Primary Bug Report Grey Matters - Quest fails to update and Anton is non-interactable

[Drask]

I'm at the hotel and went back downstairs to "See what's happening downstairs". And, there's a bunch of people standing there with Anton, but they aren't doing anything. Anyone have the console command to advance this and get the conversation to trigger? Would save me a lot of screwing around.

Thanks

 

[Drask]

Okay, so I figured it out myself. It's been a while, but the command is:

setstage ss2_nika_mq08b_greymatters 100

Ended up missing a conversation, but it seems to be working now.

 

[thezombielife]

I'm having same issue, i did the CMD and it worked. but now when I go find the body, nothing happens. Did it work for you?

 

[Ultima Forsan]

I'm at the hotel and went back downstairs to "See what's happening downstairs". And, there's a bunch of people standing there with Anton, but they aren't doing anything. Anyone have the console command to advance this and get the conversation to trigger? Would save me a lot of screwing around.

Thanks

i got anton killed on the way. i went to the hotel anyway, thinking maybe i could still rescue the girl. when i arrived anton's corpse is stuck in the door of the lobby of the hotel. the junky sister is up in her room, and all of her wastelander buddies are milling about he lobby, knox has the green quest marker over his head, but they're all 'busy' when i try to talk to him.

i saved the game and "resurrect" anton, but when he came back, he was "dumb", and the quest still didn't work. actually, i think i resetactor, not resurrect, can't remember, but he respawned back at the third rail. it didn't work, so i loaded up the save with him still dead, hoping maybe the game wasn't screwed enough to fail

i wouldn't worry about that quest at all, but it keeps notifying me on the hud, "find out what's going on downstairs", which still wouldn't bother me... but the part that bothers me, is that maybe it's screwing up my next quest "turncoat turn out", because the minuteman girl just keeps asking me if i'm ready to go, but i can't acknowledge her.

so, i went to ticker tape lounge, killed all the gunners without her, and i still can't acknowledge her when i go back.

i tried the setstage ss2_nika_mq08b_greymatters 100, it accepted the command, but didn't fix the quest.

i have 4 start overs, because of broken quests and stuff, this is the furthest i've made it so far.

 

[Bored Peon]

1. The main character in the quest died. When something dies all scripts for that character end.

2. Resurrections on NPCs does not enable the scripts that ended. Resurrection is one of those console commands you should forget about because 90% of the time it aint going to work.

3. Using the two rules above if Anton is dead/or died then of course the scenes when he was supposed to talk are going to lock up.

4. If you are going to mess around with console commands then you should learn all the console commands regarding quests, not just how to copy them from a post you read.

SQT = Shows all your quests by their ID name.

Showquestobjectives ID = This gives a complete list of stages and stage numbers for the quest.

Setstage ID # = Use this to skip to a certain stage of a quest (you should do it in a spot the game reloads the scene area as in zone out/in.) This can also bug out quest because it can skip over choices and script activations.

 

[Ultima Forsan]

Thank You! I'll look at that and see if i can just advance through it to get it out of the list! I just don't want that failed quest to mess up other scripts. Not sure what you mean by "a spot the game reloads", but i'm guessing i should set the stage while i'm on the relevant stage? thanks again.

 

[Bored Peon]

Thank You! I'll look at that and see if i can just advance through it to get it out of the list! I just don't want that failed quest to mess up other scripts. Not sure what you mean by "a spot the game reloads", but i'm guessing i should set the stage while i'm on the relevant stage? thanks again.

For a proper reload of a scene you do not want to be in the area when you set that stage.
In other words what you should do in this example is walk back outside the Harbormaster, use the setstage, then zone back inside.

This is a side quest. I have not seen any follow up quests after this yet. It should not interfere with any other quests. Well except it needs to be completed along with Powell family to unlock The Ron.

 

[XxA1xX]

Best bet is go back a few saves to when he’s alive. It’s a pain but for me the quest was honestly decent and Worth the short time of having him around. You just need to prekill all the raiders before arriving at the hotel.

 

[Bored Peon]

Best bet is go back a few saves to when he’s alive. It’s a pain but for me the quest was honestly decent and Worth the short time of having him around. You just need to prekill all the raiders before arriving at the hotel.

LOL. First couple of times I went form Goodneighbor to Harbormaster Hotel I died long before Anton on survival with 1 END.

 

[Deleted member 10215]

Anton's mortal for everyone else? (prior to the end of the quest, I mean)
I watched him stand next to an exploding truck on my last runthrough of that quest over the weekend, and he didnt even flinch.

 

[Bored Peon]

Anton's mortal for everyone else? (prior to the end of the quest, I mean)
I watched him stand next to an exploding truck on my last runthrough of that quest over the weekend, and he didnt even flinch.

Open console and click on him. Then type:
isprotected
isessential
0 is off and 1 is on.

 

[Deleted member 10215]

Open console and click on him. Then type:
isprotected
isessential
0 is off and 1 is on.

Yeah I was just confused since Ive now seen multiple people mention him dying before even getting to that hotel.

 

[LittleCrim17]

Looks like I'm screwed for this questline, Grey Matters. Wish I had realized Anton could die, I have no saves from where I picked him up at the Third Rail, and I have no desire to start a new game after hours spent scrapping and tidying up settlements. No idea when he died either, I was fighting through a ton of raiders and mutants to get to this damn hotel and from reading through forum threads, I'm probably better off just leaving it alone for now and not trying to skip or alter using console commands. Hopefully there will be a fix at some point in the near future.

 

[msalaba]

I have no saves from where I picked him up at the Third Rail

General rule of thumb when playing this game with or without mods.

Make Hard Saves OFTEN!

I learned this the hard way through many save games. So now I make a hard save even if I'm just stopping to pick my nose.... I generally appreciate it later though.