Multi-Follower mods won't work, Vanilla Companions won't follow.

[Kainschilde209]

Just did a clean reinstall of my game. Not an integrity verification, not a refresh of the data folder, I fully purged everything Fallout 4 related from my system, ran registry repair via CCleaner 3 times, then installed completely from scratch. Made sure all of my mods were the most current versions, made sure F4SE was the most current version and properly installed. Now, no matter where I put them in my load order mods like Amazing Follower Tweaks and unlimited Follower Framework will not let me recruit multiple vanilla followers. Hell, half the time I can't get the vanilla followers to follow me at all even without any multi-follower mods installed. Their recruitment dialogue will work just fine, but then they just stand there, and when I open the command wheel the bottom option is always "Follow" and never changes no matter how often I select it. Using the Amazing Follower Tweaks Forced-Recruit option does nothing.

 

I don't kno if this is related or not, but in addition to these problems if I use a mod to expand the borders of settlements I still get the "out of bounds" warning at the vanilla border location and using the Place Everywhere feature to disable the out-of-bounds timeout does nothing. Does anyone have any clue what the hell might be going on in my game?

 

Obligatory load order

 

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[JimmyRJump]

Have you added the

 

bInvalidateOlderFiles=1

sResourceDataDirsFinal=

 

lines under [Archive] in the Fallout4Custom.ini located in Documents/My Games/Fallout4 ?

 

Because it sounds as if none of your mods work like they should.

[Kainschilde209]

I've been modding since day 1, yes I made sure those lines are there. And no, I'm not making assumptions, I double-checked both after reinstalling and just now after reading your response.

[Slostenn]

Have you used a mod to give companions infinite ammo at any point? I had a similar issue after using an outdated infinite companion ammo mod where companions were just completely broken and ignored any commands or attempts to recruit them. I scanned over your load order and didn't see it, but when it happened to me, the issue persisted even after uninstalling the mod. I had to roll back to a save from before I had even activated the plugin in order to get companions to function properly again. This is the particular mod that caused my issues; if you've installed it at any point, you're probably going to have to roll your save back. Edited June 8, 2018 by Tukster

[Kainschilde209]

Amazing Follower Tweaks has an unlimited ammo feature, but since I can't recruit anyone I haven't activated it.