"Back to Vectera" Bug/Issue HELP! Cannot complete main quest

[{ BD } Harvey G]

So im having a weird issue with the quest "back to vectera". When I started the quest to talk to Lin, I started dialogue & once the quest advanced to find Barret & find the power cells (Im guessing the quest stage shift) the game would crash so I did a workaround by just skipping dialogue with lin & collected the power cells to then go & find heller, which leads me to my second issue that prevents me from advancing in the story & completing the quest.. once I talk to Heller to help him at the crash site, I talk to him to & after the first line of dialogue I choose, the game crashes & im unable to advance in the quest to recruit Heller & save Barret. YES I do use mods but Im not sure what mod or what could be causing the problem. Hopefully someone can help me solve this bug, PLEASE & thank you !

- I can upload my mod list for review if needed!

[Vlad 254]

Yes, post your mod list and if those mods were all from Nexus or all from Creations or a mix of both. Also include if you've removed any mods.

And mention if you are using a mod manager and if so which one.

[{ BD } Harvey G]

Originally posted by Vlad 254:

Yes, post your mod list and if those mods were all from Nexus or all from Creations or a mix of both. Also include if you've removed any mods.

And mention if you are using a mod manager and if so which one.

I currently use MO2 & I dont think I use any Creation club content but here is my mod list (all from Nexus mods) Ive removed (disabled) the HD overhaul, bashkit Standalone INJECTOR, crew eats food & belts & holsters (never enabled)

