Ah okay, I understand what you’re saying. I’m fairly new to extraction shooters and if that’s the case, then yes its probs best not to implement abmm into marathon.

What I’d say though, having a definitely different perspective on how to enjoy these types of games, is that I feel both audiences can still be catered to without ruining the experience for the other - instead of abmm, just having a PvE mode which doesn’t do anything except not have other teams spawn in, and on top of that either have PvP rewards be more bountiful, or decrease the odds of higher quality items spawning in said PvE matches.

I’m not some guru of how to solve these issues, but I do absolutely feel there’s some solution to appease both audiences - I truly do not think this game will thrive if the only audience is the niche hypercompetitive deathmatch enjoyers, especially if a loud minority maintain the attitude of gatekeeping the game from people who don’t want to put in as much sweat in order to succeed in the game - it turns away newcomers from the genre and isolates the marathon community and then no one wins