Something else that's great about AFT but not mentioned in the video (possibly didn't exist back then?) is that your followers can have up to three outfits; a normal outfit, a city outfit and a home outfit, which they automatically switch to depending on where you are. I've also found that the city outfit works in some places that aren't separate cells like Raven Rock. The only downside to this is that they do spend about a quarter of a second in their underwear whenever they change, but I do quite like wandering around towns in ordinary clothing whenever I spend an extended period in one, so having my followers automatically do that as well is a really nice thing for me.
I just want to tell you three things about AFT: 1. AFT levels up your followers automatically. 2. You can set up each follower to a specific combat style, which is very cool. It basically allows you to determine what kind of role each follower will play in your group. This is great for those who like playing with a small group of followers which feels like more d&d style. 3. Finally, it come with the power tweak commands which opens a menu that allows you to give all sorts of commands to your followers, like to summon them all to your position, tell them all to sneak or to wait, etc. Overall it's a very neat mod.
Hawx I'd be really interested in hearing your opinion on afv after using it for a while? I've just UNinstalled aft as i found the menu slow and cumbersome at times although i did really like the option to turn all your followers in to vampires or werewolf's so you can have a full army of werwolfs tearing it up
AFVmodeller I wish I could tell you, but the playthrough I did after this (first LP on my channel) was playing a psychopathic assassin who was a bit of a loner. I didn't use followers very often before either. I imagine I will when I do my next Let's Play so I'll get back to you on that one :)
Tried the three and I aggree. One follower : UFO Multiple vanilla followers : AFT Multiple custom and vanilla followers : EFF For my part EFF is the most compatible with custom followers and any mods that modifies NPCs or add them as potential followers. And the menu just saves you so much time !
It may be 4 years later but I gotta thank you for this comment. The video is excellent of course, but your comment here really distills the information I need to make a decision perfectly.
While I rarely use Followers, there are plenty of quests that assign them to the Player. Having discovered that AFT allows more distance to be placed between them and the DB helps remove the annoyance of being shoved down stairs and into traps. For this feature alone, I can recommend using this mod. And kudos on this informative vid :)
Some additional details I've discovered after using all 3 mods. The good points of UFO were covered in the review, and by other commenters. It also removes follower level caps. Unfortunately, it's also the most unstable of the 3 mods, a pain to install and uninstall without causing errors, and followers may randomly leave without warning. With AFT, several of the options are pretty much cheating. Haven't used this as much, since like the above, it causes the "stuck walking in place" glitch and the menus are cumbersome. Still, I rather like the idea of having an army of werewolves or vampires. EFF is the most stable, though also the most exploitable. Followers have a secondary "inventory" that has infinite capacity, and can be taught any game engine spells you know. Having a very high number of followers may cause the game to hang on occasion as it tries to load them all through area transitions. Also, it gets very irritating when followers will start dry humping you because they follow too closely.
Thanks for doing this review! I think I'll be using AFT myself, since the idea of having a werewolf housecarl guarding my homestead in Falkreath against those random bandit and giant attacks is appealing.
Thanks so much for doing your comparison videos. They've helped me get a feel of different mods and choose the ones that are best for me. They've enriched my gameplay experience immensely. :-)
Seeing your mod was perfect timing for me. I am in the process of trying to decide which other follower mod I want to try, and your mod was very helpful. I, too, used UFO previously, but there were too many things about it I didn't like. Thank you!
Noticed there are several mods for follower system modification, so I was in need of a comparison of them. This video is exactly what I've been looking for. Thank you.
I'm back to Skyrim and as I'll test some followers, I wasn't sure which overhaul to use, but your video perfectly answered all my questions. Thank you!
IMO, AFT is the best. it has the features you mentioned in both other mods as well such as group commands and the like, plus it is deeply customizable down to fighting weapons and styles, outfits for different areas, dismissing in a specific area and setting a home for them to be dismissed to.
Great video man! Very detailed comparison and dialogue, it's very helpful for me since I'm thinking about trying AFT (using EFF in my last 2 playthroughs.) Subbed and hope to see more videos from you. Your channel has lots of potential. Good luck!
One thing that's possible: Using UFO and AFT at the same time. Granted you're still locked into 15 followers per UFO's limitations, but you also get AFT's options and ability to have all the followers sandboxing in the cell without being told, so best of both worlds.
