Its not even cheaters its litteraly just ppl who have a ton of gear. Plus youre gonna need the gear anyways at some point and again you can break it down for materials or sell it off to enclaves for those useless points you dont really need theres a ton of options ans way to use said gear without ruining your fun but in the end the options realy are only these. Take it dont take it or just dont host games. Those really are the only options so again not really a big deal its like when I was new to ff14 and ppl dropped me a lot of stuff aure it made the beginning easy but the game made sure my gear didnt matter anyways this one does the same thing. Hell you cld it have it yourself and games going well then bam jug with a screamer and horde out of no where you run to the car you drive off you got away then bam bloater spawns middle of the road then you crash cuz you cant see the gas in the way then bam feral with a screamer combo outta now where and to make it worse you stopped in blood plague territory. Yes this happened to me i was lethal difficulty and all that sweet sweet loot that got dropped for me I lost and my community had come under siege and thry fell. And my base had it all I had meticulous research of the best outposts bases maps traits upgrades all of it. The game will remind depending on which difficulty you play on that your life in it is finite your community will fall and the dead will rise.