Skyrim Bug Turned Chickens Into Informants

[Genixma]

o_o Oh no. The Cuccoos have gained intellegence. Forget Ganon we must unite against the Cuccoo swarms!

 

[kouriichi]

So does it still taste like a chicken?
I dont wanna eat a rat....

 

[Aprilgold]

aww

I thought it would be cooler if the chickens gave you info on stuff (you know, that kind of informant)

I honestly thought they would be fences..
BAWK, what ch BAWuying.

but on the guard angel.

chicken pecks at ground.
Guard: WHAT IS IT CHICKEN, DID SOMEONE STEAL!?
Chicken bawks
Main guy comes around corner
Guard: HAULT CRIMINAL SCUM!

 

[teh_Canape]

aww

I thought it would be cooler if the chickens gave you info on stuff (you know, that kind of informant)

I honestly thought they would be fences..
BAWK, what ch BAWuying.

but on the guard angel.

chicken pecks at ground.
Guard: WHAT IS IT CHICKEN, DID SOMEONE STEAL!?
Chicken bawks
Main guy comes around corner
Guard: HAULT CRIMINAL SCUM!

I was more thinking of

Chicken: psht, yo
player: what?
chicken: I got this here little business I need to be done
player: I'm listening

 

[imnot]

That would be extremely amusing if it happened to someone else. If it happened to ME, however, I'd be pretty pissed off. It would ruin the immersion to have some random crime undone by something as ridiculous as a chicken.


Call me if the chickens start COMMITTING crimes. Now THAT would be funny.

Imagine turning up to a city thats deserted except for the chickens and some corpses, now that would make a good horror game!

I love how Bethesda are using this whole "bugs are funny" ruse to pull the wool over people's eyes because they know that Skyrim is going to have bugs up the wazoo, and with their fantastic QA skills will not be able to fix all of them, or even a good amount of them.

It doesn't matter how funny they are; bugs are still bugs.

Actually, I found the "Death by a thousand watermelons" bug to be absolutely hilarious.


It was known better as the item duplication glitch, but my point remains... Those guards never knew what hit them.

[sub]hint: it was watermelons, thousands of them.[/sub]


Yea, bugs are bugs, but some of the time you find the ones that just make the game entirely different.

Ah that was a funny glitch, I saw a video of someone using them to dam the river by the inperial city, and cross it like a bridge XD

 

[jokulhaups]

Snitches get stitches.

Also, why would anyone ever want to take this bug out of the game? This is something that should have been thought of ages ago. I mean seriously, wizards and the like, but no conspiring birds?

 

[Lord_Gremlin]

Never trust a chick to keep her mouth shut

Wait, people have to report you for crimes now? The LAW isn't all powerful?

They don't immediately peg me as criminal scum?!

Welcome to several months ago - yep, you've got to be reported and there's also a separate bounty for each of the 9 or so areas.

Awesome. This means all I have to do is kill every witness. Well, except for chickens.
What I always disliked though is that when you kill shop owner you can't loot everything he had in stock.

 

[theultimateend]

That's one that's likely better off fixed, even if funny. It might be funny at first. But it would get old pretty quickly.

I can almost say with certainty that I'd giggle and shout "I've been cock blocked again?!" for at least the first 30 or so times.

 

[mew4ever23]

That is hilarious. Maybe save that for harder difficulties?

 

[RJ Dalton]

I was gong to make a joke about informants being turned into chickens, but it looks like the article itself ninja'd me.

 

[Robert Ewing]

SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSTOP, YOU VIOLATED THE LAW.

I know it's been done, but I wanted to be immortalized on the internet with these words too.

 

[TheMadDoctorsCat]

...What?

So you guys are reporting on a bug for a game that isn't even released for another month?

I admit it's amusing and all... but still... slow news day?

 

[WhiteFangofWhoa]

Mrs. Tweedy! The chickens are spying on us!

 

[Agayek]

Apparently not!
This is good. Very, very good... MWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA
Also, if modding becomes possible on consoles (God I hope so), then I'd install some mod to get this back in,
I'd now have a legitimate excuse to kill chickens!
Captcha: 0.27x titratio...
I don't want to know what's on captcha's mind.

I always just used what they did to me in Ocarina of Time as justification to murder all chickens everywhere.

...

I mean.. uh...

Look over there! Something shiny!

PS - 10:1 odds "titratio" is actually supposed to be titration. I believe the escapist uses that Google captcha thing that uses pictures of words from books to help improve a text scanner, and someone probably just forgot the trailing n.

 

[badgersprite]

Clearly these chickens are related to the ones in Hyrule.

 

[imagremlin]

That is all

I think I sense a meme in development here

 

[Gottesstrafe]

I love how Bethesda are using this whole "bugs are funny" ruse to pull the wool over people's eyes because they know that Skyrim is going to have bugs up the wazoo, and with their fantastic QA skills will not be able to fix all of them, or even a good amount of them.

It doesn't matter how funny they are; bugs are still bugs.

Wasn't the ability to combo (and hence the template of all modern fighting games) the result of a bug found in Street Fighter II that the designers decided to leave in the game anyway? Wasn't the psychotic cops from the GTA games a result of a bug in Race and Chase developed by the precursor to Rockstar Games where the cops kept trying to pull the player over by trying to drive through the player? Wasn't the invention of the modern difficulty curve in Space Invaders the result of a bug in the programming meant to overcome the limitations of the hardware?

Yeah, bugs are bugs UNTIL they become features.

 

[ChupathingyX]

I direct you to this: http://www.cracked.com/article_19262_6-glitches-that-accidentally-invented-modern-gaming.html

Yeah, bugs are bugs UNTIL they become features.

*sigh*

I already said it once, and I might as well say it again.

Those bugs were then, this is now.

If Bethesda have to resort to relying on bugs to come up with comedic content and gameplay innovation then something is wrong.

I also find it amazing how Bethesda can outright announce to the world that their new game is going to have a bunch of bugs and everyone just gets behind them and laughs alongside them like it's all a funny joke.

 

[penguindude42]

I love how Bethesda are using this whole "bugs are funny" ruse to pull the wool over people's eyes because they know that Skyrim is going to have bugs up the wazoo, and with their fantastic QA skills will not be able to fix all of them, or even a good amount of them.

It doesn't matter how funny they are; bugs are still bugs.

Actually, I found the "Death by a thousand watermelons" bug to be absolutely hilarious.


It was known better as the item duplication glitch, but my point remains... Those guards never knew what hit them.

[sub]hint: it was watermelons, thousands of them.[/sub]


Yea, bugs are bugs, but some of the time you find the ones that just make the game entirely different.

There should be an inaccessible torture chamber where you can hear some poor guy anguishing about "so many damned melons".

That would be the greatest self-referential easter egg of all time.

~TOM<3

 

[SandroTheMaster]

People may laugh, but whenever an AI does something you didn't program to, and does it effectively without a hitch, it is actually a sign that your AI is pretty good.
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The only people who thinks the radiant AI is stupid are the people who have no idea what programming is like and much less what AI programming is like.
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Though it is pretty funny. It is not stupid though.