Question about difficulty/story mode

[Lascerandi]

Started a new game with No Tutorial, No Story Mode.
Sliders People 5, Resources 3, Hordes Number 5, for a Difficulty Level of Medium

After playing through 67 days i realized the amount of hordes I'm getting is significantly less than before the update, even with highest amount of horde size. Also noticed there's no big baddie controlling them. Before patch on these settings everything is managable and then around day 50 mark there's 2 digit waves coming at me.

My question is what's affecting the changes. The Patch? Story Mode disabled? Or the supposed difficulty from the slider choices? Didn't want the slow start from low population, nor did i want to deal with the numerous radio calls from story mode, but even with max horde size checked off theres no ramping of horde amount.

[Daedalus]

No clue. I also just gave the "No Tutorial" and "No Story Mode" a go and have seen both massive hordes and Alphas leading them. Might just be random, or as it was mentioned elsewhere, the game seems to "check" your base to see if you meet some unknown requirement are ready for the swarms.

[Lascerandi]

Did you use a preloaded map or used a completely different area? I used my location for my starting area and it does say densely populated warning. Do you remember your sliders/difficulty?

[Daedalus]

Originally posted by Lascerandi:

Did you use a preloaded map or used a completely different area? I used my location for my starting area and it does say densely populated warning. Do you remember your sliders/difficulty?

It was the Washington, DC map (I used the White House as the HQ). I am almost certain that the only slider I changed was the Hordes and I reduced it to minimum (.6).

The only time I ever use the premade maps was when I attempted to get the "Globetrotter" achievement.

[MUFC1878]

when you enter the game top right corner has roadmap at this moment this game still at begining no story mode they are working on next phase called new story chapter.scientists
looks like there are 14 phase total maybe more. had to say this game update so slow no wonrder its early access

[APBLVHC]

In my case things are normal i think. This is my run, with only story events on, and very hard diff. Day 35, and that is just the beginning of the wave.

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198048333845/screenshot/2446096712119230493/

[Kaveori]

I was able to live to 83 days. It's simply impossible to continue playing. Too many monsters. (Easy Difficulty) It's very frustrating.