Very odd conversation interrupt issues (santuary / preston early game)

[lurkless]

Hi LL,

 

I'm not sure how to explain this problem that i have been having. I have seen consistent snippets of behavior that I cannot completely explain. Probably so vague that it will not line up with anyone's experiences. But I decided to give it a shot.

 

It began as a follower problem. My followers wouldn't speak to me when I tried. I found a YouTube video saying it might be due to walking away from Preston during the first quest and leaving him hanging. So I started to really focus in, and here's what seems to be happening:

 

> I can do Preston's quest, and he goes to Sanctuary

> Once he gets to Sanctuary, Sanctuary becomes a... a... conversation interrupted zone. Conversations will start, and then, it is almost as if the NPC's idle activates. For both talking, and scripted dialogue. Here's an example:

 

For one of my repeat attempts, I didn't talk to Codsworth before Preston moved to Sanctuary. I approach him, and he starts. "As i live and breathe...it's..it's really you!" As he says this, the conversation camera focuses in for a moment, but then it pulls back as if I walked away. But I didn't walk away. He actually turned away from me and moved back to pruning the plants, and he interrupts his sentence to say "just doing the gardening...green thumb...something". I can then repeat this forever, having him go crazy seeing me, but then floating away from me.

 

Preston does a similar thing. The scripted convo will start. "Are you ready to help ou--". But midsentence, he will start walking back on his patrol, and I'm just standing there.

 

Every other NPC (sturges, Piper, who I used TMM to cheat grab) go completely silent.

 

But only in Sanctuary. If I drag Piper away to Red Rocket, she starts talking again.

 

Any thoughts on this insanity? I can play around it, but it means no using Sanctuary, and no Minutement, period.

 

tl;dr: I managed to create a zone of utter silence around Preston Garvey. Something many would consider a utopia.

[iggypop1]

Have the same problem with Preston only. but in the Castle