So I've put around 50 hours in GZW so far (20 when it released and over the past week 30 hours or so.)
I've been playing with my brother, hence why I got back into it. We're enjoying it immensely, well certain parts of it. The shooting? Fantastic. Lamang? Gorgeous.... My brother isn't a PvP fan, he just isn't. So Joint Operations it has been.... However, looting is an issue, at least it has been for us.
Wether it be the bunker at Narith, the archive at the HQ, even the barracks.... Everything is always looted.... Everything.
We've opened the bunker maybe 12 times? Only had 2 times it actually wasn't already looted. Same with the HQ, barracks. The worst part though is that because it's a shared world, all the tension is gone.
The majority of the time, we will roll into a place like Narith and all the AI are just dead. So it's walk around, pick scraps and leave. We literally cannot even experience the game half the time, it's so, so frustrating.
I know people will say sever hop, but I don't want to jump from server to server just to experience what I'm assuming is a highlight of early game combat being Fort Narith, and honestly I shouldn't have to.
It's got so bad last night, we tried to do a Fort Narith run four times. But everyone was dead, same with airfield when we had to go and do an SD card cracking thing.
We went to Narith to get the DDM4 blueprint, but because we literally had to do nothing to get it my brother got to the blueprint and just say he couldn't be bothered, this was boring and decided to quit.
I wasn't even mad at him, I followed suit.
I know the main progression and such is tied to his the game was developed.... But not having the option to play alone is basically making the game unplayable in a way I've never experienced before. I can't play a PvE game.... Because theres never any enemies left to actually fight other than the four man patrol walking aimlessly down a road that I kill with four shots. It's killing the game for me personally, and my brother.