I playing last version for 4 days, and I must say, now it become completely imbalanced with difficulty. With previous version you was able to build something like defence till first bloodmoon, but now, only way to build something, is to put daylength to 3-5 hours, but in this case bloodmoon should be too long, and zeds destroy everything in first game hour...
We're playing on server with difficulty "Survivalist", and only way to survive - use abusive mechanics, Its still impossible play normal defence, so one players swimming, another sitting on the roof etc... And its not ok, game must give a way to play without abusing.
- Building - why do we either need mortars???? Glass jars only accessible on level 40 with Blacksmith forge, so no jars - no repairs, and on level 40 you have forge... and you may craft concrete already, instead mortars. Flagstone blocks now useless, and cobblestone not repairable, only replace.
- Zombies block damage - quatro pole block (4x1500hp) destroyed in first BM hour, no matter then I hit zombies all time with bat. Looks like night zombies have 200-300 block damage on this difficulty
- Melee... I chose clubs, like in previous version, and it was mistake. Action exp is cutted by half comparing to previous. Now I levelled clubs to 30 after completing 2 chain kill quest, but in previous version it was 60... And when I have clubs lvl 20, my friend with shotgun class has already lvl 60 shotgun skill. Melee was broken till A17 out, and even more it disbalanced in this mod now...
- Bugs, I'm not sure if it vanilla bugs, or mod bugs, but there are many, e.g bug with degydration, when consuming water doesnt increase hydration until restart game...
- Endless spawn. And when I say endless it literally mean endless. It may start on any POI, on street, enywhere. If you come close to spawn place - zombies spawn, move to next - zombies spawn, its ok. But then move to first place again, with zombies escort - new zombies spawn, next place - spawn again. And it has no end. I'm trying to test it, server have live map with zombies count, and once I noticed than endless spawn starts, I'm just running circless around house, and checking counter - after 5 minutes crowd of 120 (!) zombies hunting me. At that point I'm stop test, because it may cause server crash .
Difficulty is good, but it must not be difficulty just for difficulty, it must be balanced, and even max difficulty must be playable withoun abusing.