Lydia So incredibly broken!

[Wizardly]

Lydia won't follow, nor will she wait, nor will she be dismissed. I've tried setting follower count to 0, resetting her ai, disabling, re-enabling, and killing and respawning her. I had the Multiple Followers Lite mod installed, but I dismissed all followers and uninstalled it. It broke long after I uninstalled it so that's probably not it. I tried reinstalling, and it didn't fix it. Nothing works. If anyone knows how to fix it I would greatly appreciate it.

[Wizardly]

SO BROKEN!

[Fading_Drifter]

try to open the console then click on lydia and type in disable then type in enable and see if you can dismiss her after
edit: i see you already tried that misread your post

[Wizardly]

I already tried that see? I don't know what to do.

[Fading_Drifter]

do you have any follower mods installed?

[Wizardly]

I did, but I dismissed all of my followers, and uninstalled the mod. It broke afterwards, without the mod. I reinstalled it to see if it would fix it but it didn't work.

[Fading_Drifter]

add the name of the mod you uninstalled to the first post maybe someone else ran in to the same issue after removing it and will be able to help

[Wizardly]

Done.

[raubrey]

You'll probably just have to go to an earlier save and release her prior to uninstalling the mod. Uninstalling a follower mod with active companions rarely ends well and some modders warn you against it on the mod page.

[Wizardly]

I didn't have active followers. I dismissed them first. This is most definitely vanilla glitching.

[Wizardly]

From what I've known, Bethesda games are very broken most of the time. At least for me.

[raubrey]

Originally posted by ProGamer:

I didn't have active followers. I dismissed them first. This is most definitely vanilla glitching.

I don't understand the problem then if you released her. (I meant release her BEFORE she was broken).

Complaining about the vanilla game won't help. Yes, the vanilla game is buggy, we all know that. The Unofficial Patch fixes a lot of problems. Generally a lot of problems though are self-imposed through poor modding and patching practices. I can't remember the last time I had a broken game - and I'm not all-knowing about modding.

Basically you want her to work. I've had no problems with her (other than her eating too much) using AFT. Many people use UFO which is reportedly more stable with other mods, but has less options. What were you using?

[★Kelvy★]

Raubrey, its in whether UFO its install first up before any other mods. (safest way and have no glitches)
Progamer, I would remove Multiple Followers Lite and go for AFT ( I am using this mod at the moment, I also had been using UFO). CBBE mod may remove all clothing but there are other ways around that in install. Some other mods do it to, so read the modders' descriptions.
If you have any followers dismiss them and untick box play and save, add multi follower mod of your choice and reinstate follower mods.
If using UFO some other mods like other NPCs inclusions (like prince and the pauper) and armour/clothing can be affected if loaded before UFO.
As I stated UFO is the first mod and AFT as well are my top number one mod I install in 'mod load order' into my games.

[Hamsterbytes , bits and nibbles]

Go back to a save before you installed the mod. Yopur followers shouldn't be there so there would have been no reason to dismiss them all and the mod won't be there either to mess up Lydia. Problem solved.

[★Kelvy★]

In game essentials like Lydia are not effected just other followers(mods etc). I was not actually posting about her but UFO, AFT in general. As my good mate hamsterbytes states is the easiest way of recovering her is to go back before you added the mod, but that means losing a lot of the your game play.

[raubrey]

Originally posted by Kelvy:

In game essentials like Lydia are not effected just other followers(mods etc). I was not actually posting about her but UFO, AFT in general. As my good mate hamsterbytes states is the easiest way of recovering her is to go back before you added the mod, but that means losing a lot of the your game play.

This is what I said to do and he hadn't written what mod he was using at the time of my writing, so I don't know what your comment to me was earlier. I said the problem was also likely user generated. That is not being mean, but how it is.

He can try removing it before it glitched, though yest it would be more likely to not cause problems if hee goes back to a save prior to the mod installation.

Also I feel LOOT most often puts the mod in the right place. I haven't had problems ...it's near the top but some things like Climates of Tamerial, RaceMenu, perk overhauls and such are prior. One needs to defer to the mod installation info as well. I haven't had problems with CBBE and AFT either, just following the instructions.