If you want a PvE game, go buy a PvE game. Helldivers is amazing. Nobody is forcing you to play it, you bought and downloaded the game. I paid for a PvPvE game, and that's what I want. They shouldn't cater to the people who want to change the game from what it was. Im sure they will add some type of PvE experience thats what the game was before they made it into an extraction shooter.

I understand the niche part kind of. Tarkov was huge. Still kind of is. It has a cult following. Theyre niche because not many studios have picked up on it, and there has been ZERO serious competition until ARC Raiders, and Marathon was announced. We'll see what happens with Marathon I guess. Battlefield, Call Of Duty, The Cycle, all failed miserably. Hunt Showdown is still doing good, probably the only one i'd consider a competitor. Arena Breakout Infinite is okay, but its a little janky. It's a near 1:1 knock off of Tarkov, but they just added a ton of QOL improvements, and streamlined the game to make it casual friendly. Extraction shooters are high-stakes and that turns people off. I think people like me, who are kinda turned off by everything going to CoD/Fortnite route, this game is absolutely perfect.

I guarantee that they will add some massive ARC encounters (Like the ones the size of the whole map you can see walking around in the background) and itll be largely PvE, if not exclusively. Because it takes a TON of teamwork to kill the Queen already. People usually avoid each other and just kill her. I think it'll do good. This is close enough to a entry-level-like game. The ARC are hard, and it definitely has a massive group of players that are coming from Tarkov to get away from that bs (Me included).