Skyrim Oddities

[DrWilhelm]

I was wandering North of (I think) Riften in a heavily wooded area when I hear a Dragon roaring in the distance. "Excellent," I think, and ready my hunting bow. Sure enough, the beastie soars into view skimming the tops of the trees. I loose a handful of shafts into the air, but miss as the dragon is too high and moving like greased lightning. "Not a problem," says I. "I'll just wait till the puffed up dinosaur tries to roast me, then I'll pour some of my own fire down his throat."

At least that was the plan. The dragon spends the next few minutes circling me at too high an altitude for me to attack. It as at this point that the game crashes. Since this was my first and so far only crash, I suspect it was caused by the game having a fit trying to figure out how to get the Dragon close to me without it crashing head first into a pine tree.

 

[Randomperson9999999]

I saw a dragon perched up on a rock northwest of windhelm on the mountain and shot at it while crouched and got about 20 "sneak attacks" before it noticed me and tried to kill me but i whacked it once and it died.

 

[King of the Sandbox]

My most interesting moment was after helping the Companions retrieve an artifact from a temple way up in the mountains north of Whiterun. I fought my way through hordes of undead, found the item, fought the ensuing hordes of undead picking it up triggered, and headed for the exit whistling a jaunty tune. I was full of loot and feeling quite proud, but I was definitely in "get back to town, battle's over" mode.

Stepping out onto the mountain, I see a blizzard has kicked up in my time inside. "No biggie," I mutter to myself, as I begin my trek back down the mountain.

I reach the cliff edge, when I hear a roar. Wheeling on my heels, I see a GODDAMN DRAGON perched on the cliffs above. I drop into sneak mode, hoping it hadn't spotted me, but it was no good. The beast dove over me, ice breath crashing all around me. I was done for if I stayed on this mountain, I knew it, so I ran. I just jumped, slid and bumbled my way down the mountain in a frantic burst, the roars of the dragon seeming to nip at my heels.

As I reached the bottom of the mountain, a pack of wolves emerged from nearby and charged after me. "Great," I flustered. Scrambling to switch to my flame spell, the entire area erupted into ice crystals and freezing air. "THE DRAGON!", I screamed to no one in particular.

Out of no where, three Imperial soldiers show up and start attacking the dragon, ignoring the wolves, who are now also attacking the dragon.

I took this opportunity to hide and/or run away and snipe with my bow. Crouched behind the nearby foliage, I watched as the combined efforts of the Imperials and wolves took down the mighty beast. Then they turned on each other.

When it was all over, there was one Imperial left. I walked up to talk to him, to try and offer healing, but he just sheathed his sword and ran away.

I stood there for quite a while. Just blinking at the soldier running off into the snowy air of Skyrim. I was certain he would have the best tale at the mead hall tonight. ^_^

 

[lionrwal]

Went to do a quest to go rescue someone's brother and when I got there the two immediately became hostile and I had to kill my objective.
That was my only pc bug, no giants flinging me into the sky despite being killed by one, no crashes, nothing.

 

[Adultism]

You join the companions to get the werewolf advantage

 

[Noblemartel]

Here's an oddity, me and my brother are pretty much sharing a copy of skyrim, I played yesterday got to around level 13, joined the Dark brotherhood. All that good stuff. When my brother started a new game today it completely overwrote all of my save data. So now I have to start everything form scratch. Im sorry I know this kind of post doesn't quite belong here but I just needed to vent a little.

 

[lockeslylcrit]

I agree with the OP. Giants do suck. The first time I saw one, I decided to attack it. Big mistake. I haven't flown so high since the Boots of Jumping in Morrowind. Thankfully, I'm playing a no-magic character, so I've been pumping my health. The second time I encountered a giant was during my second dragon battle. I had just downed the dragon, and then suddenly, a giant out of fucking nowhere, and it was aggro. With my good amount of health, each hit only dropped me down to 5% health from full. Thankfully, I'm an archer, so all it took to down the bastard was to use hit and run tactics.

 

[breadsammich]

Got attacked by a dragon while running through a wide open field. Shortly after the dragon appeared, a wolf decided I was lunch. Then a sabre cat. Then a Skeever. I'm not even kidding. Luckily they all got toasted by the fire breath of the dragon. Then the Dragon got ADD and went after a mammoth nearby. Well, his Giant buddy didn't really like that idea, and I sniped the dragon from afar while the giant and mammoth wailed on the poor sap.

Oh, and a different dragon attacked later. A woman came out of nowhere and started punching the dragon in the snout. It promptly bit her and flung her away. After killing the dragon, I was sad because I couldn't find her body. I wanted to see the face of the "Woman who Punched Dragons"

And, not really an oddity, but it is incredibly satisfying to shout a bear off a cliff.

 

[Shadowhawk77]

Was wandering around when I found about 4-5 hunters near a tent with no armor, no weapons, and none were spellcasters... i looked around to see if they had any loot and i noticed a banded shield that i took because why not(it didnt have a stealing thing on it so it was free pickings) then everyone there attacked me like i punched their grandmother... was so fun beating them all down!
OT: Ive noticed that if a dragon cant land in a "perfect" spot then it will eventually leave the area... sucks when happens too

 

[Wuggy]

I got married with Ysolda after bringing her a mammoths tusk. However, I haven't seen her after the wedding. Seriously, she's nowhere in Whiterun! I guess she got cold feet.

Also, I'm a werewolf and a Thane in two villages.

