Have pistol silencers been nerfed?

[DTD_Hiro]

I have about a 50/50 chance now to get a horde when I fire my silenced 9mm. Before 1.0 it was incredibly rare and what I think was happening was a puppet calling a horde after it dies. But now, there's almost no reason to use a pistol silencer since it brings the whole town half the time.
I'm not seeing this issue with silenced shotgun or rifles.

[Dreadlow]

Using the same suppressed weapon, usually on armoured NPCs and haven't had a horde for a while. It might just be RNG. I had a horde while standing still in a B2 police town garage, looking at the map and making no sound at all.

[Deathwhisper]

Hello :),

There's a chance that a silenced weapon will attract a horde. Depending on how many shots you fire, the higher the probability of this happening, even with silenced weapons. However, searching, a puppet call, and other loud noises can also trigger a horde, so it doesn't have to be just the weapon. This can happen especially in the heat of battle.

However, if you remain quiet and hidden during combat, the chance of attracting additional hordes decreases considerably.

[DTD_Hiro]

Originally posted by Deathwhisper:

Hello :),

There's a chance that a silenced weapon will attract a horde. Depending on how many shots you fire, the higher the probability of this happening, even with silenced weapons. However, searching, a puppet call, and other loud noises can also trigger a horde, so it doesn't have to be just the weapon. This can happen especially in the heat of battle.

However, if you remain quiet and hidden during combat, the chance of attracting additional hordes decreases considerably.

As an example, last night I was creeping thru a town, killing with katana only until I saw it was nearing 50% wear so i switched to 9mm suppressed. First shot, headshot and a horde.
cleared the horde. started creeping again once the town was quiet. first shot, horde.
my "luck" has gone from it happening very rarely pre 1.0 to about half the time after 1.0

[Sr. Morajsakom]

It also feels like non-silenced weapons now have their horde probability brought down, after shooting a crafted rifle and a non-silenced m1911 for quite a while, ive seen very few hordes. OR maybe its because they always went for the NPC. Anyways, not seen or needed to run away from hordes at all. Mostly using the guns for NPC killing.