SPTarkov: History - EMUTARKOV 2019
Out of curiousity and boredom during a lecture in university, I started browsing github for "escape from tarkov emulator". To my suprise, there was one: EmuTarkov.
It was developed by Polivilas since ~2018 and publicly released at 2019-02-26. Designed as a cheating sandbox to safely develop cheats without getting banned, all it could really do was get you into a raid with a fixed profile. BALIST0N was an avid player of the game since 0.2 and contributed some code as well for making bots able to spawn and being able to buy items. I honestly didn't need more than that myself, I just wanted to dress-up my character in cool looking ways and shoot some scavs to get som sweet payback.
The project was written in the by me dreaded language; JavaScript (ES5). I'm a trained Unity game developer and I knew a thing or two about C89 / C++98 / .NET Framework 2.0. But JS? God it was an awful language! It did however make the barrier of entry easy (theoretically) because it's a scripting language; easy to pick up.
...that was until I saw the source. It was one big JS file of over 1000 lines of MUTATED shared state. In the course of the next month, it was haunting me during every lecture; I had to rewrite that!
On the good evening of 2019-05-29 I got myself wasted enough to read the source in full and made my first commit at 2019-05-30. Starting in June, I refactored most of the code to remove shared state and rework the internals to make development simpler and faster. I also started to bundle the code with NodeJS so users could just download & play.
At the end of June (2019-06-20), TheMaoci made a post on the issue board to ask Polivilas, BALIST0N and me to join a Discord server (chat group) so we could collaborate in realtime. While Polivilas declined, BALIST0N and I joined.
Little did we know that this was the beginning of a new era.
The last version released was 0.4.1, all versions were made for EFT 0.11.7.3333.