Doing the errands for Contreras and need to deliver scrap to Isaac at the Gun Runners kiosk. Seems like I noticed this in prior playthroughs where he is there initially but wanders off later...

This is the first time I am doing Contreras' leg work, hacked the terminal before.

Tried reloads and tried waiting around the clock but he doesnt come back to the reload bench. What am I missing?

Don't know why he isn't coming back. I think he has a house nearby.

Are you on the PC?

Ah as soon as I read that I had a vague memory of his house in that area. Thanks I will check out that option. Yeh Pc. Got tired of checking on gun runners every few hours as I ran around with umpteen pounds of tin cans and scrap metal, finally stashed em in the garbage can at kiosk.

He vanished / died in one game of mine. Not at his house or any where else so I couldn't finish that quest.

He walks home every night, then in the morning he is supposed to walk back, but due to a bug, he stays in the house until you enter it with a purpose i.e for this quest, at which point he will run back out & back to his usual spot. Simply travel to his house & go inside to talk to him.

Try the 'player.moveto' console command to move your character to whereever Isaac is. Then you know.


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If he died then just clone another Isaac with the console commands to create the NPC.


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This is a tricky thing to do with scripted and quest related NPCs. It is generally not recommended except as a last resort. It can not only bug the quest but might introduce other instabilities into the game.

It is often easier to advance the quest than mess with NPCs.

He might've been killed by a raider. Happened in a few of my playthroughs.

He never appeared in my first game. Second game, I was like, who's that?

Same... There are fiends in the area occasionally, so maybe he died to one of them when I wasn't around?

Just a guess. All I know is that in one file, i visited the Gun Runners 20 times and he didn't appear once. No body, No Isaac, nowhere.

Isaac is quite the homebody in current game, I have gone back several times to deliver scrap and he's always inside his house.

But I had a weird thought...I wonder how often npcs path to other places or houses. I went back to Novac to get Boone from his motel room and Chris from Come Fly with Me was hanging out, with Boone in the room. Kinda creepy tbh but makes me wonder if Chris always goes there after the rockets leave him behind, or if other npcs 'go visiting' from time to time.

Haversam makes a home for himself in Novac. You are apt to find him in anybody's place. I think I found him in the Ranger's room once.

He's supposed to go there. I believe it was intentional. Dunno why though.