Oh, right, I forgot to specify that I wanted to encounter fat bandit BEFORE finishing the bandit camp quest since I wanted to see if anything changes in fat bandit's behavior towards you before and after the camp (as it is the case in many occasions). I already knew about the post-camp sparring~ Right now for some reason fat bandit's encounter rate is almost the same as female bandit's for me and I'm fully gay in the playthrough. Sometimes I even encounter female bandit more often than I do fat bandit, lol. Something just doesn't feel right with his encounter because it's almost 100% male bandit for me right now. Not to mention the amount of times you find anoley/red berry/angel leaf/nothing that interferes with encountering the bandits. But the ingredients are perfectly fine since it feels like 50/50 on bandits or ingredients. It's just the male/fat bandit encounter rate chance that's off.
...Also by "male bandit" I mean the muscular bandit whose image is basically your title character on the game promos lol, not male as in gender. There's male bandit (muscular), fat bandit (Barrel), female, and pair (Bandit + muscular). I meant that muscular bandit's encounter rate is about 99%, Barrel barely even appears for me. In case you got confused by the use of the word "male" lol.
