What's with the sneak glitch where enemies remain permanently in CAUTION/DANGER?

[Question]

Most notorious in the OWB addon. Try this : Go into the mysterious cave and aggro the legendary bloatfly. Run back to the cave entrance, it wont follow you. You are now permanently stuck in DANGER mode. If you exit the cave and come back, You will get a flashing DANGER upon entering the cave again before it goes back to normal red DANGER. Waiting hours doesnt help, something in the cave keeps setting you back to DANGER mode.

 

Ive tried playing around with sneak settings in the GECK, but even making the sneak skill 4x more effective doesnt help. Something is very broken here. Right now i have the chinese stealth suit, and a normal feral ghoul keeps switching from hidden to CAUTION every few seconds, even though i have the stealth field bonus and 90 sneak, am out of LOS, far away, do not have the pipboy light on, am stationery, etc, etc. I even tried using the console to set his perception to 0 and it didnt help.

 

It would really help if i could use the console to figure out what the AI's decision making process is, but toggle debut text does absolutely nothing in NV.

 

Any ideas?

[Guest endgameaddiction]

Are you by any chance using MoMod? I know they have some dumb down bug where enemies will detect something from a very far away distance.

 

Anyways, this caution and danger bug has been happening since Fallout 3. It's nothing out of the ordinary. It's just a bug from their weak developing skills. I don't know of any patch that actually fixes this, but then again it's not something that's really bugged me to the point of searching for one.

 

Now I don't remember if the flashing danger or the caution itself will go away if you kill the mob that detected you, I just know the caution won't go away even when you zone to another area and the creature isn't really detecting anything anymore. Radar mod is a good mod that allows you to see when enemies detect something. it's bugged but it's a nice mod to still use. When I mean the radar mod is bugged I mean that when ever you force a restart on the same save or and older save, the radar stops working. Only fix for it (like the bug detection) is to close Fallout and launch the game again.