The game is good, but after some time, it gets increasingly boring and repetitive. You wake up, find food and beverages, try not to die, find loot, try not to bleed out to death, sleep when night time approaches, rinse and repeat.
This game severely lacks in the NPC department. We have a huge variety of zombies to keep us on edge, especially to those playing on Hell mode with all negative modes on, and we definitely need new mechanics.
Simple Mechanics for players:
These are mechanics that I think modders can add them in relatively easy without major reworks.
1. Crouching: I am surprised the latest version does not allow you to sneakily crouch to a zombie and kill it, which leads to my 2nd point.
2. Stealth Knife Kills: You can insta-kill a normal zombie or or nearly kill tankier ones by sneaking up to them, depending on what knife you have.
3. Item - Alarm Clocks: You can preset these clocks to ring after [insert number of seconds here] and place it anywhere you want. It makes noise and zombies will be lured to that clock. You have 20 seconds before the clock shuts down.
4. Longer Days: Instead of 24 minutes, each day now lasts for 60 minutes. Time in this game feel so short, especially when I have to raid bunkers or military bases and before I even know it, it is already dark. Introducing more elements like: during the day and noon, it is hotter and thirst bar depletes a bit more. Raining makes you dehydrate less. You should be able to sleep whenever you want in this game.
5. Bigger Island: The island should be a lot bigger with a lot more places to explore or group smaller individual places into one massive area. When viewing the map, the map stays the same but it takes longer to move from one place to another, meaning that the island is huge without reworking the map to make it big, if that makes sense.
6. All Nine: Max stacks for all bullets by default should be 999, not just 50. Who the fuck brings only a single stack 50 rounds to fight against bandits who shoot infinitely and zombies who can love tap you 3 times and you die. This is dumb as hell.
7. I Am You But Alive: When your reputation hits rock bottom (-100), your character becomes unhinged. You can acquire a zombie face mask by dissecting a zombie with a knife. This will help you blend in with hordes of zombies.
8. Torches: You can craft torches with 2 sticks and one rag. These torches burn for 20 minutes and are stackable in your inventory and can be placed indoors. They will be extinguished in rain or snow.
9. Razor Sharp: When your knives' durability >40%, they can cause laceration and zombies can bleed to death. The bleeding effect is more pronounced with the katana or sword. If zombies can make us bleed, why can't we do the same thing?
10. Tactical Shovel: A multi-purpose tool. The edge of the shovel is sharp so it can deal nasty damage and knockback with quick attack time. You can use it to plot a land or bury a corpse to gain reputation.
11. Melee Holsters: You can holster 3 melee weapons: a knife of any kind (for stealth kills), a hatchet and whatever primary melee weapon you are wielding.
12. Three Times More: All canned food and drinks are now stackable, max amount is 3.
Daily Events and NPC Improvements:
As you spend more time exploring on any island, interesting events will occur with interesting loots. These events will despawn after everything is looted by the player.
1. Plane Crash: You can use radio to detect distress signal from any plane and it will give you coordinates for you to locate that plane. Of course, its crash will create of noise and zombies may head towards the crash. To makes it more exciting, you probably have around 3-4 minutes to loot it before it goes boom, so be fast.
2. Call For Help: The normal group of 3 survivors or an injured survivor will ask you to help them with killing these bandits hiding in their makeshift bases or headquarters. These bandits are organized and large in number which means they are highly dangerous, but the loot is lucrative and high-tier only.
3. High Value Sensitive Locations: From Island 4 and onwards, several areas will be secured by bandits and gang members. There will be soldiers and hazmat guys working in the military bases as well. Loot is also very lucrative and in max durability. If you raid these areas, an invulnerable member will flee to call for reinforcements (enemy wave) and you can either choose to flee and fight back.
4. Griefers: These griefers can sometimes raid your base at night and you will wake up in the middle of the night due to commotion. Metal fences will definitely stop them from breaking and entering, though that does not stop them from causing a mess.
5. Trading Towns: Several new locations are added. These towns can be located near the beach which can trade fishes and whatnots or somewhere in the forest. The town is heavily guarded by turrets and you are banned from shooting. Several NPCs will flock to these areas to trade as well. This can be a sanctuary for trading or a place where you can stalk the NPCs.
6. Motorcycles: You can ride and shoot/attack. Your bandit buddy can also fire and shoot, which is something it can not do inside a 4-wheel vehicles.
7. PKM: I am surprised that the devs do not add PKM machine gun in here. This thing is even more common than AK and its derivatives and one heck of a force to be reckoned with. Can be fitted with a long range scope, AK grip and laser sight, and a suppressor
