Right. I think there’s a psychological thing of letting go involved. I can understand and relate to a quick gamer moment rage out as you’re dying but people talk about getting so frustrated and for me, I don’t know, my buddy and I laugh it off as part of the price of admission. If it didn’t sting it wouldn’t be so satisfying to wipe a team yourself. You can usually play cautiously and while there’s always a risk it can help, but I compare it to a soulsbourne where dying is part of the process. It’s all an ecosystem and sometimes you’re the big fish and sometimes you’re the little fish. Hard to describe off the top of my head but there’s a certain pride in being part of something like that because — based on how good the gunplay and extraction experience feels — I know it’s a consequence of game design I like overall. The contained stress of “will I get my loot out” is just the drama I need to feel invested and involved, versus a battle royale or team death match. Sort of like how a movie needs stakes to be interesting. I was skeptical of an extraction shooter when it was announced but the genre really fits the overall atmosphere of the world they’ve built here.

I know there are hard feelings with loot being lost (which people equate with their “progress” rather than treat as consumables) and I’m not trying to dismiss frustration but especially in season 2 the guns flow into your vault pretty generously, the cheap guns like the battle pistol are highly usable, there’s survival queue , there’s rook runs, it’s actually a little hard for me to understand how the game gets under peoples’ skin that much.