About console commands

[drakeef]

Need to reset a computer for a quest called 'I Could Make You Care; using a command due to a bug but putting it wrong since its my first time trying to use one. What is the exact typing for:

set e6a6a.DataState to 0

[Zef]

Can't you just use the unlock command? Or is the entire terminal bugged.

Forget the computer just either reset the entire quest or skip (finish it) with console commands.

[E.P.D. Gaffney]

You have it typed correctly. If it's not working, the only thing I can think of is to make sure that terminal is selected and not some other object near it. So, stand by the rterminal, bring up the console, and click on the terminal. You'll see the ID and usually (but not for every object) name of whatever you clicked appear in the centre of the top of the screen, and that's what the commands are executed on, until you close the console or click on something else.

If in doubt, you can roll the mouse wheel to scroll through a list of what the game thinks you may have wanted to select, usually things that are either before or behind the object that initially came up.

If that doesn't work, you can proceed further through a quest with the setstage command, though that can have strange effects on some quests. I think this quest should be fine, though.

This is how it works:

setstage <quest id> <quest stage id>

The wiki gives you the Quest ID of 00145f85, and tells you the objective Recover the experimental data from Vault 22 is 100. You want the next objective to come up, so you get the stage ID for the next objective from the wiki, and it's 110. So your whole command to skip this terminal's objective in the quest is:

setstage 00145f85 110

If you start trying to do this stuff on DLCs and such, it gets slightly more complex, but if ever you want to manipulate something from the base game, it's just looking up these IDs.

[drakeef]

Thanks :) will need to remember that for next time, manged to get Veronica to switch to the pulse gun for her quest (was trying to get the farm data for her quest but already used it for a different quest so was trying to reset it to get another download)

[E.P.D. Gaffney]

Originally posted by drakeef:

Thanks :) will need to remember that for next time, manged to get Veronica to switch to the pulse gun for her quest (was trying to get the farm data for her quest but already used it for a different quest so was trying to reset it to get another download)

That was my life back on the 360.
Oh, there's a bug? Suppose I'll just have to kill a different person and proceed the way I didn't want to...
Playing on the PC is such a relief in so many ways.