This will probably be unpopular... but here I go
Been playing since close to when it was first released, 1800 hours logged. (much of that MP)
Started a new single-player world when A21 was released, on a Pregen6k map at default game settings (Adventurer)
My gripe is there is not enough to do in the game. I'm at day 133 in-game, and there is nothing left to do that isn't super repetitive/monotonous. Or building something for building's sake. (that's what Minecraft is for )
I've got level 6 weapons and tools, I have all the vehicles with all the mods and the drone, I have so many resources I've now mostly stopped collecting them. I've only ever bought a couple of things from the traders, some antibiotics early on, no tools, weapons, or ammo. I just sell all the excess stuff to them. I have 2 wall safes completely full of Dukes (however many stacks that is?) and the amount of ammo I have is frankly ridiculous, and I'm yet to buy or make a single round, I did make lots of arrows earlier on though.
There are so many mineral deposits around, resources are stupidly plentiful. I've only really had to specifically mine rocks for building block resources and then some oil shale to power my vehicles.
Water has never really been an issue, murky water jars are EVERYWHERE and they stack to 125. I have 2 dew collectors which I didn't bother with until quite a way into the game, and I now have more water than I can possibly ever use. Once you have a tricked-out auto shotgun (EASILY the best weapon in the game), doing tier 6 POI's is a cakewalk, even in the wasteland biome. Same with hoard night, I don't have an elaborate hoard base, just a double-walled steel bar room (9x9x2) on flat ground which I stand in and shoot them in the face, worst thing that happens is a bit of cop spew now and then. My normal day-to-day resource base is on the roof of a shooting range office building 20 only metres away. I haven't even progressed past light armor, just went to military armor from cloth in the last week or so in-game time.
I started reasonably close to a large city (none of the big skyscrapers are in it), that I MIGHT have looted maybe a tenth of, mostly from doing quests. There are several other big cities on the map that the traders have sent me to other traders, but there is ZERO need for me to do anything elsewhere on the map, the tier 6 quests keep sending me further and further out which is the only reason I frequent them.
Farming is super easy, I survive on pretty much exclusively vegetable stew, as it's easy to make and it doesn't need animal fat which I've found to be one of the lesser available resources around.
I'm now at the point there's no reason to do any more quests, I don't need the XP, and I really don't need the resources, and regardless of the POI, once you know where the Z's are going to spawn/magically appear, there is no real challenge, you just need to make sure there is a doorway between you and them and mow them down as they bunch up. Even better is at the top of some stairs as they come up to you. I don't cheese the POI's at all, I follow the lights like a good boy.
I have all the skill books and only have 5 uncompleted Perk lines, and they are all 6 out of 7.
I feel the game just needs more to do in it, Bandits/factions, anything to give it some "life". Speaking of life, the zombie selection is pitiful and super immersion-breaking, surely there must be a way to procedurally generate random Z's? Body type, random heads/limbs, clothing, that sort of thing. Did no skinny cops or fat nurses get infected ?? Or anything other than a Doberman?
The city designs are great with them now having sewer and subway systems underground and much more realistic roads/under/overpasses etc. The new POI's are awesome, but there are so many I've never entered (mostly the smaller ones) as there is no reason to do so unless a quest directs me to one.
Also, why's the bicycle so bloody slow? It's almost easier to stay on foot if it wasn't for the extra bit of storage it gives you. Have you RIDDEN a bicycle recently?
I like the game, I've died 17 times, I'm no god-level gamer, but it's just not enough.
Have at me Bro's :)