Infested Extermination Counter Keeps Rising

[Moonsword86]

When playing on Infested Exterminate missions on the higher level areas, whenever it spawns an infested osprey carrying a crawler it knocks the enemy counter up by 1.

 

IE: Before Osprey spawn 52/134 counter. After Osprey spawn 52/135 on the counter.

[Casardis]

Well it's not really a problem is it? The enemy is added by another enemy, so you still have to eliminate it to complete the namesake of the mission: "Extermination".

 

Therefore, the counter rising seems like it's a good idea as it makes the enemy counter accurate.

[Retrospecter]

I believe this also happens when fusion moas release an attack drone.

[Tsukinoki]

The same thing happens for Fusion Moas as well.
It's not a bug.  And its better than what used to happen, where the number you killed would go down.  Meaning that if you run into a room that spawned 3 of the new osprey enemies first thing you would see your kill counter drop to -3 out of however many there were left to kill.

It serves 2 purposes in exterminate missions:
1) Allows you to accurately keep track of enemies (very important if you want to actually finish the mission)
2) Gives you a small amount of warning that there are mutalist osprey's ahead.