Mobs too Scattered

Before I17 and I19, the mobs would stand there, or walk around but stay close to the main spawnpoint. However, since then, they scatter. It's hard enough to find every member of the mobs when they blend in with the environment, but now they can go off on their own, and I have to find them. I am a group at once soloist, I pull them too me and attack and I'm fast that way, set for 54s for 8member teams. I for one don't like them spread out so far I have to spend extra time on them one at a time....especially bosses when I get the Against all odds boost for being near multiple enemies.

My question is .... does anyone else agree with this?

Herd.

Boo hoo, the mobs aren't entirely stupid.

Well, I'm testing my new build on my brute, and I have been setting my mishes at +2(x4). The mobs for the most part are rather grouped together, with a few stragglers. You might want to check your mish settings for that.

Plus, herding is the answer to some of the scattered mobs. Some mobs won't be herded, like snipers and the like.

I agree with the OP completely. Something has changed when I18/GR was implemented. A mission that I intimately familiar with now has some of the mob wandering off into the next spawn, and my settings are default: 1/+0.
And they wander off with a little schoolgirl walk, short fast steps. It's hilarious to watch, if it wasn't frustrating at the same time.

You are correct that recently the mob AI changed and they start to roam after a set period of time once they spawn. If you are attacking groups in "the world", you will have a harder time as it is difficult to be the one spawning new groups.

On missions this should be less of a problem, as you should be attacking groups almost as soon as they spawn (not giving them time to start spreading out).

I hunt snipers in FF for fun.

Beware it's raining snipers.

It is morally wrong not to use knockback attacks on snipers if you have them.

I haven't noticed this change on the tip missions I've done. But in general, I am for it. In my ideal world, all mobs would have agendas of their own and not just stand around in convenient little clumps of all roughly the same composition. I've tried some AE missions with scads of patrols, and they're more fun for me.

I've noticed the change. It's vaguely annoying only in the sense it makes it less convenient to jump in and AoE stuff to death. That suggests to me the change was fully intentional, and thus very unlikely to ever go away.

I have seen a bit more of this recently but frankly I sort of like it. It's much more realistic than at every spawn pawn finding 3 minions or 1 minion/1 Lieutenant standing there pounding their fist into their palm while they wait to be beaten up. Now they roam a little and you have to work a bit more to find them.

Sorry I like it so I don't see the problem.

I've mostly only noticed this on outdoor maps, as indoor maps tend to rein them in a little bit. The roam distance is a bit ridiculous, however, as mobs in the same group can be REALLY far apart. As in out of snipe range from each other. On the one hand, it makes the outdoor map a little more interesting. On the other, it's a little weird for people in a group together to be so far apart.

So not sure where I sit on this. Not sure how much it really affects play, either. Seems kind of like it would just be better to have more patrols to mimic this effect, but that's my two cents.

It is normally not a problem for me, on most of my characters, but it is giving my low-level stalker fits. I solo a lot with him in the AE, and I know just how far to push him and what he can handle. Now, instead of those 2 +1 minions and a Lt., he is now facing that plus an additional wandering +2 Lt. from the next mob. I somehow cope...

Not saying it is a bad thing, just agreeing with the OP that something has changed with the mob AI, either intentionally or not. I DO believe that the "little school-girl" walk IS unintentional, but it is fun to watch big, tough guys like the Lost walking around, taking baby steps. The only thing missing are the plaid schoolgirl skirts...

Edit: Oh, and I noticed this with the Rikti monkeys last night in Crey's Folly, while farming them for my aura mission. As soon as they became visible to my hovering blaster, they started to spread out.

Dunno if the spawns were odd at the time or what (number of years back), but at one point in a nemesis mish, there were ~2 snipers per mob... didn't find it too problematic until one specific room in the lab tileset.... the room with the ramp up to the center platform with the raised walkway around it (usually 2 spawns on the platform, 4 on the walkway, and one or two on the ground behind the platform).

In retrospect, knowing the spawning tendency for the map up to that point should have been reason enough to not storm the center platform with my blaster. I ended up drawing the attention of every single sniper in the room (and a fair number of those jagger bots).