I think Rocket has broken the mod with the last patch, it makes it nearly impossible to gain any sort of momentum when starting with a new character. You have no weapons, 1 bandage, no food, and are up against a never ending barrage of zombies with X-ray vision and super hearing. It makes absolutely no sense, and to put a topper on top of it all, it seems to me like the spawn rate for all items has been DRASTICALLY reduced. Usually when going into buildings in Cherno, you would find at least something in each of the rooms, whereas now, I'm lucky if I find 1 bandage in the whole damn house. As for now, I think I'm done playing until he has time to fix this. And it angers me to see all of the well established players with encampments stocked with weapons, ammo, and food saying that the game is perfect now. I challenge them to create a new character and see just how difficult (read as: impossible) it is do do anything.
