Is base building really as awful as it seems so far?

[dgresevfan]

I unlocked the base building/defence missions...

Based on my experience so far, you can put up crappy wooden walls that fall apart in a few hits, and you can put up about 5 machine gun bunkers. And that's basically it. You can build a kind of sniper tower but it doesn't come with a sniper and if YOU go up there you're going to get shot by every robot in the area. You can build gates but I can't see much point. You can't lay mines, you can't install any heavy firepower.

It's just 5 machine gun bunkers and wooden walls?

Seriously!? Why are we limited to 5 bunkers!? That's only enough to have a tiny amount of defensive firepower on each side. If a tank shows up he's going to laugh at these defences before stepping on the base.

I was expecting so much more from this mode. STEEL walls, for one thing. A decent amount of defensive structures like machine gun nests, artillery, resistance guys with rocket launchers. Minefields seems an obvious choice. Tesla defensive towers. ANYTHING.

What the heck am I meant to do with 5 weak machine gun bunkers and wooden walls?

Am I missing something? Do you unlock other structures somehow? I completed one defence mission and all I seemed to get was the bizarre healing rounds for the anti-materiel rifle.

Why even bother putting a mode in the game which is essentially "run around shooting enemies as normal for 2 minutes then repair your garden fence"?

I must be missing something. This can't be it, surely? It's just a rehash of the ring fort defence from the last update. Experimental ammo types are a nice addition at least.

[behemoth227]

Its a first attempt at adding a feature they never intended the game to have in the first place. They've already stated the base building mechanic will be expanded and refined as time goes on. Think of base building in its current iteration as early alpha, no where near complete yet.

[dgresevfan]

Well I'm glad if that's the case. I feel like making a big announcement at this stage was a mistake because it's just so damn underwhelming when you actually unlock the content in game.

[reynraptor76]

Have you actually done a raid yet? Only Hard mode is challenging if.younhave experimentals. I put up multiple wall layers with 6 towers and the pillboxes work pretty well at chipping health away so I can kill the hunters quickly. Even when I'm overloaded in weight, at the end of the raid I only have to repair a few walls.

Of course adding mounted weapons or maybe mortars would be cool, but for getting 6* ammo, it's worth playing. Shock and Explosive ammo is fun as hell to use.

[Pig Mac]

I'm only doing it for the ammo schematics and uranium.
I'm not a fan of base-building/defense.. but it's insanely easy doing the easy wave at least. We just use 2 hunting towers outside the base, and not a single scratch on anything yet.

They spawn on the same places each time too, so you can have them dead before they start charging even.
The other waves aren't that much harder, just takes longer time

It's just bare-bones building so far.

Enjoy the rest of the game instead, it haven't been in a better shape ever.

[♂TheBlasterMaster™✞]

I have defended maybe 4 times. It's getting old fast.

[SniperGirl]

I have had a number of raids against my base and it has held up well for the most part. I built it in layers so the outer layers are the only areas that get damaged. I did not like the way the gate pop open and were a big pain to get into, run towards them and they pop open and push you back then slam closed again. So, I took them out and just have staggered gaps to get into the core of the base. Since during battle you don't need to run to the core it is pointless to make it a straight run. Since my base isn't very big there is time to run from one end to the other as each wave comes in.

While the raids themselves are fairly easy to defend against the reward is the resources and the exp ammo/first aid kits at the end. One per raid is a very slow process but I play them on medium and I run away from the base so the bots target me and not my base, not much to repair when done with the raid.

Since my forest region has reached level 21, I am wondering if I will have a reaper visit the region too?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2482748317

[Spoony]

folk complaining at the base building should shut up till they can do better.

its a first attempt to make sure this feature works and im sure more will be added later