Braking Elder Scrolls.

[Caiphus]

You must keep us posted on the ongoing adventures of Legate Rikke, clearly she has come upon some cosmic truth that shook her to her very core and made her question the values she once held, she now wanders skyrim in search of answers.

Otherwise my suggestion would be to toy around with the quest stages, could you give more details as to which part of the civil war story you're having problems with? i.e: are you meant to meet her at the pale for example?

In our utterly pointless adventure, after I found her floating in the water near the Sload, she swam slowly off to the east. She didn't come up for air once, which was truly amazing. I was following her with autorun and almost drowned my Dragonborn. She picked up a few slaughterfish on the way. When she reached the coast on the other end, she stood there staring at them ineptly. Feeling sorry for her, I chucked a few fireballs into the water (?) and killed them.

Then she walked off in the direction of Folgunthur. She made it about halfway, before stopping. I Fus Ro Dah'd her again, she turned around and started running back towards Solitude, while making the occasional detour to hunt a mudcrab, or a Chaurus Reaper (?).
Again, a long swim back to the Solitude Docks. My heart was sinking at this point since we were going completely in the wrong direction. She runs all the way back to Solitude, into Castle Dour, and starts reading the map near General Tullius and does.... Nothing.
Yeah, I almost cried at that point, after following her around for a good half an hour.

Then I tried the whole player.moveto thing and there we go. Fixed. Don't know why. I don't know why she was on a mountain in the middle of nowhere. And if she was, who was the Legate Rikke reading the map next to Tullius? I don't know what the hell happened.

But I can't think of anything I'd rather be doing at 3am, that's for sure.

 

[dragonmith]

Going to throw this out there:

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/37216//? (civil war overhaul)

I think the guy might be insane, his mods brake the AI, put em back together and then keep braking them until they somehow work.

 

[Frankster]

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That made me chuckle more then it should have, cheers.

Glad to see you got it fixed eventually even if there's now some Legate Rikke dopplegangers running around and ruining her good name, maybe it was all a stormcloak scheme.

 

[The Feast]

Going to throw this out there:

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/37216//? (civil war overhaul)

I think the guy might be insane, his mods brake the AI, put em back together and then keep braking them until they somehow work.

It is very sad that Bethesda doesn't focus 100% on optimizing their own favorite franchise just because 11.11.11 feels so fancy. This might not be as engaging as the Civil War Overhaul but dammit: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/47327/?

Some features that left out from the final version of the game.

 

[Adeptus Aspartem]

You can do something similar in Oblivion.

Get acsses - or break in - to the enchanting room of the mage guild. Enchant 20% invisibility onto 5 parts of your gear.
Voila you're permanently invisible and can run sword drawn threw the whole world, whackin' everything that looks at you funny and do not have to fear any retaliation.


Captcha: Choco Lazer Boom
Wtf?

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

I remember being an absolute bastard in Oblivion- It's quite easy to get 100% chameleon or shield enchantments and walk around, impervious, twatting people. It's so easy to be a dick in that game, it makes up for the psychic, psychotic guards.

 

[2HF]

Im going to be that guy I guess. It BREAKING, not Braking.

Also, When I played on the 360 I used the oghma infinium bookshelf glitch and the crafting glitch. Very fun to be able to shout with no cooldown among other things. Then when I upgraded to the PC version, I would still use the crafting glitch, but I would use console commands so that I could make my walk speed faster and make it so FUS RO DAH would send enemies flying far away. Fun little sandbox type game when you use the cheats

It's "it's", not it.

I couldn't resist.

 

[blackrave]

In our utterly pointless adventure, after I found her floating in the water near the Sload, she swam slowly off to the east. She didn't come up for air once, which was truly amazing. I was following her with autorun and almost drowned my Dragonborn. She picked up a few slaughterfish on the way. When she reached the coast on the other end, she stood there staring at them ineptly. Feeling sorry for her, I chucked a few fireballs into the water (?) and killed them.

Then she walked off in the direction of Folgunthur. She made it about halfway, before stopping. I Fus Ro Dah'd her again, she turned around and started running back towards Solitude, while making the occasional detour to hunt a mudcrab, or a Chaurus Reaper (?).
Again, a long swim back to the Solitude Docks. My heart was sinking at this point since we were going completely in the wrong direction. She runs all the way back to Solitude, into Castle Dour, and starts reading the map near General Tullius and does.... Nothing.
Yeah, I almost cried at that point, after following her around for a good half an hour.

Then I tried the whole player.moveto thing and there we go. Fixed. Don't know why. I don't know why she was on a mountain in the middle of nowhere. And if she was, who was the Legate Rikke reading the map next to Tullius? I don't know what the hell happened.

But I can't think of anything I'd rather be doing at 3am, that's for sure.