I'm just loving your comparison videos. I just got Skyrim SE edition and I'm trying to put together a list of mods that I want to install before I start my playthrough. It's been years since I played the original vanilla Skyrim when it first came out. I can't believe how many mods there are nowadays. Whew! :-)
TL;DR (or in this case, watch) *UFO*: Very immersion friendly, menus are simple and functional, works with vanilla followers perfectly and even some mod followers. *AFT*: Not immersion friendly, tedious menus due to being trough dialogue, but it has a lot of cool options that neither UFO nor EFF have. *EFF*: Not immersion friendly, really user friendly menu, great for big groups, lacks some options.
TL DR ? you probably spend hundreds of hours in front of your game and can't spend 10 minutes watching a really good video that helped me a lot understanding ? and you even have the nerve to COMMENT it without watching ? people like you should just not be part of the community, (humanity?) , ..that'd make the world a better place to live.
Erwan LeVinnec Wow calm down bro, I have watched the video obviously, wtf is wrong with you? I'm making this TL;DR to clarify so people can get the key differences between these 3 mods... I swear, people get so upset for the stupidest things nowadays...
Great timing on this video! I too have been using UFO for months and i was thinking of trying another alternative. i think i may give AFT a try now! thank you for the time you put into this really informative video and you've definitely earned my subscription. Keep up the good work!
Good video, first going through all the different mods, then summing the biggest features up before the final conclusion. I am having a hard time chosing between Ultimate Follower Overhaul and Amazing Follower Tweaks so I guess I'll stick around with the first one for now since you've mentioned that AFT is less immersive compared to UFO and I like Immersion.
I'm using AFT and I am thoroughly enjoying it, although I much prefer the lore friendly interface of UFO. That was the one factor that almost tipped me (as I prefer immersion) which is what brought me here. Thanks for the clearer picture. I'm sticking with AFT for now. :D
I just found your chanel, and it's an amazing idea, you really help us to compare the mods, and saving time too. I wanted to reinstall my game, and your work helps me A LOT! Keep comparing! ;)
Beautiful work. Comparisons like this are often sought after, but all anyone ever has to say is "I use [X] and it works great for me." No-one seems to ever actually want to go through and compare mods like this for the sake of the modding community as a whole. You're doing a really great service for those of us out there who can't go through and do this testing ourselves. Your videos are something special, and I certainly hope you keep it up.
The Book for Those follower commands on UFO is also found in Breezehome. I love UFO since I can either have an army of followers or I could go solo after telling them to stay in a tavern with group commands.
Good video hawk I have been using AFT forever and a day and would recommend it to everyone. It has occasional issues if you have downloaded certain custom followers. But generally if you save before tweaking your good.
I had the same problem with UFO. I couldn't dismiss my followers, which was a must for uninstalling the mod. So, when I tried to uninstall it broke my save after talking to the firefly. I then had to go back a few saves prior (before I had 2 followers). Now I'm using AFT and am pretty happy with it.
I used UFO for some time and I had no problems with it. I never tried AFT, but recently, I installed the Requiem overhaul, but I couldn't get UFO to work with it. I tried it with EFF and it worked well, plus the idea of being able to set their residence is a cool feature just in case you dismiss them and you want them again, but you forgot where you originally found them. You can set them, as Hawx Gaming said, at your house so you can easily find them when and if you need them.
tried AFT and the menus are very complicated but I followed some user comment on nexus telling you to set your follower gear and combat style the moment you hire him and later you don't have to mess with them that much I wouldn't recommend it for someone that changes followers all the time AFT allows you to set-up auto-switching exploring-cities-home clothes and they will wear only what you want them to wear (better than EFF) you can also tweak their combat behavior and spells well..but all of this require going into settings for a while before you can continue playing edit:tried EFF and other than the menu feels too simple for me compared to AFT
I've been using EFF and AFT combined. Seems very good to me. with EFF i can set the groups and AFT i can get werewolve(s) or vampire(s) to fight with me. Werewolf followers in my opinion are by far the best, they can save you from dragons or when your just outnumbered greatly. I've not tried any of these alone yet but with EFF/AFT i think im good.
Great video! I've watched a few of your videos over the last few hours and they're quite well done. You've earned yourself another sub, keep up the great work! :D
Donda Nana They only allow 30 in terms of who will sit at ______ base or location for you. But you can only ever have 5 followers actively following you at once. AFT is in my mind the highest quality mod, but I hate how it's creator basically went "I don't like more than 5 followers. Therefore you can't have it!". Which is honestly really childish of him. Especially since changing for him should be as easy as putting in a new number in the code.
