r/dyinglight

Google's fetid excuse of a search engine just keeps forcefeeding me its pathetic AI's drunk hallucinations and won't point me to a solid answer. It either tells me "if you enter a hive and destroy all volatiles blahblahblah" which is for The Following DLC for the first game, or it just rambles on and on about "blue icon this, grey icon that" without actually telling me what that means for Volatile activity in The Beast. I get that the Hives are meant to be farmable for late game, multiplayer and events, but Google doesn't realise that I could not care less, and just want to know if it actually affects night time Volatile spawn rates.

Reddit (as usual) has the answers, so if someone could bless me with the knowledge, I'd be very grateful. So, does clearing Volatile Hives permanently decrease the number of them that spawn at night? And does the respawning of the Hives themselves revert that?

I'm loving the franchise so far. 1 is my favourite, 2 felt like an AU fever dream with great QoL, and so far The Beast has felt like what 2 was actually meant to be. But my god has the need to make everything live service killed the integral experience of story driven titles.

Regarding the countryside in the following, they managed to contain that outbreak the same they did in Harran and the game lore explains how the harran virus outbreak was fully eradicated. Any thoughts on this?