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Diablerie #6165
Monster Power is bugged(1)Category: Technical SupportJune-7-2013 1:00 AM PDT (10 years ago) Go to Blizzard forum post
More specifically, the enemy amount increase. Remember the issue where the game settings would constantly uncheck "use Monster Power" and you'd have to keep re-enabling it? That problem appears to have been fixed, however not entirely in-game.

Now my MP checkbox remains checked and I receive the boosts of XP/magic-gold find/monster hitpoints and damage, but not the enemy amount increase. I was playing through Act3 a few days ago and I wondered why I couldn't get more than a higher killstreak of around 30. I figured I was just having a few random moments, even though I restarted the game for one reason or another several times.
And my max killstreaks were always between the 20-25 mark. I wasn't really seeing much of a monster density increase either, would get killstreaks of around 25-30 in areas that were supposed to be bursting at the seams with those stinger things. Then I got to Act4 and it felt really off again. Max killstreaks of around 15-20 all the time whereas I'd normally get minimum killstreas of at least 50.

That's when it occured to me to just disable and re-enable Monster Power on a whim. And voila, now I could actually get 80+ killstreaks on Act4 all of the sudden and monster density was back to delicious levels!

So what in the hells??? I have to disable and re-enable MP every time I start the game because otherwise it won't give me the beefed up monster density. The "game settings turning off MP" bug looks to be still around, only better disguised.
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Omrakos
Monster Power is bugged(5)June-7-2013 1:45 PM PDT (10 years ago) Go to Blizzard forum post
Diablerie,

From the 1.08 Patch Notes.

"Players should now encounter more monsters in Acts I, II, and IV in Inferno difficulty when playing at Monster Power 1 or greater"

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/9647272/patch-108-now-live-5-7-2013

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