Specific CTD during dialogue with scribe in Learning Curve quest

[Aidopunko]

Hey everyone, I've run into this weird CTD on a heavily modded FO4 game that Iâve been trying to troubleshoot and I'm wondering if anyone has seen something similar or can brainstorm a possible culprit. I am many hours into this play through and have spent tens of hours in FO4Edit resolving conflicts and am not seeing crashes otherwise.

 

I'm at the Prydwen and have just started the quest 'Learning Curve' that you get from Proctor Quinlan. He tells you to go down to the airport and speak with a scribe. When I get down there and speak with her, if I respond that I am ready to start the mission she responds affirmatively and I get an immediate CTD. I'm trying to think logically what mods might be causing this as the crash happens, I assume, immediately as the quest progresses to the next stage, one of six or so locations are chosen for the quest and the NPC is scripted to follow me.

 

Here are the things I have tried so far:

1. FO4Edit shows that the quest dialogue for this scribe is overwritten by Player Comments mod. I deleted the entries from the plugin for this quest and still get a CTD. No-one else seems to be reporting this error on the mod page.

 

2. The quest itself is being overwritten by Player Comments (because of the dialogue) and then by Keep Commonwealth Radiant quests within the Commonwealth mod (which adds a condition that the location chosen by the radiant quest be within the Commonwealth). Again, removing this from the mod plugin doesnât solve the CTD and no-one else seems to be having this issue.

 

3. I can use the console to coc to each of the six possible locations (listed on wiki) that quest can apparently send my character to without any problems. My character has never previously been to any of these six locations.

 

4. I have wondered whether Amazing Follower Tweaks could be causing the crash. I have tried after dismissing all companions and still see this crash. The mod is at bottom of load order so there arenât any conflicts. Also, no similar issues reported on the mod page.

 

5. I can use console to setstage the quest - using setstage 40 immediately crashes the game while 50, 60, 70 all seem to work as it should.

 

Can anyone offer any ideas on where to look next? Thanks in advance.