So I go to the basement of the starting Evac shelter and get lucky enough to find a backpack and a hammer. I go outside, and am greeted by three crates chillin' in the middle of the road. I smash them open and suddenly am able to fill my inventory with food, drink, C4, and grenades.
Happy hunting ahead, it seems.
Edit: I then came across about a dozen bodies, some of which were absolutely laden with methamphetamine, drug paraphernalia and submachine guns. The others all had CBM: Blaster Arms. Crime doesn't pay, kids. And neither does emulating a video game character.
Edit2: What kind of man attacks a FEMA camp head-on without a single firearm? One with many, many, many explosives. C4 is a beautiful thing. I ran out of explosives before I ran out of targets, but they got machete'd. And there are enough medical supplies here to fix me right back up!
Edit3: However, there were not enough walls to hold back the first brute I've ever encountered.
Chapter4: New character spawns in the same evac shelter, and I decide to go to those corpses with the guns to arm up and avenge my death. Cutting through the woods I come across seven military corpses, just off of the road where the other bodies were. Loot includes a military rucksack, army helmet, food, an M4A1 and compatible incendiary rounds. Oh, and a portal generator. Oh, and I nabbed two sticks of dynamite my last character couldn't carry from the explosive crates. I don't think I'm deleting this world save any time soon.
Chapter5: The FEMA camp is clear after having to fire four shots. I checked where the brute was being held, and sure enough, it's not in there anymore. Though there's no sign of breaking out, either. Must've been thinking in portals. I kept moving though since the camp was hardly standing after my assault. Cleared a few farms and cabins with a machete I got from my old corpse, and now I have a silenced M4A1.