Artemyev's journalist

[Icedfate]

so, i'm at the part where I need car parts from this guy.
I could just pay himm, but i offered to do his "jobs" to get the parts for free.
one job, he asks me to get a jornalist at rest stop 6 to stop talking about him.
playing as a speechcraft chara, I have to option to ask "do I have to kill him?" and artemyev says "no, just silence him"
and i'm like "okay".
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as soon as i enter the rest stop, the journalist and 3 wolves are there fighting each other and the journalist is hostile to me. the wolves kill him before i even have a chance to do anything and the quest log updates to show as the quest is complete. . .

i think, maybe i just need to save him from the wolves.
i reload my save and re enter and quickly shoot all the wolves. . .and the journalist is still hostile to me, starts shooting and hexogon blows his head off with a sniper shot.
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then the quest log updates to say "the journalist had already been mauled by wolves when i found him" . . .
yeah, sure he was. . .

[Vault Dweller]

its intended you`re good to go

[Icedfate]

well, thanks for responding, that it was indeed intended for the guy to get killed by the wolves.

it still leaves a couple questions unanswered though.
if I wasn't meant to be able to resolve it peacfully, why was my character given the dialogue option to offer to settle it peacefully?
i mean i guess in real life, stuff like this can happen.
but like, why does the guy automatically start off hostile while he's being attacked by wolves?
does he somehow know someone is out to kill him and when he saw me coming towards him, he just jumped to the conclusion that I was obviously the one sent there to kill him and just starts shooting without assessing the situation?
but then , he was being attacked by wolves, when would he even get the thought to attack me while there was a more immediate threat?
i dunno. i guess the devs wanted to make sure the guy dies no matter what? so even if the wolves don't kill him, he literally just throws himself at you like a madman, leaving you no choice but to kill him?
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i see later, when you turn in the quest, you have the option to either tell artemyev that you killed the guy or that the wolves killed him and when you say the wolves killed the guy, it almost seems as if artemyev doesn't quite believe you. . .

or was this just poorly written, and they didn't expect that you might somehow kill the wolves before they kill the guy and try to resolve it peacefully.
I was kinda expecting to see some sort of speech check where you tell the guy "look, someone wants you dead. You probably should go somewhere far away"