
It’s a PvP game in the same fashion that GTA Online is a PvP game. You can go around and murder people all you want, but the game is designed with incentives to encourage co-op play. If you just run by yourself and kill anything that moves, you can easily get ganged by arc then third partied by a fellow rat, and you’re usually too busy just trying to not die that you don’t get much time to loot. None of that’s a problem if you team up.
GTA Online has almost zero incentive to kill other players, this you get their loot. There was a period where solos was just looting up and teaming against arcs whereas trios was more like a BR where it’s almost always on sight, that was really nice. Now there’s rats in solos and not an ounce of respect in trios, like extracting together when meeting at the site