Nerfed Followers

[Anunya]

This mod seems incredibly promising!

 

I assume at this point there's no way to differentiate between followers, with some being nerfed while others are tough?

 

Personally when I play there's sort of two modes - one is when the PC is on her own, or with female followers. All kinds of bad things happen, and having the female followers be nerfed like this is perfect.

 

At other times, my PC ends up as a submissive to a strong dominant follower, and in those scenarios ideally those followers are not nerfed. It'd feel sort of silly, for example, to have Bruiser from Troubles of Heroine nerfed, or a Submissive Lola master.

 

Thinking out loud, would it maybe be possible to use the whitelist/blacklist json I have for Captive Followers to designate which followers are nerfed and which are not?

Edited November 6, 2025 by Anunya

[Lusciouslochs]

On 11/2/2025 at 10:49 AM, darkdesires04 said:

 

Um, I am not sure, it just works for her. When combat starts if she's horny she undresses.

 

ohhh i missed this mods feature of "strip if aroused" so that must overwrite the authors failsafe, good to know!!

 

[ttpt]

I tried the acheron version and while the debuff works fine, the followers just never recover even in the acheron version

[darkdesires04]

On 11/6/2025 at 8:10 AM, Anunya said:

in those scenarios ideally those followers are not nerfed. It'd feel sort of silly, for example, to have Bruiser from Troubles of Heroine nerfed, or a Submissive Lola master.

 

I could add the blacklists when I have time. It's a good idea. Right now I am trying to polish Captive Player.

[darkdesires04]

On 11/9/2025 at 9:08 AM, ttpt said:

I tried the acheron version and while the debuff works fine, the followers just never recover even in the acheron version

 

I am playing the mod myself with Acheron and they recover for me. I am not sure what it could be right now.

[Anunya]

7 hours ago, darkdesires04 said:

 

I could add the blacklists when I have time. It's a good idea. Right now I am trying to polish Captive Player.

Sounds great!

 

You putting out some great work with your mods - it's much appreciated  

[ttpt]

On 11/10/2025 at 5:09 AM, darkdesires04 said:

 

I am playing the mod myself with Acheron and they recover for me. I am not sure what it could be right now.

 

I am using skyrim 1.5.97, which is behind on skse 2.0.20 and papyrus util 3.9, it's possible you could be using some newer function to remove the debuff. I saw that you are using factions for the stat reduction, I suppose it's possible, though I haven't tried yet, to just use the console to remove the faction on the followers to have them recover their stats, but then the mod does apply the debuff even on potential followers that aren't currently following, so that's a lot of keeping track of.

 

Is it possible to just have a whitelist, so I could designate followers that will get affected?

Edited November 11, 2025 by ttpt

[Emerald982]

I am using the non-acheron version and followers continue to take damage, get down, come back after a time, and do it over and over again. Vanilla follower actually just sandbox to another place and stop following after the first time.

GoG version.

[telord]

Anyway to make this without Acheron? I'm on Skyrim VR and playing the Circle of Lust, loving that mode with SkyrimNet, but Acheron never got ported to VR sadly, so i can't use nerfed follower i think. 

I was able to get the Nerfed Follower to boot by using Acheron AE, but i'm not sure it will work without it's base function, as Acheron AE MCM menu put everything at 0 and didn't let me set any value. Acheron SE just prevent SkyrimVR to boot for some reason. 

[darkdesires04]

On 11/5/2025 at 9:46 PM, zhuguannan said:

this is actually very useful, if stable

 

It's not stable right now. I found a few bugs as I was playing. I will update the mod once I have time.

[darkdesires04]

On 11/13/2025 at 9:48 PM, Emerald982 said:

I am using the non-acheron version and followers continue to take damage, get down, come back after a time, and do it over and over again. Vanilla follower actually just sandbox to another place and stop following after the first time.

GoG version.

 

I will come around to fixing it...

[darkdesires04]

On 11/15/2025 at 3:38 PM, telord said:

Anyway to make this without Acheron? I'm on Skyrim VR and playing the Circle of Lust, loving that mode with SkyrimNet, but Acheron never got ported to VR sadly, so i can't use nerfed follower i think. 

I was able to get the Nerfed Follower to boot by using Acheron AE, but i'm not sure it will work without it's base function, as Acheron AE MCM menu put everything at 0 and didn't let me set any value. Acheron SE just prevent SkyrimVR to boot for some reason. 

 

Maybe I can also create a non Acheron version, but I am in the middle of my own game so I don't want to break my save to test without it.

[telord]

On 11/16/2025 at 7:35 PM, darkdesires04 said:

 

Maybe I can also create a non Acheron version, but I am in the middle of my own game so I don't want to break my save to test without it.

