Using console commands to complete quests question

[Turbo Soggy]

The radiant quest "Concierge" is telling me to go murder the Dunmores in Nuka World. I don't want to do that, but I also don't like quests sitting in the questlog uncompleted. Would you foresee any bugs arising if I just advanced the quest with console commands? Will it mess anything up?

[Löthar Storm]

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/25934
Keep Radiants in The Commonwealth
haven't the foggiest what the console command for that scenario would be.

[Mathius]

Originally posted by Turbo Soggy:

I also don't like quests sitting in the questlog uncompleted.

You're playing the wrong game. You probably want to stay away from all Bethesda games, actually.

[Zekiran]

Originally posted by Turbo Soggy:

The radiant quest "Concierge" is telling me to go murder the Dunmores in Nuka World. I don't want to do that, but I also don't like quests sitting in the questlog uncompleted. Would you foresee any bugs arising if I just advanced the quest with console commands? Will it mess anything up?

Any form of autocomplete may ruin your save, yes. Not everything should be completed in this manner.

Manually save first

Open the console and type

getstage rrr02a

It will show you a number on the chart here
https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Concierge


You will likely be at stage 100? You can boost it incrementally - do each first and make sure that they have registered on your screen and go back in for each stage.

setstage rrr02a 200

setstage rrr02a 300
or go back to the caretaker to complete

setstage rrr02a 400
if you're not in the mood to do that much

You should have xp and whatever rewards then.

Or you can go to
setstage rrr02a 9000 and 'fail' it, though I have never seen what happens when you fail this specific quest, whether you're going to ever get it again, or if it interferes with your RR line of questing.

[Turbo Soggy]

Originally posted by Mathius:

Originally posted by Turbo Soggy:

I also don't like quests sitting in the questlog uncompleted.

You're playing the wrong game. You probably want to stay away from all Bethesda games, actually.

What do you mean? The only reason I don't want to complete this one is because it's kinda bugged because of an oversight (not technically a bug, but the Dunmore Homestead really shouldn't be a target just because they're tagged as Gunners).

[Zekiran]

I didn't even realize you could get that area as a clear-all, since the characters living there are absolutely not still gunners.

[Mathius]

Originally posted by Turbo Soggy:

What do you mean? The only reason I don't want to complete this one is because it's kinda bugged because of an oversight (not technically a bug, but the Dunmore Homestead really shouldn't be a target just because they're tagged as Gunners).

You said you don't like uncompleted quests in your log. Since Bethesda added the radiant quest feature, this is a near impossibility.

In Skyrim, you'll eventually get the Dark Brotherhood forever. In FO4, Preston Garvey will give you a new quest every time you turn one in. In FO76, you get quests added just for walking into designated areas of the map (that doesn't include the events).

You're playing the wrong type of game. You can deal with having uncompleted quests, or stop playing Bethesda games.

Or I suppose option 3 is to spoil the game for yourself and research the repeating quests before hand and avoid them.

[-={LG}=-]

setstage 000b3e82 300 will set the quest to where you go back and talk to the Caretaker to finish it.

No, it won't mess anything up. I use console to complete them when they send me if I haven't gone to Nukaworld or Far Harbor yet ... which happens sometimes. Never had a problem.

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by Turbo Soggy:

Would you foresee any bugs arising if I just advanced the quest with console commands?

Advancing quests with console commands brings a risk of skipping stages that are supposed to be run because the skipped stages contain scripting for future use.
- If you are trying to debug a quest you should always try other methods like resetting the current stage you are on, go to a prior stage, moving NPC into place, etc.
- Avoid setting a stage in an area the stage takes place it, the are the stage is in should be reloaded.
- Some quests like the radiants you can simply use the stages to skip because there is no hidden scripts. However this is not a habit you should get into.
- Also keep in mind once you complete a quest it can not be restarted again.

A great example is a few years ago someone used a COC command to exit out of Fort Hagen after killing Kellogg and then started the next main story quest with a console command. Then for a few days in a row this same person kept coming back every main story quest for console commands to start them because they would not start correctly.

So it becomes easier to tell people "dont do that" than have to explain each time. Similar to how people tell others you cannot remove mods mid game. You can remove mods mid game IF you know what are you doing. Since most people do not know what they are doing or may think they know what they are doing it is easier to just say "dont do that" than ruffle feathers about whether or not they have the knowledge to do it.

The easiest solution is to simply get the mod linked above to keep radiants in the Commonwealth. It is far quicker and easier to install that mod than look up all the console info to resolve them a few times.