It does.
And this just piles onto a cascading list of annoying designs. While exploring you can't see far, so you stumble onto something, It's melee and randomly one or two star. And since you couldn't see far and you're in an area you can't really navigate ( another head scratcher there, "lets make a biome they can't travel in" ) you're forced into a melee encounter. But you're constantly missing because nothing's flat enough to melee something else.