 

[blaize2010]

k ask you, how is it i can take down a dragon with relative ease, braving fire and claws and hacking away until the damn things dead, but if a giant so much as gives me a scary look, kaboom, i get to be a couple thousand miles above high hrothgar.

 

[triggrhappy94]

Things I have experienced in Skyrim so far:

1. Attacked by "thugs" because apparently someone thinks I stole from them (Moira?). 3 armed thugs jumped me in the wild, and I beat them down (barely). Found a note on them saying they were just supposed to "scare" me or some such thing...

2. I was riding my horse and an argonian appeared sneaking around me. I hopped off the horse and the argonian attacked, revealing itself as an "assassin", which I promptly killed in 2 or 3 blows. Hardly much of an assassin, it didn't even attack me while I was on the horse... it did decide to dual-wield tho, which was interesting to watch. Found another note on the assassin from the dark brotherhood detailing how "someone" wanted me dead.

3. Giants suck. One hit and you get to experience a birds-eye view of Skyrim... well a corpse-birds-eye view...

5. Found the werewolf guys and am currently trying to get them to "bite" me...

#1,2: How'd you manage to piss people off?

#3: I've actually been looking around online and some people are saying that that's one of those glitchs Bethseda wants to keep

#5: Just get farth enough in the campions quest line. Also, its fun to be a werewolf.

OT:
Well I'm currently stuck in a glitch from the House of Horror quest (see my thread about it).

I punted a spider over a hundred yards. I jumped to attack me at the sametime I hit it with a fully charged Unrelenting shout.

I have decapatated SO many people

 

[triggrhappy94]

I got married with Ysolda after bringing her a mammoths tusk. However, I haven't seen her after the wedding. Seriously, she's nowhere in Whiterun! I guess she got cold feet.

Also, I'm a werewolf and a Thane in two villages.

How do you get married? Im playing the 360 version and haven't seen anything on it. I'm also playing as an Argonian, if that effects anything.
Also she was probably a victum of the notorius world-geometry-killer. He'll snatch up any unsuspecting NPC and drop them in an endless abyess of sky-box-ness.

 

[Knusper]

I had 3 thugs on me when I was leaving Solitude but I ran away because the guards were near and I was being accused of thievery. A couple of times I've come across a band of ominous warrior mages, one of whom tried to kill me.

I've killed 3 dragons in total so far but I'm learning new shouts faster than I'm collecting souls. I joined the Companions in Whiterun and was given a starting quest by someone but he didn't really say what to do and it's not in my journal. Help?

It's not under misc. It gets its own section (I'm about 87% sure)

If it's still not there at all then bug?

Sorry for dp, just figured i'd let this kind soul know what i think is the answer to his/her problem and my last post was pretty big for another quote and explanation :3

No I had a look ,it must be a bug. What did you have to do in the first quest? If I complete it, it might let me do the next one.

 

[triggrhappy94]

Playing as a cold-blooded individual and not dying of hypothermia yet.
I think that's the biggest oddity

 

[caviar1]

i encountered random npcs non story or quest related that regenerated health faster then i could hit them with/o spells. on a separate note, how great are the side conversations in this game. i keep catching myself waiting for someone to finish small talk before asking them for stuff. that is immersion

 

[Wintermoot]

1. turned vamp and when I tried to finish the cure quest I had already advanced to stage 4 had to restart
2. slain the first non-story dragon on my new character
3. got launched by a giant
4. tried to imitate the jump from the trailer resulting in death
5. put various objects on NPC head,s (IE ketel,s basket,s etc.)
6. tried to toast a child resulting in her saying that I shouldn't play with fire.

 

[Proverbial Jon]

An argonian assassin jumped me while I was picking flowers in the forest.

THIS is why I love this game! Anything can happen and it's just so totally random.

OT: The first time I used the full power Unrelenting Force shout was on a couple of wolves on a road in the middle of nowhere. There was a group of people just ahead I wanted to talk to, so I dispatched the wolves first with my shout. Yeah... it turns out it was soooo powerful that the wolves shot into the distance and the group of people went flying too!

Needless to say, they didn't take too kindly to that.

 

[Radelaide]

2) Skyrim didn't randomly crash half the fucking time.

Fucking this. Sometimes I get lucky and manage to play for a few hours without a crash. Right now with my current save, I load it and walk a few steps then an instant crash to desktop. Bethesda need to hurry up with a patch because at the moment the game is nearly unplayable. Which is a damn shame because I am making some damn fine progress.

1 thing:
control panel > sound > select your speakers, then 'properties' > advanced

and set to: 24 bits, 44100 Hz

save and exit

Doesn't work. Boyfriend went and bought me Skyrim on my Xbox so I wouldn't keep kicking him off. He did that and it keeps crashing.

My fix? Console version :\

 

[Wuggy]

I got married with Ysolda after bringing her a mammoths tusk. However, I haven't seen her after the wedding. Seriously, she's nowhere in Whiterun! I guess she got cold feet.

Also, I'm a werewolf and a Thane in two villages.

How do you get married? Im playing the 360 version and haven't seen anything on it. I'm also playing as an Argonian, if that effects anything.
Also she was probably a victum of the notorius world-geometry-killer. He'll snatch up any unsuspecting NPC and drop them in an endless abyess of sky-box-ness.

Go to Riften and find the priest of Mara. He'll explain it all. I doubt that your race really matters.

And yes, my poor Dunmer's wife is gone and now he's fueled by the rage of his love lost! So fueled that he occasionally turns into a werewolf!