Devouring Earth spawning only rock monsters

[PresidentDSG]

So I've known about this for years, and only now bothered to write up something about it.

 

In AE, the Devouring Earth only spawn in big rock-monster centric groups, as depicted

 

This is a screenshot from a test mission, using the normal Devouring Earth faction on the Eden map. Everywhere on this map, they spawned as rock monsters with Devoured bosses.

 

At first, I thought the behavior was just an AE-centric quirk. Then today, I started running through the Vernon von Grun arc for the first time in a while.

 

 

This has been pretty common here. Interestingly, in this particular mission there are actually two factions of Devouring Earth fighting each other. One of them spawns with a variety of monsters as it should, and the other is all rocky bois. A previous mission did have all rocks everywhere, though.

 

I'm not sure what's going on, but it feels unintentional.