Death Hugs!

[winterlove]

Emma ... I seem to have started suffering death hugs again

Well, not again, I never experienced them the first time around, just read descriptions of them. However, I've just experienced one, and this is with the very latest version. I'm also running with the Vilja dragonborn patch and I have just completed the Dragonborn main quest, if that is relevant.

[Emma]

I haven't heard of it happening to anyone else with the latest versions of Vijla. Could be another mod conflicting. However, the instructions in the FAQ-thread should still work.

[winterlove]

Thanks. Those instructions got me thinking. During the end of the DB main quest, the dragon that I was supposed to ride "killed" me just as I used the Bend Will shout on it, so I was sent back to Solstheim. So I re-entered Apocrypha to find that dragon waiting patiently for me, and I completed the quest from there. I wondered if dying at that precise point messed up some game state of some kind, so reloaded and replayed from just before that scene, this time without "dying" mid-battle. I completed the quest in the new play-through, and then asked Vilja to hug me again under the same circumstances as before. This time, no death

[Emma]

Yes, the idea is that you - or Vilja - have "pseudo-died" and that you "owe" the game a death. So, when the hug-animation, which is very much related to kill-animations, take place, the death take place. That's why you can solve it with the strategy in the FAQ-thread.

Now, we were supposed to have solved this, and I haven't heard anything about any problems since ver 1.4, but maybe it can still occurr during specific circumstances, and the circumstance you describe was indeed not "normal". I'm pretty sure that if you hadn't re-loaded, you would still have been able to solve it the hug-kill-bug the way that is described in the FAQ-thread.

[rollerpig]

I have had an extremely weird bug, where after I have used a follower in group,.... and then part with them, Vilja seems to loose her normaly insanely high armor, while not in combat(if you ever hit Vilja by accident you notice she takes zero damage).

At this point I have gotten the death hug.It only happened a few times, and everytime the "fix" worked.

I have no idea why this happens, but I'm almost positive it has to do with adding Lydia to the party.Shortly after,(like for an ingame day) Vilja has been one shot by bears or other medium level enemies (before she changes to her armor)when we were riding or exploring.Usually this level enemy wouldn't stand a chance vs Vilja

Very odd.

Never seemed like a major problem though. Maybe happened 2 times.