first off this patch did make the game atleast 2.9x harder because of buffs to zombies and the fact that you dont start with anything and i kinda get that and why, this is a game/mod meant to appeal to a hardcore survivalist audience by achieving high levels of realism and tense-ness that being said it is far too punishing currently for newer players. points i like are, 1: no gun at start, it makes sense not everyone has a gun in their home so why should everyone start with one it also makes stealth much more neccesary 2: no morphine, pretty much the same as 1 points i do not like, 1: why dont we start with beans, the gun thing yeah i dont have one and no one i know in aus has a gun but we sure as hell have plenty of f""kin beans so why cant we have some on spawn. 2:if we are going for realism pretty much eveyone has access to a sharp knife so why not spawn with that also Matches i've got plenty just household supplies. 3: if you really want realism think of the zombies they are rotting corpses of human beings who have been brought back to life by some ungodly virus, they arent going to be able to run like usain bolt make them slower, they cant swim because they dont have air in their lungs for buoyancy and they really shouldnt have good eyesight so please nerf zombies a little. TL;DR spawn with no gun-good no morphine-good no knife-bad no beans-bad zombies that are more agile and perceptive than humans-bad.