I mean I'm sure players will find a way to ambush and loot the shit out of all those patrols and I think that's beautiful/maybe the core appeal of this. Be the Teutoberg Germans and make Augustus cry, "Give me back my legions!"

Has anyone really done a systems-based Red Dawn kinda thing? Maybe XCOM2? Basically playing as the annoying barbarian/rebel faction that keeps popping up in strategy games.

Visibility meter goes up as you draw ire from the "real" factions. Higher = sends out patrols to find your base.

thats a lot of compression for a png

what's your solution for adding equipment etc to the model in game? (or do you plan to modify the animations to include clothes etc)

Which is a shame because, again, wow what a cool world to explore! I wish I was motivated by "I need to defeat this cave so I can paint my house red" instead of "I need to optimize resource collection and allocation like in survival games and city managers".

People are having a blast with it still, but mainly it's building a huge castle that no one will attack, a cool model of a boat that doesn't sail, etc. The loop was and is still "make better tools so you can find cooler stuff to build your house out of" despite a decade of survival features added.

yes I have played a lot of Good Art Games this year like 1000xResist, The Alters, Mouthwashing, Outer Wilds, Pentiment and Frostpunk 2 but now I must see my shadow and do shooter slop once again