After a brief battle, I emerged victorious, greedily scooping up their loot for myself, fully intending to add their stuff to my stash after I extracted from the map.

I loaded in and encountered a player quite suddenly after they jumped a fence. Yes, Eminem's opening line in 'Lose Yourself' more than adequately describes the feeling Tarkov invokes as a realistic, high risk-high reward survival game. 'His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy. A hugely popular Twitch Drop event from late December to early January finally convinced me to buy in, and during my first game all I could think of was: I watched more Escape from Tarkov before I played it.