Taunta said:
While I have seen people complain about the odd glitch occurring and never happening again, you do seem to be having an unusually large amount. I laughed rather heartily at the screencaps.
Seems to be a problem with his video card. Not that I haven't run into my fair share of bugs. My favorite was the dragon that appeared above the town of Dawnstar. It flew around, blasting things with it's breath (killing a guard and the local alchemy shop owner) and never came down. I would hit it with arrows and then it would fly off into the distance, seemingly going away except combat was not over so I couldn't fast travel, then it would come back fully healed to do it some more. Eventually it landed on top of a mountain that overlooks the town, and then.. it slid down the mountain about 10-20 feet whereupon, never getting out of a seated position mind you, it tipped it's nose back up and began scooting around the sky while seated and never moving it's wings. It looked like some toy a child might play with, the way it flew and tipped it's body to breath fire but no part of it ever flexed or bended.
I tried to walk away from it, figuring "screw this" but the damned thing kept following me and the longer it did this, the choppier my frame rate got. Eventually (since I don't have the shout to force a dragon to land and I'm willing to bet if I had the game woulda crashed anyhow) I decided "to hell with it", I was going to use console commands. I had never used them before, I didn't want to be a "cheater", but I'd done too much without saving before this joker showed up and at the point of the last autosave he was always showing up and acting like this. I turned off clipping, walked into the sky and killed the dumb bastard. Then I descended down to the grateful residents of Dawnstar, and with a wave of my console commands resurrected the dead, who brushed themselves off and were none the worse for wear, my act of benevolent Godhood complete.
Kind of an off-topic question: Why is it that Skyrim has so many bugs? I play WoW quite frequently, also a huge open-world RPG, but these kinds of graphical glitches never happen to me. (I've never seen flying NPCs, quest givers melting into the ground, dragons exploring space,etc) The worst seems to be "oh this mob is evade-bugged", which gets fixed relatively quickly. Is it just a difference in the beta, the developer, or what?
Eh Wow's been out a long time. Bugs and glitches do happen there though. I had a friend who for the longest time, had one extra talent point. The problem was, he specced his character all wrong, but he didn't dare respec for fear of losing that novelty. You could see it on the character viewer and everything. So he had to start another warrior. (He was hardcore and had remade this character a few times anyhow in different races before paid race changes) Then a patch came along and resolved the situation, which was kind of a relief to him.
