Nick Valentine won't talk?

[GirlGamer55]

I don't know if this has to do with mods or not but since I have mods installed I'll just assume mods are messing up.

 

So I'm doing Nick's personal quest and I collected all the Winter tapes, now I have to talk to Nick. But every time I try to talk to him, no menus show up and he walks away. I hit e on him and get the main dialog menu (talk, trade, etc.) but when I hit talk...nothing happens.

 

I have Mute Player Voice and Full Dialog Interface installed. The other mods installed are just for performance (anti lag, cleaning up clutter, texture packs).

 

I have other issues as well that don't relate to Nick, but I don't want to make multiple topic posts.

 

- The radio (Diamond City) DJ often cuts into a song and starts talking?

- Dialog can cut off when talking to NPCs (their dialog, not mine)

- Lock picking happens super fast. Like when you want to turn the lock to test it, it's super sped up...this isn't normal.

[annettered]

I had this problem, and have over a hundred running mods at the moment because I'm addicted to mutilating my game engines. I fast traveled to where I keep all of my other companions and recruited someone else, noting (of course) that I couldn't dismiss Mr. Valentine because I couldn't initiate that stage of dialogue options with him. When I talked to him after having picked up another companion as my active follower (which was Strong, because I felt like picking up Strong), it initiated the quest-line dialogue. I was able to chat with him and get to the next stage in "Long Time Coming" (or, rather, his companion quest) and re-recruit him and move on with the story. Maybe important, but I doubt it, was that I fast traveled to get the settlement where my other companions were stored.

 

Basically: Try picking up another companion, talk to Nick Valentine, re-recruit that noire-themed synth back by your side, move forward. If it doesn't work, I don't know what to tell you.

 

You could also try disabling all mods that weren't released by Bethesda and trying to converse with him, then saving if it works and then turning your mods back on.

You could additionally go for entering console (press tilda, the ~ key), clicking on Nick (so that it shows his reference ID, which will be followed by 'EP' in brackets after the number, so you know it's him that's been selected... at least according to my memory from when I tried this) and then typing "removefromfaction 75d56" without the quotation marks. This is in case he's been put into the faction wherein you can't recruit him as a companion, it will remove him from that faction and let you recruit him as a companion again and, therein, treat him like a companion; thus you should be able to talk to him again. This is relevant to glitches in the game that have occurred without mods applied, and may be relevant to you... but I doubt it.

You should probably just switch companions and try talking to him again.

[Tilarium]

This seems to be a common problem from what I'm seeing. For you it's Nick, Preston for others, for me it's Piper. Want to do the Story of the Century mission but can't talk to her. Needless to say, I've been reading a lot of threads about this sense it started happening with me. For some people the problem is with the follower getting stuck in a temp follower spot and they have to console command them out of it. For me and others that's not what's working and in fact in my case I can recruit her as a companion and dismiss her by selection another companion. Another possible problem from what I've read is that you left a conversation without finishing it and so the game things you're still in that conversation and won't start another. I don't think that's what is effecting me as I can talk to other NPCs and companions. I'd love to hear what others have to say about this and what solutions they might have for it.

 

Planning to try the removing all the mods option at some point but just haven't gotten around to it.