Escape From Tarkov Update 12.10: Preliminary Patch Notes, Launch & Size

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A few hours ago Battlestate Games published the preliminary patch notes for the survival shooter Escape From Tarkov Update 12.10. This includes new armor, weapons and many other changes.

The update at a glance: In the new update 12.10 of Escape From Tarkov, not only little things are tackled. Many new weapons, armor or other equipment find their way into the game. But there are also new rations and medical items.

That is what the patch notes of the Escape From Tarkov Update 12.10 reveal

Changes in the update: Steam audio returns and that should please an incredible number of players. You can find out what exactly is behind this feature here.

Apart from that, you have to be more attentive in the future, because the voices of the Sav bosses Reshala, Sanitar and Gluhar have been newly cast. These new speakers may take a while to get used to.

Not only do the bosses sound different, but the normal scavs have also been adapted. As of patch 12.10, you will not only have new sounds but also actions and constitutions relating to your health.

This is the new content: Let's start with what will be of most interest to you in the upcoming update 12.10 of Escape From Tarkov, the new items, weapons and armor. There's a whole truckload of new content here:

Armor & Vests

• Breastplate Azimuth SS Zhuk (SURPAT)
• Breastplate Azimuth SS Zhuk (Black)
• Tactical riser Hazard4 Takedown (Multicam)
• Tactical riser Hazard4 takedown
• Hunting vest Umka М33-SET1
• Breastplate CSA
• LBT 6094A Slick plate carrier (olive)
• LBT 6094A Slick plate carrier (light brown)

Backpacks & Headwear

• Backpack Eberlestock G2 Gunslinger II (dry earth)
• Ballistic glasses NPP Condor (with additional armor protection for the eyes)
• Active headset Opsmen Earmor M32
• GP-7 gas mask
• Army hat in different color and camouflage variations

New weapons & ammunition

• STM-9 pistol caliber carbine
• PL-15 pistol
• 7.62x39 mm MAY AP
• 5.56x45 mm SSA AP
• 5.56x45 mm Mk 318 Mod 0 (SOST)

Medicine & Food

• Emergency water ration
• Hemostatic tourniquet CAT
• AFAK personal tactical first aid kit

Barter items

• TP-200 TNT bar
• Ratchet wrench
• Box with thermite

Further items

• New filter for the hiding place "Objects found in the raid"
• Sorting the quests by current location (map)
• The message "Item already purchased" has been moved to the notification
• Aggressive phrases are now played when double-tapping the "Mumble" button (as in combat)
• When placing a new offer, the item selection window is moved to the left
• Experience category icons on the screen after the raid

Changed

• The Steam Audio option is back after fixes
• Thermal imaging rendering system 
  • The loot is no longer highlighted
  • The new system will allow further dynamic temperature changes (heating, cooling)
  • Optimizations for improved performance when using a thermal imager or thermal imaging sights
• The Fence's offers are no longer displayed in the flea market
• Rain sound is now 30% quieter
• Reduced Strength and Endurance bonuses
• Adjusted player spawns on Customs
• Increased "Hideout Management" levelling speed if "Solar Batteries" block is built
• Simplified the Attention skill progression
• Simplified the Mag drills skill progression
• Missing items from the Scav after the end of a raid, if at this point there was a game update or the backend was unavailable for other reasons

Fixed

• High volume breathing of some BEAR and USEС voices
• One of the bugs with grenades explosion without sound and explosion effect
• The lightning issue when spawning on Interchange
• Empty quick healing screen
• Error 228, if filter end while crafting purified water
• Resetting the progress of the "Mag drills" skill after leaving a raid
• Inability to load into the game if you take in a raid a lot of maps with tags
• Reset the selected character customization lower to the standard
• Car extract sometimes failed to trigger at the end of the exfil timer
• Difference in the time flow of the Hideout generator
• Playing the sound of a distant gunshot while the shooter is in close proximity to the player
• Bots not spawning in the Factory offline in Horde mode
• Various places on locations where it rained indoors
• Ability to save the preset if there are critical parts missing on it
• The player received an outdated invitation to the group after restarting the client
• Missing shadows on Factory after the reconnect
• Currency conversion error in the client (when exchanging currencies on the client, the resulting amount was shown slightly less than necessary)
• Availability of container sorting on screens where it should not be
• Examining an item on the Scav's item transfer screen did not work if the item is on the Scav
• Sounds of falling casings and ricochets of bullets were audible for players in the bunker from outside the area on the Reserve location
• Inability to insure a Cultist knife
• Lack of localization of firing mode in a raid
• Looking for notes in a player's profile
• Various minor adjustments to the locations
• Various minor bugs
• Various network errors
• Other errors (spamming errors, critical errors that cause crashes and disconnects, errors 228, etc.)

AI changes

• Bots on the move now shoot even less accurately than bots that are stationary.
• Changed the parameters of the effect of bushes on the visibility of bots (bots now see worse)
• Slowed down the reaction of normal bots when detecting the player
• Changed parameters of player tracking at the last point (bots follow the point less)
• The maximum enemy detection radius of bots has been reduced
• Bots now do not fire while changing position to prone
• Fixed bosses spawn when they could appear without guards
• Fixed behavior when the boss did not attack an enemy in offline mode
• Fixed sniper bots spawn
• Various server bugs related to bots

Optimization

• Changes to the shader system
  • Eliminates some of the freezes and micro freezes that were caused by shaders, at the beginning of a raid, during combat contact, and during visual effects
  • Memory optimization
• Improved and corrected option in the Mip Streaming setting 
  • Significantly optimizes the consumption of video memory (for graphics cards with a large amount of VRAM) and RAM (for systems with a small amount of VRAM) in the game, which provides smoother rendering and reduces the number of micro freezes associated with loading textures
  • Option is now available at any texture quality, not just for high settings
  • Option is disabled by default.
  • On low texture settings in raids, some item icons may be unclear when the mip-streaming option is enabled
  • Changing the texture quality option and Mip Streaming is not available in online raids (because there may be a delay due to loading/unloading of textures), but is available in offline raids and in the menu
  • For an efficient texture streaming system, it is highly desirable to place the Windows swap file on an SSD

Release of the patch: These were all changes that have been announced so far for the upcoming Escape From Tarkov Update 12.10. If something changes in the patch notes, we will update this article.

The patch has no release date yet. Usually, however, this is released a few days to weeks after the patch notes have been published. Streets of Tarkov is not included either, this map will only appear with update 13.0.