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Welcome, Jim...and thank you for volunteering.

EDIT: Original post removed. Pardon my lack of patience while you worked out the kinks. Ads re-enabled.

I checked both wiki's. Must have missed that one. Thanks :)

After searching extensively, I found posts where many players experienced this bug...in 2012 and 2013. Nothing recent, at least that I found. I've had the "Speak to the Leader of the Companions" quest since I was, maybe level 5 or so. I'm a year into the game (with a 5 month hiatus to play FO4), and am now level 70. Time to start at the bottom and clear out some miscellaneous quests, right? I head into Jorvaskarr and downstairs to talk to Koldak. All the Companions are hostile and attack me on sight. Reading the huge amount of posts about this same problem when the game first released, I'll get some things out of the way: I entered Jorvaskarr alone, without followers. I am crime-free in Whiterun. I am not now, and have never been, a vampire or a werewolf. I have killed lots of vampires. Not sure about werewolves, but probably one or two as part of another quest, maybe? At any rate, that should not have caused this issue, from what I can learn about the factions involved in the CK. I *think* this started over by Riften a few days ago. There is a farm west of Riften with a Troll spawn nearby. As myself and 3 followers were riding by, we wound up in a fight. I thought it was just the troll spawn, but it turned out to be Athis and Vilgnar (sp?) with the Companions. Neither myself or my followers are using AOE spells, but it's possible they got in the way of an arrow or a Thunderbolt spell. Hard to tell, since they were mostly invisible due to a bug caused by a Havok hair mod bug. Anyone have a solution on how to fix this? I'm not even sure what caused it! I could probably console a faction command, but I'm afraid that would irretrievably break the Companions quest line. It's not a huge deal. It's been sitting in my quest journal for over a year, so it's not a game-breaker for me. Still, if I can fix it, I would like to. Thank for any help :)

Any mod which *requires* SKSE (Skyrim Script Extender), will probably not work. This includes many of the most popular mods. SkyUI won't, which means no MCM utility. Basically, if the mod includes scripts, don't count on them working. This is opinion, based on extensive reading of posts by some very good and prolific mod authors. Those awesome geeks over at silverlock.org, the authors of SKSE, say that it will take at *least* 2 weeks to build a new SKSE for the DX11 64-bit Skyrim version...and that it could take significantly longer. Even when they do release the new SKSE, how many of your mods' authors are still around to patch their mods to work with the new SKSE? These are the questions *everyone* is asking.

Good point.

/mount soapbox I hope some (or many) of you are considering donating to mod authors in appreciation for what they are adding to your gameplay. However, I would like to encourage you to show your appreciation to Dark0ne and the Nexus organization FIRST. Become a supporter or a premium member. The mods that have added hundreds of hours of playtime value to my installed games are hosted here. Authors and users, alike, are supported here. Show 'em some love, people! /dismount soapbox And, no...I'm neither a mod author or affiliated with Nexus in any way whatsoever.

OK, I'm scratching my head. What is this "repeat" you speak of?

In response to post #39108915. #39122185 is also a reply to the same post. Thanks for this, Dark0ne. This is one of a number of reasons I consider my Premium membership in Nexus to be a good investment: dedication to PC gaming and the modders and mods that add so much to a pastime we love.

Whatever they make, let's just hope it uses a new game engine :P

I am highly suspicious of the patch note where BethSoft removed "debug" commands that were no longer necessary. I have a feeling they may have removed some of the most useful of the console commands. Keep in mind, this is just a guess!

Thanks for the tip :) Yeah, Steam makes ignoring their service difficult on purpose. That's why I wear a tinfoil hat!

That's apparently not possible. If that option exists, please point me to it. All of the searching I have done yields a single result: you can't do it. If you look in the Windows Task Manager, you will see a process running called "Steam Client Service". By default, this service starts when you turn your computer on. In Steam, the option to "Start in offline mode" sets this Service to "Manual". That is the solution I am using currently. The only down-side that I can see, so far, is a nag that comes up every time you start the computer or start up a game that resides in the Steam apps folder. I can live with that, if it keeps my modded games working properly.

As we've all seen before, Steam likes to shove game updates down our throats. In most cases, this breaks your mods and may prevent you from even starting the game until you disable some or all of them. At one point, Steam had an option in the Properties menu for your games that supposedly prevented forced updating. That's what the choice in the drop-down menu actually said: "Do not automatically install updates". Well, that was always a falsehood. Now, the choice says "Only update this game when I launch it". And that is ALWAYS what "Do not automatically install updates" actually meant. Steam finally got so much grief about this BS that they had to go in and change the description to something approaching the truth. Fallout 4 has an opt-in beta running that pretty much breaks your mods. Actually, what it does is go into your AppData folder (hidden) and wipes your plugins.txt file and changes that wiped file to Read-Only. This is what happened in the last Steam mini-patch that had everyone scrambling...and is still causing problems. OK, look...I get it. Bethsoft wants Beta input on the VANILLA game, and that's why they go to extraordinary lengths to ensure that beta testers can ONLY play the game without mods. Well, I don't plan on beta-testing. But, there is no obvious way to keep Steam from shoving the patch down my throat the second it's released. I think the patch is going to be worthwhile, but I want to patch Fallout 4 when *I* decide, not when *Steam* decides. If I get to choose when I patch the game, I can wait until I'm sure that my favorite mods have been tweaked to work with the new version of FO4. So here's how I'm going to do it. Since Bethsoft will force-patch any day now, I am NOT going to allow the Steam Client to run in anything other than offline mode on my PC. I don't know if this will actually work. When I go to my Steam Library, click on Steam/Go Offline..., it says "Only games that are fully up-to-date will be available". If that's the case, then I'm hosed, and I will just choose NOT to play the game until my mods work again. There's only one other way to do it, but it's drastic. Disable your internet connection before you launch FO4 and leave it disabled until you log out of the game. If that's the way I have to do it, then that's the way I'll do it. I will also choose the option in the Steam client to NOT start automatically when I crank up my computer. Some people will totally get where I'm coming from on this, others will think "What's the big deal?". My answer: It's all about CHOICE. It's my computer. It's my game. I want to choose how I play it, and that includes which version I play. I want to play it with mods, because I don't think FO4 is all that great without those mods. tl;dr- Steam sucks :tongue:

"When you've seen one woman nekkid, you pretty much want to see them ALL nekkid" -Ron White- Huge thank you's to Caliente, Jeir and Ousinous (sp). I've been modding skimpy outfits into my games since Morrowind and the Sims. I like 'em! And I haven't been a teenager since 1972, LOL. If you think it's bad in games released in the U.S., check out the games they're playing in Korea, sheesh. Meanwhile, play your game and I'll play mine :smile: /salute