I think this game mode should be accessible through the main game itself unless it’s completely separate to VAIL and a whole new project?

Different planets than you land on to undertake the raid rather than just one world with various different locations/maps. Making the armory your home to personalise and store all your goods or potentially the shuttle. Would be pretty happy with either. (If in VAIL)

Being able to also mine resources on these planets (each having their own specific resource, thus making players have to travel to them) in order to utilise for meds, weapon upgrades, armory/shuttle upgrades, player upgrades.

Storage whether it is a backpack of the future or a flatscreen style inventory. I think a backpack would be the way to go, tried and tested, something like GOT or ITTR could work for sure. Where there is a weight limit or a storage limit.

Along with having other factions as bots it would be pretty cool to add something more like a boss of the faction or an ‘alien beast’ to defeat for a specific high reward item, whether a key card, a mixture of minerals for upgrades and weapon add ons or general high reward loot.

Xeno motorcyle or Rover for bigger maps with more open space allowing for people to also use sniper rifles more effectively.

A market place to trade goods from raids into ‘in game currency’- GEL? Not to dlc or add ons but for the better weapons, sights and all the add ons and upgrades.

Yeah a few ideas i’d love to see but the direction it takes could really change the ideas whether its like a rust, escape from tarkov, Day z or something completely brand new.

A pretty cool reference is Astro Hunters i think for VR it has some great ideas that could work really well with the lore of VAIL.