MrBinho

Oh my goodness, is it okay to bump a topic just to give thanks? I had the exact same issue, used an alternate start but deactivated it and now I lack the first quests on the main storyline. Didn't really expect to find anyone in the same situation with google, yet here it is. Thank you so much, mighty zog, for the simple solution. And thank you kingdark for making this possible. lol

Right now I'm assuming the problem is due to AFT messing up with its configuration on Arghus. Here's AFT's Info -> View menu I get on Arghus. Notice his name and race.

Oh, wow. There was a compatibility patch. I didn't even consider that possibility, but I obviously should have. Oh well, I'm still a newb in all of this. Bright side is, it's very likely that you found the problem anyway. Hoooowever, the command "removefrom" apparently doesn't exist. So I did a quick google search and it seems the actual command to remove NPCs from a faction is the same as the one to add them, but with a "-1" in the end. So I did addfac 5c84e -1 addfac 5c84c -1 addfac bd738 -1 And he's still following me. Should I still install the fix? With him still following? EDIT: I went to a slighty older save, where I had successfully managed to dismiss him. I noticed that the 3dnpcfollowercount (command for the mod Interesting NPCs) was 1 instead of zero, and thus I changed it back to 0 (since Arghus wasn't following me anyway in that save). Then, instead of trying to get Arghus to follow me again, I hired that mercenary from the Huntsman tavern in Whiterun (can't remember her name, nor the tavern's name. But it's a dark elf in light (I think Leather) armor. Jenessa, maybe? Something like that). And I can hire and dismiss her with no problem. However, she still won't unsheathe her weapons with me, and I think that indicates the problem hasn't been entirely solved. Right now I'm going to dismiss her, clean my save and then wait 24 hours before trying to hire her again. If that doesn't fix the unsheathing/fighting, I'm out of ideas again - unless you still think I should just install AFT again, this time with the iNPC fix. EDIT 2: Didn't work. Tried that lady from the Whiterun tavern that wants to brawl you this time. Once again, no problem following and dismissing, but still won't unsheathe her weapons.

Hello everyone. Let me just say, I give my most honest thank you to anyone who tries to help me through this. This won't be very short, but really, I feel like I should mention everything I remember so we can actually know what we're dealing with. It's really not a long read, I swear. I just felt like I had to explain this properly. BACKGROUND Here's the background. Arghus is an NPC from the mod Interesting NPCs. I have him in my game. Not too long ago I installed the mod Amazing Follower Tweaks, because I enjoy having companions and characters in general and thus I wanted to manage them the right way. However, after just a few hours of playing, I noticed that Arghus wouldn't unsheathe his weapon with me. He would follow me around, all the AFT options would work, all his dialogue, everything. He would even go into stealth mode with me... but he just wouldn't get ready to battle on his own. So, as it turns out, he would only start fighting once enemies were really on our face (I'm not sure what were the actual conditions, if the enemies had to hit him enough, or hit me enough, I just know that it took him way too long to start fighting). I dismissed him and went on a quest with Farkas, the Companion, the one just before you actually get "initiated", where you see *COMPANIONS SPOILER* Farkas become a werewolf for the first time and just before you can get a new weapon from the Skyforge *END SPOILER*. And as I suspected, Farkas would have trouble getting into combat too. ACTUAL PROBLEM With that being said... I finished that quest and came back to Whiterun to get Arghus. He would still have the same issue. However, it got worse. I told him to wait for me inside Jorrvaskr while I slept (for no particular reason, mostly very basic role playing). When I came back and tried to get him to follow me... he wouldn't. I could talk to him, he accepted following me... and then he would just stay there. Then I came back in my save, inside Jorrvaskr, and tried to dismiss him. He supposedly got dismissed... but he wouldn't stop following me. The dialogue shows the option to ask him to follow me again, yet he's still following me, and crouching along, and still not unsheathing his weapons. If I try to get him to follow me again, nothing happens. He accepts it, but once I talk to him again, the dialogue still says he isn't following me, and my playerfollowercount is 0. WHAT I'VE TRIED Fair enough. I went back to that same save inside Jorrvaskr I just mentioned, and tried resetting Amazing Follower Tweaks. That should completely undo everything that mod has done to Arghus (after all, I'm pretty sure this problem has something to do with that mod). ...aaaand he's still following me. I reset it again and actually uninstalled AFT. ...aaand he's still following me. After uninstalling, I made a new save and used the SaveTool (I think it's called Save Script Cleaner or something like that? The file is SaveTool.exe) to try and clean things up. Used both the "FixScriptInstances" and the "Delete all #" options. It found a bunch of stuff, and got rid of it. Loaded the new, supposedly now clean save. ...aaand he's still following me. I used the console commands resetAI, disable and enable on him. ...aaaaand he's still following me. Now I reckon it's about time I asked for help. So that's my story. That guy is following me everywhere in a bugged follower state. I'm fairly sure that, if that's still happening, any other followers that I get are gonna be in the same state of having difficulty to engage and fight, possibly bugging out like my old pal Arghus did. (but just in case, I'm gonna go make sure of that as soon as I wake up. Not right now, because I'm off to bed soon enough). Once again, sincerely thank you for reading this and trying to help me. I'm running out of ideas, and I really don't want to have to create a new save (but of course, should we arrive at the conclusion that that's the only available course of action, I guess I'll just do it, Shia style.) SOME BASIC INFO JUST TO BE SURE Skyrim latest version, all mods latest version, all official DLCs latest version. SKSE latest version, NMM latest version. Got 38 plugins in total and active (would've been 39 if Amazing Follower Tweaks hadn't been uninstalled), including the official ones (Skyrim, Update, DLCs). Used LOOT to manage load order and clean everything it told me to clean. I believe this is the LOOT log, but I'm not sure: Should anyone want anything else, please ask. And one last time, thanks for your time. I really do appreciate it.