NPCs dying randomly.

Strange , if they was outside your range of view maybe they just despawn ? sometime i see NPC beam down (like in outpost) but even in the middle of a town , so maybe some of them leave back the planet after some time ?

 

This issue is really messing with my game. Certain types of tenants will die immediately after spawning, for whatever reason. Random NPCs in computer generated settlements also die after a few seconds of coming into my view. I have a few mods, but I don't think they would do something like this. It looks like people without mods are getting this issue too, so I don't know what's going on.

 

I solved this problem for me by uninstalling mod: "NPC's Aren't Stupid!" by Skullfurious.

I will describe my problem below, I think it was similar.
The pinguins in the outpost were dying. All the characters I wanted to hire also died instantly. The characters I should have escorted also died and the quest failed. I found dead all the Florans in the campaign mission...

I overlooked a warning from a mod author: DOESNT WORK WITH OVERHAUL MODS. THIS MOD CHANGES CORE LUA SCRIPTS

Hope this gave you clues to solve your problems.

 

only about 4 years late on the post, lol.