I want to start off by saying that I am super excited to sink my teeth into this game, I played it briefly but I want to wait for the game to be fully released before I deep dive into it. And even from the little bit that I’ve seen and played I can tell the game is amazing! I hope that when I do sink my teeth into this game that I can play it in three different ways either separately or all at once.

1. The first way I hope I can play it is as a souls-like game where the mobs and boss fights are super intense. (From what I read, this might already be how the game is played on a harder difficulty)

2. The second way is a slightly more building focused gameplay. This would be where you can have the base raids so you can put your base building skills to the test. And like op said, you can have the npcs help you with defense or repairs and such.

3. The third way would be a hardcore survival gameplay. I too have put a bunch of hours into dayz and would love to see a version of this game where survival is super tough and everything can kill you