Is anyone else just not seeing them at all? I've not for at least the current revision and possibly the one before.
They showed up in the Alpha before the one I'm making vids on. Some of them just kept killing my people. Jerks.
They still come, but they don't seem to walk a path that goes straight through my settlement anymore.
I saw them wipe out a nice 35 colonist town that had 9 soldiers defending it so they are there all right.
Had a squad from the republic show up, marched right through the middle of town, slaughtering fishpeople along the way, then emerged on the other side, right into the bandit raid I had my men rallied to fight. Since they were neutral they didn't do any damage or harm my colony in any way and wiped out a ton of enemies. Worked out pretty well for me, was able to plunder the bandit camp effectively for free.