Just joined a factory raid with about 18 minutes left, and found 16 dead player scavs, thats not including myself or any bodies I couldnt find or anybody that extracted either.
I thought maybe the pouch slots were broken and normal scavs had them too, but found a body without a pouch slot and killed a couple scavs who also did not have pouch slots.
Now, I made another post about scav spawns earlier today cause just yesterday I experienced strange player scav numbers as well, Roughly 10-15 player scavs on interchange, and thats just the ones me and my friends killed and encountered. This isnt encountering regular scavs and mistaking them for player scavs, Im mediocre at this game but have 3k hours and all of them were confirmed pouch slot player scavs.
The raid before that interchange raid, we were on customs and ran into at least 10 players scavs as well, All confirmed pouch slot kills.
Ever since the christmas tree got removed I feel like they did something to maybe reduce server load/Q times by increasing the amount of player scavs per map. Or spawning them in quicker, or both.
It feels absurd though, this many player scavs is unbearable and honestly just a clusterfuck every single raid.
I want to hear other peoples experiences cause something feels VERY fucking off and broken currently with the player scav numbers.