PipBoy doesn't like me?

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aL BeasTie

First time out of the vault
Ok I just starting playing again, I bought the game in 2001 when it came out and was a little dissapointed, and when some hacker deleted all my games and I lost my savegames I never played much since.

Now with the horror that is "Fallout: Brotherhood Of Steel" on XBOX, I appreciate Tactics a whole lot more now.

I decided to find PipBoy early, for anyone else he's easy to find, go to Bunker Beta, go 3 squares north, and head west for 17-18 squares.

My problem is that I can't get PipBoy to join my squad, I originally had 4 players in my squad when I found him, I tried leaving and coming back with 5 in the squad but to no avail.

I can't talk to him at all, although a speech icon appears when I put the mouse over him

I only just finished the Rock Falls mission, I'm up to macomb.
But I decided to spend more time wondering the wastes on foot before I delve further into the game.

I'm guessing it might be something to do with the rank, I'm only

Level 6

Rank 2: (Senior Initiate)
Reputation: (Sword Of Despair)

ST: 6
PE: 6
EN: 6
CH: 5
IN: 6
AG:6
LK:5

I tried using BOSCHE to change CH to 9 but still no go.

Any help would be appreciated, I spent half the night reading through the foums, which are great btw.

Tomorrow I'll try doing the next few missions and try again when my rank increases.

Edit: Using English version 1.27 btw,
Is it possible that I just got unlucky and PipBoy isn't joining the squad as he is supposed to. I've heard of similar things happening in Fallout ("bugs") and the only solution is to reload a saved game before the event happened. which is one I don't want to do. I also don't want to have to edit the game itself to make him available. I'd also like to have him join the squad initially instead of making him leave the screen and be available from the recruits pool.
 
You ought to be able to go and recruit him straight after Brahmin Wood, the only restriction to his joining you is if you've got less than six in your squad. Rank only affects when he shows up in the recruit pool if you meet him without any space in your squad.

Does he have any floating speech? If not and you're not able to talk to him then it sounds like you're missing the speech file. Check if you've got loc-mis_ABCDE.bos in your core folder and it's 1,283kb.
 
Thanks heaps for the quick reply man,

You were spot on, it was missing the said file. I copied it off CD3 and PipBoy immediatley replied and joined the squad when tried again.

Although the 2nd problem was the saved game was the 2nd time I went to that encounter so I couldn't exit the damn map :(

sigh, what a pain in the ass!
I'm starting to think that Luck effects how often you encounter FT bugs ;)

Now this has me worried, could the game of left other important files out? I've done a full install so is it worth copying everything that's on cd2 and 3 to HDD?

Is there anyway to check the installation?

Also is this the CD3 bug? I actually thought I had a good one, never had any problems before.
 
There's lots of different problems with CD3 depends which part of which batch yours came from and can also just be due to a dirty cd or your cd/dvd drive might just not like said cd.

Check your core folder on your hard drive, if you've done the full install and there's files in the install/core and core folders on CD3 that aren't on you HD then you should manually install them.

If you plan on playing with Pipboy in your squad download the pipboy fix from the files section, this will allow him to crouch and go prone. You'll have to revert to an earlier save before you went to that encounter or rename the missionz01 map to replace one of the other encounters. Such as the useless invisible bunnies.
 
thanks for info, I just hope I saved just before I embarked to find PipBoy

he's pretty cool, but it feels like cheating, and he looks out of place among the squad.
 
He makes me angry, all the time and effort spent on him and other useless special encounter characters like the treadmill guy that could of been spent on making the vault citizens and other civilians fully animated for all weapons. Or stuff like a combat armour sprite etc. Grrr.
 
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