Escape from Tarkov is providing gamers in-game forex as a bounty for reporting cheaters

Escape from Tarkov is taking additional steps to crack down on cheaters by providing Gamers a money bounty – within the extraction shooter’s in-Game forex, anyway – for reporting ne’er-do-wells.

The favored shooter has lengthy been waging conflict towards cheaters, naming and shaming hundreds of banned gamers by dropping lists of usernames as proof that “justice has been served”. Even so, cheats stay – builders Battlestate Video games mentioned they banned over 11,000 in a matter of weeks earlier this yr – so the sport’s creators at the moment are introducing the bounty system.

Formally referred to within the sport’s newest patch notes as “compensation for reporting gamers who violated sport guidelines”, the bounty system is pretty easy in apply. Gamers who efficiently report a cheater – in different phrases, you’ll be able to’t simply money in by reporting everybody you see – will obtain an quantity of in-game cash as soon as the cheater is confirmed and banned.

It’s not specified how a lot cash gamers will obtain for his or her efforts, although devoted bounty hunters will obtain a mixed quantity for efficiently reporting a number of cheaters.

The system is stay now alongside newest patch 0.14.9.5, which additionally provides merchandise wishlists, some tweaks to PMC and Scav AI, and the flexibility to play its PvE Zone mode offline. You may recall mentioned PvE mode as being on the centre of a participant backlash to a brand new $250 version of Escape from Tarkov revealed in April, to which it was unique regardless of a previous top-tier model of the sport promising that every one future DLC can be included without cost. After some preliminary resistance, the studio later relented and allowed homeowners of the older Fringe of Darkness bundle into the PvE mode.