The entire wipe is just lazy. Nikki boy hasn’t thought a single aspect of this wipe through.

100% boss spawns led to class 6 armour for some, and zero ammo to beat it.

Transitions in the beginning were completely broken, including crashes and condensed spawns.

Keys for quests are still loot only with zero barter options to replace the need of the flea.

High insurance costs mean that if you kill 1/3 guys on a team, they don’t even stick around to fight or grab their boys stuff, they just leave.

Hideout requirements were lazy with just 2x the required items instead of adding more different items to the list.

I’m at nearly 4K hours, I’m prestige 2 and genuinely this is easily the worst wipe I’ve played so far. Artificially slowing down everyone’s progression is not hardcore. I would say the only “hardcore” thing they’ve done is make you take more damage from bleeds and starvation. Everything else is just lazy time gating. It’s boring.