Help with bug when buying Sergeant RL-3

[Fullmetal Barret]

I am playing through ttw for the first time, I have it set up properly and I don't have a lot of mods, just a couple for new vegas exclusively and a bunch from the recommended mods forum here. I am using version 3.2.2 of ttw.

Okay so I find tinker Joe and decided to talk with him to buy RL-3 but there isn't an option to buy him. All I can do is trade with Joe and leave. I looked for some answers online and it said that it was a problem with version 3 of ttw and in versions after, it was fixed so idk whats going on, it should be fixed because I have version 3.2.2

If anyone can suggest a fix for this that doesn't involve me ruining my save, I would appreciate it.

Also, I know about another forum here where someone was having the same problem and the people who tried to help him weren't very helpful. They just kept saying that the bug is impossible now in this version of ttw. Please do not be so closed minded just because you tested something extensively and could not replicate the bug yourself, I am telling you that the bug is very real still and there is something triggering it. I do not have a dialogue option to buy the mr. gutsy companion from tinker Joe. Something is wrong; and instead of saying it's impossible, its best to try and figure out the problem and fix it to help people who are downloading and using Tale of Two wastelands.


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[jlf65]

Your karma is probably too good. He'll only sell you a robot if your karma is neutral, not good or bad. The only way around that is to get the charisma bobblehead, which in TTW3 allows you to hire ANY companion regardless of your karma and what they normally want it to be.

[Kriz24]

Your karma is probably too good. He'll only sell you a robot if your karma is neutral, not good or bad. The only way around that is to get the charisma bobblehead, which in TTW3 allows you to hire ANY companion regardless of your karma and what they normally want it to be.

I have the same problem, but I know my Karma is Neutral (I just checked it.) Help please??

[Kriz24]

Your karma is probably too good. He'll only sell you a robot if your karma is neutral, not good or bad. The only way around that is to get the charisma bobblehead, which in TTW3 allows you to hire ANY companion regardless of your karma and what they normally want it to be.

I have the same problem, but I know my Karma is Neutral (I just checked it.) Help please??

I have also Disabled all Mods and booted up the Game and Tinker Joe still will not sell him.

[Kriz24]

Here are the Mods I am using, in case that will help...

[Kriz24]

Is my Save File Glitched or is it a Mod?? I Disabled the Mods but it still wouldn't work. Cannot buy the Sarge from Tinker Joe...

[Risewild]

Is my Save File Glitched or is it a Mod?? I Disabled the Mods but it still wouldn't work. Cannot buy the Sarge from Tinker Joe...

Check our FAQ topic about this issue and see if it helps:
FAQ: I can't hire one or more Capital Wasteland companions

The answer might be the last part in there.

[Kriz24]

Is my Save File Glitched or is it a Mod?? I Disabled the Mods but it still wouldn't work. Cannot buy the Sarge from Tinker Joe...

Check our FAQ topic about this issue and see if it helps:
FAQ: I can't hire one or more Capital Wasteland companions

The answer might be the last part in there.

Thanks. I replied in the other thread too. I will try to nab the Charisma Bobblehead as fast as I can.

[Kriz24]

Is my Save File Glitched or is it a Mod?? I Disabled the Mods but it still wouldn't work. Cannot buy the Sarge from Tinker Joe...

Check our FAQ topic about this issue and see if it helps:
FAQ: I can't hire one or more Capital Wasteland companions

The answer might be the last part in there.

Thanks. I replied in the other thread too. I will try to nab the Charisma Bobblehead as fast as I can.

It's no good. I got the Bobblehead and back to Tinker Joe, but still will not sell... I'm suppose to be able to have Infinate Companions with the Companions Mod, but Tinker Joe is a stinker Joe, lol.

[diazeriksen07]

Check our FAQ topic about this issue and see if it helps:
FAQ: I can't hire one or more Capital Wasteland companions

The answer might be the last part in there.

Thanks. I replied in the other thread too. I will try to nab the Charisma Bobblehead as fast as I can.

It's no good. I got the Bobblehead and back to Tinker Joe, but still will not sell... I'm suppose to be able to have Infinate Companions with the Companions Mod, but Tinker Joe is a stinker Joe, lol.

It's a limitation of the JIP CCC "Unlimited Companions" Implementation.

It only actually changes the flag which tracks companions, while in dialog with a potential or actual companion. But when you buy RL-3, you're not in dialog with RL-3, you're in dialog with Tinker Joe, who is not a companion. If you fire Dogmeat/ED-E/Rex, then buy RL-3, you can then go re-hire the other critters.

I am not certain but this may also affect Rex initially , but then works. (You're in dialog with The King. If you notice, Rex isn't instantly hired, but he still got a force-greet triggered, which then causes it to work because you're in dialog with Rex, not The King.) It MAY affect Clover, since you buy her from Eulogy, but I almost never get her, not sure. It may affect Charon because of Ahzrukal. I don't know.