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Building a base in Palworld isn’t just for show: you’ll need them to defend your Pals and property from periodic raids. Rival humans and wild Pals both pose a threat, and they’ll often crash the party and start wrecking your stuff, unlike in Pokemon. Though you can take a hands-on approach to fighting them off, it’s easier and more efficient if you automate the process. Whether you get your Pals to do your fighting for you or create an impenetrable labyrinth of walls and traps for your enemies, you can make base defense a breeze. Since the game is still in early access, there’s a lot of room for the game to grow. Here are 5 ways base raids need to change in Palworld before the game’s release, in no particular order.
5. More Traps
Palworld outfits you with more than just some walls and Pals for base defense. You can choose from several traps and defensive structures, including bear traps, rock drops, and mounted weapons. It’s a great idea that the devs can quickly expand upon, but right now, there isn’t a healthy enough variety of trap types. You don’t necessarily need traps anyway, since your Pals do most of the heavy lifting when it comes to base defense, but having a better selection of traps would at least encourage players to try out fun and gimmicky base builds.
4. Higher Difficulty
At the moment base raids aren’t much of a threat. Sure, you might get caught off-guard by some suicide-bombing Tocotoco when you first learn the game, but after one or two raids you’ll know exactly what to expect. Even when you venture farther away from your starting area and the level of your enemies increases, the actual difficulty of base raids in Palworld doesn’t change much. A big reason is predictability. Once you’ve seen a few raids, you’ve seen them all. The game never requires you to make any big changes to your base defenses to deal with them, either. Just put some strong Pals on the defensive, and you’re good to go.
3. Better Pathfinding
Pathfinding is an issue many games struggle to get right, especially in early access when many things still need to change. Palworld is no exception, and while it’s not usually a problem, it’s a big deal during raids. In many cases, enemies taking part in base raids in Palworld never even get to your doorstep. Depending on where you build your base, it’s pretty common for raiders to get stuck on difficult (or not so difficult terrain). Though it makes defending your base easy, it also takes all the fun out of it. After all, there’s no point in having fortifications or combat-ready Pals when the threat fizzles out before you even see it.
2. More Enemy Factions
There are only a handful of enemy factions in Palworld, including the Rayne Syndicate, Free Pal Alliance, and Palpagos Islands Defense Force. That puts a hard limit on the diversity of raids that can occur. Even when you toss a few different wild Pals into the mix, there’s not much surprise to be had in regards to who is attacking or what kind of threat they pose. Part of the fun of base raids in games like Rust isn’t just that your base is in danger but also that you don’t know the precise nature of the threat. Who is coming and whether they pose a one-time challenge or an ongoing threat makes a big difference. Palworld has none of that at the moment.
1. More Raid Types
Palworld base raids are about as straightforward as they come. A handful of enemies charge straight at you with whatever weapons they have, be they claws or guns. It would go a long way toward raids being more enjoyable if raid types had more diversity. Flying Pals soaring in over the mountains, burrowing Pals popping up in the middle of your base, and aquatic Pals laying siege from nearby lakes would all help spice things up. So would getting attacked by a mix of human and Pal attackers, forcing you to use different tactics and technology against each.
Palworld is available for PC in early access.
