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I'm fairly new to the game, I picked it up fairly quickly about 3 weeks before .55. Playing with experienced friends really helps. I have issues and I love .55. The biggest issue and probably the main one is the zombies, but it's a known issue and I hope to God it gets fixed. Keep em tough, but not so brutal that starting a new character is a chore until you get either lucky or jump off a building. A few other minor things, but the game is in alpha, whinge if you want, it might actually help the devs realise that a certain aspect is not fun. But, in the end, it's alpha, stuff is subject to change at a moment's notice. Now, the good thing about .55. I don't care about agriculture or all that, to be honest, but I haven't tried it yet so who knows. In regards to the issue of no loot spawning. I can almost guarantee that 70% of those posts complaining about no loot play on low pop servers and I would know, because I used to. In .55 to find loot, go to a med or high pop server and loot will be a lot more abundant. You might not find a Mosin and a long range scope in the same town, but you'll find a decent means to defend yourself. Melee weapons might do nothing to zombies now, but that adds to the gritty hardcore nature of the game. It seems that to kill zombies effectively, you need to use bullets. Which is fine with me. (Mind you, I hope they fix Zeds because shooting one zombie in Electro to avoid being hit a couple times and pulling more than intended is so very frustrating. If they could balance out melee combat vs zombies, that would be good). There is one way I found to counter zombies quite well. Running as far and fast as you can. Seriously, you are so much faster than a zombie when you sprint, if you sprint straight for a little bit, that zombie will give up. It might mean leaving the town, but it means you survive, at least. A friend of mine also told me that crouch walking/sprinting when a zombie is in the area pretty much guarantees you won't agro the zombie. So gg, use this stealth mechanic to your advantage, close doors behind you and don't take zombies lightly. I've met more friendly survivors than bandits now, because of this update and this is a good thing if you're starting anew. I can understand why people bitch about the zombies (I bitch too) but if it's really that much of an issue, it will be fixed. You just have to be patient. Everything else that people are bitching about is kinda throwing a tantrum. It's a hardcore survival game, if you aren't prepared to die a lot or can't handle it, then you're playing the wrong game. If they old methods don't work any more, better start trying some new ones. Don't rush straight to Balota airfield then wonder why it's looted, because most other people will. Loot that random farm house in the middle of nowhere, you never know what you'll find. Only issue I have with .55 is the zombies, and I know it'll be fixed. So basically, game is more challenging, and challenging is better than ez mode