Singleplayer spawns

[Emphasized]

Heya, i mostly play singleplayer atm, and i have noticed a most frustrating problem. Many of the creatures in the world (and by that i mean around 80/90%), just dont spawn! I have played online for a while when the game came out, a good 2 months, so i know the average amount of creatures and animals that are supposed to be present in certain areas. For example the river. Usually its a huge challenge to follow the river because of all the crocs, hyenas, scaleback and birdies. Right now, i get maybe 1 croc every 5 minutes.

Another example, i build my camp next to an imp cave. 2 or 3 times now have i wanted to clear it for skins. So i go there, and..... nothing, not a single imp in the whole cave.

Is this a problem on my side or is it the game? Cause ive gotta be honest, its kind of messing up the immersion having to hunt for 10 minutes to actually find an animal.

[ℕatas Ҝhan}HvC{2.0]

not sure how single player is but in multiplayer once you place a foundation things stop spawning around it because you've claimed the land.

[ladycat65]

I have a base by the lake near the river in SP. I've noticed today: I went out and there was no animal around the lake. I needed meat so I ran to the Sentinels to look for crocks - no one there. Then I headed back, went up a little slope and found FOUR shalebacks and a hyena at the place where there was nothing at all a couple of minutes before. It looks like now you have to come to some loc, to leave it and to come back again to find animals. It's strange and a bit annoying.

[Emphasized]

Originally posted by ℕatas Ҝhan}HvC{2.0:

not sure how single player is but in multiplayer once you place a foundation things stop spawning around it because you've claimed the land.

My camp is at least a minute walk from the cave and the river, so land claim radius shouldnt be a prob, i even have an occasional scaleback spawn right next to my camp. Its really just something wron with the spawn mechanism.

Originally posted by ladycat65:

I have a base by the lake near the river in SP. I've noticed today: I went out and there was no animal around the lake. I needed meat so I ran to the Sentinels to look for crocks - no one there. Then I headed back, went up a little slope and found FOUR shalebacks and a hyena at the place where there was nothing at all a couple of minutes before. It looks like now you have to come to some loc, to leave it and to come back again to find animals. It's strange and a bit annoying.

Yeah ive started noticing that too, but even that doesnt always work :/

[Engine_Kill]

I have noticed this problem too in singleplayer (I think).
The animal spawns in the areas I usualy traverse is either heavily reduced or there is nothing there. And as a little twist: In the empty areas the spawns can come back, blocking your path, even if you just passed trough it in an 'empty state'. And yes, hunting animals can take a really long time, and take you far, because theres a only few animal to be found...
My solution so far will be to gear up on daggers (didn't use them before) to get more skins...

[PartTimeVillain]

I decided to come back after a few months hiatus and see how things were going, running into the same thing. The only things I'm seeing spawn at all are the baby shalebacks and the NPCs. No other types of creatures anywhere at all.

[Agnusthemagi]

I get this also in sp. It must have something to do with reduced spawns for performance improvement for sp game but is clearly too reduced.

[Badmagic]

Yup, they borked SP, hopfully they will fix it.

[cattibria]

The are spawning in the Testlive. I play SP there... first time in months that I saw one of the locusts that are usually outside my base.

[Emphasized]

Originally posted by steitsch:

The are spawning in the Testlive. I play SP there... first time in months that I saw one of the locusts that are usually outside my base.

Thats good news! Testlive is basically PTS right? any word on when that goes live? 'Cause i gotta admit the only thing stopping me from playing right now is how stupid i feel running around for 5 minutes to find an ostrich xD

[flipmode]

Being a new player who doesn`t know previous versions, I thought spawns would be intentionally random to keep things interesting.
Close to my base I somethimes get almost no wildlife, sometimes a Rhino, sometimes an Elephant.
However, if I die the game always seems to spawn twice the amount of creatures into the world.

[cattibria]

Originally posted by flipmode:

Being a new player who doesn`t know previous versions, I thought spawns would be intentionally random to keep things interesting.
Close to my base I somethimes get almost no wildlife, sometimes a Rhino, sometimes an Elephant.
However, if I die the game always seems to spawn twice the amount of creatures into the world.

The spawns are random from what I understand. I do know in the SP game, they all do not spawn at the same time to take some of the load off of your system. Also, the spawn points are presets and they will wonder off from those (both SP and server games) which can result in groups in close proximity to each other. With the AI, I am guessing we will see a lot of blood baths among the wildlife.

[Emphasized]

That is how it is upposed to be, yeah, but something is clearly off. Like one of the earlier comments said, in some occasions youll pass through an area, harvest there a bit, walk on, and then go back 30 seconds later to find the place infested with wildlife, to then move on to the next area and.... nothing. In my case they dont seem to spawn in one place and then wander off, like i said before, ive had several caves (spider, imp AND scaleback) that were just empty. I could walk straight to the end of em without coming across a single animal.

But fingers crossed it gets fixed in the next patch ^^

[Forthe's Fifth]

SP isn't spawning at all for me. I quit playing a while ago over it since you need hide to progress and there is none. I hope they decide to fix this one day as It has been months now.

[cattibria]

Originally posted by cloud2sephiroth12:

SP isn't spawning at all for me. I quit playing a while ago over it since you need hide to progress and there is none. I hope they decide to fix this one day as It has been months now.

The do spawn in the Live SP build now. You might have to leave the area and come back to it to see them. I do know that I am getting all the spawns I am supposed to near my base in the current Testlive build.