Absent Abyss Monster?

[Buggy Boy]

Was I just lucky, or is there sometimes no monster?

[Zamarski]

might have been lucky. i dont think its guarenteed they spawn every time only its very likely

[sokolov]

The Latcher is the most common spawn and is also the one that gets stuck the most in the level geometry especially when targeting you.
Its also possible to avoid the creatures by silently floating upwards out of the Abyss.

[Greb]

You got lucky, I think. It's happened to me a few times. It might just be a matter of time, or perhaps there's a set depth and sometimes it's really deep? No clue.

I definitely remember having a little giggle m8 and deciding to go down down down into the abyss and skirt along the bottom of the cavern to skip an entire round pretty much, expecting us to die from abyssal related natural causes, but nothing showed up. I guess it was luck, as I could see geodes on the sonar as I was zooming along, but we never pissed anything off.

I guess sometimes they're on holiday. Or perhaps they got killed somehow, by magma vents, or just got stuck in the terrain? Presumably they'd still make those giant orange sonar pings if that happened, though.

I've seen Latchers get stuck in terrain more times than I've seen them not, but in their case they can totally cheat-teleport out of it and keep following us anyway, so I dunno.