Happy New Year!
This Devlog comes much sooner as I was able to put in a significant amount of time during the holiday period. I'm making sure that most important systems are working the way I imagined them to work.
Mission difficulty
Doing missions under a mission cluster increases human preparedness for that cluster which in turn increases the difficulty and further unlocks next clusters. This will now work together with a new system to select the right enemy units for the difficulty, human preparedness level and time.
For those who played the test version - the game will be slightly more challenging.
AI
Implemented a few different ways an enemy can choose a target. This will allow for hardcoding certain behavior for specific units. Additionally it can be changed in runtime, meaning that enemy target priorities can shift by a trigger event.
Positioning is also something AI will consider. It works the same way as choosing a target. Some enemies, for example: human archer will always seek cover and will not overextend.
I'm very happy how these systems turned out - it will help to give personality and function to units with very specific goals and strategies.
What's next
Next comes boss fights, more on that in the next Devlog most probably.