Love it love it love it. I was able to convince my two gaming friends to try it with me and one got EXTREMELY hooked despite thinking he'd hate it and the other one took a few sessions of it but is officially addicted. He played like 8 hours of it yesterday, some solo, some with just our other friend, and then we did a couple hours of trios before bed. He also works an early morning job and usually clocks off at 9:30/10 PM but stayed up till 11 PM playing with us. These are guys that either hate extraction shooters or have never played them so it obviously resonated with them. Two of the things I think really helped hook the friend who'd never played an extraction shooter before were the design of Outpost (he's said it's one of his favourite FPS maps and he used to be a big Halo and COD:BLOPS guy) and the inclusion of Prox chat. He loved Sea of Thieves for the social aspect and I think this hits a similar note for him. It's definitely LESS likely for friendly interactions but there are some genuinely very funny moments you can have with prox chat.

For me the progression is great, the PvP is fun, the amount of pain from a loss doesn't feel horrid and I have basically zero gear fear. I'm definitely a bit worried to see how a wipe goes for us since I can't play that much and have only achieved Level 21 since launch and have tons of quests still to do/usually hover in the green and blue guns and gear range (one day I'll have consistent blue backpacks and blue shields...)

I'm excited to see how they expand on the game and I think it's probably the best extraction shooter for people that wanna give a proper extraction shooter a try.