Ancient Cyclops in SR, night & day?

[Kender]

he's supposed to be a night spawn but the code appears to be broken atm

[Iphigenie]

they realy should fix this spawn, its in no way classic!

[rahni]

4pm kill after 16 hours straight of following the 2 kills per night cycle technique. Came back some guy was running a 4 pm spawn he had to go so i took it over got on the first pop at 4 pm.

Cheers

[Ezrick]

Originally Posted by Iphigenie [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

they realy should fix this spawn, its in no way classic!

I killed the AC on live in broad daylight. I certainly remember it so I don't think the AC as a night only spawn is classic so much as an urban legend that made it into the wiki here (I'm the one that updated the wiki recently to say it spawns in the day).

I definitely watched three spawns over the night of 8-1/8-2. Two of the three were during the day, the third was around 7 pm or so.

Like someone said, if you carefully followed the Wiki you were bound to spawn the AC at night. We just killed the PH whenever it popped and the AC popped whenever he wanted.

[myriverse]

Sony Devs confirmed AC was a night spawn on Live... at least once upon a time.

http://web.archive.org/web/200902170...opic_id=143508

[cearobinson]

I need to camp the AC here then. I camped the one in OOT from 7pm until 5 am and didn't get a spawn :-(

[August]

I used to kill AC on his spawn time and got a mix of day and night spawns. It is not night-only here. If it is, it's messed up.

[t0lkien]

For those who don't want to read the full link:

Prathun-Dev

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There's one spawn in South Ro with a 30.66666666 minute repop time that has a 10% chance of being the ancient cyclops, but he has to spawn at night. He's on the same spawn table with a_desert_madman, a_dervish_cutthroat, a_sand_giant, and a_mummy.


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Truth is stranger than fiction:

ENCOUNTER_DESCRIPTION SROHusamAncientNightfall
MONSTER_1_NAME a_desert_madman
MONSTER_1_NIGHT_NAME an_ancient_cyclops
MONSTER_1_PERCENT 10
MONSTER_2_NAME a_sand_giant
MONSTER_2_NIGHT_NAME a_mummy
MONSTER_2_PERCENT 20
MONSTER_3_NAME a_sand_giant
MONSTER_3_PERCENT 10
MONSTER_4_NAME a_dervish_cutthroat
MONSTER_4_PERCENT 30
MONSTER_5_NAME a_desert_madman
MONSTER_5_PERCENT 30

[Estu]

So there was a recent change to the Wiki page for this monster making it now indicate that the AC only spawns at night. Is this indeed the case?

[Potus]

The last 2 times I spawned him (in July and August) he spawned at night.