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As someone who thinks all of these kinds of games are extremely boring to play in PvE, this sounds like a good idea. I had friends who always wanted to play Sea of Thieves but literally all I wanted to do was ram people's boats and have pirate fights with them, not left click on skeletons with the most basic AI imaginable. It pretty much never works to put those two populations together because the PvE folks don't like being interrupted and quit, which leaves the PvP player base to dwindle to nothing as the less skilled players also drop off over time.

If it works like a scale from completely fresh/passive players to an entire map of people who shoot on sight, it sounds like a win-win. I do wonder how someone might go back to a more passive type of play if they get tired of the latter though, since being matched with other PvP players is going to mean that you're shooting people more often, creating a feedback loop.