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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: Nobody
Platform: All
Severity: Very Low
Votes: 0
Watching: N/A
Opened By MadCat221 on Mar 29, 2019 10:47 am
Last Edited By Arthmoor on Jun 28, 2019 11:22 pm
Closed By Arthmoor on Feb 14, 2020 10:08 pm
Resolution: Fixed
Comment: Fixed for UFO4P 2.1.1.

Issue #26478: Theodore Collins won't formally start Mystery Meat if you exit and get informed by Rylee first

 
In quest DN079 "Mystery Meat" If you exit after Theodore and Rylee are done arguing and talk to Rylee to get the low-down on people getting sick, it bumps the stage from 10 to 16, which precludes it ever going to Stage 15 which is needed for the dialogue option to offer help to Theodore and formally start the quest (with the title popup).

Here's a chat transcript from the UPP Discord private channel of my findings:

Hmmm. It seems to only happen if you exit (to, say, talk to Rylee) before talking to sketchy guy and then return.
It seems that a dialogue line that formally begins the Mystery Meat quest doesn't show up.
Gonna test some stuff in-game
Ahhh. It's a manifestation of a bug caused by a quest stage mixup.
If you go talk to Rylee outside, it never hits Stage 15, and the condition for the dialogue that leads to the formal start of the quest with the title popup never is available.
It passes Stage 15 (which the dialogue GetStages for) and goes to Stage 16, which is where you learned from Rylee that the meat is sketchy
Trying to find where it kicks the stage to 15...
Ahaa, found it.
It's Phase 2 of DN079_SalesmanSelling, which never happens if he never gets a chance to forcegreet
And I think I found the culprit: The greet in Phase 1 Oh uh... Sorry you had to see that. Just some trade negotiations. has only a GetStage 10 == 1 check.
It should probably be a GetStageDone 10 == 1.
Because as soon as you talk to Rylee outside, it would return a GetStage of 16.


Alas, merely switching it to GetStageDone 10 == 1 does not fix it.

Comments

5 comment(s) [Closed]
BlackPete said:
 
Yeah, that was exactly what happened in my game, as I recall.

Comment #1 Mar 29, 2019 8:37 pm
Arthmoor said:
 
Wouldn't it fix things if in addition to changing it to GetStageDone(10) == 1 we also added an OR for GetStageDone(16) ?

Comment #2 Jun 28, 2019 11:22 pm
Lone_Wolf said:
 
I have added two saves if that helps research on this for a fix.



Attached Files:

longneckle_preraleen.fos
theodore_nodialog.fos

Comment #3 Jan 31, 2020 10:38 am
Lone_Wolf said:
 
Dumb question why should talking to Rylee advance the quest stage? When you talk with Rylee, she does not really offer anything more than what you hear during the initial conversation.

Comment #4 Jan 31, 2020 11:58 am
Arthmoor said:
 
Turns out you're quire correct. The quest stage doesn't need to be changed, and in fact if you approach Theo at anything OTHER that stage 10 his forcegreet will just fail. I even tried fiddling with the actual stage Rylee's response triggers but it didn't matter what I set it to, Theo would simply not initiate the quest. Only when setting her response chain to ignore changing the quest stage did it work. Stage 16 is also never checked for in any dialogue anywhere so there doesn't seem to have been any reason for them to do this at all.

Comment #5 Feb 14, 2020 10:08 pm
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