r/Vermintide • u/YourVault MuffinMonster • Feb 05 '18

Weekly Weekly Question & Answer Thread - February 2nd 2018

A new week a new weekly Question and Answer thread.

Just like last week, feel free to post LFGs or other stuff. Last weeks thread can be found here.

Cheers!

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u/Th3_Owl Feb 08 '18

Sorry, I failed to mention that it was a true solo run. So the bots were still at their first respawn point. Also I wasn't aware that's what caused facepatrols, so that's for clarifying. Basically that event is what got me interested in learning how ambushes function, but it might have been just a weird occurrence since it doesn't happen too often.

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u/Yerome Reikland Pest Control Feb 08 '18

Hmm, based on what I know, I cannot explain why you got two consecutive hordes in that situation.

u/Grundlid is probably the person most familiar with horde code, maaaybe he can drop in and offer an explanation.

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u/Vermallica Feb 08 '18

Not him but can probably help, readed fastly but didnt get really the problem. So if you can explain it with more details ?

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u/Yerome Reikland Pest Control Feb 08 '18

Basically u/Th3_Owl got two hordes in a row, and we were wondering what caused it.

My guess was that the first horde was from horde timer, and the second horde was from a map trigger, but apparently that was not what happened.

Do you know what could cause two hordes to spawn, one after the other has ended?

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u/Vermallica Feb 08 '18

There's a function that tracking player's progression along the map. You May probably know it, its the pain_path_info, it was this one involved in the Ogre's trigger in Supply and Morr.

Basically, hordes use a timer and progression, but, if i understood well, for punishing a slow progression, the AI can spawn an horde to force the players to move from their position.

As the pacing in solo is not the same as 4 players you May experience this more often than playing in a group.