Gwazi Magnum Hey thanks for letting me know that! I only carry 3 companions at a time so I never know that. Seriously your right. You think having eff attached with AFT will make it work differently?
I know of one person who managed to do that, but only after modding both mods in order to work together. He then tried uploading his version onto Nexus for people to use, but the admins banned him. Author's probably got mad that someone improved their mod and cried about it.
One thing I don't like about AFT and it's keeping me from using it: once you use it your followers become permanently changed even if you uninstall it. Their stats and level will never return to their default values even if you reset AFT. I haven't tried the other mods.
I know this was 8 years ago, but I'll add the info for some new players: This would happen with any mod. After uninstalling a mod, you must *always* use a save you created right before installing the mod. You *can't* continue with your latest save because it will destroy your game.
What I'd do is get Anna's NPC followers. They are pretty interesting and I guess one could call the AI "smart.."? If you have the Interesting NPCs mod it will recognize it and talk to those npcs! With UFO installed, all followers together will converse with each other!
Using aft I like to make a courier my follower, so that if I ever get mail from mods, I get it instantly and anywhere. I don't do this every time, but it's quite nice to use.
I've been using AFT since it appeared on Nexus, and I absolutely love it. Customization is great, and also it is compatible with lots of other mods. I have around 420 mods installed so far in total, no issues with any followers.
Do you know of a mod that allows your followers to wear the clothes you gave them after they are dismissed? This would be useful for stewards when I want them to wear armor after leaving them at my houses.
I believe it is this - www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/23798/? Although it hasn't been updated for a while, you may try giving it a shot. It may also be incompatible with some (or all) functions of the follower tweaking mod that you have. Also, there's this one - www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/8530/? It is mentioned though that it was transitioned to UFO. I haven't used UFO, so try it out. :) There're also some threads related to the thing you're looking for on Nexus.
Thanks so much :D It was so hard trying to find this on google. All I could find were these 3 mods n the video and they just did too much. Now I'm off to find a dual wield mod which shouldn't be hard and then i'm in business.
Usually when an NPC learns a spell, it immediately adopts a spellcaster playstyle. Tweak Spells from AFT are spells you teach your followers that are managed by the mod and not the vanilla AI, and with cast and target conditions specified by the player. Hence you can teach a warrior a few tweak spells and they will still behave like a warrior, casting the spells when conditions are met. Also certain custom combat styles in AFT like spellswords trigger between the two modes (fighter/caster) and the outcome works well. Finally, when assigning a custom fight style, or manually leveling up a character (assigning HP/SP/MP and skills points yourself!) on a follower, they will match your level and go past their skill cap. These are huge details that make AFT very unique and are left out of this video. So AFT is the mod for you if you want Lydia to be a paladin or a dual wielding assassin. It gives the most power and control to the player out of the three mods.
0:38 What tree mod is that? Those look like some great pines that you might see IRL too, maybe with a bit of Asian art, formal upright bonsai type of aesthetic as well.
I used to like UFO but switched to EFF because it actually allows you to change the appearance of your companion and has almost all of the features of UFO, plus I can use more than one follower from Interesting NPCs with EFF but not with UFO.
You can combine UFO with Followers Can Relax if you don´t want AFT, they will sit on the benches and gather stuff for you but it´s still too modest in comparison to FLP (I don´t know AFT yet)
I used AFT the most and I really liked it. The only problem with it that turned into a deal breaker for me was that it is not completely compatible with Hearthfires. The mod author didn't want to get that DLC so never updated his mod for it. As a result, this mod will break some of the dialogue features from Hearthfires. Hearthfires users should keep that in mind when deciding on this follower mod.
Nowadays you only need verification by phone, It's kind of annoying because I remember waiting for ages for custom thumbnails on my old channel, when now your automatically given them :)
Love your comparisons! Very helpful and informative to decide which mods suits one best. But what's hardest to decide for me personally is for combat (including AI and difficulty, i.e. leveled zones, hp, skills etc.) So thats something i would love to see. I don't want to oneshot dragons or armies of draugr at lvl 2 like in vanilla skyrim, even on legendary difficulty. I would love to have a comparison of combat mods or even a breakdown with compatible mods to make skyrim an immersive, dangerous, rough but still manageable place from lvl 1 to 100. As far as i know and i searched alot in yt, there is nothing to find for that part of skyrim, which seems a bit odd, since this is most likely the part of the game with the most impact. If you could add something like this to your To-Do List of vids, i would totally love it.
