I heard someone say that Lydia never spawned for him after being named thane. He said he believed that patch 1.3 was the cause for her never appearing.

I am on the xbox 360. I have not reached that point yet.

Has anyone else had lydia never appear, while running on 1.3 and / or had her appear just fine when not running on that patch?

ive gotten her stuck on some rock ive jumped over
what i did was fast travel to the last point you saw or believe you lost her wait 24 hours the fast travel somewhere else, that always works for me

In one of my games Lydia spawned after a while (it must have been one month ingame) and decided to stay in my bedroom all the time eating at all hours of the day and night. In the end, I dragged her off to Boethia's shrine because she cost me too much in bread and sweetrolls.

Lydia and NPC characters cannot go where you go sometimes.... Ex. If you go up a mountain but not along mountain path, say up the sides jumping rocks and stuff, she (they) disappear).... but spawn again at a later point where the 'road is more traveled'.

Remember one time, I was simply crossing a log across a ravine, and killed a bandit there. After crossing I looked and saw Lydia was no where... I actually thought she might have fallen into the ravine, and went searching for her. Never found her, and figured the river washed her away. Was kinda saddened by it. Then suddenly she appeared out of nowhere again when I was on the road further on. LOL

For me she hasnt spawned the last 5 or 6 times i have become thane.

Ive never had this problem on Lydia but have encountered this before and after patches on the housecarl for markarth and windhelm, they just never appeared afterwards. , I checked the castle to see if they were there and the house. After more then a month in game they never have appeared.

Terrible reports. I am worried that she is never going to appear. As soon as you are named thane of whiterun, she is supposed to be waiting for you outside dragonsreach.

The rumor is that patch 1.3 causes her to never appear after you are named thane. As in, the first time she is supposed to appear, she just doesn't show up.

This has not happened to me yet, but what are my chances of this happening with patch 1.3 installed, compared to being patchless?

Does anyone know if it makes a difference? Is it true that patch 1.3 causes this to happen?

Like I had mentioned this happened prior to and after that patch but not on lydia. I think it has more to do with the quests involved in becoming thane more then anything. I have never had lydia be affected by this bug before. I think its more of a random occurrence then a guaranteed one. It could be due to the order in which you do the quests or it might not, its a mysterious bug atm.

I see. Well then, I will just make good use of backup save files in this case, and save often.

Definitely good idea. Once thing I learned playing TES is that saves are so bloody vital lol Theres a few bugs in the game that are hit and miss and can occur after coutless characters. I have a feeling the radiant quest system is the cause of alot of these issues.