Miscellaneous Stuff

Post » Fri Aug 10, 2012 8:47 pm

Hello all. I wasn't sure exactly where to place all of this, so I thought I'd throw it all in a thread and sort it out later. Some of this stuff is Dawnguard specific, so be warned, and some of it I believe is introduced through 1.7, and some of it I just don't know.

#1 Bug Type: Dragon Shouts

I have two copies of Drain Vitality in my shout menu. The first is the regular shout, of which I only have one rank and the tooltip for this shout is just the normal description. The second copy has the same name "Drain Vitality" however I have TWO ranks of this shout and the ranks for this shout are the same as the ranks I have for Marked for Death. The tooltip for this shout actually describes what Drain Vitality does, namely "drains 1 point of health every x amount of seconds, drains 1 point of stamina every x amount of seconds..." I haven't actually tried using either copy, so I don't know what effect the bugged copy of Drain Vitality will actually do. Also, I had this bug before I downloaded 1.7 so I know it isn't tied into the new patch, however, when I played through Dawnguard before, I never had this issue, so I confess I'm confused.

#2 Bug Type: Graphical

I was in Mzulft when I downloaded 1.7 and started playing. Upon resuming, I walked into a Falmer and started whaling on him with my greatsword. I turned invisible after a few hits and then popped back into place. This happened again as I was fighting and then when I went to kill him, a kill cam activated and I became all distorted. This graphical glitch didn't occur then for a few fights, but then it popped back up again. Is this normal after first patching, or is this yet another problem introduced through a patch?

#3 Bug Type: Strange Dragon AI

This bug occured also before I downloaded 1.7. I was running away from Dawnstar on my way to Winterhold when I saw a dragon flying over head. I thought at first it was Durnehviir, because I had summoned him quite a while ago, but I thought he might still be hanging around (to be clear, my cool down timer from having summoned him was completely done when I saw this dragon). I kept running and saw a creature of some sort (it might have been a troll or maybe it was something else, I know it was hostile though) and at that moment, the dragon I saw up above began to land. When it did, I recognized it was a regular dragon and not Durnehviir. I was kind of shocked and so I just stood there and watched as the dragon proceeded to breath fire on the enemy in front of me and then he took off into the sky again. During all of this, the dragon never once became hostile toward me or showed up as a red dot on my compass or otherwise even acknowledged my presence. I kept running east and ran across an Imperial camp that was being attacked by the same dragon. Finally, I ran up and hit it with my sword and then it became hostile and attacked me as usual. After it was dead, I absorbed its soul no problem. I have never had a problem like this with a dragon, where it wouldn't just fight me, but it seemed to be ignoring me or possibly even helping me.
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