Skyrim UFO is not good anymore. there are issues where there is no dialogue for followers to say "follow me" because the person who made this mod hasn't updated the mod since patch 1.6
Tried UFO for the 80% of my gameplay until it broke my followers: I can't dismiss a follower despite continuously dismissing them from my party. Now I'm doing a new gameplay with AFT, hopefully I'll encounter less problems.
Loved the video, very helpful, I used ufo for a long time but the maker of the mod sadly stopped updating so I moved to aft, been getting a few problems since installment though I'm not sure whether it's this mod or not cleaning the dirty edits in immersive armours mod. However, I have one question, you just started making videos but were allowed to use thumbnails, can you tell me how you did this?
Thx for this video, i was wondering which follower mod i was gonna use (was about to install UFO, and followed a link here) and actually changed me mind and choosed EFF instead. It seems to fit my preferences better. I'm not a fan of having many followers, but i want to be able to manage the ones a bit more with their outfits and such, and especially the Relax command :P. Kudos to you me ladd. / Slaintë
i loved EFF and UFO but they conflicted with all sorts of mods, AFT i dont like nearly as much but i have never had an issue with AFT followers ever messing up another mod so if you have a heavily modded game i recommend AFT
luke V I second this. UFO for me just ruined my game to think that I have 190+ mods installed and most of the big mods I have are incompatible with it.
Thanks for this video! I've been using EFF for a while now, but I think I will be switching to UFO, as EFF is giving me problem with some companion mods (I mostly cannot get the follower to leave my service, no matter what I try). Guess it's time to try them out!
Just wanted to say, I have done 3 different playthroughs, each with one of these. The best of the three is EFF, UFO is the most popular but it has so many bugs, lots of followers ignoring commands, not leaving you, etc. AFT is the simplest of the three, and works fine, and EFF is UFO but not buggy. Recommend all of them except UFO.
I actually like eff mod simply because of collect items, the reason for my dungeon raid is to loot it, but fighting to level up while your follower collect items is the best thing because depending on the difficulties you may forget an item yea i remember going all the way back to retrieve an item i forgot in the first place 😫time consuming 😓
Something else that's great about AFT but not mentioned in the video (possibly didn't exist back then?) is that your followers can have up to three outfits; a normal outfit, a city outfit and a home outfit, which they automatically switch to depending on where you are. I've also found that the city outfit works in some places that aren't separate cells like Raven Rock.
The only downside to this is that they do spend about a quarter of a second in their underwear whenever they change, but I do quite like wandering around towns in ordinary clothing whenever I spend an extended period in one, so having my followers automatically do that as well is a really nice thing for me.
I just want to tell you three things about AFT:
1. AFT levels up your followers automatically.
2. You can set up each follower to a specific combat style, which is very cool. It basically allows you to determine what kind of role each follower will play in your group. This is great for those who like playing with a small group of followers which feels like more d&d style.
3. Finally, it come with the power tweak commands which opens a menu that allows you to give all sorts of commands to your followers, like to summon them all to your position, tell them all to sneak or to wait, etc. Overall it's a very neat mod.
actually very clearly spoken and well explained :D nice work
ACupOfKerba Thank you :)
i have literally just started doing mod videos and in a few weeks ima try learn to make my own mods should be fun :P
Hawx I'd be really interested in hearing your opinion on afv after using it for a while? I've just UNinstalled aft as i found the menu slow and cumbersome at times although i did really like the option to turn all your followers in to vampires or werewolf's so you can have a full army of werwolfs tearing it up
AFVmodeller I wish I could tell you, but the playthrough I did after this (first LP on my channel) was playing a psychopathic assassin who was a bit of a loner. I didn't use followers very often before either. I imagine I will when I do my next Let's Play so I'll get back to you on that one :)
+Hawx
Would you mind doing an updated version?
Tried the three and I aggree.
One follower : UFO
Multiple vanilla followers : AFT
Multiple custom and vanilla followers : EFF
For my part EFF is the most compatible with custom followers and any mods that modifies NPCs or add them as potential followers. And the menu just saves you so much time !
how do you open the menu?
Cheryl Dahl I think it's located in the Mod Configuration tab when you open your game settings
It may be 4 years later but I gotta thank you for this comment. The video is excellent of course, but your comment here really distills the information I need to make a decision perfectly.
thank u < 3 very cool
nice conclusion. Made me decide :D
While I rarely use Followers, there are plenty of quests that assign them to the Player. Having discovered that AFT allows more distance to be placed between them and the DB helps remove the annoyance of being shoved down stairs and into traps. For this feature alone, I can recommend using this mod. And kudos on this informative vid :)
Some additional details I've discovered after using all 3 mods.
