Hi just married her and now were going out killing things try to give her a godly bow and she wont use it......she equips the god bow but then when the fighting starts switch back to her default weapon. Does this happen to anyone else if so how do you make her use the better bow T_T.

I've head this is common. Nobody knows why.

oh hell at least im not the only one then geez and here i thought she hated me cuz my bow was better << thanks

This happens to me also ...kinda irritating!

yea i mean you got a crazy bow and she like no i like my bow better

Women are picky... maybe her shoes are not matching the new bow in colour

or could be that one time i said i didnt like her cooking

thread Title sounds like a Croce song, lol.

Each character has an invisible combat script that tells characters what range they prefer to engage at.

Characters with a melee script will basically never use a bow, and always charge into melee.

In the mod-made companions from Oblivion, this was easy to handle in-game, because you could just talk to your companions, and tell them to prefer ranged combat, which would switch that script for you.

Bethesda, however, is allergic to useful and intuitive UI.

that makes alot of sense....but isnt she an archer?

Really? Even though Bethesda had that exact option in the last two Fallout installments?

hopefully a patch will add that option

OMG i figger it out for anyone thats having this problem take all her arrows away she would equip the best arrow in place of the bow so take all arrows away then she uses the bow this goes for all followers