greylead

I just found a new fix to this problem. I was stuck with the lack of a "reporting for duty" line with Riggate. I tried moving her around the map with the moveto command, stirring the pot at her camp, trying the dialogue, shouting, etc. ALL the normal options... nothing. I was going to just console complete the whole quest but I tried this: movetoqt CWObj I was respawned next to Riggate and the "reporting for duty" option was right there! Tens of hours to fix this bug finally paid off. Hope this helps someone.

It happened to me and I did get it to work without restarting, but it's not a good fix. I use AFT and one of the options is to restart AFT which drops all your followers, reverts them to their vanilla state, and drops any custom armor. As I recall, it did keep their weapons, but they were all reset to a state as if I never met them. I didn't think to use the "summon all" feature of AFT first, round them all up and grab whatever I could before their scripts reset. Anyway, that bomb worked for me to get control of Lydia again. Now I'm getting the same thing with one of the followers from "Anna NPC" mod. I don't know if I'm okay with Vaylen just walking behind me forever. I can hold the "E" key down and make her "Wait there" so maybe I'll just stuff her in an inn. Also, I don't think it's the AFT mod either, because if I disable it and just load my save I can't interact with her either.

Can someone explain why I'd want to DELEV in by bashed patch? If that deletes an item from a leveled list, why wouldn't I want to keep it? I don't really like the idea of the way Skyrim plays in the first place, with enemies and equipment getting better as you get stronger. Of all the realism mods we put into this game, that one seems the dumbest. It's not like they just discover Ebony while you're bounding around the world, so why can't you get attacked by an Ebony wielding bandit when you're level 3? Granted, it's tougher that way. So if I have Immersive Armors, Immersive Weapons, Deadly Dragons, etc. and I make a bashed patch with all the RELEVs, but none of the DELEVs, would that just conflict similar equipment on the leveled list (ie: last .esp wins) or would it put high level equipment in the game before my level normally would let me see it?

I get errors and "script not compiled" when I try it. Similar "shadow" following me everywhere but I figured it was a mod add-on (Better Vampires) due to stealth perks or something like that... being full time sneaky. I don't like it but that console command doesn't work, any chance it's intentional?

FOUND IT! Immersive NPCs in the Dark was causing it... and that mod author has fixed it with the new version. Weird... didn't suspect that mod for equipment issues.

I'm having exactly the same issue as royebatty, disappearing bows. I've located it down to faulting when I enter a dungeon in Solstein. Outside, all is fine (and I've sorted, cleaned, Bashed the mods, then cleaned the save w/Savetool). Everything is fine UNTIL I go inside Ashfall citidel, or any other dungeon and my bow disappears. If I equip another, it goes too. I think this whole deal started when I installed the Equping Overhaul mod, but I've uninstalled, stopped the quest via the console, and cleaned the save from the orphaned scripts... yet... same issue. I've been thinking of pressing on as a non-bow weilding character because it ONLY affects bows. The reason why I think Equip Overhaul broke the savegame somehow is that I only used it a few times and couldn't find my dropped bow. I used the "power" to search for objects, but when the bow spawned in front of me and I picked it up it didn't go into my inventory. That's either the origin of this or just my imagination.

It seems to have something to do with the savegame. I was playing a character while adding and removing mods and eventually got to this same problem which I never fixed. I started a new character with all the mods already installed, and THAT character is rock solid. Even with the Skyrim Save Cleaner, by level 52 character freezes randomly so often that game is barely playable, so I guess I'm starting over.