I'm at almost 60 hours starting chapter 7. 6 felt like the true intro to the game

I can see myself going for 200+ hours now easily.

fukk. 6 the true intro? Just when I thought I was getting the hang of this shyt
I’m still in 4. Like 60 hours in. Still fukking around in the first area
I'm at ch. 4 also, 40 hours in, just doing shyt for my camp and comrades while exploring. I thought chapter 3-4 was the true intro with all these camp quests that show you how to do a ton of shyt, get resources, and explore the area.
Ran into some stone walkers, killed them and got these big energy rocks as rewards I couldn't use also got attacked by swarms of mushrooms lmao. Then I get the Kuku pot and they get stored there automatically
Went north of Demenis and this vase-like soldiers start attacking me for no damn reason and they are immortal

trying to escape the map suddenly shows me I'm on some protected area.
Then went straight to Demenis and had to run my way out of all the soldiers trying to kill me. Got into a park with a bunch of people using rabbit heads/helmets watching a zoo

I later found out that you can pickpocket them to get gold bars
I'm avoided the main story like the plague. I'm at the part I gotta infiltrate the institute/university and I explored that whole area when I was in chapter 2
I've been doing some skydiving from the Abyss area to avoid getting into so many hostiles while exploring and last night I fell into a monk temple
