Dahveed Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 This is something that has cropped up very recently, after having no problems at all for several hundred hours. It seems that the follower action AI just completely "shuts off", and she will follow me around in a sort of combat pose with her hands raised as though she wants to cast spells, but will not do anything. Enemies will wail at her and she will stand there like a tool and do nothing until they kill her. ...and it seems to be permanent. Once I kill off the enemies, she will *still* have the same retarded "combat pose" while she follows me around; all her other AI functions still seem to work (speech, follow, execute commands etc) but combat is basically broken forever and I have to revert to a previous save in order to get her working again. It's very frustrating having to constantly make backup saves literally before every fight. It's killing the game and I really don''t want to have to dismiss my follower, since it's become an integral part of my character's "story" (I'm semi-RPing on this character, and as a team these 2 are basically inseparable). Has anyone found a fix? NB I've of course considered the possibility that this is a mod issue, but I have a feeling that it's a patch issue or just a well-hidden bug that has just recently cropped up, since I haven't recently installed any follower mods, and a few other people (even on mod-less console versions of Skyrim) have had this problem as well. Thanks in advance for any help!-Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carajou Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 This is something that has cropped up very recently, after having no problems at all for several hundred hours. It seems that the follower action AI just completely "shuts off", and she will follow me around in a sort of combat pose with her hands raised as though she wants to cast spells, but will not do anything. Enemies will wail at her and she will stand there like a tool and do nothing until they kill her. ...and it seems to be permanent. Once I kill off the enemies, she will *still* have the same retarded "combat pose" while she follows me around; all her other AI functions still seem to work (speech, follow, execute commands etc) but combat is basically broken forever and I have to revert to a previous save in order to get her working again. It's very frustrating having to constantly make backup saves literally before every fight. It's killing the game and I really don''t want to have to dismiss my follower, since it's become an integral part of my character's "story" (I'm semi-RPing on this character, and as a team these 2 are basically inseparable). Has anyone found a fix? NB I've of course considered the possibility that this is a mod issue, but I have a feeling that it's a patch issue or just a well-hidden bug that has just recently cropped up, since I haven't recently installed any follower mods, and a few other people (even on mod-less console versions of Skyrim) have had this problem as well. Thanks in advance for any help!-Dave ... And I thought I was the only one with that nasty bug... I have been struggling with that problem ever since the latest patch. I tried everything possible. Latest drivers, uninstall/reinstall game, start new game etc. No mods installed at all. The same bug on 3 different operating systems and two different computers. What class is your follower? A combat magic class? As far as I found out, It seems that only magic combat classes are affected. Melee classes just work fine, at least for me. Maybe it has something to do with the player-team-mate-function. The bug will randomly occur when you draw your weapons and your follower draws weapons/spells as well. I have another odd variant of that bug as well, which sometimes occurs: My follower gets stuck or frozen, after a combat is finished in a permanent combat stance. I can't get into dialogue with him, neither will he follow me. If I'm lucky he will be with me, if I travel to the next level and everything works again.There seems to be no fix yet. All you can do is to avoid situations where the bug can occur or to disable/enable your followers, if the bug has already struck them. Don't draw your weapons before your follower does. Alternatively you can disable the player-teammate function via console: "setplayerteammate 0". That way you can avoid the bug, but you'll loose some features: Your followers won't do any favours for you and you can't access their inventory. You'd have to reset the team mate first. ("setplayerteammate 1"). (Unfortunately that doesn't fix the 2. variant of the bug, but disable/enable does.) But your follower will still help you in combat and ignore friendly hits, etc. You can clean your dungeon and finish your quests without having to save before each fight or care if you can draw your weapons or not.I help myself with a friend teleport spell which disables/enables the companions and moves them to the player. This has always fixed the bug - so far. I'd be glad if anyone else had some tips, as this bug is really annoying and killing the fun I have with a fantastic game... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordhelmet79 Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 I know this is late, but try unrelenting force on them. It staggers the character and they return to normal if combat is over. Well it has worked for me anyways. Even seems to work with follower mods installed as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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