Secondary Objectives Not Fully Spawning In Escalation

[BEEFPRO]

Twice in my last escalation run the secondary objective did not spawn in large sections of the map. The first trial was fuel the escape, I scanned at least 1/2 of the map for "collect the rats" but not a single one could be found. It was only until the 3rd generator area where the rats actually spawned in. I've never encountered this glitch before possibly because I don't play very much escalation so I'm curious if anybody else has encountered this. There were no item restriction variators activated, so I have no idea what caused it. The second trial it happened in was sabotage the lockdown, the secondary objective was break the TVs but this time the TVs weren't spawning in the 2nd half of the map. 2/35 trials is not super frequent, especially since I've probably played about 60 or so escalation trials before today that didn't show signs of this glitch, but wanted to shed some light on it since I haven't seen anybody else mention it.

[Maya-Neko]

Some areas simply have more possible spawn points than others and then it's just about RNG. I've yet not seen a single mission that weren't doable in that regard, they sometimes just spawn in annoying locations.

[BEEFPRO]

Originally posted by Maya-Neko:

Some areas simply have more possible spawn points than others and then it's just about RNG. I've yet not seen a single mission that weren't doable in that regard, they sometimes just spawn in annoying locations.

Well aware of this, just about every "area" has a guaranteed spawn for posters and secondary objectives, it seemed like in my two trials the algorithm bugged out and didn't spawn in many of the "areas". I honestly don't think enough rats spawned to get 10 in the trial, my team was very thorough, we ended it with 4-5/10, all of which were found in the final area of fuel the escape.

Even with the benefit of the doubt that all the rats spawned in sections that my teammates missed, there should be better spread of spawns so that after searching 15+ rooms I should find at least 5, not 0.

[Player9682]

it's the weird RNG the game has with them. same goes for posters. you could run around the entire map only to find 2 and eventually when you find them all they all spawn everywhere XD. like left and right. Funny thing happened to me once i found two posters right next to one another...like not even 2 feet away.

[76561199641450686]

There is a rare case where they don't fully spawn. It's based on RNG location. Poster is the only secondary objective where you must have good eyes to find it while the rest of secondary objectives like rats, radio, and TV where you need to have good eyes and hearing to locate it. I don't know if that was a glitch or bug, but maybe it's a bad RNG.

[Ela]

Let me give you an interesting example of the rats spawning. Once in the Poison the Cattle, we wanted to the second objective while collecting the poison bottles, but we only collected 3-4 rats. Afterwards, I went to casino and shipping yard. Shipping yard got like 5 rats just in that place, and they are all in the double-deck security building. Hence, maybe the rest of the rats are in the other half that you haven't searched on xD. Also, in the beginning of the trial always search around the area near shuttle, you can always get at least 2 rats, mostly 3 rats there.