No gun makes finding first items really cool. No gun at the same time as super-hearing and super-sight zombies that you can no longer lose by hiding, = not fun.
yeah, I can't play with this new zombie aggro'ing. Starting without a gun was perfectly fine with the old sound/vision meters that let you crouch-walk away and lose them, but now if you start out and aggro a zombie, you will never lose it.
as of patch 1.7.1.4 the sneaking sound and vision levels are all messed up. wait for (yet another) patch, *sigh*. Maybe in 5 days we will be able to play this game again.