I have played for about 3 hours each session, each time I have died because of a glitch, sometimes the screen just goes black and then it says you are dead (wasnt bleeding or anything) or my character was not saved. I understand the premise of the game (unforgiving survival game)
I would like to see some better loot, not asking for assault rifles everywhere but I spend an hour finding a function gun and ammunition is difficult. Items like compass would be nice to find more often, I spawned on the east coast and made a goal to go all the way north then east to the other corner, I spent about 4 hours and ended up back on the east coast. Yes this is frustrating, but I understand the game as no map for a reason. 95% of the game is walking across large green fields. The idea is novel but the experience is quite lacking when you can spend multiple hours and die from a glitch or simply not have your character data saved after logging off (even on same hive server). The game is much better than it was years ago when I played it but the brutalness of the gameplay mechanics make me not want to continue playing. For example night is way too dark. This is my opinion, I understand its attempting to be realistic, but sometimes too realistic is bad. Night effectively slows down exploration by 90% and forces all the other players to leave the server. It is a novel idea to have a legit nighttime system that promotes the use of flares, lights, and lightsticks etc. But I believe the average player will not benefit from this and just log into another server. Sure the die hard survivalist players will love it, but most will not. Another time I died while on a ladder that glitched and I fell off, quite frustrating while just having obtained a compass
Sometimes unforgiving is not the best in a video game, Its terrible when you have 45 minutes to find 1 can of food and you cannot find it. Sure that might be how the apocalypse goes in real life but its unnecessary in a video game that is meant to be played for fun.
one thing I figured out that was helpful was to loot the zombies sometimes they do have food/drink. But then again sometimes an easy encounter with a zombie results in a random black screen that appears before you are even damaged and then you are dead.
