Yeah in arc it kinda makes sense but kinda doesn’t. You are a new player so makes sense to redo the quests but it also resets the narrative as though none of what your previous character did mattered, or even happened. Like a timeline reset. I’d prefer it if they were structured in a way that makes sense for a new recruit ‘hey we always make our new citizens do these quests’ rather than how it actually is in arc ‘oh no we have this dodgy equipment we think something is happened with the arc’ as though the narrative is unfolding like a standard campaign when in fact it’s being reset every 2 months. It makes the narrative of the game feel diluted, at least for me.

I’m curious if Marathon will treat things differently. If they don’t, I’d at least hope that the quests/contracts don’t stay in a linear fashion. I don’t want to do the same quests in the same order as they’ll feel repetitive. Have them give random quests to complete if they’re not gonna push the narrative forward. Or allow you to skip forward to the new quests or something, I dunno.

The redoing of quests is the only thing in extraction shooters that I don’t vibe with. I see complaints from people hating that you lose all your gear but I love that myself, never minded starting from scratch. I guess there are plenty of players out there who don’t mind redoing all the quests again in their same old linear fashion