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Hi,
1200 hours of factorio.
I start a new game (default ennemies settings), i see 3 nests close to landing zone (about 96m from the crash site). And i was rushed by 30 small biters at only 21 min. /evolution 0.01
I think it's much too hard, certainly harder than before.

Then you fed the nests a whopping 120 pollution while it was building up for an attack (a period that can last up to 10 minutes).

I would be surprised if this has anything to do with 2.1.x; the biter threat has always varied widely based on the specific map properties, and on how rapidly you generate pollution.

If you pick a map where you are going to pollute nests very early, you have to adjust for the fact and focus on military much earlier.

In case you don't know, as nests absorb pollution, they spend it to buy units for an attack party, which it will send to attack at some random (not uniform) time over the next 10 minutes. So the more pollution they eat (and the longer they decide to wait before attacking), the bigger the attacks you see.

I've had this pre 2.0. As you get better and build faster you pollute more earlier and start seeing more aggressive biters than when you were slower.