Escape from Tarkov 1.1.0 arrives on Monday 3 August 2026. Battlestate Games describes it as the biggest update since the game left early access. Battlestate Games will pull the servers down at 7am BST, which is 2am Eastern. The studio says the install will run between six and eight hours, and it may take longer. So nobody should plan on playing that morning.
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The patch carries two firsts at once. It brings the game its first post-launch wipe, and it opens its first season, called Kord Breach. That season centres on the Black Division faction. Players receive a seasonal character they can tune with modifiers, plus a battle pass that costs nothing to join.
What Escape from Tarkov 1.1.0 changes
Battlestate has framed this as the biggest patch since the 1.0 launch in November 2025. Alongside the wipe, it adds new quests, new weapons and changes to core mechanics.
The task system is the part regulars will feel first. Most quests will no longer sit in long chains where one unlock gates the next. Instead they hang off trader loyalty levels. In practice, a fresh character can now reach more of the game without grinding a fixed order.
Battlestate also promises more seasons before the year is out. Kord Breach is therefore a template rather than a one-off, and the seasonal character is the mechanism the studio intends to reuse.
Why Single Player Tarkov is shutting down
Here is the part nobody has joined up. Nine days after the wipe, on or before 12 August, Single Player Tarkov shuts down. That project let people run the game offline, against bots, with mods and no other players.
The project is stopping after a legal notice from Battlestate about its branding and domain name. The email said the studio had noticed the domain “incorporates our trademark”. It added that the site used those trademarks in connection with a computer game. So it ordered a change of domain name and a clean break from anything “confusingly similar”.
Read that carefully, because it matters. The letter demanded a rebrand, not a closure. It never asked the project to stop existing. The team chose to stop anyway. Lead developer DrakiaXYZ put it plainly on Discord: “This is the end of the SPT Project under the current team.” That last phrase leaves a door open, though nobody has announced anything official.
There is an irony sitting on the project’s own homepage. It already carries a line saying it “is not affiliated with Battlestate Games Ltd. in any way”. A disclaimer, though, does not fix a domain name, and the domain is what the letter objected to.
Why the timing stings
Tarkov is about to reset every player to nothing. Meanwhile the sandbox people used to learn maps and test loadouts is going dark in the same fortnight. Newcomers arriving for Kord Breach therefore land in a punishing extraction shooter with one fewer place to practise.
Veterans lose something quieter but real. Offline runs were where many of them rehearsed a new map before risking kit on it. For a gentler survival loop that at least warns you first, see our 7 Days to Die Blood Moon Guide: Horde Timing, Warnings and Survival Tips.
Frequently asked questions
When does the Escape from Tarkov 1.1.0 update launch? Monday 3 August at 7am BST and 2am Eastern, with a six to eight hour install window.
Will the Escape from Tarkov wipe reset all progress? Yes. This is the first wipe since launch, and the seasonal character sits on top of that reset.
Does the battle pass cost money? No. Battlestate says the Kord Breach pass is free to access.
Is Single Player Tarkov shutting down permanently? The current team stops by 12 August. However, the developer’s wording and the surviving code both suggest the idea may continue elsewhere.
You can follow the patch on the official Battlestate news page, while the shutdown notice sits on the fan project’s own site. For another long survival grind, try our Project Zomboid Nutrition Guide for Minecraft Players.
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