Companion turned into a coward after I married her.

[Ark of Truth]

My companion has suddenly turned into a coward after I married her. She is now running away from battle instead of fighting.

 

If it helps she is a completely custom companion and is not based on any template. Load order is below.

 

Like I said above she works fine and fights until after she got married to me. Sensible answers only please.

 

Any ideas?

 

The mods in Cyan you can ignore they are only there as bash thinks they are ESM due to modding purposes.

 

 

 

Active Mod Files:

 

00  Skyrim.esm
01  Update.esm
02  Dawnguard.esm
03  HearthFires.esm
04  Dragonborn.esm
05  RaceCompatibility.esm
06  SexLab.esm  [Version 1.15b]
07  Lovergirl Race.esp
08  Lovergirls Follower Pack.esp
09  The Ningheim.esp
0A  ApachiiHair.esm
0B  TERAArmors.esm
0C  HighResTexturePack01.esp
0D  HighResTexturePack02.esp
0E  HighResTexturePack03.esp
0F  here there be monsters.esp
10  quest_sorcery.esp
11  100XCarryWeight.esp
12  Alternate Start - Live Another Life.esp  [Version 2.3.1]
13  Castle Stonespire1_5.esp
14  Elewin Jewelry.esp
15  FNISspells.esp
16  Serana.esp
17  Marriable Serana.esp  [Version 1.6.2]
18  Marriable Serana HF.esp  [Version 1.6.2]
19  SexLab Horny Followers.esp
1A  SexLab Romance.esp
1B  SkyUI.esp
1C  TERA Weapons.esp
1D  TERAArmors.esp
1E  UFO - Ultimate Follower Overhaul.esp
1F  UFO - Dawnguard AddOn.esp
20  UFO - Heartfire AddOn.esp
21  Vjarkell Castle.esp
22  zzzIchaLove.esp
23  FollowerWander2.esp
24  FollowerWander2Serana.esp
25  Height Adjusted Races with True Giants.esp
26  iHUD.esp
27  Spousetocustomhome.esp
28  MhiaSummers.esp
29  Bashed Patch, 0.esp

 

 

 

[Groovtama]

1E  UFO - Ultimate Follower Overhaul.esp
1F  UFO - Dawnguard AddOn.esp
20  UFO - Heartfire AddOn.esp
27  Spousetocustomhome.esp

These would be my favorites.

[Guest airdance]

Why not go into CK and change her back to aggressive mode?

[Ark of Truth]

Why not go into CK and change her back to aggressive mode?

Because she is already configured to it.........The changes happens in game and due to a mod somewhere.

[MikeMetal]

I thought this only happens to male people

 

ON: Open console, target your wife and type setav confidence X, where X is one of the values below:

 

• 0 Cowardly - Will always avoid/flee from threats. Cowardly actors NEVER engage in combat under any circumstances. Confidence can never be lower than 0.

 

• 1 Cautious - Will avoid/flee from threats unless the Actor is stronger than the threat.

 

• 2 Average - Will avoid/flee from threats if outmatched.

 

• 3 Brave - Will avoid/flee from threats only if severely outmatched.

 

• 4 Foolhardy  Will never avoid/flee from anyone.

 

From http://www.creationkit.com/AI_Data_Tab .

[Ark of Truth]

OK I'll give that a go thanks

[Ark of Truth]

After some testing this seems to be a vanilla bug. With all mods except the custom follower turned off the issue still happens.

[Kageryu]

Did you beat her after marraige? >_>

[Deep Red]

I think this might be a vanilla bug as well. I had a mod which made Muiri a follower. She would fight like a champ before marriage, but afterward she would run like a headless chicken and cower behind the nearest rock or tree. This was back in the 1.8 version, and several clean reinstalls ago.

[Ark of Truth]

Figured it out

 

Due to the companion settings being wrong with the aggression level set to cowardly and who they help was set to none. It seems like those settings are embedded into the save when you save the game. Even after changing the settings, loading and re-saving the game the old settings are not overwritten. In order for the new settings to take affect you must start a new game or create a script to load the new settings when the game loads.