Move Followers Aside

What's the most annoying thing about Fallout New Vegas? No, not that. Not that either.

How many times have we been sniping at enemies, only to find Veronica unconscious at our feet because she got in front of us or Boone throwing down his sniper rifle because he got so close, you ended up shooting the thing right out of his hand? Something about the combat AI in this game makes all followers try their hardest to get directly in between you and anything you're shooting at if they can't detect the enemy themselves yet. This--THIS--is the most annoying thing about this game, which is saying quite a lot, since there are several annoying things about this game. It's infuriating!

Ladies, gentlemen and various non-binary, transgender beings of The Nexus, after nine years of swearing at this idiotic behavior, I have finally fixed this damn problem. Well, worked around it anyway. I give you, The Anti-Companion Forcefield!

What does it do? Simple. If you are in combat, any NPC who is following you that gets within melee range is simply thrown back. If they move back toward you, they're tossed aside again. Works for vanilla companions and modded companions, as long as they are properly set as a FollowerTeammate.

THIS MOD REQUIRES THAT YOU HAVE THE NEW VEGAS SCRIPT EXTENDER

No arguing about this, I can't do the mod without it and have it work on mod-added companions.

The forcefield is given to you automatically when you load the game with the mod active. It will be in your apparel section. Equip it to run the forcefield, unequip it to turn it off. While indoors, you probably want to stop using it, as it just tends to cause more problems with your followers than it solves, but outdoors, it works great.

It should be compatible with everything. It shouldn't matter where you put it in your load order. Everything is done with a couple of small scripts.

Many thanks for Cipscis for his excellent scripting tutorials.

Deleted a dirty edit left over from early testing. If updating from 1. 0, dismiss and rehire Veronica if she is a current follower.