Console command to make follower a little faster?

[Jack]

I am so sick of walking, with heavy armor and no perks to decrease the speed impairment mind you, and my follower lagging behind. I remember years ago installing a mod that was supposed to make NPCs move the same speed as the player but it never worked. Is there a command or a new mod that will make me and my follower move the same speed? We are literally wearing identical armor sets, we are both Nord, and I have no perks bought at all yet. It makes no sense that Eric The Slayer moves slower than me in a straight line on a cobbled road. It's really breaking the immersion.

[ĿIFE oƒ ƤIE]

I think the follower AI in Skyrim is just janky as hell.

[Jack]

Originally posted by ĿIFE oƒ ƤIE:

I think the follower AI in Skyrim is just janky as hell.

No argument there. He gets stuck on every little rock when trying to walk across the fields of Whiterun. But even with bad AI there's no reason he should be walking slowly on a straight road. Surely someone figured out how to simply change a single line of code or something that determines NPC's base movement speed. Then again...might be something that just can't be fixed. Too bad if it can't, I'm loving the new updates and playing a very immersive playthrough as "Eric The Slayers childhood friend". We camp in the woods, carry only what we need, craft all our items, and for the first time ever I'm playing on master/survival which makes the game really punishing and rewarding at the same time for me. Honestly a whole new game. No idea why so many people hate the new update. (though I hate the S&S dudes..they are OP for no reason at all)

[4K_240hz_MLED]

Open up console with `, which is the key below Esc. Then click on your follower to get their ID (you can switch to first person and click for best results), and type in without quotes "moveto player" and hit Enter. It's annoying to have to do this often, but unless you wanna use mods, then you have to do this or deal with a slow dumb follower. Oh yeah, and other people will tell you that using console commands a lot will break your game and to always make a hard save before initiating them.

[Jack]

Originally posted by AthlonPro_RX660_8GBDR4_2.5SSD:

Open up console with `, which is the key below Esc. Then click on your follower to get their ID (you can switch to first person and click for best results), and type in without quotes "moveto player" and hit Enter. It's annoying to have to do this often, but unless you wanna use mods, then you have to do this or deal with a slow dumb follower. Oh yeah, and other people will tell you that using console commands a lot will break your game and to always make a hard save before initiating them.

Thank you for the reply. That being said, I have no issue with mods, IMO anyone who plays FO4/Skyrim without mods is just plain stubborn. But my issue is the mod I tried long ago did not work no matter what and I don't even remember the name of it. I'm looking for one that actually works, as I am trying to have an immersive role playing experience and constantly using moveto is more immersion breaking then my follower being stupidly slow. Hell I've used console so much I have most the common commands memorized for both FO4 and Skyrim lol. Hell when I started my new Master difficulty/Survival mode playthrough first thing I did was player.setav all my stats to make it enjoyable for me but still challenging.

Off topic, how on earth do you play games with that hardware man? Lol. An Athlon CPU and only 8GB of RAM? Dang, before I upgraded I had an FX-8350 Silicon Lottery Winner, an RX480, and 16GB of RAM and it did well but started slowing down big time on newer games, especially the CPU. Another off topic, wtf is an RX660? There is no GPU 660, only 460 and 560. (none of this is meant to be an insult or disrespectful, I'm just a computer hardware nerd and love learning about different builds/hardware)

[Altbert]

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/50267

[4K_240hz_MLED]

Originally posted by Cracked Jack:

Off topic, how on earth do you play games with that hardware man? Lol. An Athlon CPU and only 8GB of RAM? Dang, before I upgraded I had an FX-8350 Silicon Lottery Winner, an RX480, and 16GB of RAM and it did well but started slowing down big time on newer games, especially the CPU. Another off topic, wtf is an RX660? There is no GPU 660, only 460 and 560. (none of this is meant to be an insult or disrespectful, I'm just a computer hardware nerd and love learning about different builds/hardware)

That isn't my hardware, I just edited my username because I felt like it. There is a RX 660, it's the entry level iGPU for newer Ryzen CPUs based on RDNA2 architecture. The only other RDNA2 iGPU is the RX 680, which is supposed to rival RX 570 but others deny that and claim it's not even as fast as RX 560. I'm assuming AMD will eventually release the RX 650, RX 670, and RX 690 iGPUs for future Ryzen APUs.

My actual specs are i5 9300H 4C/8T, GTX 1050 3GB GDDR5, and 16GB DDR4 2666MHZ (along with 2 SSDs and Windows 10). I have also won the silicon lottery, so my CPU can trade blows with i5 8600K instead of i7 6700K, and my GPU on par with GTX 1650 GDDR5 instead of the garbage GTX 1630.

[Jack]

Originally posted by AthlonPro_RX660_8GBDR4_2.5SSD:

Originally posted by Cracked Jack:

Off topic, how on earth do you play games with that hardware man? Lol. An Athlon CPU and only 8GB of RAM? Dang, before I upgraded I had an FX-8350 Silicon Lottery Winner, an RX480, and 16GB of RAM and it did well but started slowing down big time on newer games, especially the CPU. Another off topic, wtf is an RX660? There is no GPU 660, only 460 and 560. (none of this is meant to be an insult or disrespectful, I'm just a computer hardware nerd and love learning about different builds/hardware)

That isn't my hardware, I just edited my username because I felt like it. There is a RX 660, it's the entry level iGPU for newer Ryzen CPUs based on RDNA2 architecture. The only other RDNA2 iGPU is the RX 680, which is supposed to rival RX 570 but others deny that and claim it's not even as fast as RX 560. I'm assuming AMD will eventually release the RX 650, RX 670, and RX 690 iGPUs for future Ryzen APUs.

