Unable to swim water-walking bug

[wanderinpaladin]

Heya all, I'm doing a stealth build run through so I'm not wearing power armor. I am currently doing the water plant quest for Graygarden but I can't swim through the section you need to swim through. Everywhere I go all I do is bob on the surface of the water. I've disabled all my mods, and even reinstalled the game and I still can't swim. Am I the only one? I did go back to sanctuary and get my power armor. While wearing the armor I can break the surface of the water, I still can't swim because it's power armor but at least I was able to complete the quest.

[LucidNightmare]

I also have this problem.

[Morrandir]

Your character is Jesus

[WorkStick]

Same here

[Sprite Zero]

yeah same thing is happening to me too and it is really annoying

[tandmhenning]

That’s what I like about forums, lots of questions and very few answers. That is if you ignore the smart-ass comments. Here we have at least 4 people with the same problem. As you can see these 4 people have asked for help since May of 2016, June of 2016, July of 2016 and November of 2016 with no response. I can understand no response from the community but why no response from the people who should know? STEAM or BETHESDA! Typical NO response, if you ask me.
This is a glitch or bug that has just popped up in my game this last week. At first, I was ready to blame my set up and maybe my mods and or load order, BUT I have 4 other characters that I have many hours of play time on and they have worked just fine. Swimming has not been a problem for them. I thought I would create a new character and try a playthrough with a different approach. Well that is when I acquired this glitch where the character can not swim. They walk on the water as the water is vibrating and bouncing around as soon as they get just below waist deep in the water. I have tried to create 5 different characters this week and all of them have the same problem. I have been searching all over the net and have come up with no resolution to this problem. I haven’t found any reasonable explanation or fix. Does anyone out there have a clue as to what is going on and how to solve it?

[British Werewolf]

I realise this may be coming a bit late but for anyone still having this issue, the thing that caused it for me was that some how the "waterwalking" actor value had been set to true so I manually set it to false by typing "player.forceav 2f7 0" in the console. I hope this helps.

[Teirafly]

still having problem but on survival difficulty so i cant use consle any ideas?

[Grog]

@British Werewolf Thank you so much! Very annoying bug that has plagued me for quite sometime. You have saved my save! Thanks again!

[Mesh2007]

@Teirafly goto nexus and download the console enabled in survival mod it is necessary in this game.

[wizardsmoon3]

Originally posted by British Werewolf:

I realise this may be coming a bit late but for anyone still having this issue, the thing that caused it for me was that some how the "waterwalking" actor value had been set to true so I manually set it to false by typing "player.forceav 2f7 0" in the console. I hope this helps.

I know this comes a few years later, but THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR HELP!! It worked great! I've got a lot of hours in FO4 (6000+) and never had this bug pop up. I tried all the usual fixes and was at my wit's end! So, again, thank you!!

[Iron Knights]

There is also TCL for No Clip.

[J.T.]

Originally posted by British Werewolf:

I realise this may be coming a bit late but for anyone still having this issue, the thing that caused it for me was that some how the "waterwalking" actor value had been set to true so I manually set it to false by typing "player.forceav 2f7 0" in the console. I hope this helps.

Thank you! Worked for me.

[spencer.flora]

Hey this may be late but after getting this glitch myself i tested it a bit and it seems to be the game not realizing that you arent in power armor getting into then out of power armor fixed it for me.

[Ballin]

Is there a way to fix this for Xbox? Yeah I know it’s stupid to ask this on steam but my brother won’t stop harassing me about this and this is the ONLY place where I’ve seen any semblance of an answer in any way shape or form.

[Itz_Fredrick]

Hey guys, i just had this problem. none of the above fixes worked for me - until i made my character completely undress and then re-apply all my armour once i swam undressed. now fixed. hope this helps

EDIT - listen to british werewolf - tried it and it didnt work, but tried it again and it did