General information

How does Fika work?

Fika is an unofficial mod for SPT. Many features such as profiles, characters, hideouts, inventory, quests, and trading, are provided by SPT.

Project Fika adds a lobby interface for joining other players' raids and provide in-game networking capabilities, along with additional features that do not alter the standard Escape from Tarkov experience by default.

In summary:

SPT is the back-end server that provides the player profile, inventory, flea market, and many other Escape From Tarkov features.
Fika is the component that adds multiplayer capabilities which allow players to host or join a raid to play together.

Specifications

Fika is a combination of a BepInEx mod (Fika-Plugin) and a SPT plugin (Fika-Server).
Fika uses SPT (with the Fika-Server plugin) as the back-end server for profile and lobby management.
Fika uses the Client <-> Server UDP networking model for game play. While Fika is still in development, the general consensus is that network performance is better than Escape From Tarkov live (provided the host has proper networking capabilities).

Main features

Host your own server.
Create your own raid (or play solo).
Join someone else's raid.
Play together against bots, share items, progress quests together in the same raid.
Preserve character, quest, inventory, and hideout progression.
Use client/server mods from SPT (some mods are not compatible).

Other features

Item Sending
- Right-click an item in your stash to send it to another account
- Can be customized in the server config
Free cam (default to F9 key)
- In free cam you can teleport to the cam position by pressing T
- You can jump to another player by Left/Right clicking
- You can snap to their head by holding SPACE when jumping
- You can snap to their back in a 3rd position view by holding CTRL when jumping
- You can press the HOME key to temporarily toggle free cam controls
In-game chat system
Online player list
Dynamic AI for hosts, which disables AI when no one is near
Custom AI limits per map
Culling system to increase performance
Custom notifications (teammate died, boss got killed by a player, etc.)
Pinging system to ping an area in the game for your teammates
Player health bars for your teammates
Quest progress sharing in raids
Dedicated client to offload AI and gain performance (more info here)
Network interpolation for smoother gameplay
UPnP and NAT Punching

Limitations

You cannot play SPT/Fika without owning a legitimate copy of Escape From Tarkov. You will be banned if you're caught.
There is practically no protection against abuse or cheating. Fika is designed to be played with trusted friends. Hosting a public server is strongly discouraged. We will NEVER support public servers.
Only one active raid at a time. There are some underlying issues with the back-end server that may corrupt your profile when two or more raids are active at the same time.
Fika does not include any PvP mechanisms, as supporting PvP is not the goal of this project.
Fika does not offer a global matchmaking service. Only players connected to the same server can create or join raids.
VoIP is not implemented.
Some SPT mods are incompatible with Fika. SPT mods are typically designed for a standard SPT installation, which does not include multiplayer functionality. It is the responsibility of the mod's author to make their mod compatible with Fika if they choose to do so.

Last updated 1 month ago

How does Fika work?

Fika is an unofficial mod for SPT. Many features such as profiles, characters, hideouts, inventory, quests, and trading, are provided by SPT.

In summary:

SPT is the back-end server that provides the player profile, inventory, flea market, and many other Escape From Tarkov features.

Fika is the component that adds multiplayer capabilities which allow players to host or join a raid to play together.

Specifications

Fika is a combination of a BepInEx mod (Fika-Plugin) and a SPT plugin (Fika-Server).

Fika uses SPT (with the Fika-Server plugin) as the back-end server for profile and lobby management.

Fika uses the Client <-> Server UDP networking model for game play. While Fika is still in development, the general consensus is that network performance is better than Escape From Tarkov live (provided the host has proper networking capabilities).

Other features

Item Sending

Right-click an item in your stash to send it to another account
Can be customized in the server config

Free cam (default to F9 key)

In free cam you can teleport to the cam position by pressing T
You can jump to another player by Left/Right clicking
You can snap to their head by holding SPACE when jumping
You can snap to their back in a 3rd position view by holding CTRL when jumping
You can press the HOME key to temporarily toggle free cam controls

In-game chat system

Online player list

Dynamic AI for hosts, which disables AI when no one is near

Custom AI limits per map

Culling system to increase performance

Custom notifications (teammate died, boss got killed by a player, etc.)

Pinging system to ping an area in the game for your teammates

Player health bars for your teammates

Quest progress sharing in raids

Dedicated client to offload AI and gain performance (more info here)

Network interpolation for smoother gameplay

UPnP and NAT Punching

Limitations

You cannot play SPT/Fika without owning a legitimate copy of Escape From Tarkov. You will be banned if you're caught.

There is practically no protection against abuse or cheating. Fika is designed to be played with trusted friends. Hosting a public server is strongly discouraged. We will NEVER support public servers.

Only one active raid at a time. There are some underlying issues with the back-end server that may corrupt your profile when two or more raids are active at the same time.

Fika does not include any PvP mechanisms, as supporting PvP is not the goal of this project.

Fika does not offer a global matchmaking service. Only players connected to the same server can create or join raids.

VoIP is not implemented.

Some SPT mods are incompatible with Fika. SPT mods are typically designed for a standard SPT installation, which does not include multiplayer functionality. It is the responsibility of the mod's author to make their mod compatible with Fika if they choose to do so.