I feel like I'm the only one who prefers the game like this.. early game and mid game in the wipes are just filled with hatchet runners building up their stash for the next wipe. At least I'm finally getting consistently hard fights and I can access the ammo and armor to more easily take out full squads finally. Once they wipe again it will be right back to getting smashed by 2-5 man teams of people who play all day because my ammo can't penetrate their armor, slaughtering hatchet guys, and running the same damn quests over and over for the 5th time in the past year.

Call me crazy but the last few weeks before wipe are the most fun in my opinion as someone who isn't a no-lifer who needs quarterly wipes to even enjoy it because they fill their whole stash in 3 days because they never take any breaks except to sleep it seems. Lol.