[SPOILERish] The Secret of Cabot House BUG [SOLVEDish]

[Fisherman Joe]

So after completing the quest and Originally allowing Lorenzo to live, and then killing him at the manor with Jack and friends... No one died except Lorenzo and the quest was completed with everyone alive.

Now there is a Misc. Objective to: "Talk to Jack Cabot about the artifact"

HOWEVER, Jack Cabot appears to have dissapeared from the world entirely. I've attempted teleporting him via ref and base id's, and all I did was move the 'quest' target. Which isn't recognized as a quest because it is a Misc. Objective.

Original location was slightly east of the "National Guard Training Yard" in the middle of nowhere with Jack nowhere to be found. I've searched the manor and insane asylum multiple times and he's still MIA.

Edit:

Originally posted by Palpurntin:

Found Jack Cabot....

I was at "Saugus Ironworks" killing raiders for a settlement, and he was just there helping me shoot raiders.

And he would not talk to me about the artifact. He was just really mad at me for whatever reason.
The 'quest' is still bugged.

What's going on? Has anyone else encountered this or have any ideas?

Edit 2:
SOLUTION?
User Japh' has a solution which works.

Originally posted by Japh':

Okey i found half of a fix by myself xD
-> open console
completeallobjectives MS09MiscJackReward

You won't get the reward but the quest will validate, works for me...

vid is here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1Lo8oNcEyw

Edit 3:
Reward?
User Myrmex found a command which should give you the reward you would normally earn from completing this stage. I haven't tested it myself so be sure to save (as always)

Originally posted by Myrmex:

(Trimming original message)
If you came late like me (and last save was decades ago), you may type "sqs ms09miscjackreward 100" which is equal to talking with Jack, so you get the gun and complete quest, but npcs will stay that way.

There's a number of other workarounds some cool dudes have discovered, just check out the responses. They all involve Console Commands

[Misse]

Hello! I got a similar problem... well my choice was to kill Lorenzo, and after that I opened the door to get the magazine in there. So now the quest says that I helped Lorenzo escape and that the quest is over with, but Jack told me to meet him at the house, but he's not there..
do you know how to fix this?

[jeffy]

he permanently hates you if you let his father out

[Fisherman Joe]

Originally posted by Misse:

Hello! I got a similar problem... well my choice was to kill Lorenzo, and after that I opened the door to get the magazine in there. So now the quest says that I helped Lorenzo escape and that the quest is over with, but Jack told me to meet him at the house, but he's not there..
do you know how to fix this?

If you need to find the elusive Jack (he is VERY elusive), check one of the solutions given by others in the comments here on how to move him via console. Console commands do not disable achievements in Fallout 4 so nothing to worry about there.

Also, if you have a similar experience to me, you'll find him out in the wastleand randomly for no real reason.

I 'love' how bugged this quest still is

[Seifer Leonheart]

Originally posted by bobyewjr:

In my case, I save Lorenzo in the lab and I kill him in the Cabot house ... and I forgot to speak to jack for a while so he disapears of the world . I found his locator above water near asylium but no trace of him...damned ...but ...I find the way:

1- go near the Asylum (everywhere you want but not in the water ;) )
2- in the console type :
prid 00047ec2
moveto player
3- you don't see jack but the locator will be above you. move to see it
4- type in the console:
enable
jack will be re-enable in front of you and give you the weapon and the quest will be completed.

Sorry to bump an kind of old thread, but just wanna thank for the solution above. It worked for me. (althought my issue was a bit different. Jack was old because of the lack of serum and trying to talk to him, didn't do anything. The console commands spawned a second jack, and the quest got completed. Now I have 2 Jacks in my world, lol. Still, solved for me!)

[Yoshen]

Originally posted by GaryC0l3man:

Originally posted by bobyewjr:

In my case, I save Lorenzo in the lab and I kill him in the Cabot house ... and I forgot to speak to jack for a while so he disapears of the world . I found his locator above water near asylium but no trace of him...damned ...but ...I find the way:

1- go near the Asylum (everywhere you want but not in the water ;) )
2- in the console type :
prid 00047ec2
moveto player
3- you don't see jack but the locator will be above you. move to see it
4- type in the console:
enable
jack will be re-enable in front of you and give you the weapon and the quest will be completed.

My marker was at the Asylum. I entered the console commands as you see in the quote and Jack appeared, gave me the weapon, and the quest completed. Thanks for the great information!

This worked for me as well thanks!

[Frost]

Originally posted by bobyewjr:

In my case, I save Lorenzo in the lab and I kill him in the Cabot house ... and I forgot to speak to jack for a while so he disapears of the world . I found his locator above water near asylium but no trace of him...damned ...but ...I find the way:

1- go near the Asylum (everywhere you want but not in the water ;) )
2- in the console type :
prid 00047ec2
moveto player
3- you don't see jack but the locator will be above you. move to see it
4- type in the console:
enable
jack will be re-enable in front of you and give you the weapon and the quest will be completed.

Worked! Cheers.

[MuchMucho]

the prid commands didnt work on my end, Jack was hanging around Asylum. I went to him
simply typed 47ec2.disable went out of console then into console again and typed 47ec2.enable
this fixed the bug and gave the reward to me.

Btw when I went to him inside Asylum he was kindda bald, then went outside and typed in prid command and now he has hair again :D

[Rick41]

After killing Lorenzo, i had the same problem Jack moved back to the Cabbot house and the quest stayed open "talk to jack about the artifact" when talking to Jack he would only talk about his mother and say hello. the easyest way to end this is to;
go to the cabbot house, open the console and type:
"prid 00047ec2, disable, enable" without the Quotes,
This wil (re)- spawn Jack in the cabbot house so you can talk to him and end the quest .. and you get your new shiny new weapon!!

[that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ cat]

Originally posted by nicovreeland:

To add a bit: this quest also glitched out for me. I freed Lorenzo and then killed him in the room, then went back to Cabot house, and they told me to wait a week. I came back to find jack old, and his mother dead. Jack wouldn't have a conversation with me, he blamed me for his mother's death.

I think the issue was that I didn't give them the serum from Lorenzo, so they had to go cold turkey, and aged all that time that they'd missed. I was able to loot the house and get the zeta gun, but jack followed me silently from room to room. It was kind of an interesting development, just too bad there wasn't a conclusion to that contingency.

i did the same thing, and the same happened to me, most of the times i interact with him he doesn't even reply