LE Followers: disengage or get scared

[longlordone]

Hello there,

 

Ok I did not find anyone request that so I am gonna post this one. I have been playing Skyrim for a while now, like 2 years, I am used to play heavily modded games with 249-255 plugins and with master difficulty to make things a little bit spicy. I value gameplay, performance and immersion. But gameplay-wise I always felt that something was missing.

 

The problem when you make your enemies stronger and when you have a follower with you, they will keep engaging the enemy until death regardless of their number or their level. It is a bit absurd imo.

 

Given I play with the "Immersive AI detection" mod, enemies can spot me from far away during daylight and engage us. When I am by myself and notice that I am surrounded I try to get away from this dangerous situation but when I am with a follower they usually charge in... Then I have to leave them there until I get far enough to have them teleport back to me. When you are trying to play "immersively" this is a little bit frustrating. This is all the more frustrating if you make your followers non-essential.

 

So I was thinking if there was any mod already out there that could respond to that kind of situation. Sometimes I feel like disengaging knowing the odds are not in your favor is much more epic than swinging your blade like a crazy man until death.

 

If a mod could make our followers or NPCs in general scared of getting killed, or allowing us to tell the follower to retreat, that would be so cool.

 

For now I know there is "Immersive Citizen" that make non-fighting citizens run away from danger, "SkyTest Realistic Animals and Predators" make animals run away at low health.

 

Thank you :smile:

Edited April 28, 2017 by longlordone

[SongbirdLorelei]

You can give AFT or EFF a try. I believe both give options for cowardice and disengaging depending on if you have your weapon drawn or something.

 

Convenient Horses also lets you set things up so - if you are riding along and suddenly spawns attack you don't have to worry about your follower fighting them while you ride off.