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Huh, short length too.
It's not that they don't know how to climb a mountain before you research it. It's that they don't have the logistical power or infrastructure to sustain an army on a mountain before you do. Or at least that's my head canon.
We confirmed this in the 2022 blurb.
As a Ready or Not player, I have the right to ruin everyone's fun, by saying:
"This texture is AI generated"
You can send your death threats below.
Unfortunately for the artist who made this, that texture is not AI generated (unless I missed the joke) :P