Can't "Talk" with companions.

[Tsskies]

After about 15 hours of everything working fine, I now have this problem where I can't hit the talk option with companions, I can still trade and everything but I get a beep, the same beep you get when selecting the weapon you already have out, when picking the talk option. I will note before anyone ask, I can't talk to Piper, or Strong but Dogmeat is fine.

[FlickFennex]

I'm also having this issue.

[Kreuczech]

Surely there are others having this problem. This is the first post I've found about it. It gets a little frustrating when you have someone in a newly acquired power armor frame, and then just won't get out.

[Mat]

Finally figured it out. Open the console and click on the broken companion. Then type removefromfaction 75d56 and hit enter. Worked for me.

[Tsskies]

Originally posted by ;496881136916313710:

Finally figured it out. Open the console and click on the broken companion. Then type removefromfaction 75d56 and hit enter. Worked for me.

While I'm really happy that you have a solution, where did you find this and what is it doing, I don't want to be breaking my characters

[Mat]

I found it through looking at factions in the console. That's the id from a temporary faction with the description "temporarily prevents npc from being a companion". As far as I can tell it's used for those moments in quests when companions can't become companions, like Nick in the Memory Den if you choose to take Piper instead of him . What's happening is the companions aren't properly getting removed from that faction after the quest is done with them. This does it manually.

[Tsskies]

Originally posted by ;496881136916358599:

I found it through looking at factions in the console. That's the id from a temporary faction with the description "temporarily prevents npc from being a companion". As far as I can tell it's used for those moments in quests when companions can't become companions, like Nick in the Memory Den if you choose to take Piper instead of him . What's happening is the companions aren't properly getting removed from that faction after the quest is done with them. This does it manually.

Thanks!! You've saved us all a lot of problems.

[Tsskies]

Originally posted by Progression Megazord:

Finally figured it out. Open the console and click on the broken companion. Then type removefromfaction 75d56 and hit enter. Worked for me.

I used the command on both Piper and Strong and it didn't work, I checked both with getfactionrank 75d56, and get -1 which means strong's not in the faction, and -2.00 with Piper which I don't know what that means. is there a way to look at their current factions?

[FlickFennex]

Originally posted by Progression Megazord:

Finally figured it out. Open the console and click on the broken companion. Then type removefromfaction 75d56 and hit enter. Worked for me.

Sadly, this didn't work for me.

[Kreuczech]

Originally posted by Progression Megazord:

Finally figured it out. Open the console and click on the broken companion. Then type removefromfaction 75d56 and hit enter. Worked for me.

Yeah, I'm getting nothing from this.

[MPB]

Originally posted by Progression Megazord:

Finally figured it out. Open the console and click on the broken companion. Then type removefromfaction 75d56 and hit enter. Worked for me.

I tried this with no luck :-(

EDIT: I FOUND OUT WHAT CAUSES THIS TO HAPPEN.

The bug occurs when you've walked away from a conversation that was still going on instead of picking an answer. I did this because I didn't like any of the answers I was presented with. Found a reddit thread discussing the problem of "talk" doing nothing, and someone there gave the answer. So I remembered the place I'd walked away from conversation, went back and concluded it, and as soon as I did I was able to talk to my companions again.

If you remember when you did this, then this is the solution to your problem.

[Tsskies]

Originally posted by MPBaark:

Originally posted by Progression Megazord:

Finally figured it out. Open the console and click on the broken companion. Then type removefromfaction 75d56 and hit enter. Worked for me.

I tried this with no luck :-(

EDIT: I FOUND OUT WHAT CAUSES THIS TO HAPPEN.

The bug occurs when you've walked away from a conversation that was still going on instead of picking an answer. I did this because I didn't like any of the answers I was presented with. Found a reddit thread discussing the problem of "talk" doing nothing, and someone there gave the answer. So I remembered the place I'd walked away from conversation, went back and concluded it, and as soon as I did I was able to talk to my companions again.

If you remember when you did this, then this is the solution to your problem.

This worked for me!

[FlickFennex]

I discovered this fix about twenty minutes ago. Thank you, though!

[King-Pie]

Yeah this worked for me too!

[Sean Spaghett]

Originally posted by Progression Megazord:

Finally figured it out. Open the console and click on the broken companion. Then type removefromfaction 75d56 and hit enter. Worked for me.

dude i ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ love you. thanks man.

[Relentless Gladiator Xjum]

So if you can't remember where you walked on a conversation then you're screwed?