do enemies in caves respawn?

[TechMajin]

in the first one they didn't and it annoyed me because my friends and I play at different times so when I am on and wanting to clear dungeons and do when they get there they are empty

[QcDarkNinja]

Wondering about that too, because I want to farm all that creepy armor

[Satan]

Originally posted by TechMajin:

in the first one they didn't and it annoyed me because my friends and I play at different times so when I am on and wanting to clear dungeons and do when they get there they are empty

im pretty sure they do i believe everything in the game respawns apart from kelvin and virginia

[Sgt Squirt]

yeah they do after a while
like if you clear out one part of the cave and come back to that part after like 10-20mins they respawn

[Arcty]

they do not, (well kind of) Cleared a cave last night and im playing right now, the cave was empty other than 2 enemies. kind of lame.

[.45 acp]

Originally posted by TechMajin:

in the first one they didn't and it annoyed me because my friends and I play at different times so when I am on and wanting to clear dungeons and do when they get there they are empty

i believe after every restart of server they all respawn

[Howell-Barrex Soldier Ja'kala]

caves yes bunkers no

[Nerevar]

Originally posted by Howell-Barrex Soldier Ja'kala:

caves yes bunkers no

this is correct.

but given you have currently ZERO reason to ever revisit a cave whichs keyitem you already obtained this system was again undermined by the painful linear design of the game progression currently. and most of the good respawnable loot is inside bunkers. not in caves like old game.

[Handsomest]

On my day 50, cave enemies never stopped respawn on me, they even respawn while I cutting creepy armor from the last batch

[✰N0ni✰]

Caves yes, Bunkers no as someone already answered. Went back into the rebreather cave to find a group of 8 or so not too far in.

[Arcty]

my caves aren't respawning full enemies, after full restart, different day (irl) only one to two max.

[2 Incher]

Originally posted by Arcty:

my caves aren't respawning full enemies, after full restart, different day (irl) only one to two max.

I'm on day 39 and I just entered a cave after not being in it since I cleared it in the first week the cave in question being the one with the rebreather. I kid you not there was around 30 to 40 creepies waiting for me inside. I'm not sure if this is because I abused the hell out of the save reload for loot or because I just wasn't in there for a very long time. Either way they definitely respawn not only that but repopulate too

[Xiaturianis]

Originally posted by 2 Incher:

Originally posted by Arcty:

my caves aren't respawning full enemies, after full restart, different day (irl) only one to two max.

I'm on day 39 and I just entered a cave after not being in it since I cleared it in the first week the cave in question being the one with the rebreather. I kid you not there was around 30 to 40 creepies waiting for me inside. I'm not sure if this is because I abused the hell out of the save reload for loot or because I just wasn't in there for a very long time. Either way they definitely respawn not only that but repopulate too

I can confirm. In my savefile we're at day 47 and last night a friend and me revisitasome cave we did in the beginning and there were A LOT MORE enemies than before.
30-40 enemies in one cave is not exaggerated, it's like they keep coming. When we went deeper in a certain place i counted around 16 enemies in one (big) cave room and still there were more.
Before skinning for the creepy armor, triple check the place otherwise you can be dead in a matter of seconds.

[Marvin]

Originally posted by Xiaturianis:

Originally posted by 2 Incher:

I'm on day 39 and I just entered a cave after not being in it since I cleared it in the first week the cave in question being the one with the rebreather. I kid you not there was around 30 to 40 creepies waiting for me inside. I'm not sure if this is because I abused the hell out of the save reload for loot or because I just wasn't in there for a very long time. Either way they definitely respawn not only that but repopulate too

I can confirm. In my savefile we're at day 47 and last night a friend and me revisitasome cave we did in the beginning and there were A LOT MORE enemies than before.
30-40 enemies in one cave is not exaggerated, it's like they keep coming. When we went deeper in a certain place i counted around 16 enemies in one (big) cave room and still there were more.
Before skinning for the creepy armor, triple check the place otherwise you can be dead in a matter of seconds.

Not sure where I read/heard it, perhaps was on YouTube, apparently the spawn rates in caves increase with game duration. Guess that means we need to get the gear from the caves ASAP before is becomes too difficult.

In a game started in update 2 I've only found grenades inside caves so that would make them harder to restock the longer your game runs. There may be other outside locations or even bunkers with these but only on day 11 of my first game.

[{FU}TheForgeryTTV]

It depends. Most of the caves with bunkers (like the gym and food bunker) didn't have any enemies respawn for me. However, one exception was one of the maintenance bunkers in which the mutant babies did respawn.

The cave with the rope gun did have enemies respawn, usually in numbers that vary. Sometimes I only fought 2 creepy mutants but other times, it was a lot. Another cave was the one with the shovel and that had a ton of enemies respawn.

[LiL blade]

yes they do, i went into the beach cave just for ♥♥♥♥♥ and giggles and there was like 12 of those puffie mofo and 2 fingers in one room, took all of them out tho, with one crafted explosive ,few slug rounds from the shottie and the rest were sliced by the katana.