vallorn said:
I still remember the glory days where you could fill the imperial city with a layer of apples and watch the game's framerate scream in horror before collapsing into a crash.
I found that merely playing the game would cause it to collapse and crash. Adding few mods certainly hastened the effect. This apple method seems like it requires more method and isn't as convenient to other alternatives of crashing the game.
crimson5pheonix said:
Psh, I remember building a ladder out of paintbrushes to the top of the Imperial tower since they forgot to give paintbrushes physics.
Well, actually they did. What happened, however, was that they decided to go a tad too realistic to what their physics engine could handle - since paint brushes are not really heavy (I've tried holding one IRL and I can confirm), Bethesda decided to be realistic and not really give them that much weight. However, they couldn't assign a number quite small enough that would accurately represent the weight - presumably they needed something like 0.02 or so, but weight could only go as low as 0.1, which obviously is not accurate enough. So the compromise was to round down and give paint brushesa weight of 0.0. But it turns out that items with no weight are not affected by gravity.
Imre Csete said:
Demagogue said:
Or you know... we could not cheat at the game and play it because we enjoy it... novel concept.
Bravo Escapist... by all means the glitch is news worthy, but explaining how to do it, is pretty pathetic.
And worse, they are sending an armed man to your location to force you cheat at gunpoint!
The bastards.
I must say, I came here to complain about that. I want to tell my story:
It all started last night - I wanted to go to sleep but...erm, I couldn't. I tried getting into the bed but it was as if it was walled off or as if I was being chased. But surely, I couldn't be, right? Well, wrong, for it was then I heard a noise from downstairs - and by I noise I mean it was LOUD. It was like an explosion but not quite, and it also shook the entire house. Again, like an explosion, but not quite. I keep mentioning explosions but again, were it an explostion there would have also been a bright flash of light for once but there wasn't, also the loud "bang" (for a lack of better description) lacked the, I dunno how best to describe it, it's the "explosive"-ly tinge to it. It was a bit dull.
And later I found the reason - the noise came from the front door of my house
shattering. While still trying to gather my wits from the shock, I became aware of heavy steps downstairs. Heavy steps that probably belonged to feet wearing heavy steel boots. Steps that I certainly didn't want to encounter but alas, the heavy Thump-Thump-Thump sounded closer and closer. With rapidly rising dread, I realised the boots were on the stairs. Now, I probably should mention that my house isn't terribly big - I can't really do any sort of running away - the only way up or down is the stairs, and the only way out is down. I was on the second floor, however. I had precious seconds to think of what to do and with no other exit available to me - I lunged at the window. It would be about a 3 meter drop onto concrete, unfortunately. Well, if I managed to jump out far enough, I could hit grass, but I didn't really think of that at that point, my only thought was to flee as fast as possible through the only root possible.
Thus, I climbed onto the window frame when the last Thump-Thump ended just before my door. A second not-quite-explosion followed as my door flew into tiny pieces. I risked one last glance at what remained from the door frame before I jumped. I probably shouldn't have. What I saw there paralysed me with terror. There were, indeed, heavy steel boots, which were attached to legs also clad in heavy steel. The entire body that stayed there was entirely covered with steel. It was shiny, cold, ruthless steel with a blue-ish sheen, the wearer must have made extra care to polish the armour it until it was reflective. Most likely the intention was that the last thing the opponents of this armour faced, would be their own fear painfully evident on their own faces. But I have not finished yet - the top of the armour had there was a helmet that managed to leave the face in it in shadow such as it looker that there was no face in it. Well, aside from the two glowing dots that hovered where the eyes would normally be. They shined a light which was blue like the hue of the armour. The eye lights were also cold and ruthless like the armour.
I could not move, for I was in grips of terror unimaginable. The figure in the empty door frame walked in and in the process had to duck and turn sideways a bit, for it not fit through the now big hole where my door was. Once in, it rose to its full height of about 2.20m and I saw its weapon. It must have also been the instrument that turned two doors into splinters - it was a giant hammer. A normal man, a mortal, if you will, would probably need two hands to grip and use it comfortably, yet the figure seemed to quite easily hold it in one.
There was no doubt - if I was had doubts before, then setting sight upon that weapon had cast them aside - I was facing with
a mod wielding an infamous banhammer. Looking at the blue sheen of the armour and the glowing blue eyes, I recognised the Escapist's colour scheme.
While I still say motionless in the window frame in the grips of fear, a sort of...rumbling erupted from the mod. More specifically, it was from inside the helmet. It took me a few moments to realise it was speaking. Its voice was like giant stones grinding the bones of the fallen. And I found I understood what it said with perfect clarity:
"S[small]TOP RIGHT THERE, CRIMINAL SCUM[/small]!" it addressed me "N[small]OBODY PLAYS[/small] F[small]ALLOUT[/small] 4 [small]WITHOUT USING THE INFINITE CAPS GLITCH ON MY WATCH[/small]!"
I started trembling but I managed to collect myself enough to be able to answer: "I...I don't, even have Fallout 4 yet"
Before I could register any movement I was already lying on the floor - the mod had apparently grabbed and slammed me to the ground. Now I was held there by a steel grip on my neck that stopped just short of stopping my breathing. The two glowing eye-dots hovered eerily inside their helmet and just above my face.
"T[small]HEN YOU WOULD NEED TO BUY IT[/small]!" the mod rumbled.
"I...don't...have...money" I managed to utter trying to fight for a good breath of air.
The mod stood there above me for a few moments and I had the disturbing impression that it was...smiling. But I don't know for sure - I could only see the eyes and there was still only inky black darkness where the rest of its face would be. Several heartbeats passed[footnote]in my case, probably about 50 bajillion, as my heart was racing worse than it had ever before in my life.[/footnote] and it released me, stood up and unleashed its voice again:
"N[small]OBODY PLAYS[/small] F[small]ALLOUT[/small] 4 [small]WITHOUT USING THE INFINITE CAPS GLITCH ON MY WATCH[/small]!"
It said that, grabbed me by the ankle and started dragging me out of my room, down the stairs (which was painful) and to where the front door was once. I tried to struggle but to no avail as I was being dragged towards unknown doom. We arrived there and the vice-like grip released my ankle. I looked up to the mod and it was just pointing. Outside. I tried to stand without making any sudden moves and took a look to where it was pointing. There were bottles...lots and lots of bottles. More precisely, there were 3999 bottles. Each with a metallic cap. I realised what that meant
"You want me to
drink them?"
I said and turned towards the mod. It just nodded slowly saying nothing. One bottle cap for each 1p I needed for the game...
And so I did - what choice did I have. The mod stood there watching me drink each one of those 3999 bottles. It then collected all the bottle caps, reached in some sort of...pocket, I guess, and pulled out a copy of Fallout 4 and placed it in front of me. I couldn't move after drinking all of that but the mod didn't move either. I was wandering what else it wanted when that terrible and familiar rumbling of its communication erupted again
"N[small]OBODY PLAYS[/small] F[small]ALLOUT[/small] 4 [small]WITHOUT USING THE INFINITE CAPS GLITCH ON MY WATCH[/small]!"
Oh no, it
really wanted to finish its mission then. I had to install Fallout 4 and perform the glitch in front of it until it was satisfied and it left.
I then broke down and cried on the floor.
I was in too much emotional pain to notice how somewhere in the distance in the neighbourhood echoed the sound of something that was like an explosion but not quite...
