Today's update made the area multi again, as it was before previous week's update. However previous week's update also introduced "Swarms" to the area which follow the player and actually block the rats making 2 tick fishing with 2 rats either impossible or just very annoying. For this reason I suggest they remove the swarms.According to a friend, the swarms might have appeared as a bug (pun intended) from the "poor looking man" not being in his normal location anymore, but I have no clue if this holds any merit.
Do you have any more information so I can share it with the team? I'd like to fix this to make sure it's back to normal for you but need to understand what has changed.
I've checked with Mod Ed and as far as we're both aware, the Swarms have been there for a while and from our end it looks like we haven't changed anything except bringing the area back to multi. However I'm aware of several complaints about this so I am keen to understand if there is something we're missing. How are the rats behaving differently?