Edg3k Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Tonight I spent a couple hours setting up several Khajiit (female) followers scattered across Skyrim. They mainly work as hunters and gatherers, but are the perfect companions for a thief as they dont go running in the second someones slightly detected like nut jobs.Anyway, 4 camps, 4 companions. Hours of package AI writing later and I jump into the game. I approach the first one and, nothing, she wont let me ask her to join me. So I go back, check everything, change some stuff, back in, still the same.This goes on for the next hour til I realize what I'm missing, Bethesdas actual want for me to have a Khajiit FEMALE companion. The game is so incredibly badly coded that you CANNOT have a female Khajiit follower because the Female Khajiit voice, does not function with the chat prompt to get them as a follower. I changed the voice to Male Khajiit and boom, it works. Back to Female Khajiit, nope, your not allowed. I'm sorry but I refuse to have a male voice on a female character, if I wanted that I'd play Saints Row. I'm sadly disappointed and fairly annoyed after all the work I put in and to be faced with this. Its happened me before, but I thought it was my fault and I'd given up. Turns out, not my fault and I just wasted hours of my time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StayFrosty05 Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Tonight I spent a couple hours setting up several Khajiit (female) followers scattered across Skyrim. They mainly work as hunters and gatherers, but are the perfect companions for a thief as they dont go running in the second someones slightly detected like nut jobs.Anyway, 4 camps, 4 companions. Hours of package AI writing later and I jump into the game. I approach the first one and, nothing, she wont let me ask her to join me. So I go back, check everything, change some stuff, back in, still the same.This goes on for the next hour til I realize what I'm missing, Bethesdas actual want for me to have a Khajiit FEMALE companion. The game is so incredibly badly coded that you CANNOT have a female Khajiit follower because the Female Khajiit voice, does not function with the chat prompt to get them as a follower. I changed the voice to Male Khajiit and boom, it works. Back to Female Khajiit, nope, your not allowed. I'm sorry but I refuse to have a male voice on a female character, if I wanted that I'd play Saints Row. I'm sadly disappointed and fairly annoyed after all the work I put in and to be faced with this. Its happened me before, but I thought it was my fault and I'd given up. Turns out, not my fault and I just wasted hours of my time. I am sorry to hear that....you still have a very good idea though and i hope you do implement it somehow.....My Dovahkin is not a Thief or Assassin, but he does use a lot of stealth in combat (I use couple of Assassin type mods also) and I gave up on using followers a long time ago, their breaking his stealth and rushing in being one of the primary reasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pentigan Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 What about putting in silence for the options which don't have voice clips? I know of many mods which have that for options that don't have a voice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SFBryan18 Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 LoL, I thought this topic was going to say something about how lazy we can be by just letting our followers kill the enemies, because it's true. I set up two saber cats as horse protection, and they kill everything for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edg3k Posted August 13, 2012 Author Share Posted August 13, 2012 LoL, I thought this topic was going to say something about how lazy we can be by just letting our followers kill the enemies, because it's true. I set up two saber cats as horse protection, and they kill everything for me. Maybe I should have said Bethesdas Laziness. Anyway, I was thinking about doing the silence thing but I dont want my follower completely voiceless. If it was just a matter of the recruit audio not working that'd be fine, but its not, it'd be everything (correct me if Im wrong). I just feel its lazy of Bethesda to release the game and in turn the creation kit with these restrictions. Did they honestly think no one would want a female beast race companion? Its not just Khajiit, its Argonian to, you cannot recruit a female Argonian who is voiced either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragosch Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Maybe a stupid question - but why not just use male Khajiit as followers then?- Does it really matter that much, what gender these followers have, when it comes to a beast race? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perraine Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Or have a chat with the several members who keep advertising that they are "voice actors" an see if they can do a female Kat for you ... Otherwise maybe see if you can run the male voices through a couple of audio filters ... We all know that Bugthesda is the laziest game company selling products today, but we don't have to emulate them by giving up ... I love your idea! Don't quit now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edg3k Posted August 15, 2012 Author Share Posted August 15, 2012 Maybe a stupid question - but why not just use male Khajiit as followers then?- Does it really matter that much, what gender these followers have, when it comes to a beast race? It matters because I'd requests to create my female khajiit as a follower. I also HATE the way male Khajiit look. I'm keeping the file here for when I can get it fixed for sure. Im trying to figure out a work around but no luck yet. Im just surprised is all, since there are many, voiced, female khajiit in Skyrim why they dont have a recruit option is beyond me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moraevik Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 I found out that if you're playing a female Khajiit character that the vocals for the shout to throw your voice are missing, as in were never put into the game. Dunno what Bethesda was thinking when they did the beast races, but they sure short-changed them in a lot of ways. This is just another. Don't give up on this. Maybe you could find someone to do voice-acting for a female Khajiit. I'm sure it couldn't hurt to put out a request for that. On the other hand, in Oblivion we had custom companions that weren't voiced. We just dealt with it, and I wouldn't mind that to be the case with your mod, either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tetradite Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 Same for some of the trader dialogues. I suspect this may be "must fit on one DVD because of xBox" syndrome again. Voice files take up quite a lot of space relatively speaking. I'm willing to bet they even had the lines you want recorded (they seem to have made every voice actor record most possible responses for each voice type they did) but cut them to save space when they weren't required by vanilla. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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