The newest patch didn’t look like much, but it silently turned on the biggest part of the 1.0 update: Terminal, the final story location.
Campaign players realized right away that the blockage was gone and that Terminal had opened at last.
Minutes after the servers came back online, the race began when Tigz became the first to trigger the Terminal transition, later confirmed by Nikita Buyanov.
He didn’t clear the mission on his first attempt, but his run confirmed that the final chapter of Tarkov was now fully playable.
How Do You Get Into Terminal?
You can’t choose Terminal like a normal map since it only appears once the full campaign and all its required quests and choices are done.
Once all those requirements are met, the path leads back to Shoreline, but only during a specific window: between 22:00 and 04:00 in-game time.
At the port entrance, players will find a TRANSITION POINT at the same Terminal gate they were instructed to scout much earlier in the story.
Once all requirements are satisfied, using that spot activates a cutscene and sends the character straight into the final mission, The Ticket.
What Is Terminal Actually Like?
What’s on the other side plays out nothing like a normal raid, since Terminal is a PvE-only gauntlet built as a full-scale battlefield.
The harbor is hit hard, explosions rolling across it while multiple enemy factions surge into the arena.
Players enter with none of their normal gear and must fight through a sequence of escalating encounters that leave no room for hesitation.
The entire run focuses on reaching the Zubr boat, surviving whatever stands in the way because it’s the only extraction that leads out of Tarkov in this story chapter.
Every attempt is expensive, with the community estimating around five million roubles spent per run, and failure instantly boots players back to the main menu.
Early attempts showed how punishing the mission is when Tigz pushed surprisingly far on his first run, cutting through waves of enemies and squeezing through the port’s tight corridors before getting overwhelmed near the finish.
Others soon pushed in as well, learning the hard way that Terminal only unlocks during a six-hour in-game window, that any death sends the run back to the start, and that the enemy count is far higher than anything in normal Tarkov missions.
Even players who had fully mastered the game found themselves struggling to push past the final stretch.
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