No rush, i'll keep an eye out on your mod and see if you ever get a version without it. 

I also think that having my follower being almost immortal is not fair, roleplaying that they get incapacitated and need to be healed or resurrected make it way more realistic, specially with SkyrimNet, make the consequence of my action feel more heavy.

[NegiAg]

Hi, I have a problem. I downloaded the latest version and I can't see MCM, and when I use Resaver, I get this message:

Missing member data

This savefile has zeroed canaries. The cause of this seems to be related to script memory limits but it is not clear; Kinggath named it the 'canary error' if you want to search for more information. (2 items)

1. ddlustMCMConfig: *DarkDesiresCircleOfLust.esp:3f10e3b0 (0000017eeea329b0) (24)
2. ddNFMCMConfig: *NerfedFollowers.esp:fe02891b (0000017eb0226b60) (24)

Can someone help me?

[darkdesires04]

On 11/22/2025 at 5:23 PM, NegiAg said:

Hi, I have a problem. I downloaded the latest version and I can't see MCM, and when I use Resaver, I get this message:

Missing member data

This savefile has zeroed canaries. The cause of this seems to be related to script memory limits but it is not clear; Kinggath named it the 'canary error' if you want to search for more information. (2 items)

1. ddlustMCMConfig: *DarkDesiresCircleOfLust.esp:3f10e3b0 (0000017eeea329b0) (24)
2. ddNFMCMConfig: *NerfedFollowers.esp:fe02891b (0000017eb0226b60) (24)

Can someone help me?

 

Sorry, I am not sure why you would see these errors. You can try the more stable version 1.2 that I uploaded.

 

[darkdesires04]

On 11/13/2025 at 9:48 PM, Emerald982 said:

I am using the non-acheron version and followers continue to take damage, get down, come back after a time, and do it over and over again. Vanilla follower actually just sandbox to another place and stop following after the first time.

GoG version.

 

The non-Acheron version is not working as of now. For now I am only fixing the Acheron version, until it is stable.

 

[mnonyhc]

Cool mod, gonna give it a try.

Will it work on the "followers" from buxom wench yuriana? 

They are technically not followers, and while I can somewhat nerf them from being completely OP, I would like to see them defeated.
Same question for combat slaves from diary of mine.

[sdddll]

Hello, followers will still equip bandage even i unchecked "equip bandage" option in MCM, and how can i check followers' wound status? 

[SkyAddiction]

1 hour ago, sdddll said:

Hello, followers will still equip bandage even i unchecked "equip bandage" option in MCM, and how can i check followers' wound status? 

 

Talk to them, choose the [Inspect] option. Unconscious followers won't allow dialogue but you'll get a message telling you how long they'll be in that state.

[darkdesires04]

5 hours ago, sdddll said:

Hello, followers will still equip bandage even i unchecked "equip bandage" option in MCM, and how can i check followers' wound status? 

 

Yes, I forgot to add a check for that MCM setting. I will fix it for the next release.

[darkdesires04]

20 hours ago, mnonyhc said:

Cool mod, gonna give it a try.

Will it work on the "followers" from buxom wench yuriana? 

They are technically not followers, and while I can somewhat nerf them from being completely OP, I would like to see them defeated.
Same question for combat slaves from diary of mine.

 

It should work for all followers.

 

[pinkfluf]

On 11/17/2025 at 12:35 AM, darkdesires04 said:

 

Maybe I can also create a non Acheron version, but I am in the middle of my own game so I don't want to break my save to test without it.

That would be great if you could, I usually use simple defeat but for nerfed followers mod I installed acheron and disabled my usual defeat mod. Regretted it immediately, came across npcs (toaming bandits that clashed with guards) in a bleed out state due to acherons hunters pride, disabling it prior didn't work. Ended up removing it. 

[spotmark8]

Apologies if this has been mentioned before, followers are being knocked down, they go into the on knees and hand pose, a defeat scene wil start but then I guess due to the follower taking damage? They default to the pose seen on picture 4 which breaks the animation.

[darkdesires04]

3 hours ago, spotmark8 said:

Apologies if this has been mentioned before, followers are being knocked down, they go into the on knees and hand pose, a defeat scene wil start but then I guess due to the follower taking damage? They default to the pose seen on picture 4 which breaks the animation.

 

I see. I can fix it, if what you are saying is after the defeat sex scene starts, they revert back to the defeat pose.

 

[Ark2012]

For some reason the MCM menu does not show up for me, although there are new dialogue options for [Inspect] and [Push Away] that showed up (don't do anything if I choose them though). Are there any known incompatibilities that would cause this?