Learning Curve is a Brotherhood of Steel radiant quest in Fallout 4. It behaves as a quest chain with multiple locations being targeted.
Quick walkthrough
| Brotherhood of Steel radiant quest: Learning Curve | |||||
| Accept a patrol from Proctor Quinlan on the Prydwen main deck. | |||||
| Speak to the scribe companion at the Boston Airport. | |||||
| Travel to the assigned area. Escort the scribe to the marked terminal. | |||||
| Report back to Proctor Quinlan. | |||||
| Reward: 300+ XP ~100 caps | |||||
Detailed walkthrough
After receiving this quest from Proctor Quinlan, the Sole Survivor must go to Boston Airport to meet the scribe they are meant to escort. The scribe must be escorted to the nominated area so they can access the terminal needed, and fast travel can be utilized to do so.
The potential locations where the scribe may need to be escorted are described below. These locations can be used even if they have been previously explored and cleared.
Boston mayoral shelter
The shelter is west of Fort Hagen, there's a terminal in the raised office outside that can unlock the door. Once inside there's a laser turret behind the security gate and two more near the terminal.
Poseidon reservoir
The reservoir is on the west side, south of Fort Hagen and north of Natick. The terminal needed is just inside and to the right of the door.
Gunners plaza
South of Milton General Hospital and west of Hyde Park. This location functions as the Gunners' HQ. Either fight through the front door or use the side stairway to enter via the roof. Then head to the other side of the entry hall, go around the divider and take the right hall at the split, go into the first room, up the stairs and through the door in the corner. The terminal is in the corner of the room.
South Boston military checkpoint
Located west of the Castle and east of Big John's Salvage. The terminal is in the west building. The building has a suit of power armor locked by an Expert terminal behind it.
Corvega assembly plant
The terminal is at the lowest level where the feral ghouls are getting in. The fastest way to get to it is actually to go in the back entrance. Go to the factory and to the ramp just east of the ground floor entrance, then go straight over the railing in front of the ramp and walk backwards; the sewer entrance should be right there. The terminal is a short distance forward.
USAF Satellite Station Olivia
Located between Sanctuary and Tenpines Bluff and north of Thicket Excavations. Take out any raiders if present, go into the bunker and head down the stairs and to the left. Look out for a laser trap with a Tesla arc on the ceiling past the door frame by the exit sign at the bottom of the staircase. Continue straight to reach a larger room with a column in the middle of it. Go to the right, follow the hall down the stairs and turn right at the first door. The terminal is in this room, as well as a fusion core to the left of the terminal.
After the scribe has been successfully escorted to the relevant terminal, return to Proctor Quinlan on the Prydwen and collect the reward.
Quest stages
Notes
- The six possible locations for this quest are dependent on the player character's level. While below level 10, only USAF Satellite Station Olivia or the Corvega assembly plant may be picked as the quest location. The Boston mayoral shelter becomes available at level 15, the Poseidon reservoir at level 20, and the South Boston military checkpoint at level 25. GNN plaza becomes available as a target after level 35.[1]
- If this quest leads the scribe to a terminal with an available database entry, the entry will change after the scribe accesses it. The database network status will change from "offline" to "online," and the menu option will read, "For your safety, this database is now property of the Brotherhood of Steel. - Ad victoriam."
- The text will actually change on every terminal that has one of these entries. This is because the entry is only conditioned on the current quest stage of Learning Curve, and not anything that is location specific. If the quest is restarted, the terminal entry will change back to reading "offline" in each location.
- The scribes are very prone to getting themselves killed. Scribes may rush into combat against large enemy groups, trigger floor-based traps, wander further away and get ambushed, or even refuse to move out of high radiation areas. Just like regular companions, they will teleport if the player character is too far away, including when they are high above ground, and in doing so could fall to their death.
- The scribe takes damage from radiation exposure and power armor landing.
- If the Sole Survivor boards a vertibird, the scribe will run after it. They may subsequently run into the direction of enemies and die.
- The scribe may also be killed by tamed animals at a settlement.
- One may collect the reward from Proctor Quinlan and repeat the quest even if the scribe dies.
- When fast traveling, it is possible to be immediately attacked by enemies, endangering the scribe further.
Behind the scenes
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HalluciGen, Inc. and Federal Surveillance Center K-21B are also set up as possible locations for this quest, as they both have a terminal with the database network entry as well as a reference marker for the Brotherhood scribe to use those terminals, which marks them as eligible dungeons for this quest.
However, these locations' Encounter Zones (objects that control leveled enemy and loot spawns, as well as cell resets) have the No Resets box checked, meaning that these locations will not reset by default.[2] This is another condition needed for dungeons to be used as quest aliases in Learning Curve; as such, HalluciGen and the Federal Surveillance Center will never be used by the quest.[1]
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Bugs
The scribe may not interact with the terminal when one brings them to it. This can be fixed a number of ways:[verified]
- Exit the bunker and enter it again.
- Reverting to a previous save before entering the shelter.
- Leave, wait three to four days, and return.
- Bring up the console, target the scribe, type disable, then enable.
- Bring up the console, type setstage BoSR04 50, then setstage BoSR04 60.
- If the scribe dies, the player will be asked to return to Proctor Quinlan, but the quest will be marked as completed instead of failed.[verified]
- Proctor Quinlan's dialogue is blank, making it impossible to start the quest.[verified]
- Any sentry bot hacked and given command to follow will treat the scribe as a hostile target.[verified]
- Protectrons aboard the USS Constitution may treat the scribe as a hostile target.[verified]
- The scribe could die and the quest not update. If this happens one can use the console command setstage BoSR04 60.[verified]
- If Idiot Savant activates when turning in the quest, the player will sometimes not get the 3x or 5x XP multiplier.[verified]
- Sometimes when fast-traveling, the scribe may spawn in the air and die when they impact on the ground. A way to prevent this from occurring is to use a Vertibird instead of fast-traveling.[verified]
- The scribe may fail to follow the Sole Survivor into a new area if the player character boards an elevator without them. This can be troublesome since the scribe does not typically follow the player closely enough to board the elevator along with the player character.[verified]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Creation Kit; see all Quest Aliases starting with the word "Dungeon" in the quest
BoSR04, as well as the Encounter Zones of the six locations eligible for this quest (BostonMayoralShelterZone,CorvegaAssemblyPlantZone,GNNZone,PoseidonReservoirZone,SouthBostonCheckpointZone,USAFSatelliteZone) - ↑ Creation Kit; the Encounter Zones
FederalSurvCenterZoneandHalluciGenZone, respectively.
