Not able to return to fort Hagen

[Jo]

I was doing that quest and as my inventory was full and i had better armor to craft I decided to return to base and coming back fresh. However, the door is now closed and cannot be interacted with :

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3217056333

Any tip?

[DouglasGrave]

Once you go in to the final room to meet Kellogg, the door in your screenshot seals shut so that you're forced to use the rooftop elevator as your exit. That's done so that you hit the main quest trigger for the arrival of the Prydwen.

This door reopens for general use at a point after you move on to the next quest.

[Lucus]

go back outside onto fort hagen's roof. on the western side of the roof is a steel door similar to the one in your screenshot minus the window. if you cleared fort hagen the way the devs intended it is the door you use to exit the building after killing kellogg.

[Jo]

I haven't killed Kellog. I'll try the roof.

[Zekiran]

You need to kill kellogg first.

If you break this sequence of events, there are a lot of consequences meaning your game will be broken entirely, but you won't realize it until the game's near over...

[DouglasGrave]

Originally posted by Jo:

I haven't killed Kellog. I'll try the roof.

That's weird.

The trigger for sealing the door is when you pass through Kellogg's bedroom, so you shouldn't even have been able to get back outside without using the elevator unless you resort to console commands, glitches, or mods.

[Zekiran]

How did you leave? If you've done so by using any kind of console commands, you will NEED to go back to the save before you did that, and finish the area properly. Sometimes leaving or tcl'ing through an area using commands will absolutely break your game...

[Jo]

I left the way i came. I haven't used any sort of console command, i do not even know how to open the console.
I play vanilla + unofficial patch and that's it.

[craldark]

That's not the portal door but a physical door you can see through. I suggest you search Nexus mods or maybe the Bethesda mods from the game menu for something like 'break door' which makes doors breakable. You can then smash it. If you don't like mods you do it as a one-off then remove the mod

[DouglasGrave]

Originally posted by Jo:

I left the way i came. I haven't used any sort of console command, i do not even know how to open the console.
I play vanilla + unofficial patch and that's it.

I remember from a previous discussion of this bug with someone who had the unofficial patch that that mod does play with the door. Whether or not that makes it responsible for the bug, who can say?

[Jo]

Originally posted by craldark:

That's not the portal door but a physical door you can see through. I suggest you search Nexus mods or maybe the Bethesda mods from the game menu for something like 'break door' which makes doors breakable. You can then smash it. If you don't like mods you do it as a one-off then remove the mod

Yes probably a better way to go about it. Like a wall hack mod or something.

[El SCHwoop]

if you havent hit any NPC related checkpoints you can just use console commands to get through. Open the console with "^" on the top left of your keyboard then type tcl (short for toggle collision). go through the closed door and then reenable the collision. Hope this works :)

[Jo]

Originally posted by ReV_Kodi:

if you havent hit any NPC related checkpoints you can just use console commands to get through. Open the console with "^" on the top left of your keyboard then type tcl (short for toggle collision). go through the closed door and then reenable the collision. Hope this works :)

Thanks, I believe this is the simplest and yet most effective approach. I'll try it once I get time to get a session in.

[Zekiran]

Using the console to do this is the single worst thing you can do.

Please, just go back to before you left the building the wrong way.

Your game will become more and more likely to have broken buggy behavior when you noclip around trigger points without actually doing the thing needed to trigger them. In this case "killing kellogg" and exiting the building as intended.

[Death Approaches]

well... not always.

as long as when you 'tcl' through the final door, K is standing there and in a talkative mood, the quest is willing to pick up as though it was one continuous run w/o a very long pause in the middle... you'll finish that, take the elevator, a major event will happen, one quest ends another begins...

if however he's NOT there, or he's not interested in talking or fighting, he has a point. you can cheese it along with setstages and bring K to you with moveto and then kill and loot him, but there's at least half a dozen other variables you might not know of without firing up CK and stepping through the quest... in that case loading a pre-Hagen save seems the smarter decision, because you won't ever know what it didn't do it was supposed to.

[Zekiran]

If there's a locked door that otherwise opens when you do a specific set of events, you should never tcl through it.