Found "Covenant", Everyone Dead and Can't Use Settlement?

[Tesityr]

(Possible SPOILERS, I am not far on the Main Storyline, and this place might be part of it, so only read if you have completed the game or don't mind hearing something that might come later)

Possible SPOILER Alert, last warning lol


Okay, so I'm running around on a higher-level Character that I haven't played in a while.
I run past this place that looks like a little town or something, it says "Discovered: Covenant". Neat.

I go inside and everyone is dead. Bodies are all over the place, some have died sitting up (what the hell) and the Mr.Handy here is standing still and his guts are all showing (what the hell).

People are Named and have Keys and stuff on them, it seems like there would have been some Stories or Quests here, but I can't do anything because everyone is dead (what the hell).

Oh, and the WORKBENCH, which you think would just open up because again, everyone is dead, says I'm not Allied With The Settlement... HOW CAN I ALLY WITH SOMEPLACE IF EVERYONE IS DEAD?? (WHAT THE HELL)

I feel like I'm in some Andromeda Strain DLC or something and it's a little freaky actually... Can anyone explain what might be going on here? Is this a normal part of this place's story? lol

Thanks

[dogg]

There is definitely a story attached to Covenant but not having it available is not game breaking.
As for the crime scene, I can't imagine why they're all dead unless you killed them somehow, but if you haven't done the prereq quest (Human Error I think) you still should be able to use the workbench if everyone's dead.

[AC Denton]

It's not part of the main story.
It's not normal though.
This was not meant to happen.
It's a very cool settlement, one of the best defensible & has a good quest around it.

[Ceejay]

I feel you must have some sort of mod on that is conflicting, the only way they should be dead is if you killed them...

[Tesityr]

Thanks you two - well crap...

Maybe I'll load an earlier save or something (I haven't played this Character in a while so I don't remember where she was anyway), that's so weird to come upon it and its' messed up already.

I know there are Commands to Set Quest Stages - is there something to Reset an entire Settlement? I don't know if such a thing would be possible, heh.

Here is a quick example I made, from a recording I kept from that Session, showing me Discovering the place and finding them all Dead... wthlol:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1069960288

[Tesityr]

Originally posted by Ceejay:

I feel you must have some sort of mod on that is conflicting, the only way they should be dead is if you killed them...

Thanks for the idea but no, I don't run MODs unless it is Official DLC (the HRTP is the closest thing I'd run to a MOD at the moment).

I have nothing against MODs, I've already experimented with SweetFX in ReShade, and I plan to mess with MODs later on - I just haven't finished the Main Storyline yet, so I want to see everything 'normal/asintended' first...

Yeah, it seems messed somehow. Like something Triggered and it was too Early or something. Maybe my Level is too high? (80's I think on her)

I might end up Loading an older Save. I haven't played this Character in a while so I am forgetting everything she's done anyway...

[Bryan=0101]

You can ally with the settlement still
in a quest the human error you end up with 2 opitions one of them makes everyone in convenat hostile to you so you need to kill them and then you can use settlement. To do this quest there should be a pond right infront of convenat with a busted sewer pipe on the far side. Swim out to it and good luck


IMPORTANT- convenat is a bugged setttlement the turrets that are in it will not help you and will attack your own turrets when placed. You can A break them and wait 3 days for the remains to despawn allowing to place your own turrets up there or B open the consle click on them and type disable. Besides that convenat should be as fine as any settlement.

[Tesityr]

Originally posted by 101=5, bryan=5:

You can ally with the settlement still
in a quest the human error you end up with 2 opitions one of them makes everyone in convenat hostile to you so you need to kill them and then you can use settlement. To do this quest there should be a pond right infront of convenat with a busted sewer pipe on the far side. Swim out to it and good luck


IMPORTANT- convenat is a bugged setttlement the turrets that are in it will not help you and will attack your own turrets when placed. You can A break them and wait 3 days for the remains to despawn allowing to place your own turrets up there or B open the consle click on them and type disable. Besides that convenat should be as fine as any settlement.

