Ed-E glitch (another one to the list!)

[zegh8578]

I have scowered both Lorenzo and Ed-E wiki talk pages, and to my amazement I cannot find a single mention of this particular problem. It amazes me, because it happens every other playthrough of mine - if I complete "Still in the Dark", Lorenzo will never again mention Ed-E, for the upgrade. I tried kill-resurrect, disable-enable, but nothing works, all dialog-options with Lorenzo are gone, and I can only greet him and depart, leaving the Apocallypse-upgrade as the only viable option (but I want the shiny armor! D'

Is there no "add topic" console option, similar to how it worked in Morrowind?
Glitches like this get on my OCD, cus the map marker etc keeps nagging me to speak to Lorenzo, but he wants nothing to do with me o_-;

Edit: Checked, completed all of BoS quests, and Lorenzo never brings up Ed-E again.

I went to the Apocallypse with it, but if someone still knows a work-around for this, lemme know.

 

[No Man]

You might want to check the conditions for the dialogue option in GECK and in game to see if you're not missing anything.

If you are not, then it can be a mod causing that. Try opening FNVEdit (http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/34703/?), loading your whole load order, then checking if any mods change that topic (easiest way is to find it in FalloutNV.esm - yours would be 'VDialogueHiddenValleyHVKnightEDETopic000' - it'll show you a table with mods that modify this particular line).

Lastly, if everything else fails, you can always resort to console commands.

setobjectivecompleted 1572e8 15 1
setobjectivedisplayed 1572e8 20 1
setobjectivecompleted 1572e8 20 1
setobjectivedisplayed 1572e8 25 1
setobjectivedisplayed 1572e8 35 0
setobjectivedisplayed 1572e8 7 0
imod E366A
setquestdelay 1572e8 1
disableplayercontrols
set "1572e8 "."iHVUpgrade" to 1

 

[zegh8578]

Thank you, I play vanilla so it is the commands I need!

I have tried desperately guessing commands before, usually giving myself a duplicate of the upgraded version, which was a bit wonky (the companion-wheel missed, yet he followed me around and functioned normally)

This glitch happens whenever I do the following:
1. take McNamaras quest to collect filters for Lorenzo.
2. talk to Lorenzo - he says "Hey, you're the guy w the robot!" I change the topic, to the filters.
^
from this moment on, he never brings up the robot again. And, unless I've misunderstood, doing it vice versa has the danger of making him never bring up the filters again, which is why I change the subject TO the filters (the quest I prioritize), and hope for the best

 

[No Man]

I've had a look at the dialogue conditions and he says the 'Hey, you're the guy with the robot!' line only once. So if you change the subject that's it. However, I've also found that the dialogue only happens if you have ED-E hired. So you can fire ED-E, have a chat about the filters, get ED-E back, talk about ED-E. I don't see how talking about the robot would impact the filter dialogue though.

 

[zegh8578]

I've had a look at the dialogue conditions and he says the 'Hey, you're the guy with the robot!' line only once. So if you change the subject that's it. However, I've also found that the dialogue only happens if you have ED-E hired. So you can fire ED-E, have a chat about the filters, get ED-E back, talk about ED-E. I don't see how talking about the robot would impact the filter dialogue though.

This must be what I thought about "If, in the course of completing the quest ED-E My Love, Lorenzo has asked to look at ED-E, he will not accept the filtration system parts when you have ED-E with you. Simply fire ED-E, talk to Lorenzo, and rehire ED-E" from the Fallout wiki. Funnily, the work-around is the same: Fire Ed-E!

And thanks for clearing it up!