Posted by: Lord Zedd
I'm still not completely sure myself, but "different" refers to the number of squad entries, and "spawn" are the number of spawns assigned to a/the squad.
Ok, so this is open for theories. Here's mine, and again, I have to give some background. I noticed once that when I restarted a mission, BOB would always be at the same spot. Wishing to verify this observation, I tried it on Winter only to find this wasn't true. So I think "different" is a setting determined at the beginning of the mission, while "spawn" is determined later, perhaps at the last possible moment (when BOB has to be written into the scene).
One thing that doesn't fit is that you list three different locations for LNoS, but no more spawn points. My experience is that if BOB arrives by drop pod, he will always arrive by drop pod (using revert to last save or restart mission), but that there are three possible locations for him to arrive. Thus, I would have expected three different with 5 spawns.
Going off the above, there is only 1 squad entry which has 14 spawns assigned. That's all I can tell.
I'm not exactly sure what you are asking, but among those 14 spawns there are 7 Plasma Repeaters and 7 Concussion Rifles and after glancing at the coords, Every Concussion Rifle spawn is very close to a Plasma Repeater spawn. For example,
Spawn 3: 395.8143, 166.4921, -19.14383, Plasma Repeater
Spawn 5: 395.5341, 167.3049, -19.14382, Concussion Rifle
Yes, this is consistent with what has been observed. For us mortals who aren't reading god's codes, there are seven spawn locations.
I've also seen the claim that there are five spawn points on ONI before, but didn't give it much credence. Would you care to elaborate on this claim? Is it like the one above? That is, are several of those spawn points in the same neighborhood?
The names suggest completely different areas (as do the coords), so I believe not.
Also, I had already grabbed the coords for ONI before realizing what you were asking in the above two questions, so here they are anyway:
Bob1: "sq_far_bob" Dual Wielding Plasma Rifles
Coords: 34.5267, -68.30871, 5.770611
Bob2: "sq_air_far_bob" Dual Wielding Plasma Rifles OR a Concussion Rifle (Or maybe the Concussion Rifle is a secondary, not 100% yet)
Coords: -8.661929, -154.7053, 4.452001
Bob3: "sq_air_bob" Single Plasma Rifle
Coords: -134.5031, -130.8608, 11.65025
Bob4: "sq_garage_bob" Dual Wielding Plasma Rifles
Coords: -83.24402, 47.80528, 16.50049
Bob5: "sq_sword_bob" Dual Wielding Plasma Rifles
Coords: -122.5402, 31.87342, 26.50025
Enjoy!
This is interesting. I will have to take greater note of what weapons BOB uses on ONI to make sense of this. It raises a lot of questions for me.
So, I was afraid that when you said xyz coordinates, you meant just that. Not sure how it will help me, but can you send them for Tip of the Spear? If you know the coordinates of any near by objects that might be helpful too. E.g. wraith, data pad, ...? I'm probably asking way too much ...
I'll have to experiment to see if BOB spawns in different locations under the spire to see if those three spawn points refer to that particular "different" location.