I play a modded Fallout3 game using FWE and a few others but none that change spawns except for MMM. I have some odd behaviour in my game that I would be interested in knowing if you guys also have experienced. Sometimes I come to a zone where there are no monsters to be seen and save. When I load the game up again, suddenly monsters spawn into place. As if they didn't spawn to start with and after I load the script finally kicks in and spawns them. At least that the explanation I believe to be the correct one.

I can't say if it's normal or not since I use FWE and MMM as well, but I've had instances of going through the mall and all is quiet, enter and then exit the Museum of History a short while later and I'm in the middle of a massive firefight (with the sentry girl wandering around unconcerned).

I've also died and reloaded a game in the Mall only to find myself completely surrounded by more than a dozen completely new spawns while the corpses I had previously killed are still laying around. That's a hard one to deal with.

I seem to get it a lot. Just tried it close to a nest of Mirelurk eggs with no Mirelurks around. I save and load and the place is crawling with them. Very odd.

I also use FWE & MMM and I experience the same sort of behavior at times. It seems to be a relatively rare occurrence in my games so I just deal with it. Can the method of saving be a cause? I still rely almost solely on quick saves. Force of habit from years of FPS'ing.

I save manually. But it is interesting that I am not the only one. Wonder what causes this.

I have that sometimes, as well. Most recent was up near Dunwich at that campground. It was quiet and empty so I saved (via the menu). Later when I loaded the game again I got a Deathclaw Matriach and some radscorpions. It seemed like the game was saying, "Surprise!" It wasn't a fun time at my level :laugh:

yea i have had a similar thing happen to me. i use MMM w/ increased spawns, but no zone respawn (haven't updated to RC6 though) but not FWE or other overhaul mods.

i started a new character recently, currently lvl 4. i was in the super duper mart doing the quest for moira. i clear it of raiders (took a bit of time) and find the quest stuff. as i'm heading out, another raider tags me in the back with a sledge. i thought it was odd, but didn't think anything of it. i continue toward the front of the store, only to find that a new batch of raiders have spawned in their usual locations. the bodies of the other raiders remained as well.

i'm not sure why this happened, as i was in the cell when it spawned the 2nd batch of raiders.

i also got completely mauled by 2 enclave soldiers + 2 talon mercs when i fast traveled to that farm near the SD mart (same savegame -- on the way to do the stuff for moira). i'm not sure if MMM can cause this, but it svcks having to run from those guys armed only with a couple of small guns and a few grenades.

Geez, I had a Deathclaw Matriarch sneak up behind me and attack me while I was ransacking some raiders.

Thank god for game exploits....inventory opened and I popped: Aspirin, Buffout, Ibuprofen, Psycho, Jet, Night Ghoul Eye, Tribal Healing Powder and Stimpak.

I was a walking pharmacy, couldn't see straight (pretty colors, though) and used up six or seven clips from a Tommy Gun, but she did go down in the end.

That was scary. Though so was losing track of a Sentry Bot the other day.

Are you sure the first one wasn't the scripted second batch of raiders that spawns when you open the medicine chest?

And the second one kinda sounds like a random encounter from fast travelling.

wait... the 2nd batch is scripted? oops, didn't realize that. come to think of it, it was after i opened the medicine chest. we can file that under the 'normal' category then.

the second one was indeed a random encounter... but enclave at level 4? i tried to take them on but died like 5 times before i just ran.

Oh, enclave before you initiate them in the main quest. Yeah, that's pretty odd.

At the Super Duper Mart there's an intercom near the river ward entrance. If you turn it on you can actually hear the reactions of the new group of raiders as they arrive to find "something wrong".

Happened to me once in Seward square and it spawned two behemoths