This started happening my previous playthrough and its basically a series of incredibly strange but linked ED-E glitches:

1. ED-E will stay still and not fight during combat.

2. ED-E refuses to use ranged weapons(Everytime you switch him to "Use Ranged" he will change back to use melee)

3. He has a reference ID from a mod. I know this because when you click on him in console it displays a REF ID starting in FF(Right now hes ff001a89). Spawning any version of him(Regualr, upgrade Armor, and upgrade gun) will all spawn him with a REF ID indicating he is from a mod.


I have lonesome road installed but that dosen't touch ED-E, the only other one I have is something called ED-E heavy weapons and disabling that does nothing.

1&2 are most commonly caused by him not having the proper gear he is supposed to have, but I checked and he definitely has everything.

He also has some non-vanilla dialog options like "Let me access your multitools" Which opens a workbench and "Could you help me craft some ammo?" Which opens an ammo bench. From what I heard I beleive these are supposed to be usable after you install lonesome road. But when I unchecked Lonesome road in the load order they were still there and so was the strange Ref ID.

that wasn't very funny

I said almost funny. But thanks for the bump.


EDIT: What would REALLY help would be some way of seeing what mod this is coming from via that REF ID, is there some mod or program that could replace the FF with the actual mod number?

if you had added a bit about ostriches or salamanders it might be giggle worthy

why don't you just uninstall all the mods you have running and see if that helps?

I could try it but I don't know how well it will load given how may Save may be dependent on some of this stuff at this point. It would also be incredibly time consuming.