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Originally Posted by Skybird
I'm not sure. NPC have a default bow, a hunting bow (NOT the often quoted Imperial bow). As long as the have default bows, they will never use any other bows. They will use better swords, but never better bows, it seems. Googled boards say that, too.
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I'm not sure this is true of all follower NPCs, I have not taken any equipment away from Argis (my current follower) but have given him an enchanted Orcish bow and a good number of Orcish arrows to go with the armor I gave him. Prior to that in ranged attacks he would use whatever (hidden) bow he came with. Now he equips himself with the Orcish bow and uses the matching arrows.
The Orcish bow is enchanted so it has the telltale glow/aura and I have checked many times when we readied our weapons while creeping through dungeons or up towards a dragon lair. He is definitely bringing out the Orcish bow, unless he is switching it up for the hidden default one when he actually starts shooting and I just don't see it. But I'm almost positive I have watched him shoot and it *is* the better bow he's using. He is definitely using the Orcish arrows, because I will often loot one or two of them off the bodies of someone he's just killed. Many of those individuals carried no bow and arrow themselves or were unarmed (except for magic) and I don't use Orcish gear, so they have to be coming from Argis.
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So it seems to me that once the removeallitems command has been given at least once, the problem you descriobed becomes non-existent?!
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Regarding encumbrance, I don't know. It's possible that if you do removeallitems once and *never* reset the followers inventory back to its default, the game never does it automatically either. This would result in them never having anything other than what you gave them. I have only used removeallitems once when it was obvious Marcurio was carrying a lot of hidden items after having been dismissed and reacquired numerous times. The only explanation I can find is that the game was continually adding a new set of default items every time I reacquired him as a follower; I don't think it was his "merchant" inventory as that only seems to be active when he is out of follower mode and had he been carrying all of that around for as long as we've been together the problem would've become obvious a lot sooner.
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Something else, the game does autopatch when I switch Steam online every couple of weeks, and a newer version is available, yes? I mean I do not need to additionally choose "update" anywhere, yes?
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It should, when I went back to online mode when the last patch came out it downloaded and installed it automatically as soon as I opened the program.