[Feedback] I love hardcore, it should become the new standard. This is how the game should be experienced. People have gotten too comfortable. I like that I had to completely change how I play in wipe. For the past few years, all players have been doing the same thing. It can be tough, but honestly, it was getting boring, repetitive, and felt like everything was figured out. Hardcore has really changed things for the better. All those little joys we took for granted, like meds and ammo up the butt, are gone. It’s a struggle just to make it to the woods. Gear feels valuable again, and having to worry about using up all my good ammo/meds makes every moment even more significant. Having bosses at 100% is also working great. It provides an opportunity to get better gear not through random quests or keys, but by fighting for loot from a boss in a raid. And the payoff, as it should be, is huge. If you extract with boss gear, then yeah, you should feel like a boss using it in subsequent raids. Early in my career, I was collecting Tagilla gear. I have quite a bit of it, and I use it for quests; the armor lets me survive fights I otherwise wouldn’t.

I felt compelled to share this because it seems like I’m in the minority. There’s a lot of negative feedback. I think you guys are too attached to a certain experience, and any threat to that causes some panic. I urge you to be open and embrace the challenge boldly, don’t worry about the “game as a whole,” that’s not your job. Just try to have fun, because, as I said, this is the most fun I’ve ever had in Tarkov. Stop worrying about what it should be and experience what it actually is.