Game/loot stage question

[AZ_Pendragran]

My brother and I are playing together on a21 and we noticed something goofy with our stages. We saw the game stage changing based on biome, but I think that is intended but our loot stages seem to be synced up, or reliant on one another. My brother stood on the forest and watched his loot stage change as I stepped back and forth across the border of a snow biome and the forest.

Is this intended? Or is this a possible bug?

Also is the biome game stage modifier intended to be so aggressive? Day 7 horde we had feril bikers and cops. I'll admit I have not played in a long time so I may have just forgotten these things.

[cinna]

yeah the harder biomes multiply your game stage by a certain amount, right now at my current level of 50 my game stage is at 60 (IN PINE FOREST), but when i was in the wasteland earlier it was almost 200. which caused way more harder zombies to appear but also the loot improved a lot as well

[cinna]

(im positive its intended)

[subwaybananas]

Yes, biome lootstage and gamestage:
forest "normal"
desert: 150% (of the forest) + 10 points
snow: 200% + 20 points
wasteland 250% + 30 points

the poi affect the lootstage too (the bonus per tier increase with your level), but not the gamestage. The gamestage changes comes with A21 the lootstage with A20 or 19