No, I only have vanilla weapons (except for the ones of the Cannibal and Hiver expansions, but I don't think that they are the issue). I think I have a mod that gives the dust bandits more variety of armors, but only the armors, nothing to do with weapons. Still, if you think that's the issue, then I may disable that mod and see what would happen

i'll check if i still have the mod files, are you using any other dust bandit mods? or any weapon replacer mods?

I know this is a 2 years old mod, but it's fair to say that it works well, but there's a detail: In the image we can see the dust bandits having a fair variety of weapons, like the longsword and the ringed sabre. It apparently doesn't work at all, since in my case they tend to spawn with the horse chopper as always, but having the longsword in the secondary weapon slot. I bet it's because some update of the game. Still, the crossbowmen do spawn as they are meant to spawn, they can have the clubs or the guardless katana, so nice

Well it's the only one I've ever used so I guess it's the best I've ever used.

fcs is one of the most straightforward userfriendly modding tools ive ever used

Someone should make a mod to make FCS intuitive and easy to use!

its there for flavor, and if you really dislike it its a quick edit in the fcs to remove it

Not sure I see the point of the tiny bounties on some bandits and bowmen. It's too small to bother collecting even in the early game, and just a nuisance if the bandit you want to recruit has one.

Great mix of weapons and armor on them now. Still mostly shoddy as it should be but at least it's not all heart protectors and horse choppers.

https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2810942232
its been churned out

if you like more racial variety id suggest https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=766462696
and no i did not tweak the sex but i can churn out a little mod for that in a bit

Will be nice to have some scorchies in the mix. They seem to all be males prior to subscribing to this. Did you tweak that too?