"Out of Time" mission bugged?

[ttv.siriusgaymer]

I get to SH to talk to Codsworth that is part of the objective to "Go home" and converse with Codsworth; however, when it gets time to search or not search the neighborhood, Codsworth stay's by the VD's house and doesn't move with the mission icon still above him stating the same objective to "Go home".

When I just skip this and go to Concord, Preston doesn't respond, go into the museum or trigger anything that can make that particular story line progress.

I have no unofficial mods.

I have all DLC, and all Creation Club content.

I have verified the cache and even did a reinstall just to confirm it wasn't any stray files in the program folder.

--

Has anyone else experienced this or know of a fix?

[ronr42]

I think the CC Tunnel Snakes Rule is the cause of your problem. The only way to remove it is to go to the game folder, then the data folder and delete it. IF, that doesn't fix the issue, you can always redownload it.

The game folder default location is C:/Program Files[x86]/Steam/steamapps/common/Fallout 4/data.

Edit; After removing it you may need to load a save from before you talked to Codsworth.

You may also need to verify the game files again after removing it.

Edit 2; DUH, I should have suggested just moving it out of the game folder as M.Red suggests below.


NOT sure on this one but, there may be issues of somekind with the CC Ambush Kit[or whatever it's called]. I seem to remember reading that more than one player has had problems with a quest when nit was installed.

[M.Red]

i can confirm this. I have dropped out

ccrzrfo4001-tunnelsnakes.esm
and
ccswkfo4001-astronautpowerarmor.esm

in a seperate folder - played the main quest until i have rescued the minutemen from concord. Dropped those two esm's back in and then played as normal

[Chaosium]

If you don't mind using console commands, you can use "setstage 0001cc2a 55", it should skip the neighborhood search part and the quest should now tell you to look for survivors in Concord.

Not the best fix but better than being stuck I guess.

[tulle040657]

It is good to know that Bethesda kept thier promise to QA CC items as well as they QA the base game. And I see they are fixing the CC items at the save rate, The tunnel snake bug has been around for months, what happened to them using the CC item money to support the game? Hell they do not seem to be using the CC monry to support the CC .

[ttv.siriusgaymer]

Originally posted by M.Red:

i can confirm this. I have dropped out

ccrzrfo4001-tunnelsnakes.esm
and
ccswkfo4001-astronautpowerarmor.esm

in a seperate folder - played the main quest until i have rescued the minutemen from concord. Dropped those two esm's back in and then played as normal

Okay - giving this a try now.

EDIT:
This worked so posting as answer! Thank you everyone!

[Schploopus]

Has Bethesda ever addressed this issue? I can't seem to locate them talking about this.

[Hot Dog Randall Choc StarFish]

I use batch files for shipments and perks lots of them
At key points of the game it locks scripting up
So my bat files are too huge and I have to reload a save before I did that
Took me years to find that out

[Rose Dew]

I just started a new game, it's been a while. I hope I can still help someone with this. For me both times it worked to:

- Run the short distance to Red Rocket Truck Stop.
- Have Dogmeat join you, then run back together.
- Codsworth should not be stuck anymore, when you talk to him now, he should continue the conversation / quest to investigate Concord.

[ttv.siriusgaymer]

Interesting fix. That makes three fixes for something I am sure Bethesda had not fixed.

[The Inept European]

Originally posted by Rose-Dew:

I just started a new game, it's been a while. I hope I can still help someone with this. For me both times it worked to:

- Run the short distance to Red Rocket Truck Stop.
- Have Dogmeat join you, then run back together.
- Codsworth should not be stuck anymore, when you talk to him now, he should continue the conversation / quest to investigate Concord.

Do you have the Tunnel Snakes CC installed, out of interest?

[Elbmek]

Never been a problem here. Talk to the robot, listen to his drivel, he offeres to help you search Sanc for family, just say yes and follow the game until all insects are destroyed and codswallop said its true they are really gone, then say its ok and codwallop goes back to the house and you start whatever you want to do.

[wario]

So I have an even weirder case for the Out of Time bug. I started a new game, no mods or CC content at all and when I got to Codsworth he said his initial line and bugged out.

[Gabriel]

I can also confirm this with a fresh install. Tested it this week on a PC. The "tunnel snakes rule" ccc addon caused exactly what is in the opening post, plus several other issues making it impossible to finish the "out of time" quest. The "pint size slasher" caused the vault 111 door not opening issue. I couldn't find any problems (yet) with any other addons like the astronaut powerarmor, just the two above.

[wario]

I have found that any CC content at all will bug out the quest for me. It seems to happen in the vanilla game though as well so maybe its just a vanilla bug.

[wtiger27]

Originally posted by wario:

I have found that any CC content at all will bug out the quest for me. It seems to happen in the vanilla game though as well so maybe its just a vanilla bug.

I have several CC items and have never had that quest bug out on me. But I do not have the Tunnel Snake one. So that one may be the cause.