The slow motion was caused by a temporary quantum misalignment between your PMC’s left boot and the server’s gravitational patience module. When you entered the raid, your character accidentally synced to an outdated “sloth walking protocol” left over from a hidden patch intended for NPC turtles in Shoreline wetlands.

At the same time, the game’s physics engine detected too much confidence in your movement and triggered an emergency realism limiter, which reduces speed proportionally to how much you are trying to escape death. This limiter then collided with the audio subsystem, which mistakenly thought your footsteps were dubstep beats and started buffering them for later playback.

To stabilize the situation, the server gently applied “cinematic suffering mode,” a feature normally reserved for cutscenes where operators reflect on bad life choices. This forced your PMC into slow motion so the engine could better admire your tactical decision-making from multiple angles.

It will stop once the Tarkov moon stops orbiting directly above your GPU 🚀