Trouble with Ricky Dalton

[TheJebblue]

I was in a fight way down in the middle of the map somewhere and the Ricky Dalton NPC showed up. Me and Codsworth could not kill him, he's not killable. Later after fast traveling to Sanctuary, after a few minutes Dalton teleported to the roof of the main building at Sanctuary. The Minutemen kept killing him, he kept reviving.

I exited the game, and going back in things were fine. Did some exploring and decided to check out the Mayor's office. Turns out the admin assistant offered a place to buy in Diamond City! I'd seen Home Plate on one of the doors but wasn't aware it was intended for the player!

Started decorating it some and after a few minutes, the Dalton NPC teleported in. Codsworth kept killing him.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2918863966

Hopefully it will be reset but now I'm thinking this might keep happening.

Any ideas how to stop Dalton from appearing?

[Zargothrax]

Ricky is known to show up around Diamond City and sometimes even in Home Plate, the only things that would make him hostile are if he were previously attacked or if you had betrayed the Railroad at some point as that's the organization he's affiliated with.

I take it that since he's still marked as essential (thus invincible) that you haven't progressed far enough into the Railroad's questline for him to be marked as non-essential.

Maybe try encountering him alone without any followers or other NPCs and try to surrender (lowering your weapon while mid-combat), that could turn him non-hostile assuming he was provoked by an attack and not by your standing with the Railroad.

If none of the above works, granted you have access to console commands, you can select Ricky using the console's cursor and type "disable".

[Löthar Storm]

just looked at the screenshot full size and noticed that 'ol Ricky has lost his marbles to such an extent that he's trying to shoot at Codsworth with an imaginary rifle. he's gone mental

[Xenon The Noble]

I wonder if he's related to the Dalton family at Far Harbor.
Yeah. I've had this glitch a couple of times. It doesn't always happen. I think twice in over 3000 hours of play.
https://falloutcheats.com/command/setessential
I guess the solution is found in the proper use of the setessential command.

[TheJebblue]

Originally posted by Arch Cadaver:

just looked at the screenshot full size and noticed that 'ol Ricky has lost his marbles to such an extent that he's trying to shoot at Codsworth with an imaginary rifle. he's gone mental

Funny :-)

[TheJebblue]

Originally posted by Xenon The Noble:

I wonder if he's related to the Dalton family at Far Harbor.
Yeah. I've had this glitch a couple of times. It doesn't always happen. I think twice in over 3000 hours of play.
https://falloutcheats.com/command/setessential
I guess the solution is found in the proper use of the setessential command.

If this works it's a great answer thanks!

PS I just saw on a wiki page someone made for that NPC, there's also a command that should work: https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Ricky_Dalton

PPS I couldn't get the setessential or prid commands to work, both keep complaining about a script not being compiled.

What DID work was, click the NPC with the console open the I typed disable. I've been told that works for other things but I know I could not get rid of a shrub at Sactuary like that.