Followers sometimes don't attack glitch

[I am Revived]

You know the time when you're in battle, and there is an enemy just hitting your follower, and the follower has its weapons unsheated and acts like nothing is there, and is constantly getting hit? Yeah... where can I find a mod that fixes that?

[Indiana_Minotaur]

the AI seems to not be responding it must be related to a script not working out have you try verifying your cache? if you have done so then use BOSS and TES V edit and maybe that could help

but there is really no mods out there that specifically helps followers have you also tried out downloading the unofficial patches

[I am Revived]

I have gotten the unofficial patches, all of them, yes. I will try out the other options you suggested. But, the glitch that I speak of has also happened to me many times on the xbox version of this game. Mostly in caves with draugr.

[Indiana_Minotaur]

Първоначално публикувано от I am Revived:

I have gotten the unofficial patches, all of them, yes. I will try out the other options you suggested. But, the glitch that I speak of has also happened to me many times on the xbox version of this game. Mostly in caves with draugr.

i see it looks like this is actually a spead out issue then i would google around and find a reiable site that can solve your issue you might just have to go back to an eariler save OR and i think you won't like it but delete your game save data, exit out the game verify cache and go back in

[Quanyails]

I know this is a necrobump, but I've had this problem and seem to have found a solution, and I thought I'd share it, since this thread appears in Google Search results. When Vilkas wasn't attacking, I initially tried to fix the problem by dismissing him and immediately asking Vilkas to follow me again, and that kind of worked, but he would only use his default Hunting Bow. It was only when I decided to move his equipment to another follower did I try something that fixed his behavior.

First, know that there is a glitch that asking a follower to pick up an item through the "I need your help" dialog can cause items to be marked as stolen--as seen on the UESP[www.uesp.net] wiki, under the Bugs section. A weapon can mistakenly get labeled as "stolen". A follower will gladly equip a "stolen" item but will refuse to attack with it (so it appears). I removed his weapons, laundered them, and gave them back to him so they were "clean". Afterwards, he'd attack enemies like normal.

This also seems to be the reason why Vilkas would be able to attack after being dismissed and asked to follow again; he got his bow back, which isn't stolen and could be used to attack.

I hope this solves some people's problems playing Skyrim in 2017. :)

[b821213]

Първоначално публикувано от Quanyails:

I know this is a necrobump, but I've had this problem and seem to have found a solution, and I thought I'd share it, since this thread appears in Google Search results. When Vilkas wasn't attacking, I initially tried to fix the problem by dismissing him and immediately asking Vilkas to follow me again, and that kind of worked, but he would only use his default Hunting Bow. It was only when I decided to move his equipment to another follower did I try something that fixed his behavior.

First, know that there is a glitch that asking a follower to pick up an item through the "I need your help" dialog can cause items to be marked as stolen--as seen on the UESP[www.uesp.net] wiki, under the Bugs section. A weapon can mistakenly get labeled as "stolen". A follower will gladly equip a "stolen" item but will refuse to attack with it (so it appears). I removed his weapons, laundered them, and gave them back to him so they were "clean". Afterwards, he'd attack enemies like normal.

This also seems to be the reason why Vilkas would be able to attack after being dismissed and asked to follow again; he got his bow back, which isn't stolen and could be used to attack.

I hope this solves some people's problems playing Skyrim in 2017. :)

Thank you so much, it works for me and you perfectly explain the reason.

[Chausk]

Going to Mannimarco-level necrobump this, but I've been fighting this for weeks and finally fixed it. My follower suddenly bugged out and wouldn't ever attack enemies unless attacked first. On top of that, if I attacked the enemy back, she would become hostile to me as well and just murder me. It turns out that hours earlier I'd commanded her to steal a single iron dagger on accident and it gave her a bounty of 1 single gold. That was enough to bug out her factions, I guess. I fixed it by using the console command "paycrimegold 0 0" on her to pay the 1 gold bounty and now she's fixed! I hope this helps somebody :)

[milorad]

uh ik this thread is very much possibly dead, but im also having an issue similar to the OP that my follower (j'zargo) will not attack FIRST, i am using a mod called "ultimate follower overhaul" and its a good mod, ive used a few different followers prior to jzargo and they all seemed to attack just fine. jzargo though, he will wait until the enemy does damage to him before he begins to aggro at all, i could die and hed still be sitting there. this is the first mage/ranged follower ive used, and im doing a legendary playthrough with like frostfall and whatnot and i cannot fast travel, so i cant do very much other than try to find answers outside of the game. but strangely enough, i dont thing its the "ultimate follower overhaul" mod, because the other followers seemed to attack first just fine. im not sure what to do, followers are a little essential for my gameplay rn and it seems like this entire playthrough has been more of me just working on the mods and my game's performance than being able to actually enjoy it. i might just delete the mod in general and see if it works but i dont exactly want to delete it, and theres nothing on the mod page that warns against this or anyone in the posts talking about it.

thank u

[milorad]

Първоначално публикувано от Chausk:

Going to Mannimarco-level necrobump this, but I've been fighting this for weeks and finally fixed it. My follower suddenly bugged out and wouldn't ever attack enemies unless attacked first. On top of that, if I attacked the enemy back, she would become hostile to me as well and just murder me. It turns out that hours earlier I'd commanded her to steal a single iron dagger on accident and it gave her a bounty of 1 single gold. That was enough to bug out her factions, I guess. I fixed it by using the console command "paycrimegold 0 0" on her to pay the 1 gold bounty and now she's fixed! I hope this helps somebody :)

maybe i should read before posting lol, lemme try this

[milorad]

Първоначално публикувано от Chausk:

Going to Mannimarco-level necrobump this, but I've been fighting this for weeks and finally fixed it. My follower suddenly bugged out and wouldn't ever attack enemies unless attacked first. On top of that, if I attacked the enemy back, she would become hostile to me as well and just murder me. It turns out that hours earlier I'd commanded her to steal a single iron dagger on accident and it gave her a bounty of 1 single gold. That was enough to bug out her factions, I guess. I fixed it by using the console command "paycrimegold 0 0" on her to pay the 1 gold bounty and now she's fixed! I hope this helps somebody :)

it worked for me!! thanks!!

[walkingheadshot]

if enybody has this problem go into the console press on the follower then write ''disable'' and then right after write ''enable'' this worked for me and it fixed multiple problems. hope it helps you :)

[Meowcifer]

Necro'ing as I had the same issue, disable and enable seemed to work for a while but created other issues (the character lost his sword and kept almost dying as he was fighting barehanded, eventually the thing that DID work was change the character's aggression setting to 3 (so that they fight to defend themselves). I had this issue with Vilkas during a specific quest (as he was forced as a follower for it so I couldn't even switch him, so I had to find a workaround) and now it seems to be fixed.

Posting this in case someone else has the same issue and can't find a fix as I didn't find this as a listed solution anywhere but I just had a suspicion there might have been something wonky with their aggression level, so it was basically a random guess that turned out to be true.

[Meowcifer]

PS nevermind had to set it lower afterwards because he became aggressive to others too lol