Ok, I jumped threw the hoops and got the Old Land Syne quest. I went around and got everyone of the remenants to join but Dr. Henry at Jacob's town. When I talk to the Doc he wants me to complete the nighkin quest with Lily. So I take Arcade back to the Lucky 38 and drop him off. I do the nightkin quest ... but when I talk to Arcade I do not get a "re-join" or be my companion selection. What gives??? Basically you can't drop this companion at all unitl you complete the remenant quest. Once you complete the quest he leaves anyway ... right?? :blink:

The wikia is your friend: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/For_Auld_Lang_Syne

"Arcade will then tell the player that there's something he has to do, and he will give the player all the gear he is carrying for them and run off. A short time later, he will come back with the Gannon family Tesla armor. If he plans to fight at Hoover Dam he will be wearing it and tell the player that he can't turn his back on his family and his past. If he plans to go back to the Followers he will give the player the armor and tell the player to use it well during the fight. Either way, he will then go away and will be non-recruitable for the rest of the game. If he chose to remain with the followers he will go away (not respawn) and if the player follows him, eventually end up in the Lucky 38 suite with no possible option of recruiting him again. If he chose to fight, he will be at the dam along with the rest of the remnants, fighting for the NCR."

I read the wiki and fired up my save and dismissed E-DE. That seemed to partial work for now I get a join up selection when chatting with him but he tells me I have too many followers. But I have dismissed everyone ... I have no companions at all now. I am in the middle of Old Lang Syne, your quote seems to alude to the fact Old Lang Syne quest has been complete.

It's not complete? Maybe you said the wrong thing to him during some point of the quest then?
I've only done it once and he left at the end of it.
Can't help any more than the crude wikia copy paste.

QUOTE: I read the wiki and fired up my save and dismissed E-DE. That seemed to partial work for now I get a join up selection when chatting with him but he tells me I have too many followers. But I have dismissed everyone ... I have no companions at all now. I am in the middle of Old Lang Syne, your quote seems to alude to the fact Old Lang Syne quest has been complete.


That may be a glitch of some sort; he did the exact thing after I completed "Dead Money", and I had no companions at all. Arcade and Rex had been with me when I set out, but they were auto-dismissed when DM started. And I hadn't even started Auld Lang Syne. Had to finish the game by taking on the Legion alone,.which svcked, even though I was Level 34 and had a whole slew of stimpacks.

No the quest is not completed. I need to recuit Dr. Henry, I can not complete because I dropped him and picked up Lily to help Dr. Henry. But after I did that nightkin quest I dropped Lily or she left and now Arcade won't join because I have too many companions when I don't have any at all. This seems to be a bug ... wothless Obsidian garbage ... I hope Bethesda learned that outsourcing DOES NOT work!

Remember that it was Bethesda that set the deadline and pushed out a game that was not finished and also handled the QA.
If anything it's Bethesda that is to blame. :confused:

Like I said Bethesda is paying for outsourcing this game to Obsidian.

Anyway I went back to before I dropped Arcade, lost like 4 levels, and finished the nightkin quest with Arcade, not Lily, and everything went smooth. Arcade has joined up with the remenants for the final battle at the dam.

Thanks for the help guys!!

I had a glitch like this too! I forget how I solved it, unfortunately. /sadface