AI Overhaul - NPCs Greet Again
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📋 About This Mod
Vanilla NPCs start to interact with Player once again including Ysolda and our favorite hated(loved?) Pal Nazeem and many others.
Description
While checking out the new JobiWanUK's mod "Everybody Hates Nazeem" I finally found out the culprit for Silent Vanilla NPCs including Nazeem.
AI overhaul disable many of the vanilla NPCs from using their hello dialogues and pretty much only way to talk to most of them would be by manually talking to them by pressing E. It also reduces the AI dialogue distance.
Main features
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[]This patch revert the packages to behave like vanilla again in case of NPC dialogue interaction with player only including the newly added packages by AI overhaul.[/]
[]AI greeting distance is reverted back to vanilla values as well.[/]
[]I also made a duplicate to vanilla record fAIMinGreetingDistance as well. While AI overhaul itself does not change this value but some other popular mods like crime overhaul and USMP reduce this value so that the only way NPCs start interacting with you would be to bump into them which I find unnecessary specially with all the dialogue expansion mods bringing variety to their dialogues. [/]
Side Note:
If you are mid save and want to revert to vanilla greeting distance you need to type these three console commands as well:
SetGameSetting fAIMinGreetingDistance 150
SetGameSetting fAIInDialogueModeWithPlayerDistance 500
SetGameSetting fAIDialogueDistance 150
load this plugin after(below) Crime Overhaul, social NPCs or any mod that changes fAIMinGreetingDistance if you want vanilla greeting distance back
Requirements
AI Overhaul SSE - Only the USSEP dependent version and only .esp plugins are supported so this isn't compatible with NON-USSEP nor is compatible with lite version .esl
Note to users of 1. 6. 640: despite AI overhaul's description, you can safely update to 1. 9 so do not worry about it.(thanks to Backported Extended ESL Support)
Shout outs
thanks to JobiWanUK for pointing me out to root of this issue.
Shout out to mnikjom and SpiderAkira for AI Overhaul mod...it's been in my load order since forever.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Skyrim Mods
- Author
- ftwranger
- Version
- 1
- Downloads
- 3,368
- Endorsements
- 22
- Category
- Patches
- Created
- 7/13/2026
- Updated
- 7/13/2026
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