What's the deal with Plague Sieges?

[Radbane]

Bolinas smeltry is the only one that doesnt seem to have a wave 5 miniboss.

Yes it has, it's an Elite version of the bigger infected with blisters (don't recall their name right now)

[Calamintha]

Sieges occur in a different 'phase'. If you do the Kenn Farm quest and then stay there you'll be out of phase with any siege that spawns. You need to exit the area and then watch the map for the siege icon to show.

That happened to me few days ago. Took me a while to realize why no one else was around.

[Tekrunner]

So my point, don't wait inside the effective zone, you want to camp, camp outside of it. May be a glitch.

As was said above, it's not a glitch, but a consequence of the way location-specific missions work. Basically when you start one of these missions you are put in a separate instance, in which a limited number of other players can join you. This happens transparently, but is actually visible fairly easily if you're in a group: if you enter one of these missions and other people in the group don't, you'll see them as being in a different phase.

So when you're doing the Kenn farm mission, you're actually in your own little "Kenn farm mission instance". Sieges don't override these instances (which makes sense, it would be annoying to have your mission progress lost because a Siege just popped up), so you need to stay out of the area to see them.

[Indra Echo]

Thanks for the reply!

I've tried logging and out back in over and over, but whenever I head back down to the farm, it's always the rancher/raider emergency. I tried just camping at the farm while I read a book, and it's now been 4 hours (so basically 6 hours overall). No a sign of the siege. Blah.

Sieges are not random at all or so I've been told. They happen at certain intervals, like I think once an hour. If you do something in the game, like play a coop, pvp. or keep longing off and on, you keep going into different phases. You might keep entering phases where a siege just happened and reset the timer for you. You need to stay in one phase or if and when it's possible join a friend that has a siege happening.

Sieges will be easy to see-the marker will who up on your map just like the arkfalls do, but it's a different marker. It's blue and when you get near the siege, the area will be surrounded by a large blue circle like the arkfalls have a big red one. And all sieges happen at the same time. So, you will have 4 choices of where to start.

[Indra Echo]

Forgot, the sieges occur every hour, I'm finding it to be on the half hour now, but it's cycling. example 12 noon, 115pm, 230pm, 345pm, 5pm (they seem to appear 1 hour after the last...)

It's a different time in different phases so you could be hitting them by changing phases.

[toffeecreme]

sieges are phased, so if you are in the area when one begins it will not show to you so just play as normal and look on your minimap for the green logo to tell you one has started.

My bf and I were playing yesterday, at Kenn farm I went afk and he continued to play, when i returned he was phased at Kenn farm for the siege (having left the area and returned) but i could not see anything. I had to fast travel somewhere else and then teleport to him in order to see it.

[Commander_M]

I've noticed that arkfalls (usually single and not major) occur near a siege that will take place within say 5-10 minutes after the finished arkfall. Not sure if this always the case. Just an observation really. Also, a tip for advancing sieges if your the first few there is not to cure the objective points right away. Knock them down a bit and wait till more players come to help out. I believe the siege won't start the timer until all the objective points are captured. Hopefully I'm not totally full of shtako.

[squidgod2000]

I'm trying to do the Kenn Farm one. I did the wounded ranchers/raid thing, and now I'm just standing around waiting for this siege thing to pop up, but nothing. Nothing at the farm has changed and it's been over 2 hours.

Am I doing something wrong?

If you're standing in a Kenn Farm phase, you won't see the siege for Kenn Farm on your map (or anywhere else, for that matter). You need to move outside of the phase and wait.

[Racheakt]

I'm trying to do the Kenn Farm one. I did the wounded ranchers/raid thing, and now I'm just standing around waiting for this siege thing to pop up, but nothing. Nothing at the farm has changed and it's been over 2 hours.

Am I doing something wrong?

Also the events are phased, if you are in the farm doing the kill the bugs event you are phased there, not the siege when it pops. This happend to me on the Bolanis area one; I saw the maker on the map but no siege. I had to run out of the area and back it to see the correct phase.