LE Dogs as credible followers

[Nimbus21]

Dog folowers.... I doubt many uses them for anything, and why should they considering how pathetic they are, even in a group. Which is kind of sad. Being a dog owner myself I know just how much damage a trained dog can do to a person. I got into my head to play a sort of Beastmaster type character and looked around for mods that aid me in that, to slim results. So I’m placing this request in the hopes that someone will be interested.

 

SO what’s wrong with the dogs, well first and foremost they have poor health, they have no armor (except those two in DG) and they don’t do too much damage. Add to that they don’t look all that cool ether.

 

So this is what I’d like to see in a mod like this.

 

1. Better health, duh. This one is likely the easiest.

 

2. More named dog followers. Probably fairly easy as well.

 

3. Armor. And in this I mean the player can craft and give armor to the dog. There have been several mods hat have created armors for horses. Considering the similar structures it shouldn’t pose to much of a problem to adapt them to dogs. I know someone adapted the elven set to fit a saber cat.

 

4. As for damage, I suppose one could just up it in the same way as with the health, but I’d really like to see some weapons. They can’t use weapons I hear you saying there. Right you are. But wouldn’t it be cool if they had teeth made of steel, kinda how they wrapped an elephants tusks in steel back in the day, or some analog there off. And claws fastened to their paws, kinda like they do in those rooster fights. Stuff like that wouldn’t even have to be visually apparent. This would likely take some time.

 

5. The last and biggest thing would be to update the textures, honestly they look like ass. If I had a dog that ugly I’d shave its ass and teach it to walk backwards. Hardest most time consuming part no doubt.

 

I would also like to see some sort of kenel where you can buy these dogs to add a bit to the immersion.

 

I think it would be a cool thing to do, even in parts.

 

Now for more silly stuff. How about a talking dog? Yeah I know there are already one, and he's sorta annoying, but the concept is funny. And how about a dog that can shoot spells out of its mouth, eh? To much? How about a reversed wearwolf transformation? A talking do that shoots fireballs out of his ass and transform into a poodle at full moon?

 

Eh. Feel free to add in your own silly stuff.

[Kocica]

I recommand using UFO, simply. Dogs level with you, and you can have couple at a time. I also tell them that they are important, which makes them essential.

 

About the look, check some follower mods. I use Meeko the Husky, which satisfy me, but armored huskies from DLC Dawnguard are awesome too eh? I'm sure there is more to find.

 

But adding a kennel etc would be awesome :)

[Nimbus21]

I use AFT, less twitchy. Yeah I like the ones from dawnguard as well. But there is only two of them which don't do it for me. I requested this because I did want dogs to be closer to what you get with normal followers. Mostly I wanted some interchangable armors and maybe a new look all in one pack because I have only 5 slots left in my load order that I can fill, and while I've seen a few mods that change the looks and other stuff they are all over the place.

 

I did find one mod that I'm gonna test out and see how it works "Let Slip the Dog of War" Turns Meeko into a German Shepard with removable armor. So at least I will have 3 dogs now. Gonna send a PM to the author and see if he'd be intrested in extending the mod.

 

It would be nice to have other armors for it though, the dawnguard set leaves alot to be desired in the cool department. I supose I could have also asked that someone just add three more dogs to the Dawnguard, but few seems intrested in modding the expansions, and there are those that don't have them to begin with so I have found it's better to request changes to the vanilla game.