Automatron Bug, Sparks/Mechanist Invincible, Cannot Complete Quest

[Shahadem]

An eyebot named "Sparks" has become unkillable and undamageable. I cannot damage it and it is constantly attacking me. This has to be a bug because an undamageable eyebot would completely break the game world as such a thing is simply not possible within the confines of the game world. An eyebot is just a shoddy machine and thus must be damageable. You cannot change how the game world works just because you want to annoy the player.

I also can't access any of the terminals in the Mechanist's lair, and as far as I can tell I cannot complete the final DLC quest because Ada gets stuck in combat with the invincible eyebot and refuses to open the Ada specific doors. When I try to lock the invincible eyebot behind doors, it clips through the walls after about a minute of not being able to attack me. The eyebot should be deaggroing as every other mob does when it loses a target.

I also can't turn on no clipping to try making it easier to get the stupid invincible eyebot stuck in the map so that Aba can lose aggro, leave combat and then open an Ada specific door.

[old acc]

Originally posted by Shahadem:

An eyebot named "Sparks" has become unkillable and undamageable. I cannot damage it and it is constantly attacking me. This has to be a bug because an undamageable eyebot would completely break the game world as such a thing is simply not possible within the confines of the game world. An eyebot is just a shoddy machine and thus must be damageable. You cannot change how the game world works just because you want to annoy the player.

I also can't access any of the terminals in the Mechanist's lair, and as far as I can tell I cannot complete the final DLC quest because Ada gets stuck in combat with the invincible eyebot and refuses to open the Ada specific doors. When I try to lock the invincible eyebot behind doors, it clips through the walls after about a minute of not being able to attack me. The eyebot should be deaggroing as every other mob does when it loses a target.

I also can't turn on no clipping to try making it easier to get the stupid invincible eyebot stuck in the map so that Aba can lose aggro, leave combat and then open an Ada specific door.

LOL Why the ♥♥♥♥ would you attack him you ass? Sparks is the Mechanist's 'Right-Hand Robot' in some sense. You can't even think of attacking him until you actually see him in the control room with the Mechanist. Get your ♥♥♥♥ together

[Shahadem]

Originally posted by Lego Master (Alt):

Originally posted by Shahadem:

An eyebot named "Sparks" has become unkillable and undamageable. I cannot damage it and it is constantly attacking me. This has to be a bug because an undamageable eyebot would completely break the game world as such a thing is simply not possible within the confines of the game world. An eyebot is just a shoddy machine and thus must be damageable. You cannot change how the game world works just because you want to annoy the player.

I also can't access any of the terminals in the Mechanist's lair, and as far as I can tell I cannot complete the final DLC quest because Ada gets stuck in combat with the invincible eyebot and refuses to open the Ada specific doors. When I try to lock the invincible eyebot behind doors, it clips through the walls after about a minute of not being able to attack me. The eyebot should be deaggroing as every other mob does when it loses a target.

I also can't turn on no clipping to try making it easier to get the stupid invincible eyebot stuck in the map so that Aba can lose aggro, leave combat and then open an Ada specific door.

LOL Why the ♥♥♥♥ would you attack him you ass? Sparks is the Mechanist's 'Right-Hand Robot' in some sense. You can't even think of attacking him until you actually see him in the control room with the Mechanist. Get your ♥♥♥♥ together

RIght after the first Ada specific door, there are some aggro robots that attack me when I walk through the door. "Sparks" the annoying impossible eyebot that fing pisses me off, clips through the floor and just starts attacking me and keeps attacking me from the beginning of the Mechanists lair all the way through to the point where I cannot progress any further in the lair. This is clearly a bug as Sparks is not supposed to even be in the first part of the Mechanists lair and is not supposed to be clipping through the entire map to do so.

[Adeeno]

Yes I am having This problem as well, no matter where I am he just aggros and clips through the wall regardless of mission progress

[TheMeesePolice]

The same thing is happening to me, i managed to get far enough by just reloading old saves, and i traped sparks in a elevator. I got to the fight with the mechanist and he was instantly agro and also invincible.

[Shahadem]

So I found that I could use the console to disable Sparks. This let me use the computer terminals again and proceed to the end of the lair. However when I get to the part where the Mechanist is, she is already standing in the middle of the floor and is already aggressive. Oh and if that wasn't great enough, she's invincible just like Sparks was, except Sparks is now disabled.

If I leave the lair, the quest autocompletes the part about having to beat the Mechanist, however it moves on to having to take over the lair which I cannot do as none of the locked doors at the end of the instance were ever unlocked. I am guessing that the Mechanist is not supposed to instantly be in the middle of the floor, she is supposed to only appear when you stand on the M and the sealed doors are unlocked through the boss fight.

I also still can't use the console to disable clipping so I believe that is somehow related as well.

I wish I had a save from before entering the lair, but I don't.

[Evabant]

So, for those having this bug it seems to you need to disable/remove anything you might be wearing that has a trageting HUD and possibly remove any form of AoE weapons. Sparks and the Mechanist are, near as I can tell, right below you when you enter the lair and can get bugged if you use this gear. (Might also be releated to the Penetrator Perk that allows you to attack through cover.)

[Okra]

i had to put down Sparks because he started attacking me after i dropped down from a platform in a power armor and some aOE damage touched him. he start attacking me, my companion openned fire, chaos occured, RIP Sparks.

[HandofMe]

I waited 5 months for this buggy piece of junk. I'm beyond pissed.

[whorrak]

Having this same issue. Hard not to negatively comment on Bethesda Q&A.

[Robbinio2]

They really need to fix this

[Evabant]

I repeat, for those having this bug

Originally posted by Evabant:

So, for those having this bug it seems to you need to disable/remove anything you might be wearing that has a trageting HUD and possibly remove any form of AoE weapons. Sparks and the Mechanist are, near as I can tell, right below you when you enter the lair and can get bugged if you use this gear. (Might also be releated to the Penetrator Perk that allows you to attack through cover.)

[Robbinio2]

Originally posted by Evabant:

So, for those having this bug it seems to you need to disable/remove anything you might be wearing that has a trageting HUD and possibly remove any form of AoE weapons. Sparks and the Mechanist are, near as I can tell, right below you when you enter the lair and can get bugged if you use this gear. (Might also be releated to the Penetrator Perk that allows you to attack through cover.)

AoE weapons? Call me what you will, but what do you mean by this?

Edit: Area of Effect Weapons . . . i.e. explosives and all other kinds of rounds similar?

[Evabant]

Yup. So, no nukes, missles, etc. so if you using the mods that let you have explosives rounds, put them away... also kinda means you can't go in there with your shiny new Tesla armor you got from the dungeon before. And no flamer if you use it. Anything that can really hit more than one enemy. I took all the stuff I mentioned off and went through with no issues.

[Caravan]

sparks shouldnt attack you, he stays with the mechanist in the room until you kill her or side with her

[Evabant]

Yes, but as part of this bug, sparks gains no clip and will fly through the ceiling towards you. As a result of the no clip, sparks also cannot be targeted or hit and thus becomes immortal.