what's the point?
i started with a friend recently and we got a base going and we played for 3 days amassing supplies to try to learn ONE blueprint (still like 12 blueprints from learning how to make a revolver or anything useful) and everybody on the server has helicopters and AKs and bombs. i played til 2AM last night and nearly learned my first blueprint and then I wake up this morning to two sheet metal doors with code locks just gone (blown up I guess?) and new locks and i'm locked out of my house. we built 4 bases over the last 3 days and i checked all 4 last night. this morning ALL 4 ARE GONE AND DESTROYED. in 10 hours while i slept. lost everything for 3 days of playing (like 12 hours) and i'm back to square one with literally no recourse. i still know ZERO blueprints and i'm shit all in the world. if this game expects me to grind out another 12 hours to maybe learn how to make a hammer i'll never use you've got to be fucking kidding me. been trying to play this game for 2 weeks and the server is gonna wipe soon and everybody has guns and i still can't understand how to make even a bean grenade or a hammer out of scrap. this is absolutely ridiculous.
is this a game or a career?
does this game just hate it's players? how do you catch up to people who have AKs and shit when I can't even build a hammer? what the fuck? this has got to be the worst game i've ever played by an insane margin. apparently sleeping in real life means you lose everything. how is this fun? i just want even a tiny chance at success but i'm playing against people who have teams of 10 people building massive castles with bombs and guns and fucking AIR SUPPORT while i'm naked with a rock barely able to build a couple shacks for bases. holy shit it's infuriating the lack of respect this game has for the time i've invested. like, the developers shit on me for wanting to play their game. feels like they want me to fuck all the way off and never play this game so i guess i'll take the hint.
this is a game made by people who live on their computers for people who shit in their own pants so they can game longer.
fuck allllll the way off with this shit. deleting this garbage.
i have voice chat off thank god, don't even wanna know what that's like.
i appreciate the support. i would MAYBE give it another shot because my friend wants to try again but i'm really losing my patience. we do airlocks and full stone bases with sheet metal code lock doors but they are just gone when i wake up. i lock the TC and everything but idk if my structures are good. i just do a 2x2 and add a triangle airlock and that's the most i understand to do. i don't understand why someone is using explosives to blow apart 2 metal doors just to raid what? 3000 wood and 2000 stone and like 150 metal fragments? isn't the cost of the explosives like 10x what they are gaining? so is this just a griefing game then? why is there no incentive to work together with people? the setup of the game seems to be kill on sight and always fuck others over and that's boring as fuck. same reason GTA online blows, because it's just nonsense killing with no context or deeper subplot evolving.
if i try again i will try to take your advice but i don't understand one thing you're suggesting. killing people how? i have a rock lmao. everybody literally one shots me. i wish i was being dramatic or hyperbolic but i'm really not. i've been in a rock on rock fight like 3 times maybe but 9/10 times i just get shot one or two times and boom, everything is gone. i have never killed anybody and gained anything from it, not even close. i basically just grind my ass off and lose everything every 2 days or so and i've made zero progress. i literally have zero blueprints and this server is gonna wipe in 10 days. it feels hopeless and useless and i'm angry i spent money on this shit.
If you like the idea but want to try something... uhh... prettier you might give Conan Exiles a try. There are lots of RP servers or servers with restrictive PvP rules. It also features problematic faves like capturing NPC slaves (they're called thralls in game so it's okay, right?) and sacrificing people for dark magic. You can also just run around doing PvE dungeons and fighting monsters. The big thing, though, is that there's enough game that you can explore, build, fight monsters, and craft stuff without having to be in PvP all the time. You could run your own server or run a server with friends.
That said CW: The game has problematic depictions of race, slavery is a core game mechanic, and it has a lot of weird stuff dating to it's roots as adventure stories from the 1920s. YMMV whether this is an acceptable part of the swords and sandals genre or unacceptable.