Is this a quest bug? Jack Cabot won't stand up, won't open doors in the insane asylum. I can't get out.

[dunbaratu]

This inevitibly has spoilers.






There's a quest where you help a guy called Jack Cabot go into an insane asylum. He's not a *real* full-blown companion, but one of those "third wheel" psuedo-companions you can sometimes get temporarily for certain quests. He'll talk to you and fight on your behalf when jumped by raiders and such, and lead you around, but you don't have access to trade with him like a normal companion, or (and this is the important thing for the problem I'm having below) use stimpacks on him.

So he's one of these companions who's scripted to help open inaccessible areas of the map for you, only when the plot is ready for it. He'll go type at a computer and unlock a door, or walk up to a door (that normally has a nonexistent key you can't find in the game) and open it for you.

I'm deep in the basement at the asylum, and he got injured earlier fighting the raiders up above in the earlier parts of the quest (the sort of thing where an NPC sits on the ground and won't stand up until you heal them or the combat is over and they auto-heal themselves).

But the combat's long over, and there's no enemies here. He still sits on the ground and won't do anything but talk. When I took the elevator down here, he teleported and re-appeared down here, as often happens with followers when you get a loading screen between maps (like the elevator most surely is).

When I talk to him the only thing he does is tell me we need to hurry and follow him (how? he's not going anywhere.). The blue door at the end of the room is infinitely locked with a need for a key we don't have. I suspect the quest has Jack Cabot scripted to open the door for me, but he won't move.

And there's a spot where you had to drop down a deep hole you can't climb back out of to get here, so if I can't get through that blue door, I'm just stuck here.

Here's a screenshot:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=588992845

Am I correct in assessing that this is a bug, or am I missing something else I'm meant to be able to do?

[dunbaratu]

引用自 ★Dude_Nukem★：

just got the same problem, i 've just leaved the asylum and when i came back, he was woke up :D

If you could leave the asylum then you didn't have the same problem. Not exactly.
In my case leaving the asylum wasn't an option, which is why it was so frustrating. There's one part of the map where the only way to get there is to drop down a hole in an elevator shaft. Once you commit to dropping down that hole it starts a section of the map where *there is no way back out* until you continue on and finish out the quest. So if you can't move forward because he bugged out and won't open the door then you *also* can't back out and leave the asylum either because the door back out won't open until you finish the quest out.

[eatmywords]

yeah, you just have to leave him. following him is the worst thing you can do.

[Xyzzy]

The worst yeah.
No the worst thing is forget to pick up your Cha Bobblehead.
[happy necro 2015 btw]

[dunbaratu]

引用自 eatmywords：

yeah, you just have to leave him. following him is the worst thing you can do.

This. Was. Not. Possible.
The entire point of this old post was that you can't "just leave him". He's necessary to unlock the way *out* as well as the way *in*. When he got stuck in this state there was no way to just ignore this quest and leave it unfinished because the bug happened at a point where the way back out to the rest of the Commonwealth map is blocked until you finish the quest.

[eatmywords]

Just leave him when you exit Cabot House and fast travel to the asylum. He makes his own way there.

[dunbaratu]

引用自 eatmywords：

Just leave him when you exit Cabot House and fast travel to the asylum. He makes his own way there.

The. Bug. Happened. Inside. The. Asylum.
I feel like you didn't even read the post.

[eatmywords]

Not completely. I only come here when I'm bored, but it's little recompense.

Well the game has bugged out to a point you can't play. My suggestion is load a previous save.

[=EGC= kansasterry]

I think it is more of an AI combat bug than a specific quest bug as I have had other similar followers get stuck in that position from their injuries fourtunantly not in a place they were required in order to get out of the place.

[1MantisPhoenix]

引用自 dunbaratu：

I broke out of the bug by eventually shooting him in the head out of frustration with the game. It turns out that while you're on this quest, he cannot die (which I didn't know), and instead when he would have died, it resets his post-combat state in such a way that it broke him out of the stuck situation. He auto-healed a few seconds after I shot him in the head, calmly stood up, and walked to the door, making no mention of the fact that I just shot him in the head, and acting like nothing happened.

ROFL<> thanks a lot, i did that and it worked :)

[brain_knives]

I shot killed him, seems to have reset something, got back up after that