Project Zomboid

Project Zomboid

[B42/B41] Bandits NPC (v2)
Bandits turn into zombies whenever I look at them.
The title. They shoot at me from afar, but if I am to perceive them, their weapons just vanish and they immediately start to act like zombies, completely confusing everyone around them. And after it transforms into a zombie, the game tries to spawn it elsewhere, so the game behaves like there are about 50 bandits around me, which all turn into zombies upon looking at them. Some bandits do work, but that one bandit is like a zombie printing machine. What even could be causing this?