Chaos1929 Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 Hey Everyone. I've just decided to start the Automatron DLC after a long time on my current save, the quest started fine once I reached level 15 ages ago but now that I've finally tried to start it I arrive at the area outside Wattz Consumer Electronics to find there is only one hostile robot there instead of the large group there should be. Once it's destroyed I don't recieve the objective to talk to Ada nor do I complete the objective to eliminate the hostile robots. Talking to Ada will just get me the same "I'm searching for the target" over and over and over and over. Can anyone please help? I did some searching before posting this and a few people have said to reload an earlier save, but I really, really don't want to have to lose at dozens of hours of progress. I'd be super grateful if anyone knew how to fix this. ^^ Thanks in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKKmods Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 1 Read this background https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Mechanical_Menace 2 Before using the setstage suggestion, console [ sqv DLC01MQ01 ] what stage is reported and are any aliases empty ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos1929 Posted February 20, 2019 Author Share Posted February 20, 2019 (edited) Oh wow, that's a lot of info that that command brought up. Sorry to have to ask if this is incredibly dumb but are there any specific lines I'm looking for? There are a few with the word alias in them. some of them are: Registeredaliascount - 0RegisteredAliases[] = []RegisteredCollectionAliases[] = [] Is that bad? :sad: Edit: Stage 2200 is reported Edited February 20, 2019 by Chaos1929 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKKmods Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 I don't have DLCs loaded so no specifics on the aliases but they look unfilled. If you don't get a better offer, rather than thrash around try: [ setstage dlc01mq01 2300 ] see if the fight populates by Wattz, if not try; [ setstage dlc01mq01 2400 ] see if you can talk to Ada If good things don't happen then do not save or play that setstaged instance of the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos1929 Posted February 20, 2019 Author Share Posted February 20, 2019 2300 did not spawn any more robots, as Ada was still only fighting one and a scavenger was there for some reason? But 2400 seems to have done the trick as it lets me talk to Ada and completes the "eliminate hostile robots" objective, looking back it may have been my fault as I've been near the area once or twice for Railroad missions like Boston After Dark, and I could hear all the robots fighting but I just left them alone, so whether or not that was what borked it I'm not sure. Thanks for the help I appreciate it! :) Just hope there isn't any repercussions using these commands ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galacticspeakeasy Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 I know this is an old thread BUT I just ran into the same problem and I found a "fix" (it just worked for me so I hope it works for you). Arrived to location of the quest and all but one robot was alive that was hostile. Killed it but still Ada kept saying that same line "Im searching for the target", couldnt find the stupid "target" she was looking for. So after failed quest resets/set stage commands, I decided to just use the resurrect command on each robot that was killed in the immediate area one at a time, killing one before I resurrected the next, took me like 2 minute tops and finally got one that progressed the quest to the next step. Didnt think it would work because each robot glitched out either when I revived it or after I killed it but it seemed to work! TL;DR: used the resurrect command on each robot in the vicinity and killed them one by one which caused the quest to go to the next step. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pushover1985 Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 (edited) I know this is an old thread BUT I just ran into the same problem and I found a "fix" (it just worked for me so I hope it works for you). Arrived to location of the quest and all but one robot was alive that was hostile. Killed it but still Ada kept saying that same line "Im searching for the target", couldnt find the stupid "target" she was looking for. So after failed quest resets/set stage commands, I decided to just use the resurrect command on each robot that was killed in the immediate area one at a time, killing one before I resurrected the next, took me like 2 minute tops and finally got one that progressed the quest to the next step. Didnt think it would work because each robot glitched out either when I revived it or after I killed it but it seemed to work! TL;DR: used the resurrect command on each robot in the vicinity and killed them one by one which caused the quest to go to the next step. Thank you! This solved my problem as well! Edited November 27, 2020 by Pushover1985 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klobber08 Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 Actually if you "setstage dlc01mq01 3000" Then you can actually Complete the quest causing the new one to start. Once you finish that quest Ada Will appear at one of your active settlements. I Found her at red rockets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimCambridge Posted October 10, 2021 Share Posted October 10, 2021 this works for I am searching for target with Ada SetStage DLC01MQ01 2400 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndreChau Posted November 3, 2021 Share Posted November 3, 2021 I just had the exact same problem - all enemy robots shot but Ada just loops on searching for a target, even as the scavenger picks over her friend's bodies.Resurrect seemed to do the job even if the undead robots were a mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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