No Legendary Spawns

[MaxMaxine]

I played Horizon for nearly a year, and finally gave in and went back to the base survival game. I UN-installed Horizon, and went searching for mods that I previously was unable to use. One of these mods was MCM and GCM. After installing GCM, (game config menu), I set legendary spawns and legendary rarity to 90% each. Within my next load, I was getting legendary spawns everywhere, and the drops were of good quality.

I kept adding mods, and eventually screwed my save, as was expected (playing Horizon teaches you to expect starting over).

I started a new game, and the GCM settings carried over to the new game as expected. However, I now had NO legendary spawns at all, NONE. I tried decreasing and increasing the chance and rarity #'s, with no effect. I posted on the GCM forums and got nothing but a simple response of "read this to see how legendary spawns work". I was already quite familiar with that math. I reposted explaining in detail my steps to correct the situation to no avail.

Eventually, I gave up, un-installed all my mods, and uninstalled FO4 for a fresh install. I cleaned my install folder, and deleted all my saves. Re-installed FO4, and worked on getting a fresh load order via test chars. Upon getting a stable game and load order, I installed GCM and reset the settings to the previous values, however they did not take effect. I verified this using the "getgs fDiffMultLegendaryChance_SV" command, and it came back to 1.5%, lower than base survival should be. I used the setgs command to set the spawn rate to 85%, and then checked with the getgs command, and it verified the setting.

After loading up, I again am finding NO legendary spawns. I set GCM to 85% in all game difficulties and tested again, to no avail.

 

At this point, I can only think that:

1. A holdover from Horizon is lurking somewhere, but if so, why did it not take effect after first un-installing Horizon?

2. GCM is actually FUBAR'ing something, preventing legendary mobs from spawning.

 

Any help as to where to look would be greatly appreciated. I quit Horizon mainly because of it's restrictions and the loss of legendary drops, and now I am worse off than where I started.

 

I am of course using fully current versions of FO4, F4SE, MCM, GCM, and all other mods.

[gromulos]

did you ever go into Steam and turn off CLOUD globally, if not that's what is messing you up

 

Cloud is designed to restore any changes back to a previous date based on what it has "remembered"

 

multiple people have had their custom INI's replaced by cloud lol :P

[MaxMaxine]

Cloud has been off since it was first added to Steam years ago. Thought of this however, and double checked shortly after the problem began.

 

Again, all my settings are saving normally, all settings in GCM are applying instantly and saving between loads, I'm just not seeing any legendary mobs.

 

I did check to see that legendary mobs COULD spawn, by using the console to spawn some in, and it worked as expected. Another thing I have just noticed is that loot/containers are respawning almost instantaneously. I can clear an area, including an exterior area, and come back minutes later to see the mobs and majority of loot re-spawned (just checked with Skylines Flight 1981) and it will fully re-spawn minus the master locked cargo container and the beacon upon every fast travel back to the area, including a whole new set of varied types of mobs.

[gromulos]

maybe wait in game 10 days and let the cells reset?

[MaxMaxine]

Ya, I think I may do that next. GCM has an option to change cell timers, but I am going to leave it at default and do a 168 hour reset and see what happens.

[MaxMaxine]

Waited 12 days, went to a few interior cells I know to always have at least one legendary mob, nothing.

[gromulos]

when you installed the game again, did you remember to delete ALL of the INI's from the old game? Including the ones in the documents folder?

[MaxMaxine]

Actually, I did not. I scanned through them and saw nothing that glared to me as possibly causing a conflict, ie: nothing injected from scripts, so I left them alone as I have a detailed setup for key mapping and video settings.

I specifically looked at the INI files yesterday to see where the legendary spawn % rate was being recorded, but could not find it.

 

Now, I believe it is possible this was a mistake.

 

If I were to simply delete all of the INI files, and load the game, would it re-write them upon game start?

 

At this point, I am so sick of this issue (I have 2.5K hours into FO4) re-installing yet again may end up making me finally quit, as most of my drive to play is just to get a perfectly modded and stable game for once, so I REALLY do not want to.

[SKKmods]

What results do you get for:

 

[ show ChanceLegendary ] the value

 

[ sqv LegendaryChanceQuest ] the current stage

[MaxMaxine]

SKK50,

 

Value = 12.0000

 

Quest State

Enabled? No

State: Stopped

Current stage: 100

Priority: 0

 

 

Did not even know of these commands, now the question is, HTF do I fix it? It looks like Horizon did indeed leave an edit there somewhere.