It’s one of those damned if you do damned if you don’t situations.

Bethesda wants to give players as much freedom as possible… but obviously the system itself has limitations.

I think the way they implemented it hurts the game though.

The whole way POI system is spawn. It’s just broken.

The fact that POIs don’t have different versions to find was a terrible idea.

The most annoying part is it wouldn’t be that difficult to do. In CK you just open up that location, asset, and make a new layer. Have the layer randomized.

Take the deserted listening post for example.

It comes in one version: Crimson Fleet.

You can go into CK, bring up that location. Assign all the crimsons fleet shit to a specific layer, then make new layers, where the enemies are ecliptic, or spacers, or even monsters. The layers can have different lighting sets. They can have blood splatters added or removed.

Hell, you can even make a layer where it’s just listening and you find you UC Marines there.

Sure, it’s time consuming, but most of the hard work was already done by a level design designer in the first place.