Hello! So we're getting ready for releasing the next update, we're getting the voice acting for some of the character in the Story ready and once that's done and we've finished it up we'll release the update. Bandits are currently going to initially be quite simple though we are going to expand on them in future updates, at the moment they currently just roam around the map and if you get near them they'll talk to you, at the moment you won't be able to get anyone to join you but you can fight them and they can fight you. We want to add quite a bit of depth to the bandits ranging from helping them, gathering a group and even holding them up or them holding you up to steal loot. Every bandit will be different depending on Experiences with you, they'll remember their encounters with you and act depending on what has happened. Bandits will be an optional feature that can be removed via the Option menu. We also uncovered quite a serious bug and fixed it which is why we're going to get this update out as soon as we can, essentially the more you load your saves the worse your game will run, this is because we weren't deleting 2 objects on the map so they kept adding everytime the game ran and due to some poor code that was on them this could cause quite a lot of performance issues so next update will ensure this no longer happens.