good game kills

I wanted to enjoy this game. I spent 30 minutes slowly gearing up, feeling a lot more confident despite early deaths being quick and fruitless, loaded into a raid with my good gear, dumped 12 shotgun rounds into a dude with a good rig setup but only a Makarov before he finally alerted to my existence as I was in stealth. he turned around and shot me 3 times. I had the highest level plates available at that level. My 13th shotgun shell blew his head off and killed him. I then bled to death because his 9x19 peashooter had caused bleed on a different limb for every shot and ignored my armor. i went from 1000 hp to 642 to dead in two seconds. nope. no thanks, I'm done. I'm fine with ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ insta kills to degree. I'm fine with intelligent enemies who pinpoint gunfire for opportunistic kills. I'm fine with punishing injury mechanics. but when I mag dump two pistol mags into a naked guy and he lives just fine but i take 3 to the leg and bleed out in 2 seconds?

Oh yeah and there's hunger and thirst. raids last 5 minutes and auto extract you. this should mean these mechanics are unnecessary right? well too bad, have them poorly shoehorned into to fulfill the "Tarkov quota", as you die of thirst in exactly 2 minutes. meaning you must either have purified water on you like a rich ♥♥♥♥♥ or get yourself killed looking for oranges and milk cartons in the garbage a minute from extract

Every map spawns no less than 50 enemies. None of which fight each other from my experience.

This game is trying to be "super cool hard" and just ends up being annoyingly boring because anything fun gets you killed. so spawn in, loot the nearest room, corner camp as you wait for five minutes, and pray that you can kill any npcs that randomly wander into your chosen hovel before they get a shot off, otherwise you will be rushed by no less than 10 heavily armed gopniks for the sin of getting into a fight you did not want.

I'm not asking for the ability to goomba stomp every enemy I see, but getting my feet in the door before they're slammed with a sledgehammer would be nice. There's no degree of risk vs reward choice, like in Tarkov, and in fact most extraction shooters. A predetermined time for extract makes this feel less like surviving a hostile environment and more like choosing between a horrendously unpleasant time trial bullet hell or a sitting in a corner simulator.

I do think this game is cool but I found it to be very challenging. I couldn't make it much of anywhere without dying. If you enjoy a challenge in your games, then this may not be a horrible choice for you, but otherwise I wouldn't recommend it.