I have over two thousand hours in this game (with no more than 50 coming from AFK time) and I've been with this game for around a year and a half (thats before makeshift vest's were added back in z1) I've stuck with this game through bad change after bad change and time after time that the most passionate players (being those with more than 1k hours and counting) of this game go unheard with their voices being drown and muffled by that of the fatuous opinions of the casual (under 100 or 200 hour) players who are bound to not stick around to reap the atrocities sown by their voices down the line (being the changes that they advocate), you see? 'casual' players dont care for skill gap, they dont care for getting better at the game, hence they want the mechanics to change rather than to get better with it as is. Daybreak aspires to make this game E-sports and then incessantly caters the casual players to make it E-everyone. LIKE WHAT DO YOU WANT? I feel its unclear what they want even to themselves.

This combat update is utterly absurd.. altering bullet mechanics not only renders the 2-3k hours of experience that i and so many people already have vain, but in a way (between bullet tracers and bullet mechanics) makes it immensely more feasible to obtain the gun skill that would have otherwise taken thousands of hours. and to no ones surprise... the new players love it... This game is turning into something it is not and tbh if they go though with this patch, i may throw in the towel after all this time as the changes are outright detestable.

And on a personal note; I find absolutly disgraceful as someone who supported this game so much as to even have a positive review for the game open publically to be ban for hate speech for simply telling someone that their opinions on the update are irrelevant for lack of experience.

EDIT: 11-23-2017
This is a worthy contender for the “Haunts My Dreams” Award, please vote

EDIT: 1-20-2018
this game is actually so poorly optimised now (after the last time they tried to make it better) that i cant even play it anymore, makes my cpu cap out..

its the end of the line for this game ..

but this dont mean I'll be playing much pubg, this is the only game that seemed to well exicute the battle royal concept untill they ♥♥♥♥♥♥ it up, starting with Z2 and im not looking forward to Z1 being Remastered, going along with the joke they made when announcing it that all remastered games are totally different which they did not want to do, but contradicting themselves only seconds following they essentially explain that it IS going to be totally different.. get it? its a joke

EDIT: 3-10-2018
this game just became a free to play and to be totally hohnest it was there only hope of this game being saved, but it maybe short lived because of all the sweats untill z1 "remastered" comes out and the big streamers like doc and summit start really coming back. with that and the new auto royal mode (which is acctually kinda fun, dispite it being laggy) there maybe hope, already playerbase has increased by 150%.

PS. i can finnally run the game again -__-