I noticed near the end of my last game that my follower seemed to gain a mind of his own Flat out stopped following me in places and I had to go back and persuade him to carry on....almost right at the same time as that last patch came out.Maybe they threw in some AI instruction to give them free will?
Now I let them carry some stuff, but nothing important like the armor you mentioned.....did you go back to all of the scenes of your battles? I found one of my guys as a pile of dust after a huge battle near the mage's college
go around and punch the wildlife
I love starting a new guy.I have Faendal and we see a Frost troll.I run up there guns blazing and the troll cuts me down in two decisive shots Faendal runs way screaming like a 13 yr old girl..
Do the same against a Giant...
something else tuned me up real quick too....oh yeah it was some sort of sabre toothed snow cat...ripped me a new one
I beat up a couple of my followers...WITH MY FISTS
Yeah I had followers too. Only one was allowed, but a bug allowed me to have two....and when one of them was carrying precious stuff he vanished permanently from the game....
My favorite was Rex cause he was one of the few that wouldn't get knocked out in 2 seconds.
I already gave up from Skyrim after playing for +20 hours and die everytime more than one enemy appeared!!
Rex:
There are console commands (at least there were for Fallout) to recover your followers...but I never bothered.
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Hey Method? Isn't Rex from Fallout New Vegas, not Skyrim?
you're gonna make me light another joint if you keep that up
I think the latest Skyrim patch did something to the followers....I have to keep going back to get Faendal, as if he gets really interested in something else and wanders away at times..