I ain't even mad.

Just made a topic similar to this but it got ignored... mine was more on the concern about killing your companion dog, hopefully someone will make a mod that let's us not harm our companions with our attacks ( since they can't harm you as well, i don't see the problem with it).

Me too. I dont like the current system

If they recieve a certain amount of damage they should be incapacited a certain amount of time and then recover. If they recieve a massive amount of damage then they should die and respawn back where you originally hired them. This way they arent gone forever and you still have a penalty

:D

Like I said, I ain't even mad. It bothered me at first, but now that I think about it, they got in the way of my arrows, it's their fault. Lydia dying was my fault, though. I was kiting a few guys out of a Fort and I didn't notice Lydia ran in and started fighting. By the time I was finished with the two guys I was taking care of, I noticed another one. Pulled back my arrow, from quite a good distance too and shot her right in the face. Killed her. I laughed. Added a bit of immersion to the game if you ask me. And then I looted her. Good times.

The companion you get from becoming thane at dragons reach, is she supposed to die because mine has, as soon as i aquired the spell healing hands and used it on her the next enemy which attcked her killed her out right. Normally she just go's to her knees untill she recovers. we have gone everywhere together and she never died untill i used this dam spell wtf! im in morning!

is this a bug?

also says bed she had inmy house is still owned even thhough she is dead.

My mage companion, dog and myself were just killing a bear. The dog is right next to me fighting the bear. The mage unleashes some aoe fireball and my friggin dog falls over dead again. He didn`t even go into defeated state just fell the hell over all stiff and stinkin.

Sir, you are broken inside...

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I won't let Lydia die unless it's in some epic manner. Friendly fire or me or her just being stupid will cause a reload.

Once i was trying to heal Lydia with healing hands but i only had the spell equipped in one hand. Clicked the wrong button and killed L'id with a punch. :facepalm: Reload.
Plus I've killed her lots with shouts.

The thing is they tend to get near you when your attacking or when you do a power attack (mainly the dual wielding power attack while standing) tends to hit stuff behind your ennemie too... i love dogs whenever i accidently killed mine i felt horrible and quick loaded before that happened.

So if your companion gets killed he WILL appear back wher I hired hime eventually??? If so, I need to remember where I hired him because I cant get another follower or hire anyone else because it keeps telling me I have someone already. Please help me out.

I've lost about half a dozen now.

I'm actually not sure how many exactly because I've lost count. #1 cause of death is fireballs.

This last one apparently got tired of me hitting him with stray spells/shouts and just started attacking me so I had to put him down =/

As far as I know they don't come back unless you're on PC and use console commands. Don't quote me on that, though.

I don't think so. I think your followers can only get killed if you kill them by hitting them directly or if they die from damage from one of your area-of-effect spells, but then they stay dead.

I'm playing a mage and I've killed Lydia quite a few times by accident. It's especially annoying when my atronach blows up and kills her. I would use a mod that makes them invulnerable too, for me it's just an annoyance and I reload. Also it's really annoying when my atronach or lydia aggro my horse and kill it. That seems to happen a lot, they still attack it if I get on and ride it!

While it's realistic that companions can die, and there is a sense of danger there, the execution is annoying. I lost my freaking WIFE in one of the Dwemer ruins. I'd much prefer them to be essential and just "knocked out" so the fight becomes harder, but I don't bear a permanent penalty for my companion's incompetence.