circuit breaker bug spectacle island

[Unknown]

Hi all....

I am stuck. I flip the switch and the power goes on. i see the lamp lights. but when i go to the middle shack with the radio it still says that it wont work. and now if i want to flip the switch the circuit breaker is stuck the generator makes no sound. i can turn it on and of according to the lights but noting happens to the radio switch..

is there a command to work around this? please help?

[Unknown]

haha that doenst help :P

[jexecutor]

Ran into the same problem. I went to the wrecked ship on the island first. Then I turned on the generator on the ship, and killed all the mirelurks on the island. Flipping the breaker switch would not work. I tried flipping the generator on/off and then the breaker switch but no luck.

So assuming the usual buggy Bethesda quest, I reloaded a save before I flipped the generator switch and did the following instead:
1. Do NOT turn on the generator until you go to the metal shack with the sonar pulse beacon.
2. Go to the metal shack and read the checklist. I flipped the breaker switch and checked the workshop just for the hell of it.
3. Now go back to the ship and turn on the generator.
4. You do not need to fight off the mirelurks and the mirelurk queen if you don't want to. I sprinted back to the metal shack instead.
5. Flip breaker switch. There will be a buzzing sound initially and then it will go away. A bunch of mirelurks will pop up but will scuttle away from the shack. Signal will also work on the mirelurk queen.
6. Claim the workshop.

[jeffy]

to late for me cause i saved to much after this bug

and ya same here................oh well

one less place to worry about lol

[Z3R0]

@jexecutor thank you so much I had this problem on console and no one has posted anything on this yet. This worked for me and I highly recommend this workaround.

[Riverton]

Yep my problem too. Its been around for months and the only useful advice I have received is to reload a game. Which I can't do of course. Becasue I only save sporadically. Its a real pain than Bethesda have made no effort to correct it.

[Buck]

There is another breaker on/near the transmitter. did you flip that one too?

[Eco]

This Will Fix It Click on the workshop in the console ant type SetPapyrusVar OwnedByPlayer 1

[Colt]

Originally posted by Desertedjay:

This Will Fix It Click on the workshop in the console ant type SetPapyrusVar OwnedByPlayer 1

Thanks Desertedjay. It didn't work at begining or shall I say it worked partially only. I could activate it at the workshop bench itself.
However when I get out of building mode somewhere else lets say somewhere at destroyed house then it did not work. I needed to go back to workshop to activate again.

I decided to fast travel to 'The Castle' and then back to see will it fix this issue. It did not fix issue. I guess because 'The Castle' is too close to the 'spectacle island'.
Then I decided to fast travel to 'Egret Tours Marina'. The idea was to fast travel somewhere so far that cell would respawn again when you travel back.
'Egret Tours Marina' I returned back to 'spectacle island' and then I had no problems whatsoever.

Only some weird things happened though. For example some mirelurks returned and some mirelurk king back too.
I was surprised of that because, before using SetPapyrusVar OwnedByPlayer 1 I did use killall command.

[xDeamon]

Thanks so much I had the same problem!

[frostedjar]

So after all that will the quest you get from pam work? (nope) I cant seem to send settlers there by suply rout...(people say the settlers drown so instead send robots) ((but i have seen supply rout ppl swim...)) any more details after haveing done the console commands would be great. (DONT USE THE CONSOLE COMMAND you will break the quest as is) DO pls send bethesoda a letter. Go to yer game in libray and click on support. Also this link might help. http://help.bethesda.net/app/fallout_feedback/track/AvPs~gpoDv8S~fpSGgYa~yJdYkUqzi75Mv~O~zj~PP8H One last thing to try and idk if it'll work or not is before useing console commands get the armor that shows npc as red and look over the island. I found one mirelurk so far near the shack with the work shop that wasnt poppen up.

[yasai]

i have the same problem but i had it more than a year after

[Xyzzy]

yeah, they fixed it since this 2015 thread. For vanilla anyway, dunno about console edit or mod kids.

[WhiskeyGhost]

I realize I'm very late to this party but seeing as its still the first Google search result... I found that if you turn off collision "tcl" into in the console and get in close to the switch, spam it a few times and then turn collision back on the lid suddenly opens. Hopefully this can help someone.

[sarCey]

Originally posted by WhiskeyGhost:

I realize I'm very late to this party but seeing as its still the first Google search result... I found that if you turn off collision "tcl" into in the console and get in close to the switch, spam it a few times and then turn collision back on the lid suddenly opens. Hopefully this can help someone.

Not late at all for me! You just saved the last bit of sanity I had after trying to fix this godforsaken island for hours.

[stanchion]

Originally posted by WhiskeyGhost:

I realize I'm very late to this party but seeing as its still the first Google search result... I found that if you turn off collision "tcl" into in the console and get in close to the switch, spam it a few times and then turn collision back on the lid suddenly opens. Hopefully this can help someone.

This was an excellent find on your part. No clip --> immerse yourself in the switch until 'circuit breaker lid' [open] appears --> choose to open --> turn off no clip and it ejects you from the switch --> lid open up, revealing the switch again.