FragSavage

Modern Warfare 4 MP is ... something. Maps are not that good. Spawns are still broken after beta. And SBMM is cranked up to the max. We've got a great campaign, good DMZ mode, but a mess for MP so far.

I’m just going to say it: The Division 2’s Red Moon Unleashed event is a good concept implemented in one of the most infuriating ways possible for solo players. I understand why the enemy spawns are so aggressive. Players complained that previous events didn’t spawn enough enemies, which meant fewer keys and far too much time spent running around looking for something to fight. Red Moon Unleashed attempts to fix that, and on paper, having more enemies constantly appearing sounds brilliant. The problem is that “more enemies” has become “absolutely no breathing room whatsoever.” You can’t even finish one encounter before another group spawns. They appear in front of you, behind you and from seemingly every direction at once. Before you’ve killed that group, another one arrives—and then the boss spawns on top of everything else. I’m trying to complete bounties, but the event repeatedly hijacks them. I’ve genuinely had five or six separate groups spawn within roughly three minutes, followed by a boss. Eventually, you run out of ammunition because there simply isn’t enough time to finish the encounter, loot, reload and move on before the next wave appears. The enemies sit behind cover until you try to flank them. The moment you move, another group spawns behind you. If you’re near a control point, you can end up fighting the control-point enemies, an event group and a boss simultaneously. Call me bad at the game if you want, but this isn’t about whether the enemies are individually difficult. It’s about the event creating the same relentless spawn pressure for one solo player that it creates for an entire four-player squad. The spawn frequency needs to scale with the number of players. If a four-player group receives seven enemy groups within five minutes, a solo player should perhaps receive three or four. That would still provide plenty of enemies and keys without constantly destroying bounties, control points and every other open-world activity. Right now, solo play feels like a reset simulator. You start a bounty, multiple event groups spawn, your ammunition disappears, you get surrounded, the bounty is lost and you’re sent back to a safe house—only to repeat the exact same process again. Red Moon Unleashed is a genuinely good idea. The problem is that the spawn system has gone from one extreme to the other. Not enough enemies was frustrating. Endless enemies spawning before you can finish the previous encounter is just as frustrating. Solo players: are you actually enjoying the current Red Moon Unleashed spawn rate, or does it desperately need player-count scaling and a proper cooldown between groups? #TheDivision2 #Division2 #RedMoonUnleashed