Troubled Waters: bugged. Any way to overcome the bug?

[Pisolo]

A lot of time ago I got the quest Troubled Waters. Today I decided to do it. It says to go to Graygarden, but, alas, none of the robot there talk to me. They are all grouped, all together, doing nothing in a corner of the yard.

I tried to visit the Treatment Plant anyway, killed all Orcs and switched all the circuit breakers. I emptied the plant from the waters, and then get back to the robots in Graygarden: still no one talks to me, not even Supervisor White.

Anything I can do?

(I have a similar problem for the quest with Oberland Station settlement: colons don't speak to me, even if I alread got the quest to go there and help them)

Many thanks!

[terryt3535]

Orcs? I have seen other people say they have this problem. There is a chance that going to Weston water treatement plant and resetting the pumps will work but you will have to figure it out without any quest targets. If you are on the PC and not playing Survival mode, Save your game twice, open the console (generally ~ key in upper left) and type:
ResetQuest dn151
and close the console.

If that doesn't work try:
SetStage dn151 50
SetStage dn151 100

[Pisolo]

Yes not Orcs, Supermutants! :)
Thanks a lot I'll give it a try!

[Pisolo]

Didn't work. Had to kill all the robort to gain control of the settlement...

[terryt3535]

Which one didn't work? Killing the robots is really counterproductive, but I guess it works if all you want to do is get the quest out of the active section.

[Pisolo]

Originally posted by terryt3535:

Which one didn't work? Killing the robots is really counterproductive, but I guess it works if all you want to do is get the quest out of the active section.

Well actually killing the robots didn't even get the quest out of the active section: it's still there. The water treatment plant reads "COMPLETED" in the map, but the quest Troubled Water is still among those to approach.

But, in which sense killing the robots is really counterproductive? My point was to take control of the settlement, otherwise I couldn't use the officine, nor develop the place.
I tried to ResetQuest, and nothing happened. Then I tried those SetStage control and nothing still happened. So I had very little choice left: watching the bunch of robost, immote in a corner and the settlement stuck, or kille the robot and at least make the settlement productive some way.

Do you have suggestions? I would really appreciate them.

Many thanks

[Izargon]

Hmm, you have to talk to supervisor White to complete the quest... There have been times where I'll simply go in there and fix the plant without the quest and you can still get settlement rights... never tried killing the tin cans though...

Try a new game with a different mindset.. like say to explore before you hit concord... hint, cross the river then go sw, hit abernathy and wicked shipping and south from there... Think outside the box of the quest path. You can end up with a far more interesting experience.

[Pisolo]

Originally posted by HemiSphericFreight:

Hmm, you have to talk to supervisor White to complete the quest... There have been times where I'll simply go in there and fix the plant without the quest and you can still get settlement rights... never tried killing the tin cans though...

Try a new game with a different mindset.. like say to explore before you hit concord... hint, cross the river then go sw, hit abernathy and wicked shipping and south from there... Think outside the box of the quest path. You can end up with a far more interesting experience.

Actually I already fixed the plant, and tried to talk to everyone - Supervisor White included - before and after, but to no avail.

[terryt3535]

It's counterproductive because you can't perform buy/sell interactions with Supervisor Greene. He sells shipments of Cloth and Concrete. You then need to recruit 5 settlers, 4 for farming and then build a general merchant stall to replace Greene. It has good value early in the game as source of Mutfruit if you haven't gotten to Diamond City yet. Graygarden is a marginal settlement because the robots happiness is supposedly capped at 50%, so killing them would help if you were struggling to get the happiness of this one settlement up.

[AikenAidan]

I presume you turned on the purification plant after draining the lower levels. [Last sqitch at the lowest level of the plant. The exit to the elevator should be compleatly void of water too.

Now since you said the bots were huddled together not doing anything [not even farming] that means they have an enemy that is hostile to them spmewhere out of view [or stuck in the terrain. Go back to an earlyer save and look around the area for enemies [kill everything as far away as that house west of Great Garden].
Perhaps tht will help.

[Xyzzy]

See Supervisor Green Game Show Host.

[dianelane58]

Originally posted by Pisolo:

A lot of time ago I got the quest Troubled Waters. Today I decided to do it. It says to go to Graygarden, but, alas, none of the robot there talk to me. They are all grouped, all together, doing nothing in a corner of the yard.

I tried to visit the Treatment Plant anyway, killed all Orcs and switched all the circuit breakers. I emptied the plant from the waters, and then get back to the robots in Graygarden: still no one talks to me, not even Supervisor White.

Anything I can do?

(I have a similar problem for the quest with Oberland Station settlement: colons don't speak to me, even if I alread got the quest to go there and help them)

Many thanks!

I just had the same problem after playing again after a year+ break. I tried re-setting the quest, but then it would not complete the quest and just said to keep investigating the treatment facility.

Re-start game #3. You'll notice there is no elevator control buttons inside the elevator. Simply trying to close the doors does not work, but if you hover over the right-hand side of the door on the wall it should say elevator control. When you click, the control panel magically appears.