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Specifically, I feel that once you've got enough armor that you can withstand a Deathsquito's attack without being staggered, fighting in the Plains become inconsequential.

In every other biome past Meadows, you are forced to take the terrain into account during combat. Either you're watching your stamina because you're spending it dodging over hills, you're pivoting to be on the same level as your enemy, or you're making sure your back isn't to water in case you get knocked into it.

The Plains are beautiful, but I don't feel like their specific terrain is being made best use of in the gameplay.

Ideas that would make the Plains more interesting to me:

• Increase the sight range for all enemies when they're on the Plains. It's a level, fairly-open terrain; if you can see much farther, so should the enemies. This will make breaking line of sight both more important and more difficult. Make being out in the open scary again.
• Have Fulings talk to each other. As it stands, it's way too easy to aggro one or two Fulings from a village at a time with a bow and arrow, draw them into the open, and then kill them. I want to feel like tangling with one means half the tribe is behind them. If one of them becomes aware of me, I'd like to see them rally everyone within a certain earshot (maybe 20m) to come help track me down. This would also encourage players to wait until a Fuling is away from his buddies to down it.

As it stands, it's just too easy for me to sneak up on a village, aggro a berserker or two into the open, pop Bonemass, and wait for cooldown to do it again. It's also repetitive.

The fight with Yuglath is pretty solid though. It punishes you for being out in the open, but gives you a few large monoliths to duck behind. I like that.

EDIT: Conversation with other Redditors has led me to believe that the tar pit generation in my world is heavily neutered, as they are rare and easily avoided for me. If everyone else's experience is that tar pits are a consistent threat when in the Plains, then that's the average challenge I'm looking for and everything is fine.