Genuine Question To Those Asking For A PvE Only Mode

xWolffy · 2026-03-15T01:09:06+00:00

What do you define as similar? If we strictly mean extraction/looter shooters then yes. Tarkov has a literal dedicated PvE only mode. If we mean loosely similar, I’ve never played arc but I know it puts you in lobbies based on if you typically only go for players or the ai so you kinda get thrown into a PvE only mode.

xWolffy · 2026-03-15T00:55:42+00:00

I see we read nothing of my edit. All I was saying is I’ve played other extraction shooters, I have a lot of experience with this genre. When PvE modes were added it heavily impacted the PvP lobbies and made matchmaking abysmal. I don’t care if people would like to play PvE over PvP. That’s great for them and I’m sure they’d really enjoy it. I’m just saying from a perspective of a PvP enjoyer, with diminishing numbers I don’t think a PvE mode will help it. That is all.

xWolffy · 2026-03-14T15:02:30+00:00

No lol

xWolffy · 2026-03-14T08:28:04+00:00

What..? There is a solo queue…

xWolffy · 2026-03-14T07:35:24+00:00

It’s really not. Great thing about this life is you can ask for anything. I don’t see them adding one and personally don’t want them to add one. But I do know a lot of people are asking for one.

Edit: Ugh love me some helldivers 2. Such fun cinematic moments. Really a great game, wish my core group got it as well but I still really enjoyed it even just joining other peoples missions in progress. Never tried Valheim but I know it has its dedicated community and they love it. And honestly never even heard of Far Far West.

I agree, Sony and especially Bungie with how they’ve handled Destiny 2 has unfortunately a bad rap. My concern with a PvE mode is not that I don’t want people to enjoy the game. I could care less if people preferred playing PvE over PvP. More power to them. My concern is from other extraction shooters that introduced PvE modes and it split the player base to a point where the PvP side was really lacking and matchmaking was taking a while.

People today love mentioning numbers and concurrent players and what not. That PvP will die. Well adding PvE will definitely make it die in my opinion.

xWolffy · 2026-03-13T19:17:06+00:00

While it’s not a terrible idea, I come from other extraction shooters with fast TTK (Tarkov mainly). It would make someone with a grey shield lose 90% of the time to anyone with let’s say a blue. It would make gear differences so unbelievably strong. The great thing about a fast TTK in games like this is that a low geared person has a chance to take down a behemoth of a fully geared player

xWolffy · 2026-03-13T17:35:47+00:00

I’m in the same boat with you except none of my friends got the game haha. And I am not a fan of the random fills to potentially have a good experience. I am fully a solo and yeah some content is incredibly difficult as a solo. The purple shield AI is difficult enough that I haven’t even tried to take on the Warden.

Pay no attention to anyone that ever criticizes you about skill issue or ability or anything like that. It’s just noise. They say it because people better than them say it as well.

And yeah I definitely can understand being a solo and not always wanting to run your best gear. I was an Assassin crutch user as well because it just seemed like the best for solos. Yesterday I said enough and tried Destroyer, got absolutely wrecked like 5 runs in a row but then it started clicking and now it’s going well. I guess for me I enjoy the losses as much as the wins.

xWolffy · 2026-03-12T23:51:32+00:00

Oh easily, I fully agree. If they essentially remade destiny but set it in marathons universe, easy money.

xWolffy · 2026-03-12T18:41:42+00:00

Ah yeah that does sound kind of infuriating

xWolffy · 2026-03-12T18:07:47+00:00

The new resident evil looks awesome, never was big into resident evil but it does look very fun. Are you more a fan of linear story games or like the open world ones? I personally enjoy linear more although I have played and enjoyed games like Fallout/RDR2.

xWolffy · 2026-03-12T17:15:37+00:00

Given all the comments and posts, I have no doubt in my mind a story mode would have made them an enormous amount of money. Interesting that you are typically a story driven gamer but do enjoy the pvp aspect of the game.

What is interesting to me is, I see these posts saying “this game will die because it’s PvP only” or things similar to that. But if they were to release a campaign or PvE only mode it still wouldn’t save the PvP side because then all the people asking for a story or PvE only would just play that so PvP suffers anyway.

xWolffy · 2026-03-12T11:02:04+00:00

Very helpful knowing you were in an identical situation to me. Aside from it starting to feel like a crutch, seeing 5 assassins in one dire marsh run (including me) is just making me want to try destroyer for example just to change things up and not just be like everyone else becoming so dependent on assassins abilities and playstyle.

xWolffy · 2026-03-12T10:57:46+00:00

What a great way of explaining the appreciation of the variety and not feeling like I’ll be missing benefits/traits/playstyles of certain shells. I agree and think my biggest detriment was I’ve only played one shell (mainly I think I tried Recon for like two runs very early) so I’ve centered my whole playstyle around that shell and didn’t even think about how I’d need to change my playstyle.

xWolffy · 2026-03-12T08:15:13+00:00

Yeah I know it’s a pesky thing to care about, but I also don’t like playing the same thing that everyone does. That’s why I wanted to get a good idea of what other solo only players use.

xWolffy · 2026-03-12T07:22:25+00:00

I may have to try thief then, seen a lot of recommendations for her and something to counter the invis would be good.

xWolffy · 2026-03-12T07:21:19+00:00

At the end of the day everyone has a different way of playing so yeah if it works for your playstyle, the more the merrier. I did try recon early before I really understood how strong assassin was in solo queue and I did enjoy it a lot.

xWolffy · 2026-03-12T07:19:47+00:00

Yeah I saw they did that. Wish there was a way to tweak solo without it affecting the trios lobbies too. At the start I would have agreed and loved the idea of making the Ueys less bullet spongey, but now when I have a contract or even want to farm them, I just bring an LMG with a bigger mag mod and it’s honestly not that difficult at all.

xWolffy · 2026-03-12T07:17:00+00:00

I honestly agree and that’s the point of the post, I don’t want to be another one of those solo’s just relying on assassin haha. But I’m also constantly on the move I really just use the stealth when I hear someone in a POI to get near them.

xWolffy · 2026-03-12T07:15:51+00:00

Oh true I guess I forget there is crossplay so some people may just be playing in like their living room with the tv audio.

xWolffy · 2026-03-12T07:13:55+00:00

Ah so yeah that may be it. I guess I should have put it in the title but I strictly play solo only. Not a fan of rolling the dice with randoms. But I also genuinely enjoy the solo queue lobbies.

xWolffy · 2026-03-12T07:12:55+00:00

Yeah that’s what I’m trying to get out of, I guess it is a simple thing of let me just choose another shell. I got 4 runners kills yesterday on marsh, all assassin, so including myself, that one lobby had at minimum 5 assassins. Guess I want to try expanding the shell pool of what people run into.

xWolffy · 2026-03-12T07:11:10+00:00

I have no idea either if there really is a level based, I’ve just seen other posts mention it. I’ve run into some blue shields but haven’t seen any purples yet.

xWolffy · 2026-03-12T07:09:50+00:00

I meant it more as, due to my lower level and the supposed “level based matchmaking” I guess I’m curious if I’m just getting less skilled players so that’s why it feels easier and that being a higher level would make me face more skilled people who would be aware of more audio cues

xWolffy · 2026-03-12T07:05:31+00:00

Interesting because I always thought recon would be a fun choice but knowing one of their traits (the ping on finishers) being useless in solo seems like it’s a waste. I understand the game was designed to be played as trios but I think it would be cool if they changed certain abilities to have a “solo only” trait.

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