Immersive Armors Spawn Rates

[Spen]

recently downloaded IA, and immediately came across some issues; seems the armors just dont wanna spawn, as I've yet to see a bandit that has IA armor on, just plain old hide and iron.
TIt successfully configures, the MCM works, I've got no other armor mod, I've smash patched all my leveled lists, all that jazz.
You can, however, still buy immersive armor pieces at shops and the like.
The game also successfully spawns in shields for npcs, very commonly in fact
It's been a bit since i've played modded skyrim (somewhat like 3 years ago) but I remember that bandits wore a ♥♥♥♥-ton of IA armor, so maybe the mod has changed in some way?
i've come up with nothing after searching for like 3 hours now, is there a fix or is this intended?

[Dustin Dalby]

Just to be clear, you did install IA mid-playthrough, right?

Looking around the mod's troubleshooting parts I don't see anything about armors specifically not spawning at first glance.

If you can see the armors in shops and can craft them, then I'm guessing maybe it's one of these cases where enough in-game time has to pass for the effects to show "in the wild"?

I'm shooting in the dark here. I recommend posting details (such as a complete load order) for the benefit of people more competent than me.

[Spen]

I'm actually in the middle of modding my game ATM, I mod in 10 or so plugins then check if the game is still stable so i can edit it, so these are all with clean/new games

After some testing i've found that the armor DOES spawn, but only because i set my level to 20. However, the armor was only on Highwaymen/Thug+

this seems to be a really unique issue

[Sinsling]

im going to assume its because you aren't using a bashed patch to fix your level lists.

[Stormsong]

Use xEdit to check up after the patching done by Wrye Bash (Bashed) or Mator Smash (Smashed) as neither is perfect. That is where I'd start, the Leveled List records in IA's .esp(s).

[Spen]

Originally posted by Stormsong the Fallen:

Use xEdit to check up after the patching done by Wrye Bash (Bashed) or Mator Smash (Smashed) as neither is perfect. That is where I'd start, the Leveled List records in IA's .esp(s).

I'll try this, thanks!

[Spen]

I solved the problem, except the lowest level of bandits doesn't use IA, which is whatever