History Main / HardCodedHostility

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* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'':
** Orks. [[LeeroyJenkins WAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHH!!]]
** Tyranids. Their only goal is to scour whole planets and strip them of biomass.
** Necrons. Undead robots who want to scour the entire universe of life in the name of their EldritchAbomination Star Gods. {{Averted|Trope}} with 5th Edition Necrons, however...
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This is a game specific trope because, while AI-controlled game factions have no "choice" but to follow their programming (and in this case, the programming makes them incapable of diplomacy), actual sentient beings are more flexible -- they ''can'' make a choice to negotiate or listen to diplomacy, and whether or not they do only 0.0005% of the time or even 0% of the time, there's still the choice and thus still a hope that they might -- because the one trying to negotiate doesn't know with 100% certainty whether or not the other side will listen.

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'' certain families of mobs will attack upon detecting you, providing your level isn't so much higher than their level that it would be obvious suicide. Certain families' members are ALL high level enough that you'll never be able to be high enough level yourself to avoid aggro. Sneak and Invisible status effects keep mobs from detecting you by sound or sight, respectively. [[BodyHorror Soulflayers] are to a man/squid, high enough level that they'll always aggro, detect by sound, and are "True Sound," meaning [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard ''they'll detect you regardless of Sneak status.'']] Most other mobs that fall into this category are Notorious Monsters, like the three wyrms.
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' ''everything'' you encounter in dungeons or raids will attack you,[[TooDumbToLive regardless of how insanely well geared you are or how many of its friends you easily slaughtered five minutes prior.]] Most of what you encounter in those scenarios are mobs that would be aggressive outside, and at a high enough level that they would aggro if you encountered them out there anyway.

* ''[[VideoGame/{{X}} X-Universe]]'': Played straight with the [[RobotWar Xenon]] and [[BeePeople Kha'ak]]. The Xenon are artificially intelligent terraforming drones that [[AIIsACrapshoot went haywire centuries ago due to a badly coded software patch]] and now seek to "terraform" biological life out of existence, while the Kha'ak are [[StarfishAliens so thoroughly alien]] that the Community of Planets races are simply unable to communicate with them. Subverted with the [[SpacePirates Pirates]] and {{Yak|uza}}i, whom it's possible for the player to turn friendly (although not completely in the Pirates' case because, well, they're pirates).

* In ''VideoGame/{{Freelancer}}'', any faction in the game, even the ultra-xenophobic Xeno terrorists, can be made to like you if you pay them a big enough bribe, with one exception: The Nomads. [[spoiler:Justified in that they're the only non-human faction - they're aliens who were artificially created to act as caretakers of Sirius, and their duties include wiping out the human invaders.]]

* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
** Bandits are always hostile to everyone. (Not counting if you use CharmPerson or AnimateDead on them.)
** The Sixth House and the Camonna Tong in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]''. The latter is disputable, since you can (kinda) work for them during the Fighters Guild questline, but the former is indisputable and it's glaringly obvious that despite Dagoth Ur's constant invitations to join his cause, there's no real way to do it.
** In Skyrim, bears, wolves, and sabretooth tigers will always attack you,[[TooDumbToLive even if you just made comically short work of the Ancient Dragon that just ambushed you.]]
* The Talon Company in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'', a group of evil mercenaries that attack on sight, and send hit squads after good karma characters. They're even hostile to an evil karma character. Ditto for Raiders, the Enclave, and most Super Mutants.
* Some gangs such as the Jackals, Scorpions, Fiends, Vipers and other wasteland raider groups in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' are not affected by reputation and will attack you on sight no matter what. Other "criminal" groups, such as the Powder Gangers and Great Khans, are not permanently hostile factions (siding with them is often unsavory, but it is possible).
** Death Claws, if they detect you, will chase you to the ends of the earth and they will ruin your day. They also have insanely high Perception, so if you can see them, it's a fair bet they can see you. You can get perks that will keep some of the more mild aggressive wildlife from trying to chew off your face, higher perks will even have them fight besides you if they're nearby, but Death Claws will always resort to killing anything they can get their claws on.
* Can be either played straight or averted in ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights 1'' and ''[[VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2 2]]'', due to the advanced faction building system available to module builders. A faction can be made hostile, indifferent or friendly toward any and all other factions, including the "player" faction, independently as required.

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* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'':
** The tyranids are ravenous insect-like aliens whose only purpose is to break everything into biomass and devouring it. As such, nobody really wants them around, so much so that in the new edition's ally rules, which measure each faction's willingness to cooperate with each other, the Tyranids have absolutely no allies.
** Pre-5th edition {{retcon}}, the necrons (undead robots) existed only to scour the galaxy of every single living thing down to the last bacterium. Nowadays they can be negotiated with.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} [[Literature/TheWarAgainstTheChtorr War Against The Chtorr]]'', as in the novels it's based on, there is no way to communicate or negotiate with the alien ecosystem and giant man-eating worms invading and un-terraforming Earth. It's eather kill, or be eaten.
* The Ssu and Hluss in ''Tekumel'' games are an example, though they're closer than the Sabbat: there is no way to communicate with them, ever, and it is impossible for them to coexist peacefully on the planet with the species who invaded and terraformed it into something hostile to their kind.
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** In ''GrandTheftAutoII'', there are seven gangs you can gain respect from, and losing respect from one of them will cause that gang to become hostile. However, there's an extra gang in the third level that only appears on the small Mad Island, and it's always at negative respect, so they will always attack you on sight.

