Absolutely horrible AI.

Mods SHOULD NOT be required to fix your 50+ $ game, and after years, the AI is still ♥♥♥♥. Why is it bad? Let's give a few examples.

1. My only alive character would rather play horse shoes in -50 degrees than tend to the wounded or grow/maintain indoor crops. He gets hypothermia without stopping his horse shoe ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and falls on the ground, and the other person who was inside perfectly fine has a nervous breakdown at the same time and runs around and falls on the ground with hypothermia. The last character has been in bed for the last 7 days after landing here in a drop pod without any injuries, so naturally, cannot be ♥♥♥♥♥♥ to help either of them. Everyone dies.

2. I want my character to grow crops, and cook them. Instead of cooking them when there are enough, he would rather eat the rice raw when the stove is right next to him and he's the chef. Sometimes, he might even force feed someone raw rice until they are both vomiting everywhere, until someone unrelated catches the plague and then suddenly everyone is terribly sick. Would he rather tend to them on death's door? Nah, let's go play more horse shoes in -30 degrees.

3. There's plenty more, it's all just complete ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. It doesn't feel like survival it feels like complete RNG without any possibility of success.

The priorities are just ♥♥♥♥♥♥, the quests are ♥♥♥♥♥♥, and the random ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ is ♥♥♥♥♥♥. The only approach to fix this? Play on an easier difficulty. Add mods. Well, basically all the difficulties are ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up and the story tellers are cancerous. Nervous breakdowns occur so frequently especially early on when there just isn't a real reason for it. I've tried all the story tellers and all the difficulties, and the only playable ones are incredibly easy and boring, there's just no realistic difficulty that's actually interesting. Ultimately, the game is fantastic when it works. But it just never works.

Absolutely horrible AI. Mods SHOULD NOT be required to fix your 50+ $ game, and after years, the AI is still shit. Why is it bad? Let's give a few examples. 1. My only alive character would rather play horse shoes in -50 degrees than tend to the wounded or grow/maintain indoor crops. He gets hypothermia without stopping his horse shoe bullshit and falls on the ground, and the other person who was inside perfectly fine has a nervous breakdown at the same time and runs around and falls on the ground with hypothermia. The last character has been in bed for the last 7 days after landing here in a drop pod without any injuries, so naturally, cannot be fucked to help either of them. Everyone dies. 2. I want my character to grow crops, and cook them. Instead of cooking them when there are enough, he would rather eat the rice raw when the stove is right next to him and he's the chef. Sometimes, he might even force feed someone raw rice until they are both vomiting everywhere, until someone unrelated catches the plague and then suddenly everyone is terribly sick. Would he rather tend to them on death's door? Nah, let's go play more horse shoes in -30 degrees. 3. There's plenty more, it's all just complete bullshit. It doesn't feel like survival it feels like complete RNG without any possibility of success. The priorities are just fucked, the quests are fucked, and the random bullshit is fucked. The only approach to fix this? Play on an easier difficulty. Add mods. Well, basically all the difficulties are fucked up and the story tellers are cancerous. Nervous breakdowns occur so frequently especially early on when there just isn't a real reason for it. I've tried all the story tellers and all the difficulties, and the only playable ones are incredibly easy and boring, there's just no realistic difficulty that's actually interesting. Ultimately, the game is fantastic when it works. But it just never works.