The 1.1 update makes sweeping changes to NPC AI. These A Life NPCs are meant to pursue their own goals when not in proximity to the player, but until now, they’ve felt scarce. Encounters could be few and far between, and you should come across other people wandering in The Zone more frequently. It opens the world up in a big way. You might head out to complete a separate mission, only to return to base and find one of your allies has fallen in battle. The patch will also update the NPC...
