Wasteland Survival Guide Quest bug.

[rallicknom]

I just bought the GOG version of FO 3 and have been playing it with no problems at all when I ran into this quest bug.

I tried doing the quest of getting a serious injury and the optional crippling injury by going to Minefield and standing next to a mine and exploding car.

Before I continue let me explain that I bought the Fallout 3 GOTY many years ago and have completed this quest quite a few times and I always complete this particular quest as I have described as it is the easiest and fastest for me.

This time when I got a crippling injury and a serious injury I did not get the completed quest indication and no dotted line back to Megaton. I went to Moira anyway and she did not give me the dialogue for the completed quest.

I have tried going back to a save before I got the quest, deleting my ini and pref.ini files but nothing seems to work.

My OS is Win10 and here is my mod load copied from LOOT.

0 0 Fallout3.esm
1 1 Anchorage.esm
2 2 ThePitt.esm
3 3 StreetLights.esm
4 4 BrokenSteel.esm
5 5 PointLookout.esm
6 6 Zeta.esm
7 7 CALIBR.esm
8 8 Mart's Mutant Mod.esm
9 9 AWorldOfPainFO3.esm
10 a Project Beauty.esm
11 b RH_IRONSIGHTS.esm
12 c CrossRepairWeapons.esp
13 d MaxLevelWorkaround-HP-BS.esp
14 e MaxLevelWorkaround-BS.esp
15 f WastelandMastery.esp
16 10 Dree Perks.esp
17 11 Mart's Mutant Mod.esp
18 12 GunOil.esp
19 13 Ammo Crazy 5 - Small stacks - No Uniques - Scrap Metal - Basic Weapons.esp
20 14 Ammo Crazy 6 - CALIBR ammo - Small stacks - No Uniques - Scrap - BasicsWeps.esp
21 15 Mart's Mutant Mod - DLC The Pitt.esp
22 16 Mart's Mutant Mod - DLC Point Lookout.esp
23 17 Mart's Mutant Mod - DLC Anchorage.esp
24 18 Mart's Mutant Mod - Natural Selection.esp
25 19 Mart's Mutant Mod - Master Menu Module.esp
26 1a Mart's Mutant Mod - Increased Increased Spawns.esp
27 1b Mart's Mutant Mod - Increased Spawns.esp
28 1c Mart's Mutant Mod - DLC Broken Steel.esp
29 1d BetterGamePerformance.esp
30 1e StreetLights - Wasteland.esp
31 1f MoreMapMarkers.esp
32 20 FO3 RWL GOTY.esp
33 21 Flora Overhaul.esp
34 22 CALIBRxMerchant.esp
35 23 Bobblehead Quest.esp
36 24 WeaponModKits.esp
37 25 Dree Perks Requested by Fans .esp
38 26 CaravanUpgrades.esp
39 27 Merchants.esp
40 28 Mart's Mutant Mod - Tougher Traders.esp
41 29 Mart's Mutant Mod - DLC Zeta.esp
42 2a RH_IronSights_Basic_AnchoragePlugin.esp
43 2b RH_IronSights_Basic_ZetaPlugin.esp
44 2c ZL-SVD-CALIBR.esp
45 2d RH_IronSights_PL_NewItems.esp
46 2e 100000caps.esp
47 2f Millenia_AKS74U.esp
48 30 Max Level 99 V2.esp
49 31 JIP Selective-Fire.esp
50 32 ColtM4Carbines.esp
51 33 m110.esp
52 34 Project Beauty- Broken Steel.esp
53 35 Project Beauty- Point Lookout.esp
54 36 RH_IronSights_Basic_VanillaPlugin.esp
55 37 RH_IronSights_Pitt_NewRifleSights.esp
56 38 RH_IronSights_Basic_PointLookoutPlugin.esp
57 39 RH_IronSights_Basic_PittPlugin.esp
58 3a RH_IronSights_RemoveReticule.esp
59 3b RH_WMK_Bridge.esp
60 3c RH_IronSights_Basic_BrokenSteelPlugin.esp
61 3d Mart's Mutant Mod - Zones Respawn.esp
62 3e richvendors.esp
63 3f AR-15.esp
64 40 Trader100%Repair.esp
65 41 FO3Merged.esp

I am using some mods that I have never used before as I have not played the game in a number of years.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Bomb Bloke]

Originally posted by rallicknom:

This time when I got a crippling injury and a serious injury I did not get the completed quest indication and no dotted line back to Megaton. I went to Moira anyway and she did not give me the dialogue for the completed quest.

Did you actually reduce your total HP below 50%? That's the actual requirement for completing the quest, after all - the crippled body part is an optional extra.

[rallicknom]

Yes, my health was below 50%.

After reading the link that Ashiyuki posted I think I know what the culprit is. When I level up I got the Life Giver and Toughness perks much earlier than I ever did before, also there were five levels to each of them. If that is the case uninstalling Dree Perks or maybe just not installing Dree Perks Requested should fix the problem. That is the only mod I can think of that would cause that change in the perks.

If I do uninstall it I will have to start a new game so it will take me a while to find out if that caused the bug.

I did use the Life Giver perk three times I believe so maybe my health was too high. In the post the poster reduced his health with a console command and that worked. I think I will google to try to find that console command and then give it a shot

I will post the results back here.

[rallicknom]

From what I have experienced not using perk mods sounds like a wise decision.

I fixed this by starting over and doing that quest much earlier.

The first time when the quest bugged I was at lvl 12 and had 490 hit points, mainly because of the Lifegiver perk, which I got at lvl three. I managed to roll back my hit points to 250 using the setav console command but it made no difference. Evidently the 490 hit points were baked into my game somehow.

After starting over I was at lvl 4 and had 270 hit points not using the Lifegiver perk just gaining hit points normally. The quest advanced with no problems.

Hopefully that is the only quest that mod will bug as it is nice to get those extra hit points from Lifegiver and damage resistance from the Toughness perk.

Thank you for your replies.