I never got the Country Crossing quest from Preston.

[Krippled-Killer]

Im lvl 88 and over 350 hrs in on my 2nd playthrough. Ive finished everything and got the clean MM ending with all factions but The Instuite intact. All side quests finnished. And after all this time playing im just now finding Country Crossing. The two settlers wont bring up a conversation about needing help and i never got the quest from Preston. Again, this is my first time here. Ive tried to talk to Preston and he gave me a few more Raiders here and Greenskins there quests but thats it. Now he just talks, no more quests. Can anyone please tell me how to get the quest going so i can get the settlement? Again, Preston wont give me anymore quests, he just seems to want to talk. Thanks for reading.

[Krippled-Killer]

Ive checked and double checked my quest logs and there is nothing about Country Crossing. Ive looked up vids on youtube and in every Preston says " Ill mark it on your map." The thing is i never had a map marker for it. How could i have missed it if Preston tells you where it is on the map? And like i stated before, its not in my quest log. I hate using the console commands, but have been doing so here and there to fix stuff like getting lvl vendors to settlements. Is there a console command to get this quest started? Thanks for any help.

[Talonmaster]

Kill them and claim it for yourself. Just pretend you helped them and they gave you control if you don't like killing people that get in your way.

You can use console commands to make them killable if they turn out to be essential.

[Brandybuck]

Just go talk to them, they will give you their quest, then you can impose Minuteman Law on them. No problem.

[Talonmaster]

That works too.

[PolecatEZ]

They aren't essential (I think very few are...Finch Farm, Abernathy, the Slog, and the Water plant are). The rest you can just pop a cap in their stupid faces and you got the settlement within minutes. Zero repercussions...great game design.

[Talonmaster]

Wish there weren't any essentials at all. Like in New Vegas.

[CellNav]

It seems the first time you come across that settlement, they won't have a quest, however if you go back a few days later they will give you one. After you discover them you can probably get a quest from Preston about it or from another settlement saying "go there, help them".

That kind of quest falls under the radiant "Recruitment" quest line for MM.

Settlement quests seem to "generate" at the next opportunity, depending on which settlement the player is at or whether they tune to Radio Freedom. The radio quests are more along the "ownership" quest line though (it seems), meaning you'll get a radio call to help one of your settlements and not from a new one.

You know, if the player goes to the Crossing, discovers it, then walks to the Boathouse, a settler at the boat house might say "hey, go help blah-blah at the Crossing". The same might trigger if the player walks to Finch farm as well ... stuff like that, and time is your friend, not Preston.

[Krippled-Killer]

Thank you all for your advive. I will try and get back to you.
Thanks again.

[Krippled-Killer]

And if it helps... i disabled the raido at the MM Castle so i didnt have to listen to it. Could that be it. Reactiivate the signal at the Castle?

[Splattergutz]

You may have skipped over it and done the finish before it was activated. What I mean is I chose the same bath as you. Later on while just wondering around looting and killing I came across Egret Tours Marina. Approached the woman and she didn't want to know me. Waited a short time went back there and it was getting attacked by mutants. Killed them and she approached and had a chat and enlisted to the MM.
I'm unsure about killing the settlers. I did that at Covenant, or should say Ada did, and still can't get control there but maybe I was never meant to.

[Krippled-Killer]

Thx for the replies. Havent had a chance to jump back on but will do so soon. Thx Splatt. I got the Marina, and Abigail is the woman there right? (wont go into spoils with her).

[Krippled-Killer]

Off to try the suggestions. Ill be back soon and let ya know the results. Might be in the morrow,Thanks again for your ideas.

[Krippled-Killer]

Also, just to add...i did get a mission for Egret Tours Marina. Its done and Abigail is happy to have me there :)
Did that awhile ago.

[Krippled-Killer]

Didnt feel right about it but i tried killing the 2 settlers. IT WORKED. I now have the settlement. Thx for the FUBAR idea. And thank you to all who responded with ideas. Thx Polecat. Your idea worked.

[Scoob]

I've actually managed to acquire all settlements bar Bunker Hill in my current play-through, though I'm yet to speak to Preston after his arrival in Sanctuary. Basically, my character is not "The General" and knows very little of the Minute Men. As such, I've never had any Minute Men dialogue options when doing quests for settlers.

I didn't get quest offers initially, so I think CellNav is right that it's a subsequent visit that generates the quest which ultimately grants you Workshop access.

Note: initially I did test killing the current occupants of Country Crossing and, sure enough, I got access to the Workshop. However, I felt sorta bad so reloaded and eventually got the settlement the nice was on a later visit.

Note 2: not sure if it was a bug, but back in the initial release version of the game, I couldn't even access Sanctuary's Workshop until I after started the Minute Men quest line once Preston arrived in Sanctuary. It was quite a revelation to me in my fresh start being able to acquire places on my own...hence, in part, why I sorta went crazy and got all the settlements I could in MY name lol.

Scoob.