Why do my spotlights stop working?

[AmIEgged(]

I connect my spotlights right because it goes back and fourth and the light is on but around 1 day after i place one the actual spotlight still moves but there is no light being shined... The only thing that works is to replace it down which is annoying. Solutions?

[Thanatos]

I just turn the generator off and on again to get it lit back up. Not sure why it goes out though.

[Brett]

Yep. I get the same when returning to home. Fan isnt on sometimes, but strangely the light on the fan is on and the jukebox is on.

[crazy]

Same here and no i dea why

[CruX]

I have this bug also.. I am told that they turn back on if an enemy comes near.. So for the aspect of immersive play/realism.. I just put it in my mind that the light is on idles with sensors active as it scans.. Saving the bulb.. Or rather.. Not to alert the enemy it is there until blam! spotlight in the face :P Hope they fix it though.. Cause i do like seeing the lights at night.. Seems whenever you quicktravel away the lights go out.

[CruX]

I'm more frustrated with the fact that when you leave settlement it doesn't register stuff you've built.. beds water defence or w/e goes down even though you have plenty .. 28 beds.. you leave and it shows 7.. etc.. wth!?? Thus happiness lowers .. you return and it all resets back to normal.. But leave and yeah.. Forces you to sit in town every so often to bring happiness back up.. Frustrating and i've had about enough of it.. Taking a break until patch fix.. Settlements are too big an aspect of the game for them to not work correctly.

[Spacecat]

bump, has anyone even fixed this or found out whats going on? and also what this guy said, kinda annoying i leave my settlement and there are 3 to 4 less people in it till i fast travel back...

Originally posted by ShadowWalker:

I'm more frustrated with the fact that when you leave settlement it doesn't register stuff you've built.. beds water defence or w/e goes down even though you have plenty .. 28 beds.. you leave and it shows 7.. etc.. wth!?? Thus happiness lowers .. you return and it all resets back to normal.. But leave and yeah.. Forces you to sit in town every so often to bring happiness back up.. Frustrating and i've had about enough of it.. Taking a break until patch fix.. Settlements are too big an aspect of the game for them to not work correctly.

[CruX]

Originally posted by dside:

bump, has anyone even fixed this or found out whats going on? and also what this guy said, kinda annoying i leave my settlement and there are 3 to 4 less people in it till i fast travel back...

Originally posted by ShadowWalker:

I'm more frustrated with the fact that when you leave settlement it doesn't register stuff you've built.. beds water defence or w/e goes down even though you have plenty .. 28 beds.. you leave and it shows 7.. etc.. wth!?? Thus happiness lowers .. you return and it all resets back to normal.. But leave and yeah.. Forces you to sit in town every so often to bring happiness back up.. Frustrating and i've had about enough of it.. Taking a break until patch fix.. Settlements are too big an aspect of the game for them to not work correctly.

There have been no full fixes. Just partial with regard to user ideas.. But it seems to come back. I think that stuff about tvs and no fast travel from the settlement is just a plecebo.. The patch that came out only worked on 6 things 2 of which were "general" memory issues or w/e I dunno.. It was pretty pathetic for such a big company and over 2 weeks. Not even a full patch, lol. prly getting past 2 billion in sales now.. and that is what we get.

1 guy named bob working part time.. Lol.

[Spacecat]

Originally posted by ShadowWalker:

Originally posted by dside:

bump, has anyone even fixed this or found out whats going on? and also what this guy said, kinda annoying i leave my settlement and there are 3 to 4 less people in it till i fast travel back...

There have been no full fixes. Just partial with regard to user ideas.. But it seems to come back. I think that stuff about tvs and no fast travel from the settlement is just a plecebo.. The patch that came out only worked on 6 things 2 of which were "general" memory issues or w/e I dunno.. It was pretty pathetic for such a big company and over 2 weeks. Not even a full patch, lol. prly getting past 2 billion in sales now.. and that is what we get.

1 guy named bob working part time.. Lol.

haha!! this!! so much this!! they're probably doing lines of coke off of hookers and poor bob can't go with them cuz he had to fix the 'no god rays" glitch.... hahah!

[CruX]

Basically.

[RasterOps]

Originally posted by dside:

haha!! this!! so much this!! they're probably doing lines of coke off of hookers and poor bob can't go with them cuz he had to fix the 'no god rays" glitch.... hahah!

Nuka Coke. :P

[mrmike_49]

it's a random bug, I never bother trying to fix it, next time I show up, spotlight may be working

[Sacra Nth]

I'm not sure if this is a bug.

I know this answer is late, but it seems to be something to decrease the stress on the computer's processor whenever the player leaves and re-enters the cell (disabling particle effects). It's still in the game.

[mrmike_49]

going into "build" mode, and just selecting the spotlight will make it start working again

[Nite69]

its a known vanilla bug, spotlights still havn't been fixed as far as I know

[Odins_Mercy]

Theres a mod for that. Makes them better WITH shadows and distance up to 300 %