Rust Devils - any way to change their spawn rate?

[wileecoyote1969]

Third play through. I will state upfront I do not care for the Automatron DLC at all. I only have it installed because so many of my mods are either "No DLC" or "All DLCs". I did NOT want to do the caravan quest which starts the whole Automatron quest line knowing it would start the non-stop spawning of Rust Devils. I accidentally ran into the caravan location at night running from a radscopion (survival, lev 20, radscorpion is waaaay out of my league). Said NO to helping ADA. Did not matter, game started the quest anyway. Thought I was safe because I did not pursue the quest.

 

And sure as death and taxes, every single enemy encounter since has been the Rust Devils. Every. Single. One. All the random encounters. All the attacks on the settlements. Pretty much anything that was not specifically scripted as a certain type of enemy is now Rust Devils. No raiders. No Gunners. No Super Mutants. No Institute. Just those damn Rust Devils. To add insult to injury, They give me no ammo I need. I hate their armor (it looks stupid). I don't use robots so those parts are worthless. They only exist to drain me of all my ammo and supplies while offering little return. Plus the same enemy over and over gets monotonous. This is seriously sucking all the fun out of the game for me.

 

Can any tell me how to edit the spawn rates of the Rust Devils? Or, is it possible to deactivate the quest so they just disappear? I have 0% intention of following the Automatron quest line, Like I said I just have it installed as a necessary evil required by many of my mods.

[Ondrea]

If you don't mind going back some saves before the radio distress call, I always use https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/25043 to keep this DLC from triggering, along with any other DLC's you don't want to start. I'm like you. I don't like it at all and only have it for mods that require it.

[wileecoyote1969]

I will check it out. Thanks