Companion won't dismiss

[McDonalds Internet]

I'm having a issue where whenever i get a companion to follow me I'm unable to dismiss them, when i click dismiss it goes to the option on where to send them away to and once i click it it says they are going away but they don't and then i no longer have the option to command them to do stuff for me (e.g. lockpick, stand there.). i have this issues with all companions but dog meat.

I'm tried:
restarting the game multiple times due to anger and frustration.
killing piper.
enabling and disabling piper about a million times out of frustration then continuously shooting her due to anger of it not working.
disabling every single mod.

please help :[

[wingdeman]

When you tell them to go away, are you assigning them to a settlement? That might be your answer. Have you heard the saying" How can I misss you, if you will not go away?"

[Waiting to Visit Japan (^.-)]

Originally posted by McDonalds Internet:

continuously shooting her due to anger of it not working.

Your wife has decided to stay with her parents for a while. :-)

[McDonalds Internet]

Originally posted by wingdeman:

When you tell them to go away, are you assigning them to a settlement? That might be your answer. Have you heard the saying" How can I misss you, if you will not go away?"

Yeah, I'm assigning them to go to red rocket when I try to send dog meat to red rocket it works but anyone else it doesn't

[McDonalds Internet]

had to restart the game, something was breaking the companions, unsure what it was but i restarted the game and did things in different order then what i did last time and companions work fine now.

[Demonlord09]

I have the same problem. Restarting the game doesn't help in the slightest. Any idea what else you did to make it work?

[McDonalds Internet]

Originally posted by Demonlord09:

I have the same problem. Restarting the game doesn't help in the slightest. Any idea what else you did to make it work?

I HD to revert to a previous save and just did stuff in a different order and it didn’t happen again never actually find out why it broke

[Demonlord09]

Unfortunate. This has happened repeatedly across multiple saves.
Hopefully I'll eventually figure out what happened. It seems like a bad script somewhere.

[Forrunner98]

here the fix just follow the steps.

https://bethesda.net/community/topic/60976/solved-can-t-dismiss-companion-recruited-via-console-commands-please-help/2

[Demonlord09]

Well. I'm still not sure which mod is causing the issue, but I think I know what's happening in the game to cause my version of the problem.

It's the Recruitment Beacons. Build one and no companions will go anywhere when you dismiss them. Dismantle it and they go back to their normal behavior and go where you tell them to go.

[Andy Lyviu]

lol i have the same problem with Piper! Except she doesn't follow me and neither i can't dismiss her, nothing happens when i select dismiss

[Andy Lyviu]

Originally posted by Demonlord09:

Well. I'm still not sure which mod is causing the issue, but I think I know what's happening in the game to cause my version of the problem.

it's the Unlimited Companion Framework that riuned the companions (at least for me)

[spadsta]

I hate to necro post, but the link no longer works. Does anyone know how to get followers to stop appearing every time I move from one location to another.

[Xenon The Noble]

Originally posted by spadsta:

I hate to necro post, but the link no longer works. Does anyone know how to get followers to stop appearing every time I move from one location to another.

The companion won't dismiss glitch was never fixed.
If you want to dismiss a companion and they're stuck... find another companion - say cogsworth, and ask him to join you. That will dismiss the stuck companion. Then dismiss Cogsworth.

[Dobzse]

Soo, maybe i'm late to the party, but the way i solved it that i built a robot (automatron dlc). The most basic robot that the game can offer and then made it as my follower. The previous follower went to the assigned settlement and when me and the robot were alone, i just told him to blow himself up.

[Ebolite Hemorrhagician]

Had this problem with Cait, no solution I saw online worked. I ended up enslaving her with Just Business, sorted her right out. She's now on her way to Spectacle Island.