Recently, a popular Escape from Tarkov streamer stumbled across a player with a staggering (and implausible) 1.3 million raids and kills. This particular player has almost 9,000 hours of playtime, has survived 1,341,434 raids in a row, and has assembled a KD of just 1.0. None of the numbers make sense, so it’s either a mathematical marvel or a serious issue that has occurred in the back end.
Rookie Numbers
On Twitter, ‘Tigz’ posted an image of a player with some stunning stats.
- 1,342,602 raids
- 567 survived
- 541 KIA
- 53 AWOL
- 1,341,764 kills
Other users started commenting on this post, sharing images of the same player. One managed to capture a shot of this user just one match later, showing him kitted up (per the profile) and ready for battle, which suggests it’s a real player sitting behind a screen somewhere.
The most likely explanation is a bug in the data because it’s mathematically impossible for a user to have played that many matches since the game was wiped in August. It’s no big secret that Escape from Tarkov’s cheaters are capable of some pretty wild stuff, but they can’t bend the laws of time and space to their will.
It gets better, though.
A little digging turned up another user with 64 hours played and 41 million raids and kills. Again, this user has a KD of just 1 but they also had an average lifespan of 00:00, suggesting that their raids aren’t even loading before they’re dying again.
If nothing else, it’s an indication of how fragile Escape from Tarkov’s data infrastructure must be. This revelation comes mere weeks after a data issue wiped thousands of Escape from Tarkov accounts, leaving Battlestate Games to offer immense in-game compensation to users.
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Grant has been gaming for 30+ years and in the industry for 10+. You'll probably find him playing a post-apocalyptic game or an extraction shooter somewhere.
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Jesus Christ is this 2008? I remember the first time I tricked a game into using a local data file instead of the cloud… Level 10 prestige baybeeee. But really, this is pathetic data security for an online game.
It’s literally a cheat that has these functions
It’s the latest cheat that developers have put out. Cheaters can edit their stats.