UFO – Ultimate Follower Overhaul
Set of enhancements to the follower system, for better and expanded follower use. Lotta stuff here so read the description for what you get and how.
The reception you guys gave this mod is great! and while I try to thank everyone and reply to all comments, I might miss a few. So to anyone i might have missed or those that just endorsed or voted as fotm to show support, without leaving a comment, I’d like to say that I appreciate it very much and think you are awesome as this guy thinks he is. 🙂
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PATCH 1.7/DLC DIALOGUE BETHESDA BUG: Custom dialogues won’t show immediately or work properly.
SOLUTION: SAVE GAME, LOAD THAT SAVE, DIALOGUE WILL SHOW/WORK NOW. (Fixed from update 1.2h and above)
DAWNGUARD FOLLOWER COMPATIBILITY:
*NOTE* Only needed for 1.2i or BELOW
Install UFO – Dawnguard AddOn, place it after UFO main esp.
HEARTFIRE FOLLOWER COMPATIBILITY:
*NOTE* Only needed for 1.2i or BELOW
Install UFO Heartfire AddOn, place it after UFO/Dawnguard AddOn in load order (below them/bottommost)
DRAGONBORN FOLLOWER COMPATIBILITY:
*NOTE* 1.2i or BELOW version: UFO Dragonborn Patch – Unofficial by Ghostfish
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UFO – Ultimate Follower Overhaul(v1.8 Skyrim or higher required)
UFO is a set of tools and enhancements to the followers system that will allow for better control and usability of followers.
GOALS:
Make it simple, so it works even for people that don’t read description instruction.
Give new and expand existing follower options.
Fix broken stuff from vanilla.
Make it easy to use…
Ensure compatibility with most type of mods.
FEATURES:
1) Dialogue:
a) You know… (A dialogue branch containing various options depending on NPC you are interacting with)
–You are important./Everyone dies… (Set follower essential so that it takes damage, but only goes down on one knee or mortal. Mortal = can be killed and no health regeneration)
–You could dress better. (Converts unmovable, invisible outfit follower has to regular gear that can be removed so followers will wear whatever player places in their inventory)
–Relax for a while./Time to go. (Follower stays on the location doing various things. If set to mortal, relaxing regenerates health as of 1.1b)
–In combat mistakes happen. Forgive and forget./Anyone hurts you, make them pay.(Set follower to react/ignore friendly hits by player)
–You are naked… (Makes a naked follower dress)
–Speaking of magic… (a branch containing dialogue concerning magic)
—-Study that book, you will find it useful. (Make follower use a spell tome from inventory to learn a spell[vanilla])
—-Forget you ever knew magic. It is a vile art. (Make follower forget learned spells)
–I need your help./You are dismissed. (Recruit/dismiss guards from party. Requires you be a Thane and have a houscarl with you)
–Nothing, sorry. (End conversation.)
b) So what are you good at? (Will display follower statistics with current equipment bonuses)
c) Train some, you are weak… (Will level up follower statistics to match current level)
2) Follower Limit — Amount of followers you can have accompany you has been raised to 15 (not including dogs or quest NPCs). This limit is shared with the number of followers you can have relaxing at place of your choosing.
3) Riding for followers — 8 follower horses can be found at major cities and stables around Skyrim for followers to ride.
Gear for horses can be bought at Whiterun Stable.
From Skulvar at Whiterun stable you can buy:
— [Horse Tack] Basic Gear — When placed in UFO horse inventory: UFO Horse will follow you while you are mounted, fast travel after you while you are mounted. Followers will port ahead and horses will come after you wait for 1h. Price: 1000 gold
— [Horse Tack] Martingale — When placed in UFO horse Inventory: UFO Horse will wait in place when dismounted. Used to leave horses at desired locations. Price: 200 gold
— [Horse] Interact — Also you can get training in horse handling. This will add “[Horse] Interact” item to your inventory. Equip it in hand and use on UFO horse. This will open UFO horse Inventory. Price: 500 gold [As of 1.2g works on players horse too.]
