Can't join railroad?!?

[atsamattayou]

Okay, so I headed to the institute and the game essentially forced me to do Shaun's mission, now the railroad tells me to leave? Any way I can undo this? Don't have a save prior to this, but I would gladly use console commands

[atsamattayou]

Anybody?????

[00_01_02_03_04_05_06_07_08_09_10]

You do Railroad quests before you do Institute quests.

No way to undo this.

P.S. The game never forced you.

[atsamattayou]

Wow. Then this game is ♥♥♥♥. Sorry, but that's the truth. If Bethesda can lock you into one choice just by following the main quest, this game is trash.

[atsamattayou]

There used to be a way to reset quests with console commands, in case of things like this. Evidently, that no longer exists if what you're telling me is true. Killed a person in the institute to see if the railroad would allow me to join, and they wont. So now I cant join either. Awesome. Guess the game is pointless from here on in.

[brak]

How were you "forced"? I got to the Institute, meet the 4 people, then just teleported/fast traveled to Sanctuary and then after that I followed the Freedom Trail to the Railroad. (You could just go to load and find a save before you were kicked from the railroad)

[00_01_02_03_04_05_06_07_08_09_10]

Originally posted by BigDanT:

Wow. Then this game is ♥♥♥♥. Sorry, but that's the truth. If Bethesda can lock you into one choice just by following the main quest, this game is trash.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/BigDanT
People like OP are "majoring in Journalism"

No wonder the media is filled with idiots.

[atsamattayou]

Okay, first off, nobody insulted you personally, so not sure why you felt the need to insult my profession. I'll chalk it up to immaturity.

Secondly, allow me to explain why I'm saying I was forced: Once in the institute, I was asked if I was going to join by the 4 members I was told to meet. In each dialogue, I selected the "unsure, I dont know, not sure" options located on the left hand side. Never once did I select an option which said "join the institute". I did eveything possible to leave it open-ended. If maybe means yes, Bethesda needs to patch that. Thats ridiculous.

Secondly, at the time, I was not aware you could simply fast travel out. Its not spelled put particularly well, all Dr.Lee says is "the way you came in" which is a lie, because I did not fast travel into the institute. Surely, somebody else but me must see the obvious loophole there...

Finally, Im assuming that console commands are unable to reset quests as they have previously been able to do since nobody has suggested this method. Due to my frequent quicksaves, I do not have a save before I "chose" to side with the institute.

[atsamattayou]

So, now, I find myself banished from the institute and shunned by the railroad. My question is, is there any way to complete the game at this point? Must I now join the Brotherhood of Steel? Or will they also ban me? Do I need to restart because Bethesda doesnt understand the difference between maybe and yes? Can I complete the game without joining the BOS? It's still giving me an option to inform the Minutemen of the institutes practices. Can I just side with them? Any help from somebody who can be mature enough to answer my question without insulting me would be greatly appreciated. Again, somebody knows how to reset this through console commands, that would be ideal

[Balkoth]

Minutemen and BOS are your choices at this point.

[atsamattayou]

Okay, perfect. Thank you for answering. Minuten would have been my choice from the start, so Im happy to see thats intact.

[atsamattayou]

I didn't actually realize that the Minutemen were a full faction. Had I known that, I wouldn't have even asked the question, hopefully there is an ending available where I can still liberate the synths. Thats the entire reason I didn't want to choose the Institute to begin with

[Keeeleee]

hmm, it's funny. I had almost same situation but railroad is fine that time. I went to bunker hill to help the institute and saw brotherhood of steel and railroad had war there and I join the fight with synth. Then they killed each other lol. But I am nobody's target. I see green name for all of 3.
I ran around and watch them just killing eachother. Hell of fun lol.

[1800portajohns]

LMFAO

[Topzchi]

Originally posted by atsamattayou:

Wow. Then this game is ♥♥♥♥. Sorry, but that's the truth. If Bethesda can lock you into one choice just by following the main quest, this game is trash.

CRY SOME MORE

[Xenon The Noble]

Is there a quest where you get to kill the BOS and Railroad and the other smug gits? I'm kinda sick of Preston Garvey, but I can just leave him cowering in the Museum of Freedom like the little loser he is; gets 80% of his people killed and then whines about how sad that is for him as he cowers from a hand full of raider trash. "Go kill them!" Then like the other factions he has an endless list of suicide missions he won't do because he's too busy walking up and down the safest settlement in the CW you built for him.