Mobs too high for loot level??

[Charmy_joyce]

Hi all,

I have been playing this game for a while now, but only recently started to play again. Anyways, i am on loot level 40, day 15 and on my first night i encountered a feral, wich i thought hmm odd but okay..i guess. but now on my second blood moon i had 6 direwolfs!!! wich i thought was extremely odd. Then when i went back to questing i was doing a simple T3 infested quest and encountered 2 radiated screamers? like eeuh...what? of course i died. 

The thing is, all my stuff is on normal, exept for loot wich is on 200%, but all the rest is on default starting mode. I have a forge, workbench and cementmixer, my highest items are lvl 3. Surely i shouldnt be getting these hard mobs already right? I recently uninstalled and reinstalled the games because it kept lagging out (wich in turn then that would kill me) and currently i am not using any kinds of mods, its just purely the game itself i am running.

Anybody know what can be going on? Because i am stumped and not very much enjoying the game right now *sad face*

 

[SylenThunder]

Mobs are going to be based on your gamestage, not loot level. Also note that ferals can spawn at night regardless of gamestage.

 

[Riamus]

I've had a direwolf on the day 7 horde night.  It's not unusual.  Ferals can happen at night regardless of game stage, though they aren't too common at lower levels.  But if you go into a larger town, especially somewhere like a downtown area at night, you should expect to find them.  But I've run into them at the outskirts of a town before on the first night.  Just bad luck.

And radiated on day 15 isn't at all unusual unless you are progressing much slower than normal.  Screamers have changed, so they appear sooner than before, so if you're going to make a lot of noise, you're going to get them.  Stick to melee if you don't want to deal with them until you have better weapons.  Or, if it is a real problem for you when doing a POI, drop a few rows of spike traps at any entrances around the POI and they'll likely kill themselves before they are a problem.  But they really aren't that big of a problem.  I usually ignore screamers at a POI.  A lot of POI don't have easy ways for them to reach you once you're far enough into the POI to have created enough noise for them to spawn, so they aren't an issue until I leave and I can just jump in a vehicle and leave without bothering with them if I don't feel like dealing with them.

Give yourself some time to get familiar with the game again and you'll find these encounters to not really be a problem.  If needed, you can adjust some game settings to make things easier in the meantime.  Lowering speed of zombies or increasing your damage settings will make them easier to deal with.  Once you're used to it again, you can always change those settings back.