"Teleporting" NPC's, some more observations

[Scoob]

Hey all,

So, I wanted to touch on this subject again as something funny just happened.

I loaded my game moments ago, did a Ctrl+Shift+F11 as usual - no issues - and proceeded to do a quick perimeter check to ensure there were no hostile squads nearby. I see a Hive Trade caravan on the way, but that's it. As I'd just recruited two new characters last night to help my armourer - they're on Armour Plate and Chain duty - I look to see how they're levelling. Moments later I certain squad tabs flashing red, signifying an attack. Most odd as there was no one even close.

I zoom to the action and there appear to be a load of Dust Bandits inside one of my buildings! How did they get there? Then, a few moments later, the Hive trade caravan arrives.

As I'd literally just loaded this save, I re-load it to try to identify where these Dust Bandits came from. However, upon reloading there's not a trace of them - just like before - but this time they never appear. The Hive caravan arrives as before though which, last load, showed up just after the Dust bandits.

The ONLY difference was that when I first loaded this save I sat watching my new Armourer helpers, whereas the second time I was watching the building where the Dust Bandits appeared. My settlement isn't huge by any means, but where the Dust Bandits appeared that first time would have been off-screen.

So, considering NPC squads travel around properly, why would a group seem to spawn inside by settlement moments after loading, then, upon reload, fail to spawn at all?

I really thought, by chance, I'd manage to snag a save just before the teleporting NPC's bug occurred, but the same even does not occur again.

I've got no solid evidence of this, obviously, but I thought I'd post my direct observations. I mean, I load a game, an event occurs almost right away, I reload that game and things pan out differently. In neither load were there any Dust Bandits even remotely close to my settlement, yet on the first load they appeared right inside one of my buildings. Most strange.

Scoob.