Bonus Episode 250: Tarkov Season 1 Kord Breach Review — One Week In

Tarkov Season 1: Kord Breach dropped on August 3rd and we have not stopped playing it. This is the bonus episode — a full week-one breakdown of the biggest Escape from Tarkov update since 1.0.

We get into the positive and negative modifier system and what we each actually built, the Allergic modifier and why one of us is now stuck bringing 12 Analgin into every raid, Broken Secure Container ruining the Doc's case, Street Tax paying out, and why No Generals re-rolled his whole character over Dr. Jekyll.

Then the bigger question: Battlestate killed the wipe on normal PvP and replaced it with seasons. Is that good? One of us says he's never touching normal PvP again. We also cover the quest rework that nobody's talking about — randomized quest order, group task progression, unlocks moved off individual quests and onto trader levels — plus the Lighthouse rework, Unity 6, ranked coming to Kord Breach, and Season 2 landing in December.

Also: why the Battle Pass math is broken, whether TarCoins is a problem, and a genuine split between us on whether the documents are worth hunting. One of us is looking up spawn guides. The other one has checked out entirely.

Escape from Tarkov, patch 1.1.0, Kord Breach, one week in. Let us know what modifiers you took.

0:00 - Intro

2:59 - WARDOGS is more fun than Tarkov right now

4:56 - Tarkov TV recap

5:45 - The case for a burst-fire .308

9:09 - Ranked is coming to Kord Breach

9:51 - Lighthouse rework, BTR, Unity 6, Season 2 in December

12:17 - Lighthouse is unsalvageable

13:28 - What Kord Breach actually is

16:39 - No Generals took Dr. Jekyll and re-rolled

19:52 - Raz's negatives: Well That Hurt, Polydipsia, Personality Vacuum

20:41 - The Allergic modifier

23:22 - Broken Secure Container ruins the Doc's case

27:33 - Street Tax paid out

28:05 - Jake's build: Prodigy, Lucky, Youth, Sprinter

34:49 - Any regrets?

37:51 - The wipe is dead

39:41 - Task order and requirement changes

40:52 - Group task progression

43:49 - "I'll never play normal PvP again"

45:27 - The player base split three ways

47:36 - Nobody is running the same build

53:20 - Season 2 modifiers already in the works

54:37 - People want it MORE punishing

56:40 - Prodigy and the diminishing returns problem

59:16 - Armor shortage at level 30

1:01:38 - Maxed hideout skill and the other global modifiers

1:04:45 - Kord Breach got Cope playing again

1:06:06 - The quest rework is doing the heavy lifting

1:08:39 - Not everyone gets the same quest order

1:10:22 - Unlocks moved off quests and onto trader levels

1:11:44 - The attachment availability icon

1:15:23 - Battle Pass, TarCoins, and the Expansions Hub

1:18:31 - Jake defends the Battle Pass

1:20:32 - Hunting documents and the Hawaiian shirt

1:23:21 - Giving BSG credit after 10 years

1:25:44 - The most experimental wipe they've ever done

1:28:40 - One week in: is it actually fun?

1:29:41 - Should we do a Tarkov primer episode?

1:30:33 - Too many tasks

1:32:38 - "I'd never start playing Tarkov today"

1:36:43 - The juice is worth the squeeze

1:40:17 - Is now a good time to start?

1:42:21 - Tell us what modifiers you took

1:43:47 - Kord Breach out of 10

1:44:43 - Outro