In 2015, Nikita Buyanov introduced the gaming community to "Escape From Tarkov". This realistic first-person shooter promised an immersive gaming experience in the intense and gritty environment of Tarkov Much has been promised to buyers over the course of the last 8 years. Expectations for the titles are stratospheric, bordering on outlandish; with Nikita himself setting the tone. TarkovPromiseTracker is a good faith attempt to catalog public claims and commitments made by Battlestate Games. It is a crowdsourced endeavor intended to be useful and constructive for both fans and developers. It exists in the absence of similar resources because the need is indeed great.
TarkovPromiseTracker was forked from StarCitizen Tracker or rather TrumpTracker due to its useful sorting mechanism and flexible ability to scale a wide assortment of reference links into condensed list. The code was completely rewritten and modernized allowing for collaborative editing from multiple authors.
The tracker is inspired by a list that went by the name 'Where's the No Man's Sky we were sold on?' which listed a shocking number of absent features players were expecting. The large scope and long development time of Escape From Tarkov makes conducting an audit post full-release difficult to impossible; thus compiling prior to commercial release makes sense. Doing so also puts valuable information into buyers and players hands today.
This project would not be possible without a few dedicated editors. They review crowdsourced feedback and scour the web for expectations set by Battlestate Games concerning "Escape From Tarkov" and its accompanying competitive shooter "Escape From Tarkov: Arena". Editors are expected to leave their bias over the controversial development at the door and only organize factual information.
Completeness, Clarity, and Accuracy.
As of today, the tracker lists 303 expectations and features 692 source links.
The original author of 'Where's the No Man's Sky we were sold on?' was intimidated and tormented by vindictive players. Battlestate Games has encouranged supporters to "silience critics" and used other measures to cultivate a mentality that is not tolerant to all viewpoints. Perhaps because of the large (time) investments some buyers have made, a sizeable portion continue to take anything said about their favorite game very seriously and persecute those who do not embrace it with the same level of enthusiasm. Anyone contributing to TarkovPromiseTracker is encouraged to use an alias when speaking about their contributions to the tracker. We request that any and all personal details of contributors are not publicized.
Some on the team hope this list encourages the developers to complete each feature and worry less about reworking the game and its featues to perfection.