A Skyrim player has discovered a clever trick to ensure followers never get lost in the vast open world. By utilizing quest-related miscellaneous items, players can keep a constant marker above their followers’ heads, making it easy to track their movements.
This innovative method can be especially helpful in managing the many NPCs available as companions in the game, ensuring they stay by the player’s side throughout their adventures.
Highlights
- Use quest items to track Skyrim followers to prevent losing them in the vast open world.
- Quest items can be traded with followers to apply a constant marker above their head.
- This clever trick helps players keep NPCs by their side.
A Skyrim player has clipped a genius idea for never losing followers with the help of quest-related miscellaneous items. There are a plethora of items that can be looted in the Skyrim open world, and these miscellaneous ones may help players keep track of their companions.
Like other Bethesda games, Skyrim has many NPCs that can join players on their adventure. The RPG offers dozens of followers ranging from quest-specific ones to mercenaries that players can hire with gold. In addition to the humanoid NPCs, players can also be followed by non-humanoid Skyrim characters like Barbas. Beyond these standard NPCs, many mods can also add followers to the game, creating limitless combination possibilities. One gamer has a genius idea of never losing track of the humanoid followers by trading key items with them to apply a constant marker that will follow their every move.
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Reddit user Hguols1 recently shared a Skyrim clip in which they”re exploring Fort Sungard Muster in The Reach with Lydia. The video begins with the player approaching a quest marker floating above the Smithing book, Last Scabbard of Akrash. The gamer waits for their follower to approach before issuing her the order to loot the book. Once Lydia”s inventory contains the book, the quest marker that initially applied to it is instead floating above her head. This indicator follows the NPCs” every move, which suggests that even if she disappears to another side of the open world, this player can track her. Although the clip concludes before the player is able to retrieve the item, they may simply need to initiate a trade with the Skyrim NPC to acquire it.
Why is This Skyrim Follower Trick Helpful?
Because some glitches cause Skyrim followers to act strangely, this technique ensures that players won”t lose them unless they”re defeated in combat. Although this gamer utilizes a book with this trick, any quest item should result in the same indicator staying with any of the NPCs that players may have following them. While it”s often helpful to give followers powerful gear to increase their combat readiness or heavy items to improve a player”s carry capacity, using quest items could be a helpful way of keeping track of them. Issuing the command for Lydia to loot the book prevents the potential Skyrim message forbidding players from trading or storing quest items.Close
With some players reporting that they lost their followers, this technique may prevent such an occurrence from ever happening again. As the Skyrim Creation Club is regularly updated, this trick may be applied to future mod followers as well as the existing cast. While Bethesda occasionally updates the RPG, it”s unlikely that this helpful idea will be patched out in the future.
Skyrim
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Franchise
The Elder Scrolls
Platform(s)
PC
, PS3
, Xbox 360
, Xbox One
, Xbox One X
, Xbox Series S
, PS4
, PS5
, Switch
Developer(s)
Bethesda
Publisher(s)
Bethesda
Released
November 11, 2011
Expansions
Skyrim: Dragonborn
, Skyrim: Hearthfire
, Skyrim: Dawnguard
How Long To Beat
26 Hours
Metascore
73
PS Plus Availability
Extra & PremiumExpand
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