Jamaica Plains.

[Blinkybubs]

How do I activate the Protecterons in the basement area? I hack the terminals, activate units and they still do not respond...(vanilla)

[Lady Aeleanor]

I really don't think you want to do that ...... <cue ominous music>

[Blinkybubs]

I want their fusion cells.

[Lady Aeleanor]

Originally posted by Blinkybubs:

I want their fusion cells.

They should have been get triggered active and hostile when you breached the vault.

[Blinkybubs]

I disabled the turret traps before I entered. Is there anything I need to do to actuate their reaction? (I snuck the whole way through)

[steventirey]

The protectrons are activated by failing to hack the terminal when you try. If you successfully hack the terminal, or find the password on the body of Sal, they don't activate.

[Lady Aeleanor]

Originally posted by Blinkybubs:

I disabled the turret traps before I entered. Is there anything I need to do to actuate their reaction? (I snuck the whole way through)

I seem to recall that if you try to hack the terminal & fail, it triggers the Protectrons. Since you hacked and bypassed the traps, they simply don't trigger. You could load a previous save, and then make sure that you fail the hacking. That would trigger them. From the Wiki:

" If the player fails to hack the terminal on the first try (or aborts their hacking attempt), the two Protectrons in the room will activate and become hostile."

[sljones511]

I found out a lot about Jamaica Plain on Game Rant. They say you have to Hack the units. There's quite a few enemies in Jamaica Plain, and I guess they come in handy.

[eMYNOCK]

Originally posted by sljones511:

I found out a lot about Jamaica Plain on Game Rant. They say you have to Hack the units. There's quite a few enemies in Jamaica Plain, and I guess they come in handy.

despite this being a necro... i don't believe OP asked about the 2 police protectrons in the shop near the green car...
they asked about the protectrons in the town hall basement... past the laser tipwires, left and right to the time capsule vault.

i also don't think that those 2 are worth the hassle for some meager fusion cells...

[EolSunder]

well without using the tcl clipping on pc, what you can do..

You can physically melee attack protectrons while they are in their shell, your able to hit them in vats in melee, so often i use that technique to weaken them when i'm on a new game and lower level, that way they are almost dead when i let them out. If you have those 2 that don't come out, I think what i've done is hit them until almost dead, save, then attack them until they die. sometimes they will die and fall down and part of their body will clip past the shell so i can loot them. Or on pc, simple TCL and clip in and loot.