6 years after becoming publicly playable, Escape from Tarkov is adding vaulting and fans are a lot more excited about it than I would've expected
The multiplayer FPS Escape from Tarkov went into alpha testing in 2016, and moved into beta—which is still ongoing—a year later. And now, six years after that, developer Battlestate Games is working on a new feature that has the community a-tingle with excitement: vaulting.
Vaulting in videogames is simply the act of quickly clambering over low-lying obstacles in a videogame: A fence, a table, a gate, or whatever. So, y'know, vaulting over things. Hence the name. It enables players to get around objects quickly and maintain forward momentum even in cluttered areas, and importantly it also looks cool. It's a common traversal method in games, but not universal: Some games support it and some do not.
Tarkov is one that does not, but that's changing. In a livestream earlier today, Battlestate Games revealed that vaulting in Escape from Tarkov is now in playtesting and showed off some gameplay clips demonstrating the new move in action. There's no indication as to when the feature will be rolled out, but to my eye it looks pretty well along already.
«This is HUGE,» Dmitri Ogorodnikov, Battlestate's public relations head, tweeted.
Vaulting#EscapefromTarkov pic.twitter.com/cmJr0AOstKNovember 14, 2023
My initial reaction to Ogorodnikov's tweet was dubious, to say the least. It's nice, sure, but huge? Seems like something of an oversell to me. A couple of early responses made me wonder if maybe it was all an in-joke, and that Ogorodnikov were just having a little fun with it. Does this sound like a genuine compliment to you?
And yet the further I read, the more convinced I became that people are indeed fired up for the new move. Battlestate's tweet about it has racked up more than 5,000 likes—far more than any other tweet to
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