Silver Shroud Bug - Can't Save Kent

[Frankenstein's Raven]

I have been stuck on this for AGES! I can't save Kent, I go up to approch the BLOODY guy with the Silver Shroud costume on, I walk very slowly, and he starts the line of dialouge to get me into the negotiation, but then he starts the second line of dialouge, which is the one when he shoots Ken, I haven't even been able to hear the whole sentence of his first line of dialouge! I have watched video walkthroughs for saving Kent, and I think this is a bug. I have tried VATS, but it's not working, as I can never kill the two of them, I never have enough AP, and drugs won't help either, as I don't have enough! I have really shoddy weapon accuracy.

I really want to convince him, I am not sure if anyone else has come across this bug (if it is one), I have searched the internet, and I can't find any posts of articles about this. I really want to get through this quest with BLOODY KENT alive, please help! I have already rage quitted and my computer has already crashed (for some reason) while trying to do this bloody section!

[Mr.Hmm]

Warning Spoilers.

You can save him, just answer as Shroud and when the option that presents itself to persuade him to kill you first select that

[Varaskana]

I'm also having a problem with this quest. Except I only get half way through the hospital before he just up and dies. I'm going to try and email Bethesda about this bugged quest and hope that its fixed in the first round of patches.

[Kate Upton]

It's possible to save Kent? As soon as I went inside the hospital it just told me that the optional quest to save him failed.

[Frankenstein's Raven]

Thanks for the replies. I was thinking of a few ways to fix it, although I haven't tried them. Most of them include cheating. I was thinking of using console commands and either killing the two guys or giving Kent some armour so he doesn't die when shot, although the programing could be tuned to not how much health he loses, but if he gets shot, as to whether he does or not. ANother problem with using console commands is I tried the 'kill' command, but just 'kill' on it's own didn't work on the two guys.

Another method is loading a previous save, but I have already done that many times.

I have resorted to going back the the time RIGHT before I became the Silver Shroud and just not give him the stuff until I can either get really good weapons and VATS or it is patched.

I am very fortunate that I save quite often, and have a few saves a certain points, which I don't save over. It seems not doing the quest is the easiest way at the moment to get around the bug. If anyone else has any other ways to get around this bug or knows of ways to fix it, that would be very nice.

[Kurchatov]

Bring a cryogun from the Vault 111 (better if you mod it to shoot projectiles), a couple of Jets (better combined with Psycho), talk in THE SILVER SHROUD style and ghoul's sidekicks will run away and you'll be 1v1. Once the combat begins, IMMEDIATELY use a Jet, equip a cryogun, run up to the bad guy FAST and fire away (just don't hit Kent!!!) When Jet wears off, IMMEDIATELY use another and continue to freeze the villain.

That's how I saved Kent.

[Frankenstein's Raven]

Originally posted by Kurchatov:

Bring a cryogun from the Vault 111, a couble of Jets, talk in THE SILVER SHROUD style and ghoul's sidekicks will run away and you'll be 1v1. Once the combat begins, IMMEDIATELY use a Jet, equip a cryogun and fire away (just don't hit Kent!!!) When Jet wears off, IMMEDIATELY use another and continue to freeze the villain.

That's how I saved Kent.

I can't even get to the stage where I can speak to him. I approch to the spot where I can speak, and he starts a passive conversation, but right in the middle of the sentence he says the next part of dialouge, and shoots Kent. I stop right when I get to the part where he starts speaking, but he always acts like I've come too close.

[Kurchatov]

Originally posted by Egotistical Raven:

I can't even get to the stage where I can speak to him. I approch to the spot where I can speak, and he starts a passive conversation, but right in the middle of the sentence he says the next part of dialouge, and shoots Kent. I stop right when I get to the part where he starts speaking, but he always acts like I've come too close.

Are you playing without 60fps lock? Might be the same problem like instantly breaking bobby pins when the fps lock is removed.

[Zolfried]

heard 2 shots as soon as i entered the hospital.. yea not the room.. the hospital :( and kents dead.. ofc, i didn't pay much attention back then, so i kept progressing till the end.. now that i know when he died, my earliest save is as i entered the hospital and he got killed... if i where to take the save b4 that.. it would be my game 72 playtime hours ago :p guess its bye bye kent for this playthru :(

[Dr.Abscondus]

You have to enter the hospital wearing the Silver Shroud outfit or Kent dies right away. Then when you get the dialogue with Sianjin do as Mr.Hmm said above.

[kenbcn]

I am having the same problem. I have tried reloading a previous save, wearing the shroud gear from the beginning, kill cheats that don't work ... I can't complete this quest without Kent having his head blowned. Any help would be great I want to complete this.

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*SPOILERS*

Originally posted by Mr.Hmm:

Warning Spoilers.

You can save him, just answer as Shroud and when the option that presents itself to persuade him to kill you first select that

You can always speak as Shroud.

Just use VATS with a gauss rifle the second he is ready to kill Kent.

[Aya Brea]

go into the console and type "tai" this will turn off any AI commands, and they wont attack him. kill sinjin and the others, then before you talk to kent type "tai" again and turn the ai back on then talk to him

[kenbcn]

Originally posted by Aya Brea:

go into the console and type "tai" this will turn off any AI commands, and they wont attack him. kill sinjin and the others, then before you talk to kent type "tai" again and turn the ai back on then talk to him

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[silasfelinus]

Originally posted by Aya Brea:

go into the console and type "tai" this will turn off any AI commands, and they wont attack him. kill sinjin and the others, then before you talk to kent type "tai" again and turn the ai back on then talk to him

This helped me so much! Kent was consistenly shot the moment I got off the elevator, *way* before I could do anything about it. I had no problem using a console cheat to correct an unintended glitch. Yay!

[Larsen]

This is why we need the creation kit as fast as possible, so that modders can fix these with official patches. Should be the dev's job, though Bethesda games are so huge that these must pop up sooner or later. It's the first major bug I've come across so far, seems like the robots attacking the raiders triggered the execution somehow, since he got killed the moment I went out of the lift to the second floor.

The toggle AI command really helped. Thought of making Kent essential, but this was much easier and logical.