I remember that circa 2016 or so the used to be this bug where Praetorians enforcers would get aggro'd by everyone in Core City by simply tresspassing into the house where a certain buglar used to spawn. This would result in random commoners turning hostile towards Praetorian as a faction, which led Praetorian to start mowing down half of the Core residents in self-defense all over Core City.
Now 2023, I had the idea of taking the lower tunnel passage towards SGS from Core City because I wanted to save on 10 charon train ride, but on my way out of the place I came across two random encounter rogue plasma walkers. Since there were three Praetorians guards at the other end- I just decided to throw a tier 1 frag grenade to generate noise to lure the plasma walkers into the view range of the Praetorians so they can kill each other off.
However, this had also brought the motioner that usually spawns in the nearby room into the fight as well. One of the Praetorians decided to chuck a grenade at the plasma walkers that end up hitting the motioner in middle of the fight- then the motioner turns hostile to the guards- and then the guard fill him with lead along the remaining walkers.
I didn't pay mind to this then went on as usual: Did the Rail Crossing train quest, decided to do all the Foundry quests, finish most of the starting Oculite quests and get accepted in the Oculus, gained 3 or 4 levels in while doing all this- then I head to Core City to do the Wik quest for the Oculites-
And that's when I saw everyone mobbing on the Praetorians in the merchant's district... then I connected the dots
Now I have the Dead Motioner Riots fucking up my save file and a lot of progress that I would have to re-do because of this simple issue. I have to admit that the chances of this happening to someone else are VERY rare, as this was caused by a fight between random encounter plasma walkers and praetorians in a VERY specific area. But again, this fucked up my progress and it can happen to someone else- so it's worth reporting
