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Escape From Tarkov and the Creation of Extraction Shooters with Nikita Buyanov
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Episode Escape From Tarkov and the Creation of Extraction Shooters with Nikita Buyanov
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Trent Kusters chats with Nikita Buyanov, the COO, Founder, and Game Director at Battlestate Games, creators of Escape From Tarkov. Together they discuss his journey in games to the founding of Battlestate Games; the inspirations behind Escape From Tarkov that led to the creation of the extraction shooter genre; keeping their own artistic vision intact while listening to community feedback; balancing the game's meta and when they decide to intervene or not; and the early lessons that came out of their explosive debut.
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