Its pretty basic PvP, as others said, grab the weapons on the ground and fight. This game is mostly for the Story, PvE, and fashion.

If you want PvP you'll want to find another game, as this game does not work around it, there's a lot of solid choices so don't worry.

Sea of Thieves works very well with PvEvP, with a griefing focus, you also have the BDO game which revolves entirely around PvP, grinding stops, GvG and so.

I do not like nor enjoy PvP, specially not in this game, the concept story and everything contradicts this. The sole reason I like PSO2 is the full lack of PvP, and therefore making Alliances not hate me whenever I say: "Don't count on me for PvP, I don't enjoy it at all". Cause I already had invitations on other games where they just turned me down after inviting me just because I said "PvP is not something I enjoy".

But in order to contribute to the thread, I think this "PvP" would benefit from locked loadouts chosen by the team, rather than letting everyone have full freedom of choice of their whole walking arsenal.

I heard that Ship 01 had quite a bit of EU players. I'm there myself with a few friends, I still have not decided which Alliance, if any are for me, to join though.