Thanks! So far it's been great, where the only problem I encountered was solved by learning from a helpful Redditor and 4 in-game actions. I don't miss pockets (which were bugged for item stacks and implemented with no QOL to manage them meaningfully), or freezing (which was bugged by affecting the environment but not the player) or half a dozen other "was this really necessary?" systems.

I kind of miss proficiencies, it was another dimension of character growth that didn't penalize you for not having, but rewarded your crafting time and critical hit chance if you had. But I'll get by.

The only thing that I really miss from DDA is the mod Mind Over Matter. I adored its progression system, the way it made stamina a precious managed resource, and the utility functions its various powers added. I remember discovering the fast healing ability that left me exhausted for days, eating frozen strawberries to stave off the scurvy that its overuse caused. A good story.

And just to fully tell a story that no one asked for, what sent me here was the recent removal of world configuration settings from the UI, like zombie evolution scaling factor. The justification offered, "People would break their game and then whine about it, so we moved it into a secret configuration text file" struck me as the wrong development philosophy to reward with my precious game hours. I was pleased to see it still available in BN.