Companion Missions minor bug?

[Yorke Hunt]

Or major bug...depending on how you look at it. I reached high enough affinity with MacCready for him to open up with me and give me the second part of his companion quest...but I peeved him off right after by selling the kid from the fridge (just because I'd protected him my first playthrough and wanted to take one of a very few opportunities to be really evil this time around...)
I knew that he didn't like it but I was like "meeehhh, I already got his quest" and it didn't give me "YOU HAVE FAILED THIS QUEST" notification, so I went to the Med Tek building (even though I thought it was weird that the quest marker didn't show up on it.
Then when I get him to the terminal he won't enter it in or give me a password for it, so we literally cannot move past the first floor..? And I don't see a way up to the higher up floors either.

So I guess it's holding completion of the quest hostage until I get his affinity back up? Is that how it's supposed to go?

[Ygolnac]

Are you sure that Maccready doesn't open the terminal becouse of affinity?

The fact that the med tek quest marker doesn't show up is a known bug that affects everyone.
The fact Maccready doesn't open the door can be due to another bug i report from the wiki:

"Keep in mind that there is a password for a terminal in Covenant called Jacob's Password. If this is in the player's inventory when they enter the Med-Tek Research building, MacCready may not give them the password for the executive terminal on the top floor, instead waiting until he gets to the terminal."

So if you collected that holotape at the Covenant and already used it, ditch it, otherwise store it somewhere before going to med tek.

Other workarounds involve the console:

Open console, select Maccready and type: getav ca_affinity
That will give you the exact affinity you have with Maccready. For the quest to start it should be > 750. If it went below you can try to raise it legit, or if the quest is already activated
setav ca_affinity 751 should suffice, but probably you have to do this before entering medtek

Alteratively you can toggle collision after the door, get to the objective item, collect it, exit the building, and the dialogue with Maccready might appear.

Last solution, serach the ID of the quest item on the wiki, the: player.placeatme ID
after that the item will spawn near your feet (and not directly in your inventory) and you can pick it up, that might trigger the next queststage.

Worst case scenario, give up with the quest, set Maccready affinity to 1000, and manually give you the perk via the console. This way you won't be able to romance him and won't have the "idolized" dialogues, but you can pretend you conpleted the quest if anything else fails.

[Bored Peon]

Dunno if this might work or not.

On my last ending play through I received the final dialogue from Preston multiple times as he gained more affinity.

You could try going to do something things McCready likes (stealing owned items) and see if it redoes the dialogue?

Least his headshot perk was fixed, that was WAY too overpowered at release.

[Yorke Hunt]

I haven't even been to Covenant yet this playthrough.

[Yorke Hunt]

Okay I think I figured it out. Thanks!

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by Yorke Hunt:

Okay I think I figured it out. Thanks!

Well you are supposed to post the solution so we know if we were right and anyone searching the forums because they have same problem can find a solution :P

[Yorke Hunt]

The solution is I was at the wrong terminal (the terminal to the decontamination chamber, when he's supposed to give you the code at the terminal upstairs). I didn't see how to get upstairs because I had gone all around the ground floor several times and couldn't find a path up. Turns out I had missed the doorway behind you when you're standing at the terminal to the decontamination chamber...so yeah, I didn't wanna say 'cos I felt like a doofus.
And turns out my affinity with him was still fine..it was at 855.

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by Yorke Hunt:

I didn't wanna say 'cos I felt like a doofus.

The only doofus is the one who lies about never having a doofus moement in the game. We all have had those doofus moments.

As for not seeing stairs going up, that happens. I have 1900 hours in game and I still find areas I have never explored, lol.

The funny thing is the last time I did McGreedy quests he was the doofus. The dumbass fell through the floor all the way back to the start once I got to the terminal.

[Yorke Hunt]

Hah, speaking of MacCready being a dumbass...
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=717586942