Invisible Dogmeat

[toe beans]

It's my day off and all I want to do is start a new playthrough, and this stupid bug is pissing me off and making it annoying to play.

I was able to go a few hours with Dogmeat in tow without any issues; downloaded a backpack mod and bam! Stealth-Boy Dogmeat! I uninstalled the mod and it seemed to fix the issue for about five minutes before I decided to give him a bandana and it happened again. I quit and then restarted, it seems fixed for the moment. But has anyone else encountered this issue? And/or found a way to fix this stupid bug without having to restart?

[blobfysh]

I'm having a similar issue with Dogmeat and companions (I use a mod to have both) but it only happens when I sneak. I disabled all my mods to see what's causing it and deleting UFO4P(Unofficial Fallout 4 Patch) fixed it happening on Dogmeat but it still does it for my companions. :\

[blobfysh]

UPDATE : try this new mod, it removes the stealth-boy invisibility effect
http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/16088/?

[toe beans]

I tried the mod, and it still didn't fix anything, unfortunately. Possibly installed it wrong but all of my other non-Bethesda mods are working, so I doubt it. I started a new character and just picked up Dogmeat; the second the molerats attack at the Red Rocket, he goes into the damn effect again. No sneaking or anything.

@Bethesda fix your game, I'm trying to enjoy my day off.

[A. Silvermane]

I had the same bug happen after the update and I don't even have the backpack mod

[Crimsomrider]

Originally posted by Blobfysh:

I'm having a similar issue with Dogmeat and companions (I use a mod to have both) but it only happens when I sneak. I disabled all my mods to see what's causing it and deleting UFO4P(Unofficial Fallout 4 Patch) fixed it happening on Dogmeat but it still does it for my companions. :\

From the wiki about the Sneak perk:

All companions have the effects of 4 ranks of Sneak except Curie who is missing all ranks of Stealth in both forms (robot and synth). Dogmeat has a unique Stealth Rank 5.

Reason why this is happening is because :

The newest official update fixed Sneak rank 5 perk which was causing invisibility bug to the player character. I reported such bug here.

However, Bethesda also added a new spell called "PerkSneakInvisibility" which plays every time you crouch (if you have the perk). They probably wanted to simulate the Shadow Warrior perk from Skyrim (which makes you invisible when you crouch/sneak in combat).

The Sneak rank 5 perk is also used by Dogmeat now, with UF4P. So everytime you crouch while Dogmeat is your companion, Dogmeat will go into sneak mode and the perk applies the visual effect. After digging and comparing both the vanilla and UF4P, the UF4P indeed did add Sneak 05 to NPCDogmeat (which was always intended to be used by Dogmeat).

Since it was intended for Dogmeat to use Sneak 05 rank, I don't think it categorizes as a bug.


However, I don't know why Dogmeat is turning invisible for some people even without UF4P/mods/crouching. I'll keep on testing.

[toe beans]

@Crimsomrider

I'm going to keep testing myself and I'll let you know if I can work anything out.

[Kustaa Kusipaska]

I had him turn invisible right when the molerats attacked him too, would love a fix.

[calmaccal]

Originally posted by Notorious M.A.T:

I had him turn invisible right when the molerats attacked him too, would love a fix.

Same here.

[EAM1188]

i just wanted to comment, i've had this problem plague me for the last week. i decided to stop using bethesda's mod page, and updated Nexus Mod Manager.

updating nexus mod manager seemed to fix it. completely.

i uninstalled the unofficial fallout 4 patch, and it turned dogmeat COMPLETELY invisible. no stealthboy effect, nothing. when it is installed, dogmeat sometimes turns SB invisible no matter what i do. other times he's back to normal, but when i enter sneak mode, he goes SB for half a second before going back to normal in his sneak mode.

i had installed a few mods from nexus and bethesda mods and he went back to SB. crouching and all. so i deleted the mods i downloaded on bethesda's page and redownloaded them through NMM. then i updated NMM to it's latest version. it asked me to reactivate all my plugins. i loaded up the save where he's standing in front of me. at first he was still invisible, but then a couple second he went back to normal. no SB dogmeat ever since. hoping this helps as it seem to have fixed it for me.