Common Bug? Enemies not attacking.

[shmayo]

Vilified enemies won't attack me anymore. Just standing around and watching how I kill em all.
Is this a permanent bug and is there a way/console command to wipe enemy AI or something?
Well, had a lot of bugs, but this one is game breaking.
I'm using EVE, EBT and the anti stutter mod. Everything worked fine until today. Haven't changed anything, no updates, nothing.

[Bobby Digital™]

are you wearing faction armor?

[shmayo]

Nope, sir.

[shmayo]

Another thing that happens more often now are enemies sinking into the floor (esp. scorpions and such). This game seems to have a bunch of bugs. I really want to play on, but it starts to get frustrating. I can live with minor glitches and graphical bugs, the limited draw distance, everything no problemo. But inactive enemies? What's wrong? If i change the ini i can't load my save game unless i unistall all mods again. I can load the vanilla game, but I can't load the same save game with the mods I used before? Man, this gets confusing...

[shmayo]

One more thing I had to learn: when activating the console (I need to change my FOV to 90, otherwise I get a headache) my game session stays "corrupted" thus I can't get any Steam achievements. That's not a real drama, just wanted to mention it, maybe someone was wondering. The game gets "uncorrupted" when restarting the app again.

[Bobby Digital™]

sorry, i never heard of enemies not attacking. keep this bumped and hopefully someone who has will see it. yeah game is buggy as all hell, but still is one of my favorites.

its a love hate kinda thing

[shmayo]

OK, I found more. Blood is spilled only if I`m close enough. Far away enemies lose limbs and I see blood flying tru the air, it just won't show up on the ground. If i approach the corpse and shoot it, blood will show up on the ground again. Kinda weird.
The other thing is that i can see 3 decals only on enemies, no matter the changes in my ini (decals and decal life time). Just wanted to know if someone else noticed that.

[talgaby]

Enemies not attacking is a somewhat rare, but known script error. A player faction reset, a cell reset or some random miracle (or a combination of the three) fixes it most of the time. To avoid it in the future, use YUP or MMUE unofficial patches (although they are not incompatible, don't use both, read their descriptions and choose one).
If you need help on faction reset, there is a step-by-step guide on the Fallout wiki's New Vegas console commands section. A cell reset is simply waiting 72 ingame hours in a safe cell (usually a building that had a "long" loading time, not just a quick one).

Sinking to the floor is just a Havok glitch. It's an awful physics engine– always was since Half-Life 2, always will be– and the fact that it's slapped on some 10+ year old 3D engine really didn't help. The error is tied to the strange skeletons of the insects, mostly seen on scorpions. Since you have this bug, expect some elongated dead bodies along the way too.

If you have problems with the low FoV, just change it in the INI files or use the FoV slider mod.

The blood and decal thing is almost surely tied to EVE. Sometimes it just messes with the graphic features a lot.

[shmayo]

Thanks for the info! I will try the cell reset first, seems to be the easiest approach. FOV changing with the console is fine for me, achievements aren't that important, especially as I missed alot of em already. I did encounter elongated dead bodies already or streched limbs bugging on/in the ground.

So you say that if I unistall EVE the blood decals work fine again? TBH I can't see any defferences with or without it, only the decal thing was kinda strange, but nothing game breaking. Looks funny when a body explodes, guts flying around with absolutely no blood. Clean death I guess.

Thanks alot so far.

[talgaby]

No guarantee that uninstalling EVE will change anything. Uninstalling mods don't always fixes a trouble, especially if it's graphical effects related. All I try to say is that EVE is known to cause strange graphical things sometimes. The decal problem may simply be the engine derping out on you. It happens. And you cannot really do much about it. The good news is that these kind of strange phenomena always change with each reinstall.

[shmayo]

I did a clean reinstall and the decal "problem" persits. So I guess I have to live with that. At least the powder guys start to defend themselves again when I kill one of em. So it's okay I guess. Other than that all enemies seem to interact correctly. EVE changes mainly the laser and stuff effects, other than that I haven't noticed anything different. Thanks for the help so far, game is playable again.

[john rambo]

can it maybe be that you have the good natured perk

[Salamand3r-]

Originally posted by Sir Hans:

can it maybe be that you have the good natured perk

7 years ago, he probably would have cared.

Seriously, how the ♥♥♥♥ did you even find this thread?