Tbf there are plenty of options to limit who you hear in chat, I've been playing a fair bit since it launched and I have passed by many more other players peacefully than have been shot for no reason. While I do find it frustrating atm when I try and co-operate in free roam (eg. in clearing bandit camps) and the other player inevitably gets squirelly and tries to kill me, passing people on the road or in towns has been mostly peaceable for me.
I'm with you on wanting private sessions but the missions that you get from the stations are designed for you to be attacked by other players, I expect they will add private sessions in the future but I would also expect that these missions couldn't be done in these sessions (much like the delivery missions in GTAO).
That being said, I don't care for PVP at all myself, I never fire first and deathmatches/racing don't interest me. Currently (I'm at rank 7) the only "missions" for me to do to earn money are these forced PVP delivery missions, PVP deathmatches, races and the story missions (which can be repeated) for $3-$5 a pop. The shotgun I want (the only one I can buy) is $444! Doing 100 of these missions to get one gun is too grindy for my liking (of course I could buy this gun with "gold bars"/more of my hard earned money, gotta love that player choice) and the ranking up seems equally slow.
As the game stands I don't bother with the delivery missions unless I'm posse'd up, too much risk for virtually no reward. I've largely enjoyed the story missions but I don't like the forced 4 player matchmaking, several times I've been in a group that use up our shared lives (ugh) in the first 10 seconds because they can't or won't use cover, or even one player intentionally murdering people we needed to capture to clear the mission. I would much rather have the option of doing these solo or with a fixed group </= 4, hopefully they'll add that too.
I'm tentatively enjoying the game in the hopes that post-beta they add more control options as to who I play with and how I play with them, as well as much more gainful PvE content for me and friends to do together. If this doesn't happen I'll be dropping it pretty fast.
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