Custom companion combat dialogue not working

[justsomeguy388]

Hello all!

 

I am working on a custom companion (with wheel) where the only issue is lack of combat dialog. I have a number of lines in the quest Combat tab for Attack, but they don't trigger.

 

After looking at vanilla companions, and some custom companions (Willow, Niner, Desmond) I cannot find differences: random flag is set, and correct NPC set in the condition. All Detection tab comments work fine, and some of the other Combat tab ones work too (Wake, Assault, HealthQuarter). He does not say any of the Hit lines (outside friendly fire). It seems like it is not sending/receiving combat attack flags, even though he attacks fine.

 

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, and thanks in advance!

[rickerhk]

I've run into the issue a couple of times where new dialog or idle chatter added in the middle of a playthrough doesn't work right away. Sometimes it just takes awhile or you can try a clean save of the mod to make sure it's just your save game messing you up. I'm assuming you made a unique voice type and aren't just adding combat dialog to an existing voice type - in which case you are at the mercy of other mods and some questionable vanilla implementation.

[justsomeguy388]

I have been testing with a clean save since I was hoping that might have been influencing my tests. I am also using a unique voice type.

 

So I was testing further, and it seems like priority of the quest dialogue was what was doing it, as well as my load order. I set the priority of the combat dialogue to 100 and the companion started using his lines, and the mod was at the bottom of my load order. If I put the mod higher up the load list, the default of 50 priority seems to be OK for lines. So I took a look at other companions I use:

Default NV priority: 50

Niner priority: 51

Desmond priority: 50

Willow priority: 51

51 priority but lower on the load list worked okay as well. Mostly just posting this to help anyone who might be in my place.