Hey so I saw your reply about changing the game to be more multiplayer based and I feel like if it was done right it could be cool, just make sure to keep survival and other gamemodes based off that (like endless) for the people that like that type of game!
Anyways I have some suggestions for the game, obviously i'm not a game dev and don't know how hard it is to make but I feel like seeing these would be cool,
1. Black smoke: I know that many people have suggested this already but I know a pretty cool way it could work, after tripods start harvesting and the flying machines appear they could equip themselves with the black smoke, if they dont spot anyone after 5 - 10 seconds they use the black smoke (basically killing anyone outside of buildings which they didn't see)
2. Smarter AI: When a tripod appears in their line of sight they could either run into a building or just run out of town with a 50/50 chance. You could also talk to them and they say something about the invasion
3: Probe (but not really): kind of like what happens in the book/musical, if the tripod uses black smoke but knows someone (player or AI) is inside a building it will crouch down and blindly use one of its tentacles to search inside the buildings, this will make it so then you aren't invincible inside a building (until you add destruction obviously)
4: The Artilleryman/Crazy Dude: around when the tripods start harvesting randomly around the map you can find a dude digging, if you go up to him he says he recognises you from somewhere and starts talking about his plan about living underground and asks if you also want to. If you say yes you get a short (probably) drawn cutscene of you living underground with him and eventually looking outside to find all the tripods dead, if you say no and go to the same spot later you find a dead body next to a small, hand dug hole. In multiplayer it would be a vote across everyone in the lobby, if majority of people say yes then you get the same cutscene except with multiple people in the pit and if you say no basically the same thing happens as in singleplayer.
like I said earlier obviously i'm not a game dev and don't know how to code in the SLIGHTEST but it would be really cool to somehow see these things in game as they would make it feel more challenging but also fun!
