Forum:Arcade Gannon Bug *spoilers*

I'm having a bug re-recruiting Arcade Gannon. When I'm doing his companion mission I get to Jacobstown and talk to the doctor. After that I tell him to go back to the lucky 38 so i can take the grandma supermutant to do the doctors quest. When i get back to the lucky 38 there's no option to re-recruit him as a companion. The dialogue option doesn't even show up. But when i recruit another companion then talk to him, it does show up except he can't join me because I already have a follower.

I've tried everything. I've tried to reset him in console. I've tried recruiting a follower then entering the dialogue, removing the follower and trying to get him to follow me again. Nothing works. I did notice when I disable and enable a follower in console there is something like "package sandbox" or "package follower" is there a way to set arcade as a the follower package? Has this happened to anyone else?

EDIT : It just happenend to me exactly how you described it.

I took back Lily to the Lucky 38 and Arcade accepted to follow me again.

Hope it will work for you.

EDIT: I had it happen with Boone once in the lucky 38, but when i put Boone back in the party then tried gannon again it worked. But just last night i had it happen again but this time i can't get Gannon to rejoin me.

EDIT: I've visited the fallout forums on Bethesda's site and its also happened to the xbox360 version, so it may be a scripting bug. Other than that I've had no success finding a solution to the problem.

A SOLUTION: A solution to this problem is posted in the bugs section of this pages http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Arcade_Gannon. Simply remove ED-E from your party then invite Arcade. Afterwards you can re-invite ED-E. Keep in mind that you can only have 1 humanoid and 1 robot companion at any time.

EDIT: The above solution worked for me (PC). Just remove ED-E and then invite Gannon, reinvite ED-E.

try removing all companions and going back to recruit

EDIT: This may be because of his comment about not liking robots.

EDIT: What happens if you are in the situation where ED-E is dead, but still counts as a companion? I've played in hardcore mode the entire game, on a PS3. These two issues are interwined for me. I want to do his quest, I want to get ED-E removed as my companion but it seems I can do neither. I am thinking at this point, I just need to beat the damn game and then start over.