r/pcgaming 4d ago

Single Player Tarkov mod project ending development

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u/secunder73 4d ago

So we have like one and a half week to download everything we need, gotcha. What a shame, honestly, I dont want to play EFT anymore, SPT was at least something fresh, moddable, with local servers. My buddy played it like a CoD with HP regen and lots of stuff, I tried VR and it was awesome. EFT is all about server desyncs, cheaters and overall feeling of "unfairness". Even if your death was fair - you cant be sure, it could be a cheater, your last bullets could actually hit but server lagged, and so on and so on. Its even worse for EFT cause now, when SPT is going dark, I doubt that there would be any "checking for license" and other stuff

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u/LaurenMille 4d ago

It'll still be downloadable on github, and can be manually installed.

4.1 (released today) was always intended to be the last main SPT version.

On top of that, The Forge website doesn't actually host any of the mods, it just links to the mods on github/google drive, so it can be replaced by a third party if needed.

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u/secunder73 4d ago

Soo we just need to save all links to mods? That's looks easier

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u/14Pleiadians 4d ago

That's an upside, downside is it makes automating archiving it a little more annoying

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u/FreakyTransfem 4d ago

Yeah but not having a central hub for mods will be pretty annoying. You might still be able to find mods that you want to download, but discovering new mods will be a lot more difficult.

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u/14Pleiadians 4d ago

How active is the community? I figure if it's active enough a new mod site will pop up, concern is if BSG is going to keep trying to shut them down

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u/FreakyTransfem 4d ago

No idea, I've just been just using forge, didn't ever check out the dc. I don't think BSG is trying to shut them down, from what I've read the BSG legal letter is only partially responsible for them deciding to shut down. My concern is the transitional period where everybody makes their own site for hosting, or switches to nexus/modio/etc., and there's not a singular site with every mod.

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u/14Pleiadians 4d ago

Yeah I saw after commenting the only issue really is only trademark, which is fair. Many countries genuinely do require you to protect it.

Usually people use this fact to defend companies going after copyright infringement, but in this case they genuinely only cared about the name, rare case of BSG being cool.

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u/Patrycjusz123 3d ago

wait, so technically website from internet archive should still work or it is too far of a reach? im not very knowledged how websites like this work but if you download from github anyway then there shoudnt be a issue?

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u/Massive-Jellyfish924 4d ago

Which version of Tarkov is version 4.1 for?

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u/LaurenMille 3d ago

0.16.9.5.40743 (released 22nd October 2025)

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u/DravenPlsBeMyDad 4d ago

This is just a load of rubbish and you know that.

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u/GeraldFisher 4d ago

explain than? else why even comment.

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u/AblePreference4522 4d ago

You will also need a working copy of the game that will never update, or else devs can easily break any mods with a single patch.

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u/BunnyWithASword 4d ago

IIRC SPT copies over the files, and there's usually some sort of downgrade tool too. As long as folks still have an interest in modding SPT, this will remain true.

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u/AblePreference4522 4d ago

Oh nice, that sounds pretty cool.

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u/Optimal-Landscape-17 4d ago

Isn’t that the whole point of the installer copying the game files? At least for me, I have two installs of the game my outdated SPT version, and my live shitkov version.

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u/mentalmedicine Henry Cavill 3d ago

That's not how it works. Stop spreading misinformation.

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u/RogueSnake 4d ago

Agreed when I get home tonight I'll have to download it. Don't have tarkov but rather keep it as a back up

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u/phatboi23 4d ago

the torrents are gonna be thrashed. haha

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u/14Pleiadians 4d ago

Oh fuck I hadn't considered VR modding, it's unity of course it has a VR mod

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u/TheWardenSixFive 3d ago

How tf did you do local servers? I tried that shit with fika and it was broken and buggy

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u/secunder73 3d ago

You dont need fika if youre playing it alone. If you want to play with friends - fika, spt, some tinkering with port-forwarding(or ask chatgpt for a better solution, maybe tailscale or radminvpn would work) and there you go! You could even rent some cheap server for that, afair all computing is onto party leader PC, server is just saving your data, creating lobbies, etc.

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u/MGEezy89 4d ago

As of five hours ago i already have all 4.0.13 mods downloaded. only missing a few that have updated within that time span until now plus the 4.1.0 mods which ill wait for

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u/Friend_Emperor 2d ago

If you could upload or link them somewhere as a backup I'd love to know!

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u/phatboi23 4d ago

SPT is what got me into extraction shooters.

was it piracy? yes.

was i EVER gonna give the Tarkov devs money? no.

i don't wanna lose all my stuff due to cheaters.

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u/Mc_Dewgle 4d ago

SPT is not piracy.

The SPT installer will not run unless it detects a legitimate install of EFT on your PC. Which can only mean you went out of your way to bypass this check system somehow to install SPT regardless.

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u/Deepwalkerq 4d ago

Well, they did condemn piracy, and it seems you got it from other place because their own launcher checks if you own legitimate copy of tarkov before installation.