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“End of Beginning” not starting / initiating.

Jackthebluemonkey

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Hi Sim Settlements community! ⁣
I would appreciate any advice. Some other members encountered the same problem but I couldn’t find an existing thread dedicated to it.

The quest “End of Beginning” will not initiate. It’s has been many in-game days. Below is my situation outlined as well as my experience with CPD. I suspect it may be related to main quest bugs.

Here is what I’ve encountered:⁣
-I successfully completed dialogue with all 4 main factions regarding the recruitment miscellaneous quest. My quest markers successfully disappeared after recruiting factions but the quest is still present in the miscellaneous section. ⁣
-I completed all nightingale quests.⁣
-I have completed all concord quests.⁣
-Jake is silent and won’t talk. ⁣
-Lupa and Ron are in Diamond City and won’t talk to me. ⁣
-tried using Holotape to force start the quest but nothing happened. ⁣
-I am currently on version L⁣
-CPD: I completed the first quest for each officer but I can’t progress any further. They refuse to engage in dialogue with me. Do I need to complete “end of beginning” before I finish their quest line? Come to find out, they can be recruited but they are not giving me the option to do so.⁣
⁣Edit: I completed Calebs final quest and I was able to progress further into CPD but still no “End of Beginning”.
I would appreciate any advice. I am trying to avoid using the holotape to skip this quest because I suspect the battle is epic. But I have been stuck here for about 3 weeks. I am so excited to see the HQ content! ⁣

Cheers fellow wastelanders! ⁣
 
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Hi Sim Settlements community! ⁣
I would appreciate any advice. Some other members encountered the same problem but I couldn’t find an existing thread dedicated to it.

The quest “End of Beginning” will not initiate. It’s has been many in-game days. Below is my situation outlined as well as my experience with CPD. I suspect it may be related to main quest bugs.

Here is what I’ve encountered:⁣
-I successfully completed dialogue with all 4 main factions regarding the recruitment miscellaneous quest. My quest markers successfully disappeared after recruiting factions but the quest is still present in the miscellaneous section. ⁣
-I completed all nightingale quests.⁣
-I have completed all concord quests.⁣
-Jake is silent and won’t talk. ⁣
-Lupa and Ron are in Diamond City and won’t talk to me. ⁣
-tried using Holotape to force start the quest but nothing happened. ⁣
-I am currently on version L⁣
-CPD: I completed the first quest for each officer but I can’t progress any further. They refuse to engage in dialogue with me. Do I need to complete “end of beginning” before I finish their quest line? Come to find out, they can be recruited but they are not giving me the option to do so.⁣
⁣Edit: I completed Calebs final quest and I was able to progress further into CPD but still no “End of Beginning”.
I would appreciate any advice. I am trying to avoid using the holotape to skip this quest because I suspect the battle is epic. But I have been stuck here for about 3 weeks. I am so excited to see the HQ content! ⁣

Cheers fellow wastelanders! ⁣
I'm having the same issue. It's been about three weeks in-game time that I've waited for some sign. I tried Jakes's private frequency and the Scrap Artist is on that one (as well as their own one - same repeating). I have to defend my settlements at least once a day.
-Jake is silent and won’t talk. ⁣
-Lupa and Ron are in Diamond City and won’t talk to me. ⁣
-tried using Holotape to force start the quest but nothing happened. ⁣
- I am currently on M.
 
Thought I was having this issue but turns out "Jakes private frequency" was in the radio menu which when played triggered “End of Beginning” for me at least.
 
I am also having this issue, and the holotape is not working to solve it. I've waited, I've done other quests... no dice. Jake's private frequency is greyed out for me, and nothing seems to work to start "End of the Beginning".
 
Hmm, I was having the same issue, but I clicked on the greyed-out Jakes private frequency anyway... and it started just by doing that. Hope that helps anyone looking here.
 
Same issue here, but clicking on the radio frequency did nothing. This is a recently-started new game. Prior quest (21) is marked as complete and the stages look correct. I recruited allies, read the note, pressed the button. Been about a month in-game time. Trying to jump to or over this quest using the holotape does nothing. Trying to start the quest in the console does nothing. Looking for any other suggestions.
 
Looking for any other suggestions.
I am now playing my third SS2 Chapters 1 & 2 game and have had no issues with the End of the Beginning quest, however, giving credit to @yaugie, my "headcanon" (playstyle) is a'bit unusual. After playing FO4 since it was first released, my current playstyle is very factional and Chapters 1 & 2 specific. For a very long winded thread, see https://simsettlements.com/site/ind...w-the-institute-update-c-1.22608/#post-158317 Basically, my playstyle is:
  1. no main story quests
  2. early start to each faction and limit my questing to that specific faction
  3. generally limit my Chapters 1 and 2 quests to the main story, CPD and Nightengales
  4. for End of the Beginning quest, requested assistance from the specific faction and the CPD and Nightengales.
Hopefully, this is of some assistance.

