The mechanist won't talk to me

[Sander]

after I defeated all of his robots and the power shuts down, he just stands there doing nothing. I'm supposed to speak to him but there are no options. Anybody know what is wrong?

[Nyon]

Had the same problem whit one of my characters. Reloading a previus save fixed it for me.

[Umbra]

Originally posted by Rexxar_FJ:

Had the same problem whit one of my characters. Reloading a previus save fixed it for me.

Same here..... Took me 4 reloads of earlier saves before it worked.

[Sander]

I already tried reloading, but if that can fix my problem, then I will try again.

[Pseudonymous]

Same, reloads aren't working either. WTF

[ElanaAhova]

Originally posted by sander493210:

after I defeated all of his robots and the power shuts down, he just stands there doing nothing. I'm supposed to speak to him but there are no options. Anybody know what is wrong?

He talks twice, blows me off.. and its then constant 'watch your step... yada' oye Killed all bot, still won't talk. Power? the generator is unaccessable!

[Umbra]

I had a save just as the doors were opening into that last room where you meet the mechanist, I had to load that save and battle the robots a total of 4 times before it would enter into that final dialogue.

I just presumed it was mods messing with the game because I decided to play it with all my mods on, and it had been fine up until that point.

[Prismer]

Try closing the game and opening it back up again, if you haven't, guys. I had a similar issue where the power would shut off and nothing happens, and closing the entire game and opening it back up fixed it for me, didn't even have to reload an older save!

[stabbykitteh]

Originally posted by Prismer:

Try closing the game and opening it back up again, if you haven't, guys. I had a similar issue where the power would shut off and nothing happens, and closing the entire game and opening it back up fixed it for me, didn't even have to reload an older save!

Yup. This works. It's just getting hung up for some reason. Reloading kickstarts it.

[Sander]

`thanks for all the pointers guys and the mechanist finally talked to me

[ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ̿̿̿̿̿̿]

console command (without quotes):
"setstage 010010f5 900"
"getstage 010010f5" for confirmation
"tcl"
close console command

fly to the mechanist chamber find the monitor at the far back behind the 3 mini robobrains
open console command
click on the monitor to get the id
type "unlock"
close console command
unlock all 3 security doors
speak to mechanist which is isabella cruz
then speak to ada to complete the quest and get the quest xp
done
the only thing you miss out by doing this is the 2nd conversation with mechanist after he has no robots left, where you use charisma to convince the mechanist to stand down, just few xp, no biggie, and if you want to kill mechanist, this way cannot fulfill that

[Fat Bastard]

Originally posted by ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ̿̿̿̿̿̿:

console command (without quotes):
"setstage 010010f5 900"
"getstage 010010f5" for confirmation
"tcl"
close console command

fly to the mechanist chamber find the monitor at the far back behind the 3 mini robobrains
open console command
click on the monitor to get the id
type "unlock"
close console command
unlock all 3 security doors
speak to mechanist which is isabella cruz
then speak to ada to complete the quest and get the quest xp
done
the only thing you miss out by doing this is the 2nd conversation with mechanist after he has no robots left, where you use charisma to convince the mechanist to stand down, just few xp, no biggie, and if you want to kill mechanist, this way cannot fulfill that

If you use 820 instead of 900 you get that conversation

[Xenon The Noble]

I encountered this before. Seems I forgot to do something but now I don't remember what that was..

If you get all three holotapes you can unlock the elevator, ride down into her lair, sneak in and shoot her in the back.

This skips the idiotic "poor widdle me! I'm just a helpless wittle girl who unleashed robotic death and horror on the commonwealth and am so fuggin' arrogant I did my best to murder you rather than hear you mansplain that I fugged up!" talk.

This is now my SOP because fighting all those robots gets so repetitive.

The only good feature of the Automatron DLC is that there's roaming robots with a couple of fusion cores in them. After awhile you learn where to hunt them like South west of ArcJet