You aren't alone on that. One of my friends got it with his new gpu. He tried it not knowing it had PVP and was really enjoying it. Then another player made his life miserable. He quit and won't play again.

It's too bad too because me and 3 other friends were also on board with the idea of buying it when he was talking about it. But then we found out it was PVP only and that completely killed it for all of us. So they lost out on about 5 players and 4 purchases from our group just because there wasn't a no PVP option. And I mean it really doesn't seem like it'd be hard. Just turn off the connection to other players. If they wanted to go above and beyond, make it so you can play with a small group of friends. But at the very least being able to turn off PVP would've been a good idea.

I feel like the "PvE-only was too boring" argument doesn't even work. Just add a special kind of extra-dangerous enemy that's more alert to your presence and acts more tactically compared to the dumber robots, to add the same tension players would add.

Maybe Escape from Duckov is more your speed.

As usual 🤷‍♂️

I played it for a bit and it's really good. I just don't like the genere

I fucking hate living in today's world.

You can't even talk about different games while playing certain ones, like what bullshit is that? I really feel like corporations are policing people's lives nowadays, what with Nintendo being shitty to everyone, CoD not letting you talk about certain other games in-game, YouTube and other social media companies censoring any goddamn word that has even the slightest negative connotations (kill, suicide, pedophile, etc.}

Like the world just feels so infantilized and people can't actually be people anymore, like we all need to be told what to do.

And in the end, I think it could all be explained with the rise of fascism literally everywhere right now. This world and existence fuckin sucks.

Yeah, unless they move their focus towards more casual gameplay as opposed to the sweatfest that is PvP, the game will only alienate PvE players and be reduced to a swarm of toxic PvP-players.

To be fair, I told my friends that I thought The Finals would last only 7 months, but it stabilized around a little north of 10k concurrent players, which is probably fewer than the devs were hoping for but enough to keep it going.

As a guy with over 2.5k hours in Hunt, I think it really comes down to people just enjoying different things. I can no longer play standard match based shooters, anymore, as I find the lack of consequence leads me to not caring about the outcome of games.

Incidentally I've also returned to playing Eve, because losing a level 50 hunter you spent a few hours leveling up? That's nothing compared to losing a ship you spent half a year working towards.

Basically I'm addicted to lossy progression in games. Not claiming it's an end-all-be-all mechanic, but damn if it hasn't made me love games again.

Going on two decades now.

Me with Minecraft.

Me with MMOs.

Me with Dota/LoL and whatever this genre is called.

Me with DayZ/etc survival shooters.

Me with whatever chess auto battlere are.

Granted, games after the popularity winds down and they incorporate it into game genres I do like are neat. I freaking love V Rising.

They are inherently a sweat fest by their very nature and they appeal to a crowd that enjoys high risk high reward gameplay. Theres nothing wrong with you for not being into it. Not everybody’s dream job is being a fireman and running into burning buildings before lunch either.

But it’s one of those niche genres that scratch an itch that more casual games don’t.

Seriously. Let's say the words Extraction Shooter 12 times, and not bother with a quick mention of what the fuck an Extraction Shooter is. Brilliant!

It's a Battle Royale with a mix of PvE and PvE (usually) where you can find places to "extract" and leave with the weapons and gear you found, allowing you to bring those in to future matches, at the risk of losing everything you brought if you are killed.

It's a game based around starting a round that loads you into a map, completing X objectives on that map, and then leaving the map alive to make progress, all while being swarmed by enemies. It's a bit rouge-like in that way.

Basically a bunch of players are dropped into a game map, and normally your objective is to go around and collect as much loot as possible, then after some time or you're ready to leave, you need to find the extraction point - this will save your loot and that run is over.

Some extraction shooters are PvE, and some are PvP, some are both. If you get killed with all your loot before you get to the extraction point you lose it all. It can be pretty stressful, and unbalanced if its PvP where some players play much more then you do therefore have better weapons etc

And yet the article says Extraction Shooter over and over without mentioning what an Extraction Shooter is. Is this shit intentional, or do most game journalists just start some time after grade school?

Im just waiting for a sequel to battlefield 2142. 2142 was peak fps for me and nothing has come close since.

That and most of them now are GaaS scams.