The good points of UFO were covered in the review, and by other commenters. It also removes follower level caps. Unfortunately, it's also the most unstable of the 3 mods, a pain to install and uninstall without causing errors, and followers may randomly leave without warning.
With AFT, several of the options are pretty much cheating. Haven't used this as much, since like the above, it causes the "stuck walking in place" glitch and the menus are cumbersome. Still, I rather like the idea of having an army of werewolves or vampires.
EFF is the most stable, though also the most exploitable. Followers have a secondary "inventory" that has infinite capacity, and can be taught any game engine spells you know. Having a very high number of followers may cause the game to hang on occasion as it tries to load them all through area transitions. Also, it gets very irritating when followers will start dry humping you because they follow too closely.
I always wanted a good guide for which follower mod is best and I'm so glad I found this video and your channel. Thanks a lot, liked and subscribed
Thanks for doing this review! I think I'll be using AFT myself, since the idea of having a werewolf housecarl guarding my homestead in Falkreath against those random bandit and giant attacks is appealing.
Thanks so much for doing your comparison videos. They've helped me get a feel of different mods and choose the ones that are best for me. They've enriched my gameplay experience immensely. :-)
Seeing your mod was perfect timing for me. I am in the process of trying to decide which other follower mod I want to try, and your mod was very helpful. I, too, used UFO previously, but there were too many things about it I didn't like. Thank you!
Noticed there are several mods for follower system modification, so I was in need of a comparison of them. This video is exactly what I've been looking for. Thank you.
I'm back to Skyrim and as I'll test some followers, I wasn't sure which overhaul to use, but your video perfectly answered all my questions. Thank you!
Thanks, really informative video and I like your delivery. Went with AFT since its the only one available in the Steam workshop.
I really like your pic where is it from?
acjackson127 just search "Vlad Tepes" in google images and you should be able to find it.
IMO, AFT is the best. it has the features you mentioned in both other mods as well such as group commands and the like, plus it is deeply customizable down to fighting weapons and styles, outfits for different areas, dismissing in a specific area and setting a home for them to be dismissed to.
Great video man! Very detailed comparison and dialogue, it's very helpful for me since I'm thinking about trying AFT (using EFF in my last 2 playthroughs.)
Subbed and hope to see more videos from you. Your channel has lots of potential. Good luck!
One thing that's possible: Using UFO and AFT at the same time. Granted you're still locked into 15 followers per UFO's limitations, but you also get AFT's options and ability to have all the followers sandboxing in the cell without being told, so best of both worlds.
I'm just loving your comparison videos. I just got Skyrim SE edition and I'm trying to put together a list of mods that I want to install before I start my playthrough. It's been years since I played the original vanilla Skyrim when it first came out. I can't believe how many mods there are nowadays. Whew! :-)
TL;DR (or in this case, watch)
*UFO*: Very immersion friendly, menus are simple and functional, works with vanilla followers perfectly and even some mod followers.
*AFT*: Not immersion friendly, tedious menus due to being trough dialogue, but it has a lot of cool options that neither UFO nor EFF have.
*EFF*: Not immersion friendly, really user friendly menu, great for big groups, lacks some options.
What makes UFO non immersion friendly besides the dialogue menu
austin best I said it's very inmersion friendly, IMO it *adds* immersion!
oh my bad haha
TL DR ? you probably spend hundreds of hours in front of your game and can't spend 10 minutes watching a really good video that helped me a lot understanding ? and you even have the nerve to COMMENT it without watching ? people like you should just not be part of the community, (humanity?) , ..that'd make the world a better place to live.
Erwan LeVinnec Wow calm down bro, I have watched the video obviously, wtf is wrong with you? I'm making this TL;DR to clarify so people can get the key differences between these 3 mods... I swear, people get so upset for the stupidest things nowadays...
Thank you very much for this, this is still useful 10 years later.
Great timing on this video! I too have been using UFO for months and i was thinking of trying another alternative. i think i may give AFT a try now! thank you for the time you put into this really informative video and you've definitely earned my subscription. Keep up the good work!
Highly appreciated thnx 👏👏👏👏
Also with AFT you can make a random NPC a follower such as a guard, soldier, or random "dude" I enjoy AFT. Good review Hawx.
