Doc Mitchel stuck in place.

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SPITSPHIRE
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Doc Mitchel stuck in place.

Post by SPITSPHIRE » Sun Mar 19, 2023 8:22 am

playing the latest version of ttw on hardcore mode.

After a few hours of playing in new vegas and exploring around, i ended up with a rather high rad level and since i had not yet made it to a new location with a doctor, nor had anywhere near enough rad away to make me comfortable using it up, i decided to head back to good springs and let the good doctor there heal me up.

I entered his house and asked him to heal my rads to which he agreed and took my caps, then my controls locked up and my screen flashed to black for a second, before going back to normal, at which point doc started an animation of pulling out a syringe.
He then bugged out, put the syringe away and pulled out a piece of food, the game then once again flashed black and he proceeded to successfully play out the animation with the syringe, after which my controls unlocked and i could move again.

However ever since then he has become rooted in place and will not sandbox nor play any greeting/ambient dialog reacting to my presence, nor will he turn to face me when I am near.
He will initiate dialog correctly and all of his services seam to function, but as a npc he is completely brain dead.

He has been stuck like this for multiple ingame weeks now.

looking in the geck he has a "DoctorHoldPosition" package, wich seams to be the cause of the bug.
for whatever reason, it seams like the package has bugged out and is stuck enabled, even though he is no longer trying to heal me.

SPITSPHIRE
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Re: Doc Mitchel stuck in place.

Post by SPITSPHIRE » Sun Mar 19, 2023 9:02 am

After doing some testing, the only way to fix him once he gets into this state is to use the "resurrect" command on him, no other commands seam to work, nor does waiting.
However, as soon as you ask him to heal you again, he will once again become stuck.

The only way of preventing the issue seams to be removing the "DoctorHoldPosition" package from him entirely.

ive never seen this bug before on any of the other doctor npc's, either in new vegas or dc.
Not sure if that's because ive just not payed enough attention, or if there is some other issue with doc in particular that is causing this.

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