Spoiler-free. The system rewires the city, but survivors still need basic answers: what's open, what's blocked, where to rest, and which corridor to avoid.
The marks are simple on purpose. Arrows mean passable. A bar means blocked. A circle means shelter. A slashed circle means the shelter is dead. Triangles mean danger, and a double triangle means do not get cute.
Homebush makes the danger easy to picture
Homebush Olympic Park isn't a blank arena. It's stadium shells, concourses, service tunnels, loading docks, fire stairs, ring roads, and open plazas that stop feeling neutral the second you need cover.
That layout gives the ruleset friction. A loading dock becomes a bottleneck. A concourse is an exposed killzone. A service tunnel saves five minutes or wipes a crew on a blind corner under low pipework.
The signs are not magic
The markers are improvised: spray paint, grease pencil, blade scores, tied cloth, stacked rubble. They fade. They lie. They get crossed out by someone with worse judgment.
Navigation stays social. A safe route is a rumor, a warning, and sometimes an argument on a wall. People compare maps, debate tags, and learn whose symbols to trust.
Why I like it
It drags progression down to the pavement. Your build doesn't float above the city. You still have to cross an open road, clear a stairwell, check if a warning is fresh, and get everyone home before the map shifts.
That's the core note for Wavefall: the system arrives, but the city is still doors, corners, blind spots, and messages left by people trying to survive.
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