So, I finally gave in and installed the mod.
Some first impressions:
- First spawn ever: Located in the middle of some kind of industrial harbor, I was quickly spotted by a hopping zombie. Ran away and into a building, closed the door behind me. Didn't know zombies could teleport through doors. Dead.
- Second spawn: In the middle of nowhere, after crawling around for 15 minutes I reached a village, only to find out that you can actually only enter around 5% of all the buildings. Was spotted through a wall by yet another hopper, ran inside a barn where I found a hatchet that I couldn't use for self defense (thought those were melee weapons?)
- Third spawn: Slightly better, managed to reach an industrial building that looked promising. Found myself.... a part of a fuel tank. Awesome. Then crawled around a village and managed to avoid detection, found a crowbar which I quickly equipped. After being spotted by a zombie, I tried to hide in a house. Guess what, can't enter that one either. Tried to hit the zombie coming up with a crowbar, but my character refused to swing at him at all. Couldn't attack at all and got my bones broken. Committed suicide afterwards.
Probably Beginner's bad luck, but for now I'm feeling like going back to modded STALKER to get my monster survival fix.