Unconfirmed Bug Faust Gasquet will not talk

[Hylie Pistof]

In the Sea Hawk storyline when one goes to Martinique to escort the Oiseau you are met on the dock by Faust Gasquet. He gives you information about the ship and its Captain.

The last time I did this he did not talk. This does not break the quest or cause any problems, but it is something that used to work that no longer does.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

If anybody plays through the main quest again, please pay attention to this one and make a savegame just prior to that point.
Then we can check and hopefully fix this properly.

 

[Red Back Dude]

ill be doing that today

 

[Red Back Dude]

Faust approached me with dialog as usual

 

[Hylie Pistof]

That brings up the question of what happened to my install. I tried several times with the same result, then just moved on.

 

[Red Back Dude]

give it a crack with that save maybe ?

 

[Hylie Pistof]

I tried it and it worked normally with him talking to me. Soo....this looks like a personal problem.

 

[Red Back Dude]

when you do that quest do you go to the governer first or straight to Martinique ? after interrogating the drunk french officer

 

[Hylie Pistof]

I go to the governor and pick up $3,000 first.

I also really take my time before I get around to even starting the main quest.

 

[Red Back Dude]

did you go to the governer first with the save i posted ?

 

[Hylie Pistof]

Nope. I stopped halfway there and changed flags and saved, then continued in while evading some fellows who wanted to engage in target practice.

I have been going to the governor first for many games now.

 

[Red Back Dude]

yeah sometimes i go sometimes i dont , but with that save i had not been to the governer first. might go see what happens if i go see his lordlyness first then go see faust.

 

[Red Back Dude]

still works as normal if i talk to the governor first

 

[Levis]

cant find anything wrong in the code and cant reproduce. Please upload a savegame if this problem does occur again.

 

[Hylie Pistof]

Faust Gasquet worked normally the last time I played through this part.

 

[Cerdock]

I have a savegame now with this problem. Unable to advance quest. Went to collect the 3k, no change. I presume that it may have happened because I entered the area from Octopus Bay the first time?

 

[Cerdock]

I seem to have confirmed the above theory. I have recreated it several times. Trigger breaks if you enter the port from town, and from then on out you will not be able to talk to him. No dialogue will ever open. Possible reasons for someone entering in this manner may be French hostility and having trouble getting a false flag entry. Luckily that same previous save fixes my problem.

Edit: Adding a savefile that you can use to recreate this issue either which way. Enter the port and he will approach, go through Octopus Bay and you will break it. You will notice that after breaking this trigger, even entering the port normally will not fix it. Given the nature of this, that someone could break their playthrough without realizing it until much later, I thought you might want to check it out further.

 

[pedrwyth]

Using the above save a dump of his attributes when dumb from a shore approach shows him as chr_ai type = actor and state = wait although his dialogue is set for first time. So

LAi_SetCitizenType(characterFromID("Faust Gasquet"));
            LAi_group_MoveCharacter(characterFromID("Faust Gasquet"), "FRANCE_CITIZENS");

in console (extracted from his citizen reset case in quest_reaction.c) sees him respond normally.

So I have put the same in case "Story_Appear_on_Falaise_shore": in PROGRAM/Storyline/standard/quests/quests_reaction.c so he is reset if you come in via the shore not the dock. That should cure his shyness.

 

[Grey Roger]

Here's the dialog code controlling Faust Gasquet's opening line:

d.Text = GetMyAddressForm(NPChar, PChar, ADDR_CIVIL, false, false) + DLG_TEXT[0];

And here's the text of line 0:

"Hello sir, let me show you the sights of this town for only one gold piece! (The simpleton holds up two fingers instead of one)"

Which means when you talk to him, he says "MisterHello sir, let me show you the sights of this town for only one gold piece! (The simpleton holds up two fingers instead of one)". Yes, he does say "MisterHello" as one word.

It gets even sillier if you're playing a female character, which you're allowed to do because "Tales of a Sea Hawk" allows full character choice at game start. He says "MissHello sir,...".

Attached are revised files which get rid of the initial 'GetMyAddressForm' and use a 'PreProcessor_Add' command to put a substitute title in place of the fixed "sir". Since the original dialog says "sir", I used 'GetMyAddressForm(NPChar, PChar, ADDR_IMPTITLE, false, false)' to generate the replacement, though as Faust uses 'GetMyAddressForm(NPChar, PChar, ADDR_CIVIL, false, false)' and therefore refers to you as "Mister" or "Miss" for the rest of the conversation, I'm half inclined to use it for that first line as well.

By the way, the reason he's calling you "Mister" rather than "Monsieur" is that he has no nation included in his character definition, and when 'GetMyAddressForm' is called on a character with no nation, it defaults to ENGLAND. If I add a 'ch.nation = FRANCE;' line to his definition, he'll address you as if he's French.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

By the way, the reason he's calling you "Mister" rather than "Monsieur" is that he has no nation included in his character definition, and when 'GetMyAddressForm' is called on a character with no nation, it defaults to ENGLAND. If I add a 'ch.nation = FRANCE;' line to his definition, he'll address you as if he's French.

Might want to give him a nation too then!