Diamond City Blues bug? SPOILERS

[hinti21]

So I went to the deal with cooke, killed all the guys there and then cooke left. Now my mission is to report back to paul pembroke and to find the chem lab. I found paul staring at trish's dead body and there is no way of interacting with him. Do I have to go to the chem lab first? Halp!

[DA REEL NANCY BOI]

Cooke doesn't die by default, huh? I always figured Paul took the opportunity to put a bullet in his head.
But you don't have to hit up the chem lab first, there's really nothing special there save a *few* drugs and some hazmat suits.
tl;dr I don't know a fix but you'll get more out of it by just taking the chems and leaving Paul to himself.

OH
Trish isn't supposed to be dead. She's usually marked essential. Are you using Bilago's tool to make all npcs killable?
Either way, resurrect her and I think you should be good.

[hinti21]

Originally posted by DEAD The Real Nancy Boy:

Cooke doesn't die by default, huh? I always figured Paul took the opportunity to put a bullet in his head.
But you don't have to hit up the chem lab first, there's really nothing special there save a *few* drugs and some hazmat suits.
tl;dr I don't know a fix but you'll get more out of it by just taking the chems and leaving Paul to himself.

OH
Trish isn't supposed to be dead. She's usually marked essential. Are you using Bilago's tool to make all npcs killable?
Either way, resurrect her and I think you should be good.

You get the option to let her live or kill her, and I killed her and took the map off her corpse (so now I know where the lab is).
Only problem is paul staring at her f***ing corpse.

[DA REEL NANCY BOI]

Originally posted by hinti21:

Originally posted by DEAD The Real Nancy Boy:

Cooke doesn't die by default, huh? I always figured Paul took the opportunity to put a bullet in his head.
But you don't have to hit up the chem lab first, there's really nothing special there save a *few* drugs and some hazmat suits.
tl;dr I don't know a fix but you'll get more out of it by just taking the chems and leaving Paul to himself.

OH
Trish isn't supposed to be dead. She's usually marked essential. Are you using Bilago's tool to make all npcs killable?
Either way, resurrect her and I think you should be good.

You get the option to let her live or kill her, and I killed her and took the map off her corpse (so now I know where the lab is).
Only problem is paul staring at her f***ing corpse.

Hmm.
Does the map tell you how to get in? Without the password/tripwire sequence you're boned anyway.
I just did this quest like an hour or so ago but I didn't encounter a similar bug. Resurrecting her is all I can think of :P
Like I said earlier, I'm not even sure you can get in without getting her to tell you the password/sequence.

[Roman Richter]

Originally posted by DEAD The Real Nancy Boy:

Originally posted by hinti21:

You get the option to let her live or kill her, and I killed her and took the map off her corpse (so now I know where the lab is).
Only problem is paul staring at her f***ing corpse.

Hmm.
Does the map tell you how to get in? Without the password/tripwire sequence you're boned anyway.
I just did this quest like an hour or so ago but I didn't encounter a similar bug. Resurrecting her is all I can think of :P
Like I said earlier, I'm not even sure you can get in without getting her to tell you the password/sequence.

Just hack terminal?

[hinti21]

Yeah, there are two markers on the map (paul and the chem lab)

[DA REEL NANCY BOI]

Originally posted by Mr.Roman Richter:

Just hack terminal?

I only did this once, and haven't been to wherever the location was beforehand, but I'm almost positive it's a password-only terminal.

[Winter]

Originally posted by DEAD The Real Nancy Boy:

Originally posted by hinti21:

You get the option to let her live or kill her, and I killed her and took the map off her corpse (so now I know where the lab is).
Only problem is paul staring at her f***ing corpse.

Hmm.
Does the map tell you how to get in? Without the password/tripwire sequence you're boned anyway.
I just did this quest like an hour or so ago but I didn't encounter a similar bug. Resurrecting her is all I can think of :P
Like I said earlier, I'm not even sure you can get in without getting her to tell you the password/sequence.

The sequence is on a note you can loot from her dead corpse.

Killing her is very much supposed to be an option, and the most likely option most players will take.

