i remember seeing this in the little demo we got given before the release, it showed a dragon picking up a giant, flying it up high and dropping...

has anyone seen dragons picking up people yet in the game after the release?

was it taken out prior to the final release?

its a great feature!

I have never seen this happen in my game, I have seen dragons pick up guards with their teeth and throw them but never pick them up, fly up and then drop them

I remember Alduin giving skydiving lessons to a few people in the intro.

In the tutorial, Alduin grabs a soldier and drop him.

Alduin flies down and scoops up an Imperial Archer in the beginning of the game. That's the only time I've seen it happen. He doesn't land, grab, and takeoff again. It's much more like how a hawk grabs its prey.

lol apart from the alduin part hahah

here it is guys

skip to 12:02
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic6dKnv3WdU

it seems dargons HAD the ability to pick up enemies and drop them... but why was it removed!? :/

yeah I wonder why ive never seen it before

right, who has todd howards number? i wanna txt him why
i really want an official answer from this since it was seen in the skyrim preview too.

GIVE ME THE FACTS!

It wasn't removed :s I've seen it happen, it's just a very rare event, certain conditions need to be filled for the AI not sure what exactly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5R_GiEPaJ8


Also,

I would assume it was removed or became very rare as it is a very overpowered attack. It would be mean instant death for whomever was on the receiving end.

Ah, that would be fun. You could just be minding your own business somewhere when a giant suddenly drops out of the air. Hello!

looks like you guys are right

but... I WANT MORE OF PICKING UP! i want to see really weak bandits being picked up by dragons!

I have seen it a few times happen to bandits and forsworn. Usually when a dragon attacks while I am clearing an outdoors location, actually helped me one time by taking an archer off of a bridge type thing which I couldn't find my way up to. I think the place is called Bard's Leap, or something like that. One of the bigger encampments with a couple hagravens summoning a briarheart. (Maybe not summoning, but some kind of ritual)

I remember seeing this once actually, a guard got a little too close to a nasty dragon on the sloped trail at the mouth of Winterhold. I would love to see it more in my game, it looked fantastic enough for me to break my usual hypnotic play style and start loudly quizzing other people in the room as to whether or not they saw it too.

I saw it happen to a mammoth in my game. Was on the plains west of Whiterun near Halted Steam Camp, got into a large 4 way fight with me, the bandits in the camp, 2 giants and 2 mammoths and of course the Dragon (was an Elder as I recall). A large running battle ensued all over the plains and hills around and above the camp, the dragon swooped by and picked up the mammoth and sent it flying to the northeast. I went after it when the battle was over and I found the body near the Whiterun guard tower in that area south of the Lorius farm.

So it does happen but it is very, very rare. That's the only time I've seen it in many hundreds of hours of play across numerous characters. Was very cool however, wish I had a screenshot of that one but it happened so quickly I didn't get it captured.

i see in some videos in the internet

I've had an ancient dragon pick guards up from the bridge outside Windhelm. Definitely one of those 'cool' moments.

It's very rare, but it does happen. I guess dragons can't get too close to the ground, and so the only enemies they can grab are either really big (giants, furry elephants, ...) or have to be standing on walls. I'd say so because the only time I've seen it happen was with the giant in the demo video, the archer on the wall during the intro, and one time with another imperial archer on a wooden wall in my game.

Also, i think when dragons fly by and it there is that swooosh type of sound: This is a failed attempt to grab the player.

It happened to me once. I was standing on a hill when I was fighting a few dragons at one time then an Elder Dragon came up behind me and grabbed me.

I've seen it happen, but it's pretty rare. A lot of times there just isn't anything around the Dragon besides you though.

It's a very exquisitely rare event.
I've probably got over 1000 hours between all my characters and I've only seen it and had it happen to me once.
Trust me, you wouldn't want it to happen any more frequently, as it's a cheap death you can do jack squat about.