Combat Zone Glitch

[HEXcellerate]

Here we are in 2020 still getting glitches.

I'm trying to complete The Combat Zone quest where you get to recruit Cait afterward. After I kill the raiders I'm instructed to talk to Tommy. The problem is: he's literally nowhere to be found. I've looked all around the entire place and don't see him anywhere. I've tried using console commands to both spawn him in and advance the quest to no avail. I'm not sure what's causing this. Has anyone else had this glitch?

[Lukkyb]

do you have any mods running

[HEXcellerate]

Originally posted by Lukkyb:

do you have any mods running

I have a ton of mods installed. No telling which is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ things up, though.

[DouglasGrave]

Spawning him is unlikely to ever be helpful, because that will make a new copy of Tommy without all the existing settings and associations (like being the proper target of a quest). It could be that some mod has either disabled or removed him, but there's no way to know which one unless you've run across the problem before.

I'm not sure what you've done with setting quest stages, but the quest itself doesn't usually have any special consequences other than giving you Cait, so it might actually be feasible to set stages and get a working result. It looks like the quest stages from about 390 through about 510 deal with Cait joining or not, so you could go through, set each stage in order, and see if it starts working. The SQS command can be used to see which stages have already been set by the game.

No guarantees on it working, though. Quests do all sorts of stuff behind the scenes, and Tommy not being visible means something obviously abnormal is happening.

[HEXcellerate]

Originally posted by DouglasGrave:

Spawning him is unlikely to ever be helpful, because that will make a new copy of Tommy without all the existing settings and associations (like being the proper target of a quest). It could be that some mod has either disabled or removed him, but there's no way to know which one unless you've run across the problem before.

I'm not sure what you've done with setting quest stages, but the quest itself doesn't usually have any special consequences other than giving you Cait, so it might actually be feasible to set stages and get a working result. It looks like the quest stages from about 390 through about 510 deal with Cait joining or not, so you could go through, set each stage in order, and see if it starts working. The SQS command can be used to see which stages have already been set by the game.

No guarantees on it working, though. Quests do all sorts of stuff behind the scenes, and Tommy not being visible means something obviously abnormal is happening.

One of the mods I had installed was causing the issue. I disabled all of them and got through the quest without issue, I've no idea what mods caused it, though.