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Pastor Edmond has not shown up

Eric Sherck

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I just started the gunner radio quest and have 6 settlements, but no Pastor in Concord. Is there a way to trigger him.
 
The pastor should have been in Concord at the beginning of Well, Well, Well, talking to Jake outside the Concord Hardware store.
The folks in Concord disappear when Jake goes missing.
Which quest are you on?
 
I have an issue with Pastor Edmund where he has appeared, done the conversation with Jake regarding Satellite Olivia, but will just give me idle dialogue in the church. I can't initiate his conversation.
 
I jus started quest where you sit at radio and accidently disrupt gunner communications, and then need to go investigate 3 sites to west of concord.
 
The pastor should have been in Concord at the beginning of Well, Well, Well, talking to Jake outside the Concord Hardware store.
The folks in Concord disappear when Jake goes missing.
Which quest are you on?
edmund is there in the church and wont talk just dialogue loop, i have used an old save (save started on release of ss2) and just continued with ch 2 edmund wont talk. started a new game edmund there and still dont talk. brannigans quest worked fine. im am having zero luck with edmund no matter what i do
 
I've had this happen in all but my most recent playthrough of SS2 & I suspect the issue (at least for me) is caused by looting the holy bible on the church pulpit when you first go to Concord. I haven't tested this properly to confirm, but my latest playthrough is the only one where Edmund is working as intended (if it wasn't for Kinggath's Chapter 2 lets play I wouldn't have known there was an issue) & not grabbing the bible is the only thing I've knowingly done different this time.
 
Restarted and just reached completion of well, well, well and again no Pastor Edmond helping Jake move the Hub. I did loot the church prior so maybe that is an issue.
 
Restarted and just reached completion of well, well, well and again no Pastor Edmond helping Jake move the Hub. I did loot the church prior so maybe that is an issue.
someone else said that i have looted the church twice( sposed to help by no looting before well well) using an old save from ss2 launch and new save using magnum opus mod pack (wabbajack) edmund is there.on both saves, but he just has the dialogue loop
 
Started another new playthrough so took the chance to test this issue more thoroughly. Found some interesting & confusing things.
1. Taking the bible = Edmund did not talk to Jake (but you could still ask him who that was) nor did he do his sermon practice & talk to me - just idle chatter. This was true in or out of power armour.
2. Not taking the bible = Edmund did talk to Jake (could take a while to walk from the church to the hub crate & they could get stuck looping their conversation until I interjected) but did not do his sermon practice & talk to me if I don't ask Jake who he was &/or was wearing power armour - just idle chatter.
3. Wearing power armour broke the Well Well Well lights turning on cinematic, regardless of which exit from the sewer I used (not relevant but I thought it was interesting).

Conclusion: The only sure fire way to get this working for me was:
a) not to loot the holy bible from the pulpit
b) not to do Well Well Well in power armour
c) ask Jake who Edmund was before continuing the conversation
d) not to interact with Edmund at all until Well Well Well completes.

Would need more testing (including on a SS2 only save - I don't have that many mods but you never know where a conflict might be) to be sure there are no other variables at play.
 
I didn't even know there was a Bible inside the church that the Player could take, and I've never seen Edmund there with Jake at the start of Well Well Well (and never been able to talk to Edmund full stop), so there must be another factor.
 
I didn't even know there was a Bible inside the church that the Player could take, and I've never seen Edmund there with Jake at the start of Well Well Well (and never been able to talk to Edmund full stop), so there must be another factor.
Same here: It was just me and Jake through Well Well Well. I prefer to avoid Preston and company so I've never been inside the church in SS2.
 
When I started this play through I got the dialog option of "Who was that?" but never saw Edmund. Explored the church and did not see him before completing Well Well Well. I will look for him again now that it is done.
 
I mean, as far as I can tell, all you actually miss if that initial dialog with Edmund never plays is one of the three points you can unlock Cemetery subclass for Municipal plots... which now that I think about it, is a very odd choice to put that there, since if you were following the SS2 questline and spoke to him as soon as you were meant to be able to, you don't even HAVE Municipal Plot Type yet... could that be why it's not triggering properly for so many of us?
 
I got the initial conversation with the Pastor and Jake, but I didn't talk to the pastor immeditately after. I came back a little later and he's sitting down and won't engage dialog. I've tried various console commands but no luck so far. I'll try an older save and see if I can get him to talk.
 
I got the Pastor to start his big introduction speech using this console command: setstage 0b016301 3
That was after looking up the questID using this command: help "SS2C2_ConcordQuest_Edmund_IntroConvo" 4
He went through his dialog with my player, and now I have the "Attend one of the sermons" miscellaneous quests. I waited until 9 and it didn't start a sermon but there are 3 people (Branigan's crew) praying in the Church now, so . . . progress?

 
I didn't even know there was a Bible inside the church that the Player could take, and I've never seen Edmund there with Jake at the start of Well Well Well (and never been able to talk to Edmund full stop), so there must be another factor.
Got to agree, I know for a fact I looted the Bible before Well Well Well and he both showed up to help Jake and did his sermon eventually.
 
I got the Pastor to start his big introduction speech using this console command: setstage 0b016301 3
That was after looking up the questID using this command: help "SS2C2_ConcordQuest_Edmund_IntroConvo" 4
He went through his dialog with my player, and now I have the "Attend one of the sermons" miscellaneous quests. I waited until 9 and it didn't start a sermon but there are 3 people (Branigan's crew) praying in the Church now, so . . . progress?

So far so good! Went back to Concord a few days later and the Church has been upgraded and the Pastor gave his sermon on Envy at 9pm (after I helped him get unstuck from the confessional haha). Hopefully some of the other stuff starts spawning in next time I visit.
 
How long did it take for him to start a sermon?
Couldn't tell you for sure, sorry. It seemed like he was just sandboxing around the church forever before one night he started his thing, but I've been trying to have a real playthrough for once in a blue moon, so I didn't exactly come by every night to check on him.
 
Couldn't tell you for sure, sorry. It seemed like he was just sandboxing around the church forever before one night he started his thing, but I've been trying to have a real playthrough for once in a blue moon, so I didn't exactly come by every night to check on him.
Seems like it needed a couple in game days to trigger in my game just now. Thanks!
 
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