1043 agressive animal attack

[SaveTheDey]

Been playing for quite awhile and never seen an attack this large. This my GPU is gonna start flying around the room. Playing VH. Is this normal?

[Flin Fredstone]

Afaik the number in the attacks increases over time but is for the most part influenced by the number of resources you have, the size of your base and the number of defenses.

I am guessing you have a significant base ?

[SaveTheDey]

Not really. I do have the mod that increases the starting number of survivors to 10. But as of now i have a single fort with 2 auto turrets and 8 Wooden Stands. I have a total of 12 survivors.

[Flin Fredstone]

I see, well those are the main contributors to the number of bugs that i listed. I never use mods and can't play on VH with my current rig, so i don't know how that setting and mod impacts, especially the mod.

There was a discussion started by someone who had over 2k in an attack. I can't recall if the cause was pointed out.

[Flin Fredstone]

This was the discussion. Might not apply to your situation though, but what i get from a peek at the discussion is that some say it's a mod issue ?

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1324130/discussions/0/3824158683368586552/

[Bjørn]

Number of survivors have quite an impact on the strength of the attacks, I'm pretty sure I've read. Or did they increase very much for no apparent reason?

Also number of traps have a rather big impact, I've seen mentioning. On my last game I only had about 35 traps, compared to well over hundred before, and although I played on easy, the attacks rarely exceeded 60 attackers of various kinds. Had hundreds in earlier games. 6 turrets, 8 flamethrowers.

[SaveTheDey]

They went from 100 to 300 to 500 to 1000 in subsequent attacks. With a few in between.

[76561199056944839]

Hi SaveTheDey!

There are a number of factors that determine the size and strength of the aggressive animals that will come and attack you. Everything from how your defenses are doing, to how many resources and survivors you have, to the difficulty level you've chosen.

It's likely that the 10 survivor mod had the most significant impact, as well as the difficulty, in this particular case. Do you have a lot of resources in your base as well?

[SaveTheDey]

Not all that much in the way of resources, but i had built up a base with several buildings. Only 2 turrets and maybe 10-12 towers.

Thinking you are correct in that it was due to the number of survivors and the difficulty level. May want to consider capping the number of attackers as it nearly crippled by medium-high end rig.

[Anlauf]

Yeah, attacks scale very quickly when you have mods.

I am in a new game (which is going to be very short).

My attacks when from 20 dogs, 9 scissorhands, 4 Junos to 86 shrikers and 18 of the large ones with slopped armor that deflect almost all shots.

And I have 6 settlers and 2 dogs, a Wooden Wall and no turrets.
Not going to be a fair fight.

My tactic now is run guerrilla style run on small groups before the attack to try to thin the horde.

Devs: Would be nice if attacks took more than 12 hours to start.
Sometimes settlers take about that just to get home. :D

[Endar the Great]

Attacks from animals are coming every other day. I have no time to make repairs and bodies from previous attacks are not even decayed yet. Why is this happening.

[Jaggid Edje]

If you're willing to use mods, there is a mod that replaces the massive numbers with higher level insects instead that one of the developers just released recently, as a potential solution for the "too many bugs for my rig to handle" issue:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3010501248

[Paraleo]

Originally posted by Endar the Great:

Attacks from animals are coming every other day. I have no time to make repairs and bodies from previous attacks are not even decayed yet. Why is this happening.

they smell your fear :D.

[Sergej]

Yeah too many bugs can cripple performance hard.
On my insane chaos game I had a 560 or so basic scarab spawn.
That does not pose much of a challenge later with a halfway decent defence setup. It just wrecks the PC performance.
Now an equivalent EP of broodmothers shriekers and flies (oh those damaging nasty flamethrower evading beasties), could cause more damage as they path less and do more attacking.
More crap is not challenge, it is still just more crap. And it simply cripples hardware.

[Endar the Great]

So--don't us mods and keep you base very small. Not much help here.

[Smotus]

year 9 with 6 survivors and everyone equipped with a pulse rifle 2.0, i faced an attack wave of 340 flying insects and barely escaped . After a few hours a was attacked again from another new wave of 280 flying insects and 100 skarabei and was game over.