Imperial encounter rate is absurdly broken

[Pandalorian]

So for I really like the game. There is, however, one problem that completely breaks the experience for me and turns this from being a fun game into a game that I almost don't even want to play anymore. WTF is up with the absurd encounter rate of imperials?! I can't do any sidequests or exploration without encountering non-stop waves of them that chase me across the map! I dodge one group and go half a mile away on a chocobo to do a hunter quest, only to have that bloody group jump me while I'm in the middle of the fight, almost guaranteeing a party wipe.

[Katja]

theyre worth good Exp, if youre having a lot of trouble with them then brew up a 99dmg spell with elemancy that usually shuts them down in one cast.

[Harry101UK]

It's the same as it was on the PS4 Pro for me. Still absurly regular though...every 30 seconds.

[Andreas Andersen]

hey look imperial incoming... oh hey look imperial incoming... oh look mooore imperials incoming.
atleast they have attack circles like mobs so you can always just run away, but why did they make it so they can stop your car XD chocobirds it is

[J]

You can avoid those fights if you pay attention to your party members telling you when they spot the air ships. You can just run away from them.

Alternatively, one thundara will destroy the entire group.

[seven_legs]

i thought that at first when i played on the ps4 but then as someone else said just cast a spell at them. if you scan and see the weakness cast that spell and it will get rid off alot of them. good for gaining exp.

[The Meow?]

What if I don't want to gain exp... What if I don't want to waste my spells on them... I should be able to just explore and do sidequests without having to worry about airship drop.

Now I'm walking and trying to kill monsters already hard enough and all of a sudden an imperial raid drops on me that I have to take out too. Hopefully a mod or cheat comes out to stop that or reduce it instead of every 30 seconds.

[Luna]

Prompto: IMPERIALS ABOVE US

Noctis: Thanks

Me: ffs end my life

[chrcoluk]

its not about if they too hard, its just a ridiculous spawn rate, happens on the console version also.

[Doomerang]

I've kinda noticed this too, doing a hunt and getting hit by imperials 3 times during the encounter which made the whole fight so chaotic it started to involve demons.

[~Hime~]

Oh my gosh I soooo need a mod for that. They are UTTERLY annoying. Night hunts are impossible. The troops keep coming one after another + daemons + hunt objectives. So you need to be +30 lvl to TRY to hunt 15 lvl creatures. And it's 30 min battle.

[Vayne]

Originally posted by Nyaka~Hime:

Oh my gosh I soooo need a mod for that. They are UTTERLY annoying. Night hunts are impossible. The troops keep coming one after another + daemons + hunt objectives. So you need to be +30 lvl to TRY to hunt 15 lvl creatures. And it's 30 min battle.

They dont want you to wander around at night

It give you more caution feeling when you wandering at night....i usually rush to nearby camp

[Emmagination]

Running away is fine and all but they always seem to show up when I'm doing a hunt above my level...like I'm not having to try hard enough already....and those bullets just rip everybody to shreads in no time...

[Demonpriest]

Originally posted by Nyaka~Hime:

Oh my gosh I soooo need a mod for that. They are UTTERLY annoying. Night hunts are impossible. The troops keep coming one after another + daemons + hunt objectives. So you need to be +30 lvl to TRY to hunt 15 lvl creatures. And it's 30 min battle.

In one of the craters there are 2 hunts. 2 giant snakes and another boss, dont remember what it was. one of the dropships actually droped one of the mechbosses down, and i had 4 bosses all at once, i won though. Was a funny battle.. :)

[chrcoluk]

Originally posted by Korvus:

Running away is fine and all but they always seem to show up when I'm doing a hunt above my level...like I'm not having to try hard enough already....and those bullets just rip everybody to shreads in no time...

yes there seems to be delibertly placed spawn spots on top of quest locations. :(

They also have a habit of spawning when you get a demon on the road at night as well.

On one of the photo quests, I had to fight a wave immediatly getting out of car, then I had to fight a second wave as they interrupted me when I was about to take the photo literally 10 seconds later, after taking the photo a 3rd wave was already dropping. So a car parked next to photo spot I had to defeat 3 waves to take photo and get back in car.

Its clearly not well thought out, but the devs seem to think its good how its implemented because in the dozens of patches made for this game since launch they havent adjusted it. If anything its actually worse than at launch.

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Use you grenades, they're very effective.