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It's TOO easy. Now hear me out before you say "That is why it's called beginner mode." I was bored last night and decided to test out Beginner Mode for fun, using a controller and stuff. What I had found was that I could with 0 traits. Push zombies like super far back, and easily stomp them to death. When I could find them. So I learned that my character must have been B.A in real life because, I was just pushing and stomping groups of zombies. At one point, I slow danced with a zombie. It was beautiful, and I didn't even get bitten. At another juncture I took the pleasure of push a zombie down the street. Ignoring the other zombies. The zombie I pushed was hence named. "Steve" I got to Giga Mart and I found a shotgun and 160 Bullets or so for it. In the same counter. I walked outside and shot the shotgun. About 5 zombies showed up. I was then able to use said shotgun like a pistol and kill zombies halfway across the screen in one shot with level 0 aiming. I finally died by going to the mall and going upstairs where there was a decent number of zombies, I was followed and killed because I went down the stairs and got pinched. HOWEVER I did this semi-on purpose because I was bored. I had 200 shells at this point with a never miss shotgun, if I wanted I could have just killed all the ones behind me, but instead I tried to run through them in a not caring recklessness. Meaning I KNEW there was a horde at the bottom and one behind me, but with the shotgun I COULD have mowed them down but I chose not to. ANYWHO, It was however a LOT of fun, because I could just walk down the street and blast zombies casually and smell the flowers. I was bantering with the zombies and joking with them and naming them. I even mugged a zombie per say. I walked up behind it and put the shotgun to the back of its head and it didn't know I was there and I was saying "GIVE ME ALL YOUR DOLLARS" Then I killed it. So it was a lot of fun! BUT I do not feel that all those things should be true. It won't ease players into the real game at all. It seems that there is. Weaker Zombies MUCH better loot. Less Zombies. Less trait loss. Better skills by default. Starting with a backpack, a bat and a hammer. and more, but i'm not sure. What I would suggest is at least leaving the zombie count normal. Because a gun should still attract a TON of zombies. Even if the zombies are easily killed. I don't even mind starting with stuff. I shot a shotgun down town in West Point and barely anything came after me. Just saying, it should still show what happens if you make a huge blast noise even if it's easier to deal with. TL;DR Doesn't ease people into game well, should keep zombie count normal even if the zombies are super weak. Everything else is fine I suppose. It just made EVERYTHING too easy, (Which is a fun change just for messing around.) (laughably easy it felt like a zombie playground like dead rising to be honest.) Turn loot down a SMIDGE, and Keep zombie count normal might ease people in better. It feels like the difficulty is going from Harvest Moon to Dark Souls.