New pvp = RNG master?

[RiceisNice]

Nodes will not spawn on any of the locations the last wave spawned on, it is also extremely unlikely due to how node spawns end up being staggered that they will spawn on the one on the wave before that


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I can attest that this is not the case, at least not the "extremely unlikely" aspect. It could be that A1 cannot respawn right after A1 being exhausted, but a typical match always have at least 2 nodes exhausting at or close to each other. Having a node respawn on top or next to you is still pretty advantageous, giving time to regroup and settle in. Best way to work aroudn it, as mentioned before, is just having a better coverage of the area that isn't congested with the other two GCs.

This may be true to a degree (I've seen the situation you described happen once), but its so incredibly uncommon that I wouldn't call it "truely" random; more like a very small percentage that slowly increases over the course of the tomelith waves. I say that because oftentimes I notice that after a match has dragged on long enough/scores are close, frequent As and a couple S tomeliths are just about guaranteed to spawn as a way of "tie-breakers" or an attempt to speed up the match. Thus I feel the grade of tomeliths during the match do feel like they slowly upgrade, just don't rule out higher grades spawning early on.

The page for the game mode states that


Which is not to say that there is still the freak chance of two A nodes spawning inside the cave, and having one or two S ranks spawn in a very clutch location for one GC in an otherwise very close game can get very infuriating at times. The bottom line is that, RNG is RNG. Having a increased chance to spawn a higher ranked node near the end is the same as NQing something at a 95% rate.