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[vedaras]

Encounters were someone is fighting someone should be very easy to spot, so most of the encounters you are forced to face should be solo gang or creatures waiting for their target. Now you enter encounter where 50 creatures are fighting each other and you do not even spot it, that makes no sense. Even 1 outdoors should be enough for these. So my idea is to make number of people in encounter depend on difficulty to spot the encounter itself.

[avv]

You mean that you should be able to hear the gunshots from that ongoing battle?

[vedaras]

You mean that you should be able to hear the gunshots from that ongoing battle?

Something like that. Now people fighting each other, rockets flying, bullets banging and oops you appeared in the middle of action somehow...

[GroeneAppel]

Good point, big encounters should be REALLY easy to spot.
It should also be affected by your perception. Somoene with 1pe is bound to get into trouble.
But even he should be able to hear rockets flying and a minigun firing from a distance.

[EdwardRegrave]

Agreed, should be able to avoid the big brawls like that.  Smaller ones where it's like two guns knife fighting each other would be hard to spot and you could wind up finding it (With a higher outdoorsman skill).  But large war zones should be easily avoided.

[bipboy]

is this for pc encounters only? because when you met pure npc encounters you just stumble upon each other simultaneously   

[vedaras]

is this for pc encounters only? because when you met pure npc encounters you just stumble upon each other simultaneously   

well you do that just because game engine is too inferior to find them in the middle of fight, but that should be it. Even in fallout 2 the encounter messages are like caravan fending off some marauders and so on, so they actually start fight before you arrive.