* The Talon Company in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'', a group of evil mercenaries that attack on sight, and send hit squads after good karma characters. They're even hostile to an evil karma character.

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** The Sixth House and the Camonna Tong in ''{{Morrowind}}''. The latter is disputable, since you can (kinda) work for them during the Fighters Guild questline, but the former is indisputable and it's glaringly obvious that despite Dagoth Ur's constant invitations to join his cause, there's no real way to do it.

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* Appears in the ''VideoGame/{{STALKER}}'' series to varying extents:
** In STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl, you can more-or-less ally with both [[OrderVsChaos Duty and Freedom]] by doing missions for them (simultaneously, even, so long as you try to avoid doing the missions that involve killing groups of the other faction) and can also be on good terms with the [[BadassBookworm Ecologists]] and [[BadassNormal Loners]]. [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Monolith,]] [[PunchClockVillain the Military,]] and [[ChaoticEvil the Bandits]] are always hostile.
** In STALKER: Clear Sky, you can ally with or even join [[KnightTemplar Duty]], [[ChaoticNeutral Freedom,]] [[BadassNormal the Loners,]] or even [[ChaoticEvil the Bandits.]] Ecologists are at worst neutral, and the military and Monolith are still hard-locked to hostile. You are always on good terms with [[NeutralGood Clear Sky,]] however.

** In STALKER: Clear Sky, you can ally with or even join [[KnightTemplar Duty]], [[ChaoticNeutral Freedom,]] [[BadassNormal the Loners,]] or even [[ChaoticEvil the Bandits.]] Ecologists are at worst neutral, and the military and Monolith are still hard-locked to hostile. You are always on good terms with [[SecretSociety Clear Sky,]] however.

** ''Master of Orion III'' has both the [[AbusivePrecursors Antarans]] occupying the Orion system, and the [[EldritchAbomination Harvesters]]. Neither can be effectively negotiated with. The Harvesters (who use other alien species as food) will declare war on any neighbor (even other Harvester factions) fairly quickly, will refuse any offer for peace, and never make alliances. The Antarans generally stay in the Orion system and never expand or settle outside of it, but occasionally will send a huge fleet to attack a planet or system outside the Orion system, for no stated or apparent reason, then withdraw the fleet back (unless the attackee or other power destroys it). They will not engage in or respond to any diplomacy.

* The Yellow Turbans in ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors''. They're very rarely a playable faction in the Story Mode (and then, only Zhang Jiao is a playable officer) since they're pretty much there to be the tutorial enemy; however, it is possible in some games to play on their side in Free Mode.

* The Grox in ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}'' act like this to everyone. It is possible to ally with them, though. Doing so would cause the other races to hate you.

** Bandits are always hostile to everyone.

* The Talon Company in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'', a group of evil mercenaries that attack on sight. They're even hostile to an evil low karma character.

The term is best reserved for games in which is is not the norm. For instance, in a FirstPersonShooter in which the bulk of the game consists of [[{{VideoGame/Doom}} killing demonic enemies]], the demons are best not thought of as having Hard-Coded Hostility; rather, the term is best applied in circumstances which otherwise feature a diverse set of factions which can be opposed or cooperated with depending on the player's actions.

Sometimes, in a StrategyGame, RolePlayingGame, or other circumstances, complex deals are possible: you can negotiate treaties, break them, form secret pacts against common enemies, join factions, recruit unaffiliated people into your personal faction or party, etc.

* In the ''VideoGame/EscapeVelocity'' series factions flagged as "xenophobic" will be hostile to anyone not of a faction marked as an ally. This is most often used for creating SpacePirates; so are [[spoiler:the aliens]] in the first game.

* Some gangs such as the Jackals, Fiends, Vipers and other wasteland raider groups in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' are not affected by reputation and will attack you on sight no matter what. Other "criminal" groups, such as the Powder Gangers, Fiends and Great Khans, are not permanently hostile factions (siding with them is often unsavory, but it is possible).

* In ''GrandTheftAutoII'', there are seven gangs you can gain respect from, and losing respect from one of them will cause that gang to become hostile. However, there's an extra gang in the third level that only appears on the small Mad Island, and it's always at negative respect, so they will always attack you on sight.

Related to AbsoluteXenophobe. Compare AlwaysChaoticEvil and TheUsualAdversaries. This is about games which allow the player to build alliances with most factions except one in particular.

* The Yellow Turbans in ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors''. They're never a playable faction since they're pretty much there to be the tutorial enemy.

Sometimes, in a StrategyGame, RolePlayingGame, or other circumstances, complex deals are possible: you can negotiate treaties, break them, form secret pacts against common enemies, join factions, recruit unaffiliated people into your personal faction or party, etc.

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* Some gangs such as the Jackels, Fiends, Vipers and other wasteland raider groups in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' are not affected by reputation and will attack you on sight no matter what. Other "criminal" groups, such as the Powder Gangers and Great Khans, are not permanently hostile factions (siding with them is often unsavory, but it is possible).

* The Grox in ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}'' act like this to everyone. It is possible to alley with them, though. Doing so would cause the other races to hate you.

** The Sixth House and the Camonna Tong in {{Morrowind}}. The latter is disputable, since you can (kinda) work for them during the Fighters Guild questline, but the former is indisputable and it's glaringly obvious that despite Dagoth Ur's constant invitations to join his cause, there's no real way to do it.

* In the Privateer game of the ''VideoGame/WingCommander'' series, the Retros. While the pirates and Kilrathi start off being enemies of the player, only the Retros are truly irreconcilable regardless of the player's actions.