Far Harbor The Great Hunt quest

[KOW Joshyboi]

this quest has just broken my game, the only things i can see ingame are my health bar and my compass everything else is just pitch black, i can move shoot and interact with items when i run into them but visually nothing is there except the UI, the only mods i am running are weapons mods, no visual mods or enhancement mods

has anyone else come across the bs or am i just unlucky


Fixed, you have to swim to the OBJ marker and than vats the stupid Mairener to get rid of the glitch

https://community.bethesda.net/thread/15827?start=0&tstart=0

[Nite69]

never had that issue

whats your system specs?

[KOW Joshyboi]

Originally posted by =EGC= _Nite_:

never had that issue

whats your system specs?

its not a system spec issue there are other people with this issue for this quest, once you start it it bugs out gives you a black screen, you can still access your pipboy and see that just not the environment you can hear sounds and move but just blind as a bat

heres other people with the issue

https://community.bethesda.net/thread/15827?start=0&tstart=0

[Nite69]

well I had no issue with it, good luck to ya. I did the red death

[AikenAidan]

Are you refering to the quest of the Red Death?
If so this is what is happening , and a work around.

Make sure you have a save prior to leaving in your Auto Pilot ship.

If it is the quest I think your talking about then things go dark when the game loads your cross over [Cut Sceen] The mariner says "Can you see it?" But all you see is Blackness? The M key should open your map and show you on land at the south point of the island. Your not you are under water near that point. Look down at your feet. if you don't see a slight color change then you are actually below the game grid.

Load previous save and try again. You will eventually end up on the grid but under water.
Your Pipboy should work if your under water. The quest want's you to go to the island at Night. Day launching may be the issue. This is where Power armor or the Aqua Boy/girl pirk comes in handy.

Walk to the island. When you get there The Mariner will be there and the quest will continue.

When she says she will meet you back at Far Harbor fast travel back [your boat is not at the island.].

This is the only work around I know for Her Quest.

[KOW Joshyboi]

Originally posted by Wanked:

Are you refering to the quest of the Red Death?
If so this is what is happening , and a work around.

Make sure you have a save prior to leaving in your Auto Pilot ship.

If it is the quest I think your talking about then things go dark when the game loads your cross over [Cut Sceen] The mariner says "Can you see it?" But all you see is Blackness? The M key should open your map and show you on land at the south point of the island. Your not you are under water near that point. Look down at your feet. if you don't see a slight color change then you are actually below the game grid.

Load previous save and try again. You will eventually end up on the grid but under water.
Your Pipboy should work if your under water. The quest want's you to go to the island at Night. Day launching may be the issue. This is where Power armor or the Aqua Boy/girl pirk comes in handy.

Walk to the island. When you get there The Mariner will be there and the quest will continue.

When she says she will meet you back at Far Harbor fast travel back [your boat is not at the island.].

This is the only work around I know for Her Quest.

yea they defs need to fix that quest bug i used https://community.bethesda.net/thread/15827?start=0&tstart=0 to fix the issue but it was a waste of time due to the fact the quest was a 2 sec quest and you got nothing from it

[AikenAidan]

Originally posted by ╬KOW╬Joshyboi:

Originally posted by Wanked:

Are you refering to the quest of the Red Death?
If so this is what is happening , and a work around.

Make sure you have a save prior to leaving in your Auto Pilot ship.

If it is the quest I think your talking about then things go dark when the game loads your cross over [Cut Sceen] The mariner says "Can you see it?" But all you see is Blackness? The M key should open your map and show you on land at the south point of the island. Your not you are under water near that point. Look down at your feet. if you don't see a slight color change then you are actually below the game grid.

Load previous save and try again. You will eventually end up on the grid but under water.
Your Pipboy should work if your under water. The quest want's you to go to the island at Night. Day launching may be the issue. This is where Power armor or the Aqua Boy/girl pirk comes in handy.

