Unofficial Fallout 4 Patch

As much as we appreciate the thought of including the saves, yours have too many mods attached to them and they won't load in the testing environment I'm using. The game simply crashes upon trying.

Can you give me a list of the mods you are using so I can match with your test environment. I don't mind starting over that was part of the point of this particular play through. Did not expect to run into this issue sorry about that.

The testing environment has all 6 official DLCs, no Creation Club content, and only the UFO4P as a mod installed.

is it okay if i keep transfer settlements so I don't have to build them from scratch?

Please ignore the previous post as i just realized it defeated the purpose of replicating the issue. And still possibly causing the same problem with CTD

Just to clartify matters: the quest "Out of the Fire" ends after you have talked to Preston Garvey. At this point, Jake gest removed from his alias and starts running his normal settler packages. While "Out of the Fire" is running, the package on that quest (on said alias) overrides his settler packages and he will keep standing in one spot after his dialogue with Abraham Finch upon returning to Finch Farm.

Thus, it's only a bug if he keeps standing there AFTER you have turned in the quest to Preston.
Everything else is quest design and works as intended.

Okay, I think my confusion is that i did not get the quest from Preston. I just reloaded the jakefinch_pre save which is just prior to meeting him under the bridge, and it did end with Talk to Preston. Let me see about getting to Preston he is waiting at the Castle for me to retake it. So it will take me a bit to get there. I don't recall turning the quest into Preston though so it may have timed out or auto completed.
One thing that is kinda annoying does it not see that the actors are standing to far apart. I mean I have to stand out side conversation range with them to see the entire seen as they all talk.
I setup a test system as well, so my save uploads should be universal for anyone to down load and check out in the future.

Okay, I am going to do some more testing. One thing I want to test is telling Preston I don't want to be general of the minutemen. The go to finch farm and do the quest, would it still end with talk to Preston? I would think it should not do that since I turned Preston down and refused to be the general of the minutemen.

Should close this out for now. I did not receive the quest from Preston, just went to Finch Farm. I have attached two saves if someone wants to play around with them.
Prior to speaking to Jake and Abram, and one post with the quest stating I need to talk with Preston. Don't know if there should be an adjustment made. Does not make since to me to have to turn in a quest that i did not receive from Preston to him.

I have not tested if you refuse to be the general of the minutemen. if the game still requires you to turn the quest into Preston. I suspect that is the case though.

Attached Files:

finch_jake_post_talk_preston.fos
finch_jake_return_home.fos

This can be closed as it is a game design issue not a bug.

Told Preston that I did not want to be General of the Minutemen. Go to Finch Farm performed the Quest, ended properly and I got the XP for it once I talked with Abrham Finch. It did not go to the "Talk to Preston" state.

Though annoying, if you are general of the minutemen, that it will go to the "Talk to Preston" state, even though Preston did not give the quest. It is not a bug.