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The biggest thing so far - is the "balance" / pace seems to be a bit odd. There's not enough to craft, and it's very easy to jump up to the top tier gear/weapons very quickly. There are very few intermediate steps required, and so few materials - that it all becomes a formality. An axe will get you 300-400 wood in a matter of minutes, but finding ore and sulfur you have to run all over the place, and a handful of hits with a pickaxe and the node is gone. You can make a hunting rifle extremely quickly, and once you kill an animal - you'll have everything you need. A single bear will get you tons of meat, a bunch of leather and bone, and even some cloth(? don't even need to refine it?) Immediately craft some leather clothes, and you can go to the mountains and get all the ore and sulfur you need too. But really you don't even need the leather to protect from the cold, since cold does so little damage, you'll likely run out of pickaxes and axes before you even have to worry about it. Set up 2 furnaces, one for metal, one for sulfur - and you can crank out ammo. There isn't much else to do in the game at that point? Just build storage boxes and stash resources.... The food and water meters are kind of irrelevant. The meters decrease so slowly they don't even matter. The only food source in the game is animals, and again once you kill one or two - you have more food than you'll need for weeks. Water is just an annoyance, since there's no way to collect it or store it, other than water bottles from the gas station. Easier just to stash your stuff and suicide if you get dehydrated. Introduce a tiered system for materials that need refinement. Sticks and Metal frags will get you spears and bows. Metal frags can be refined into Iron, which you can use to craft better tools. Iron can be refined to steel to make high-tier guns, or used to craft components needed to craft guns. Being able to go from some wood, cloth, and metal frags to an assault rifle, just doesn't make sense. Introduce items that can only be collected, and stash them in the loot boxes at the gas stations/town - make them required for building the top-tier equipment. Obviously, this is a mobile game and will likely never be as extensive as rust, and that's okay - but more of that games balance of grinding/crafting/etc would definitely help. It feels like you run out of things to do very VERY quickly in this version. There's no real purpose or sense of achievement or progression in doing anything right now.

The update will be before Christmas.