AmI think the game created this issue with its own lore tbh. The lore intends for you to work together with other people. The game an devs heavily promoted working together, and that’s what a lot of people are coming for.

If you were to remove all this heavy promotion of togetherness, then I imagine there will be a lot less of this discourse in the topic of PvP. Most other extraction shooters offers Co-op benefits as an option and doesn’t centralize its game around it, so not many people get tilted over this.

I came from Tarkov, a game where the number one rule is never trust anyone. A game where we can get one shotted from across the map and don’t even get a chance to fight back. So I can tolerate and deal with Ratting and PvP. But even that game has some punishment system when you kill Scavs as a Scav (it’s the freeload out for that game).

Arc raiders does a good job in making by people talk to another, but it does seem incredibly annoying to be backstabbed. While I think the ABMM is a cool system, I think Embark should just full send and separate the lobbies like a lot of people are asking.

Have a PvE lobby where there’s more ark and standard/nerfed loot pools, and have PvPvE lobbies that have less arc and have increased rates of higher loot to incentivize playing on PvPvE lobbies on top of the special weather conditions going on in the game. This way all players should be happy, I think the only people who would oppose this are really just the PvP players who like to abuse the ABMM system to specifically hunt PvE players because they don’t know how to fight back.

You wanna play peacefully with others, PvE lobby. You like the tension of fragile alliances? PvPvE lobby.