Brain Dead quest bugged?

[Squishy]

I found the holotape in the Vault 118 overseer's office and after wandering around for nearly an hour I checked the Fallout wikia about the quest. Turns out you have to question Bert Riggs about the holotape...except I can't do that. There's no new dialogue options nor any speech checks. I tried reloading from a previous save and the exact same thing happened. How am I suppose to finish this quest?

[HoroSaga]

I completed the quest without ever asking Bert Riggs about the holotape.

After finding the holotape, I simply confronted Julianna Riggs and accused her of murder. When she demanded evidence, I chose the dialogue option that used information I found on the holotape.

[Squishy]

That did the trick. Thanks!

[gpolander]

So I'm glad someone said this was bugged....I'm convienced of that!

I've done everything I can do to finish the quest and am totally stuck. I've talked to everyone in the valut numerous times and exahused all the coversation options. Yeah, I did the overheard conversation and asked about it. I also found the paint next to the dead robot and went into the Overseaer's office to listen to the Vault 118 tape and I have it with me.

Everything I see here indicates I should be able to confront Julianna Rigs about the murder since I have the tape, but that option is not in her dialogue.

What am I missing?

[Squishy]

Correct me if I'm wrong but can't you accuse ANY of the suspects of committing ther murder regardless of proof? Just accuse Julianna of murder and use the Vault 118 holotape found in the overseer's office as proof. Worked for me and apperantly HoroSaga as well.

[robguad]

When I try to talk to Julianna Riggs, or the other Riggs, the game just says that this individual is busy. I have tried to go back to a save before I entered the hotel and try again. Same thing... They wont talk to me.

[cedrickotifb]

Possible solution to the busy npc problem. Save. Attack npc. Reload. That can reset the npc.

[Jack Burton]

Yeah I have also got the same problem.

Got as far as grabbing the holotape from the overseers office, I am supposed to be able to confront Julianna and there are just no new dialog options available.

I couldn't find a solution other than using a console command to skip that section of the quest.

type as below:

setstage xx036763 870

note the xx needs to be changed to where far harbour is set in your load order.

So for me it was:

setstage 03036763 870

Help that helps.

[Jack Burton]

Hah,

Ok there is a bit more to this, putting in the above console command skipped to the next secion but then Maxwell also didnt have any new dialogue options so I had to also skip to the next stage so:

setstage 03036763 880

I can confirm that did work, it allowed me to progress to be able to kill (destroy?) Jullianna aka Ezra, and then talk to Maxwell again completing the quest.

On my game it went a little crazy lol (you will see what I mean if you need to use this work around), but it did work and now both Brain Dead and Breain Dead II are both completed.

[★Mjr. Silver™]

Originally posted by Jack Burton:

Hah,

Ok there is a bit more to this, putting in the above console command skipped to the next secion but then Maxwell also didnt have any new dialogue options so I had to also skip to the next stage so:

setstage 03036763 880

I can confirm that did work, it allowed me to progress to be able to kill (destroy?) Jullianna aka Ezra, and then talk to Maxwell again completing the quest.

On my game it went a little crazy lol (you will see what I mean if you need to use this work around), but it did work and now both Brain Dead and Breain Dead II are both completed.

yup.... it worked :D thanks

[Mudthang]

>>>[CLIPPED]

Originally posted by ★Mjr. Silver™:

Originally posted by Jack Burton:

Hah,

Ok there is a bit more to this, putting in the above console command skipped to the next secion but then Maxwell also didnt have any new dialogue options so I had to also skip to the next stage so:

setstage 03036763 880

yup.... it worked :D thanks

CONFIRMED
Totally quest-locked/stuck on a Far Harbour playthrough in Jan 2022 where I could neither accuse Julianna Riggs nor get her "Ezra" voice/personality to reveal. So these console commands saved my frustrated ass too.
Thank you @Jack Burton For The Win

[Markorian]

Not working for me... No matter what/ how hard I try nothing ever happens. It keeps saying that the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ script is compiled or whatever. I don't get it..

[cecii]

Originally posted by Jack Burton:

Hah,

Ok there is a bit more to this, putting in the above console command skipped to the next secion but then Maxwell also didnt have any new dialogue options so I had to also skip to the next stage so:

setstage 03036763 880

I can confirm that did work, it allowed me to progress to be able to kill (destroy?) Jullianna aka Ezra, and then talk to Maxwell again completing the quest.

On my game it went a little crazy lol (you will see what I mean if you need to use this work around), but it did work and now both Brain Dead and Breain Dead II are both completed.

I had exactly the same issue! Thank you so much for sharing this!!!

[[SNLZ] Ishiki]

Originally posted by cedrickotifb:

Possible solution to the busy npc problem. Save. Attack npc. Reload. That can reset the npc.

Thanks, Ive attacked that stupid robot, ran around the room for few seconds and he went back to normal and I was able to talk with that piece of junk.

[yme_ynot45]

Well I got all the way to confronting Julianna but thanks to the quest tracker and the local map I can see she has clipped through a wall and keep falling and respawning to a high point to just fall again.

Just a note to others that this is another possible bug to the quest line.