Bug Report: Curie will not go to the settlement I assign her to.

[Beeze]

I'm not sure if this is the place for a bug report and if there is a better place then please let me know as I'd love to make this know and get it fixed. I'd just finished maxing out my relationship with the follower Curie and decided to send her to Red Rocket Truck Stop where I live. Instead no matter what I do she simply runs to Vault 81 where I first met her. I've seen another post on GameFAQs with the same issue and was just wondering if anyone else has had this issue and wanted to make it visable so it can be fixed asap.

For anyone interested this is the GameFAQs post I found: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/164592-fallout-4/72833652

[sleestak]

is your population at red rocket maxed out? cause if you send them to a maxed out settlement they won't be able to go there.

[Beeze]

Originally posted by GROGNAK THE BARBARIAN:

is your population at red rocket maxed out? cause if you send them to a maxed out settlement they won't be able to go there.

Nope. In fact the only other settlers there are Nick Valentine, Dogmeat and 2 Junkyard dogs and they don't actually count as settlers.

[Areo'Nin]

yeah im having the exact same problem and my main base is the castle i have 18 people here max is 20 and i have 30 beds ... but still curie just runs off and doesnt stay after i assign her to head to the castle

[Beeze]

Originally posted by Areo:

yeah im having the exact same problem and my main base is the castle i have 18 people here max is 20 and i have 30 beds ... but still curie just runs off and doesnt stay after i assign her to head to the castle

I've been using the castle recently and I couldn't get more than 16 settlers. Turns out this is because your max settlers is 10 + your charisma stat. Try sending her to an empty settlement to see if that works. Still though for me she won't budge.

[Areo'Nin]

my charisma stat is 10(max) i dont know if that makes any difference also

[ImHelping]

I just ran into this where I couldn't send Codsworth to sanctuary cause I have 15 people now (5 cha).

Which is funny because Codsworth (and dogmeat) do not add to the settler count, such as when I send them off to red rocket. I got Dogmeat, Codsworth, Strong, and Curie at red rocket. Counts as 2 people (though unlike Strong, Curie is all happiness tanking because no food no water.)

[Beeze]

Settlements really need to have there bugs and issues looked at it appears. Honestly out of all the bugs in the game more than anything I just want placed objects to not sink through the floor fixed.

[QuantumCurt]

I'm having the same issue as well. I've maxed out Curie's affinity for me, pursued the romance option, completed her companion quest, etc. No matter what I do she won't go to any of my settlements. She always takes off running back to Vault 81 to stand by the doctor's office, even if I'm in the settlement that I'm trying to send her to.

I've made sure that the settlements were below capacity. I've got maxed charisma with basically all of the settlement building perks. My biggest settlement currently has 28 people. I've tried sending her to nearly empty settlements, and she still just goes back to Vault 81.

I'm glad to see that I'm not alone in experiencing this. Hopefully it gets fixed in the next patch.

[Beeze]

Yeah, I've come to terms with her need to escape me. I'd also gone as far to romance her, may be related. Best we can hope is that it becomes known and is patched out but if not I'll mod it out myself with the introduction of the construction set.

Originally posted by QuantumCurt:

I'm having the same issue as well. I've maxed out Curie's affinity for me, pursued the romance option, completed her companion quest, etc. No matter what I do she won't go to any of my settlements. She always takes off running back to Vault 81 to stand by the doctor's office, even if I'm in the settlement that I'm trying to send her to.

I've made sure that the settlements were below capacity. I've got maxed charisma with basically all of the settlement building perks. My biggest settlement currently has 28 people. I've tried sending her to nearly empty settlements, and she still just goes back to Vault 81.

I'm glad to see that I'm not alone in experiencing this. Hopefully it gets fixed in the next patch.

[QuantumCurt]

Originally posted by One With the Bees:

Yeah, I've come to terms with her need to escape me. I'd also gone as far to romance her, may be related. Best we can hope is that it becomes known and is patched out but if not I'll mod it out myself with the introduction of the construction set.

If you do mod this issue out before it gets fixed with a patch, could you mention it in this thread? I'd really appreciate it! :)

My favorite companions are Piper, Cait, Curie, MacCready, and Nick Valentine. I keep all of them, along with Dogmeat, at Sanctuary (aside from Curie, obviously, and Nick, who stays at the detective agency because I feel like he's got important work to do lol) so I can more easily switch between companions without having to send the one I'm dismissing on a long walk back home. I'd love it if Curie could join everyone at Sanctuary.

It's worth pointing out that I tried sending her to a settlement before romancing her, and encountered the same issue then. The problem also existed before completing her companion quest.

[The Konrad]

She is back in Vault 81 (Med Station downstairs)

She likes it there.
And she is quite eager to get banged by you again, don't worry!

[palo_jr]

After trying many possible solutions to stopping Curie from returning to the Vault 81, I finally found the cause by returning to an older save file.

During the phase of Hole in the Wall, as you re-enter the entrance from Commonwealth to Vault 81 via elevator, you are required to return to the doctor's office to give the cure to Dr. Forsythe. At this moment there are many bugged outcomes where Curie will not have caught up with you yet (I re-entered the vault after unloading my haul and she failed to follow me).

Once you complete the dialogue with the Doc, she has a incredibly brief window amongst all the commotion where she will try to chat with the player. I bugged out of the dialogue (without realising) and proceeded to complete the mission. At this point the game bugged and auto-assigned Curie to be my companion (via mention of event text).

Because I missed out on that dialogue during the quest, she returns to the same place just outside the ward where she was meant to initiate it. However, going back to that place does not work as her companion chat overides the original intended event.

I have tried resetting the quests altogether and at certain checkpoints and tried to clone the original Curie before she was a companion. However I was unsuccessful in all attempts. The only potential solution is to restart an old save; however, if anyone can find out how to reset Curie to before she was a companion, this could also solve it (I cannot find such a command for important npcs).

[palo_jr]

Oh, and the dialogue was about introducing her ideas of joining the player; where the player chooses to accept her as a companion.

[Beeze]

I had once last shot at trying to fix the bug using the resetAI and SetAV CA_affinity commands however nothing changes. Seems like a lot of the quest and npc console commands don't really work as they intended so no luck. Thanks for the info Palo, it'll make modding it out much easier if it comes to that and if it does I'll make sure to update this thread with tutorials/download links for modding it out.

[QuantumCurt]

So what you're saying is basically that the key is to make sure to have this talk with Curie before talking to Dr. Forsythe? I'll remember this. I just started a new play through about a week ago and haven't been to Vault 81 yet. I probably won't make it there for a little while yet, but I'll do a hard save prior to leaving the secret part of the vault and make sure that I have this talk with her. I'll report back in and let you guys know how it goes.