Are there suppose to be normal bloaters on lethal?

[user1854669]

just saw normal bloaters on lethal. Is this is a bug or intended? Patch notes said nothing about this.

[WarBucks]

I have seen them crop up. its not supposed to happen. I expect itll be worked on in some later hotfix. theres still some UI bugs they are looking at as well

[Morbidius]

This is nothing new it has existed for a long time.

On lethal and nightmare difficulty you are supposed to encounter plague bloaters. But I have seen non bloaters on several occasions while playing on those higher difficulties.

From my experience I sometimes encounter them while doing a mission.

My guess is that in some of the missions it's random if the mission spawns in a bloater, or screamer, or feral. And when they programmed that they missed to add, "If nightmare or lethal difficulty instead of spawning a normal bloater instead spawn a plague bloater".

I don't work at Undead Labs so I dunno how their code looks like. I suspect this might be hardcoded in every single mission so to fix this they would have to go over all the available missions that exists in the game. And then correct that in all the missions that have a chance to spawn a normal bloater.

[user1854669]

This was just a normal spawning bloater roaming. This is the first I had seen a normal bloater on lethal in 400 hours playing this game.