.Wipes are a serious, recurring a part of Tarkov in its closed beta part, occurring each few months and normally previous a considerable replace. All gamers could have their degree, dealer rep, stash, and different progress reset.The different largest change coming in patch 12.9 is the rework of the Woods map, which is anticipated to almost double in dimension. We knew the Woods growth can be arriving earlier than the extremely anticipated Streets of Tarkov map, which is at this level wanting like a 2021 release–though there may be nonetheless no official launch date.Update 12.9 additionally provides a couple of new weapons, together with the KRISS Vector SMG (9×19 and .45), SIG MCX assault rifle, UMP SMG, and a handful of recent mods and ammo. New character customization choices enable gamers to barely distinguish their PMC from others with new heads and voices, which can be locked in and solely adjustable after a wipe or profile reset.For extra from the brand new Escape From Tarkov replace, try the complete patch notes under or on the Escape From Tarkov boards.Escape From Tarkov Update 12.9 Patch NotesTHERE WILL BE A WIPE Added and adjusted:“Woods” growth.Reworked PMC preliminary gear units.Added customization of head and voice when creating character: for now it’s solely two new heads for every faction added. You can’t change head and voice after the character is created. You will be capable to do it solely after profile reset or wipe.Added ability “Immunity”.Reworked “Metabolism”.Reduced the amount of steps and interplay with vegetation.Added probability to trigger bleedings to the ammunition. Now some ammo may cause heavy or mild bleeding extra usually than different rounds.Now some face shields and glasses will scale back the time of blindness impact from flashbang rounds and grenades.Players can be receiving letters with a provide bundle for the primary 7 days of enjoying.Added “All” button within the buying menu when shopping for from sellers by way of Flea market. Now you possibly can choose all out there gadgets with a single click on.Filters within the W-List tab are actually modified individually and don’t have an effect on different Flea market tabs.“Enter” button now confirms the motion in most dialogue home windows.Slot highlighting when dragging gadgets in your stock can now be turned off.Equipped armbands are actually unlootable and might’t be misplaced upon loss of life.The letter with the reward for the exit in cooperation with the scav will now include a slight delay.Containers will apply restriction filters to mods put in on the transported object. I.e., placing a mount with a thermal sight put in on it right into a secured container is not allowed.New gear and clothes is added: PMC tops and bottoms, physique armor, rigs, Smoke balaclava, and tops for the Scavs.Changed the traits of numerous weapon mods.Simplified the Jaeger quests.Updated some quests: modified execution circumstances, beginning circumstances, rewards.Reduced bonus of recoil discount from the recoil management ability and weapon mastering.Now character chubby begins at 35 kg. Used to be 40.Increased buy limits for some ammo from sellers.New weapons and ammunition:KRISS Vector SMG in each 9х19 and .45.SIG MCX Assault rifle in .300 Blackout.UMP SMG in .45.Mk-18 mod 1 Mjölnir DMR in .338 LM..300 blk, .338 Lapua Magnum ammunition.Various new weapon mods.AI:Fixed bots hanging behind stationary weapons.Fixed a bug the place Killa couldn’t hear the enemies approaching from behind.Other numerous bot fixes and optimizations.Optimization:Animation optimizations for interfaces.Optimizations of sounds in RAM.Server optimizations.Fixed:Aiming a GL40 with Reflex sights.The place of the character’s physique when blind firing was not reset after opening the stock.Blinding was imposed even when the participant used a thermal imager.The stationary machine gun was faraway from its mount if the participant used it whereas within the blindfiring place.It was attainable to make use of the tops and bottoms of the other faction.The nickname couldn’t be modified if the brand new nickname was 15 characters lengthy.The vary worth of the sight didn’t change instantly after alignment if the weapon had two sights on it.A reproduction weapon may hold behind the participant’s again for a couple of seconds after altering weapons.Some pants had the outfitted gun hanging exterior the holster throughout the becoming on the Ragman service display screen.The observer didn’t see the participant checking the fireplace mode on his weapon.Weapon presets:It was unattainable to delete the overwritten preset.Wrong mods had been put in on the weapon if the construct was initiated throughout a save course of.Failed to redeem all out there gadgets within the lot if the participant tried to buy gadgets over the restrict.Failed to work together with the stock in a raid if the participant had beforehand disassembled the weapon by way of the context menu.When reactivating the exit with the airtight door on the location Reserve, the siren stopped working sooner than it ought to have.The sensitivity whereas aiming down sights modified when placing and eradicating sights from the weapon.A personality was performing a light-weight grenade throw solely by double-pressing the RMB.Uninformative message concerning the lack of house within the stash when transferring gadgets from the letter on “Receive all”.The “Found in raid” standing for the weapon wouldn’t replace for those who would put non-found in raid weapon mod on the gun.Incorrect details about the extent of mastering within the weapon inspector.The worth of 1 merchandise decreased by 1 ruble if a participant purchased a number of of the identical gadgets from a vendor.The azimuth was lacking if the participant opened the pause menu with a compass in his arms.The digicam may undergo the physique of one other participant.Missing messages in group chat.Various server errors.Various minor fixes.Various localization fixes.Various location fixes.
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