Well, they’re not fighting me anymore. They’re avoiding me.
If the area you are mentioning was still active after the latest update, then maybe you are trying to visit the area too often. Everything on the map, other than missions, repeats given enough time. It maybe different number of machines and/or types, but it repeats. Easy way to tell if an area has finished resetting is to look at the nearest loot boxes to where you spawn. If they can be looted again, then the area has reset.
Loot boxes reset after 4 hours last I heard. May be more/less. Or was that day/night cycle ? Whatever.
I can have my game open for hours while doing something else and listening for bots and nothing shows up to repeat in any which configuration.
Which reminds me : when you open up a loot box and decide not to loot it, next game you open : same lootbox is empty ?! How is that logic ?
Doesn’t take 4 hours for an area on the map to reset. You DO have to leave the area for it to start to reset and then try to stay out of the area for a few hours of game play time. And that is not what I have heard from other sources but from playing on my own map for more than a few hours at a time.
And yes, even if you do not open a loot box, next visit, to soon, the loot box will not open. It’s the way the game plays, odd is correct. But being able to open loot boxes is the easiest way to tell if the area has reset.
Same here :I’ve played sessions of hours on end, while I switched areas, like you say. I’ve seen resets within one session. But still : my favourite massacre spot has dried up. Gone are the endless rows of patrols of 4 to 5 hunters.