Reputation resets to neutral .. bug?

[Hurkaleez]

So I had villified Legion, Devoted NCR, Devoted Brotherhood and everyone reset on me to neutral. I would not care so much but I am running out of quests I think to improve it.

Any idea why this happened? Thanks in advance for help.

UPDATE: From Wiki, hope this helps anyone else

However, due to an as yet unfixed bug, the faction reputation can reset at an unpredictable time. With every faction except Goodsprings, the Boomers, Novac and The Strip (needs verifying) your reputation will reset to neutral. However, any faction that was hostile towards you will remain so, despite the change. Support items like the NCR Emergency Radio will also become useless, and faction privileges like the McCarran monorail WILL be lost. There is no real way to fix this on consoles, apart from either restarting or reloading an earlier save, confirmed to happen on both casual and hardcore play modes. Some think that the reset of reputation is caused by committing an infamous act towards a faction while wearing that faction's clothing. For example, if killing a Powder Ganger while wearing a uniform of theirs, it might reset all faction reputations.

The aforementioned bug has been confirmed on all platforms: A possible solution (confirmed on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC) is to travel to the Mojave Outpost, put on non-faction clothing/armor, go to where Major Knight is located, save and then speak to Major Knight; select the speech option asking if there is anything you can do to help. If your reputation with the NCR is above neutral, he will reply that you have done a great deal in a short time and advise you to ask around. Once the dialogue is complete, check your Pip-Boy. Your reputation will probably have reset from neutral to the proper standing. However, once you put on an NCR faction armor/clothing, there is a chance your reputation will reset back to neutral again. This tip can be useful however if you need to gain access to the NCR Ranger Safehouse (say to get the Ranger combat armor), or to use the monorail, or for additional help during the You'll Know It When It Happens quest.

Fix did not work for me =/

[CRACKHEAD MORRISSEY]

Are you wearing faction armor by chance?

[Hurkaleez]

Originally posted by harhiru:

Are you wearing faction armor by chance?

Reinforced Combat mark 2 armor and helm is all. Stays same when I remove it.

thinking about it further, it happened after I did the quest with the White Glove Society in that casino where you wear a mask of theirs for the quest. That is my guess where game bugged out and it reset.

[Hurkaleez]

Yea, I just tried wearing armors from all the factions and removing them, which did nothing. Annoying bug, now I must try and fix this glitch by setting NCR, Brotherhood high and Legion, Great Khans low.

[IAmEvil]

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout:_New_Vegas_console_commands
Read the first section

[That Is Irrelevant]

It happened to me after my game crashed after I beat the They-went-that-a-way quest before I finished My kind of town. I think about using Console commands to change my rep back to accepted with the NCR and the Great Khans but then I read this. So NOW what do I do?

[ihKu47]

Console commands didn't fix the problem for me (for whatever reason), but there also appears to be a mod that promises to work around the problem. Just search for Reputation Fixer by Luke Gevaerts on Nexus Mods. I'm yet to try it out myself but thought it's worth mentioning as it seems to work for some people.

EDIT: I realize this was a pretty dated thread but since it's one of the few I've found on the subject, and most recent on Steam, I decided to share a possible fix.

[AL]

I'm having this problem years later on my hardcore, all my factions got reset to neutral. Noticed it after I killed the 3 gun runners that spawn, just saw a hostile ranger near sharecroppers. Tried to use console commands and set my fame to idolised. Ranger was still hostile and when I fast traveled to Camp Golf every NCR soldier was hostile.

[Maddy]

Originally posted by dash:

I'm having this problem years later on my hardcore, all my factions got reset to neutral. Noticed it after I killed the 3 gun runners that spawn, just saw a hostile ranger near sharecroppers. Tried to use console commands and set my fame to idolised. Ranger was still hostile and when I fast traveled to Camp Golf every NCR soldier was hostile.

I'm super late, but this exact thing happened to me, I killed the 3 gun runners to sell their armor and I noticed my reputation reset... So be careful about killing the gun runner guards in hardcore

[Save your Wifi]

alright I found that if you have this problem don't were faction armor. As soon as I were it changes, but went I take it off it goes way.

[Chesus Jris†]

Probably toooo late for this but I found out why it happened to me and fixed it :
Apparently I had great khans armor on and I fixed another piece of armor using that while wearing it! So I was tagged as a khan without wearing the armor. To fix it I got myself another khan suit , equiped and unequiped it and bam! factions went back to normal . Equip and unequip every faction armor one might help fix the problem. Cheers.

[Hurkaleez]

Pretty amazing this is STILL an issue after 7 years. It takes a special kind of IDGAF attitude from devs to allow this to remain for so long.

[Salamand3r-]

Originally posted by Hurkaleez:

Pretty amazing this is STILL an issue after 7 years. It takes a special kind of IDGAF attitude from devs to allow this to remain for so long.

The game came out 10+ years ago.

It's not an "IDGAF" attitude - it's "Obsidian no longer has the access or rights to provide patches to the Steam version" attitude. The Steam version is wholly controlled by Bethesda. Who re-released Morrowind, almost 20 years later, with launch-era bugs still in it. It's purely on Bethesda as a publisher not paying the developers to provide long-term support. It happens in almost all of their games, unless the game has a live service element to it - and even then patches almost always add MTX, not fix bugs.

Like any other Bethesda-engine RPG, get a mod to fix it. One and done.

[Hurkaleez]

Thanks for the explanation, it makes a lot of sense.

How did they lose control of 100% the rights to repair their product yet not require any contractual obligation of Bethesda to fix or improve it? Seems super incompetent or purposeful to me.

[Salamand3r-]

Originally posted by Hurkaleez:

Thanks for the explanation, it makes a lot of sense.

How did they lose control of 100% the rights to repair their product yet not require any contractual obligation of Bethesda to fix or improve it? Seems super incompetent or purposeful to me.

There is no contractual obligation to fix software. Software licenses are typically provided "as-is".

As to how - Bethesda is the publisher. They always had full rights and responsibility for distribution. It's the same reason games like Blood 2 were released a mess - the developer would have loved to continue development on the game, but the publisher wouldn't foot the bill. Developers aren't going to provide long terms support if they aren't under contract and being paid for it.

[Doctor Go-Go]

Yeah, the publisher is responsible for it. When you agree to the terms you agree to it as is. The publisher is only liable for the Terms of service, which covers all of the essential responsibilities, the legal junk and obligations. It doesn't include updates to fix visual glitches, game play glitches and other general flaws.