My only real issue is the godawful artifacting. It makes going anywhere but the wilderness practically impossible.

Is server hopping really such a bad issue that they need to do this? It's honestly one of the issues I care the least about. Hacking, duping, bugs and combat logging are all more important issues then this, especially when the solution involves screwing over legit players.

Gearing up is easy if you know where to go. If you really want a fight just stay on High pop servers and at the first sign of hacks alt+f4.

Yeah, made an account to say I'm NOT happy with this. Logged on and was at the coast near Cherno. All of a sudden I get hit with a 50 cal. and go down. Just lost my char of 12 days to this shit, I should have been safely up in the northern forest.

Yeah I really wish all the bugs were sorted out, but again, this is an alpha. By definition its going to be buggy.