Talk:Following in His Footsteps

Re: Skipping the Quest.

I found a bunch of dead BoS at GNR after visiting Dr Li and the Jefferson Memorial. I'm unsure which location ends the Footsteps quest, but it's well before finding V112.

Also there were plenty of dead BoS bodies on the steps, but not one in the fountain, and no Fat Man to help kill the Behemoth :( Dafpants 14:08, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

restarting the quest impossible?
Inadvertently skipped ahead and now it seems impossible to restart. The quest's only trigger seems to the completion of the quest Escape!.

Help Wanted
Uh, I start this quest, didn't find out it was GNR, and blown up Megaton. So I got no arrow right now. Can someone guide me to GNR? In detail please? I'm right outside Friendship Heights Subway station. Firelance 03:08, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
 * From Friendship Heights, go back through the Metro to the Tenleytown exit; this is Chevy Chase. If you head South-West-ish from Chevy Chase, you'll either:
 * meet up with the Brotherhood of Steel - in which case follow them to GNR, easy
 * or, you'll find a mattress with some Energy Cells (and the BoS have left). Continue around that building and you should find Early Dawn Elementary School; it has a playground out front, with a red rocket and a green UFO slide. Go through the Super Mutant infested school and turn left. GNR is across the Plaza with the fountain in the middle. Dafpants 05:01, 11 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Yay, Mission Accomplished.
 * Thanks, man.

Firelance 00:51, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Finding Lyons
I reached the GNR building and managed to kill the Behemoth from the safety of the school (a whole lot of VATS headshots from my trusty Hunting Rifle and several well-thrown grenades). I searched all the BoS bodies near the building and was unable to find any sort of key for the main entrance. The second entrance requires a 100 Lockpick level. I looked all over the place and could not find Sentinel Lyons. Any idea what I'm missing? Could it be because I visited Rivet City and spoke with Dr. Li before GNR? Thanks. Domkavosh 00:16, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Try the Intercom next to the main door. Firelance 00:50, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Just to be sure...
I found Rivet City, and talked to Doctor Li a long time before arriving at the GNR building. As this is my second character, I had already visited GNR, but BEFORE talking to Dr. Li, so I was surprised not to find the Lyon's Pride soldiers to aid me in my second playthrough. Reaching the plaza was hell, as I was not very powerful then. Now I see that this is normal if Rivet City is visited first. Still, the BoS guy (only one survived the Behemoth) keeps telling me to find Sarah if I need anything, which just seems weird considering she's far away, in the Citadel. So I just want to make sure that it's ok to do it this way. I don't want to have any problems like not finding Sarah later on because I didn't see her first in the GNR building, or something like that (not having the Fat Man is punishment enough). I didn't have problems entering the GNR building itself and talking to Three Dog... so far so good, but still, I don't plan on playing the Main Quest for a while, and if it's broken already, it would be a waste of time... so, I ask, just to be sure.

- re: Just to be sure... I have two characters and on both files I never went directly to GNR first but instead talked to Dr. Li and I have had no problems playing through the main quest to completion...lots of freezing but no main quest problems.

Reddin
If you skip meeting the Lyon's pride, does that mean that Reddin survives, since the pride has nothing to do with the behemoth...?

I dont think so,on all my games i skipped the GNR part and ended up finding reddin killed in random locations,one time was odd,as i found her in nathans jail cell in raven rock,however she then died of unknown means

Stupid Bug
Well, I started a new game once I got Broken Steel. So after I left the Vault, I went to Megaton and did the Power of the Atom. So I went to do Operation: Anchorage, came back and went to do this quest. So I got to the part where you fight the Behemoth, I killed it but the Intercom dude says "I'm not letting you in right now!!! Are you crazy !?!?!". I also have a compass arrow that points to the Behemoth's corpse. I tried resurrecting it through the console and killing it again, but again. The same thing happened. I also tried loading up previous saves, also didn't work. If anyone has experienced this bug, and knows how to fix it, help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance! Elder Lyons, Sr. 21:20, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

No BoS found
i never met any brotherhood soldiers anywhere between the chevy chase metro entrance and GNR. this means there is no fatman for me to use, and i am stuck with my lowly assault and hunting rifles. is this a common bug for the BoS to never appear here?
 * You may have gone to Rivet City. If so they will not appear. Also please sign your posts. Thanks.--Kingclyde 05:42, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Rivet City and no BOS
On my second character I was forced to fight alone as no Pride seemed to be around and the only BoS guys were generic guards. It was a bloody hard fight seeing as I was playing on Hard mode and had no fat man. All the guards died in the end which was pretty cool because I got lots of holotags.

Anyway, to the point...The only thing I ever did that could conflict with the Pride helping out was discover the location of Rivet City whilst walking along. I didn't go in or talk to Dr. Li or even get the bridge to extend yet I still had no Pride. Can anyone confirm that the discoveration (totally a word) of Rivet City will stop the Pride from showing up?

Oh and later on someone from the Pride said something along the lines of "We sure saved your ass at GNR". I killed them, bastards. JFreeman 00:42, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

How many of Brotherhood Soilders can die?
The article says that if you take too long to kill the beheamoth then some of the soilders can die. Of all the times i've played through this quest only Reddin had died(scripted death ofcourse), i know Sarah Lyons can't die cause she's essential but i don't remember the others dying.

I'm just curious if the entire Pride can die except for Sarah. Jedted 01:12, March 28, 2010 (UTC)

All the BoS soldiers, that aren't marked as "essential NPC", like Lyons (ie, they have a name, a wiki page here, etc...) can die/be killed. The essential NPC's just get knocked out and will recover eventually. Saccade 21:35, March 29, 2010 (UTC)

Vargas and Lyons are essential (immortal), which is helpful since Vargas seems to like charging straight at the behemoth when I'm trying to fire the fatman at it. All the other soldiers seem to be killable. 97.73.64.151 19:51, June 8, 2010 (UTC)

Route to GNR
I'm not sure about that route the article suggests taking to find GNR. Seems awful dangerous (and a bit confusing) going that way for a level 2-4 character.

If you go down the old road from Springvale to Super-Duper Mart and go under the bridge to collect the Duck N Cover + grenades, you can stay crouched and cross the river without hardly getting wet and avoid all enemies until you get into Farragut station. 97.73.64.151 19:47, June 8, 2010 (UTC)

Easy behemoth kill
I did this quest after talking to Dr. Li and the BOS did not appear so it was me against the mutants at level 19. When I made it to the plaza and the behemoth broke free the overlords fought the behemoth! So I just hid and waited and it turns out that two overlords with Tri-beam laser rifles can easily take down a behemoth. I used the dart gun then followed up with the shishkebab. The dart gun strangely enough can knock the weapon out of any character, even a super mutant overlord. To make sure this was not a glitch I started over, all the way from first entrance to Farragut station. So I got an easy behemoth kill, two weakened overlords (which were still tough to kill) and two Tri-beam lasers. This is one PS3 GOTY 192.18.43.225 19:08, December 30, 2010 (UTC)Alexi