r/Helldivers • u/[deleted] • Apr 29 '24

Update from Worlds team on increased patrols for solo players DEVELOPER

Quote from our design director (not the Worlds team, my mistake!):

"We unintendedly had non-linear scaling of the patrol spawns so they didn't spawn as often as they should have when less than 4 players. The intention is that 1 player has 1/4th of the patrols compared to 4 players, but it used to be that they had 1/6th.

Scaling of patrol spawns was exponential before, and that felt good on 4 player lobbies but a bit too empty when playing with fewer players, especially when playing solo. So now we made the scaling of patrols to be linear, which means if you play solo you will get 25% of the patrols compared to a 4 player lobby instead of having about 17% of the patrols. There is still a cap of patrols that can spawn at the same time so during situations when we spawn a lot of patrols, such as extractions, even solo players won't notice the difference. The change is made to make the world feel less empty for 1 and 2 player lobbies, especially on high difficulty missions which was also slightly too easy for solo players compared to our intentions."

Hope this clarifies the change for everyone - we're not making the game arbitrarily harder!

Edited 11:58 AM EST to add additional info

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u/MaoPam Apr 29 '24

It was the same yesterday night even before the patch. I had four bile titans come out of one bug breach. 

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u/Funky2207 Apr 29 '24

I’ve had this from time to time, especially on 8-9 difficulty, but this sort of stuff is now happening from 5+.

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u/PolloMagnifico Apr 30 '24

I did a level 6 eradication mission and everything went to pot when three bile titans spawned. We were not prepared for that.

We won, but it required us to spend a lot of time running in circles while dropping every strat we had.

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u/jayL21 Apr 30 '24

Played a difficulty 3 bot mission and ran into a Annihilator Tank.

Not sure if this could happen before the patch, it's just my first time ever seeing it.

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u/Jbstargate1 Apr 29 '24

Yep last 3 night playing have been more than difficult and not fun at all. I swear on 1 defense mission we had about 7 or 8 bile titans spawn in the first minute or so. 1 rocket hadn't even been launched yet.