Fallout NV hidden valley low vis patrol

[Nova Cat v. Wendigo]

I just got back into New vegas after about half a year or so and the last time I played I had figured this out by running scripts but I cannot remember how to trigger the night patrol before initiating any questline or contact with Veronica, etc, not even finding the dead patrols with passcode. I'm just one of those people that like to find things out that no one has talked about in games and well any wiki will say that they patrol the hidden valley once the artificial storm starts at 9 or between 2 and 3. There are some answers out there but they are somewhat different. I think last time I ran a script to complete a certain stage of a quest and actually skipping over something but I can't remember what it was. Other people say going ahead in the main questline or talking to Veronica but I want to figure it out so that you could go from a new game with no play time right to hidden valley and see the patrol of 4 palidans right away. It's obviously supposed to work a certain way for a certain reason but some wikis say "sometimes you may find palidans patrolling between 2-3 or even 1:30-3 but never say how or under what circumstances. I got it to work before and other people have just isn't working right now I'm already level 6 and have done a few quests.

[Nova Cat v. Wendigo]

I also want to update the wiki on a confirmation and a how to... surprises me what new things you can find in this game still

[robotkiller]

Did you ever figure it out? Console command I've tried is 'set hiddenvalleyduststorm.patrolstarted to 1' but it says something about variable name missing and I don't really know how to use the Geck to find what I'm missing. I found that command in the Geck listed in hvnightpatrolweapondrawn.
Edit: missing details

[JDC UK]

The patrol starts after dealing with Benny, at which point VStoryState is set to 20, and you go to the Hidden Valley region afterwards.

Setting the patrolstarted variable won't work, even if you'd used the correct Form ID.
set "161869".patrolstarted to 1

set VStoryState to 20 should start the script that sets the patrol and enables the paladins.

It will also start after you do the quests for Crocker when it sets VStoryState to 30.

[robotkiller]

Originally posted by JDC UK:

The patrol starts after dealing with Benny, at which point VStoryState is set to 20, and you go to the Hidden Valley region afterwards.

Setting the patrolstarted variable won't work, even if you'd used the correct Form ID.
set "161869".patrolstarted to 1

set VStoryState to 20 should start the script that sets the patrol and enables the paladins.

It will also start after you do the quests for Crocker when it sets VStoryState to 30.

I appreciate this information. I've been looking for this for awhile. On my last play through I just went through the story but couldn't figure out the trigger. Thanks