The System has decided their builds need correcting.
Cole Mercer and his allies survived by reading the fight instead of trusting its labels. Now the patch service has their records. It can turn a fault node into a decoy, punish the person holding threat, and make a mastered skill the worst button to press. The enemy is learning from every sensible move they make.
Cole has a battered raid party, a dog the data cannot quite explain, and a communications tower that has become a weapon pointed at its own settlement. Winning will take the choices the recommended build threw away.
Across the signal waits a community running a version of the world that should not exist. Keeping one county free is already difficult. Keeping another alive when the System wants to overwrite it will test every promise Cole has made about who gets to choose.