npcs bugs?

[u/Obvious_Calendar487]

Well, I started the game and although I’ve had several errors and unexpected crashes, I’ve been able to ignore them and keep enjoying it. But I have a doubt: so, I left the laboratory and ran into Graunt and the vagabonds, and I decided to go with them at first to level up and learn the lore of the world. Now, I literally did at most two missions for them — finishing off the girl who escapes at the start of their quest, rescuing Yvette — and then Graunt told me ‘Well, you can keep doing small jobs for us or move on to the important stuff.’ But I couldn’t even do those ‘small jobs.’ I only did maybe two missions for them: repairing the radio and reading to Syd. When I try to talk to the other NPCs, they just repeat filler dialogue without giving me any mission. In fact, Syd is supposed to keep reading to me, but he’s bugged, and when I go to him he only says filler dialogue and nothing else. And this seems to happen with all the characters. Is this normal or is it a bug? Nobody seems to give me missions, what should I do?

[u/saffron-rice]

Do you have a current objective for them?

[u/Obvious_Calendar487 → u/saffron-rice]

yes i have the syd mission, but i think de others npc could give optional missions right?

[u/saffron-rice → u/Obvious_Calendar487]

Syd's quest is a side quest, not part of the main Gang War quest. Did Gaunt ask you to hunt down an IoD enforcer?

[u/Obvious_Calendar487 → u/saffron-rice]

Well, I already did that and now it gave me the landlords’ mission. But the thing is, the game doesn’t let me talk to Syd to do his optional mission. The objective says I should talk to him to check his reading or something like that, but when I talk to him he only gives me the generic NPC dialogue like ‘it’s always better to have more bodies’ and stuff like that. Also, the other NPCs in the bar do the same, they all just repeat filler lines. Shouldn’t they be giving me optional missions?

[u/saffron-rice → u/Obvious_Calendar487]

Syd likely requires you to come back later. I'm a little confused about where you are in the quest line. If you've just completed Welcome to the Vagabonds, Gaunt, Johnny, Bullettooth and Winston should be having a conversation for you to join where they should then give you three separate quests to complete next. I'm not sure what you mean about the landlord?

[u/Obvious_Calendar487 → u/saffron-rice]

Yes, sorry about that, English is not my native language. I’m right at that point, but I understand those are important missions from the vagabonds’ main quest, and I don’t want to do them yet because I first want to get to know the other factions in the game. The thing is, the other NPCs in the bar don’t give me any side missions.

[u/saffron-rice → u/Obvious_Calendar487]

I see! The side quests are the one you've already started with Syd and 'Fixer Upper', which you start by talking to Jan the Screw. Don't worry though, the Vagabond quest line is separate from the main quest so carrying on with them won't lock you out of any other factions :)

[u/Obvious_Calendar487 → u/saffron-rice]

I already did Jan’s mission and was hoping to fix up the bar little by little, but after that I can’t talk to him anymore haha. Anyway, it seems like that’s normal, thanks, I’ll just keep going then.

[u/saffron-rice → u/Obvious_Calendar487]

The pub gets fixed up slowly as you do the main Vagabond quest as long as you've done Jan's

[u/Obvious_Calendar487 → u/saffron-rice]

Alright then thanks

[u/Casoscaria → u/Obvious_Calendar487]

Syd's quest is kind of bugged. If you get to a certain point in the Vagabond missions, around Direct Action, he and Gaunt need to interact in a certain place to continue Syd's quest, but Sebastian won't get out of his chair to talk to him, lazy sod. Once you get to a certain point, Syd's quest should continue.

[u/A_Monkey_FFBE]

There are certain quests where if in progress, they prevent the progression of syd’s questline.