spoiler alert - MQ206 refuses to trigger/start

[msaayman]

Have completed MQ205 (huner/hunted) and it shows as completed successfully with zero indication that there's any problems but the game main quest line absolutely to start MQ206 for me to be able to take the next steps.

 

NOTHING works, reloaded to a savegame well before the start of MQ205 and replayed multiple times, used every darn console command option to reset/restart/force/cheat/beg/swear @ the gaming gods to let me continue but no relief of anquish. The game's knackered and refuses to work as supposed.

 

 

 

have killed the courser, picked up his chip and exited the building.

continuied to every faction/character to try and start stage next but they all react asif I havn't even done the quest.

 

 

 

anyone have a working console command to force start a MQ that's dead and dumb? No way I can restart the game (again) having just completed Far Harbor and Nuka World before deciding to finish the MQ line.

[WaRi0]

okay try this:

setstage MQ205 100

setstage MQ206 20

 

this should get you to the "talk to the railroad about the chip" quest stage of The Molecular Level. If not refer to this page on the Fallout Wiki: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/The_Molecular_Level

[msaayman]

Nope, doesn't work. Still won't make anyone realize I've got the requirements to continue. Stuck in limbo quest-wise

[louiscar]

Ok I think I have a solution to this problem.

 

I had the same issue and was looking at the current state of mq206 which was curious to say the least. There are a LOT of stages to this quest and I noticed that the last two are marked as (done)!!.

I say the last two but effectively it's the last one plus a stage that isn't supposed to exist. I get this for the last two entries:

 

(done) 1200

(done) 2000

 

2000 is not a valid stage from what I can see. So this woke me up.

 

Now so far I haven't played the fix yet but I have tested and luckily for me problem is not too many saves away. Here's how to test that the next quest will actually trigger.

 

First of course you should verify for yourself that you have a similar problem by doing sqs mq206 at any time during or even before mq205. All stages should show as (not set) and if not then you have this problem.

 

What I did ;

Loaded a previous save and tested. In my case all saves when I was doing the glowing sea quest were corrupt. A couple before starting it as well but finally I found a save that showed all items for mq206 as (not set)

 

At this point I simply tested the trigger. In my case I hadn't done mq204

 

So after loading this seemingly uncorrupted save:

 

setstage mq204 200

setstage mq205 100

setstave mq206 100

 

And molecular triggers perfectly. All the ones where the (done) stages were present didn't trigger.

 

So now you will know (hopefully) which save you need to go back to.

I say hopefully because I have so far only done the above test. I haven't yet played it through but I will continually watch for the bug on each save as I do the previous quests. If the all remain (not set) I will continue.

 

Hope this helps.