Did you applied some experimental AI mods?
Because it sounds like Legate Rikke, just started to question her own mortality

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

So Skyrim
Character: Alchemy 100 with most perks, Enchantment 100 with most perks, Smithing 100 with most perks
Goal: to make the most overpowered weapons in existence (since armor is capped :/ )
Step1: hoard clothes, jewelry, ingredients, filled grand soul gems
Step2: make alchemy gear1>make enchantment potions1> make alch.gear2> make ench.potions2>rinse&repeat until high enough ench.potions
Step3: enchant smithing gear & make smithing potions with best alchemy gear
Step4: enchant weapons with best enchantment potions, then improve them with smithing gear&potions
still can't stop laughing
So what are your funny moments of messing with Elder Scrolls?

Have you tried the Enhance Restoration potion trick? You can skip out on making a ton of new equip.

Basically the same results, but faster. Also, if you're careful, you can make equipment that is amazing but not fully game-breaking. It turns out that game-breaking equipment gets kinda dull kinda fast.

Although, having boots that give you +10000% carrying capacity are very, very useful.

 

[Private Custard]

It isn't a glitch as much as it is just a way to break the game. Getting 100% Chameleon in Oblivion by using grand souls with Chameleon on 5 pieces of armour. Nobody can see you. Not even yourself. You can run around, make loads of noise, attack whoever you want and they won't react because they can't find you. It does basically break the game. I can't see myself doing it ever again.

Also when training in Morrowind if you have an enchantment that puts the attribute for the skill you are training over 100 then you can keep training. I got up to level 100, had 100 in every attribute, 100 in all major/minor skills bar one and had 1000+ health. But it wasn't really that game breaking, needed a lot of gold to do it anyway. It was nowhere near as bad as the Chameleon thing in Oblivion.

I used that glitch to get myself to level 1331, using some of the 200+ million I'd earned after weeks at the mudcrab!

 

[blackrave]

Have you tried the Enhance Restoration potion trick? You can skip out on making a ton of new equip.

Basically the same results, but faster. Also, if you're careful, you can make equipment that is amazing but not fully game-breaking. It turns out that game-breaking equipment gets kinda dull kinda fast.

Although, having boots that give you +10000% carrying capacity are very, very useful.

Don't need anymore
But still curious
What do you mean by "Enhance Restoration potion trick"?

 

[Fieldy409_v1legacy]

I remember in oblivion making a kickass wizard who had all of his clothing enchanted with the best magicka boosting sigil stones. He could cast a spell that would one hit kill anything(Lightning damage 100 points for 10 seconds equals 1000 damage)

What was really fun was stacking fortify acrobatics spells, casting 5 seperate spells with different names all with the effect fortify acrobatics 100 meant he could jump up the towers in oblivion gates and skip 90% of them and just grab the stone and boss loot.

Not to mention he could cast a spell to give himself maximum armour, or just cast a whole bunch of fortify strength spells and beat the shit out of anything...

 

[Auberon]

Hime refers to resto-looping (fortify alchemy, make a stronger fortify restoration, stronger fortify alchemy, etc). When you have numbers that break the integer count, make one fortify smithing/enchanting for ridiculous effect. Morrowind had the same thing, only with intelligence and without smithing.

 

[blackrave]

Hime refers to resto-looping (fortify alchemy, make a stronger fortify restoration, stronger fortify alchemy, etc). When you have numbers that break the integer count, make one fortify smithing/enchanting for ridiculous effect. Morrowind had the same thing, only with intelligence and without smithing.

I'm still not exactly sure how this should work
How can restoration effect alchemy boosting enchantment?
Some sort of perk?

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

Don't need anymore
But still curious
What do you mean by "Enhance Restoration potion trick"?

It's a good trick for future playthroughs.

Anyway, here it is:

Prep:
Step 1: Gather the alchemical supplies for Enhance Restoration and Enhance Enchanting (or whatever those potions are called).
Step 2: Get to at least 40 in Alchemy and Enchanting with several perks in each, particularly ones that increase stat boosts. You can go higher (and if so, it works faster) but you actually gain other benefits if you do this at a lower level.
Step 3: Make yourself a complete set of +Alchemy items. Make one for every slot with the best soulgems you have. If they each give you around a +15% (or better) then this will work.

The Trick:
Step 4: Put on all your Alchemy items. Use them to make ONE (and only one) potion of Enhance Restoration.
Step 5: Go into your menu, find that potion, and drink it. Without leaving the menu, go to your equipment. Pick any item and de-equip then reequip it. All of your Alchemy items will have had their bonus increase - the de/re-equip is to make sure that the increase has registered. See explanation below.
Step 6: Close the menu and IMMEDIATELY click on your alchemy table (this works best in your house). Make ONE new potion of Enhance Restoration. It will be at a higher bonus than your previous one.
Step 7: Go into your menu, find that potion, and drink it. Do the same thing with your equipment again, and note that your bonus is higher still.
Step 8: Repeat, making one potion each time and drinking it immediately. Spend as little time in the alchemy menu as possible (have ONLY components for the two potions above on you to help speed things up) and immediately open your main menu (which pauses the game) to keep your potions lasting as long as possible.
Step 9: Eventually, your bonus to Alchemy will be absolutely insane. While it is insane, make 10 or so potions of Enhance Restoration (so you can jump straight back to this point later if you need to) and make 20-40 potions of Enhance Enchanting.

