Makes me wanna kill myself

I have 355 hours into this game, so some of the game play has been enjoyable. The underwater graphics are well done and the overall concept of the game is ok. I do love running around on my boat checking out all the islands and underwater areas. But there are a lot of serious issues that take the fun out of the game completely, at least for me. First, let me say I instantly turn off the raid functionality. I am a builder and love to build nice looking home bases with a lot of the furniture pieces you find or can build, but spending all my time fighting off enemies and then repairing just in time to fight off more enemies doesn't give me any time to explore. Plus all the mats it takes to fortify the place is another issue. Secondly the new weapon system totally sucks! You collect all these broken weapons for them to ONLY give you blueprints, most of which you already know, only to take them to this place called Dreadville and fight through tons of enemies to get to this blueprint recycler. Then you feed all these blueprints that took up all your storage space getting to Dreadville into this machine and it spits out one bloody blueprint that you already know!!! Useless. And to top it all off, the quest to clear Dreadville doesn't work and you spend days and days trying to find one last enemy that is glitched into the wall only to have more spawn while you're looking for that one. Of course that halts the rest of the mission progress because you can't complete the quest. Then there is the crafting system....the sheer volume of mats it takes to 1) research an item, and then 2) build that item is ridiculous. The worst example has to be the large air tank, which is pretty critical in a game where you spend a great deal of it under water. Finding the copper and iron ores, which definitely don't spawn as often as the enemies respawn, is cumbersome and you need a LOT of it. I play a LOT of crafting/building/survival games and while it can be very grinding collecting mats to build things, this game seems to compound the issue by having you build lesser items first that are required to make the better item (i.e. air tanks). I do have to say that there is a vast improvement on the battery life, so thanks for that. At least my headlamp will last for most of my exploration day now whereas before I had to carry 3 batteries with me just to explare one location. There are other little things, like the fact the visibility from the faster boats makes them hard to drive or the fact that they don't have larger storage capacity so it doesn't really pay to even build them. And no storage on the jet ski?? Really? Plus the storage space on the backpack (level 3 of it mind you) is still way way way too small. Oh and it sure would be nice to have something other than blue, green, and yellow wallpapers which look dirty by the way. Don't get me wrong, it's better than those trashy metal walls, but still doesn't give my base a nice clean look to it. And unless you turn off raids, don't even bother using the glass walls. Waste that they aren't even bullet proof. I know this post sounds like there isn't much good to owning this game, but if you can live with the hassles, then it can be very fun to play. I do have 355 hours into it so it couldn't have been all bad right?! At least there is the customization to make the game easier or turn off raids or set some of your play style before beginning the journey. Whether you decide to buy the game or not, I leave that to you, but the Devs definitely have a LOT of work to do if they want people to hang around and replay the game very much once they run into the various glitches and grind that I have. Good luck!!

great game but the new update makes the enemies attack your base way too often. hard to get things done when you dont have many weapons and they got full on guns!! plus the bench to make guns is black, glitched out, so youre way behind before you get started