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Issue Data
Status: New
Issue Type: Bug Report
Project: Unofficial Fallout 4 Patch
Component: Fallout 4: Vanilla
Category: Quests & Dialogue
Assigned To: Nobody
Platform: Windows PC
Severity: Medium
Votes: 0
Watching: N/A
Opened By Metalfencer on Sep 24, 2019 2:30 pm

Issue #27584: Trouble Brewin' : relatively rare bug that unable the whole quest (and Buddy !)

 
In the quest Trouble Brewin' : I can't talk to Drinking buddy while in the Shamrock Taphouse, he just gives generic response/greetings when I interact with him.

I started the quest normally by talking to Rufus in Hotel Rexford. I latter (like 4h) went to the Taphouse and cleaned the whole place and activated buddy via the terminal (I hacked it, didn't use the password).
He started his initialisation normally but a last mole rat came out and assaulted us when I tried to interact with him (dunno if it started the conversation or not); he killed it and used generic robot fight yell ("Justice will be served !" or smthg alike).
Afterwards I talked to him but he would just greet me and no conversation would appear.
I'm locked on stage 300 "Find the Brewing Machine". I went to goodneighbor to save and undid the hardcore to try to pass to stage 500 "Send the Drinkin' Buddy to the Hotel Rexford / (Optional) Keep Drinkin' Buddy for yourself" via command but buddy is still unresponsive.

Not sure it is related to the mole rat attack : while searching for a fix on google I saw people who had the same bug as me but with nothing relating to a fight or dialogue interruption in their bug description.
It appears the bug is somewhat rare since I haven't found that much report of it while browsing on google.

I don't have the patch yet (will take it and see if it works tomorrow, no time now) but I didn't see anything relating.
I have all DLCs and my run was in Hardcore (hard to reload old save to test if it was the mole rat, my last sleep save was 2h ago so I haven't tried much to test if I could change anything by making it again).

Comments

2 comment(s)
Metalfencer said:
 
I tried with the Patch on, it didn't change anything so I didn't miss it in the list, it's unpatched.

Comment #1 Sep 25, 2019 10:28 am
Metalfencer said:
 
I'm confident the bug is caused by him entering combat before his start-up sequence is over

I did another game, purposefully kept hidden from mole rat so they would interrupt it's starting sequence and it worked (or bugged, whatever) : after it's starting sequence was interrupted and I tried talking with him he would just give me generic answer again, no dialogue would open.
I restarted a save and killed all the mole rats so they wouldn't interrupt him and it worked : I could talk with him like normal.

Comment #2 Oct 20, 2019 11:00 am
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