My actual specs are i5 9300H 4C/8T, GTX 1050 3GB GDDR5, and 16GB DDR4 2666MHZ (along with 2 SSDs and Windows 10). I have also won the silicon lottery, so my CPU can trade blows with i5 8600K instead of i7 6700K, and my GPU on par with GTX 1650 GDDR5 instead of the garbage GTX 1630.

Well that would explain why I've never heard of the 660 since I ignore iGPUs lol. Never had one, never will. Yeah those specs sound way better haha, congrats on the Silicon winner! I haven't had any luck getting another winner since my FX8350 CPU and my 7950 GPU winners, and my newest build I haven't even attempted to overclock at all since it's overpowered anyway lol.

[Jack]

Originally posted by Altbert:

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/50267

This might work, I'll try that, thanks!

[4K_240hz_MLED]

Originally posted by Cracked Jack:

Well that would explain why I've never heard of the 660 since I ignore iGPUs lol. Never had one, never will. Yeah those specs sound way better haha, congrats on the Silicon winner! I haven't had any luck getting another winner since my FX8350 CPU and my 7950 GPU winners, and my newest build I haven't even attempted to overclock at all since it's overpowered anyway lol.

The AMD equivalents to my CPU and GPU would be Ryzen 7 1700 without winning silicon and Ryzen 7 2700X with it, as well as RX 460 without and RX 570 with winning. I think it was dumb for AMD to release the RX 500 series when it's literally only like 10-15% faster than the RX 400 series. But then again, Nvidia has had their fair share of rebrands over the years too...and let's not forget the elephant in the room - Intel. Releasing 2 and 4 core CPUs every single or other year with a 10% increase smh. Wasn't until AMD releasing Ryzen that Intel stepped up their desktop products, and not until Apple ditching them for their own SoCs that they finally cared about excellent laptop performance.

[Jack]

Originally posted by AthlonPro_RX660_8GBDR4_2.5SSD:

Originally posted by Cracked Jack:

Well that would explain why I've never heard of the 660 since I ignore iGPUs lol. Never had one, never will. Yeah those specs sound way better haha, congrats on the Silicon winner! I haven't had any luck getting another winner since my FX8350 CPU and my 7950 GPU winners, and my newest build I haven't even attempted to overclock at all since it's overpowered anyway lol.

The AMD equivalents to my CPU and GPU would be Ryzen 7 1700 without winning silicon and Ryzen 7 2700X with it, as well as RX 460 without and RX 570 with winning. I think it was dumb for AMD to release the RX 500 series when it's literally only like 10-15% faster than the RX 400 series. But then again, Nvidia has had their fair share of rebrands over the years too...and let's not forget the elephant in the room - Intel. Releasing 2 and 4 core CPUs every single or other year with a 10% increase smh. Wasn't until AMD releasing Ryzen that Intel stepped up their desktop products, and not until Apple ditching them for their own SoCs that they finally cared about excellent laptop performance.

Yeah I never understood the 500 series, when I had my RX480 my friend had the RX580 and he never got noticeably better frames in the same games.
Man I still remember when Ryzen first came out and benchmarks starting flowing in, Youtubers started reviewing it, etc and Intel literally went from selling their flagship CPU for nearly $1,000 to selling it for $299, over night. That proves beyond a shadow of a doubt they were overpricing their CPUs just because they knew AMD had nothing to offer since we all know the 8000 and 9000 series AMD CPUs weren't exactly competitive, and I'm literally team AMD all day and I'll admit they sucked compared to the i7's of those days. If AMD hadn't came out of no where with Ryzen, people would still be paying nearly a thousand dollars for 4c/8t i7's. Now you can get 16c/32t for $500 lol. My R5 3600x has never seen more than 70% usage while gaming and that's with turbo disabled. On benchmarks my CPU crushed the i9 9900k which costs WAY more than my CPU and combined with my 6700XT I can play RDR2 on absolute max settings and never break vsync locked 75FPS. I didn't even spend that much on my PC lol.

[Halliwax]

Followers straight line movement speed is ok, but for some reason I frequently get this goofy behavior where they run in a zig-zag line everywhere they go wasting a ton of time. It reminds me of really cheap track following logic on simple robots.

[Altbert]

Originally posted by Halliwax:

Followers straight line movement speed is ok, but for some reason I frequently get this goofy behavior where they run in a zig-zag line everywhere they go wasting a ton of time. It reminds me of really cheap track following logic on simple robots.

This goofy behavior may be caused by AI Packages. Normally NPCs may have to follow a socalled "Preferred Path" which are defined in the navigation mesh, and you may see this behavior when there is no preferred path defined in the navmesh or when an NPC's AI Package does not configure an NPC to follow a preferred path. For instance, you will see this behavior when following Irileth to the Western Watchtower.