New followers will take orders but won't follow me.

[kawaitei]

Without recently adding any new mods, all followers in my game -regardless of save- are refusing to follow me.

After starting a new game and creating my character, i went out to round up some followers. i started by grabbing Kharjo's amulet so he would become my follower. He accepts my invite and is open to trade equipment and all common follower scripts are available...but he won't FOLLOW me. "Khajiit will follow", huh"?! Then why is he still parading along with that caravan? i don't know what's going on! Just to test, i tried to recruit other followers, most with the same results; they accept my invite, claim that they'll follow, allow trading, follow orders and fight nearby enemies for me BUT...they won't follow me. Stenvar sits back in his chair, Kharjo sticks with this caravan and all the custom followers i have added with mods just stand there. The only other result i've gotten are from mod-specific followers who accept my invite but won't allow follower dialogue. They say, "Lead the way!", and that's it. i can't give them orders or ask them to follow. They just accept my invite over and over with no new results.

 

Nobody will follow me.

 

Just to see if it effected my old saves, i loaded up an older save game with a different character with already-established followers. in all of those games my followers act as normal. However, if i excuse them and attempt to recruit them again, they pretend as though i never asked. The only new mod i've installed was Requiem, but it claims to be compatible with UFO and makes no changes to followers. Turning it off does nothing. There's no other mod i've added since the last time Skyrim followers worked correctly or would have any effect on followers. i don't completely understand hoe follower scripts work so if anybody out there can suggest a solution or even explain what might be going wrong, i'd appreciate the help.

 

-Kawai Tei-

[slainia]

it's possible this is an issue with 1.8 and ufo not being compatible l think.

l've had a few different issues with followers post-patch, although l was using amazing follower tweaks. for me it was mostly an issue with a char created before 1.8 & using aft being bugged after 1.8

not sure if this really makes sense - i'm tired, sorry - but l was reading somewhere that 1.8 isn't very friendly to script mods until they're updated.