Hostile Flare Gives Character Bubble With Nothing On The Other End

I guess this is trying to mimic the random movement of a flare through winds while trying to preserve the original point of flares.
The spawns and announcing are unrelated code (though I don't speak for devs)

Edited July 28, 2022 by patdogr

To my knowledge the character bubble appears to indicate the location of the flare in game (because on the map it is already indicated by another icon) it also works for regular flare. If you hover over the bubble it says "flare"