Gunner Stuck bug[]
The gunner at the South section who always jump into the Power Armor can get stuck sleeping in bed. You (the player) can hit him but he might not get up until he dies. When he is stuck the power armor cannot be accessed (fusion core cannot be taken) until he dies. Reload the save before you fight the gunners might help to "unstuck" him from sleep.
Even if he gets up from bed, If you use paralyzing punch from Iron Fist to stop him from jumping in the Power Armor, he will try again to use the power armor after he recovers from paralyzing effect. You can paralyzing-punch him again and again and he will try to jump into the Power Armor again and again. Quite insistent. During this time, most of the time you cannot take the power armor (fusion core cannot be taken). But sometimes you can, even if you take the fusion core out the gunner still try to get into the power armor. He never stops trying and only start attacking you after he gets the power armor. Before taking the power armor, he never attacks you.
If you take the power armor frame after he dies, later when the area reset and gunners respawn, he will forever get stuck because the power armor frame taken will not respawn. There is no power armor to jump in now. He either stands there, sits on the chair or sleeps in bed and won't attack you until you kill him.
At first I thought this is some freezing bug from the paralyzing punch, same bug as from freezing effect legendary weapon where NPC respawn in frozen condition. But while he is standing/sitting he can still move his hands and head and has facial animation so it is not the same bug.
In my game, I paralyzing-punched him over and over again to stop him from getting the power armor, quite funny though as he never stopped trying. I killed him while he was not frozen/paralyzed. This is to prevent the freezing bug from happening after he respawns. I took the power armor frame after he dies (he never got into the power armor). The bug mentioned above happened after the area reset.
To check whether it was the paralyzing punch that caused this bug, I tested it again by reloading the save before first discovering the area and fighting the gunners. I let him jump into the power armor this time. I destroyed his fusion core and forced him to get out of his power armor. I killed him with assault rifle. I took the power armor frame. Then I left the area and wait for more than 30 days (so that the area reset after 30 days). I came back, the gunners respawned and he still got stuck the same way as mentioned above.
So it really doesn't matter whether you take the power armor frame before or after he gets into it, he will get stuck regardless without the power armor. Maybe he was designed to always attack only AFTER he gets the power armor. Some kind of bad AI design. 12:30, November 27, 2017 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:E68:5446:49E0:85C7:BF9F:D25D:D099 (talk • contribs). Please sign your posts with ~~~~!
- It looks like this is a general AI issue and not one specific to this location. If you want you can add it to the Fallout 4 bugs page.
- FDekker talk 20:15, November 27, 2017 (UTC)