Any people getting wierd issues with enemy agro?

[Virtual Ocean Horizon]

Any folks getting wierd issues with enemy agro? This has lost me more than a few souls.

I'll walk into an area where I know enemies don't agro because there are no lines of sight and its well outside their normal engagement range, and then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, they are on top of you. And this is in states where you're not even fighting anything, maybe just afking, and yet still enemies that stand still and have no line of sight on you might just randomly agro, come to you, and attack.

Good examples that I've found so far are around Farron Keep and swamps.

Might it have something to do with loading errors, where the game doesn't register barriers or line of sight properly?

[Hunubul]

Most enemies don't just stand in place. Some are patrolling. Maybe those attacked you?

[Virtual Ocean Horizon]

Originally posted by Ponion:

Most enemies don't just stand in place. Some are patrolling. Maybe those attacked you?

I can confirm these are not patroling enemies, in fact the enemies in question are ones that usually STAND STILL in a completely idle state. Some even just stare at walls doing nothing, or sit on the ground with their heads hanging.

[Berserker_Woden]

what enemies specifically

[Virtual Ocean Horizon]

I've found this with the black knight, the large hollows with the crosses on their backs that sit on the ground doing nothing until you walk within scripted engagement range (like the one near the fire, I know about that engagement, I'm talking about the other ones agroing when they can't even SEE YOU). I've also seen it with other mobs, but thats all I can think of off the top of my head.

[Berserker_Woden]

and youre not wearing any items that increase aggro?

[Virtual Ocean Horizon]

As far as I know, unless bows and whips increase agro, no.

Further specification, I've stood at the gate to farron keep perimeter bonfire next to the black knight, and I can stand there doing nothing and then he will just walk over and slaughter you if you aren't looking directly at him. Similarly, the cross dude on the other side of the wall has actually just randomly decided to attack me while fighting the black knight a few times, when there is no line of sight between us.

Another scenario; fighting the giant crab and drawing it close to the crystal sages but still in the water, the cross-back dude sitting next to the fire in the upper courtyard has randomly agroed during such a fight, and literally ran across almost the entire map just to fight me (its pathfinding wouldn't let it hop off the small cliff into the water, it took the ramps around the bonfire instead). I know that one should ONLY agro from a distance when you are on the path above the water leading to that fire.

These events happen maybe once or twice, I can't seem to replicate the results under controlled circumstances. I'm asking if its restricted to me or if others are having similar issues.

[Virtual Ocean Horizon]

Oh, its also happened with the patroling darkwraiths, who can somehow actually see through the landscape and objects to agro you. But I also know thats due to their borked patroling patterns where they will sometimes randomly turn in whatever direction, but it still happens when there is no direct line of sight.