Bandits

Starting from October 14th, 2020, roaming gangs of Bandits could now be spotted around Secronom Bunker, looking for a fight with the normal, slightly more law-abiding citizens of Fairview. 
While nowhere near as intimidating as a giant mutated creature clad in black spikes or a giant dog with a hundred teeth, these Bandits are still more-than-capable of maiming or killing formerly-smug survivors who had gotten used to simply dodging clumsy zombie hordes. 
Thus, survivors will need to use fundamentally new tactics in order to confront these more intelligent enemies.
==Bandit Mechanics==
===Spawning===
Bandits uses the same 1-hour spawning cycle as Bosses. They have their own slots and threat levels on the bossmap.
*As gunfire generates a lot of noise and therefore a high amount of attention from local zombies, a limited amount of event aggro can be expected for the duration of the fight.
*In order to facilitate battles by giving survivors extra cover, most bandit areas will also have obstacles rearranged, removed, or added (commonly in the form of a military truck near the bandit group).
Threat Level	Zone 	Spawn
1 	Blue, Green 	Exiled Survivor x 1
2 	Green, Yellow (around Dogg's Stockade) 	Red Fist Thug x 2
2 	Yellow, Orange, Red (around Precinct 13/Fort Pastor)	Rogue Soldier x 2
3 	Dark Red, Black 	Bandit x 2, Elite Bandit x 2
4 	South Eastern Zone 	Bandit x 4, Elite Bandit x 2
5 (Special) 	Randomized 	Bandit x 2, Elite Bandit x 2, Legendary Bandit x 2, Unique Bandit x 2
====Special Daily Bandits====
In the same way that special bosses can spawn daily, a group of 2 Unique Bandits and 2 Legendary Bandits, along with their escort will randomly spawn once per day to challenge the player. These bandits only stay for 3 hours, and have an increased chance of dropping Experimental Parts.
===Behavior===
====In-Area Spawning====
Bandits will always spawn close together in a particular region of the area, represented by a series of red dots on the mini-map (you can view an enlarged map of the local area by pressing N). These dots will remain red even if you have PvP disabled.
====Attacking====
Bandits have a few behavior states:
* Idle: The bandit will perform a basic scan of their immediate surroundings, looking for a target, like other NPCs.
*Alerted: The bandit has detected a player within their visual range (indicated by a yellow vision cone for firearm-using bandits, or a small yellow circle for grenadiers). Bandits using explosives can detect players through walls and other large obstacles.
**Targeting: The bandit will always aim at the closest valid target (that they can hit), and will continue to track the player until the player enters cover or moves out of their visual range for roughly 3 seconds.
* Engaged: The bandit will begin shooting at the target (indicated by a red cone/circle).
* Reloading: The bandit will stop shooting and reload with a prolonged cooldown. When complete, they will revert to the Idle state, resetting their vision cone/circle.
The speed at which bandits can track their target with their weapons varies based on the bandit's tier and what weapon type they are using, with Elite Bandits having a multiplier that increases all tracking speeds slightly. In addition, bandits using high-precision weapons track their target faster than ones using a crowd control weapon.
Bandits and zombies typically do not interact with one another: bandits will not actively attack zombies but nonetheless may deal damage to them if their shots happen to connect, and vice-versa. The sole exception to this are zombies with vomit attacks; they will actively target bandits as well as players, whoever is closer.
====Movement====
A bandit will occasionally change positions, but at random intervals. Their movement is limited to a certain range based on their initial spawn location. They will not move beyond that range regardless of their target's location or their behavioral state. 
A bandit's movement behavior is also determined by the type of weapon they have equipped:
*Idle (All Types): The bandit will move to a random position.
*Rifles and Explosives: The bandit will tend to move away from their target and engage at longer distances.
*Pistols: The bandit will attempt to stay at a medium distance from their target.
*Machine Guns: The bandit will tend to move closer to their target.
Overall, bandits have very basic rules that affect their movement.
Typically, they will remain in their original location, allowing the player to move behind vehicles, buildings, or other obstacles for cover and from there, attack with relative ease. They will never deliberately move around obstacles to flank players or dodge zombies, but they do have a limited ability to detect when a player is using circling tactics and move in response.
===Health Mechanic===
* Damage dealt to bandit is always reduced by 50%, regardless of weapon type.
* In Multiplayer, other players and zombies can contribute to dealing damage, but cannot reduce a bandit's HP to 0; you must be the one to deal the killing blow.
====Kill Participation System====
To hamper leeching, a kill participation system is implemented, in which the player must deal damage to the bandit to be eligible for loot. This is represented by a small bar to the right of the bandit's HP bar, which goes in 3 stages:
* Red: The bandit will not drop loot when defeated.
* Yellow: Achieved by dealing 5% of the bandit's total HP. The bandit will drop loot when defeated, but not if you are in AFK mode.
** Dealing a large amount of damage will automatically set all alive bandits to yellow status, even if you have not attacked them.
* Green: Achieved by dealing 12% of the bandit's total HP. The bandit will drop loot when defeated, even if you are in AFK mode. Currently this state is obsolete, as bandits cannot reduced to 0 HP by other players/zombies.
** This degrades over the course of 1 minute back to yellow status (represented with a white timer beneath the HP bar), but can be reset with additional attacks.
===Loot===
Upon death, the corpses of bandits can be looted for a weapon or armor like regular bosses.
Bandits also have a small chance to drop Experimental Parts, Crafting Materials that are required to upgrade X-Dusk Weapons into their respective Dawn Weapons. The chance scales with threat level, meaning that bandits in later areas (ie. near Secronom Bunker, in South Eastern Zone) will have the highest chance to drop Experimental Parts.
==Tactics==
See Bandits/Tactics
==List of Bandits==
===Seasonal Bandits===