Starlight Drive-In

[Mark S.]

Has anyone had a hard time clearing Starlight Drive-In? no matter what i do i can't seem to find any enemies to kill. I really wanna build a base there!!

[That Drunk Fellow]

try and walk close to the pit of water in the middle, should trigger an encounter.

[Mad Magoo]

You should have about 6 mole rats jump you in the car park.

[Mark S.]

hmm.. i jumped right into the water, nothing. well i'll keep trying. thanks for the input

[TakeMyLunch]

Oh if you do ever get to trigger the molerats to attack, be sure to delete the barrels in the pool after you get access, should get rid of rads so you can put water purifiers in it. Real good spot to make a main area.

[Xyzzy]

don't you have to clear the radiated barrels to complete?

[Vardis]

Originally posted by xyzzymip:

don't you have to clear the radiated barrels to complete?

No, you just have to kill the mole rats in the area.

[Astasia]

Do you have the quest? It might be required. It's a scripted event, the molerats don't spawn until you get near the cars. If you got to the water without them spawning then it sounds like you aren't triggering the event.

[Mark S.]

Originally posted by Astasia:

Do you have the quest? It might be required. It's a scripted event, the molerats don't spawn until you get near the cars. If you got to the water without them spawning then it sounds like you aren't triggering the event.

i do have the quest, and i mark it as active once i try to complete it. friggin annoying this one.

[Vardis]

The quest isn't required anyway. I've done a half dozen restarts, and never got the quest before taking the settlement.

[devhead39]

Have you tried using killall in the console? This worked for someone when the Mirelurk Queen Event didn't spawn at the Castle

[AfkForCoffee]

Originally posted by Mark S.:

Originally posted by Astasia:

Do you have the quest? It might be required. It's a scripted event, the molerats don't spawn until you get near the cars. If you got to the water without them spawning then it sounds like you aren't triggering the event.

i do have the quest, and i mark it as active once i try to complete it. friggin annoying this one.

Preston Garvey gave you the quest that "They found a place for settlement but some monster inhabit it" right?
And when you activate that quest on pip-boy it points to Starlight right?
There should be a bunch of molerats there that appear when you get near the area south of the workbench. I'd try fast traveling to sanctuary, saving, quit game, start and load, fast travel to the diner near Starlight. Then just walk to Starlight and hope they apppear.

I haven't had this happen in Starlight but had it happen near a lighthouse when a CotA dummy nuke naded herself into the ocean and couldn't activate the workbench.

[Petriesh]

I found in both my playthru's that the molerats tend to spawn when I am closer to the old Drive-In screen.
First playthru tho, I had the quest, second I went their and realised I didnt have the quest, walked close to old screen as I did first time around, and molerats came out :D

[Nite69]

No issues here when I cleared it, just be sure to walk around the parking area and get any remaining hidden molerats

[Nuee]

I always ported to the diner then walked there from there... Cleared out the Screen rooms then walked along the side of it and the molerats appeared. Try between the corner of the Screen and then the contaminated barrels.

[TakeMyLunch]

Wait there's a quest for it? I was just doing my usual "♥♥♥♥ the story i wanna go fight some ♥♥♥♥" routine. I found the drive in, kill the molerats when they spawned and scrapped most if not everything i could outa it and moved on untill near the end of the game. XD