Very nice video and mod overview. Audio could be a bit louder and balanced, but the content and oratory quality kept me watching.
Good video, first going through all the different mods, then summing the biggest features up before the final conclusion.
I am having a hard time chosing between Ultimate Follower Overhaul and Amazing Follower Tweaks so I guess I'll stick around with the first one for now since you've mentioned that AFT is less immersive compared to UFO and I like Immersion.
Climates Of Tamriel and Realistic Lighting Overhaul. They look awesome together :)
I'm using AFT and I am thoroughly enjoying it, although I much prefer the lore friendly interface of UFO. That was the one factor that almost tipped me (as I prefer immersion) which is what brought me here. Thanks for the clearer picture. I'm sticking with AFT for now. :D
Thanks, I rarely comment on videos but this really helped me decide between the three options!
Nice channel, this is what I was looking for a comparison on similar mods to choose the best for the best experience in Skyrim! :D
I just found your chanel, and it's an amazing idea, you really help us to compare the mods, and saving time too. I wanted to reinstall my game, and your work helps me A LOT! Keep comparing! ;)
Finally, a good skyrim youtuber without a female character
Owen Crawford I know what you mean all these dudes with their female characters getting their Bruce Jener on.
Lol
Beautiful work. Comparisons like this are often sought after, but all anyone ever has to say is "I use [X] and it works great for me." No-one seems to ever actually want to go through and compare mods like this for the sake of the modding community as a whole. You're doing a really great service for those of us out there who can't go through and do this testing ourselves. Your videos are something special, and I certainly hope you keep it up.
Very nice video, answered the exact question I was having in a clear way :3 (I've also decided on AFT)
Some addendums: relaxing is not mandatory in AFT and can be toggled off, and AFT also has a 'set home here' feature for followers.
The Book for Those follower commands on UFO is also found in Breezehome.
I love UFO since I can either have an army of followers or I could go solo after telling them to stay in a tavern with group commands.
Good video hawk I have been using AFT forever and a day and would recommend it to everyone. It has occasional issues if you have downloaded certain custom followers. But generally if you save before tweaking your good.
Great explanation of these mods, I've motivated and try to install, I've always played Skyrim without follower but will try and will form a squad.
This was an excellent video, well done.
I currently use EFF very fun mod to mess around with currently have 5 followers
I had the same problem with UFO. I couldn't dismiss my followers, which was a must for uninstalling the mod. So, when I tried to uninstall it broke my save after talking to the firefly. I then had to go back a few saves prior (before I had 2 followers). Now I'm using AFT and am pretty happy with it.
I used UFO for some time and I had no problems with it. I never tried AFT, but recently, I installed the Requiem overhaul, but I couldn't get UFO to work with it. I tried it with EFF and it worked well, plus the idea of being able to set their residence is a cool feature just in case you dismiss them and you want them again, but you forgot where you originally found them. You can set them, as Hawx Gaming said, at your house so you can easily find them when and if you need them.
tried AFT and the menus are very complicated but I followed some user comment on nexus telling you to set your follower gear and combat style the moment you hire him and later you don't have to mess with them that much
I wouldn't recommend it for someone that changes followers all the time
AFT allows you to set-up auto-switching exploring-cities-home clothes and they will wear only what you want them to wear (better than EFF) you can also tweak their combat behavior and spells well..but all of this require going into settings for a while before you can continue playing
edit:tried EFF and other than the menu feels too simple for me compared to AFT
I've been using EFF and AFT combined. Seems very good to me. with EFF i can set the groups and AFT i can get werewolve(s) or vampire(s) to fight with me. Werewolf followers in my opinion are by far the best, they can save you from dragons or when your just outnumbered greatly. I've not tried any of these alone yet but with EFF/AFT i think im good.
Loved this, like really, thank you for your time and dedication.
You have a great voice! Keep up the good work
Great video!
I've watched a few of your videos over the last few hours and they're quite well done.
You've earned yourself another sub, keep up the great work! :D
I wish AFT allowed more than 5 followers.
they allow 30 for me
Donda Nana
Yes it says so in the aft description page plus everytime you add a companion it tells you how many slots are left.
Donda Nana They only allow 30 in terms of who will sit at ______ base or location for you. But you can only ever have 5 followers actively following you at once.
AFT is in my mind the highest quality mod, but I hate how it's creator basically went "I don't like more than 5 followers. Therefore you can't have it!". Which is honestly really childish of him. Especially since changing for him should be as easy as putting in a new number in the code.
