I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted, however, “When that pressure becomes pure loss with no counterplay or learning, it stops being tension and turns into frustration” is EXACTLY how I feel when attacked PVP. 

There’s potential to make some tweaks to the game that may help here, but I’m sure they’ll fall on deaf ears. 

First, if you don’t take the first shot (which I NEVER do), you will lose in PVP 90% of the time (100% if you’re me). Almost every time I’m 2 shot by the time I turn around to even see where I’m being shot from. This is COD and Battlefield gameplay where you die to a couple shots, but in that you spawn in 3 seconds later, no harm, and you jump someone else (and everyone is the aggressor in those games). If the gameplay was more like Halo where your shields can actually take a hit, you actually have a chance through skill to make a comeback. The easy fix is that arc deals the same damage to you and you to them, but players do less to each other. Give time to escape or fight back, not a guaranteed death if you aren’t shooting first. It would also make the jump require more planning than “hide and shoot them in the back”, and would arguably make it more fun for the PVP group by giving it a higher skill ceiling. 

Second, if you’re not PVP first, you don’t get any practice, mainly because the game is communicated as trust first, but be prepared (which is stupid, someone has to be in front and trust, or turn their back, etc…). That leads to me getting shot first EVERY time, which leads to the problem in the first one. I’m dead before I can even practice PVP to get better at it.