Apparatus pulling?

[Cinestill 800T]

Does taking an apparatus increase the difficulty for the stage? Like does it make entities more aggro or more of them spawn?

[Zanaki]

Yes

[Sasha Mason]

Doesn't seem so from my experience. You can pull it out very early on and won't actually get any enemies spawning in at all, or at least not more or more dangerous ones than usually,

Enemy spawns seem mainly time based and enemy behaviour is consistent regardless of light. That being said, not having any lights in the facility makes it a lot harder to progress.

[The Fountaineer 🖋]

It does in fact make enemies more aggressive, or at least spawn quicker. If they havent already spawned you won’t notice until you venture deeper.

[Prøxy]

Originally posted by Sasha Mason:

Doesn't seem so from my experience. You can pull it out very early on and won't actually get any enemies spawning in at all, or at least not more or more dangerous ones than usually,

Enemy spawns seem mainly time based and enemy behaviour is consistent regardless of light. That being said, not having any lights in the facility makes it a lot harder to progress.

This is pretty much the correct answer. Taking out the apparatus doesn't have any effect on enemies or spawns.

[Underscorecow]

The only impact the apparatus has on monsters is all of the security doors are opened which can realistically release them from sections of the map that they just happened to have been locked in.

[Poppintags22]

I feel like it doesnt really do anything. It only seems like more enemies show up because all the locked facility doors open up which allows the monsters to roam more freely