Bug: advantages and disadvantages of a forest super bloom \ post human wasteland

The above video goes over different post-apocalyptic landscapes in video games. It made me ask the following question. What are the advantages and disadvantages of a super bloom forest \ post-human wasteland?

Advantages

• A more unique and exciting environment for the genre

• I can invoke beautiful imagery as opposed to the bleak landscapes of the traditional desert wasteland.

• This could help me extend the timelapse from the start of the collapse. As is now, the story begins 4 years after the collapse and they have used up all of the supplies from the nearby store. However, if water and food could be foraged from the super bloom forest then I could make this be just about however long I want.

• I could introduce a different element into the story. Currently, the story is about resource management and people fighting over limited resources. I could make it about learning how to survive in a new biome, and fighting against the new dangers such a biome would present.

Disadvantages

• if the world is in a super bloom I would have to explain how such a bloom could happen as the result of swarms of bugs. If I don’t want to do this I could introduce superbugs, some sort of mutated or evolved insect. I have not yet decided that I want to do this. Part of me thinks it would work, but I prefer the idea of a more realistic foe and less sci-fi as in mutant bugs.

• if the world is in a super bloom then it no longer makes sense that water is scarce. I would have to rewrite the plot's motivations for scavenging water. I really liked the rain catchment and the need for water.

  • perhaps the water is tainted somehow. This might force the humans underground or at least force them away from rainy areas.

    • Perhaps the water is infested with small micro bugs that hatch inside a host and consume them over time. The bugs and able to survive boiling and nonlethal doses of chemical treatment can not kill them either. It could look like a cancerous disease that slowly kills those who drank the infested water. This disease would affect humans and wildlife. maybe the only safe source of water in nature is snow and ice.

  • perhaps the only places it rains are dangerously overrun with wild animals. If this were true then I would need to introduce some sort of dangerous animal(s) that the survivors are hunted by.