Can't recruit Inez, never shows up in Milverstreet's office

[Kyana]

After meeting Inez at the ministry of accuracy and successfully completing that quest, Inez never shows up in Milverstreet's office. I only discovered this was a bug by watching a YouTube video. Is there any way to recruit her now or am I cooked until a patch?

Playing on PC, Steam.

[Kyana]

The answer is to go back and killed some drones at the screenshot area, then when you go back to town Inez will be there there talking to the mayor!

Unfortunately for me, after that they just stand there and neither will do anything because I had already completed the mayor's quest like hours back, so I'm still stuck.

I tried to zone onto my ship to reset this, thinking it's a separate map. Now when I leave my ship I see a black screen then the game just crashes. So it's TOTALLY broken and unplayable now.

Anyway, to anyone playing this, be sure to clear out the drones at the area in my screenshot before turning in the quest after you first see Inez.

https://i.imgur.com/vMVgXXY.png

 

[Jackalgirl]

I think I'm running into the same situation (on Xbox).  I'm wondering if it's because I accepted Kaur's mission instead of Milverstreet's.  He's talking to someone in the Town Hall (possibly Inez), and I can't talk to him.  I'm pretty sure I already wiped out those drones but I'm going to go back and check.

Did you also accept Kaur's mission, or Milverstreets, or neither prior to meeting Inez?  And have you stolen the hologram emitter from the top of the town hall?  If so, did you do that before you met Inez?  (I'm trying to find patterns.)

Edited Sunday at 08:15 PM by Jackalgirl

[Kyana]

I took Milverstreeet’s mission and yes I did steal the hologram emitter even though I had no quest to do so. Classic RPG behavior. 

[Kyana]

I stole the hologram before meeting Inez the first time. Can’t edit posts on this forum. 
 

edit: now it lets me edit? Maybe because I was an unapproved user, every post needed mod approval. 
 

Anyway really hoping for a quick patch on this one. If it isn’t fixed before general release, huge bug on the first quest of the main story critical path, hoo boy. 

Edited Sunday at 08:32 PM by Kyana

[Jackalgirl]

I think I've cleared out pretty much all the Protectorate Mk I and II drones around Fairfield, but still no Inez for me, nor can I talk to Milverstreet.  I'm not sure he's talking to a non-existent Inez, because when I went to check in on Kaur, she was having an in-depth discussion with her bookcase, but still let me talk to her.

[Jackalgirl]

Okay.  So, so far, you and are are different in that we took different missions (you: Milverstreet; me: Kaur), but we similar in that we both did steal the hologram emitter.  I wonder if that's it, or perhaps there's some other bug (like she's present, but under the floor or something), so our PCs aren't triggering the conversation about her contract she's supposed to be having with Milverstreet.  

I also hope this gets patched soon.  I'd like to recruit all the Companions. : )

[Kyana]

You need to kill all drones to get her to show up looks like. Once you do that try zoning out of the ship. Broke the game entirely for me. 

[Jackalgirl]

I will have to go wandering again; sounds like there are one or two drones left alive somewhere I've missed. What a bother, especially if it doesn't actually fix the issue.  I think it might be less tedious to just wait for the patch -- but thank you for the suggestion!  I'll report back with whatever I find out.

[Jackalgirl]

Update: I've just walked into the Town Hall and Inez is there.  I think that one of two things fixed this:
1) I went to the Town Hall, experienced the issue where Inez was not there, quit the game and shut down the Xbox for a while. 
2) Even though I had destroyed all the drones for the "Diabolical Drones of Doom" quest (I fulfilled the mission that way), I had not disabled the drones using the control panel. Since I had the Engineering for that, I went back and disabled the drones (that were all destroyed) via the panel interaction.  If this was the cause of Inez being missing, I don't know whether it's because the game thinks that this approach is required, or it thought it was required for me because I met one of the requirements (Engineering).

And my approach triggered Inez's convo with Milverstreet, and all went according to plan.  Inez is in my party now.

So, try quitting the game (so that you have to start it with "Play" instead of "Resume"), turn off your console, go have supper or take a walk or otherwise take a break for a bit.  Then restart from cold iron.  If that doesn't work, try going back to the Dronery/Drone Kennels up in the hills and "disable the drones" using the panel if you can.  Hopefully, the "Raytheon Reset" will fix it by itself, especially if you don't have the skills/perks to disable the control box.

Edited yesterday at 11:17 AM by Jackalgirl

[Kyana]

Oh I've restarted the game several times. I got Inez to show up by killing the last drone group. The problem is that I already completed the quest so Inez and Milverstreet just stand there and there's no way to progress. My char does not have engineering.

And now when I zone out of my ship the game crashes to a black screen.

Edited yesterday at 01:33 PM by Kyana

[Uhlman]

I might found out how to solve the problem, if you finished the mission Diabolical Drones of Doom, you have to talk to Trooper Faulkner, the one on the Northwest exit of Fairfield, who actually is the mission's starter.

Then go to Ethel Tinsley, who has a giant pet in the Northwest of the town. After your dialogue with her, Inez will spawn right after. Then she'll walk into the Town Hall.

