My friend and I were new players, and had little clue how the inventory system actually worked. Our first proper life lasted around a month, and during that whole time I had a big hunch that the backpacks we'd accumulated had done little to alleviate the hard choices we were making. After some youtubes clips it finally dawned on me that we'd being playing the game under needless duress, by not utilizing our backpack! Every gun, drink, food, medical supply, ammo was like gold, and it had to be, as we had little room to carry anything else. Travelling and feeding 2 mouths and hopping from water hole to water hole was fun, a lot of time was spent hunting game and cattle and it was fun chasing that need to survive. Back in those days we'd always have to have 1 food and 1 drink left over for logging out, and coming back into the game you'd be in the red. Some differences in gameplay with no backpack... -So the gun choices you make impact how you play, no more having two primary weapons where you get your cake and eat it too. Try walking through a town with just your pistol and sniper, you just feel vulnerable! You can hunt players as before, but 5-10 bullets and no backup weapon won't get you very far. -You can rarely spare over 2 slots for ammo, so your supply is limited and I rarely wasted a bullet, it was a shoot on a needs basis. -Carrying enough medical supplies to cover yourself was actually difficult, let alone in case your team was in trouble. Having to restock on medical supplies is more interesting then having a backpack full of them and being a walking hospital. -Carrying any sort of car parts, tents, helicopter parts etc really did slow you down, having to eat and drink more regularly as you can really only eat on a needs basis and not stockpile food. Well I probably can't explain it very well, but if you try playing without using your backpack you'll find it creates different choices as to what you need versus the take one of everything and then some mentality. Give it a go, all of sudden you just feel vulnerable and it forces you to explore the world for more resources.
