A friend that went ahead and got the game has been playing it pretty much non-stop since release and is about to have a mad stroke because he claims that none of the enemy units or wildlife are respawning anywhere on the map. I suspect he's got a glitched install since I've never seen a FO where things didn't at least respawn on the world map almost faster than you could gather ammo to fight it, so could someone tell me what the average time for a respawn in an area to happen is, in Game days?

Okay... so let me put this another way then... Has anyone seen ANYTHING in the game respawn?

I've found a train station with a bunch of ghouls, after killing them all and looking at my map "cleared" is under the name. I wonder if this only applies to ghoul infested areas or will every location be cleared. I'm hoping there's some sort of respawn time when you're away from the area long enough.

I don't know if you will find a straight up respawn, but when you clear out an area and return you will find new raiders and or new critters(dogs, radroaches, etc) for sure. I haven't seen big numbers of them, but I've run into a couple of raiders outside when returning to a overland area that was cleared.

so far all of the larger enterable locations i've explored and killed every thing in has received that "cleared" tag. however even 12 hours into the game only about a week has gone by in game. If its any thing like skyrim its going to take time for stuff to respawn.

One way it could be tested is by finding a bed and just sleeping a bunch.

Or waiting while sitting...just figured out that's how you wait in this game.

Corvega was marked as Cleared after having to trash some raiders there

thanks for the info, I some times use the wait feature for RP, and just assumed that it was removed. I would probably go a hundred or so hours with out using a chair before learning that for my self.

ha no problem, it just happened by chance. I was joking with my friend about wait being removed and said I guess I have to just sit in this chair for hours...that's when the wait button appeared.

Such an odd way to wait but it's not too hard to find a seat or bed.

I really hope enemies respawn in this game. It's not going to be fun roaming around otherwise. Does anyone have any knowledge of respawning? Or know if it's mentioned in a guide.

I read that they spawn back after a few games in game time. Then again I haven't seen that happen .

no firsthand xp with respawns yet, but if it doesn't, then that would be the first FO game ever that did away with cleared cells respawning random encounters.

in past games, once you cleared a cell location, the scripted enemies that are placed there no longer respawn of course, but random encounter group monsters do.

if FO4 did away with that, then I will finally join the camp calling for Bethesda's heads. There are some areas of improvement but find game generally pretty good and worth the franchise label. But if random spawns are gone? Off with their heads!

i agree but i can't see them doing away with enemy respawns, it should be like in skyrim, most indoor and virtualy all outdoor locations should respawn, i would be very dissapointed and would put the game down forever if enemies did not respawn, its part of my playstyle to re-visit areas during a playthru, i don't expect every indoor location to respawn like major quest locations but for the most part even inside buildings should respawn.

Enemies do respawn outside, went more than once into a couple of raiders, critters, bots and what-have-u, though the last time I was in that area was just a bit over 24 hours ago. Haven′t seen that in interiors yet.

IF its like the other vanilla Bethsada Games,

Monsters and Items DO respawn.

Typically it should be about 7 game days but in some titles it takes 30 game days. Also "Cleared" zones likely will not respawn without a modification. Also it wont take nearly that long to run into more stuff even if you have killed everything in an area due to random encounters.

Zone Respawn mods are pretty popular along with more monster stuff just figure that someone out there already has it in the works.

Do you recall how long it took for the respawn to trigger for those outdoor locations?

And to all - here's another corollary question to do monsters respawn - do dead monster bodies go away?

I think I am ~game day 10-12 right now and all the mobs I've killed in sanctuary, Concorde, etc are all still rotting on the group.

I don't recall prior FO titles taking this long for daed bodies to disappear.

locations marked as cleared in skyrim didn't mean no enemies would respawn it just mean you cleared it, major quest locations didn't all respawn like labyrinthian but prob the majority of indoor locations still did respawn.

well a lot of dungeons in skyrim respawned, major quest locations didn't usually but other locations did

i checked steam forums and someone did say there are enemy respawns and not just in outdoor locations but i would like to see that confirmed by more people

well, haven't had monsters respawn yet at cleared location, but I cleared Bedford Station 5-6 game days ago, went back and noticed all the loot containers had respawned - the general ones, not the game scripted one.

So the one dead drop - the blue bag with lot of goodies, didn't respawn. But all the other containers - med box, steamer trunk full of weapons, ammo, etc - all respawned and I was able to loot it again.

So on one hand - like FO3, cleared cell locations don't have the scripted loot respawn, but the general RNG loot does. - yet the monsters didn't respawn with generic RNG encounter mobs in place of the scripted mobs you first encounter when clearing that cell location.

TL-DR: cleared cell location loot respawned as expected, have not yet had mobs respawn though as one would expect.

as i recall, the help file in the game told how to wait. should check it out for info about the game.