Forum:Nuka-Cola Challenge and Just for the Taste of It quest relationship

After reading the comments at Talk:Just for the Taste of It, I am wondering if the two quests The Nuka-Cola Challenge and Just for the Taste of It are really interdependent at all - particularly with respect to when Ledoux and his gang are scripted to appear.

For example, I personally found the Nuka-Cola Plant and the Nuka-Cola Clear Formula long before ever discovering Girdershade and getting The Nuka-Cola Challenge quest, yet Ledoux and his gang sill appeared for me. I know this is true because I have been wearing Ledoux's Hockey Mask for a significant portion of the game, including when I first discovered Girdershade much more recently.

On the other hand, other people on the talk page mentioned above claim being able to encounter Ledoux after completing The Nuka-Cola Challenge quest.

The wiki pages for these quests and some of the involved NPCs claim that an interdependence exists between the two quests, but I believe that this may not actually be the case.

--HunterZ 19:28, April 17, 2011 (UTC)

You're right. I reloaded a leaving-the-vault save, went to the factory, picked up the formula and got the mask without ever going near Girdershade. Looking in the GECK, none of the scripts related to Goalie Ledoux and the formula check to see if the quest was ever started, but does check if it has ended. So Ledoux will spawn if you pick up the formula before the quest, during the quest, but not after the quest has ended. Probably an oversight. --Rooker75 21:44, May 19, 2011 (UTC)