Forum:New Broken Steel random encounter, or scripted event?

I played though Broken Steel and completed the quest Holy Water by getting irradiated all to hell and convincing Mother Curie III that I was the prophet of Atom (God I hate cults), then I completed Who Dares Wins, blowing up the crawler. I went back to Megaton to get my Tesla Cannon repaired one of the caravan guys.

When I went outside Megaton however, there was a water caravan instead, and some Megaton settlers were arguing with the caravan driver saying he only gave them some of the water, and that it would only last them a few days, that he should give them all of it. He says it's not up to him, the rest is going to Big Town, and that if they have problem to take it up with the BOS knights protecting the water. Then the BOS knights come over and ask something to the effect: "You guys aren't thinking of doing anything stupid are you?". One of the Megaton settlers goads the rest on saying something like "Let's just take it, they won't really shoot" and of course they proceed to do something really REAAAALLLY stupid. Needless to say they got blasted to bits in nothing flat with pretty much no damage to the brahmin, caravan driver, or BOS knights. What pissed me off though, is that Deputy Weld instantly became hostile and before he could even got off a shot he was a smoking bucket of bolts, then Stockholm popped off 2 shots before being wasted as well.

Now I could care less about the dumbasses, they deserved it for being unbelievable stupid, but I'm a little ticked that I no longer have Deputy Weld and Stockholm protecting Megaton from the occasional wandering beasty.

So I want to know if this always happens after the Holy Water quest (a scripted event, which would really, really suck since there's no way to protect Stockholm or Weld other than killing the BOS guys, possibly making all BOS hostile, which would suck), or if it's a random happening.Cavesloth 04:16, 8 May 2009 (UTC)Cavesloth

Did you check out if any conversation was available? It may be that this is a random encounter similar to the one where the Wastelanders are fighting over a refrigerator full of Purified Water. In that encounter, you can stop them from attacking each other by winning a Speech Check. AngryNorwegianDude 14:39, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

I think its a problem with factions. try removing either weld and stockholm or the megaton settlers from thier faction or just set weld and stockholm essential and have three dead brotherhood guys to loot

Unfortunately I'm on a 360, so I don't have console commands.Cavesloth 18:18, 8 May 2009 (UTC)Cavesloth

If it is a random encounter, it should be able to happen elsewhere, away from Weld and Stockholm. If it only happens at Megaton, well, then it IS a faction problem. Which probably was overlooked and will be fixed in a patch or something. AngryNorwegianDude 20:07, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

I've seen this happen on my game (i'm also on the 360). I walked up to them and started talking to the people and passed a speech check and everyone went their marry way......--Francois878 05:07, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Ah, that's good to know. Cavesloth 16:29, 9 May 2009 (UTC)Cavesloth