Woodman Automatically Aggressive

[Cozy Canadian]

I had snuck up to Woodman's office without being seen, and I did a few stealth takedowns on the way.

When I get to Woodman's office there is a very brief period (0.25 seconds maybe) where I have an option to interrogate Woodman, but he starts attacking almost immediately.

The best I've gotten is a line of dialogue as he transitions from sitting to standing and drawing his weapon that is along the lines of "What are you doing in my office?" or "Customers are aren't allowed in my office"

I've tried reloading from different saves at different points throughout the Clouds but nothing changes. To reiterate, I've killed zero people, disabled the cameras, knocked out some guards, and have not been seen.

[MOSLEY]

Do you have a weapon drawn?

[Cozy Canadian]

I've tried with a weapon (ranged, melee, fists) and without a weapon. I also tried opening the door while crouching and while standing normally. I then tried as many variations of those two states (armed/unarmed sneaking/not sneaking) as I could.

[talemore]

1 do you know about the hacker?

2 tech 7 ?

3 left hidden route?

4 met Tom?

[Cozy Canadian]

1) I knocked out the security room guy and the trenchcoat guy in the staff area on the Hostile side of the Smart Glass looking into the VIP lounge.

2) Tech 7, Intelligence 12, Cool/Body/Reflexes 4.

3) I collected items and looked at jacket from the Doll room while stealthing, did not hear any audio cues that I was seen. Tried talking to Woodman without going into the Doll room, or past the shutters to go outside. **I then tried again while doing both those things.

4) I talked to Tom after speaking with my assigned Doll. Tom told me Woodman was in his office in the area that customers can't go to.

[Azfar90]

Is there anything that you wore, equipped, or any ability/perk that caused this?

This kinda reminds me of Fallout 4 where if you wear power armor with certain targeting mod, it will trigger the hostility of friendly NPCs just by approaching them.

I had no issue in this section, though I did quick save and load to see the different outcome. All I did to talk to him was after entering Clouds, I had a long discussion with my doll, checked Evelyn booth, inspected all clues and Evelyn items, talked to Tom, passed the guards/camera undetected (no hacking involved) and met and deal with Woodman without having a fight.

[Lacroond]

I have the same problem. Not spotted once, and when I enter woodman office he stands up and attacks me.

[Cacaw!]

Same issue. Looks very much like a bug. At least fighting him also progresses the mission, so it's not game breaking. Just immersion breaking.. Unless he had a cyberpsychotic episode while we were walking through his door. Let's go with that explanation

[SmallArchangel]

That explains a lot, I was planning on talking to the guy, but he drew and fired at me as soon as he saw me. I had no option to talk to him at all. And I went in stealthy, not sure he even should have seen me but he did immediately. A bug, I assume.

[Shaabyalel]

Originally posted by talemore:

1 do you know about the hacker?

2 tech 7 ?

3 left hidden route?

4 met Tom?

Same happened to me. The number 3 was the reason! Turns out I opened the gate to the back entrance to this room (which cannot be opened anyway). He must be a telepath. Once I reloaded and didn't open the gate this time, the normal dialog occurred.