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Issue Data
Status: Closed
Issue Type: Bug Report
Project: Unofficial Fallout 4 Patch
Component: Fallout 4: Vanilla
Category: Quests & Dialogue
Assigned To: Sclerocephalus
Platform: PC
Severity: Low
Votes: 0
Watching: N/A
Opened By cygnosis on Apr 28, 2016 4:16 pm
Last Edited By Sclerocephalus on Sep 23, 2018 5:08 am
Closed By Sclerocephalus on Sep 23, 2018 7:31 am
Resolution: Cannot Reproduce

Issue #20234: Picking up Jacobs Password in Covenant breaks MacCready's companion quest

 
If you acquire Jacob Orden's password in Covenant it is listed as "Jacobs Password" in your inventory. Then during Long Road Ahead when you enter Med-Tek Research MacCready is supposed to give you a different "Jacob's Password". If you already have Jacob Orden's password MacCready will not give you the password necessary to unlock the terminal that unlocks the door to the basement, which is necessary to complete the quest. This effectively prevents the quest from proceeding.





The wikia article for Long Road Ahead reports that MacCready will give you the password when you reach the terminal. In my experience he did not, and I tried to get him to for some time. I was only able to proceed by using the console to unlock the terminal.

Comments

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Sclerocephalus said:
 
This is impossible to happen. The passwords may have the same display name, but display names are entirely irrelevant for the game; they only gave a meaning to the player. In fact both passwords have different base objects, DN066_ExecTermPassword for the MacCready quest and MS17OfficeTerminalPassword for Covenant. Both are unique objects (i.e. there's only one reference to the base objects existing in the game) and both quests are only referencing one of them, the MacCready quest always DN066_ExecTermPassword and the Covenant quest always MS17OfficeTerminalPassword. A misup is therefore impossible.

Comment #1 Sep 23, 2018 7:30 am
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