I’ve been thinking about this a lot over the past few days and I’m not too concerned with it in it’s current form but am worried where this may lead. It certainly sets a precedent.
The med backpack, 2 plate and self res isn’t really op, and are mostly only make your initial battles with the AI a bit easier. The uav is mostly fine, if a geared up squad are going to spawn rush you it’s likely they already have at least 1 uav anyway. I only really see it as an issue for spawn rushers looking for an easy regain. These players are going to spawn rush you regardless
at least you know they might be on their way when they pop it.
The thing you need to remember with DMZ is that unlike in Battle Royale not every run is zero to hero for every player the playing field isn’t level. Of the many squads spawning in they will have varying states of gear from nothing to full meta.
Although I would have liked the free self to have been on one of the operators which I actually use rather than Konig lol, I would really benefit from having that! The number of times my regain runs are cut short because I got overwhelmed by AI quickly into my run, or I ran into a grenade trap which will down a player with a one plate.
That being said I am concerned where this might lead now the rabbit hole has been opened.