Penitus Oculatus attack me on sight

[Surtensoita]

I am currently playing the Dark Brotherhood questline and I'm in the Gaius Maro mission, which I can't do because every member of the Penitus Oculatus faction attack me on sight. Same happened in Vittoria Vici's wedding with another Penitus Oculatus Agent but I didn't get bothered then because my follower killed him rather quickly.

I don't know if it's a bug, or something regarding mods, I've tried disabling most of them (the ones that woudln't cause my game to crash the moment I load a save) and still no luck at all.

This is my load order:

0 0 Skyrim.esm

1 1 Update.esm

2 2 Dawnguard.esm

3 3 HearthFires.esm

4 4 Dragonborn.esm

5 5 Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch.esp

6 6 Schlongs of Skyrim - Core.esm

7 7 FISS.esp

8 8 Cutting Room Floor.esp

9 9 Summermyst - Enchantments of Skyrim.esp

10 a EnhancedLightsandFX.esp

11 b Reverb and Ambiance Overhaul - Skyrim.esp

12 c Immersive Sounds - Compendium.esp

13 d Immersive Jewelry.esp

14 e SoundsofSkyrimComplete.esp

15 f TrueStormsSE.esp

16 10 Hothtrooper44_ArmorCompilation.esp

17 11 Immersive Weapons.esp

18 12 Wildcat - Combat of Skyrim.esp

19 13 dD - Enhanced Blood Main.esp

20 14 OpulentThievesGuild.esp

21 15 Skyrim Unbound.esp

22 16 BetterQuestObjectives.esp

23 17 BetterQuestObjectives-DBForevertoMisc.esp

24 18 icepenguinworldmapclassic.esp

25 19 WetandCold.esp

26 1a dD-No Spinning Death Animation Merged.esp

27 1b Wildcat - Realistic Damage Plugin.esp

28 1c VioLens SE.esp

29 1d Simple AUA.esp

30 1e Unique Uniques.esp

31 1f Footprints.esp

32 20 sandboxcylinderheight.esp

33 21 OwnCivilWar.esp

34 22 Point The Way.esp

35 23 SkyrimSewers.esp

36 24 Inigo.esp

37 25 iHUD.esp

38 26 SimplyKnock.esp

39 27 Coin Toss.esp

40 28 Immersive Patrols II.esp

41 29 Apocalypse - Magic of Skyrim.esp

42 2a KS Hairdo's.esp

43 2b Hothtrooper44_Armor_Ecksstra.esp

44 2c CharacterMakingExtender.esp

45 2d EnhancedCharacterEdit.esp

46 2e Schlongs of Skyrim.esp

47 2f SOS - Smurf Average Addon.esp

48 30 SOS - VectorPlexus Muscular Addon.esp

49 31 SOS - VectorPlexus Regular Addon.esp

50 32 SkyUI_SE.esp

51 33 Andromeda - Unique Standing Stones of Skyrim.esp

52 34 No More Ugly Effects SE.esp

53 35 TakeNotes.esp

54 36 archSaveHotKeySE-MCM.esp

55 37 ISC Enhanced Blood Patch.esp

56 38 WondersofWeather.esp

57 39 AllThievesGuildJobsConcurrently.esp

58 3a GIST soul trap.esp

59 3b DarkerNights.esp

60 3c CollegeModifications.esp

61 3d Better Imperial Guard Outfits.esp

62 3e BetterQuestObjectives-CRFPatch.esp

63 3f SoS_TrueStorms_Patch.esp

64 40 AHZmoreHUD.esp

65 41 honedmetal.esp

66 42 Open Cities Skyrim.esp

67 43 Immersive Citizens - AI Overhaul.esp

68 44 Relationship Dialogue Overhaul.esp

69 45 ELFXEnhancer.esp

70 46 Immersive Citizens - OCS patch.esp

71 47 TheChoiceIsYours.esp

72 48 CFTO.esp

73 49 OCS + Skyrim Sewers.esp

74 4a Realistic AI Detection 2 SE Lite.esp

75 4b RDO - CRF + USSEP Patch.esp

76 4c RealisticWaterTwo.esp

77 4d RealisticWaterTwo - Open Cities.esp

 

 

I also had installed Master of Disguise which was my first suspicion, so I uninstalled it and cleaned the save with Fallrim Tools but still nothing.

 

I've been testing a few other stuff, including starting a new save without any plugins enabled but Unbound in order to make it start quicker. I spawn in a Penitus Oculatus Agent and he doesn't attack me. Save, and then enable only USSEP and Unbound, come back into the game and the Penitus Oculatus is now named Silver-Blood Mercenary but still dressed as a Penitus Oculatus and doesn't attack me. The moment I spawn another PO, it becomes hostile.

I've also tried installing this mod and put it last in my load order, as it's the only one I've seen that changed the PO's AI, yet still no luck.

I'm out of ideas, and I don't know why it could be happening.

 

Thanks in advance. And if there's some more info needed to ask for help that I'm missing please let me know.

[Deleted3897072User]

They are attacking because their faction has become hostile to you, and that's baked into your saves as a RelationshipRank so uninstalling mods will make no difference and no amount of cleaning will remove it. Resetting the faction's relationship with the console might work, though, if you can work out which faction it is.

 

That said, if they immediately become hostile in a new game with no (or very few) mods enabled, then it could be as a result of loose files that are still present even when their plugins are disabled. You would have to uninstall your mods and clean up your data folders.

[Surtensoita]

Thanks for helping, I didn't know how to reset the faction's relationship so instead I used console commands for making Maro and his son part of the dark brotherhood faction (it's the only thing I was able to do with my small knowledge of console commands and the wikia). I was scared of them getting bugged but no such thing happened, everything else went how it should (apart from Nazir getting mad at me for killing Maro at the last mission but that's because I forgot to take him out of the faction).

 

Anyway, thanks. Although I am interested in learning how to reset a faction's relationship with me as I am planning on playing Bruma in the future and I know there are Penitus Oculatus, so I'm afraid they will immediately attack me (unless the PO at Bruma is a different faction?)