Have the aliens given up in 0.17.49?

[Galathelion]

With update 0.17.49 we saw some changes in the way alien attacks are orchestrated:

Reduced the UPS impact of a large number of biters trying to pathfind. (71865)

In my game it now looks like the aliens have given up. With 0.17.48, I had regular attacks on my base that looked like this:

Biter attack 0.17.48.png (2.94 MiB) Viewed 2150 times

Now, with 0.17.49 my defenses are mostly silent. I rarely get attacked anymore, and when I do these attacks look like this:

Biter attack 0.17.49.png (1.4 MiB) Viewed 2150 times

The kill statistics give a nice indication of the overall effect. The image is for the last 50 hours of gameplay and the drop shows when the patch was installed:

Kill statistics 50 hours 0.17.49.png (995.79 KiB) Viewed 2150 times

Around the time that the attacks ceased, nor after, next to no spawning pits were destroyed. Pollution absorption levels also show a general upwards trend:

Kill statistics spawning pits 50 hours 0.17.49.png (320.76 KiB) Viewed 2150 times

Pollution statistics 50 hours 0.17.49.png (142.19 KiB) Viewed 2150 times

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Does anyone have a similar experience? I rather liked having to put some effort into defending the base

[Nosferatu]

Haven't checked this on my game but you are not alone:

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=72056

[Galathelion]

With the change in 0.17.51 the aliens are now attacking again. Not quite as strongly as they did before, but they are definately showing their opinion about my presence

Biter attack 0.17.52.png (5.31 MiB) Viewed 1791 times

[JimBarracus]

Yesterday I launched my first rocket in the current playthrough and I had the feeling, that attacks started to be much more frequent almost immediately.

Not sure if this is just a feeling but I wouldn't be suprised when the devs pulled a sneaky on us.

[Koub]

Like in :

[*]Fixed an issue that made unit group pathfinding fail often, resulting in very few biter attacks. (72056)

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Source : viewtopic.php?f=3&t=72444