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As someone who has tried to convince friends to join me in extraction shooters, only to see too many folks fall away after their first or second loss, I\u2019m all too familiar with how off-putting the genre can be. Death can come fast in this kind of game, and since you lose all the stuff you\u2019re carrying if you can\u2019t make\u2026<\/p>\n

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As someone who has tried to convince friends to join me in extraction shooters, only to see too many folks fall away after their first or second loss, I\u2019m all too familiar with how off-putting the genre can be. 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