Gwazi Magnum
Hey thanks for letting me know that! I only carry 3 companions at a time so I never know that.
Seriously your right. You think having eff attached with AFT will make it work differently?
I know of one person who managed to do that, but only after modding both mods in order to work together.
He then tried uploading his version onto Nexus for people to use, but the admins banned him. Author's probably got mad that someone improved their mod and cried about it.
Very good comparison video, thank you.
Thanks for the comparison! I guess I'll just stick with UFO for now but I'll definitely give one of the others a try if I run into any problems.
One thing I don't like about AFT and it's keeping me from using it: once you use it your followers become permanently changed even if you uninstall it. Their stats and level will never return to their default values even if you reset AFT. I haven't tried the other mods.
I know this was 8 years ago, but I'll add the info for some new players:
This would happen with any mod. After uninstalling a mod, you must *always* use a save you created right before installing the mod. You *can't* continue with your latest save because it will destroy your game.
What I'd do is get Anna's NPC followers. They are pretty interesting and I guess one could call the AI "smart.."? If you have the Interesting NPCs mod it will recognize it and talk to those npcs! With UFO installed, all followers together will converse with each other!
Using aft I like to make a courier my follower, so that if I ever get mail from mods, I get it instantly and anywhere. I don't do this every time, but it's quite nice to use.
Hahah you're a freak in genius haha Imma try that.
I'm very, very late but for SSE, AFT + Mixed Unit Tactics is in my opinion, the greatest follower mod combination.
Im going to use EFF deffinetly :) Thanx for the review :)
I've been using AFT since it appeared on Nexus, and I absolutely love it. Customization is great, and also it is compatible with lots of other mods. I have around 420 mods installed so far in total, no issues with any followers.
Do you know of a mod that allows your followers to wear the clothes you gave them after they are dismissed? This would be useful for stewards when I want them to wear armor after leaving them at my houses.
I believe it is this - www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/23798/?
Although it hasn't been updated for a while, you may try giving it a shot. It may also be incompatible with some (or all) functions of the follower tweaking mod that you have.
Also, there's this one - www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/8530/?
It is mentioned though that it was transitioned to UFO. I haven't used UFO, so try it out. :)
There're also some threads related to the thing you're looking for on Nexus.
Thanks so much :D It was so hard trying to find this on google. All I could find were these 3 mods n the video and they just did too much. Now I'm off to find a dual wield mod which shouldn't be hard and then i'm in business.
Frostfall: It makes you die in the cold
EFF also lets you force NPC's to be your Follower through MCM, even NPC's that are not flagged under follower faction. That's why I use EFF.
thanks for the quick response, very helpful to know
Thanks this really helped me choose AFT over the other ones. :D
Usually when an NPC learns a spell, it immediately adopts a spellcaster playstyle. Tweak Spells from AFT are spells you teach your followers that are managed by the mod and not the vanilla AI, and with cast and target conditions specified by the player. Hence you can teach a warrior a few tweak spells and they will still behave like a warrior, casting the spells when conditions are met. Also certain custom combat styles in AFT like spellswords trigger between the two modes (fighter/caster) and the outcome works well. Finally, when assigning a custom fight style, or manually leveling up a character (assigning HP/SP/MP and skills points yourself!) on a follower, they will match your level and go past their skill cap. These are huge details that make AFT very unique and are left out of this video. So AFT is the mod for you if you want Lydia to be a paladin or a dual wielding assassin. It gives the most power and control to the player out of the three mods.
0:38 What tree mod is that? Those look like some great pines that you might see IRL too, maybe with a bit of Asian art, formal upright bonsai type of aesthetic as well.
I used to like UFO but switched to EFF because it actually allows you to change the appearance of your companion and has almost all of the features of UFO, plus I can use more than one follower from Interesting NPCs with EFF but not with UFO.
Good video, I use AFT, because I like the customization options
Thanks for letting everyone know :)
You can combine UFO with Followers Can Relax if you don´t want AFT, they will sit on the benches and gather stuff for you but it´s still too modest in comparison to FLP (I don´t know AFT yet)
Well I'm impressed, nice video! You've gained a sub.
I used AFT the most and I really liked it. The only problem with it that turned into a deal breaker for me was that it is not completely compatible with Hearthfires. The mod author didn't want to get that DLC so never updated his mod for it. As a result, this mod will break some of the dialogue features from Hearthfires. Hearthfires users should keep that in mind when deciding on this follower mod.
