Fallout 3 Companions bugged/broken

Post by **Papa Benito** » Sun Apr 30, 2017 5:24 pm

Any companions I hire in the Capital Wasteland have a non-functioning companion wheel. (I am unable to tell them to use melee/ranged, tell them to wait here/follow me, or open their inventories.) Also, their dialogue options are the options you would have normally. (Example: Charon would just say "Go talk to Azhrukhal," and the only options I have are "I just...," "Yeah, but...," and "How did you end up working for..." No option to fire/rehire or anything else.) The only commands in the companion wheel that work are "Keep distance/stay close" and "Back up."

Specs:

Intel Core i5 4460

Windows 8.1 OS

8 GB RAM

Load Order:

FalloutNV.esm

DeadMoney.esm

HonestHearts.esm

OldWorldBlues.esm

LonesomeRoad.esm

TribalPack.esm

MercenaryPack.esm

ClassicPack.esm

CaravanPack.esm

GunRunnersArsenal.esm

Fallout3.esm

Anchorage.esm

ThePitt.esm

BrokenSteel.esm

PointLookout.esm

Zeta.esm

TaleOfTwoWastelands.esm

NevadaSkies.esm

Project Nevada - Core.esm

Project Nevada - Cyberware.esp

Project Nevada - Equipment.esm

SomeguySeries.esm

AWorldOfPain.esm

oHUD.esm

More Perks.esm

More Perks for Dead Money.esm

More Perks for Honest Hearts.esm

More Perks for Old World Blues.esm

TTW_NoKarmaDCFollowers.esp

TTW_AnchorageCustomization.esp

TTW_OutcastTrading.esp

TTW_Reputation.esp

TTW_SpeechChecks.esp

TTWOptions.esp

TTW_Companions_Essential.esp

DarNifiedUINV.esp

NevadaSkies - Basic Edition.esp

NevadaSkies - TTW Edition.esp

NevadaSkies - Ultimate DLC Edition.esp

Project Nevada - Dead Money.esp

Project Nevada - Gun Runners' Arsenal.esp

Project Nevada - Honest Hearts.esp

Project Nevada - Lonesome Road.esp

Project Nevada - Old World Blues.esp

WeaponModsExpanded.esp

Project Nevada - WMX.esp

pipboy2500_edisleado.esp

dD - Enhanced Blood Main NV.esp

TTW - Fellout.esp

The Mod Configuration Menu.esp

CCO - Ulysses Companion.esp

NewVegasBounties.esp

XFO - 4bb - Perks - Two per level.esp

More Perks Update.esp

More Perks for Dead Money Update.esp

More Perks for Honest Hearts Update.esp

More Perks for Old World Blues Update.esp

Both my Fallout 3 and New Vegas games are Steam downloads.

-Fallout 3 goty

-FalloutNV (With all DLC downloaded)

Post by **Papa Benito** » Sun Apr 30, 2017 7:24 pm

Through disabling and re-enabling many of my mods, I found out that A World Of Pain is causing the problem. Once disabled, I could use the wheels normally, and I have the dialogue options I should normally have. If anyone knows of a way to use AWOP while keeping Capital Wasteland companions intact, please let me know.

Post by **RoyBatty** » Mon May 01, 2017 7:19 am

Which AWOP, I do not have this issue and cannot reproduce it although it has been reported a couple of times. It ended up being another mod each time.

Post by **khumak** » Mon May 01, 2017 6:18 pm

Not sure if this is related, but when building my conflict patch I noticed that a lot of mods add various dialog options. Some of them carry forward the dialogs from the base game, some don't, and all of the new entries conflict with other mods that add similar dialogs. Some of them are probably unimportant, but some are tied to quests.

I merge them all together by hand in my patch. No idea if that's required but it's a fair amount of hand edits. The autogenerated merged patch doesn't do it.

The ones that conflict seem to be yellow or red in FNVEdit. The ones that don't are green or white.

Post by **RoyBatty** » Mon May 01, 2017 9:48 pm

Top level topics don't always merge properly in the engine (they are supposed to), the sure fire way to have it work is to merge them into a merge patch as khumak has mentioned.