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Trouble with the cover girl quest

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Trouble with the cover girl quest

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I thought I had seen this here before but can't find it. I finished the cover girl quest without getting caught and Imalia says that I have. Does anyone know what the cheat is for this on the console??
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Post by shana »

I don't think there is a cheat, I think you just have to do it over again. You have to make sure that Tawny and her boyfriend don't even have the possibility of seeing you.
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Post by yrthwyndandfyre »

You have to be very careful with Tawny and beau. It's a full dark-op. Even if they don't see you, if they give you one of those, "Is anybody there?" lines, the jig is up - they're suspicious and will find the cameras, and Imalia won't give you hugs and kisses anymore (blechh).
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Post by the_limey »

If you absolutely want some cheats try this:

1) Open the console and type: noclip, press enter
2) Open console again and type: notarget, press enter

You should now be able to pass through walls and be completely undetectable, so you can simply float to the camera placements with impugnity. Just be sure to type the codes again to turn the cheats off when you've finished.
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Post by Skorm »

I tried the above cheat and still didn't work, but did the mission again without getting above 50 on the meter and completed the quest and got much love from imalia, (yuck). Thanks to everyones help! :)
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Post by Raa »

There obviously IS a bug. When Imalia says I have failed, there is a newspaper on her desk speaking of Tawni and her Llama...
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Post by Melchiah »

For some reason that newspaper is always there, when I had to finish the model citizen-quest (not covergirl that's another quest) for the first time I eventually got so frustrated that I just took out my axe, killed Tawni's boyfriend, placed the camera's and returned to the warrens, needless to say I failed the quest miserably but the paper was still on the table.
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Post by Lestat »

[QUOTE=Melchiah]For some reason that newspaper is always there[/QUOTE]

What's even weirder (more weird?) is that even before getting the quest with my Malkavian PC I see twinkling stars (sign there is something of interest) on that area of the table were the newspaper will be if the quest is completed, but there is not yet anything to be seen... Must be precognition.
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Post by Faust »

[QUOTE=Lestat]What's even weirder (more weird?) is that even before getting the quest with my Malkavian PC I see twinkling stars (sign there is something of interest) on that area of the table were the newspaper will be if the quest is completed, but there is not yet anything to be seen... Must be precognition.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, this is a heavily bugged quest. The newspaper issues (noticing it before, and it appearing even if you've failed the quest) were supposedly fixed (I've yet to test it) by the unofficial patch. I believe that patch fixes other aspects of that quest, as well. It might be worth trying.
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Post by stoneagedan »

I had bugs galore on this quest - as long as I was crouched, Tawny never saw me, even if the characters walked into each other - and this is without using any Obfuscation.
Unfortunately, the pistol-toting boyfriend was rather more eagle eyed, and could spot me from a different rooms (and no, Tawny didn't tell him. The game isn't that clever...).
I don't know how to deal with Tawny - because I never had to - but the boyfriend requires lots of hiding behind sofas and quick runs while he's on the toilet. He nearly always came out of the bathroom with pistol in hand, asking "who's there?", but that never caused the quest to fail - some of those NPC statements are just to warn you that you're about to get spotted - when you do get seen he starts shooting. If he does that, show him your fire axe close up, then reload the game if you want the XP.
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