Skyrim Bug Turned Chickens Into Informants
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X_Ot0k4XJcRuairi iliffe said:Hmm, talk about knowing something fowl going down.
But other than that, awesome find, would love to see the full Bug report
I do love me some puns =]
Would be cool if chickens did this in the local mage guild and what not, somewhere it could be explained better than just the entirety of Skyrim having magical spy chickens.
I worded my original post really badly; it isn't the bugs that I find annoying, it's what Bethesda are doing about them that I find annoying. They know they're going to have a lot of bugs on their hand, so they're trying to come up with reasons as to why it is okay and everyone should just forgive them for it.GeorgW said:
The Headline for the forum alone made me laugh.
Betheseda should include an option where you can choose to play with the bugs on--kind of like the "Strange Wasteland" perk in New Vegas. You can opt into spy chickens, the world geometry will occionally reach up and snatch characters, and the game could crash at any second.
Betheseda should include an option where you can choose to play with the bugs on--kind of like the "Strange Wasteland" perk in New Vegas. You can opt into spy chickens, the world geometry will occionally reach up and snatch characters, and the game could crash at any second.
In modern game design, a lot of this type of information is already being logged so that it can be shipped back to the manufacturer so that they can understand how their software is being used and improve it.Wieke said:
But there are a couple of things to consider. When creating a large development project first and foremost is that the code is broken down in to multiple subgroups of code and resources. So in order to add a specific log to says "who reported the crime", you would end up only recompiling a very small section of the game and not the whole game. Second, the way this usually works is that you capture the current memeory state when tracking down a bug of this nature. You can see what objects are in memomory and where the program is executing. You can then use a custom scenario builder and a binary search to get a very good idea of where the problem is well before ever looking at the code.
Finally, if they are really trying to track something down, you wouldn't play the same scenario over and over again, you would use a scripted to play the scenario. The game makers have a very greate ability to script "user" behavior for testing. In the end the life of a SDET or a game tester is much simplified by using reason to track down problems rather than trying to trace the code.
There are chickens in Skyrim?
I've never noticed that there were mundane creatures in the Elder Scrolls games at all, besides horses and bears and deer perhaps.
I've never noticed that there were mundane creatures in the Elder Scrolls games at all, besides horses and bears and deer perhaps.
I swear every single inanimate object was an informant in Oblivion, because I know I could hardly ever get away with any crime.
First hour when I played the game, I got to that first starting village near whiterun. During the night when nobody was around, I ran about the place like the madman I was, when I decided to kill a chicken for the hell of it.duchaked said:
I then climbed the nearby mountain, went through the dungeon, got back.
It was daytime already, and when I entered the village I was greeted... By all villagers storming at me with axes/swords/bows/weapons.
That's right. I killed one chicken with no witnesses, and they all skipped the "pay your fine"-bit.
The tf classic(or 1 or whatever) spy originates from a bug causing enemies to look like teammates. Instead of removing it, they added it to the game as a new class. Sometimes bugs make a game better, Mostly they make ragdolls glitch out or crash stuff though.ChupathingyX said:
Sometimes....