#Mod_Priority,#Mod_Status,#Mod_Name
"0000","+","Creation Club: SFBGS004"
"0001","+","Unmanaged: Pathfinder_f"
"0002","+","60 FPS - Smooth UI"
"0003","+","Address Library for SFSE Plugins"
"0004","+","Ammo Framework"
"0005","+","Arboron Starlight Laser Pistol"
"0006","+","Background Dialogue Unlocked"
"0007","+","Baka Achievement Enabler (SFSE)"
"0008","+","Baka NPCs Always Drop Their Equipped Armor"
"0009","+","Banshee"
"0010","+","Becca's Standalone Outfit (Vanilla Morphs)"
"0011","+","Bounty Hunter Outfit"
"0012","+","Bullet hole Impact VERSION 3.0"
"0013","+","CaCAO - Companion and Crew Advanced Overhaul"
"0014","+","CharGenMenu"
"0015","+","Clean Reflex Sight Lenses"
"0016","+","Compact Crew Menu UI"
"0017","+","Compact Mission UI"
"0018","+","Console Command Runner Updated"
"0019","+","Console Output To File (SFSE Plugin)"
"0020","+","Constellation ALT-TAB"
"0021","+","Constellation Modular Outfits - Tank Tops - Jackets - T-Shirts - Parkas"
"0022","+","Crimson X - Clothing Jackets Glasses Masks Belts Gloves Gear"
"0023","+","Crowd NPC eye Ambient occlusion Fix"
"0024","+","Dark Mode for Mission Boards"
"0025","+","Dark Mode for Terminals"
"0026","+","Dilated Timescale"
"0027","+","Disk Cache Enabler"
"0028","+","DualSense - PS5 Icons"
"0029","+","Ecliptic Mercenary (Replacer or Standalone)"
"0030","+","Eit Clothiers Plus - Clothes jackets belts gloves glasses necklace"
"0031","+","Enhanced Blood Textures"
"0032","+","Enhanced Dialogue Interface"
"0033","+","Enhanced Player Healthbar"
"0034","+","Enhanced Subtitles"
"0035","+","EXE - Effect Textures Enhanced"
"0036","+","Exile"
"0037","+","Flashlight texture swap"
"0038","+","Functional Ship Infirmaries"
"0039","+","G36C Redux"
"0040","+","Gameplay Tweaks and Fixes"
"0041","+","Guaranteed FPS Boost"
"0042","+","Han Solo Outfit (Star Wars)"
"0043","+","Immersive Sabers"
"0044","+","Improved Combat AI"
"0045","+","Improved Follower Behavior"
"0046","+","Increased Crew Capacity"
"0047","+","Infiltrator 2 - Spacesuit Outfit and Weapon"
"0048","+","Item Sorter"
"0049","+","KZ Aggregation of Scraps"
"0050","+","Laredo M2 .45acp Pistol"
"0051","+","Legendary Module Recycler"
"0052","+","Leia Outfits (Star Wars)"
"0053","+","Mark M"
"0054","+","MJOLNIR Mark V"
"0055","+","More Crew Slots"
"0056","+","More Outpost Crew"
"0057","+","Muria Crew and or Follower"
"0058","+","Neutral LUTs - No Color Filters"
"0059","+","No XP Kill Steal Fix"
"0060","+","Nomad Spacesuit"
"0061","+","O.R.B - Outpost Resource Bot"
"0062","+","Odyssey - A True RPG (Collection)"
"0063","+","P.A.B - Pilot Assist Bot"
"0064","+","Pathfinder armor - Standalone"
"0065","+","Performance Texture Pack - AIO and INI for Loose Files"
"0066","+","Performance Texture Pack - CITIES"
"0067","+","Performance Texture Pack - CLOTHING"
"0068","+","Performance Texture Pack - WEAPONS"
"0069","+","Plugins.txt Enabler"
"0070","+","powerofthree's Tweaks SFSE"
"0071","+","Premade StarfieldCustom.ini"
"0072","+","Real Time Form Patcher (SFSE)"
"0073","+","RoboDog X27-0312_D06-M34T"
"0074","+","Robotics Outfit (VBB with morphs)"
"0075","+","Royal Galaxy - A Starfield Revamp And Cut Content Restoration"
"0076","+","Royal Patch Hub And Difficulty Configurators"
"0077","+","Royal Weathers - An Immersive Starfield Climate Overhaul"
"0078","+","RTM's Space Trucker Casualwear"
"0079","+","Russian Bashkit"
"0080","+","SavrenX HD Crowd Optimized V2"
"0081","+","SFSE ASI Loader Updated"
"0082","+","Show Star Names"
"0083","+","Smuggler Veteran Outfit"
"0084","+","Space Cowboy Armor Pack - SCAP"
"0085","+","Star Wars Clone Wars Outfits (Anakin - Obi-Wan - Padme)"
"0086","+","Starborn's Bounty"
"0087","+","Starfield .nif Mesh Path Migration Tool for SF 1.11.36"
"0088","+","Starfield Achievement Enabler"
"0089","+","Starfield Community Patch (SFCP)"
"0090","+","Starfield NPC LEDs"
"0091","+","Starfield Performance Texture Pack"
"0092","+","StarUI Configurator"
"0093","+","StarUI HUD"
"0094","+","StarUI Inventory"
"0095","+","StarUI Outpost"
"0096","+","StarUI Ship Builder"
"0097","+","Swiftly Order Squad - Multiple Followers - Group Commands"
"0098","+","UC Surplus Stores Expanded - Spacesuits and Uniforms"
"0099","+","Ultimate"
"0100","+","Unofficial Starfield Patch - USFP"
"0101","+","Varuun Cyber Runner"
"0102","+","Weapon Swap Stuttering Fix"
"0103","+","ZBB - ZoNEs Beautiful Body"
"0104","-","Starfield HD Overhaul"
"0105","+","LEDFlashlight - Tactical led flashlight texture and colors"
"0106","+","Rudy HQ - More epic Milky Way texture"
"0107","+","Raven - CharGen Preset"
"0108","+","Starborn Player Home at Moonhenge"
"0109","+","50 GS"
"0110","+","Munitions Expansion Framework"
"0111","+","Ship Builder Tolerance Tweaks"
"0112","+","SR2 Normandy"
"0113","+","All In One Ship Upgrades"
"0114","+","JJ U.S.S. Enterprise 1701"
"0115","+","In Amber Clad"
"0116","+","Classic 1701 Enterprise"
"0117","+","Mattell's Cockpits and Bridges Crew Series"
"0118","+","Starfield Engine Fixes - SFSE"
"0119","+","Stop Staring at Me - Less NPC Headtracking (plus CCR)"
"0120","+","Starfield Hair and Beards - RTFP"
"0121","+","Multiversal Shipyard"
"0122","+","Upscaling Fix - FSR - DLSS - XeSS"
"0123","+","PLAGUE'S OPTICS REIMAGINED"
"0124","+","Craftable Weapon Skins - CWS"
"0125","+","NV4 Assault Rifle from Call of Duty Infinite Warfare (2 Variants)"
"0126","+","Project Warfare - Hardened Edition"
"0127","+","AmmoHud"
"0128","+","Weapons of Fate (Ballistics Overhaul)"
"0129","+","AK with Stock (Non Replace)"
"0130","+","The Stingray Standalone"
"0131","+","TGs M41A Pulse Rifle (Standalone)"
"0132","+","E-11 Blaster Rifle"
"0133","+","Bashkit Standalone"
"0134","-","Bashkit Standalone INJECTOR"
"0135","+","M4A1 - Assault Rifle"
"0136","+","TN's Power Tools - Cutter - Arc Welder - Auto-Rivet"
"0137","+","Standalone NV4 Assault Rifle"
"0138","+","T77 7.77mm Pistol 2277"
"0139","+","KBAR-32 (AA BAR-32)"
"0140","+","Various Crew"
"0141","-","Crew Eats Food"
"0142","+","Glock 19"
"0143","+","Desert Eagle"
"0144","+","Lexington"
"0145","+","Project Warfare Ammo Framework Patch"
"0146","+","Project Warfare - Addon Pack 1"
"0147","+","Flight Camera - larger FOV and more responsive ship camera"
"0148","+","SETI - Ship Exterior True Illumination"
"0149","+","The Gang's All Here - Multiple Companions and Crew"
"0150","+","Gorefield - A Starfield Gore Framework"
"0151","+","Sprint Stuttering Fix"
"0152","+","Enemy Friendly Fire (SFSE)"
"0153","+","Sprint Headtracking Bug Fix"
"0154","+","Immersive Planet Density"
"0155","+","More Custom Landing Sites"
"0156","+","Better Food and Chems"
"0157","+","Better NPCs"
"0158","+","Immersive Shell Casings"
"0159","+","ATIL - Ammo Type Icons and Labels"
"0160","+","Gravity Affects Weight (SFSE)"
"0161","+","Locational Damage Overhaul"
"0162","+","Better Death Physics"
"0163","+","No Force Holster in Conversations"
"0164","+","Show Date When Waking Up"
"0165","+","SEDWT ULTIMATE"
"0166","+","Companion Dialogue Framework"
"0167","+","Crew Companion Skill Overhaul"
"0168","+","Rosie Tannehill - An Actual Doctor"
"0169","+","Companions Conversations Fix"
"0170","+","Unique Standalone Crew Member - Astrid"
"0171","+","Unique Standalone Crew Member - Sivan"
"0172","+","More interesting Crew Recruits"
"0173","+","Companion Dialogue Fix"
"0174","+","StarUI Workbench"
"0175","-","Belt and Holster Standalone AND MORE"
"0176","+","R2-D2 Follower"
"0177","+","AA Fuse Handcanon"
"0178","+","Starfield Plugin Bridge"

