Can't free the penitents.

[Dawn²]

So, i've finished Hollywood except for this quest.
When the bastion was attacked by retribution john, i was sent to deal with him, i had some sort of bug and i had to kill Retribution Jones and his goonies 2 times. I also had to fight the whole bastion outside (with the mason turret) and even at the radio tower (i didn't put the repeater at that time) i had to kill everything at sight (all hostile).

I thought i had find the peaceful solution though. Anyway, The penitents only say *you've killed us you've killed us all. *whimps*" and i cant do nothing with them, Maggie seems to be nowhere to be found in the bastion (i didn't kill her she just disappeared).

As for Bermudez and his brother well, his brother died during the fight (i had the whole bastion against me, i am no god). Did someone encounter the same situation? Did i broke that quest? How do i free the penitents? Where is Maggie?

[Sufferin' Sycophant]

Indeed Hollywood's bugged. I'm currently taking down the bastion with Heidi, yet none of her security force NPC's are moving or aiding me in any way in the fight after taking out the gate console. They just stand there alongside Heidi and make it inconvenient for me since they partially block the entrance. Also some of the milita just hang back, thus I fight them in small groups, one at a time, despite the fact they're only 20+ meters away. I'm not even sure if this is how the game behaves generally, the latter part. It shouldn't be like that in that case. Game has been a lot of fun up to this point.

[Melias]

I seemed to run into these same problems, what a pain! But this was my solution which seemed to work. All the problems listed is where I was at in the game so I went running around like i'm sure everyone else was. I discovered that there were a few slavers left down in Swift's Hideout. All quests remaining (the penitents, peace treaty) were solved. I never talked to Maggie (missing as you know) I just went to the Bastion and McDade and Veronica were there. All remaining quest were updated in my log. Hope this helps, this kind of crap is really annoying!!

[Protectron]

Necroing the thread here, but I thought it was worthwhile to chime in that these problems have not been fixed in the Director' Cut version.

Hollywood is not the only place where you have to do things in a very very specific order to complete quests. Pretty much all of them are designed like that.

It's not a huge problem for me because I sided with Ascension McDade and established communication with the Citadel. However, on the way to the tower, Sanctity White's guys attacked me while yelling that we just stood and watched. When returning from the tower, the Penitent guards attacked me as well. So I Brute Forced the gate control and shot down the turrets and guards by the tower gate, before killing the guards outside the main gate. Heidi then came in, declared victory and left.

Maggie is hiding behind her shop, and the only thing I can do is to shoot her (she's hostile). Luis Bermudez is only shouting that we killed them all.

Apparently, I haven't done things in the right order here. There is only one singular order in which you can talk to characters in order to progress quests in this game. If you talk to someone before you should, while not having some random objects with you that you picked up in a ditch in a completely unrelated place, you break the game. This arbitrariness is by far the most negative aspect of this game, because otherwise it is a good game in many ways.

I hope the sequel fixes these issues.

Edit: btw, I killed everyone both outside and inside and this allowed Bermudez and the Penitents to escape.

[STEΛMROLLED]

For me, the problem was not doing the steps according to how the developer wanted them done.

I already put McDade into power but I had to run Heidi out of town and go back to Griffith to help McDade again before the pentinents and Maggie would leave.

[Trailblazer]

Alex Bermudez is Luis brother
Go talk to Alex in Los Feliz and make him come with you to save his brother in Penitent Quarters
Go to Penitent Quarters by the Bastion Gate and release Luis and everyone else