If You Have A Full Squad, One Of Escape From Tarkov’s Endings Is Incredibly Cruel
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PSA: Details on Escape from Tarkov’s many endings will be discussed in this article.
Although Escape from Tarkov maintained a rather steady level of popularity throughout its Early Access state, it has certainly received a significant bump of “mainstream” level flair now that it’s in a 1.0 state, on Steam and endings that involve, well, managing to escape from Tarkov.
Speaking of endings, as first spotted by Insider Gaming, one of Tarkov’s four endings has an absolutely cruel finish, provided that A) you’ve managed to make it all the way to the end and B) have a full squad of people alongside you.
Because if you manage to fulfill those two parameters, then Tarkov will let you know that not everyone can experience the ending. Specifically, after fighting all the way through Terminal, the entire squad is informed that the Zubr boat can only take three people.
The Zubr boat cannot take everyone. The evacuation will begin only when there are 3 people left on the pier.
In other words, two people must be executed, and given that these are real-life companions, that’s not an easy choice.
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“It’s glorious and clearly obvious — Tarkov isn’t like all these games that do nothing but cater to a constant dopamine hit,” one defender in the comments wrote in part. “It’s cynical and absolutely JUST like (Nikita Buyanov) to abruptly offer a morality choice at the VERY end.”
That ending feels very reminiscent of Mafia 2, where you, as the player, just assume Joe is part of the deal, only to be told in the end that it wasn’t the case. It’s cruel and also very realistic.
In the end, that’s just one of four potential endings that exist in this cruel world, and the others aren’t nearly as drastic, but also cool in their own rights.
Tarkov Having Multiple Endings Is Really Neat, And I Hope Other Extraction Shooters Follow Suit
As my colleague Josh Coulson noted in his report regarding the first person to manage to actually escape from Tarkov, there are actually four possible endings that you could be confronted with.
Go figure that the ending that the very first achiever received was the second-worst of them all.
Per Insider Gaming, of the four endings that exist, Debtor and Fallen are considered the worst to achieve. Survivor is a meh, middle-of-the-road ending, and the best ending, Savior, is also its hardest to achieve. It also has some story elements that we think are worth finding out, though we won’t spoil exactly what they are since the endings are still so new.
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