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PVE Scripted Monster Boxed?

Before the current Halloween event I was pursuing the Punisher quest line and trying to level up Mechanic and Peacekeeper, which meant I was running a lot of raids on Shoreline.

In several of my raids the weather station was the first real hot spot that I encountered. Sometimes in the first minutes after spawning, sometimes a bit later. But in four of the times that has happened, I have encountered a trio of PMCs at the weather station - them having gotten there before me.  Once I engaged and got killed. Once I approached very cautiously and killed them. And twice I approached cautiously and watch them leave the area, heading toward power or the resort.  And on one of those two occasions where they were leaving, I tried to follow them, hoping to snipe them from behind. But when I got to the edge of the weather station cliffs, looking over where they had just departed seconds before, there was no sign of them.  Did they vanish? Were they removed by the game, or did I simply not see them?

Seeing a trio there four times is very weird. It makes me think the encounter is pre-scripted.

On Reddit I learned that the AI PMC share the scav/boss spawns, rather than the regular PvP PMC spawns. That aligns with my experience.  But, moreover, I think they don't necessarily spawn at the beginning of the raid and I'm beginning to suspect that some of them are "area bound", like the scavs and bosses.  Not sure.

On those Shoreline raids I often exit via Pier (when it's available). Almost always there are dead scavs there, and maybe a dead PMC or two.  I always seem to miss the fun.  On one occasion I went down the steps that descend to the docks and there were bloody footprints on them. Those print lead all the way to the boat where behind it there was a body. It was a PMC. While the extract counter ran down I grabbed his tag to see that he had been killed by a different PMC. Cool!  I didn't realize the AI PMC fought each other.  But, also, this whole "bloody prints leading to body hidden behind boat" seemed very dramatic, maybe even too dramatic.  Is this some pre-canned scripted encounter? 

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