Patch When? #8 - Dev Diary - PvE Encounters

[-Revenant-]

Oh yeah, it is at F-2 not C-2, Fixed.

There is also new encounters in Sigma-15, Omega 3 and Omega 5

F2 now don't work This is first time we going and nothing happen we are inside of circle. Any advice?

Because of server load. NPCs disabled after server load exceeds certain limit. NPCs usually disabled after 55 players, sometimes 60.

Aha okey thank you

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[Wheel.Rusty]

this is just amazing, I love this game, thanks for your work ^^

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[Titan*]

updated OP, new encounter locations added

[Avalanche]

Amazing work Titan, thanks for doing it and continuing to improve upon it.

[Couden]

I've come to an encounter zone (Tau-23 Gallic one) and stayed there for a bunch of time with no trigger to spawn. Can it be improved to make it less rely on Players online or somehow make it triggers?

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[Kaisershadow34]

Are all currently available encounters of difficulty 2.0?

[SwiftWing]

Wow I finally got the one in 15 for Corsairs to show up after about 10 trips into the circle, I ran out of there like a scared Puppy. wish it could Set itself to the number of players and ship type, that was insane. even a single BB could not go in there and have a chance to kill anything before it was dead so that had to be a 2 lol, how about putting general Spawns around Home Planets again and other places like in the old days? that's what everyone wants again. Random spawns in multiple places activate by players with Like a Single BB Patrol with Escorts. Cruiser spawns with Escorts etc. again like the old days...

[Titan*]

Wow I finally got the one in 15 for Corsairs to show up after about 10 trips into the circle, I ran out of there like a scared Puppy. wish it could Set itself to the number of players and ship type, that was insane. even a single BB could not go in there and have a chance to kill anything before it was dead so that had to be a 2 lol, how about putting general Spawns around Home Planets again and other places like in the old days? that's what everyone wants again. Random spawns in multiple places activate by players with Like a Single BB Patrol with Escorts. Cruiser spawns with Escorts etc. again like the old days...

NPC spawns based on server load, if there is too many players online npcs disabled to prevent ping/lag issues for players. However nearly 2 day ago Dev team improved server performance so you should able to trigger encounter npcs spawns. If encounter do not spawn but you see normal patrol npcs flying around this means encounter is on cooldown so you should jump to another system and jump back to encounter system, This should make encounters spawn most of the time, Just keep an eye on your scanners and see if there are normal patrol npcs flying around.

I am aware that Encounter difficulty is at extreme levels and causes problem for even 3-4 players. Next patch will reduce the difficulty by a lot, so you will able to do most encounters with a friend helping you far more easier than before.
Next patch adds multiple new variants to encounters (includes low chance of having a variant with Elite NPC spawn and rewards you more loot if you manage to kill) so encounters will be a lot more dynamic than before. There are few solo-able variants that might spawn but its up to your luck and the reward is lower because of it, Player still has to know which targets are more important.

Are all currently available encounters of difficulty 2.0?

Yes, there will be difficulty 1.0 encounters but that requires a lot of work so it will take some time.

[SwiftWing]

Any chance to get back the old days spawns around home systems for example near NPC bases even with GB Patrols, CC Patrols and or BB/BS Patrols or something like that, and not a missive fleet your confronted with, anything a single pilot can have some kind of fun? a little meat and potato's playing for the little guys. because if you have to have lots of players to fight large groups the way it is, players are going to get very board fast when there is nothing to do for the little guys. Leeds at least has a Molly GB spawn you can fined all the time. but haven't found anything like that in Rhineland space yet. think about the little guys because it is us that keeps the server alive... or maybe it want be if we don't have anything to do

in short bring back the random Patrols all over the Game... Thanks...

[Titan*]

Any chance to get back the old days spawns around home systems for example near NPC bases even with GB Patrols, CC Patrols and or BB/BS Patrols or something like that, and not a missive fleet your confronted with, anything a single pilot can have some kind of fun? a little meat and potato's playing for the little guys. because if you have to have lots of players to fight large groups the way it is, players are going to get very board fast when there is nothing to do for the little guys. Leeds at least has a Molly GB spawn you can fined all the time. but haven't found anything like that in Rhineland space yet. think about the little guys because it is us that keeps the server alive... or maybe it want be if we don't have anything to do

in short bring back the random Patrols all over the Game... Thanks...

there are few systems still have standard patrols around, One of them is in Dresden. Patrols and basic npc spawns something i can't decide to make, it is completely up to System Devs and Other Departments.
You should visit Dresden system in Rheinland, there should be NPC Capital ship patrols.


New hotfix released few days ago changed cooldowns to 120 second. If nothing spawns, wait 2 minute in encounter zone.