Thanks a lot!

I thought my only recourse was to Load an earlier Save, if I really wanted to experience this Location on this Character (I was going to resign to just waiting until I found it on another Character).

I'll try your idea - thanks again!

[Tesityr]

Originally posted by 101=5, bryan=5:

You can ally with the settlement still
in a quest the human error you end up with 2 opitions one of them makes everyone in convenat hostile to you so you need to kill them and then you can use settlement. To do this quest there should be a pond right infront of convenat with a busted sewer pipe on the far side. Swim out to it and good luck


IMPORTANT- convenat is a bugged setttlement the turrets that are in it will not help you and will attack your own turrets when placed. You can A break them and wait 3 days for the remains to despawn allowing to place your own turrets up there or B open the consle click on them and type disable. Besides that convenat should be as fine as any settlement.

Hmmm....

So I went there and found a door in a pipe, thanks for the directions. However, inside were a bunch of guards and a Lab Tech or something but noone would say anything other than "hello" or "you shouldn't be in here" (heh). There were Terminals but no Quests or anything... I think I may have to Load an earlier Save...

Edit/Update:
So I tried an earlier Save and they were still all dead.
I tried an even earlier Save - the earliest the list had (lolscrolling) - it took be back from level 82 all the way down to 37 and I used the Command to Teleport there that I found

coc CovenantExt

and they were all Dead... /sigh Oh well, I guess something happened on this Character (maybe I should check other Characters just to be sure it's not totally messed in my version of the game).
Update:
Checked another Character and Teleported right away to Covenant with them (a Character at the Beginning, still in Vault 111) and the Town was fine! In fact, I opened the door and they were so fine, they all attacked me and killed me lol (hmm... is that a Spoiler? Please let me know if it is and I'll 'hide it').
At least I know the place is not totally messed up (in my entire game, just that Character) - I'll get to it someday then, and see what its' aboot...

Thanks for your help though, again

[Ceejay]

The thing is in your recording the guy outside is still alive, he is the one you need to speak to before going in, if you just wander in they will turn on you.

He will give you a test, you answer the questions, then you are allowed in. i honesty have no idea why everyone is dead, yet he is alive on your main character, as he should also turn on you so you did not kill the people inside.

All I can think of is something like a Briotherhood of steel vertibird or a raider one (I have seen them) flew over and aggroed them perhaps, which is why they are dead, but why your not the enemy.

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i killed them and your next

[Tesityr]

Originally posted by Ceejay:

The thing is in your recording the guy outside is still alive, he is the one you need to speak to before going in, if you just wander in they will turn on you.

He will give you a test, you answer the questions, then you are allowed in. i honesty have no idea why everyone is dead, yet he is alive on your main character, as he should also turn on you so you did not kill the people inside.

All I can think of is something like a Briotherhood of steel vertibird or a raider one (I have seen them) flew over and aggroed them perhaps, which is why they are dead, but why your not the enemy.

Thanks for your analysis and input. I'm not sure if I said what that guy at the front says to me, so I will state it, he says that "the door is open, go on in" and nothing else ... which doesn't make sense to me because I was never here to get to know them. Looking up the place and hearing some semi-spoilers, I know now that there is a test of some sort that I have to do here and become friends with them, or possibly kill them all as part of an adjacent quest.
Either way, yes it is odd. Thankfully it is just that one Character.

[Tesityr]

Originally posted by nd:

i killed them and your next

YAY

Being 'over 30', body problems have started and I already had a Disorder in this Life, so wooters, time for Carousel!
"Renew! Renew!"

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was there lazer burnt bodies or dismembered one's?

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rare chance the raider with fatman across the river in the town next to the car plant..maybe they shot it

[red255]

I killed them all. (in my game)

They were developing a synth test. then cutting people open to see if the test was correct or not.

currently down to 4 or 5 false positives per actual synth. quest was marginally interesting.