My main issue is that the entire community system feels so half-assed and tacked on. It really feels like they added it at the last minute, because almost none of your settlements have any flat land, and flat land is virtually required to build anything that doesn't look absolutely fucking awful. Half of my corn hovers several inches above the ground. I often can't find an area to build new buildings that don't float. It's just ridiculous how bad construction is in this game. Rust did it so much better (getting materials was tedious as hell, but building giant forts was fun!), and that was an Early Access game that cost like ten bucks.
I wouldn't mind some tedium when it came to collecting materials if the reward for doing so was more, well, rewarding. But as it stands, I'm constantly having to go back to a settlement and drop all my shit off and constantly having to build things in a system that makes it more of a chore than an accomplishment to build. The idea is there and it could be fun, but the implementation is just so fucking awful.
Also, assigning settlers to do things is, like, the absolute worst. How there isn't a menu system that allows you to assign settlers to tasks...I just don't know how they overlooked that. If you could go into a "god mode" view from above it might work as presently set up, but trying to find settlers in first person and then assign them to tasks, crossing your fingers and hoping they weren't previously assigned elsewhere, is just a dumb system. A menu that simply listed all of your settlers and where they were assigned, with a drop down menu next to each that allowed you to reassign them, would have made it so much easier. It would also be nice if the game told me I needed to assign more people to get maximum yield out of my crops. As it stands, I have no fucking idea.
