Grunt perk is nowhere to be found in my game

[Domikonis]

I'm about 15 hours into this play through. I'm around level 14, and I had just gotten a level up. I just acquired an assault carbine, so the grunt perk popped in my head. I go to search for it in the perk list (I definitely meet the criteria) and it just isn't there. I checked farther down to see if it was glitched and just not letting me select it but it's just entirely not there.

 

Now I had already downloaded a patch off the nexus that fixes the grunt perks compatibility with DLC weapons, so I just figured that was the issue. I reinstalled it and moved it to the bottom of my load order - nothing. I checked it in FNVedit and there wasn't any conflicts. I made a merged patch just in case but the grunt information wasn't even a part of its data. I deleted it entirely - nothing either.

 

Then when I was looking around I found that apparently YUP fixes the same issues with the grunt perk that the grunt fix mod did, so I decided to delete that entirely - still nothing.

 

My load order looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/JeZCLot.png

 

I also verified my game cache through steam. It said that 3 files failed to verify and would be reacquired. I am assuming that they were the game executable (since I had used the 4gb patched to patch the exe (since I had to patch it again to make my game even run after verifying)) fallout_default.ini (since I had to change all my mouse acceleration settings again) but the third file I don't really know. The same issue persists even after that.

 

When I go into fnvedit and check the form lists/perk section, the grunt perk is there, so I don't understand why it's not showing up. I installed the grunt perk expanded mod after the fact to see if that would somehow bring it back, but it didn't. The issue was going on before I had even put that in there. On top of that, when I view the form list in fnv edit, it doesn't say it's affected by anything but that grunt fix mod, which can kind of be forgotten since It still wasn't working with any other mods: http://i.imgur.com/wUgLDuG.png

 

Am I wrong in assuming that if fnvedit says that the data is there that it should be loaded in game? This is what honesthearts.esm looks like: http://i.imgur.com/0O5mJvi.png

 

Any assistance would be much appreciated. If I posted this in the wrong place I am sorry, I am just assuming it's something mod related.

 

By the way, all of the other honest heart perks are still in game. It's just f****ng grunt that's missing. Thank you for the assistance.

Edited August 2, 2017 by Domikonis

[YanL]

Try add the perk with console command and see what happening.

 

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout:_New_Vegas_console_commands

[Domikonis]

How retarded am I for not thinking of that?

 

I added the perk manually and it popped up in my perk section. The GRA Assault Carbine I had went from having 13 damage to 16, so it's definitely working.

 

sigh I don't know how long it would have taken me to think of that. Thanks a lot.