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So i was playing this salvage mission on hazard three as engineer, and i had no troubles collecting the apoca bloom or salvaging the mini mules. But when i started the uplink there was a bulk detonator, i got him out of the way quickly and had no trouble completing the uplink but when i did the fuel cells there was another bulk detonater with 2 wardens, webspitters and acidspitters kept spawning making it nearly impossible for me to kill the bulk, i succeeded in killing the bulk, but the wardens had too much grunts with them. That triggered me since it was double xp. My question is, what are the odds that 2 or more bulk detonators spawn in one mission? Does it depend on player count, hazard diffiiculty or is it just my luck? Thanks

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almost 5 years ago - /u/GSG_Jacob - Direct link

Originally posted by Dwarfurious

Thats because there is a spawn pool of Specials. Wardens, grabbers, bombers, stuff like that. Depending on the difficulty you will have 1-3 different specials. So if a bulk shows up, you are likely to get another. How many spawn points this eats up is unknown so you may get like 1 bulk or 3 menaces

This. If you meet one Bulk Detonator, there will likely be more coming as that mean it’s in the spawn pool.

almost 5 years ago - /u/GSG_Jacob - Direct link

Originally posted by Mr_Blinky

That said, Bulk Detonators are honestly pretty unfair on Salvage, since there really isn't much counterplay. You can't leave the circle to kite them, you can't just hide behind the objective to protect yourself, they have far too much health to easily down before they get close, and one single blast from it is likely to down the whole team. On higher hazard levels a BD spawning during the objective basically just means a loss through literally no fault of your own, and it gets really frustrating because you feel like there was honestly nothing you could have done.

Yeah, I share the concerns and I’ve raised them - we’re looking at making that less of an issue. We definitely don’t want a spawn to mean you’re certain of losing.