Honest Hearts (No) Ending Glitch SPOILERS

[kevkiev]

I've gone through, I think, most of Honest Hearts. Not much trouble, a few CTD's but all's been relatively stable

 

Chose the end scenario to wipe out the white legs with Joshua Graham. But near what I assume is the end of the part where I'm supposed to find Salt on Wounds and "deal with him" (I can tell from the map that I'm real close)

 

I get to this part of the Three Mary's (I think it was) canyon:

http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh70/diggermats/penultimateshot.jpg

 

take a few more steps and my weapon gets auto-holstered, everything fades to black for a moment, and next thing I know I'm in front of (I assume) Salt on Wounds, who appears to be in fleeing mode, like so:

http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh70/diggermats/endshot2.jpg

 

I can't move let alone draw my weapon, no pipboy access, no dialogue from Salty, no nothin'. I waited for some big moment (maybe Joshua comes in guns blazing or something - 'cuz he's nowhere to be seen) for quite awhile, went out for a smoke, came back, ..... still nothin'. I'm totally stuck.

 

Tried shutting down/ restarting/ going from an earlier save/ going through the canyon opening before Joshua/ waiting 'til after Joshua.... no change except once Salty stood up and faced me for awhile, sometimes crouching down into fleeing mode again.

 

What the heck is goin' on? Am I supposed to wait even longer? What should be happening at this point? I'm somewhat confused.

[KillerSalad]

I'm not sure what the problem is but I do know whats suppose to happen is that after the fade to black Joshua Graham should be there standing over Salt-Upon-Wounds. From there you can decide whether to kill him or convince Joshua to spare him.

[kevkiev]

Ah, thanks for lettin' me know. I figured Joshua's absence was rather odd.

 

I googled a bit and found a couple references to this same problem Alas, no answers. Seems like a game bug that's gonna need a patch to fix. Grrrrrrrrrr :mad:

 

Guess I'll have to go back to a save before I make the flight or fight decision and choose to evacuate the Sorrows instead.

 

update: The other scenario worked but, yikes, just saw a post from today over at the Bethesda forum - same kinda thing happened to someone else, except at the end of the evacuate the Sorrows option.

Edited May 23, 2011 by kevkiev

[damneatoa]

Ran into something similar. Apparent cause: rushed ahead too quickly in the final quest, and mucked up the part where Josh is supposed to leave your party. He's supposed to talk to you and tell you he's leaving; if he doesn't and leaves anyway, the game gets confused, and you get that ending with fade to black and everyone just stands there and nothing ever happens.

 

What worked for me:

 

Before you get to the fade to black, jump to where Josh is.

console: player.moveto 030093be. (First two digits of Josh's refid may vary?)

 

Ended up at the scene w/ Josh behind prisoners on their knees; I talked to him, and that triggered the whole he leaves the party thing.

 

Then I leave the area, which still triggers fade to black. Still stuck. Now,

console: enableplayercontorls

 

Then just talk to Salts-Upon-Wounds to proceed. I chose the 'defend yourself' option, which triggered the final battle, which triggered the ending.

 

Happy hunting.

 

- damneatoa

[Atnanor]

Just a note to add to this if anyone is having any trouble finding the ID of Joshua you can find the first two numbers by clicking on another Honest Hearts npc with the console open, I used Salt-Upon-Wounds, and checking his first two id numbers, which for me was 07.

[solisflor]

console: ENABLEPLAYERCONTROLS


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