Where There's Smoke - Quest Bug

[prime time]

I traveled north to find the gunners and eventually ran into Aiden. It was going smoothly, the dialogue occurred and the gunners attacked. However, after we killed off the gunners Aiden was nowhere to be found. All that is left is a quest marker hovering in the air, and nothing happens when I stand on it. Any ideas to what may have happened, or how to fix this issue?

Side Note: If anyone knows Aiden's Player ID that may be useful!

 

[Cessori]

Suggest reloading to a earlier save. Also, check for the gunners at all three quest flags.
There are a few issues reported on the Guest Guide for Where There's Smoke.
Also, check for possible mod conflicts: Known Issues

 

[msalaba]

There are a few issues reported on the Guest Guide for Where There's Smoke.
Those using the Extended Dialogue Interface (XDI) mod will encounter issues with this quest during the radio tuning, and then again when Aiden appears.

The only conflict with XDI is the radio scene. If you are using XDI and do not have my patch (link in my sig), when you sit at the radio the dialog window pops up with "dialog entry" as the only option. You can not continue past this. XDI has no conflict with the "Aiden" scene.

You may want to add a note, if you have See Through Scopes installed, equip a non scoped ranged weapon before triggering the Aiden scene. (or the scene will hang) Also, if the vanilla dialog camera is turned off in the game settings, the Aiden scene will hang.

Is Classic Holstered Weapons System a F4SE plugin? If not, its not good to advise disabling a mod during a play through. It would be better to add it to the list of incompatible mods.


/necro

Side Note: If anyone knows Aiden's Player ID that may be useful!

Load a previous save and click on Aiden with the console open or type help aiden 4 NC_ in the console.

 

[Cessori]

@msalaba
I am always hesitant and careful about adding notes to the guides. The notes were added during this forum discussion.
Classic Holstered Weapons System is a F4SE plugin.
I've done some editing, please have a read. Better?

 

[msalaba]

Looks good!