Step 10: Remove your Alchemy equipment and put on your Smithing equipment. Wait 30+ seconds to let all your Alchemy potions wear off (to avoid things getting weird, see below) and then take your insane potion of Enhance Enchanting.

Step 11: Quickly make one or two items before the potion wears out (30 seconds). They will be massive.

Extra Benefits: If you aren't maxed out on Alchemy and Enchanting, making these potions and enchanting while under the effects of the potion will make you level insanely fast because the XP gained is based on the cost of the item you're making.

Explanation: It turns out that any item you Enchant COUNTS as a Restoration effect. So when you use a Enhance Restoration potion, it temporarily increases the bonus of ANY item you have enchanted (but not those others have enchanted). This is almost useless in actual combat because the bonus goes away so fast. But, for alchemy, it can be very useful.

 

[blackrave]

Explanation: It turns out that any item you Enchant COUNTS as a Restoration effect. So when you use a Enhance Restoration potion, it temporarily increases the bonus of ANY item you have enchanted (but not those others have enchanted). This is almost useless in actual combat because the bonus goes away so fast. But, for alchemy, it can be very useful.

That seems like some clearly obvious glitch
On the other hand, I'm not sure how it can be fixed if it is part of basic mechanics
Anyway, thanks, good to know.

 

[ZZoMBiE13]

Oblivion the duplication cheat on the 360

Me and my friend decided to try fill a house with grand soul gems, we filled the entire bottom floor of the house up to the charterers knees with soul gems before the 360 decided it couldn't handle that many individual objects and crashed.

I did some stuff like that in Fallout 3.

- First time, I collected Pre-War money and filled one of my Megaton home's rooms with it. That way I could walk around the piles of money, Scrooge McDuck style.

-Another time I saved each and every helmet I scavenged from dead enemies as trophies. This playthrough I was living in Tenpenny Towers. I kept them all in a drawer up until I was finished with the main quest (Broken Steel had been out by this time). After the plotline finished, I collected all my fresh new trophies from the final battle and went to my apartment in the game. Gathered up the rest of my helmets from the drawer. Then went to the fountain out in the plaza of Tenpenny's place. I then opened the menu and dropped each of them, one at a time. After closing the menu screen I was treated to the 300+ helmets flying from my character in a mushroom cloud of Enclave and Brotherhood steel. Once the processor caught up after a lengthy frozen screen, I had a perfect circle of helmets cascading from the center of the fountain outwards. It was glorious.

-I also once kept every Nuka-Cola I collected throughout the game and lined my stairs outside of my Megaton home with them. Every fifth bottle was one of the glowy blue ones so it looked like aisle lighting in a movie theater.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

Easiest way to break Skyrim or Oblivion is to add as many crazy ass mods as you can and then watch hilarity ensue. Like the mods that actually allow the civil war to take place in random battles around Skyrim proper, mixed with multiple dragon spawn-ins and maybe some giants here and there... add to the mix a Macho Man Randy-Dragon and you might die laughing before your PC seizes up from either becoming sentient and discovering humor at the same time or just can't handle the load...

I'm sure that wasn't really the point of the post, but I find adding too many mods together much more fun than glitch-playing. If I wanna be godmode, I'll just use console commands. If I want fun and interesting, ADD ALL MODS!

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

That seems like some clearly obvious glitch
On the other hand, I'm not sure how it can be fixed if it is part of basic mechanics
Anyway, thanks, good to know.

No problem!

Although, FYI, it apparently wasn't a glitch. I remember being told (when I had a similar assumption) that item Enchanting has always fallen under Restoration in previous games, and that the potions work just like the creators intended.

Now, they might not have anticipated someone standing there and taking the potions super fast to make stronger and stronger potions, but that's an exploit rather than a glitch.

And if I sound like I'm splitting hairs, you should know that I am only repeating what I was told on the matter. I haven't played enough other Elder Scrolls games to know.

 

[Sansha]

No loss. The civil war line was just tacked on to the game. 90% of it is generic "go here and kill them" quests that were deliberately coded to play out almost exactly the same regardless of what side you are on.

The reason they made it so shallow is because they didn't want to make it lore. Because the civil war depends on player choice - Bethesda wouldn't really want to canonise one specific outcome. I guarantee in future TES games we will hear next to nothing about it and the pieces of information we do hear will be vague.

Sure. It's not like quests were ever Bethesda's strong point. Nor was giving the player the chance to mould the story. It's just frustrating that after a year and a half of official and unofficial patches arguably the second most important questline is still so very broken.

D'oh well. I completed it in another playthrough and I agree, unfortunately. It's a bit of a letdown.

I don't even play the Dragonborn or Civil War quest chains. I've done them both before on a throwaway character. They're both shallow as a puddle and boring as tar.

Skyrim's only real winning points were its amazing graphics, game engine and weapons/magic system - nothing to do with the game itself, just what it was built on.