[HELP] Stuck in Institute (Institutionalised)

[PeterDaGrape]

Hi folks, have progressed into the institute, I got there via sturges, he gave me a network scanner, which I used and got the data, it wants me to give it to sturges. I accepted shauns offer and have been told to speak to some people, though it didnt update the institutionalised quest to give me names of people to speak to, I did some exploring and spoke to the people anywa. One person was apparently giving me a way to fast travel in and out but they it doesn't work. Now I have no way to escape the institute without becoming an enemy of the institute. Also I have no autosaves because the game overwrote the ones from when I was outside the institute. Please help me out here.

[Zekiran]

Are you running any mods at all including ones downloaded from Bethesda's in-game menu system?

What missions do you have listed on your pipboy? Including Misc. missions?

You don't have to immediately go back anywhere. Speak to plenty of people. Make sure the quests are active in your pipboy.

[Rich-UK]

you have to speak to shaun through the window and then father will walk in. but it wont do it if you have already done the network thing on a terminal. i went back to an earlier save before the terminal and did that after meeting father.

[Zekiran]

Originally posted by Deadshire:

you have to speak to shaun through the window and then father will walk in. but it wont do it if you have already done the network thing on a terminal. i went back to an earlier save before the terminal and did that after meeting father.

The network scanner is the very first thing to do in the institute, so... no, that's definitely not it.

It might help fix this person's issue but it's not a normal thing, since you are in fact *supposed* to put the network scanner in the first available computer device, which is literally directly outside the room where you are teleported inside.

[PeterDaGrape]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

Originally posted by Deadshire:

you have to speak to shaun through the window and then father will walk in. but it wont do it if you have already done the network thing on a terminal. i went back to an earlier save before the terminal and did that after meeting father.

The network scanner is the very first thing to do in the institute, so... no, that's definitely not it.

It might help fix this person's issue but it's not a normal thing, since you are in fact *supposed* to put the network scanner in the first available computer device, which is literally directly outside the room where you are teleported inside.

Yes zekiran, I believe I spoke with shaun and he said all he was going to and was meant to update my mission, I then didn't realise something was wrong so had a long wander, while overwriting my autosaves. I believe I then did the network scanner. So I dont think scanner caused my issue, i think a general glitch did. My current mission I am trying to complete is institutionalised. It is now showing as having all objectives complete, but mission is still active. It has not given me the task of finding the heads of department.

[BrokenString]

You can fast travel to the C.I.T. ruins after talking to Shaun, the people in the institute and then Shaun again. Dr. Li installs the courser teleporter on your pip boy. If that didn't happened, it may be bugged. It is a Bethesda game after all

[Zekiran]

Are you on console or using Survival vanilla game mode?

If you're NOT on a console and NOT using survival, you could use the console to figure out what stage your mission is at, and maybe nudge it that way.

If you CAN use the console: SAVE your game manually first. Even "broken" it's best to have a hard save point just in case.

Open your console (the `/~ key on most qwerty keyboards)

type in

sqt

That is "show quest targets" and will bring up a list of all of the currently available missions you have.

Check this list, https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Fallout_4_quests
(( beware of spoilers if you have not yet finished the game ))

Your quest "Institutionalized" should be MQ207.

I'd suggest then clicking on that quest's linked name, on that page, and read the chart of information for its Stages.

In your console then, type

getstage MQ207

and compare it to that chart. If you really can't find the leaders, or if you've got some other number, you can skip bits CAREFULLY, by typing

setstage MQ207 [add your number here without brackets]

Likely either 160 or 150 where you may be 'stuck'. You don't want to do this often or lightly because every time you mess with the quests there's a chance more problems may arise.

If you've got any mods even trivial ones they may also be interfering with this (companion mods, etc).