[jonnin]

wow. I got nothing... I can't get the blasted game to work with 5 mods off the workshop... yours even half working with 180 is a miracle in and of itself.

[{ BD } Harvey G]

Originally posted by jonnin:

wow. I got nothing... I can't get the blasted game to work with 5 mods off the workshop... yours even half working with 180 is a miracle in and of itself.

I never had any issues using mods with this quest in the past so idk whats up tbh. I could try console commands to skip the quest or I can prob just disable some mods to see which ones crash the game during the dialogue or not.

[Vlad 254]

Originally posted by { BD } Harvey G:

....or I can prob just disable some mods to see which ones crash the game during the dialogue or not.

Normally that's the best way to test which would be to go back to a save when everything was working then to disable your mods one at a time testing your game. But if you did the quests in order this is only your 3rd quest after 1. One Small Step, 2. The Old Neighborhood, and this one 3. Back to Vectera (unless you did The Empty Nest), then you are still very close to the beginning of the game. This matters because with a mod list with so many mods created with the experimental version of xEdit which were all 'use at your own risk' type mods I would just scrap the entire list, do a Clean Reinstall of the game which is more than a simple uninstall then reinstall" as a clean reinstall will ensure all traces of loose files are completely removed from your game. Then make sure you install mods that were made after June 9th 2024 or at the very least were updated after that date because that's the date we finally received the official tools.

That's my advice but of course you could test them one by one as mentioned. But you would still run the risk of issues popping up due to the type of mods you are using (made before the CK) and some of those are esp files (yes i see the converter which I would not use). Not to mention some mods might be the wrong versions of esm (small, medium, full).

I made a guide for a true clean reinstall in case you are interested
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3199872428

[{ BD } Harvey G]

Originally posted by Vlad 254:

Originally posted by { BD } Harvey G:

....or I can prob just disable some mods to see which ones crash the game during the dialogue or not.

Normally that's the best way to test which would be to go back to a save when everything was working then to disable your mods one at a time testing your game. But if you did the quests in order this is only your 3rd quest after 1. One Small Step, 2. The Old Neighborhood, and this one 3. Back to Vectera (unless you did The Empty Nest), then you are still very close to the beginning of the game. This matters because with a mod list with so many mods created with the experimental version of xEdit which were all 'use at your own risk' type mods I would just scrap the entire list, do a Clean Reinstall of the game which is more than a simple uninstall then reinstall" as a clean reinstall will ensure all traces of loose files are completely removed from your game. Then make sure you install mods that were made after June 9th 2024 or at the very least were updated after that date because that's the date we finally received the official tools.

That's my advice but of course you could test them one by one as mentioned. But you would still run the risk of issues popping up due to the type of mods you are using (made before the CK) and some of those are esp files (yes i see the converter which I would not use). Not to mention some mods might be the wrong versions of esm (small, medium, full).

I made a guide for a true clean reinstall in case you are interested
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3199872428

Thank you for your help & time, I appreciate this alot! I will try what you said & tweak it a bit, Thank you.

[Vlad 254]

Originally posted by { BD } Harvey G:

Originally posted by Vlad 254:

Thank you for your help & time, I appreciate this alot! I will try what you said & tweak it a bit, Thank you.

Anytime, let us know how you make out. Good luck.