Followers keep a huge distance from my character

[Semris]

Hello,

 

my current mods are:

 

1) all unofficial Skyrim patches

2) Convenient horses

3) SFO - Dragonborn

4) Skyrim Flora Overhaul

5) Distant DetailHF

6) Better distant LOD waterfalls

7) Sharpshooter ENB v5

8 ) Skyrim HD - 2K Textures

9) Detailed Faces v2

10) A Quality World Map

11) Lush Trees and Grass

 

Now unlike in Vanilla my followers keep a huge distance behind my mage character. I´m always playing dead is dead games and now followers are never there to fight with me (or tank for me), all I can do is turn around and run back to find them if necessary.

 

Do you know if one of these mods (unofficial patch is my guess) changes follower distance? Is there anyway to change it back to Vanilla style? Playing dead is dead with destro mage basically without a follower is not pleasant, I´m used to having a tank. :-)

 

Thanks!

[vram1974]

I've tried a bunch of follower mods and the only one that works well for me is Amazing Follower Tweaks (AFT). With AFT you can pretty much do anything. Sick of losing your followers? Use the spell function for AFT to recall all followers at your position immediately. Sick of followers doing the wrong thing? Set their behaviour using AFT commands. Annoyed your followers won't wear that shiny new outfit you spent 5,000 gold on? (ungrateful jerks). AFT will change that. You can even command them to relax and do other fun stuff.

 

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/15524/?

 

Also, if you're using some of the very best creme de la creme followers like Sofia and Vilja you can set Sofia to warp to your location based on the distance she falls behind. With Vilja you can use a horn to call her to your aid.

[Semris]

Tested, it´s the unofficial patch. :-/

 

Thought it would only fix bugs but for some reason it changes follower behaviour so they keep lagging "50 miles" behind you and before they get to fight, you are dead (or at least can be, since some mobs can one shot my mage). ;-)

 

Checked that follower mod, too many follower changes/options, do not want it. The less changes to Vanilla the better.

 

Deleted unofficial patches, starting another new game, solved.

[W0lfr4v3n]

I have only vanilla. I am playing a sort of destro battle Mage. My vanilla follower does that as well. I think it is just a glitch and possibly an AI pathfinder issue.

[Semris]

Do not think so, never happened to me before without unofficial patch, happened to me in both games I started with it. I´m not talking about follower not keeping up when you are riding a horse, but they keep the large distance on purpose when you are on foot.

[VileTouch]

are you playing a huge smelly nord?. Vilja keeps complaining about my smell :shrugs:

[CherryBelle]

Umm I know you probably don't want another mod.. but I use this and it fixes any issues with speed:

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/9553/

[Semris]

3 years later, Skyrim SE, and this was still not adressed. Companions still keep such a huge distance within dungeons, they do exactly nothing to help.

[Vyxenne]

3 years later, Skyrim SE, and this was still not adressed. Companions still keep such a huge distance within dungeons, they do exactly nothing to help.

In my SSE, Lydia is right up my butt, banging into me, ruining my stealth bow-sniper attacks, knocking me off cliffs... I tried AFT and it worked great, but now on a new install it doesn't recognize Lydia as a follower at all (newer version of AFT than I had before re-installing game last week) so I installed EFF instead but can't find any way to make followers keep their distance.

[StarMystyk]

I used these two together (I merged them), which solved it for me. The one linked above as well as this one. Despite the last one saying that it doesn't alter the distance between the follower and you (just spacing between followers) somewhere between the two of them it made my follower follow much closer. A little too close, for me, which is why I'm not using either at the moment.