Hard - Yes
Fair to players - No
only 20 starting storage on each characters you got from radio station
raid ( explore ) using least 5 foods on very first zone to upgrade your camp need to find resources like scraps , timber(woods) as materials and yep drop rate really low and weight system is sigh.....
your characters got 100 hp/hunger/sanity
some foods like cloudberries can healing little amount of heal ( 6 hp 1 each second ) self healing is using saline and blood bag or building med-bay to slowly~~~~~~~ healing same as sanity and infection it turn to really boring instead of addiction to play
burlap sack and rope ( to making makeshift backpack ) kinda low rate and arrows using 10 mins for 10 arrows made or using gas by watching ads ( 2 each and waiting really long time to refill ads 👎 )
waiting systems make Mini DayZ 2 turned into Waiting Simulator
mostly things you found is " there nothing here "
here is my rate :
Hard like DayZ : 8/10
Drop rate : 1/10
Boring : 10/10
Don't waste your time : 10/10
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