Shroud feeling empty

[Puppy8brownie13s]

Does anyone else feel like the shroud does not have as many enemies in it as it used to before the latest update. I'm currently chilling in the shroud looking for enemies so I can kill them for their parts but I have come across maybe 4 since being in here and it has been over 10 minutes. I remember not even going 2 steps in and having 1.5 million enemies on top of me. Is this a bug or is this what the game is now

[Faceplant]

Yes. I started a new game, and haven't gotten very far yet, but it was very noticeable when I first went in to chop some wood. I usually have to fed off several, and didn't see any with the exception of the one that's always near the crossroads. Since then it's been the same.

I also noticed it with wolves at the start.

The early game (so far) seems much easier than it was before for a few reasons. Part of it is the lack of mobs, including wolves, and it seems like the weapon upgrades have increased. I'm currently level 4, and am able to 1-shot wolves and many shroud mobs, and 2-shot scavengers.

[Somamint]

You can change the settings to get more enemies :) Then chopping wood in the shroud can get exited ;)

[Nahui Ollin]

it depends on where you are. Nomad highlands has tons of them but the springlands has next to none in comparison.

lairs also have tons of them, more than the roots and wells.

[sh3riff]

As someone who has build a town near shroud and i always saw the shroud and heard enemies when being at the edge of my town ..
Also playing at MANY setting etc .. now the shroud is empty. Literally not a single enemy.

I have been only building past few weeks and havent ventured out, but after the update, the shroud next to me has been abandoned and there are no enemies .. which i find weird and thats why i decided to build it there .. so kinda ruined my theme

[©.VorteX]

On the other hand you find small armies of them outside the shroud at night XD

[LudwigVH]

I may be wrong here, with the addition of the shroud lairs, which is like a home for the fell, this could be why there is less mob activity in the open areas of the shroud.

[K89]

Shroud definitely feels empty after update. Making it very difficult to farm new materials when there aren't many enemies to kill for them.

[Averagedog]

I play with "more" enemies. Shroud definitely feels emptier, but the enemies definitely patrol more and in larger groups outside of the shroud.

[Sgt.JESUS]

You guys are crazy, i play too with double enemies and i see them inside all the time, i have been to all biomes looking for those pesky night temples and there are a lot of enemies, as always not everywhere i suppose, so near wells, roots, places of interest you will find lots of them, not to mention the new lairs have tons of enemies everywhere.

If the shroud was enemies everywhere you wouldnt be able to explore it, at all, game would be only fighting non stop, gotta disagree with OP here, and like Vortex said at night they cluster around those new vapor thingies we can collect.

[sh3riff]

You are talking about different thing .. we potato, you tomato.

If the patrols are live .. like shroud spawns 30 enemies and patrol has 30 enemies and going from A to B and B to A back to shroud, hm okay maybe.
But if the patrols are extra spawned outside shroud zones, i dont think that patrols should be on account of shroud enemies .. patrols should not replace enemies inside shroud zones.
Like in my case .. After tomorrow building for 6 hours, which are 3 in game days, still not a single enemy in my shroud zones. And they were there the whole time before the patch for weeks .. now its empty.
I even have nests there which normally spawns enemies when you poke them .. but nope, nothing.

[Zace]

yes ive been playing and still no shroud people in the shroud, honestly i think the new patch broke the game :/

[Chromaki]

Really confused by this, I was playing yesterday in the shroud and there were enemies everywhere. I do have enemies set to more in the customise game option so perhaps that could be it.

[sh3riff]

I checked today other zones .. my world is extremely empty.
Compared to before, when one group of enemies was like 10-20 enemies and in whole zone, root, town .. there was maybe like 100-150 enemies ..

Now the zones are empty .. barely holding like 5 enemies
Roots, shrouds etc .. empty

That was on MANY
Tried normal .. it was even worse, duh .. they definitely reduced the enemy population by like 80% in my game on maxed out the most amount enemy setting