Instant NPC Respawn?!!?!?

[smammered]

I was taking over a bandit camp of sorts. I killed 90% of camp. Then took a wide route to get the the other side the snipe the remaining enemies. Took like 30 seconds. EVERYONE respwned. Is this supposed to happen?....

[Wurm65]

Did they set off the alarm? More spawn in if the alarm goes off.

[winterfreezer]

Like Wurm65 said it was probably the alarm. I don’t know what happens if you go too far away but i could circle some camps easily for best vantage points without problems. They definitely did not respawn. I always Tag every enemy before anyway.

[smammered]

Originally posted by Wurm65:

Did they set off the alarm? More spawn in if the alarm goes off.

It wasnt a bandit camp actually, it was main quest line location. But there was no alarm and the ones that repsawn were in the exact spots from the ones i killed right before. It was very strange. As long as it doesnt happen again im totally gucci, haha

[zuntan2002]

I've seen this too. The way I figure it is when a quest is involved even though one has sniped many kills if one hasn't entered the area necessary for the quest to be triggered nothing one has done up to that point counts toward quest progress, consequently when one does enter the area the quest triggers and everything respawns.

One quest in particular sticks in my mine. The one I remember was the one where one hunts down three escaped prisoners for the warden of the Carja Prison. For me there were only two bandits remaining in the camp when the respawn occurred, and when it did I was repositioned in the middle of the camp. As I came to learn on subsequent playthroughs to avoid the respawn first one has to find, engage, wound the target NPC of the three prisoner quest and talk to her. Fortunately she and a couple of other bandits can be drawn out of the camp at the southern gate and once wounded she begins calling out to Aloy. Irritating is that once she has fallen the NPC doesn't show up in Focus Mode so finding where she has fallen can be hard, especially at night.

Another similar respawn occurs doing the quest for Odd Grata. The three watchers that patrol the intersection on the road to the Brave Trail to the Prayer Beads respawn until the one has the Beads. Since those three Watchers are normally the first machines my Aloy kills she gets to kill them again after talking to Odd Grata. But once the quest is done the Watchers never again spawn at that location.

A similar mechanic occurs with one of the first quests, "In Her Mother's Footsteps", Aloy encounters in the Embrace. As you approach the NPC, Thok, with the quest there are Striders across the road and a pair of Watchers across the river. The last time I did that quest I approached Thok from the west through the tall grass. I lured the nearest two or three striders and dispatched them with Silent Strike. Then I sniped the two Watchers and talked to Thok. When I was done talking the yet to be looted bodies of the two dead Watchers and the remaining Striders across the road had despawned.

[DAME]

I keep spawning as a npc in gta rp horizon

[smammered]

Originally posted by DameFrm75th:

I keep spawning as a npc in gta rp horizon

You are so wild for reviving this years-old post, especially be saying that. LOL

[Leo]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.