You've noticed this about her, right? Standing there bow legged with her arms, elbows out, like she's in a western movie pistol showdown. At first, I thought it was her shield causing this so I took her sword and dagger away so that she would switch to her bow. Not much better. I even stripped my Nord woman character down to her underwear to compare how they both stand. My character stood tall with her arms straight, unlike Lydia' grunt stance. Comparing their walks also revealed different animations, my character normal and Lydia like an orangutang.

I also went to the Drunken Hunter and hired Jenassa. Same problem, bow legged and elbows out. What is it with Lydia and other women followers that is doing this to them where my character has no problem with posture? It's not my imagination. You mean I'm going to have to what until January so that I must use the Creation Kit to fix it myself, if it is even fixable?

Kill her then, before you start moaning for the next few weeks.

I never would have noticed half of the things "wrong with this game" had I not browsed these forums.

Life's biggest problem.

Tell her to start eating more fiber.

I hear that Skooma is like Tamriel's Miralax.

It's the heavy armor. It changes the walking animation.




There is a MASSIVE world of difference between noting something, having something bother you, and completely trashing a game. For that matter, it is not wrong to have complaints or critiques, so long as they are valid.

There is no reason to have a forum just to force people to only sing the praises of a game. Forums are for discussion, and that means pointing out flaws. Nobody needs a thought-police stifling all dissent, least of all Bethesda.

If Lydia went to the College, she could work the problem out with a pencil.

Nice strawman. His comment did not warrant this response. All he was saying that the many so-called things wrong with the game are not noticable when you're actually playing. In fact, I'm inclined to agree with him. Rarely is there ever a moment where I'm actually playing the game and thinking "this bug/game design is a gamebreaker, Bethesda needs to fix this!"

At the end of the day, your just playing the game and enjoying rather than pushing buttons in frustration, minus the career nitpickers.

She walks like that because she spent the night at my house last night.

Thank you, Wraith_Magus. Yes it is a minor issue, but it bothers me. Not enough to hate the game, but just for my personal preference to be sure that all women followers do not masculine strut around.

The only fix I can think of is 'removeallitems, but will that break her AI?

She's doing an impression of a Space Invader. Retro's all the rage, don't'cher know.

It's the armor type.

They have posture similar to those of 200lbs+ dudes, except they look like they weight 130lbs tops because heavy armor forces that body posture onto characters in this game.

BTW a weird bug, if you put hide helmet on a orc, he's posture will look wimpy and his arms almost clip through his body.