UFO horses with no Horse Tackle will go back to location you found them once dismounted.
— While mounted–
Follower and horse will fast travel with player [with 1.6 followers will fast travel ahead of horses, waiting 1h will port horses to your location. being worked on atm to restore old functionality.]
Follower horses will follow the lead horse when ridden by player (allows you to relocate horses)
Followers will not engage in combat unless player is attacked
Using Relax Voice Command 2x(twice) will command followers to dismount (should you not wish to wait for them to dismount on their own)
–Not mounted–
Follower horses will not fast travel
Follower Horses will stay on location where they were dismounted by follower
5) Group commands:
Book “Field Command” found in Breezehome will teach you voice commands. They are used as any voice power pressing Z(voice cast button by default).
– Can be bought from Skulvar at Whiterun Stable. Requirements: 50 Speechcraft, 5000 gold (1.2f)
–Command Relax (All followers within range will enter sandbox behavior waiting on the location and doing different things. Group relax does regenerate mortal followers. Use again for followers to stop relaxing)
–Command Stop (All followers withing range will receive wait order. Use again for followers to start following you.)
–Command Flee(If battle is going poorly command your followers to flee. They will disengage and run after player. Use again to stop fleeing behavior. While fleeing followers will not use horses.)
–Command Stop Fighting (Should followers start fighting among themselves this will shout them to a stop.)
TIP: Commands can be hotkeyed to number buttons for faster use (in my case i bound them to 5,6,7, 8 buttons and i cast them by Q)
5) Misc.:
a) Houscarls –All houscarls will move to their towns player house when you purchase it
b) Level caps –Level limits have been removed on vanilla followers (some possibly require new game for level limit to be gone depending on type of npc introduction to the world)
c) Dual wield — All followers can dual wield if given appropriate weaponry
d) Gender animations — All follower animations are gender appropriate (example of Lydia by default using male animations)
e) Weapon drawing — Followers draw weapons in combat and no longer each time a player does.
f) Sneaking — Followers will not engage while sneaking, unless spotted or combat starts.
g) Marriage — All followers have been marked with flag to be available for marriage.
h) Bow/arrows — Endlessly spawning bow and arrows have been removed
i) Becoming a thane of a city and having your housecarl with you, allows you to ask guards of the city to help/follow you.
COMPATIBILITY PATCHES:
1. Relationship Dialogue Overhaul – RDO – 1.2i file from miscellaneous, extract to data folder, enable, play.
This is the load order they go in:
UFO – Ultimate Follower Overhaul
Relationship Dialogue Overhaul
RDO – UFO v1.2i Patch
User Reports:
HogsMaws – Found Frea from Dragonborn expansion will not hire.
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UFO – THINGS TO KNOW
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0. Read and do what is on the description page for your own benefit.
1. UFO requires 1.8 or higher version of Skyrim
2. Always prefer the use of ORIGINAL GAME LAUNCHER to any 3rd party program for install and load order management.
3. What I write is what I mean. If you follow instructions as written, you will win.
4. If you have problems with functionality and did not follow instructions, follow instructions.
5. Fail Safe Install Procedure for Beginners is made for you and to help you with removing mods properly. If you did not have old mods, all you would need to do is enable UFO and play.
6. Having bad saves from old mods is not an UFO issue, it is yours and of mod authors whose mods, being uninstalled, messed it up.
FAIL-SAFE INSTALL PROCEDURE FOR BEGINNERS
0) Update Skyrim to 1.8 or higher version.
1) For everything below use ORIGINAL GAME LAUNCHER
2) Start Skyrim, load game, dismiss all followers,type show playerfollowercount and if it shows 0, save game, Quit.
3) Disable all mods affecting follower limit or mechanic (ILF, Mullti followers, TCG and any other) then uninstall them.
