For new players this game would probably be great, but the game used to be a lot better.

I used to love the game, and it was a great game, but slowly and surely, ther games great qualities are being reduced and changed.

What changed:
1. The gunplay now is just luck with aim cones, it used to be a learnable mechanic.

2. (I don't know if they have at least fixed this yet, but It is an issue) Nodes are harder to find than they used to be. Also if realism is what you want, now you can't even get any stone unless from a node dedicated to it. In real life most metals and minerals are surrounded by materials like stone.

3. The game used to run on blueprints (At 1 point it also ran on xp which in my opinion was also better) and you just needed to harvest materials to make any item you have researched, now you have to farm barrels forever to try and find good weapon parts.

4. If you are naked, it is usually hard to get far because with the components, people often suspect you have some and kill you to find out.

5. You used to be able to get full items such as a gun from a barrel or box, now all you get are useless parts 95% of the time and the other 5% you might just get something good.

6. Out of any gun that was ever good, half of them were nerfed. Now the once good guns are either never used by players or you get them instead of the guns you want.

There is more but there is no point, the list above may be somewhat short, but what the list has are big changes that are tearing the game from its former glory.

New players probably won't know how different the game used to be and will love the game, thats fine. I you like the survival pvp pve sort of thing, then go for it.

I just wish the devs would go back to the bp or xp, or even legacy, Gary should have never left the game in the hands of helk.