swarm of spiders out of nowhere?

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So I just loaded a game, and suddenly there are spiders swarming over everything. And they're far more aggressive than all the other monsters. And these spiders definitely weren't there when I saved last night. So what the hell? Is there also a bug that when you load a save, a crapton of highly aggressive monsters spawn out of nowhere?

Anyone seen anything like it before?

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

I saw a quest way back in the beta that did this. Mayhaps an AI triggered it.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Two possibilities i am aware of:

1, there is a random event "the spider queen"(introduced through a full-screen picture like the one you see when entering wildlands for the first time) that populates the world with tons of spiders. There also is a new lair containing the spider queen herself placed in the world.

2, there is a regular quest where you find a cave blocked by a boulder, when you decide to remove the boulder and go inside you are informed that 'millions of spiders rush out past you'. You get to fight a hoarder spider inside, but after the quest it done all those spiders that rushed past you now plague the world around the lair.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

I had the quest-based spider invasion.  It was irritating tracking down spider swarms but they were easy xp and the quest payoff was great

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

This occurred to me, too, a month or so ago.  The problem is that the random events screens can show up and vanish in just a few seconds, leaving you wondering what the hell just happened.  That particular one is pretty damn nasty, because the spiders proliferate like mad.  Depending on what sovereign you're playing and how you play, it can be Game Over.  I'd suggest loading a save from before that point.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

I've gotten the spider queen quest a couple of times.  It has a chance of occurring around turn 100 and produces multiple stacks of Deadly spider armies.  I changed the trigger in my own CoreRandomEvents.xml file because that is way, way too early for something like that to happen.  

Also, fwiw, when I control-U'd after one of the occurrences, the spiders were only around my cities. 

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

Perhaps this would be a good time to ask the Devs to post a revised list of the current Hot Keys, especially the control keys.

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting stein220, reply 6
Also, fwiw, when I control-U'd after one of the occurrences, the spiders were only around my cities. 
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How convenient.

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Ambermonk, reply 7
Perhaps this would be a good time to ask the Devs to post a revised list of the current Hot Keys, especially the control keys.
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ctrl+U is a cheat code... you have to be running cheats to use it.

ctrl+R cheat completes all research.

ctrl+B cheat completes all buildings.

ctrl+T cheat teleports currently selected unit to location highlighted.

...there rest of the cheat codes are in another thread.