Breach Encounters and Monsters in Maps

Over the past few days, we’ve seen a number of reports about Breaches preventing monsters from spawning.

We’ve been actively testing this issue, as this behaviour isn’t what we would expect. Our investigation has identified a problem with two specific methods of adding monsters to maps, Shrines and the Essence Scarab of Calcification.

For Shrines, packs of monsters were not spawning if the Shrine was located within a Breach Hive.

For Essence Scarab of Calcification we found that there were 30% less essences found in maps with Breach Hives than those with Unstable Breaches or on Standard.

We’re currently working on fixes for both of these cases.

Our testing with Divination Scarab of The Cloister and Ambush Scarab of Containment shows a consistent number of the monsters/strongboxes added by these scarabs whether a Hive spawns in a map affected by them or not.

It’s worth noting that monsters which would normally be placed within the area of a Hive encounter are not removed entirely. Instead, they’re compensated for by placing monsters elsewhere in the map. We’ll continue to monitor this situation closely and share updates if we discover anything further.