Some people like a fight. I know! I know! Who’d have thought it? What have the machines ever done?
Well, if you spawn at the Island, just South of the Lighthouse, just East of the Windmills, the trick is to stand in the field just short of the Farm and wait for a seeker. Normally, there are just two military tanks by the Windmills. But if a seeker spots you and uses the horn, they come out of everywhere. You run into the house and fight them from there. Here is the aftermath. If you have trouble counting, there are six tanks, two harvesters, at least twelve hunters and more runners than you can shake a stick at.
Try not to antagonise them, eh?
Oh and if anyone knows of a similar way to get into an insane dogfight - post it here…
If you know of a place with a few hunter spawns… get them all to hunt you…
They will follow for ages, with luck you could end up with 24+ of these to fight off.
I did that… “one or two times”…
Try paskallaholm safehouse seems to be lots of robots there, got out of a 16 hunter, 12 runner and 2 harvester fight and then 2 tanks and 8 more hunters and 4 more runners with a sprinkle of 5 seekers joined in…I was a very happy chappie😁
Those two tanks there are mission specific tanks, part of the “Tilting At Windmills” side mission. Once you’ve done that side mission, those two mil tanks won’t respawn.
For another hotspots:
Stenmyra town (Marshlands), has safehouse
Garphammar town (Marshlands)
Hjalmars Stuga cabin (Mountains), has safehouse
Angeras church (South Coast) aka Sillavik, has safehouse
I can kill the tanks, fast travel to another safe house, fast travel back and there they are. Or, I can go to Main Menu, back into the game and they’re back. If I need .50 cal, they’re always my best option. I’ve killed them twenty times at least. But if I meet a seeker before I engage them, enemies spawn in their hundreds. Try it, if it doesn’t work, tell me, but don’t tell me they’re not there!
Farmlands Region-South of Airbase, From Skogshult and Glattra farm to Overby Gard Farm there are always many machines:
Runners from 14 to 26/30
Harvesters from 3 to 7
Tanks from 5 to 10
Hunters from 9/10 to 20
Seekers too (but they era not interesting)
In my game they aren’t there, no matter how many times i continue the game or fast-travel around the map since i’ve completed “Tilting at Windmills” side mission.
Like i said, those two mil tanks are mission specific tanks and mission specific tanks stop respawning once you complete the mission they are part of. E.g Last Stand, Tilting at Windmills, Troll Toll, Scrap Metal, The Hellmouth, etc <- all those have mission specific tanks.
If you don’t believe me, just make note of the tank, complete the mission and look if the tank respawns.
Same goes to the tanks guarding relay beacons (at least 3x such relay beacons in-game). Once you blow the beacon, the tank that guarded it won’t respawn.
I’ve done all the missions! I’ve been playing since day three! I’m an original, not some Jilly-Come-Lately!!
They respawn for me all the time. I’m still mourning that the Tank no longer respawns at Torsburga Fort. I must have killed that one thirty times before it stopped respawning.
Think of the tank on the new Island in the field next to the town. Spawns there all the time. Or the two tanks that spawn next to the Fort in the East of the Island. You can kill them as many times as you like, but they’re back at once. For me, likewise, those two tanks by the Windmills are a permanent feature. Sorry about yours! If you want to have a go at them, come into my game and kill them to your heart’s content.
But, try to get caught by seeker in the field below the Farm and see what happens.
Mission related tanks (including the 2 Tanks at Torsberga fort) no longer spawn after finishing the missions.
It is quite sad for me…they really gave more personality to those places.
So yeh you must have a lucky spawn saving file .
That tank is random spawn and reason why it is seemingly always there is due to the small possible locations in Himfjäll where random tank could spawn. In Himfjäll, there are 14 spots where random tank can spawn and max amount of random spawn tanks are 6. These 6 doesn’t include relay beacon guards (1x tank: East of Ulvstugan Slope cabin) and mission specific tanks (4x tanks: Last Resort, Stalemate, The Hellmouth, The Resistance).
So, due to this, tank spawning just East of Himarvet has pretty high chances.
Even i have had tank spawning there very often but not 100% of times.
Just South-East from Österhällan Marine Center in Himfjäll? If so, then i have never had 2x tanks there. Sometimes, only one Apo tank.
West from Österhällan Marine Center (or South from Österhällan) is the spot where one random Apo tank can spawn and it’s also where one, mission specific, FNIX tank spawns, making possible of 2x tanks in that area.
No need to be sorry for me since GZ is made in a such way where mission specific tanks don’t respawn once mission is complete. In that sense, you got it lucky where mission specific tanks respawn for you.
Better enjoy it until that bug is ironed out for everybody as well.
Thanks for the offer but there are plenty of tanks in my game as well and i know several hotspots when i’d like to have a big firefight.
Probably, but don’t touch the weapon stash underneath the middle windmill! I had found the stash, and therefore completed the mission, but I hadn’t touched it. The tanks spawned. Then two days ago, like a twat, I looked in one of the weapon boxes and my tanks stopped spawning. So I had to go back to an older save, and I’m back down to level 27! But my tanks spawn again.
The important thing is to attract a Seeker while in the field below the Farm. Even when the tanks didn’t spawn still I got 8 hunters and a cloud of runners.
If you haven’t even found that weapon stash, don’t! You don’t need the ammo, after all. Nor the points from completing the mission. So leave it and you’ve always got a barney…
So, when you do complete Tilting at Windmills mission (or access mission end loot), those two tanks do stop spawning in your game as well. And all you needed to do was to find it out by yourself, rather than believing what i said.
Now you know why i don’t have them and why your strategy doesn’t work fully for me or anybody else who has completed that mission.
Also, there are plenty of other hotspots on the map where aggroing a seeker brings you a machine armada to battle with. That spot next to windmills is just one of them.
Ah, now resist the temptation to go all “I told you so”, eyes to heaven and all that - I get enough of that from my girlfriend!
I had completed the mission, clever clogs! It had shown in my log.
What I hadn’t done was to look in one of the boxes, or taken something, 'cos I didn’t need it. So I knew the mission was completed and I knew the tanks still spawned. I have now gone back to where I hadn’t done the mission, and I shall now leave it undone, just to be on the safe side, and shall have to redo the last few levels, but actually they make little or no difference.
But it is interesting that the mission can be completed by finding the stash, but the trigger for the tanks is taking something…
Clever, that you found out what triggers what. I touched the stash and since then I only find one, and on very rare occasions two, tanks patroling the mills. And, when I find two, I actually think one of them is attracted from a nearby farm SW of the mills.
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It had shown in my log.