ok, so after several months of barely scraping by in the wilderness, i FINALLY found an LMOE shelter, so now i can use guns, and once i build a palisade around the entrance i can start using vehicles and cracking open those yummy labs and bunkers 
the reason for not going full bush is this: i’m playing the typical post apocalypse survivor as portrayed in the movies, barely surviving for a period of time, then being found and taken in by a group of well prepared survivalists hence the LMOE shelter. sadly, there are no organized gangs of NPCs or wandering herds of zombies to eventually run me out so now i’m just enjoying the rest of the game.
basically what this character was about was delayed gratification; instead of grabbing a bunch of guns and hopping into a flatbed i had to earn that right by scraping a living out of the wilderness.
