Primary Bug Report Grey Matters - Quest fails to advance after accepting quest from Anton to help his sister

[Opposing Forces]

i go to good neighbor, find anton and talk to him. he wants my help to save his sister, i agree and so he says lets go. quest doesn't update, the harbor master doesn't get added to the map, no new quest objectives. but he is following me. but if i try talking to him he just says we should wait till we get there.

 

[Omega4451]

i go to good neighbor, find anton and talk to him. he wants my help to save his sister, i agree and so he says lets go. quest doesn't update, the harbor master doesn't get added to the map, no new quest objectives. but he is following me. but if i try talking to him he just says we should wait till we get there.

I get the exact same thing :/

 

[Squints]

He says to go to the Harbormaster Hotel

Harbormaster Hotel

The Harbormaster Hotel is a location in the Boston Harbor ("Waterfront") neighborhood of Boston in 2287. The Harbormaster Hotel is a very small area consisting of the main hotel lobby, room 61 on the sixth floor (all of the other rooms are blocked off), and the hotel roof, guarded by some...

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Once you go there and enter the building on the bottom floor in the main lobby, the quest will pick up

 

[Opposing Forces]

my point is that it doesn't show up on the map, the quest just keeps saying to talk to him. so he doesn't mark it on the map and the quest doesn't update.

 

[Squints]

For me it was the same. The marker will be over his head and he just followed me around with the quest saying talk to him. It only updated after I went into the hotel

 

[Opposing Forces]

so going to the harbor master location does advance the quest. however the fact the quest never marks the location on your map, nore does it update the marker means most people aren't going to figure it out, thus i'd call it a bug.

 

[Opposing Forces]

quest grey matter now properly works for me by reverting to a previous save and to version 100d. apparently these are fixed with version f.

 

[Ultima Forsan]

what if you got anton killed before you got to the hotel, and when you arrived at the lobby of the hotel, his corpse spawned IN the door of the lobby, and now the quest won't advance? you can't check out what's going on downstairs, because anton is dead.

also, if you resurrect him, he is "dumb" and at the third rail, and won't advance the quest there, either.

 

[Tvanbure]

I did not realize this was related to SS2, in a previous game I stumbled across this quest at a mid way point, I found the sisters room in the hotel and it let me start a quest after looking at a terminal I believe. It sent me done to the lobby and there were a number of people there, one with a quest marker. The NPC would not talk to me. I had never seen Anton previously at the third rail. I tried to advance the quest one stage, Anton shows up all aggressive, in the end it never progressed to conclusion. I did manage to force complete the quest using console commands, to get it out of my quest list. Every time after that I would visit the Third Rail my Companion would see Anton and start attacking as he was hostile to me ( and he is not killable - or not at that point anyway). I feel the pain regarding this quest, either the quest needs some tweaking to not allow starting at mid way point or something so it does not stop progressing. I had no idea this was related to SS2 when I came on it until I saw this forum post.

 

[hennieg10]

what if you got anton killed before you got to the hotel, and when you arrived at the lobby of the hotel, his corpse spawned IN the door of the lobby, and now the quest won't advance? you can't check out what's going on downstairs, because anton is dead.

also, if you resurrect him, he is "dumb" and at the third rail, and won't advance the quest there, either.

I have the same problem ay help with this will be greatly appreciated.

 

[Din'elen DarkStar]

Find his ID and use the resurrect console command