Bandits and Vampires no longer hostile.

[Church the Cat]

After many hours of gameplay on one character, random bandits and vampires are no longer hostile. No matter what camp or dungeon I visit, neither of those two factions attack me. My best guess is it involves "Redwater Den", since it seemed to start after I entered the lair. Nobody would attack me, even if I hit them first.

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[Fotogen]

Your character is a vampire and doing some quests there?

 

[Church the Cat]

Thanks, for the reply. No, she is human. The few friendly vampires are in Castle Volkihar, upon joining Lord Harkon's crew. Also, Hert, Hern and Sybille Stentor. My issue involves random vampires, bandits and also wolves, I've recently discovered.

[Church the Cat]

I decided to just write it off as a random Bugthesda issue and start a new game. That was the first time I've ever encountered that bug, in over a combined play-time over 10,000 hours between both Skyrim LE and SE. Thanks, for the assistance.

[Fotogen]

If some mobs don't attack you, are friendly, its usually because "factions" are messed up.

 

To explain:

- just about every character is member of one or more factions. You, PC, are by defualt member of PlayerFaction. Bandits are member of BanditFaction. And so on.

- each faction also has a list of friends and enemies. Like GuardFaction is enemy to BanditFaction.

- and thats the reason why some mobs attack other on sight. I am member of GuardFaction, GuardFaction is enemy to BanditFaction -> kill

 

Some quests (part of vanilla or a mod) use this system. Like: make you friend with bandits so you can negotiate a deal to release a prisoner, but at the end of quest remove this "friend with bandits" flag.

 

Sometimes things go wrong ...

 

[Church the Cat]

Thanks for that advice, but the first thing I tried was to use the console to remove my character from the bandit, vampire and wolf factions as well as the bandit ally and vampire ally faction. But, the issue remained. I also wasn't involved in a hostage quest.