4) Delete any loose pex files in DATA/SCRIPTS folder that are on the list i have linked(LIST OF BAD PEX FILES )
5) Start Skyrim, load game, save game, Quit
6) Install UFO, position UFO.esp at the lowest place.
7) Start Skyrim, load game, save. Win.
8)After this Install you can use whichever launcher/manager you please should you choose to.
UNINSTALL:
1) (Only If You Do Not Want To Play UFO Anymore) First dismiss all your followers.
2) Talk to Tina the Firefly on river island by Riverwood. Clicking her three times will restore default follower outfits. Save. Disable UFO. Load the save you made. Now you can go on playing without UFO from that save on.
UPDATING UFO
Unless stated otherwise download updated files, extract them to data folder and when prompted replace the old ones in there.
Check in ORIGINAL GAME LAUNCHER that UFO is still lowest in load order(or where you had it before updating).
Start Game.
Extra:
Updating Directly from versions 1.0(a – f) to version 1.0g and higher using Full UNINSTALL (otherwise the above extract,replace,play should be used) :
1) Dismiss followers, talk to TIna till you get msg to remove UFO. Save
2) Disable UFO, load then save.
3) Extract new files to data folder replacing old UFO files, enable UFO in Original Game launcher, place it last in load order(or in place it was before being disabled). Load save. Done
TROUBLESHOOT
–USE ORIGINAL GAME LAUNCHER–
1) If you have problems after doing Fail Safe Install Procedure for Beginners, following it to the letter, you may have:
a) Bad Save Game
1) Do Fail Safe Install Procedure on a different save.
2) Start new game.
3) Contact mod authors whose mods you uninstalled and got problem from
b) You have a mod conflict.
1) Disable ALL mods you have and leave only UFO enabled
2) Rename DATA/SCRIPTS folder to DATA/0SCRIPTS
3) Load a save game you are sure is not corrupted by old mos being uninstalled and you have no followers with you.
COMPATIBILITY:
0) Any mod that does not modify dialoguefollower quest/script
1) If you load below UFO, you can use mods for followers. Unless they have dialoguefollower limitation from 0)
2) Custom follower mods by default get – Level UP dialog, Display STATs dialog, More Followers at Once, Followers can Ride and can have full inventory control by telling: You could dress better.
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HISTORY:
This mod originally started as an extension to TCG Tradable Companion Gear. But as it grew it became very extensive and finally, with the addition of more followers at once, i decided to make it into its own complete mod to overhaul followers.
Reported by users, follower changing, fully compatible mods for now:
Followers can Relax
Follower Trap Safety
Spouse can live everywhere
Move it
Mods that are compatible, but must be placed BELOW UFO in load order:
All Follower Appearance mods
Specialized followers
Essential Followers
Better Followers (do not use dialogue.esp and delete C01QuestScript.pex from data/scripts folder)
NPC Editor created mods
And similar..
Mods that are compatible, but must be placed ABOVE UFO in load order:
Gabby the Cute Pastry Chef Companion
Fair Khajiit
Horses for Followers (place above UFO in load order)
Horse Branding (disable BasicHorseRidingAI.esp it is in UFO already)
Not compatible, reported by users:
Increased Follower Limit or similar multifollower mods
Black Tower (author is making it compatible atm, kudos to him!!)
ThuuMic
Master Shape Shifter
FSS – No pause between lines
Castle Grey (changes default stayatplace AI making horses not stay at dismount location)
Hug Me
Herman the Mad
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UNINSTALL TS:
If you don’t know how to find Tina the Firefly:
open console, type
help Tina 4 (you will get “ACTI:(xxxx) “Tina The Firefly ” )
player.placeatme xxxx (xxxx are ones you got in the line before)
She will spawn by you and you can talk to her about setting up UFO for deletion. After you are done, save and quit game.
Rest is like for all other mods.
INFO:
1) Cicero and Dark Brotherhood Initiates use a different framework from regular followers so at present they have vanilla outfit system. I will update if i manage some progress there.
