I searched this and nothing came up, thus the topic.

While doing the Silver Shroud quest, I killed one of the marks with Righteous Authority (laser rifle) and she was turned into an ash pile. There was no option when I went to leave a calling card on the 'body'.

I tried dropping the card on the ash pile 'body' but it would not let me remove quest items.

Now I'm thinking this is going to be a do-over. Luckily, I have a recent save so I won't have to lose much time.

I guess my question is: Is this an over-sight, a bug, or is it really supposed to work if you use laser weapons or plasma weapons resulting in an ash/goo pile?

It could be an over-sight. Perhaps the quest only works when the bodies aren't ash since, I think the quest is "supposed" to be played with the silver shroud gun (Notice the quotations).

Have you tested it, Myst357? I would reload an older save just to test if ash piles don't work.

P.S. Your avatar picture is just too adorable.

Thank you Personablaze. I will reload a save and try again with a regular ballistic gun. I'll report back and let you, and others, know how it works out.

As mentioned above, you're 'supposed' to use the Silver Submachine Gun for this quest, but basically nobody does because it's horrid. It amazes me that they made that gun so insanely weak. i thought it was going to be all kinds of powerful, and its damage is basically equivalent to an automatic pipe rifle. This is probably an oversight. They assumed that players would be using the scripted weapon, so they didn't account for the possibility of enemies turning into goo or ash.

I have done this quest before. This is the third time actually and I have never used the silver submachine gun. Although this was the first time I've used a laser rifle. Anyway I reloaded a save and used a regular rifle (no ash pile) and was able to leave it as usual.

there is a bug with ash piles unfortunately

2 bugs even, one that it never disappears and the other instead of being able to loot the pile it just says "activate" which does nothing when you do

i dont use energy weapons so havnt had any issues though i did have a play with righteous authority for a while one game and i did notice a couple (out of like 100) enemies turned to ash i couldnt loot

best to probably not use energy weapons against named/quest/important targets untill thats fixed

personally i think the weapon system is very badly designed and poorly implemented and thought out (especially ballistic) but the sub machine gun is by far the worst

same damage as an auto pipe rifle, far less modability, and 3x the weight i have no idea what beth was thinking with that