I just lost my first character that lasted past a couple of days. After about a month of getting my base set up in a warehouse, I fell off the roof and broke my leg. Spent another month in my base with my broken leg waiting for it to heal.
The day it finally finished healing I left my base to get some supplies and got bitten by the first zombie I encountered.
Lol awesome. I still haven't made it past two days yet. Normally I hate perma death games but the idea that I'll be able to go find my safe house again actually makes it really cool.
Whenever I get the itch to play a Bethesda game nowadays I usually spend a week or two curating a new mod list and then maybe two hours of actually playing the game before I decide I'm over it.
The developers promised to deliver a big content update this year that will add things to do in the late game, you should check it out so you can share in our disappointment if they continue to delay it! It sounds really good.