Fairly new to the game as well but just want to voice my opinion.
I stopped playing for the last few months for various reasons. But I picked up the game with a group of three friends and was running a multiplayer server.
Everyone loved the survival and exploration aspects of the game, but the universal complaint we all had was that the combat is extremely under baked and unsatisfying. Obviously as a survival game that goes for a more realistic approach it makes sense that combat should be avoided when possible, but when we were forced to engage with it we did not hate it because it was potentially a severe punishment. We hated it because it lacks depth and was extremely unresponsive and clunky.
I'll come back to the game eventually, but unless the way we engage with the combat system changes pretty significantly I doubt my friends will be drawn back.