[Xayzer]

I too am having issue with Inez. At first, she didn't appear in the town hall (where Milverstreet is). I followed the advice I found online to backtrack from the MoA to Fairfield, but didn't find any drones to kill. However, I went into the large barn building, talked the to female scientist, then as I was heading out, Inez popped into existence in front of me. I followed her to Milverstreet, they had a conversation, but then nothing is happening, she only repeats one line of dialogue, I can't have a proper conversation with her. 

[Xayzer]

39 minutes ago, Uhlman said:

I might found out how to solve the problem, if you finished the mission Diabolical Drones of Doom, you have to talk to Trooper Faulkner, the one on the Northwest exit of Fairfield, who actually is the mission's starter.

Then go to Ethel Tinsley, who has a giant pet in the Northwest of the town. After your dialogue with her, Inez will spawn right after. Then she'll walk into the Town Hall.

Unfortunately, after Inez has her conversation with Milverstreet, she just sits there and repeats the same line of dialogue, there's no way to have a proper conversation with her to recruit her. 

[Kyana]

Yep. See if you crash leaving your ship now too.

[Jackalgirl]

So it really sounds like recruiting Inez requires the "Diabolical Drones of Doom" mission, and you need to accomplish some key things:
o You've got to talk to Trooper Faulker to trigger the quest (I'm betting you really need to do this first)
o You need to complete the quest
o You might need to destroy all drones in the area, not just the ones in the "Drone Corral"
o And if you have the ability to deactivate the drones (your skills are high enough that you get that option), you need to deactivate the drones (even if you've destroyed them all).

That last point was what I needed in order to get Inez to show up in the Town Hall, which then fired off the argument and gave me the ability to recruit her.

[Singlehurst]

I have done everything apart from the vox mission. googled to check what the best route to approach it was when i saw that Inez has one and found out she was supposed to show up when you get back after completing the mission you meet her on. 

 

i have spent the best part of the day going back and forth. have done Everything apart from VOX. dont know what to do now but hope they patch it.

[Singlehurst]

since there is a moderator, checking these messages can they message someone to sort this nonsense out?

I won my copy of this game at the pop up event in London then purchased the upgrade immediately even thou I couldn't play it until today as its my only day off. wasted half a day running around looking for drones

[Xayzer]

3 hours ago, Kyana said:

Yep. See if you crash leaving your ship now too.

I've seen quite a few people experiencing this crash when going in and out of the ship after Inez reappears and is unresponsive, however that's not the case with me. 

[shirokuma]

5 hours ago, Xayzer said:

Unfortunately, after Inez has her conversation with Milverstreet, she just sits there and repeats the same line of dialogue, there's no way to have a proper conversation with her to recruit her.

Same. PC (Microsoft Store).

Anybody found a fix yet? Starting a new game is not an option.

[JVCarone]

I registered because I wanted to reply real quick.  From the back porch of the lady scientist collecting comic books, I noticed someone fighting drones in the area first screenshotted by Kyana.  I assumed it was a random patrol, but now I think it was Inez.  Later, when I went to that area, there are container/corpse indications on the minimap... but no bodies to loot. 

I think Inez is getting trapped in the map or fell through the floor on her way to the town hall.  For a number of people, I don't think we can fix this quest, and in absolutely classic Obsidian fashion, I think we're waiting on a patch.  I'm going to put the game down until then.  I played my first Outer Worlds run without Parvaati, and that's just not a game worth playing in comparison to having her with.

[Xayzer]

11 hours ago, shirokuma said:

Same. PC (Microsoft Store).

Anybody found a fix yet? Starting a new game is not an option.

Unfortunately no fix has been found yet. Something interesting happens though - if you have Inez stuck in a "conversation" with Milverstreet, and you go to the female scientist that is trying to tame the Raptidon and talk to her, Inez pops up again behind you and starts walking towards the building with Milverstreet. If you go there and kill him before she reaches him, she'll suddenly pop up behind you, with her back to you, and if you talk to her, she'll act as if you've already recruited her, but wants nothing to do with you anymore (because of the murder), and after the end of the conversation attacks you. 

[Kyana]

Yep. Game is broken until patched. Would be nice if someone from Obsidian read the forum and gave us some indication our game would be fixed. Honestly if it isn't, I'm going to try for a refund. I lost the entire pre-release period with this bug.

[Duranium1991]

I've had a slightly different issue. I've recruited Inez, but I can't start the mission "Brain Benders of Auntie's Choice" because when I talk to Milverstreet, the only dialogue option is to end the conversation. 

[shirokuma]

2 hours ago, Xayzer said:

Unfortunately no fix has been found yet. Something interesting happens though - if you have Inez stuck in a "conversation" with Milverstreet, and you go to the female scientist that is trying to tame the Raptidon and talk to her, Inez pops up again behind you and starts walking towards the building with Milverstreet. If you go there and kill him before she reaches him, she'll suddenly pop up behind you, with her back to you, and if you talk to her, she'll act as if you've already recruited her, but wants nothing to do with you anymore (because of the murder), and after the end of the conversation attacks you. 

That's funny. And sad.

Hopefully day one patch will address this issue. If not... will continue without Inez.