Whats that you killed? a puppet? okay look the other way, turn 180 degrees what do u see? another puppet. hope to god that its not a suicide zombie. forget all the other issues or the good things about this game. at the moment, THE GAME IS BROKEN AND FAR FROM IMMERSIVE with this bs broken new puppet spawn system.

Quo vadis SCUM?

After a few hundred hours of playing and very long discussions and conversations with other players, I keep asking myself the question:
What do the devs actually want to do with the game?
The game has the potential to be at least one of the best survival games, the story that the Devs had presented on their homepage had the potential to do so.
But...
The last patches cast doubt on this, as the focus - from my point of view as a survival fan - is that the changes were often made to meet the needs of PVP, or rather Battle Royale players.
Changes to base building? So that the exploits practised almost exclusively on the PVP servers no longer work (reduction in the number of flags and restrictions on building).
Changes to the squad system: to prevent squad hopping when raiding
Raid protection: to get the miserable hardcore raiders under control...
Puppet spawn: now the possibilities for the admins have been extremely limited by the new system, small changes to the values cause yawning emptiness as far as puppets are concerned or endless waves. But in the wilderness you now often have to stand still for minutes before a puppet spawns in the area - if you move, normally nothing spawns at all...
There are hardly any puppets to be found in houses, except for POIs such as police stations, hangars or bunkers.
The loottable, you can set it individually, a lot of work for the admins, very pleasing when individual item codes are changed again during patches or hotfixes - usually without being noted in the notes.
What's more, bugs keep coming back - the crate bug where crates disappear when you unload them, who wasn't happy when it came back the other day?
Vehicles gliding through the map - because the game world doesn't render completely when you're travelling at a decent speed - who hasn't missed that?
Interactions are suddenly no longer possible - you're standing still somewhere because you're frozen into a pillar of salt or vehicles etc. can no longer be selected, so a re-login is nice...
With this in mind, try replacing the body of the dirtbike, if you manage to do it three times in a row you should urgently take part in the next lottery draw...
If you still continue to play SCUM, like me, you'll usually not have them all together - you have to be a bit of a masochist or like Battle Royale on the Highloot servers. But there are much better games for that.
Would I currently recommend SCUM?
Maybe if it's on offer...
But if the trend continues towards bugs and simplification? Then I'd rather play a real FPS and be annoyed by its quirks instead of investing my time in a maltreated and buggy survival game.

Edit: Apparently the body disappearing bug is in the game since 2019?
Devs, this bug should be your #1 priority (I wish I could help somehow)
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I loot my first ever police station and I find shotgun, Im happy af.

Next im half way to my temp base and horde spawns around me, even tho I killed atleast half of them I am dead.

Next day I teleport to the location of my death and my body nowhere to be found.

Top game /s

Nah bro I have enough.