Luke Gijsbertsen · Lead Environment Artist, EU Locations team

Yeah, so the idea is that we don't want to fully allow the players to customize the terrain to their liking, because that would take away from the value of scouting for a good location. So there will be buildings that will do a very light terrain manipulation just to make sure that the staircases work and so on. But the best solution that we'll provide is the use of foundation tiles, the big concrete slabs that people get to place down, and on those they'll be able to put their buildings down. Those will deform the terrain, so if you have a plot of land that is not particularly flat for you to build connectable buildings, then the idea is that you would put down a foundation first, and then from there on you'll be able to connect your buildings on top of there.