FIXED: Jake does not appear at Sanctuary to start SS2 storyline

[TaxiVader]

I'm posting this here because I've had to trawl through many, many places for the solution to this problem.

THIS WAS THE PROBLEM:
I've just spent the last 3 hours trying to get SS2 to start the Chapter 2 sequence with Jake at sanctuary. It was working fine, then I installed Chapter 3, started a new game and he does not appear.

There's the magazine on the workbench, there are boxes of ASAMs in Concord, but Jake will not appear when I build and activate the beacon. Only regular settlers appear.

Here's some stuff I've tried:

• started a new game
• create the city planner bench, make the city manager holotape: after doing that it loads the tape in the pipboy but only goes as far as saying it's loaded, up to "OK". There are no options after that, so I can't force the quest line forward. I've tried adding the elements of the holotape to the pipboy using the help "City Manager" 4 console command and player.additem for the parts, this did not work since the pipboy would still not go past "OK" when loading the tape.
• wait in game for >30 minutes of real time, no effect
• searched every reported location for Jake's appearance, nothing.

This is what worked:

• I went to my mod list in Vortex. I haven't paid much attention to this of late, and there were all the mods from Sim Settlements 1 still present. I disabled all of these and any mod specifically for SS1 (I know what you're thinking, and fair enough).
• I made sure every mod was up to date, especially the HUD thing and Workshop Framework
• I reinstalled pretty much all the mods in the list
• re-ran the load order function on the plugins

and then it was OK, Jake has appeared (with Chapter 3 installed!) and all seems to be going well.

Just as well I treat these things as a puzzle to solve, otherwise 3+ hours of troubleshooting for 25 mins of gameplay might not look attractive...

 

[Tofu]

A trick I tried was starting a game with no mods build a recruitment beacon at sanctuary then save go back to menu
1. Load all the mods
2. Get the Holotape
3. Change the main settlement and the options menu appears when u exit pipboy
Out of everything this is the one thing that worked flawlessly