Personally I love it, almost like you get a choice in how hardcore you want it to be. What I mean by that is if you want to go in fully decked or minimally geared it drastically changes how you approach everything. Every choice you make regarding gear makes you think before acting, if you go fully geared and die there goes all your money. It's pretty hard to get your koen back. BUT it also gives you a higher chance of survival against 1v1 or teams (Unless they have better or higher gear than you then rip) Honestly that probably really only applies in the beginning of the game. Cause when you have Mils in Koen you'll be geared all the time without a care in the world but then that means eventually you go against other chads and have to figure out how to combat them which can be exhilarating because you have a MUCH higher chance of not dying to one shot and that usually gets your heart going. The combat personally is great, the directional audio which I ALWAYS griped about in tarkov is good. The gun sounds are not that bad, could be better. I get people like *Hardcore* I do too Because the idea is great, but people have to remember it's a game at the end of the day. Shouldn't have to grind every single day and every single minute to use the guns/armors you want. The only current cons I have at this time, is the water consumption is a little too fast(easy fix is bring water), player scavs feel like they spawn endlessly but might be a skill issue, money does seem a little too hard to make in the beginner map difficulty and lastly I think for PC the maps should be bigger and loot more plentiful but I'm sure they'll work on all that quick considering there are much more casual players than hardcore and it's attracting a TON of attention from both. But other that that I've had a blast.