Taking a break in the early phase of this wipe and coming back a couple weeks ago, it's really shined a light on just how much more boring and static the game is when everyone is playing solely for ruble farming. Raids are empty except for the occasional player scav after 15 minutes, it's rare to even see PMCs unless I sprint to the nearest high value loot area from spawn and then I usually get bushwhacked by a sweaty squad that beat me there with stims.
I just ran a night interchange to do Hot Delivery, and by the time I walked to the bandstand from checkpoint spawn, planted the armors, and made my way to the front of IDEA I just barely caught a glimpse of three giant, ambulatory backpacks bunnyhopping their way across the highway at about 30 miles per hour headed to train extract. Needless to say all the GPU spawns, KIBA, and medical room had all already been picked completely clean ~12 minutes into the raid and I never saw another soul.
It's so sad to see the game reduced to this, especially compared to early wipe when you'd still have fights between PMCs breaking out sometimes with 10-15 minutes left on the clock.