PS: I normally play with approximately 90 mods, mainly faction specific.
 
Yeah I'm at a loss. I only had 6 other mods that conflicted with ss2 and I shut them all off. Still can't get it to start after a 4th playthrough. None of the force start/skip commands or features work.
 
Hi, I have the same problem. I read the note and activated the radio, but nothing happened. I thought, I needed some other things to complete, so I kept on playing. I would rather not go back to a previous save (hours/days have passed). I asked Minutemen and BoS for help and then went on to Diamond City.

I tried skipping to End of the Beginning via City manager. I also tried clicking on Jake's private radio. I waited 24hrs and activated the radio again. Nothing helped.
 
I was stuck in the same situation, but may have found a work around.

I forced the quest to complete using the quest debug holotape at the stage of the quest where I needed to use the radio to confirm whether or not I had recruited everyone I wanted. After the exp and quest completion pop up, jake's private frequency appeared shortly after, and the end of the beginning quest popped up after the radio station message was done.

Hopefully that might help some people. I'd do some bug testing, but some of my saves are rather far apart. Dunno if factions matter, but the ones I recruited were; the minute men, the railroad, the CPD, and the nightingales. Though I'm experiencing some bugs with the CPD's quests not trigging (lol) so at least full completion isn't needed there for sure, if at all. It's more than likely just conflicting mods or something
 
Has anybody found the cause yet? I've been having this issue for a long time, in multiple playthroughs.
Keeping in mind that I know nothing about anything regarding mod making, I had a couple of ideas about the cause that I'm wondering might apply to anyone else, and be worthy of looking into.
1. Someone in a different thread about this issue mentioned the mechanist dlc and something about a robobrain (I've only played the dlc once all the way through, and that was years ago forgive me if I don't know what I'm talking about) location overlapping with the area where you gather at The End Of The Beginning. I tend to avoid the area by Tucker memorial bridge/wattz consumer electronics where Ada is since I hate dealing with the rust devils. I don't know if there's something that's messing things up if you avoid her/get the "speak to the robot" quest update of Mechanical Menace but ignore her. The only time I was able to progress SS2 to the end of chapter two, I had sent Ada to a settlement and not interacted with her further.
2. The only time I've made it to HQ, I'd been in a save where I'd skipped most of chapter 1 (I think I skipped to Memory lane) and I'd had problems with early chapter 1 quests trying to continue from that point forward (trying to give Jake the screwdriver when Old Paul comes in yelling about raiders, trying to talk to Jake in the comm HUB room at HQ only to find he's waiting for me by the Charles View Amphitheater, etc). So maybe there's something pre-war is good for business that makes the quest stick and not send the radio signal for End of the beginning? (I don't know what I'm talking about)
3. In the playthroughs after the one where I made it to HQ, I've been activating the relay stations as I go; could that be breaking something?
4. I have prodded Jake's inventory a couple of times to give him some enchanted gear (since I play on survival -albeit cheaty survival since my game ctd's often enough that no saves is a no go - and I worry about the guy); I suspect this breaks the quest where you get a picture of Jake for Dyllan, since me NOT giving him stuff has made the picture work, whereas giving him stuff makes the picture not appear in your inventory. So I wonder if giving Jake stuff (after taking his picture) is breaking something here too.
I've just been thinking about this as I run from settlement to settlement to fend off gunners while I wait for the quest to continue, just trying to think of any reason it might not be triggering. Does anyone else having this problem do any of these things?
Could there be a temporary solution added to the holotape to force the radio to trigger, even if it hasn't been 48 hours? (Or at least a toggleable switch to turn off or turn down the gunner attacks, they're relentless and I've gained like 40 levels since I finished war is good for business T__T)
 
This bug has hit me as well. Its been a week and no movement from Jake. I tried the holotape (Both forms) to force the quest and got not even a small sign of results. I even tried using the console commands and got the same nul result.

Game states;
Level 52
Minute Men - left in the Museum of Freedom
Brotherhood - Havent met Danse yet / No airship
Nick Valentine - Havent rescued him yet
Nightengales - Havent worked with them yet
CPD - Killed Huntsman / Recruited
RailRoad - Butchers Bill 2 / Recruited
Automatron - Mechanist Defeated
Nukaworld - Havent listened to the radio yet
Settlements - All under my control except Warwick. Every one is built up except Spectacle Isle.
Starting Settlement - Red Rocket
Getting constant radiant defend settlement quests.
Grey Matters - Finished
Planet X - Not started
New Mods - Levelupmenuex and Be Exceptional
 
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