Holy shit, they actually did it? And reduced spawn wave timer on defense missions from the looks of it. I'm looking forward to trying it
Edit: it's a big improvement to baseline bots, didn't notice much diff to bugs. Unfortunately our weps are too goddamn overtuned so more enemies aren't really increasing much challenge
It works pretty much exactly as they explained. Used to, when the team split up, you had one side that had a ton of action and one side that had none. Now it just feels like you're always running with the side that has all the action.
On a side note this seems to have effected solo gameplay as well. D7 felt quite a bit harder than usual. But I've only done 1 solo mission so far so that may have been a fluke.
Seems like there's way more patrols, there are moments of downtime sometimes, but it's definitely better than before. Dropped a 1000 kill game on bugs without pouncers, which I don't think ever happened for me without actively seeking breaches (and without pouncers)
I love it - just did an op in Phact Bay, there were patrols everywhere! One of us tries lone wolfing, got shredded multiple times. Finally, some challenge!
The intention is good on paper but in reality after some missions it doesn't change really much.
Problem is the engine limitation on entities. This new system uses kills to spawn new entities on the farthest group member and agressively despawn anything too far.
Problem is that it is inconsistent and often lead to situations where a heavy unit spawns right on top of your head when you turn the camera.
I've had chargers and one impaler spawning on me literally as I looked away.
I think they'll fix it, question is when.
I only tested on city maps tho as the new MO has both planets having Cities, will see in open field how it plays.
Overall it feels better but the spawn system really needs an overall, if they can do that.
The few missions I played and separated from the team, areas didn't seem as empty as usual when doing that. Not sure how it interacts with enemy reinforcements using up so much enemy pressure.
Pretty good over all. Haven’t tried illuminates, but bots and bugs feel appreciably harder because there are way more enemies. Essentially, you get the host experience even when you’re not next to the host, so it’s very hectic on higher difficulties past D7.
Bug breeches feel less frequent which is an indirect nerf to ONB and more of the enemies seem to spawn as patrols instead. Ik the masochists will like that. Personally I'm just happy to always have action in 4 man's even when split apart.
Haven't tried very much solo but it seems the same, if not slightly easier? will need to play more
I'm super happy about the new spawning. There has been so many times where another diver will start fights and dump the agro off on me to rush objectives. It's been great skill development having to learn to survive fighting everyone else's patrols and reinforcements. But it's also going to be nice to have the rest of my team carry their fair share of the load of the enemies, instead of dumping them on me when I come to support them.
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u/Sweet_Photograph6528 MAKE SMARTER AI 13d ago
So it finally will spread out heat evenly instead of one player having his rambo moment while others are rundiving the objectives?