So I get that this is an early access game, and it's been a ton of fun, but I'm not impressed by the update. I understand that the game is supposed to be a brutal survival experience, but waiting a full day to avoid the two Fulings that just killed you twice like two angry mobsters clawing at the walls of your cabin minutes after waking up sounds less like survival and more like poor game design mechanics. It's just less fun.

I could laugh about being taken down by a serpent. I'm fine with Deathsquitos tripleteaming me while I'm trying to take down a Lox. The risks are present, and lead to emergent gameplay. But hiding as a naked body with a hammer isn't gameplay (even if the image is hilarious).

What they could try are different kinds of AIs to shake things up. A hunter who calls the nearby guard AI to support them when they find you, or the guard who changes their patrol region based on regional interactions, or an orbiter/strafer who has an opposite attacker who plays agro until one of them dies. Maybe two building breakers team up with an assaulter.

There are great tools available, but they need to roll this one back. I think this is actually a good thing because this is literally what early access is all about.

I look forward to the next update to see where they take it.