Stop the presses bugged?

[Dimossa]

Im at the point the quest log states i swapped the story for good and will get rep tomorrow. After long rest in the camp new entry appears of tarnished rep because i didnt swap the negatives and quest is complete. Essentially it has a success entry and after that it has a failed entry...

[MIYUKI]

Originally posted by Dimossa:

Im at the point the quest log states i swapped the story for good and will get rep tomorrow. After long rest in the camp new entry appears of tarnished rep because i didnt swap the negatives and quest is complete. Essentially it has a success entry and after that it has a failed entry...

Yes it is bugged.

Dont loot anything when first entering. go to the press (kill guards or sneak). speak to it TWICE. it will pop out print twice. then go to the far room and loot the good news (about you saying good things) item from the waste basket. put that one in. then rest. it will work. DONT LOOT ANYTHING ELSE until after you complete.

Be prepared for some hostiles up top. Use the roof if you can get up there to make it easier.

[Dimossa]

Man..its getting frustrating with the amount of broken quests...-(

[katzenkrimis]

This room was a mess. I have no idea what happened in the press room. Or the building.

The game forced me to kill almost everybody for no reason.

The press was spitting out the wrong info, or the room had the wrong info.

Nothing made sense. Then I was told that everything was hunky dory and I left.

What a disaster.

[❃ Galiäna Krüger ❃]

Hey if you use mods and cause quest broke you are required to disclose that, I have no issue in vanilla version. This "bug" is sounding very suspicious.

[Dimossa]

Originally posted by MIYUKI:

Originally posted by Dimossa:

Im at the point the quest log states i swapped the story for good and will get rep tomorrow. After long rest in the camp new entry appears of tarnished rep because i didnt swap the negatives and quest is complete. Essentially it has a success entry and after that it has a failed entry...

Yes it is bugged.

Dont loot anything when first entering. go to the press (kill guards or sneak). speak to it TWICE. it will pop out print twice. then go to the far room and loot the good news (about you saying good things) item from the waste basket. put that one in. then rest. it will work. DONT LOOT ANYTHING ELSE until after you complete.

Be prepared for some hostiles up top. Use the roof if you can get up there to make it easier.

Worked. Added to that convo with the editor after the swap.

[Mizu]

I was only able to make it work once, when I went back later to try and mess with future news articles I couldn't get it to let me change out the lying dreck they were printing about me. But I'm not sure if this is a bug or the newspaper editor being smart enough to learn from experience and not leave finished drafts of cancelled articles that make me look good laying around for me to stick in the machine anymore.

[redwitch]

OK, another bugged quest, act 3 is really a mess, it's getting really very very annoying

[Mike Garrison]

You are resurrecting a post from from August.

I did this quest under Patch 3 (haven't tried with Patch 4 yet) and it worked fine.

[redwitch]

in my case, it does not complete

[Mike Garrison]

Originally posted by redwitch:

in my case, it does not complete

In what way?

I actually did this quest by accident when I did it. I had no idea it even existed. It was just that I had never explored Baldur's Mouth in any previous playthrough. So I went in and found my way to the basement. Got in an unexpected fight with some steel watch. Then found the press. Since I had been nice to Dolly Dolly Dolly, the press itself suggested I swap the story out. I did.

Then the next day, the story in the paper was rather complementary to me.

[Noxy]

It bugged out for me too: I'm real sad cuz my quest def messed up. When I got to the right part of the quest I snuck into the basement of Baldurs mouth - no violence anywhere just invisibility and high stealth - talked to the printing press who was friendly to me based on what I did in shadow lands and it offered to run a different story - it spat out the bad story and I went grabbed the articles from around the room and selected one that was said it was a positive view on adventurers and the printer said it was good and the quest said it was good so I dipped and went and did shadowheart's quest and some other plot stuff then went and did a long rest and now everyone hates me and the quest says my rep is effed and I failed to stop the press. However (and this is the part I'm most cheesed about) if I go buy a newspaper it shows the _good article_ was printed. so I'm pissed, I def did make it print the good article however it still failed me. Dunno how to fix that so leaving it as 'people hate me' =(