Realistically most people here aren’t even considered “casual”

Most players put 75% or more of their hours on the weekends, and usually no more than 2-3 hours each day.

If you look at statistics from the game side most of your active playerbase plays less than 5 hours per week.

Then there’s what “gamers” will consider casual which is more like 2 hours per day maybe 4-5 on the weekends averaging more like 10-14 hours per week.

I think the later is a much better choice. Tarkov is meant to be a bit grindy and that’s ok, lots of games are and they also try to be “casual friendly. The target isn’t necessarily for a casual to be able to complete the game or be on on the cutting edge of the meta, but more so to make the progress they can do feel meaningful and obtainable.

For example the quest setup. You’re probably lucky to average 1 kill per raid, But even if you averaged 2 per raid and didn’t die you’re looking a 8 raids to do one quest, and chances are you aren’t going to be that efficient. Now imagine you have 8-12 hours total play time this week. Do you want to spend your entire week getting frustrated at this quest? Go to work, come home die twice, back tomorrow got 2, on and on. You’re very quickly not going to want to come home and spend your little free time on something you aren’t enjoying, and a lot of people, just won’t for a while, take a break whatever, which is fine, unless setup isn’t even the worst quest you’ll but up against… and all of your causal players eventually take that break…

You can solve this a lot of ways. Give people a slower, but more friendly way to do the quest. Instead of 15 pmcs maybe it’s 30kills, or 5 pmcs and 20 scavs whatever. That way that 2 hour session doesn’t feel like they wasted their whole day getting nothing done because they died twice. At the very least put the worst quests at the end so causals keep progressing and hardcore people still have content.

And before someone critiques it, I’m not trying to rebalance setup, I’m sure there are better ideas out there, and I’m sure plenty of causal people have suffered through it, good for you, but we are talking numbers here’s not exceptions.

Side note, but a few other mechanics that shit in casuals are global limits because they are never going to catch one, and the fuel mechanic.

Before you unlock the bitcoin farm if you only play in the afternoons, the hideout is borderline unusable. Anything that’s going to take longer than you are going to play is uncraftable unless you want to spend an entire gas tank on it which sucks. Let us “pour” gas into the tank with the exact same slider as when you drink something. That way I can pour in half a tank and have it run 4 hours or whatever. Even if it makes you waste a little that’s fine