You can get iron tools going right away now if you choose. I loot mine, the only reason I buy a forge is to craft ingots for repair kits and make bullets. I typically find a work bench and mark it on my map. I tend to loot the first 7 days and do quests for sure, stay somewhere on day 7 lately, and then consider a permanent location once I get a vehicle after the first week or two. I've built bases on day 2 though, depends on the map and luck of the draw looting.
I disagree. Do you stop to pick perks during precious daylight hours? Sometimes a big POI takes every second of the day and travel time to make it back to the trader and then haul ass back to base before sundown, and in that time I gained 12 levels (before). Now that its nerfed I pretty much know exactly what I want next because there is time to think about it and time to desire it. When you level every 30 seconds like before I mean who wants to constantly go into the perk menu? I need to get ♥♥♥♥ done.
I got dogs in a forest city, not sure what is going on there, but its exciting. Wasteland is full of nasties yet, I don't really know what to tell you. We're considering in the future raising game stage of the wasteland so you can get better loot there.
The difficulty is ok IMO. Weapon abundance is a little bit too much. As faatal said a few months ago, tunning it down to 10% of what it is right now would work. That is, when npcs with weapons are in. Right now, with 25% of what it is in a17 would be cool.
Massive kudos for picking up on that!
Pick up? You mean 'wench'...
There are all these different archtypes now so its not about using what you find, its about finding what you want to use, so everything now drops equally. And if you don't like it, scrap it to parts and sell it or save your parts up for a good weapon. A brown weapon T2 weapon only sells for about 40 dukes if its in pristine condition, so I don't really see the issue with finding lots of guns. Its America, most people have at least 10 guns.
Prioritizing realism now?
There isn't an actual issue, it's just what Blake_ said. There is zero thrill in looting something that grows on trees. You probably want to keep the lower weapon tiers readily available for people to play with their favorite weapon right off the bat. But what is readily available is also depreciated and higher tiers of that weapon will not offer the same gratification, especially if they are closely tied to leveling.
