Helldivers 2 - Does time in mission actually affect patrol spawn rate?

There’s a tooltip in the game that says “The longer a mission takes, the heavier the enemy presence gets.“ According to our tests, that appears to be false. Spawn rates WILL increase as you interact with a map (doing mission objectives, clearing spawn bases, extracting, etc) but time itself is NOT a factor. As this video will show, you can sit in the middle of the map and regardless of how far along the mission timer is, patrol rates will stay the same. A level 4 bot mission (which is just what we use as a baseline) will spawn a patrol every 4 minutes regardless of time left in the mission. Here are time stamps in case you don’t want to sit and watch me lay on a rock for 40 minutes (I don’t blame you): 1st noticed patrol: 6:13 1st marked patrol (timer started) - 8:56 Main conclusion - 46:16 Sometimes it takes me a few seconds to spot the patrol with ping scans so it can be off by a little bit, but you can start from that 8:56 spawn and skip in ~4 minute intervals to se