Escape from Tarkov celebrates VE day by surprising players with two new guns

Escape from Tarkov players got a pleasant surprise as the past week wound down: in a surprise update Friday, Battlestate Games added the Shpagin PPSh-41 submachine gun and the Colt M1911 pistol, two weapons guaranteed to make waves in Tarkov.

If you've played Escape from Tarkov at all, you'll know that it's hyperfocused on its guns, so any new addition to its available arsenal is potentially an important shift in the way the loot-based shooter is played. That's certainly true for both the PPSh-41 and the 1911, which for different reasons have the potential to become player favourites for different objectives. The guns were added to celebrate the 75th anniversary of VE Day, which in Russia is known as the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

Battlestate Games had teased the PPSh-41 with a tweet at the end of April, but it was nonetheless a surprise to find it added to the game May 8. In-game, it's a beast in the tight spaces of Factory as one might expect from a submachine gun that sprays the 7.62mm Tokarev round, although you may have trouble sourcing one of the weapon's distinctive 71-round drum magazines - the item is currently selling for more than three million roubles on the Tarkov flea market. The gun itself is available from Prapor at level two.

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