Companions disappearing when asking to travel

[Dubbeledraaideur]

I got this weird bug, when I talk to any companion to travel with me. They disappear and become unvisible.

When I track them with the vault tec terminal. They are teleported underwater near easy city downs.
Already tried prid: companion id and then disable / enable.
But that doesn't work.

I think the bug had started when I attack the BoS with RR, I had deacon with me at that time, and after the mission the bug appeared.
Anyone know how to solve this?

Here's a video showing the issue:
https://youtu.be/8r_nhugC4vU

[wtiger27]

Are you using any companion mods? And if you fast travel to another settlement, do they then appear?

[Dubbeledraaideur]

No companion mods. Moving to other settlements or to the dlc's doesn't do anything either. They stay on that location.

[Dubbeledraaideur]

I've used a command to let my companion to unfollow me. But then when i spoke to dogmeat to follow me, dogmeat disappeared.
Command used:
prid: companion id
setconsolescopequest followers
emptyrefalias companion
setplayerteammate 0

Companions I've unfollowed with the command, were going back to Sanctuary.
So now I don't have a companion with me.

[wtiger27]

Originally posted by Dubbeledraaideur:

No companion mods. Moving to other settlements or to the dlc's doesn't do anything either. They stay on that location.

But some other mods? I have never had this issue, so I am not sure what your issue is. And I have played this game a lot. Over 2300 hrs so far.

[Ellorien]

Maybe don’t use prid.
Make a manual save, travel underwater, open console, click on the NPC, type disable, then type enable. You may try to close console after “disable”, wait a few seconds and open it again and type “enable”. The companion should follow you normally. I would try this with every companion and see if the problem persists.
I don’t know much about mods, though, because I don’t use them so no idea if this is a mod conflict or not.
Never heard of this bug.

[Dubbeledraaideur]

I can't click on the companion because the companion is invisible. So I have to use prid.

I do use some other mods: cheatterminal, unofficial fallout 4 patch and some weathermod.
With the cheatterminal I've not used anything related to the companions. I only use it to unlock terminals, get 5.56mm ammo and workshop materials.

Spoiler alert and probably the start of the bug:
What happened was, when I was on the Prydwen I told Deacon to stay with the vertibird.
Then he disappeared off the ship. When I was in the Prydwen he suddenly appeared again.
He became a handy decoy, when Maxwell started shooting XD
So I kill the last BoS and went back to the Vertibird, then after the Prydwen gets blown up, the Vertibird lands on the beach, I got out. The Vertibird takes off again.
Also something maybe unrelated idk, I killed BoS on the ground near the airport, before the RR mission was given, it was as a retaliation for the BoS attacking one of my settlements. During the mission, the airport was empty.

[wtiger27]

Originally posted by Dubbeledraaideur:

I can't click on the companion because the companion is invisible. So I have to use prid.

I do use some other mods: cheatterminal, unofficial fallout 4 patch and some weathermod.
With the cheatterminal I've not used anything related to the companions. I only use it to unlock terminals, get 5.56mm ammo and workshop materials.

Spoiler alert and probably the start of the bug:
What happened was, when I was on the Prydwen I told Deacon to stay with the vertibird.
Then he disappeared off the ship. When I was in the Prydwen he suddenly appeared again.
He became a handy decoy, when Maxwell started shooting XD
So I kill the last BoS and went back to the Vertibird, then after the Prydwen gets blown up, the Vertibird lands on the beach, I got out. The Vertibird takes off again.
Also something maybe unrelated idk, I killed BoS on the ground near the airport, before the RR mission was given, it was as a retaliation for the BoS attacking one of my settlements. During the mission, the airport was empty.

It may have something to do with how you did that quest. Which can happen and cause bugs if you do with some quests.

Like getting Bunker Hill as a settlement after you talk to the Father on the roof and becoming a enemy with the Institute after that conversation. Every time I tried that, Kessler and her gang stayed in a scared to death stance for the rest of the game. Even tho she gave me control of the settlement.

Do it by "completing" the Battle for Bunker Hill and it does not bug out.

[Ellorien]

Companions may be invisible but they are still there, no? I assume you should be able to move your mouse around and find them if they are supposed to be in this location. Not saying you are wrong, I am just curious. Did you try?

[Dubbeledraaideur]

I tried to go with my mouse over the companion, but they are unclickable.
The only reason in my video, I know where my companion is, is because I activated a Vault-tec population manager terminal. and put a tracker on my companion.

As soon as I make someone follow me, they are automatically teleported tunderwater near easy city downs.

So without the Vault-Tec tracker, I would never been able to find my companion.
I can't interact with them, I can't disband them in a normal way. I can only replace them with a other companion. Who then also teleports underwater near easy city downs. And becomes invisable.

[Ellorien]

Sorry to hear that. Did you try disable/enable on the companions in Sanctuary, before asking them to join?

I also looked up Cheat Terminal. I think this mod is the likely culprit.

[Dubbeledraaideur]

I've started over just for the point, before I made enemies with BoS. So the issue is gone now.
I needed BoS to get rid of Acadia, after I killed the town of Far Harbour and the CoA. lol

[Killerx099]

I know it's very late, but I believe i know what caused this.
When on the prydwin after Shadow of steel, You are told to board the vertibird, if you travel anywhere else before boarding it, going back to the prydwin will cause you to be stuck behind the vertibird, and activating it will cause your companions to get stuck at this co-ordinate, as they have boarded the unboardable pridwen. Most players just jump off and go to fort strong yourself, but this leads to the companion always being stuck on the vertibird. Even after it disappears once you enter fort strong. The only fix I know of is going back to a save before Shadow of steel.

[Pavel555]

I had the same issue with Cait, which is odd. But I found out that the mod causing the problem was Subversion. When I completed all the Institute/Subversion quests and then tried to recruit Cait again, she disappeared. But I found her on top of the police station in the vertibyrd, just sitting there. No console commands helped, I thing the save is corrupted beyond repair.

[Zekiran]

Originally posted by Pavel555:

I had the same issue with Cait, which is odd. But I found out that the mod causing the problem was Subversion. When I completed all the Institute/Subversion quests and then tried to recruit Cait again, she disappeared. But I found her on top of the police station in the vertibyrd, just sitting there. No console commands helped, I thing the save is corrupted beyond repair.

I've mentioned things like this in other threads, for me it was just pure exploration and accidentally triggering things before the script required it. Exploring ArcJet or the Andrews Station may stand a chance of breaking your companions (nick's for his perk, and danse just to run around at all) . So companions may be broken MUCH EARLIER in the game before you even find them, and won't know it until they behave in some weird manner, it doesn't even take a mod. :/