oh i love that spawn chance. It is such an incredible holy poo moment lol. But if you are playing a dead is dead game, it can suck so hard. lol.
you could allow the the developer mode on in your server, that way in the rare case of a dire wolf spawning early you just hit Q and you are safe...
that's the funny thing about headshots only(i had a friend make a mod to do this) it really doesn't change the playstyle, you are already incentivized to go for head shots with the massive damage bonus.
and with the 2.0 loot rebalance it will encourage us to move bases. I've been doing massive crafting/sell off of stuff i know i can get by looting pois in the next biome, which is nice because then you have some cash to pick up a few things once you've found a new home.
I just don't know why you aren't scrapping your non-int weapon ammo back in the work bench for more lead(ah crap it might not scrap to lead lol) then you don't have to mine nearly as often.
oh yeah, this happened to me recently. I was running a playthrough where i forced myself to move to the next biome once the trader sent me there. i was in desert by day 11, i decided to do an infested clear(i figured i'd take the spot over for a base) and there was at least 1 rad and a bunch...
just 1 cavate to that though. lower tier weapons on lower difficulty can have problems with rads, so in that rare instance when your gear isn't up to snuff the rad remover would be my choice.
The smg does enough damage to take out rads, but it depends on your difficulty level. Lower difficulty i would go for the drum mag. Higher difficulty i would go for the rad remover.
I think 1 of the developers commented on this topic before saying that it causes network issues.
It's a feature I don't really care about having, but I get why people want it.
I forget which channel was doing that, where a group would hunt after the main person. I forget which channel was doing that. but you could really up the challenge for everyone by making it hoard every 3 days lol. could you imagine the horror of having to deal with people actively hunting...