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I can kind of see what you are saying. Though in my opinion this is what the game should be like. In the end it comes down to what you like. Verily, I shared much the same experience with you, I cannot see at the best of times but to me, it's still fun. In my opinion these flaws you state add intensity and tension. The night time is the best time. And I am not saying this because I have a character going along the coast killing noobs, in fact I lost a character the other night with 25 hours of game time and 200+ zombie kills to some random noob with a makarov. I lost my concentration and paid the price. I love it. In the end, it seems your problem is with the night, to be honest though it wouldn't be the same game without the pitch black. It's unforgiving, it offers no help, it is something sorely lacking in games these days. As to the zombies, yeah I think they respawn a bit too quickly, but it is an alpha, still lots of tweaking to do. Back to night, there are a few things you can do to increase visibility, like tweaking gamma and hdr. The moon helps a lot, but sometimes it doesn't come out for ages haha. Anyways of course it comes back to opinion, I spent two hours running through forest without incident last night. I loved it.

I like the increased zombie count, towns feel more dangerous then just a stumble through without any threat, but the respawn at the moment is ridiculous. My mate and I were playing and we circled around the zombies got to the less populated part of town and then 10 zombies appeared from thin air around us. It is though the code is telling the game there is no zombies within 50 metres so make more, the same happens after the zombies are shot. More just appear in their place. In my mind the increased number is good, but after they have spawned when you enter a city no more should spawn for 20 minutes or so... because there is no way to clear a town out at the moment, making it feel a bit more like COD zombies and less survivaly. Just my 2 cents :)