Stuck at Diamond city entrace

[Ruken Ultor]

The gate opens fine but after a conversation starts with that reporter and mayor, then the game is stuck. After answering if I support the press, the camera freezes and the npcs stop talking but still play idle animations Reverting saves did not work, what do I do?

[Kylul]

I found a quick fix for this. Once the Mayor finishes his line of dialogue, open up the console. Then hover your mouse over the mayor, click on him then type "kill" in the console. This wont actually kill him but the quest will move on from there and you can enter with Piper

[Xandolio]

Originally posted by Killaman_Kyle:

I found a quick fix for this. Once the Mayor finishes his line of dialogue, open up the console. Then hover your mouse over the mayor, click on him then type "kill" in the console. This wont actually kill him but the quest will move on from there and you can enter with Piper

:D There's actually a discussion about this!
I just got to Diamond City and this is happening and it's very frustrating. I'm about to try the console command thing now

[Xandolio]

Piper
You have to open the console, click on Piper, then type kill. It does not work if you "kill" McDonnough.

[Ruken Ultor]

Turns out turning the dialog camera option on fixes this as well.

[slumberlust]

The guys asking you to type kill are obviously trolling. I had this same problem and had to enable cinematic dialogue option again to get it to progress.

[Xandolio]

Originally posted by slumberlust:

The guys asking you to type kill are obviously trolling. I had this same problem and had to enable cinematic dialogue option again to get it to progress.

No troll. You can't kill Piper. She just sits on the ground for a few seconds then gets back up.

[Pharma]

can confirm. killing piper works

[Nozilla]

Killing them via the console has no adverse effects since they are both set as essential.

[ratontile]

Any way, iven if killing then works, activating dialog camera does also work and it alows you to carry on with the conversation in that exact moment

[UraNuS]

confirm killing piper works!
open console, clic on piper , write: kill , ENTER and have fun!

[Monarch]

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, you're actually right! The issue is related to the dialogue camera! I changed it while I was stuck in that softlock and it fixed it instantly, no need for knocking one of the two out.
Had it turned off all game because it's more than shoddy and very annoying in most if not all dialogues...does Bethesda not have QA? Getting a softlock because you disabled a simple option in the menu? Not even with console commands or .ini tweaking? So livid right now!

Also, the only reason the dialogue camera is required in that scene is apparently ONE SHOT of the mayor walking out of the room. The rest is just the standard back and forth camera from EVERY OTHER DIALOGUE IN THE GAME.

P.S. : For those wondering how to turn it off if you're stuck, just open the menu while you're in the dialogue, head into Options --> Display --> Dialogue Camera.

[Trapezi Iptameno]

So i am a little late but it happened to me : if you kill mc you fail the dialog , if you kill piper not fix
do the commands ->
tcl to enable no clip
tfc to enable free camera
tfc to disable free camera
tcl and you can walkt.

[Brother Fenrirus]

Opening the console and selecting McSh ttough then putting in kill fixed it for me. I tried kill on Piper first but it didn't do anything.

[The Inept European]

Originally posted by evac:

Opening the console and selecting McSh ttough then putting in kill fixed it for me. I tried kill on Piper first but it didn't do anything.

That is a terrible and game breaking way to "solve" this problem.

It is a dialog camera issue. The right solutions are above.

[Brother Fenrirus]

Originally posted by The Inept European:

Originally posted by evac:

Opening the console and selecting McSh ttough then putting in kill fixed it for me. I tried kill on Piper first but it didn't do anything.

That is a terrible and game breaking way to "solve" this problem.

It is a dialog camera issue. The right solutions are above.

It broke absolutely nothing for my game. It just put the Mayor in the sitting "dead" position, and he got back up after a small bit.