What bug broke skyrim for you?

[Nieroshai]

I've only encountered one bug, and it's the one where you have to align mirrors using hot and cold in the mage's guild. It's even a well-known glitch now. Just make sure to save before inserting the gem so you can reload, and the bug should be gone.

 

[Brutal Peanut]

I haven't really run into any severe bugs at all. About 60 hours in it crashed twice, but it hasn't done it since.
Luckily I am a serial quick-saver. Still playing and enjoying.

 

[TheBoltman]

The Join the Stormcloaks/Season Unending infinite loop of "Go talk to INSERT NAME HERE."

 

[brunothepig]

The only major thing is it seems I won't be doing the Companion's this time around (heh, that came out wrong). Only the third mission or something, gotta go intimidate a guy on a boat. But I can't talk to him, he just tells me I'm not supposed to be there and ignores me. He never leaves, I can't kill him just to fail the mission or something. Although, if anyone has done this and I'm just missing something because I'm a retard, let me know.
Oh yeah, the UI can be a pain in the ass. The amount of times the game exits the bartering menu when I'm trying to sell of all my crap... Ugh.

 

[stutheninja]

the only one i got so far is the invincible Alduin bug, other than that i've been good for 60 hours so far

 

[Elfgore]

Well that one mission involving the forsworn in markarth lead to me having a 500 bounty in the city, but as long as I didn't talk to the guards I was fine. But I went into the Temple of Talos and next thing I know the guards reappered there and tried to take me to jail. And now I have a 10000 or so bounty for slaying 30 guards to get out of the city. I can no longer go near that city.

 

[Mariakko]

First in the thieves guild the female nightingale (forgot her name) walked off before the ceremony to initiate me and i had to use console to correct that. Bows won't fire. Stealth attacks only doing normal damage on certain occasions even when the NPC is asleep and alone. Objects becoming invisible. Objects falling through the ground, Me falling through the ground. Quest items staying as quest items even when the quest is done.

I've had a horrible time with bugs, but still playing. Just quicksaving every minute or everytime I do something in case something breaks or it crashes.

 

[King of the Sandbox]

the only one i got so far is the invincible Alduin bug, other than that i've been good for 60 hours so far

I don't think that's a bug. He's invincible anytime you see him that's not when you're supposed to fight him, and invincible when you are, unless you use your Dragonrend shout on him first.

 

[JoesshittyOs]

I love how people are complaining about PC crashes like it's the games fault. Get a better computer.

I'm playing on a Console and I have yet to see one game breaking glitch. The only thing I'd avoid is Waterfalls.

 

[Ruedyn]

First time I played I saw a bug. In the tutorial area after you follow Ralof into the tower and Alduin uses a fire shout to break into the side, he kept poking his head in and out and nobody did anything because he wouldn't fucking leave. Just kept playing peek-a-boo with a pile of rubble. Haven't encountered any other ones, save for some orc I needed for a minor quest falling through the roof.

 

[Bags159]

Haven't had any bugs yet.

 

[danirax]

the damm book quest and the strange talisman, well it didnt ruin the game for me it just 2.5 extra weight and considering all my points spent on stamina its no big deal...

 

[Palfreyfish]

Marriage

The companion bug for marriage where if one of your companions dies, his corpse appears at the ceremony and fails the marriage instantly

Made me go "WTF?" and reload a quicksave from a few ingame days earlier. Waiting for Bethesda to patch it before I try marriage out again.

Wait, so please explain this to me (I haven't attempted marriage yet).

Are your companions supposed to show up at your wedding? And if one of them has died, his or her corpse will be a spectator? Honestly I wouldn't be mad about that. That's hysterical xD

Specifically when the player initiates Marriage in the Temple of Mara, your companions you've recruited over the course of the game, various people that you've done quests for and just people who have a favorable disposition toward you appear and specifically spawn at the entrance to the temple, along with your spouse. But people who have died over the course of the game, like say companions also spawn there, and the characters react unfavorably to the corpse there and then leave. In your quest log it states that the marriage quest has failed.

In my case I couldn't talk to my spouse at all anymore, and it pissed me right the fuck off. I really hope Bethesda fixes this soon.

That's a pretty pathetic mistake. Couldn't they just put a qualifier on the spawning of NPCs such as, well, i dont know... if(alive)? xD

You think you've got problems? That ^ happened to me at least once, I CTD'd when I entered the Temple of Mara, and now my bloody wife has fucked off and gone missing somewhere. She left the temple after the wedding and it's been around 3 in game months, and she's still not back yet. Ah well, I'll find another one...