Walk to the island. When you get there The Mariner will be there and the quest will continue.

When she says she will meet you back at Far Harbor fast travel back [your boat is not at the island.].

This is the only work around I know for Her Quest.

yea they defs need to fix that quest bug i used https://community.bethesda.net/thread/15827?start=0&tstart=0 to fix the issue but it was a waste of time due to the fact the quest was a 2 sec quest and you got nothing from it

2 Things come from that Quest , 1) you get a good Chuckle , 2) you finish up the last of her quests.

I was Honest = The harbor folks Laughed.

What were the other outcomes? Not about to repat it to find out.

[danconnors]

I had the exact same problem. I thought it was gong to be a hard fight, so I fast travelled back to the Commonwealth to pick up my power armor. When I fast travelled back I ended up on the dock, ready to cast off. Then everything went dark--and stayed that way.

I found that if I left the dock, went somewhere else, then normally walked back to the dock--no fast travelling--it worked as it should. Apparently fast travelling to the starting location messes up the game.

I still coiuldn't find my boat after the fight. But I found I could fast travel back to the dock and get the whole thing over.

[AikenAidan]

I had not fast travel'd to far harbor prior to starting that quest and I got the sea of Blackness the 1st time [then the bottom of the sea the second time.]

[ElanaAhova]

We embleshed the truth... its a whale of a tale..

[bwilderbeast]

It happened to me, the first time I got out of in on the boat using VATS but the second I had to swim all the way to the quest marker before VATS would work.

[Madbat]

I get a black screen when it loads the island. The only things that show up are the targeting curor, the quest marker square and the pip-boy screen. The rest of the pip-boy doesn't seem to load. Turning on the light reveals nothing. I CAN go under water,( I'm way out in the ocean it seems) where I see basically the color blue and little else. Trying to target anything in vats doesn't work. I've reloaded a save from the boat prior to launch several times and all with the same effect. I'm leaving the dock at 10pm. At this point I'm giving this quest up as unfixable.

[AikenAidan]

You can Walk underwater [with power armor or Aquagirl perk] and get to the island that way. You could probabaly swim out there it isn't far.

[ronr42]

Originally posted by Madbat:

I get a black screen when it loads the island. The only things that show up are the targeting curor, the quest marker square and the pip-boy screen. The rest of the pip-boy doesn't seem to load. Turning on the light reveals nothing. I CAN go under water,( I'm way out in the ocean it seems) where I see basically the color blue and little else. Trying to target anything in vats doesn't work. I've reloaded a save from the boat prior to launch several times and all with the same effect. I'm leaving the dock at 10pm. At this point I'm giving this quest up as unfixable.

The issue is a known bug in the vanilla game.

As posted here twice, swim towards the map marker, you don't need to swim far, HIT Q to go into Vats, then close Vats and that will get you out of the "Black Void" and you will be able to see the island after that. Swim to it, take care of that Giant Monster, then walk to the INVISIBLE boat at the shore where there is a map marker to board it and return to Far Harbor. Hit E, board the invisible boat and you're done.

The bug is that the boat despawns/vanishes before it gets to the island and that causes you to be dumped into the sea before the island's cell loads.

Edit; It's a known Random bug, it doesn't happen to everyone.

[Madbat]

@onr42. In fact, that's exactly what I did, and it fixed the issue. Thanks for the explanation of what causes the bug in the first place. I was interested in knowing what's going on there.

In my previous post Vats wasn't working because some idiot bat *cough* remapped the key and forgot about it. I don't use vats.

[ronr42]

Originally posted by Madbat:

@onr42. In fact, that's exactly what I did, and it fixed the issue. Thanks for the explanation of what causes the bug in the first place. I was interested in knowing what's going on there.

In my previous post Vats wasn't working because some idiot bat *cough* remapped the key and forgot about it. I don't use vats.

You're welcome. OH, and I don't use Vats either. Seems kinda corny to me.