Still in the Dark - help

[LBraden]

I have an odd problem, I am trying to complete "Still in the Dark" first bit, I got all 3 holotapes for McNamara, but ended up with 2 from the Boomers one, and for some reason, I can tell him "they're dead Jim", but I just get a couple of questions about the base, and it will not complete, the mission just hangs at "hand in holotapes", anyone else had this problem?

[Fonger]

standard Bethesda programming error

 

you should have exactly one tape from each location

so having two will fail the test (of exactly one)

 

reload a previous save and never pick up the second copy of the tape

[LBraden]

That.... causes an wee problem... I got the one from Nellis AGES ago, and by that I mean, level 34, I am now level 40 and competed Honest Hearts addon since getting it.

 

Is there any way to fix it from here, as I do not think I could survive a /restart right now.

[Bottletopman]

Go here to see all the stages of the quest, then using the dev console, type in:

 

setstage 0015d79d (stage number here without brackets)

 

Or

 

resetquest 0015d79d

 

That should help, but remember to create a save before you toy around with the quest in case something screws up.

[LBraden]

I have tried that and get an error I cannot read effectively due to the console appearing off screen a bit, but I do see "ot saved" - talk to McNamara, and just get the same repeating "have you found them"

 

EDIT: Okay, I just did it now and it worked, seems to be that my load order may have edited the name, or I was typing something else wrong, but thanks mate.

Edited June 14, 2011 by LBraden