It's also unfortunate that Battlestate muddied the waters by trying that "lore" nonsense again. As Samuel Johnson said, lore is the last refuge of EFT Roubles the scoundrel. The game's story is a paper-thin excuse for heavily-armed players to pick through ruins for loot, shoot and rob each other, then escape. It doesn't matter.
This is like Playerunknown's Battlegrounds getting self-serious delusions that it's a grim and gritty world built on cutting Cold War history rather than a big silly playground for idiots to lark about with stunts and banter. They could change the lore to allow women fighters with a click of their fingers.
Arena’s backstory pits players as gladiators fighting battles around Tarkov city, which are organised by a group of Arena Masters led by someone known only as the Host. Battlestate explain that you’ll be able to play as your character from the Escape from tarkov roubles main Escape From Tarkov game and that all of it “beloved hardcore game mechanics” will still be there, too, along with new PvP and PvE modes.
