yk0520 Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 I've had Lydia with my character for quite a while and noticed she's coughing a lot, plus other npcs remarking that "you don't look so good...." even when I don't have any diseased condition. I've tried ordering her to activate shrines,and though it says "all diseases cleared",she's still occasionaly coughing. Has she actually contracted something and it's not clearing or is it a typical bethesda bug? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS375 Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 try to give her a curepot. I only see it 2 times in the game that a follower use it. ( because i give them normaly 3 curediseases pot and there was only 2 times what there have 2 left ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xlcr Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 (edited) @yk0520, lol yep, Lydia and my party of multiple followers often 'cough' or 'clear their throats' often probably due to the very limited scripted voice dialog Bethesda created for follower NPC's, its a shame too given all the creative opportunities and potential for dialog in the game, Skyrim is much poorer for it.Followers also 'yawn' all the time because the game is so boring lol (just joking).Bethesda devs should stop writing so many of those 'books' and start writing more witty dialog for the follower voice actors lol.Resigned myself to accepting all followers as typical bland one-dimensional Elder Scrolls style 'RPG' characters that are lifeless and humorless. Really miss listening to the constant banter and commentary between characters in immersive RPG games like the Dragon Age series.To answer your question, followers are not affected by diseases, unless you've installed mods that change this.I usually command them to activate shrine's just to be sure anyway, also given them plenty of cure disease/poison/etc and none of them have yet to use these. Edited June 15, 2012 by xlcr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sukeban Posted June 16, 2012 Share Posted June 16, 2012 Hmm. Do you know for sure that they can't get diseases? I ask because the "infected" (that little spiral of sparkles) animation definitely DOES play on a follower when they are struck by a disease-carrier and the disease chance procs. This is most evident when battling wolves at low levels. I don't know if this actually changes their stats (gives them Rockjoint) as I've never tried to console their damagemult afterward. I do command them to use shrines though, just in case. Anyway, the disease CAN definitely proc on them, the question is: does it do anything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xlcr Posted June 16, 2012 Share Posted June 16, 2012 @sukeban, hi, there are mods that will render a follower susceptable to diseases (specifically, so they can become a vampire/werewolf); but, in the unmodded vanilla Skyrim game, followers are unaffected from my experience.fyi, just to be sure, I also confirmed before posting previously checking my facts here lol: http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Followers I have seen the 'infected' effect you described hitting my followers but as far as i can tell they were left unscathed short/long term.Also please note, Skyrim's very unsophisticated follower system doesn't even have a built-in indicator/method to lookup a follower's stats or anything else for that matter (console commands aside); so, how would you even know a follower was infected, poisoned, etc.Seems fairly obvious to me Bethesda didn't design much into followers to be as realistic as the player character and simply rendered followers immune to everything and called it a day.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS375 Posted June 18, 2012 Share Posted June 18, 2012 I have seen the 'infected' effect you described hitting my followers but as far as i can tell they were left unscathed short/long term.Also please note, Skyrim's very unsophisticated follower system doesn't even have a built-in indicator/method to lookup a follower's stats or anything else for that matter (console commands aside); so, how would you even know a follower was infected, poisoned, etc.Seems fairly obvious to me Bethesda didn't design much into followers to be as realistic as the player character and simply rendered followers immune to everything and called it a day.. What means we are the only one what can get infectet (ill). Damm. When where should let it fall under the table and make the 2 for the werwolfs and vampire with a nice animtion Like a bit in the neck or somthing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddness1 Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 Lydia did have a cold, and it got worse in Riften. But, if you have her touch the shrine, she stops coughing and sneezing. In Haelgas Bunkhouse, after you complete that minor quest, have her touch the Shrine of Dibella, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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