I had 8 named thralls outside of my building which is on top of Iron Breaker Ridge (B7), and just noticed that there are only 6 now. The 6 that are still present were on sandstone foundation blocks and the 2 (Tessa the Blade and a Relic Hunter Treasure Seeker) that were on the sand/landscape have gone AWOL. I don’t know how long they’ve been gone as I literally just noticed after not paying any attention to the group for some time.
It’s not really a big deal since I was only using them for purge. Although it is a little annoying that I lost 2 legendary weapons (one was the Black Dragon Pike and I can’t remember the exact war hammer) and all the armor they were wearing.
I play single player, non-co-op, vanilla (no mods).
Off topic:
I’ve also noticed that the game seems to be running a lot worse than it used to 6 months or so back. Lots of stutter, pauses and what feels like lag. It’s really hard to have faith in fighting something dangerous with all these performance issues happening. I’m going to have to reinstall the live version and see if it runs any better than test live.
Just wondering, have you checked your followers tab to see if the missing thralls are still alive? If they are dead, what does the event log show? If they are alive, did you turn on the map markers and ghost under the mesh to search for them? I’ve had more than one instance of thralls on guard who disappeared to the bottom of the world - some immediately upon placing them to guard.
As for Live vs Testlive, they are currently the same revision number so the differences will likely be minimal.
Fairly easy process, really. Go to the Followers tab of your inventory screen. The far right-hand column has a little icon with the picture of an eye. Click that for whichever follower you want to find. Then switch to the map page and there should be a new icon for each follower that looks like a chess p.awn. If you have a lot of the map discovered, it’s a bit of a pain to locate them, but if they are alive, they will show on the map with the marker toggle enabled.