NPC woes

[Bnn1]

I like them, dont get me wrong. But there is tons of issues with them.

The game stutters. For some reason, everytime I enter a zone that has NPCs, the game stutters. The game also went to 5 FPS yesterday while I was trying to fight an NPC in rainy foggy weather.

The next issue is that they block zombie spawns, and in a LARGE area at that. Sometimes they dont though. Sometimes, the entire zombie population is wiped out. Zombie counts in general have been halved or even worse. Some POI that used to have dozens of zombie puppets now have 0. I was able to completely clean out D4, meaning, waltz in and steal tens of thousands of loot worth, with zero enemies. No NPC's, no zombies.

Yeah idk. The game was fine for a little bit but now that I see all these issues with less and less zombie puppets appearing I am confused why we cannot have a large population of zombie puppets, and some NPC's thrown in, why do we seemingly only get one or the other in a lot of cases.

There is a FEW exceptions where I saw NPCs and zombie puppets fight each other, but those instances are rare, and the puppet spawn was far from plenty in those cases too.

The nuclear power plant for example. 4 NPC's, and 4 puppets. That's it. I've never been able to clean out 14 plates of uranium without any trouble at all, but alas, now I seemingly am.

The spawning of enemies is ♥♥♥♥♥♥ as of this version.