Bandit Camps

[[Fall4] ROFLSaurus Rex]

Playing co-op in Year 2 and we just decided to get our first two people. Would the fact that we didnt have anyone in our village for a year effect our bandit camp spawns. This save is pre-autumn patch unsure if that also effects it.

[Tristin]

I played my Oxbow map playthrough Wed and Thursday, doing Spring and Summer Year 2. I have over 15 people. explored a lot of the map and with the exception of going to the large bandit area over the bridge and threw the tunnel, never saw a single bandit.

Played my old Valley playthrough today (friday), Spring year 5, over 100 inhabitants, i ran into 3-4 groups of bandits.

All solo. Both springs were been entered into before the Wed update.

[Nomac]

Yes, I don't really understand this bandit system either... I started a new game in Oxbow after the fall update. I'm now in year 5. So far I've seen one of the new bandit camps. (I don't mean the big camp to the north.) The one I found spawned a little southeast of the main camp.

But apart from that I didn't see a single bandit...Almost every quarter I run the entire map... no highwaymen or bandits at tents, no roadblocks like "in the valley"... I read that it takes a little longer for the bandits to spawn. I hope so! I think it's a real shame that there are so few bandits in Oxbow... now we've got a great update with armor and weapons... but with fewer enemies!?

[*Morri*]

There are not fewer enemies and the bandits are there. It involves a little RNG where they spawn (on seasons change), so you might have missed some spots. In the early years ingame there'll be less camps and they will be smaller, not to overwhelm new players straight away.

[Nomac]

And there are highwaymen, bandits at tents and roadblocks like "in the valley"?

Or just the the smaller and bigger camps?

[*Morri*]

Originally posted by Nomac:

And there are highwaymen, bandits at tents and roadblocks like "in the valley"?

Should be the same y.

[Split Smilez]

Does anyone know if the big camp up north respawns enemies?
If so how often? Or is it just RNG?

[*Morri*]

Originally posted by Split Smilez:

Does anyone know if the big camp up north respawns enemies?
If so how often? Or is it just RNG?

The fixed ones don't respawn.

[Spinblade]

Originally posted by *Morri*:

Originally posted by Split Smilez:

Does anyone know if the big camp up north respawns enemies?
If so how often? Or is it just RNG?

The fixed ones don't respawn.

Wait this is the only bandit camp on the map that's static and it doesn't respawn? I destroyed this camp in my first year and have been waiting for it to respawn so i could have some more fun and you are saying it's never going to happen :( so they gave us all this gear but hardly anything to use it on? that doesn't make any since. The random camps are to few and sometimes you never even find them even if they happen to be around.

[Muad'dib]

Does anyone have a map of where the fixed bandit camps are located? I am trying to figure out where to build my settlement and want to make sure I'm not near one.

I'm on oxbow to play MP with my wife.

[Foxglovez]

And this is how it goes. Devs get talked into more bandit camps, polishing the fairly poor combat mechanics and now that's not ok cuz bandits have to be up and annoying all the time, everywhere. It will never be ok, Might as well add PvP and zombeeees while you're at it. Devs might give you a camp or two but the whole armor bizness was a terrible mistake in my opinion, changing the whole game for the vocal minority and we have to be totally inconvenienced by it. Such a waste of dev time when they could be making more new interesting bigger better maps, not catering to folks who insist on turning the game on its head. I know, my opinion but it just feels obvious from reading the posts.
YMMV

[Spinblade]

if you don't want bandits in your game its an easy fix just turn them off. As far as a fixed bandit camp on the oxbo map i have only seen the one that's in the NE of the map and it's a no build area. A good place to build on the oxbo map would be just south of the NW town their is a nice island that you can build a nice big town on and you can make a bridge to the town above you. This allows you to be close to one of the fast travel points as well.

[Dom79]

The Oxbow Map has quite potent amounts of small to middle Camps around the map. I found already around 20-25 Locations. All together with the old Bridge Spawns etc.

Doesnt make much sense, to try building somewhere to be away from it, because it always can spawn somewhere around, but never directly at ur Village. The Fixed Spots seem also to be used as Base Spots from time to time, just check it by running in the near of it, if there are spikes around an ruin, which normally dont have that, u know there are bandits in.

The greates Problem with the bandits is currently the incredible broken Weapon MEchanic, u do not see any of there weapons with ALT - Search , and when u kill them the weapons jump up and can flip hundreds of meters away. Which is specally completly broken because u cannot throw a wooden spear more than 15 meters , but an heavy iron X Bow Fly trough the Air like a Trebuchet Shoot.

[Ookapia]

Originally posted by Spinblade:

if you don't want bandits in your game its an easy fix just turn them off.

Can you give me a screenshot of where to turn off the bandits for the oxbow?


spoiler: No, you can't, because there is no such setting in Oxbow.

[iFRKY]

Originally posted by Spinblade:

Originally posted by *Morri*:

The fixed ones don't respawn.

Wait this is the only bandit camp on the map that's static and it doesn't respawn? I destroyed this camp in my first year and have been waiting for it to respawn so i could have some more fun and you are saying it's never going to happen :( so they gave us all this gear but hardly anything to use it on? that doesn't make any since. The random camps are to few and sometimes you never even find them even if they happen to be around.

Either you r badass good in this game and got everything out of the gamemechanics, or you play the game on an easy level.

For me it's my third "maxing out" run through on Oxbow rn, I play on 200% wood-/food-/water-usage and also 200% on Animal-/Bandit LP and Damage.

In year 2, with this settings, you shouldn't even be able to always kill the boars that will attack you, not even talking about bears or bandits.

So basically consider to make the game harder for you. A Bandit that have to take 2 Bow shots and 3 or 4 hits with a sword is much more difficult to take down instead of 100% LP with like 1 headshot with the crossbow.

[Spinblade]

I'm playing on normal this run but was just complaining because this is the main bandit camp on the map and their saying that it doesn't respawn so was just saying what was the point in all the new armor and gear if we hardly get anything to use it on and i mean in the bandit sense i no their are plenty of animals in the game. Has nothing to do with the game being easy or hard (i mean i have over 1k hrs in the game been playing since the early days) was just looking for a little more fun is all since the new update