Nowadays you only need verification by phone, It's kind of annoying because I remember waiting for ages for custom thumbnails on my old channel, when now your automatically given them :)
This was very helpful thank you.
Why didn't you use the beta version of Extensible Follower Framework? It is much improved.
Great comparison.
The only thing i like in AFT is that u can tell your followers build a camp, thats it, im using frostfall and in windy conditions its very helpful
Love your comparisons! Very helpful and informative to decide which mods suits one best.
But what's hardest to decide for me personally is for combat (including AI and difficulty, i.e. leveled zones, hp, skills etc.) So thats something i would love to see. I don't want to oneshot dragons or armies of draugr at lvl 2 like in vanilla skyrim, even on legendary difficulty.
I would love to have a comparison of combat mods or even a breakdown with compatible mods to make skyrim an immersive, dangerous, rough but still manageable place from lvl 1 to 100.
As far as i know and i searched alot in yt, there is nothing to find for that part of skyrim, which seems a bit odd, since this is most likely the part of the game with the most impact.
If you could add something like this to your To-Do List of vids, i would totally love it.
I used AFT on one playthrough. Serana got stuck as a vampire lord and never changed back. Up until that point, however, it worked fine.
Great video, thank you Hawx :)
Skyrim UFO is not good anymore. there are issues where there is no dialogue for followers to say "follow me" because the person who made this mod hasn't updated the mod since patch 1.6
Tried UFO for the 80% of my gameplay until it broke my followers: I can't dismiss a follower despite continuously dismissing them from my party. Now I'm doing a new gameplay with AFT, hopefully I'll encounter less problems.
VERY helpful. Awesome vid!!!!
With UFO there's an issue with Hearthfires where it won't allow you to have a Steward lol
Loved the video, very helpful, I used ufo for a long time but the maker of the mod sadly stopped updating so I moved to aft, been getting a few problems since installment though I'm not sure whether it's this mod or not cleaning the dirty edits in immersive armours mod. However, I have one question, you just started making videos but were allowed to use thumbnails, can you tell me how you did this?
found this really helpful, thanks :)
Thx for this video, i was wondering which follower mod i was gonna use (was about to install UFO, and followed a link here) and actually changed me mind and choosed EFF instead. It seems to fit my preferences better. I'm not a fan of having many followers, but i want to be able to manage the ones a bit more with their outfits and such, and especially the Relax command :P. Kudos to you me ladd. / Slaintë
i loved EFF and UFO but they conflicted with all sorts of mods, AFT i dont like nearly as much but i have never had an issue with AFT followers ever messing up another mod
so if you have a heavily modded game i recommend AFT
luke V I second this. UFO for me just ruined my game to think that I have 190+ mods installed and most of the big mods I have are incompatible with it.
Which mods are you using for the graphics it looks really nice
Thanks i found it very usefull. AFT is much more downloaded, it makes me think is a good choise for compatibility.
Great work!
you should use vilja in skyrim man, together with aft she is the most in depth follower mod available
Outdated comment the most in depth mod now is inigo
I hope at least one of these mods work for the special edition can't wait
Thank god
Having problems with AFT. For some reason follower won't follow commands or engage in combat anymore.
Is there a more up to date follower mod? All of these are years old
What about immersive amazing follower tweaks? I know it's supposed to be a variant of AFT, but I think it may work differently...
thank you for this video, helped a lot to make a desition :)
Which mod are you using to allow one-handed swords to go on characters backs and do you know if it is compatible with belt-fastened quivers?
Thanks 4 the video!
Thanks for this video!
I've been using EFF for a while now, but I think I will be switching to UFO, as EFF is giving me problem with some companion mods (I mostly cannot get the follower to leave my service, no matter what I try).
Guess it's time to try them out!
AFT also gives you the ability to make anyone a follower.
Just wanted to say, I have done 3 different playthroughs, each with one of these. The best of the three is EFF, UFO is the most popular but it has so many bugs, lots of followers ignoring commands, not leaving you, etc. AFT is the simplest of the three, and works fine, and EFF is UFO but not buggy. Recommend all of them except UFO.
That's some pretty sexy LOD. (Thx for the vid)
I think EFF is the best.
I actually like eff mod simply because of collect items, the reason for my dungeon raid is to loot it, but fighting to level up while your follower collect items is the best thing because depending on the difficulties you may forget an item yea i remember going all the way back to retrieve an item i forgot in the first place 😫time consuming 😓
excellent video! Keep it up :)