Atlas Respawn Rate a Tad High?

I made a new Sonic / Beam Rifle Defender last night, and began my heroic career in Atlas Park. I know yesterday's patch notes indicate a bump in the respawn rate of Hellion Informants... but I think that may not be the only mob to see a bump in the respawn rate.

I was given a mission by Aaron Thiery to take out five Arachnos Commanders, near some Arachnos pylons. Before I managed to finish taking out an Arachnos Commander and his group of buddies, another group would respawn right next to him. I seriously got a whole level's worth of XP just from trying to make it out of there alive. I couldn't stop fighting. When I finally ran out of inspirations, I got the heck out of dodge, and snuck back in a few minutes later to take out the pylons to complete the next mission.

Now, I realize that Defenders do low damage, but still it seems to me that the respawn rate is a tad high if another group respawns before I finish the first group...

It's not so much that it's too high. In fact, I had at least one experience where it took a good 20 minutes to finish that Arachnos Commander mission because they just flat out weren't spawning.

The problem is more that before i21, the game had some sort of ninja-spawning code, which wouldn't spawn new enemies when there was something hostile right in the neighborhood. Hence, why you wouldn't suddenly have more enemies dropped on you in the middle of a fight. That seems to have been removed, now.

This was complained about a lot during Beta. I think its unfortunate myself. CoX put some effort into a system that prevented mobs appearing in the sight of players, which was very good. But this has been turned off and called "new tech" for Freedom. Unfortunately it means that in a lot of places (such as rescuing citizens from Skulls) you get them phasing in on top of you. I consider this a retrograde step.

It also seems to break on occasions as well and I have had a couple of times now where mobs simply won't appear at all. Although its only happened on the Red side for me.

Worst of both worlds imo

On a server where many toons are all competing for the same spawns, a higher respawn rate may be appropriate. The new "spawn on top of you" code? No likey.

My new Grav/Time Troller was very nearly overwhelmed by Skulls in this manner.

Good news! According to yesterdays Patch Notes they've increased the spawn rates for Hellions in Atlas


Oh wait, that's exactly the opposite of what you want. Me am Bizarro-Carni. Me am happy that you got exactly what you didn't want.

I'm pretty sure that with the anticipated influx of free players, this is intended to prevent groups of people standing around waiting for things to spawn so they can complete missions.

From what I've heard, that is a lot of people's least favorite aspect of a lot of MMOs. Low spawn rates of things a lot of people need to defeat in order to progress.

But, with the phasing tech in place, once you are done with that part, you shouldn't have to deal with it anymore.

You could just not fight in the spawn area.

I fight from outside the borders of the spawn areas with a "safe" area to my rear that I can pick and pull into. I try to stand equally between two spawn points that I can switch between. When one is done, the other is ready.

I noticed it mostly with the mission where you have to save civilians from Hellions...it got really annoying also because they were so close to each other.