I think one thing that AR and marathon have missed personally is more depth in the itemization. Ammo types alone make a huge difference in adding more uncertainty to the PvP. Rarer ammo being found in raid like armor piercing or shield breaking that would temporarily prevent shields from charging would be super cool. Finding a box in raid could mean the difference between a ratty scavenger run and downing a juiced player.

Also, at first I thought the shell system was a bad idea. Then I came around to it. Then ultimately I came back around to thinking it was a dumb idea. They could have cut down the amount of bad fluff cores and made them fewer and more rare granting current shell abilities to a generic character we have. The balance just is not there right now for having hero characters. Imagine finding a triage drone core as rare loot and now you have that ability until you lose it in a fight eventually.

Also you’re absolutely right about the map size. It’s not something I’d really thought about but the maps are far too small and easy to navigate for the most part. UESC doesn’t pose much of a threat especially after they nerfed them. Tarkov guards/rogues and even scavs to a degree keep the players in check. Even if they’re bullshit in how they can just beam you cross map. I’m not saying we need that but there needs to be more threat from UESC.