Primary Bug Report Casting a Line - Old Paul is stuck saying "Raiders! Hurry!...", is not interactable, and quest does not advance.

[Nosimo]

After talking to Old Joe and Lily they send me to the stranger to ask about commercial sensors. I talked to the stranger, he asked about my background, was no option to ask about or mention of sensors for a store. The quest updates to find out whats wrong with Old Paul, marker wasnt working so I had to go searching for him. Turns out hes outside the strangers store just standing around doing nothing with no dialog options.

 

[Gunny]

I still have this bug, and I haven't fast traveled once anywhere. I completely restarted, I even tried console commands and it did jack all.

I've reinstalled using Vortex and I still have this bug.

 

[Bunk]

I've gotten to the point of "Find out what's wrong with Old Paul" but when I talk to him he just screams "ARRGH Raiders!" and then goes back to farming... Nothing else happens.
The quest prior to this when I was supposed to talk to the Stranger in his shop, he had only just reached the edge of Sanctuary when I found him, so that may have had an impact on the quest after. I've patched, slept, left the zone, etc. I do have a large number of mods running, but who doesn't.

Any suggestions, or a console command to jump to the nest stage would be appreciated.

 

[HyperLordBender]

Same issue. Small list though here.

 

[Karn Belvar]

Quest progresses up to the point where you talk to Old Paul and he mentions raiders, and then nothing. He doesn't have a quest marker either at this point.

I have all DLC installed. Mod list is attached as well.

 

[Shigari]

I found a way to fix it, or at least it instantly worked for me. Get Paul's ID at your settlement, go near the Stranger in Concord, and use the moveto command to move Paul to you. That should instantly trigger the conversation and fix the situation.
(you guys probably found a way, leaving it here for the ones getting this problem now)

 

[msalaba]

I found a way to fix it, or at least it instantly worked for me. Get Paul's ID at your settlement, go near the Stranger in Concord, and use the moveto command to move Paul to you. That should instantly trigger the conversation and fix the situation.
(you guys probably found a way, leaving it here for the ones getting this problem now)

That or using the holotape quest skip "cheat" is the only thing I can think of.

Paul's scene is supposed to take place at the entrance to the hardware store.

 

[Texas]

This is still a nasty bug. Shigari's method fixed it immediately. Old Paul has to be in the vicinity of ASAM guy for the dialogue to pop correctly.

find old paul
click on him while console is open so that it tags his ID.
Go back to ASAM Man, and in console type "moveto player"

Everything triggered for me just right after that.