Decided to finally try this out, experience so far is getting stuck in a building you went into looking for loot for only every zombie in the block to suddenly decide they want to walk around outside the doors, it goes quiet eventually so decide to adventure out and try another building, only for it to fucking happen all over again, so fuck that made a runner ended with a final haul of only my fucking starting flashlight and basically the only useful item in my bag is a fucking jerrycan, well those two hours were fucking amazing. Glad I didn't buy the base games for this shit.
It seems as if everyone has like a really bad time when they play it the first time. I think it's a mod that takes some time to learn, and the process of learning it can be quite painfull.
Wouldn't call it learning, rather compensating for a massive number of bugs and quirks, and overcoming some of the least intuitive game design imaginable
Almost everyone I know struggled for the first few hours for reasons mentioned already. Find an online map, head to Cherno or Electro, and loot. Crawl everywhere and don't attract zombies. You make a lot of noise walking around on wooden floors in buildings. When Lewy and I first picked it up months ago, we looted Cherno for 2 hours and then were immediately shot dead by bandits on the way out. Spuds and I looted Cherno and accidentally attracted a horde which broke Spuds' leg and killed him right there. It's almost certainly an extremely slow experience which can fuck up suddenly and if that sounds like wasted time to you then perhaps it isn't for you after all. Finding friends to play with is usually more enjoyable too. Or playing on well populated servers.
I gave it another try yesterday, though only on a regular server and it was a bit less of a mental suicide, I even found ammo and some food (still no weapons). On the other hand I was shaking from pain/blood loss the whole time so it was somewhat disturbing.
To revive this thread - you never know what might happen. I found a fully functioining helicopter on a random server and decided to give it to some randomers. He takes off and starts fucking typing in mid-flight and before I even have a chance to eject we nosedive and burn a forest down. I don't think I've ever laughed so hard in my life, was fucking comical.
Sort of reminds me of that guy we picked up with the bus but only to find out later he was part of a group that tried to rob us. So we killed off everyone except him (as he had no gun), shot him in the leg and bandaged him up and just left him there.
Or that guy at the helicopter, some random dude called Alex ran up to us with no weapons while we were refueling the helicopter and (I forgot who) shot him in defense but we patched him up and I watched him while we got ready. I eventually killed him because he wouldn't look or pickup the fucking morphine
It was like pointing at something to show a dog something and they just stare at your finger. The guy refused to look around to the Morphine.