New PvE player here. Are bot respawns supposed to be this aggressive?
I want to talk about one annoying thing that I don't think has been discussed here yet. I'm a newcomer who bought the game after the PvE patch (thanks Penguin, love your posts).
I have some experience with extraction shooters, both PvP and PvE, so I picked up the mechanics pretty fast. I won't go on about how good the game is, I'll just say that I barely touched my Quest 3 for the past year, and now I've been launching it every evening for 4-5 days in a row.
Now to the problem: WHY DO BOTS RESPAWN SO INSANELY FAST? I'm doing the starter quests at the Dam and few evenings in a row I ran into the exact same issue at the exact same spot, where Igor's quest requires you to find two cans of gunpowder. That village already spawns 6-8 scavs, but the problem is they respawn literally in 3-4 minutes.
As a new player, I need some time to just reload my mags, unload the scav mags, check all the boxes, and somewhere in the middle of all that another 2-4 bots spawn in. Not sure if this is specific to that location because I've seen the same thing in other places too.
And the timing problem wouldn't feel so bad if the bots spawned at some distance and walked toward your POI like a patrol, but they literally spawn 40-50 meters in front of you in the middle of the road, fully in your line of sight.
Please confirm that you're experiencing this too and I'm not going crazy, because I find it really strange that nobody is talking about this on Reddit.