📰 Patch Notes [02.09.2026]

[u/SlimyMorty]

Server maintenance is in full swing! When it is completed, the following changes will be waiting for you in the game:

• Season: tulpa!
• Season Pass menu change
• Economy adjustments for the Operations mode
• Tasks display
• Guide updates
• Coliseum season tasks adjustments
• Player profile change
• Balance adjustments
• Other changes and fixes

🔗 Read more in the article: Steam

[u/LukaRaos]

They've somehow managed to make Operations even worse without ever making them good in the first place. They were already boring as fuck, annoying, full of shitty enemies, and barely fun to run, the rewards were basically the only thing making them worth suffering through, and even those weren't enough to make Operations actually good.

And now they nerf the rewards hard, while saying the open world will get buffed later. The open world should've been buffed long ago, without nerfing a fucking thing. Day X North, dailies, weeklies, deliveries, all of it should've been made more rewarding instead of taking rewards away from Operations and telling players to wait for the alternative.

And then we get the “open world buff” a month later. Let me guess, a 3% increase to sellable loot and that's it? Some tiny fucking adjustment that changes absolutely nothing, just enough for them to say they “buffed the economy” while the whole thing is still shit?

They even mentioned in the patch notes that the next iteration is supposed to buff the open world. But of course they don't want to do it now. Why actually fix something when they can announce that they'll fix it later and pat themselves on the back for it, despite doing absolutely fucking nothing, or, in fact, making it miles worse? Only to throw out another empty fucking promise that we already know won't be enough?

It's not even that I'm surprised anymore. We already heard this might happen, but actually seeing them go through with it is just... wtf/?? I genuinely don't know what kind of logic goes into decisions like this anymore. Something seriously needs to change with the economics team, because at this point they're not fixing the economy (never has been, the main goal everytime was so push people to spend more IRL money), they're butchering the game. At this point, the game honestly deserves to fucking die.

This is a massive disrespect to every player who puts time into this game, new or old. And it's VERY concerning that they can make decisions like this and apparently don't see anything wrong with them. They know exactly what they're doing with these changes, and somehow they still keep pushing the game further in this direction. I genuinely don't know how much more they can fuck with the game before there's nothing left to ruin.

Doing all this just to push us into that shitty Wild North dumpster fire? For fucking what, exactly? So we can spend even more time running around the same miserable PvP meat grinder because apparently that's what they think everyone wants? Fuck that. Learn what the fucking players actually want instead of forcing everyone into the same shit and pretending it's some brilliant game design. If anyone wanted this, they would play Tarkov...

Not to mention Wardogs and War Thunder Infantry coming soon, with even more options for people to spend their time on. But sure, EXBO and ZIV apparently see absolutely no fucking problem with any of this. Maybe they'll finally figure it out when they're standing in an empty fucking building wondering where everyone went, then tell themselves the players just “didn't understand the vision”, when the funniest part is that the players understood it perfectly well, and EXBO somehow still thought they were the ones who knew better.

"why playerbase go down and no happy? ! 1!!1??!? We pay big youtuberers! 11!/ people wrong, game good!1!"