New poster, been playing for about a week. Recently died while sprinting to friends at the airfield with blood and beans to save them, and got sniped in the legs by a bandit =P I personally think that although it is a bit hectic, and in most cases required an exploit, surviving without a gun is fine (though i still pussy out and server switch at night time), if i can find a barn, i can usually run in, dodge any zombies, and carefully use terrain to avoid the walking zombies and loot the barn(the walking zombies being the exploit) However, considering the time i spent raiding in hot spots around Cherno and the airfield, and nearby settlements, i was starving for food. I ended up killing another player with my last few bullets just incase he had some beans on him (which he did) and then went and hid while i chewed on beans. I guess in short, if you are willing to take a risk(usually the risk created by zombies who spawn inside buildings now) you can survive, get a weapon, get a few precious bullets, but currently loot seems to rare to really make a go of it. Only gun i found was a lee enfield in all the places i searched, was forced to make use of tin cans to try and distract zombies. I think it really did something different to me morally too. I have only killed two twice, once to avenge my brother, and the second after i saved a fresh spawn only to find out it was the man who killed my brother spawning near us. Both times my heart raced, i hesitated to pull the trigger, i was scared that i might miss, i might lose everything. This patch, i didnt even blink an eye. I wanted those beans, and they made me more determined then stopping a bandit from looting my brother.