Old Guns Quest not starting on modded game

[Username0815]

Hi all,

 

In my current game the old guns quest does not seem to start properly, after taking the fort, activating the radio, establishing a supply line an a a considerable amount of ingame time passed, neither preston, radio freedom or ronnie shaw appear to trigger the quest. I tryd to force the quest by console commands (setstage min03 0, etc) but nothing happens. The quest min03 is listed as stopped.

 

I used to play with a heavily modded game before, but this time one mod either broke it or maybe the savegame has an issue. I tryd to load an older save but that didnt work either. Any ideas how I can save this playthrough?

 

[ZeroAndOne]

Well, being that Bethesda broke the game like 600 times since launch & we had to start a new game to fix it, I'd consider BACKUP copies of everything pretty much. Even then just get a clean save game, an .json the character's face in from Looks Menu, heck you can move the character through vastly different load orders that way, and enjoy the stability of using a BACKUP savegame which was created without mods just before or after taking the elevator up from Vault 111.


It's a bootstrap from the Skyrim era. You're recreating the same character. Then cheat it back to roughly the same character. Do the quests again to have fun, cause it's a sandbox game, not a quest game. That's the worst case scenario. If you can't roll back the savegame to a point where it was clean, or you adjust your timescale to be 5, 6, or 8. I like using a 5 timescale because I know it's 4 times slower than Vanilla, but that is definitely when these timescale issues begin to happen.


If that didn't glitch out the quest, then it's related to the play of that quest, it's gone bad, glitched, corrupted, in the save game. You're better off avoiding this behavior which is causing that. Your answer pretty much is debug testing, get a new game or different character savegame that's already out of the vault, cheat it back, do the quest, see what glitches it.


Could be one of your mods doesn't work well with that quest, so go to that mod's page, and look for other users that had the problem or if there are bug reports, can you contact the original author. But I mean, I wouldn't worry about keeping a continuous play of FO4, it can break quite often, I usually just re-roll the same character unless that character died. I've still got NORA from 2015, and in the game it's 2293. Six years later after I ran around exploring for 2+ years in free-roam independent faction only ever doing about 4 quests into the game.


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