[hinti21]

Originally posted by Koscht:

Originally posted by DEAD The Real Nancy Boy:

Hmm.
Does the map tell you how to get in? Without the password/tripwire sequence you're boned anyway.
I just did this quest like an hour or so ago but I didn't encounter a similar bug. Resurrecting her is all I can think of :P
Like I said earlier, I'm not even sure you can get in without getting her to tell you the password/sequence.

The sequence is on a note you can loot from her dead corpse.

Killing her is very much supposed to be an option, and the most likely option most players will take.

Well, then the quest is bugged for me :/

[-Na Shagul-]

It doesn't matter really

Killing Trish or letting her live doesn't change anything as malcom still finds out that you killed his son despite there being no alleged survivors, she also rats you out to Malkovich even if you pass all the charisma checks, so just put a bullet in her head after you get what you need

But staying on topic, yeah it sounds like your quest is bugged, seeing as how Paul doesn't have any interracions that would warrant a response from Trish. I would suggest loading an earlier save, if possible

I'm sure there are ways to progress with console commands, as well

[hinti21]

Originally posted by -Na Shagul-:

It doesn't matter really

Killing Trish or letting her live doesn't change anything as malcom still finds out that you killed his son despite there being no alleged survivors, she also rats you out to Malkovich even if you pass all the charisma checks, so just put a bullet in her head after you get what you need

But staying on topic, yeah it sounds like your quest is bugged, seeing as how Paul doesn't have any interracions that would warrant a response from Trish. I would suggest loading an earlier save, if possible

I'm sure there are ways to progress with console commands, as well

Unfortunately I have already played a couple of hours after this happened, so loading an earlier save is not an option for me anymore. But thanks^^

[Kanga]

This quest may be one of the buggiest in the game... While I was talking to Trish the truck exploded and killed everyone, another time I couldn't interact with Cooke or Paul until the fight was over and then after Cooke had killed Trish the dialogue camera centred on her body despite her being, well, dead.

[Hobo Misanthropus]

Rise from your grave!

[tagdamaki]

I may be a little late to this, but for those of you still experiencing this glitch I found a way that worked for me in resolving it.

This will have to be resolved during the last portion of the quest (As far as I know).

After meeting with both Paul and Cooke around the corner from the deal, before you initiate dialogue with Cooke, take a right at the corner, this will take you in the opposite direction from the deal. on the right hand side from there you'll see a tunnel and a yellow car, keep this in mind for the next two steps.

Step One: Initiate the attack on the deal (I just mowed them down on sight without any dialogue), and make sure to knock down Trish for a few extra seconds because she may bolt during this step. As soon as all enemy members of the deal are dead, quickly initiate a conversation with Paul, for some reason it will trigger the dialogue that appears when you don't take Cooke's drug deal quest. He will thank you for a job well done and hand you some caps. [This will allow the otherwise glitched line to trigger from Paul before Cooke departs]

Step Two: After speaking with Paul, murder, or release Trish. If you decide to kill Trish, as soon as she drops, pick up the quest item and hold E (or whichever key you have Activate bound to) on her corpse and drag her towards the tunnel/yellow car. Her body will have to be out of reach for any kind of dialogue camera pan, so I chose to be certain by laying her body on the tunnel side of the car then blowing the car up.

Head back to the deal and with luck, Paul should be interact-able.

P.S When I spoke to Cooke, I was alone. It's my theory that this glitch happens when you do so, and the two branch paths of the quest line script overlap, and has to be resolved by completing one while Paul is not under the effect of the other branch's scripting i.e the window between the drug deal shootout and the Trish dialogue that follows. Hope this works for you!

[Pomelio]

Originally posted by hinti21:

So I went to the deal with cooke, killed all the guys there and then cooke left. Now my mission is to report back to paul pembroke and to find the chem lab. I found paul staring at trish's dead body and there is no way of interacting with him. Do I have to go to the chem lab first? Halp!

It's 2021, but I might as well give another solution. Open console, click on Trish's dead body, and type Disable. Paul became interactable afterwards. I think the cause was that I took the chems in the crates before Paul got to me, but I'm not sure anyway.

[hinti21]

Thanks, maybe it helps someone in the future :)