Ive tried completing the questlines in a clan, and out of one, at different times, one after the other, different choices …
No matter what I do, they do not spawn with any perks once the questline is finished.
What gives? are they just bugged to hell and back? I see other people getting them with perks just fine. Is there a way I can just add the correct perks to them after? This is very frustrating.
Perks get added in whichever order they are obtained (or added via command), and there’s nothing stopping you from giving them in different orders. You can’t just add something to Perk slot #3 if 1 and 2 are blank, for instance… But you can get Freya’s Perk 3b in perk slot #1.
I also tried giving Freya’s perks to normal thralls and they do not function, but there may be more experimentation that can be done.
As far as the quest itself and it functioning properly, I have no other ideas for now.
Unfortunately, console commands don’t seem to work either. I think the game is treating the companions like normal thralls, even when I get them by finishing the questlines normally and am met with “failed to learn follower perk. Perk is unknown, but learning failed” whenever I try to add one of them manually.
I haven’t tried it myself for Freya (because mine worked properly), but normally for follower commands you need to have them following you and then you input the command into console (Tilde key ` ) as admin.