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What bloody route?!The map in the game is NOT very detailed, its blooming 'ard to get to the damn tower! 141.149.58.38 01:11, August 17, 2011 (UTC)
I *think* it's counterinituitive. For ease of use, during the 3 quests to meet companions you should wander with a favored companion, for example Christine all over the place. The stand at a nice and open space, open local map on pipboy, , increase the resolution to a nicely detailed one, print screen and paste it to Paint. Then print it to paper for scribbling on it.
Of course, if you are playing consoles you are screwed anyway.
Still, in short, the maze of Sierra Madre is one of reason why players hate this expansion.Laclongquan (talk) 11:26, March 13, 2013 (UTC)
Just a suggestion - a more detailed walkthrough of how to actually get to the tower/up the tower and what to expect might be called for. 207.255.188.25 16:54, December 16, 2013 (UTC)
Bugs and Workarounds[]
From visiting the bell tower before completing the three companion placement quests I encountered all three of the bugs as listed on the main page. Namely:
- If you visit the bell tower before you have completed the three quests leading up to this one, when you leave you will automatically trigger it. This trigger is not complete, however, as no enemies are added, no fireworks displayed and the door to the casino stays locked.
- During the quest "Trigger the Gala Event", when you approach the control panel in the bell tower to activate the Gala Event, a scripting error may occur, which causes nothing to happen when activating the control panel which leaves the player unable to finish the quest leaving them stranded at the Sierra Madre.
- During the end of the questwhen you have to activate the trigger, the game shows nothing to activate it leaving you stranded.
As stated, this leads leaves you completely stranded in the Villa with no option but to reload a previous save, unless you have console access.
The following fixed all three of these bugs for me:
- I moved to the ladder below the bell tower and in the console typed:
- resetquest xx000FC0
- setstage xx000FC0 10
(found by using sqs xx000FC0)
- I then moved up the ladder, triggered the control panel normally, and was able to continue into the game.
My great thanks to the wikia contributors who listed detailed console explanations as I had no previous knowledge to guide me. Thank you! Cedaroo (talk) 04:08, August 1, 2012 (UTC)
Abandoning the other 3[]
Maybe it should be noted that going back to find the other 3 companions is a waste of time. Once each of the three is in place and agrees to trigger the gala, each threatens you saying you better come back to get them once it starts. However all 3 are instantly transported to their locations in the casino once you flip the switch, so if you go to where you left each of them, they'll be gone. So, yeah, basically they already abandoned you. (Found this out using "player.moveto 0x00137x" after hitting the switch. Second x is 7 for Christine, 6 for Dog/God, 9 for Dean.) Noobyorkcity (talk) 18:27, July 17, 2014 (UTC)
Unsigned[]
This is Gunrunner. If the console commands and instruction did not work, these will. These steps are what I did and it got me through after activating the panel and the glitch took effect.
Step 1: Exit the tower.
Step 2; Use console command (resetquest xx000fc0)
Step 3; Use console command ((setstage xx000fc0 50)
Step 4; Run to the Casino Entrance. At the gate, it will be locked. HOW EVER, if you bring up the console command menu, then use your mouse select the gate and type (unlock).
After doing these steps, I was in the Casino and the game steps took over and I was good. After Step 3, I had to blindly run to the Casino Gate, so there will not be any markers to follow. Also ran past the mute women. After opening the gate thou, the cenamatics took over and everything was good. I hope these steps help. Good Luck :)—Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:246D:2989:6149:D574:AD36:750E (talk • contribs) 17:47, August 4, 2017 (UTC). Please sign your posts with ~~~~!