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• Awesome Perk - SPIKE - And other compatibility features

  07 Mar 2019

  Argonil

  When I found out years ago that adding perks to the player and especially NPCs is a lot of trouble in the engine, I tried adding my permanent perk effects for the player to the TGWellFitted perk that the player starts with which already adds the set bonus spell for Nightingale Armor. Surprisingly, it just worked and left no trace upon uninstalling. Awesome. But getting any perk effects to work on followers and other NPCs proved nearly impossible down the road as neither magic effects nor SKSE scripts can add perks to NPCs, only the player. Not even the "addperk" console command works for NPCs. Many items don't work fully for NPCs as a result... unless you edit their NPC record and add the perk to them the hard-coded way. And if it's a mod's perk, well, then the NPC mod needs to reference i...

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