Wasteland is not harsh anymore, it becomes whiners heaven.
Untrue!
I was trying to help some guy recently get a tent
It took us a little while, and we almost had enough hides, them some guy enters our encounter.
I asked him twice if he was PK, with no reply. So i shot, missed, he bursted us and said "You shouldn't have shot".
We try again, got most of the hides... then some guy with a russian name and combat armor enters.
He knocked us out and took anything valuble. (He only took a stim i had and very little ammo, but not the hides)
Then he healed us and left.
So we headed back to town to grab some more ammo, and while he was trading, some theif stole his hides.
He ran away saying "I'm teaching him a lesson"
He was protected. I couldn't do anything.
What does this tell you? The wasteland is harsh.