Everything You Need To Know About Flares and Airdrops

Escape from Tarkov and a lot of the other games like it can be unforgiving sometimes. All of your high-end gear can just disappear with a small mistake or just plain bad luck. Loot is often RNG and you’re not the only one looking for them most of the time. That’s why when there’s a new chance for getting more loot players rejoice, and that’s what they added with the recent update. In this article we’ll show you the new flares and airdrops in Escape from Tarkov.

Escape From Tarkov: Everything You Need To Know About Flares and Airdrops

These sorts of changes to the game usually appears after a wipe. A wipe is when all progress from all players is reset along with the market and the NPCs. With a new wipe players can go and play again experiencing a fresh new world in Escape From Tarkov, this is what usually happens to full loot PVP games to combat stagnation.

With the wipe came the new changes to the game, and the includes the new flares for players to find and loot. You can find these flares in loot containers or Scavs and can be quite valuable. They come in different forms and colors.

The most common flare is the handheld RSP-30 Reactive Signal Cartridges. Which look like batons or a really anemic Stielhandgranate. They come in different colors: From White, Yellow, Green and Red. When used, these flares can stay up in the air and light up an area for a respectable amount of time.

The most valuable one though, are the red flares. When you use these flares it will spawn a plane that will drop a loot crate nearby where the flare lights up.

Once you’ve lit the flare, it takes a few minutes for the plane to spawn and fly over, paradropping the loot box to its position. There are different kinds of loot boxes categorized by what kind of loot there are.

These are the different loot crates you can get:

Common Crates: A mix of middle tier gear which are completely random
Barter Crates: May contains barter items and tech items like graphics cards
Medical/Nutrition Crates: Medical items like IFAKS and Grizzly’s including an assortment of food and water.
Weapon/Mods/Armor Crate: Contains and assortment of weapons, armors and weapon mods.

Remember that crates can only drop in maps with open areas.

Another addition that involves flares is the ZiD SP-81 26.75 signal pistol, basically a flare gun. It’s better than a handheld flare since you can aim where you want the drop to be as well as the crate dropping closer to where to flare appeared.

You can trade these things only from Jaeger and you can have it by trading 5 White Handheld flares, 1 Yellow, 1 Green and 2 Red flares.

Congratulations, that’s the basics of flares in Escape from Tarkov. Now go out there and try not to get shot while waiting for your airdrop. Many thanks to samosh for showing everyone how these work, if you want more information on how to get the ammunition for the flare pistol, check his video out here: Everything You Need To Know About Flares and Airdrops – Escape from Tarkov – YouTube