@Seel
See I actually got more gold than I've ever managed in pre-patch playthroughs, maybe you just had bad rng.
The equipment hasn't been that bad for me, I've found a lot of nice or decent gear to use without spending a penny, also could be rng, but who knows.
The community pretty much agrees without a single debate that skillbooks and gear are far too expensive even with the increase in gold we can acquire, but I'm sure we'll see a fix to that since they JUST patched the game.
I haven't been able to tell what is handplaced and what is normal to find yet, though I guess that speaks to exactly what you are saying about clumsy feeling.
One of the things I noticed that I didn't like though was that Burro no longer drops his club at 100% drop rate and it is a nice upgrade for the first few minutes of the game when you enter fort joy, I hope that is a bug or they change it back.
