Search & Destroy (BoS) mission broken

[MilitantOldMatt]

I went to tell Kells about Acadia sometime in mid playthrough of the DLC. He said he'll prep the vertibirds for long distance flight, in the meantime i should gather as much intel as possible. The dialogue ended there. Some time later when i was looking for the Wind Farm shut down codes, i heard a vertibird in the distance and found a group of BoS on an unmarked location. There was no quest pop-up. No notification. They were just there. I talked to Knight-Captain Larsen, he introduced himself and said i should continue gathering information and they'll wait for me. I finished The Way Life Should Be (the main quest) as some people suggested on Youtube videos. But nothing happened. More than 24h had passed, Knight-Captain Larsen disappears and is replaced with BoS innitiates. Kells doesn't respond anymore. I went back and tried to find them on an earlier save before finishing the main quest. No luck.
The quest seems completely broken.
Does anyone have the quest ID or Knight-Captain Larsen's ID? Or any ideas on how to fix this?

[Firerodan16]

Originally posted by MattTheGrunt:

I went to tell Kells about Acadia sometime in mid playthrough of the DLC. He said he'll prep the vertibirds for long distance flight, in the meantime i should gather as much intel as possible. The dialogue ended there. Some time later when i was looking for the Wind Farm shut down codes, i heard a vertibird in the distance and found a group of BoS on an unmarked location. There was no quest pop-up. No notification. They were just there. I talked to Knight-Captain Larsen, he introduced himself and said i should continue gathering information and they'll wait for me. I finished The Way Life Should Be (the main quest) as some people suggested on Youtube videos. But nothing happened. More than 24h had passed, Knight-Captain Larsen disappears and is replaced with BoS innitiates. Kells doesn't respond anymore. I went back and tried to find them on an earlier save before finishing the main quest. No luck.
The quest seems completely broken.
Does anyone have the quest ID or Knight-Captain Larsen's ID? Or any ideas on how to fix this?

isnt broken.Finishing The Way Life Should Be keeps you from doing the 3 Faction type quests(Alteast the BoS and Institute ones)

[Hopit]

Atleast you got kells to talk to you...
All he says to me is something about those stupid children that you take with you to do x

[Firerodan16]

Originally posted by Hopit:

Atleast you got kells to talk to you...
All he says to me is something about those stupid children that you take with you to do x

You say no then talk to him again.

[MilitantOldMatt]

The mission never appeared in the quest section. Telling the BoS appeared uner misc. quests.
The quest name Search And Destroy never appeared. I found the quest ID 01013F39, but it's completely unresponsive to all console commands. I can't reset it or start it or teleport to it's start location. Nothing works. And i can't find Larsen or his character ID to teleport him to myself. I went back to several save points in different stages of the quests. I even went back to when i first talked to Kells. Nothing!
The quest is completely and utterly broken.

[Hopit]

Originally posted by Firerodan16:

Originally posted by Hopit:

Atleast you got kells to talk to you...
All he says to me is something about those stupid children that you take with you to do x

You say no then talk to him again.

Doesn't give me the option to say anything to him

[Firerodan16]

Originally posted by Hopit:

Originally posted by Firerodan16:

You say no then talk to him again.

Doesn't give me the option to say anything to him

strange.....worked for me.

Maybe it's a PC Only bug.I swear there are hundreds of those PC Only Bugs.....


PS4 doesnt get enough bugs...

[MilitantOldMatt]

Originally posted by Firerodan16:

isnt broken.Finishing The Way Life Should Be keeps you from doing the 3 Faction type quests(Alteast the BoS and Institute ones) [/quote]

So how far back should i go?! BEFORE How Life Should Be is even started?

[Firerodan16]

Originally posted by MattTheGrunt:

Originally posted by Firerodan16:

isnt broken.Finishing The Way Life Should Be keeps you from doing the 3 Faction type quests(Alteast the BoS and Institute ones)

So how far back should i go?! BEFORE How Life Should Be is even started?

before you finished it

[MilitantOldMatt]

Originally posted by Firerodan16:

Originally posted by MattTheGrunt:

So how far back should i go?! BEFORE How Life Should Be is even started?

before you finished it

I told the BoS before The Way Life Should Be, because the task popped up in the misc. quests.
I recovered all the memories and told Dima about all of them. I got to the point where i confronted him with his murder. I told him to go give himself up. The mayor had him shot. Along the line i NEVER got a notification about Search And Destroy. I never got an option that said "you can go kill them now". It never showed up as a quest. I went to Larsen several times and he never started in conversation and then vanished. I call ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, this quest is just broken.

[Feelthethunder]

Originally posted by MattTheGrunt:

I went to tell Kells about Acadia sometime in mid playthrough of the DLC. He said he'll prep the vertibirds for long distance flight, in the meantime i should gather as much intel as possible. The dialogue ended there. Some time later when i was looking for the Wind Farm shut down codes, i heard a vertibird in the distance and found a group of BoS on an unmarked location. There was no quest pop-up. No notification. They were just there. I talked to Knight-Captain Larsen, he introduced himself and said i should continue gathering information and they'll wait for me. I finished The Way Life Should Be (the main quest) as some people suggested on Youtube videos. But nothing happened. More than 24h had passed, Knight-Captain Larsen disappears and is replaced with BoS innitiates. Kells doesn't respond anymore. I went back and tried to find them on an earlier save before finishing the main quest. No luck.
The quest seems completely broken.
Does anyone have the quest ID or Knight-Captain Larsen's ID? Or any ideas on how to fix this?

I finally found out how to get this quest to work. First off you need to find the load order of the DLC. Nexus mod manager is a very usefull tool to find this as it tells you right away on the first page when it loads. This next step must be done before the quest The Way Life Should Be is completed. Type into the console setstage xx013F39 100 (the xx being the load order number, for example my DLC is loaded 5th so mine is 05) and the quest should start right up. I dont know exactly what bug your game is at but doing this fixed it for me. Hope this helped let me know if it worked for you or not.

EDIT: Be warned tho as if you are on survival the brotherhood don't airdrop in they walk there for some reason so if you don't want to hard of a challenge then I would just wait for them at the bed outside of acadia.

[Big Jesus]

Originally posted by MilitantOldMatt:

I went to tell Kells about Acadia sometime in mid playthrough of the DLC. He said he'll prep the vertibirds for long distance flight, in the meantime i should gather as much intel as possible. The dialogue ended there. Some time later when i was looking for the Wind Farm shut down codes, i heard a vertibird in the distance and found a group of BoS on an unmarked location. There was no quest pop-up. No notification. They were just there. I talked to Knight-Captain Larsen, he introduced himself and said i should continue gathering information and they'll wait for me. I finished The Way Life Should Be (the main quest) as some people suggested on Youtube videos. But nothing happened. More than 24h had passed, Knight-Captain Larsen disappears and is replaced with BoS innitiates. Kells doesn't respond anymore. I went back and tried to find them on an earlier save before finishing the main quest. No luck.
The quest seems completely broken.
Does anyone have the quest ID or Knight-Captain Larsen's ID? Or any ideas on how to fix this?

I am having this same exact issue right now in 2024, except Larsen just isn't responding to me anymore and won't go no where