My followers were kidnapped by the Bishop Family

SuperStimpak

First time out of the vault
This is maybe the most enraging thing I have ever experienced while playing a PC game. My copy of fallout is version 1.0 unpatched, but i didn't expect a bug of this magnitude.
I've played this game for a month and I'm now at the point where I'm just leveling up as fast as I can wipe out Navarro with my followers (Marcus, Sulik and Cassidy). They're carrying virtually 100,000 worth of guns and ammo. I also only have two save slots. One is at the end of the Temple of Trials, and the other is my current one. I'm used that save slot for a long time. Big Mistake.

My character is a made man with the wright family. Yay. But What I did not know is that being a made man with one family causes all the other families to shoot you on sight. So I went into the shark club, unsuspectingly. Their goons were all friendly to me, so I had no problem yet. Then I talk to Angela Bishop and we have Jet sex. After the brief fade to black, I save the game. I'm at the top floor of the shark club. My followers aren't there.
Not a problem, I think. I was downstairs when I spoke to Angela, they're waiting for me there. So I look for the stairs and there's a set of stairs where Papa Bishop is playing bishop with some idiots. So I walk in, expecting no hostility and suddenly his guard says "you dumb mother******, I kill you" and opens fire. With advanced power armor and a hk g11e, they're small fries and they die. I go downstairs. A new wave of goons rush at me. I slay them all. But none of my followers are to be found. I am distressed. So I think maybe they're waiting outside the casino. Wrong. I wipe out the first floor and no followers there or anywhere in all of New Reno.

Now I'm really confused. Maybe they went back to their recruitment places. I go to Broken Hills, no Marcus, Vault City, no Cassidy, Klamath, no Sulik. Now I'm pissed. They're carrying a lot of valuables and I need their help to destroy the Oil Rig. So what the hell happened here?
 
This is a nasty bug found in the vanilla version of the game. You'll need the unofficial patch to prevent the problem from happening. The issue is that your followers are there with you, but they're just invisible.

EDIT:
Read that thread for a fix from me.
 
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