On my game the "kidnapping at sanctuary hills" quest from preston is bugged. First time I was given mission I went to talk to settler at sanctuary to start it. Upon arriving at federal stockpile I find the recue-ee dead. No way to pass quest at all. I reloaded many times to see if it would undo, even starting an older save from before it happening, still nothing. So I preceded to start an older save and when given quest again I paid ransom instead and mission passed! Awesome. But now once more I have been given the quest and now when I go to sanctuary to even start it that settler is just laying there dead, even when i reload and go there without being given mission by preston the settler is dead. so once again no way to pass and I do not want to fail mission, I have been able to avoid this mission for awhile but it seems like it cannot be ignored. I finally set up internet connection and received game patch download, but only after I found settler dead. Is there any way around this? Will there be another future patch soon or? Perhaps if I uninstall and reinstall game? Theres no way I want to get rid of all save data and start over I shouldn't have to nor want to as I put alot of time into it. Anyone else experience this bug?

Anyone?

It's just a minor bug in a side quest, it shouldn't affect your main story...

That's not the point... side or main quest you shouldn't have to have a mission in the log that cannot be done at all, every time Preston gives it. Or having to fail it every time.

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No, I have not had this bug but you can just wait 15 days for the quest to fail unless you can bring back the dead.

Well for me personally no that is not an option, i do not want to fail a quest if i cant help it. No I cannot resurrect the dead haha but perhaps the bug/glitch can be "resurrected" no? I looked online and saw many people besides I have had this bug, from PC-ps4-xbox and PC users are only ones that can manually fix it themselves from what I have read.

For now I have found a way around it, Preston does not always give same random quests. So i reloaded until he gave me something else so as of now I do not have it in my log stuck, BUT if he does give it to me i will not be able to pass it let alone even start it. So the bug/glitch is still there, if I could help it I would not wish to play this way, reloading until an unbugged quest is given that is. Thanks for replying at least I appreciate it.

I finally set up internet connection and received game patch download, but only after I found settler dead.

Hmm, you played the whole time without the patch?

Yeah, when I first purchased a ps4 I did not set up a connection right away, only after putting a good amount of time did I connect and setup account info and it got the patch.

hmm..

-goto the federal stockpile and clear the dungeon out when you DONT have that mission.. (is the dead body there when u dont have the mission?)

-just fail the mission man. You can get another settler. I've lost 1-2 from not seeing the alerts. Settlement missions are generic and u will have TONS of them.

Well, it's a minor glitch if you ask me.

Thanks for the input guys! Yea unfortunately the dead settler body is still there, I cleared it before I first got the mission. I mean I could fail it but would that kind of mission come up as a fail on my pip boy log or? Like I said up top I have found a way around it as of now but it all depends on my saves and if preston gives that mission or not, other than that I appreciate that at least some responded. I do know that I am not only one though that has experienced this specific bug I seen online many others that have had it. I don't know how many in this forum who had it maybe we will see or not, I hope bethesda looks into all these bugs I really love fallout. It's like a mad max road warrior world what's not to love?

There are many bugs regarding to settlement quest.

I have a bug to and there's no other way but to kill a special NPC just to fail an unfinishable mission. I can't guess since when the quest was "ready to take"

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I have experience in this kidnap case. Just sharing:

The settlement quests seems to have a running timer in the background. If you never get informed by Preston or a settler, the timer will eventually runs out and mission will be failed - with the annoying grayed out note on the quest list.

I'm kinda confused when I read your story, but if your case is that you have "Completed" it, but yet the kidnapped NPC returned dead, I think you can just leave it alone. Just drag the body away using X button (PS4).

Just heads up, next time you go back to your settlement and your settlers say "We're in trouble. I hope you can help" or "I don't know what we're going to do", just look for a standing around settler. They will have the quest for you. If you're lazy, just take the mission, tell the corresponding settler away from the rest, and stealth kill him/her while your status is [HIDDEN]. That will fail the mission and the put the mission note under 'finished' list.

The first time I ever encountered 'kidnapping at sanctuary hills" I went to sanctuary to speak to the settler there to start it. After fighting my way through federal stockpile where the kidnapped settler was held I found he was laying there dead in the back storage room. I tried fast traveling, exiting and entering back, wandering around and even just reloading more than a few times. Still the kidnapped guy was dead. So I ended up going back a past save up to where preston didn't give me the quest. When the mission was re-given to me I went to sanctuary again to speak to settler to start the quest, here I ended up just paying ransom of 400 caps to see what would happen and I passed it, completed. Yay haha. But then these missions come up repeatably so once again I was given it and this time as i went to sanctuary to speak to settler and start it again, the settler needed to start quest was laying there dead. I went to federal stockpile and the kidnapped guy is dead too so the settler needed to start the quest and the kidnapped objective are both dead.