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They have mentioned "Arena-style" areas that won't be XP-based where you can fight in more traditional small-scale fights, they haven't mentioned whether these will be intra-faction only, or inter-only, or what.

We haven't gotten confirmation of any cities outside the 3 main ones, just rumors that there could be others. As of now I would bet that there will be absolutely zero fighting on the streets in these main cities. I'm guessing either there will be some sort of "city guards" style thing to stop it instantly, or maybe you won't even be able to fire your weapon (or it could just magically not have any effect who knows). But these rumored "outpost town" areas -- should they even exist in the game -- would theoretically be a lot more likely to allow more open combat and/or factions mixing within or fighting over it.

In the end we're still just speculating for the most part... but those are my best guesses.

Oh and as for that crazy mission idea, what if the people shooting didn't actually kill the "escapees", but they still got XP credit based on how much damage they did? That way it still gives the intense atmosphere for the runners without them getting slaughtered, and still gives a reason for people to even bother shooting. The question then of course becomes how much xp you wanna give for a freebie mission like that in the first place, and whether any higher levels would even bother since it likely wouldn't do much toward leveling compared to PVP'ing.