Question Covenant hostilities

[Opi Vali]

So, on Xbox, I go to covenant for the first time doors are wide-open and they are automatically hostile right from the bat. Could this be a bug?

 

[Jacozilla]

Just about every play through I’ve done has been hostile takeover of covenant. Far as I know there are 2 broad categories of why covenant goes hostile.

1- bugs - with both pure vanilla and various mods which turn covenant hostile. Google this and you’ll see ppl complaining since 2015 or earlier.

2- quest related and not a bug - forgot quest names and could be more but there is the ‘main’ covenant quest where your choice to side or not side with them makes hostile or not.

More tricky is a side quest which you can actually get and do before you ever go into covenant. If you do that side quest first, covenant is auto hostile. Forgot name but think it is the one freeing the prisoner and discovering synths related to covenant

 

[bullyrook]

I go to covenant for the first time doors are wide-open and they are automatically hostile right from the bat

Is it prebuilt or still vanilla?

Maybe they got tired of Honest Dan and are still in a blood frenzy.

 

[Opi Vali]

I left it vanilla. Normally the gates are closed the first time you go to them. They were open & they attack me without me attacking them.

 

[Jacozilla]

I left it vanilla. Normally the gates are closed the first time you go to them. They were open & they attack me without me attacking them.

Did you by chance go into a sewer tunnel nearby that leads into an underground cavern base filled with hostiles?

Even if you don't trigger the side quest or the main covenant quest that takes you here, if you go in there and clear them out, it auto triggers covenant to be hostile.

If you haven't done this then no idea other than there are mountains of ppl in same situation since game launch. Covenant just seems unreliable far as consistent behavior. I don't even think it's a mod issue - plain vanilla covenant with zero mod games get all whacky too.

 

[Irealys]

Can’t say for sure it’s a bug but it’s not what should happen in normal gameplay. As mentioned above, something might have triggered them to be hostile in a way that you didn’t realize, either by way of sewer or maybe you fought nearby and lobbed a grenade on Deezer, who knows.

Or it’s a bug. But honestly that isn’t something I’ve personally seen happen so I’m not sure what could have been a trigger for it.

 

[Opi Vali]

Did you by chance go into a sewer tunnel nearby that leads into an underground cavern base filled with hostiles?

Even if you don't trigger the side quest or the main covenant quest that takes you here, if you go in there and clear them out, it auto triggers covenant to be hostile.

If you haven't done this then no idea other than there are mountains of ppl in same situation since game launch. Covenant just seems unreliable far as consistent behavior. I don't even think it's a mod issue - plain vanilla covenant with zero mod games get all whacky too.

If you mean the one that is a part of the quest about the synth girl, no. The only place like that was where the Raiders are under that store with the not in it for the other Raider to use the secret access.

 

[Opi Vali]

Can’t say for sure it’s a bug but it’s not what should happen in normal gameplay. As mentioned above, something might have triggered them to be hostile in a way that you didn’t realize, either by way of sewer or maybe you fought nearby and lobbed a grenade on Deezer, who knows.

Or it’s a bug. But honestly that isn’t something I’ve personally seen happen so I’m not sure what could have been a trigger for it.

The only thing I did near there was take the boathouse as a outpost. It’s possible a stray beam or round made it over there, but it’s doubtful. The rise of land in between should have stopped that.