Railroad entrance broke. Any fix for PS4/5?

[craldark]

Played FO4 several times but this time I think I answered Desdemona slightly differently (not sure.) Anyway, Deacon vouched for me as usual, and Dez said speak to him, but he didn't stay behind when they all went back inside the Railroad HQ. When I went after them it was sealed. I went away and came back on other days but no luck. Deacon no longer showed at Good Neighbor.

I left it to finish the Virgil, Kellog, and Courser quests, but when I got the Courser chip to Doctor Amari she said go to Railroad to get it decoded. And the quest marker no shows inside the Railroad, but it's still sealed off and I can't get in. By that I mean, the Password wall is open but beyond that there is no door only stone walls. I'm in survival mode so I can't fast travel in, and the back door is locked by the terminal.

My guess is this could be fixed with a console command on PC but I'm playing on PS5. Am I doomed? Is the game finally broke so I can never finish it?

Any suggestions welcome.

[Indig0]

Did You complete the Tradecraft quest ?

[Zekiran]

Yeah which quests are actually in your list? Deacon might be outside under that one overpass waiting and waiting and waiting...

[craldark]

Thanks, but no. I've never had any quest with the Railroad because I never got in. The only relevant quest and quest marker is to get the Courser chip analysed. The marker is beyond an impassable stone wall within the Railroad HQ. You know the password wall in the crypt where you enter the letters RAILROAD and then the wall opens and Desdomona and her gang confront you on a kind of stone platform. I've done that. But then they retreated inside the HQ. When I followed you go up on the platform and round a corner but instead of continuing to the door, there is a stone wall. It has one of those crypt textures. I've scanned around for anything to click but there is nothing. I figure that stone wall is originally there to stop a player just running past Desdomona etc but it presumably should disappear after talking to Deacon (which I can't do because he went inside!)

[Zes]

did you read that someone mentioned a Tradecraft quest.. either you get accepted by Des or you talk to Deacon to get tradecraft quest to buy your ticket to join.

[Zes]

If you have courser chip and you mention about it, des will take you inside to get it analyzed, without joining the railroad, if i'm not mistaken.

[Zekiran]

You're playing on a console which may seriously hamper any efforts here.

How much time have you put in since the moment you realized it was 'blocked off'? Like, an hour, 20 hours, 3 days? Because sometimes the best thing to do is load a prior save from before then and hope it's different. But losing a lot of play time means ... you may also need to just scrap the save entirely.

If you could get into the console and do a SQT we'd be able to figure out if there's a stalled quest but on console... >_>

[craldark]

Sorry for late reply. On survival mode I only had 3 saves and weeks had passed. I've now abandoned this playthrough and begun again from the start.