Snow Arrives in Escape From Tarkov to Mark the Beginning of Winter

Winter has arrived in Tarkov, giving us yet another reason to escape. With today's update, snow is now blanketing each map, making it slightly harder to camouflage yourself in with the terrain and most importantly, paving way for Santa's arrival later in the season.

We don't have an exact end date in sight for the winter season, though last year's event ended on February 12, giving us 2 months of the powdery stuff. Expect intense amounts of fog, blizzards, and of course, the ability to freeze which is not a normal status effect for the game. Love it or hate it, you'll enjoy a slight tactical shakeup for the duration of winter in Tarkov and we're all for it.

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With the patch also comes other updates, including fixes to story chapters, audio artifacting during trader dialog, BTR now having smoother movement, and geometry bugs among more. Read on for the full patch notes on Escape From Tarkov 1.0.0.5.

Quote From Battlestate Games

The game will not be stopped, however the raid time on servers undergoing the updates may be reduced to 10 minutes. Please download the update via the launcher. The Winter season will be enabled on all locations after the full update of game servers and clients.

• Fixed the loading wheel icon showing throughout the starting mission;
• Fixed the camera lock and character movement lock that occurred when using consumable items before the second cutscene on Terminal;
• Fixed the inability to complete a specific task in the Batya story chapter in PvE mode;
• Fixed the lock for weapon operations and looting that occurred after looting a character that got killed while using a stationary weapon;
• Fixed the abrupt interruption of consumable item animations in certain cases;
• Fixed the incorrect spawn points for Zryachiy and his guards on Lighthouse;
• Fixed the audio artifacts when quickly skipping trader dialogue lines;
• Fixed the item icon display issues when trading while using active filters;
• Smoothed out the BTR movement;
• Fixed the incorrect message layout in the Messages tab;
• Fixed several localization errors;
• Fixed several visual geometry bugs across all locations;
• Fixed several interface issues.