ys it's totally different from the shells i've found in special encounters.For info, it was with a character without Ranger perk but he had Scout. only 3 in LK.But If Surf Solar say t's totally random, the Ranger perk becomes totally useless then.
Is it a possiblity that special encounters are marked with a dead guy just lying in the middle of wasteland and, it didn't say any ''you encounter some brahmin shit pile'', there was just a dead guy lying, I thought there was a player who killed that guy, so I ran away.
Are this encounters still in game? I walk hundereds kilometers in wasteland but I didn't find this encounter never.
Gang encounters around New Reno have decent end-tier weapons like shotguns, and for the sniper and CAWs and rippers you gotta look in the caves man... THE CAVES!