 

[Zetatrain]

So far the only bug I've run into that made me reload a save file was one that made the dragon I was fighting invulnerable. So no matter how hard I tried or how many allies I had it would not take any damage.

 

[Agayek]

I had a College of Winterhold bug happen to me once.

It was at the very start when I was supposed to be given a tour, but then! in the middle of it, a Dragon appeared and the lady giving me the tour completely stopped giving a hoot even after I killed it.

Now I have to try the Winterhold College in my next playthrough.

If you're on PC you can console command out of it. Not sure what the specific command is, beyond starting with "setstage", but it's something to look into. The final command will likely look like "setstage mg01 2" or something along those lines. I'm not sure on the actual ending number there, but the rest of it should be correct.

 

[garjian]

A Cornered Rat doesn't start on any of my characters...
no main quest for me.

 

[Lazy Kitty]

Nothing really...
Though I can't seem to get rid of Gallus' encoded journal.
Or give Panthea's flute to Panthea.

 

[Headdrivehardscrew]

As we all know skyrim is full of bugs, but it's such a good game, I have been forgiven most of it. Crashing to desktop every few hours, npc getting stuck on pieces of terrain, horse floating in air, and in pretty much any mission involving dialogue the people would get stuck requiring PC console codes to get past that stage. (...)

Yeah, I had three quit-to-desktop exits and two events that somehow got stuck for a while. One quest (radiant, I believe) was unresolvable because I happened to have killed the target actor some sixty hours of gameplay earlier, and the game just couldn't grasp my killing some more or less important, but not very sympathetic dude in a frock.

I did not have to go play around in the console until after I finished the game, and looking under the hood, so to speak, my admiration of the work involved only grew. I had not one truly messed up save game data, only some strange occurences with my horse, which seemed to spawn in odd spots a couple of times. Nothing truly game- or immersion-breaking for me.

So, my Skyrim wasn't broken before I went to console wonderland and posed for screenshots.

I never let my companions die, though. One horse, which I stole accidentally, at the very beginning, died on me and I paid the "fine" or whatever it was supposed to be, but other than that I saved early and often. No big gripes. If there was something that annoyed me crapless most of the time, it was the 3D-map which didn't help much and had me run around virtually every single mountain to find the proper way up eventually. But that was not a bug, it was a feature, and I might have fared better had I given up and connected a 360 controller to my PC, which I won't do because it feels more wrong than, say, asking Satan for a small favour.

 

[Headdrivehardscrew]

Well that one mission involving the forsworn in markarth lead to me having a 500 bounty in the city, but as long as I didn't talk to the guards I was fine. But I went into the Temple of Talos and next thing I know the guards reappered there and tried to take me to jail. And now I have a 10000 or so bounty for slaying 30 guards to get out of the city. I can no longer go near that city.

Heh. You, sir, have not broken the game but you've decided to act against the plot and story offered. Mind you, you didn't have to do what you did, you could have just played through the game as suggested to you. If you're happy with that, you will live with it... forever wondering
what might have happened had you let them take you to jail.

 

[Headdrivehardscrew]

First in the thieves guild the female nightingale (forgot her name) walked off before the ceremony to initiate me and i had to use console to correct that. Bows won't fire. Stealth attacks only doing normal damage on certain occasions even when the NPC is asleep and alone. Objects becoming invisible. Objects falling through the ground, Me falling through the ground. Quest items staying as quest items even when the quest is done.

I've had a horrible time with bugs, but still playing. Just quicksaving every minute or everytime I do something in case something breaks or it crashes.

AH! This just reminded me - yes, I did encounter a strange bug, where I was basically trapped in another dimension... imagine living through something straight out of a Hangover movie, then finding yourself in an eerie Mad Hatter tea party that felt as if Hannibal Lecter would jump out of the woods and explain he's a vegetarian now... and there is NO EXIT. So, if you accidentally re-enter this mad small patch of a scene, and the essential quest-giver happens to be absent, you'll be stuck at the party - forever. I completely forgot about this one, for psychological reasons. I ran around in circles for half an hour only to realize I'd been had. I blamed my greed for it, loaded the last save and moved on. But it was pretty nasty and nightmarish.