Come on.... what the hell is this

[Silamon]

I went to the military checkpoint in Cordon, I had a stash to search there. I go in expecting this crazy raid on a military outpost to discover... 2 dudes guarding the entrance and no one else around. As I explore the base I got attacked by some dogs.

So I think to myself is it really abandoned? Why is there loot around and what were the guards doing there then? I continue exploring and find a military body armor, nice. Suddenly a whole damn army spawned behind me and I can't even peak a window without getting shot at by 20 guys.

Dafuq is that even? That's embarrassing. I will continue playing vanilla but holy damn do the enemy spawns need to be fixed.

[thestile]

That's weird, I keep hearing about these spawning situations but I haven't encountered them. Not quite like that anyway.
I do think guys spawn close in the area for me, but nothing big like what you experienced.

Well, that would certainly suck

Edit: I haven't actually been to that particular military checkpoint, I was mixing up locations.

[GlowWorm]

Spawning is broken. What "should" happen is that a location should be calculated as having a spawn, but the spawn is not brought online until you are far enough away. Once the spawn is wiped out, the chance of it having a new spawn should be zero until enough time has passed, and again any spawn should not be brought online if the player is too close.

However, the "not too close" probably had to be adjusted because the "online radius" was made quite small around the player due to console performance. And something about "when you wipe out the spawn the chance of a new spawn is zero until enough time has passed" is obviously also broken.

So here we are. GSC will need to troubleshoot and see what they can come up with (that will also work on console).

[Stalker2010]

That is the place I 100% have the military respawning after each time I clear it out.

[GlowWorm]

Originally posted by thestile:

That's weird, I keep hearing about these spawning situations but I haven't encountered them. Not quite like that anyway.
I do think guys spawn close in the area for me, but nothing big like what you experienced.

Well, that would certainly suck

There's a military location at the south end of Lessor Zone, and I could hang out there indefinitely and have squad after squad after squad of military appear, which sounds great except they are in quick enough succession that I have trouble looting all of their bodies before the next ones arrive, and especially because their nade spam gets old pretty quick. (Though I do now have 2x Physical Protection Maximum artifacts, so might be worth trying again.)

[Silamon]

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I killed these guys and another 6 or 7 that went around into the building I was in. They all spawned the second I got to the end of the building in front of me. I was pretty surprised to look out the window and see over a dozen guys shooting at me that were most definitely not there when I went into the building...

[Silamon]

Originally posted by Stalker2010:

That is the place I 100% have the military respawning after each time I clear it out.

As I was taking the screenshot and looting bodies another group spawned in front of the gate. I guess I better grab the stash and run if this is going to keep happening. I really want to like the game but this is one hell of a mess...

[CrashX]

Bro same thing happened to me at the old Army Warehouse where Freedom used to be, Was absolutely deserted until I got the code for the stash room and then bam, about 10 Mercs spawned all around the building I was in!

After dealing with them 2 pseudo dogs spawned 10m in front of me, and after that a pack of snorks. I literally couldn't leave game kept spawning ♥♥♥♥ in around me lol

[thestile]

Originally posted by GlowWorm:

Originally posted by thestile:

That's weird, I keep hearing about these spawning situations but I haven't encountered them. Not quite like that anyway.
I do think guys spawn close in the area for me, but nothing big like what you experienced.

Well, that would certainly suck

There's a military location at the south end of Lessor Zone, and I could hang out there indefinitely and have squad after squad after squad of military appear, which sounds great except they are in quick enough succession that I have trouble looting all of their bodies before the next ones arrive, and especially because their nade spam gets old pretty quick. (Though I do now have 2x Physical Protection Maximum artifacts, so might be worth trying again.)

Gotya. I'm gonna head down there tonight and see if it happens to me out of curiosity. Maybe I didn't stay long enough to find out.

That's definitely a problem

[seven_stars]

Originally posted by CrashX:

Bro same thing happened to me at the old Army Warehouse where Freedom used to be, Was absolutely deserted until I got the code for the stash room and then bam, about 10 Mercs spawned all around the building I was in!

After dealing with them 2 pseudo dogs spawned 10m in front of me, and after that a pack of snorks. I literally couldn't leave game kept spawning ♥♥♥♥ in around me lol

Done that with a few bloodsucker to boot. That is an endless spawn location

[Silamon]

The stash was just meds and ammo... I got better loot off the guys that spawned on top of me. This is just... really hard to enjoy... The atmosphere is there, the graphics is there, the gunplay is there, but everything else is broken.
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[DOOM_Dwarf]

I know exactly the area youre describing, becuase thats a scripted encounter.
You find a mostly empty base, go in the building, and suddenly there are 10 or so soldiers outside.
I always though they went out on a patrol/to check somethings and just got back while you were looting their ♥♥♥♥.

[Silamon]

Originally posted by DOOM_Dwarf:

I know exactly the area youre describing, becuase thats a scripted encounter.
You find a mostly empty base, go in the building, and suddenly there are 10 or so soldiers outside.
I always though they went out on a patrol/to check somethings and just got back while you were looting their ♥♥♥♥.

So they just had 2 guys guarding the entrance and EVERYONE else left? If it were like 5 or 6 guys and then a group coming back as you explore I could believe it, but why was there a pack of dogs there too?

[zpc]

It's a subtle "get out of here Stalker" request.

Notice that big wall (as in huge)? It's the border of the zone - there are also deadeye snipers who will kill you if you come too close. Those places aren't meant for boiling some tea. Get in, get out - quickly!

[Zeyphr]

i'm so glad this post was made, this will definitely fix the game now that all this constructive feedback has been provided!

[DOOM_Dwarf]

Originally posted by Silamon:

Originally posted by DOOM_Dwarf:

I know exactly the area youre describing, becuase thats a scripted encounter.
You find a mostly empty base, go in the building, and suddenly there are 10 or so soldiers outside.
I always though they went out on a patrol/to check somethings and just got back while you were looting their ♥♥♥♥.

So they just had 2 guys guarding the entrance and EVERYONE else left? If it were like 5 or 6 guys and then a group coming back as you explore I could believe it, but why was there a pack of dogs there too?

Tbf there are packs of dogs everywhere xD