Dragons wont attack and glitch (1.4 patch)

Post » Wed May 30, 2012 1:12 am

I have 1.4 patch and the dragons wont still [censored]in attack to me!!!!!! And I had a glitch when a dragon was flying with big velocity and crushed on the ground and there it acted like it cas collision-->Off, he was still alive though

Also I cant absorb "dragon" dragon souls.
For All other dragons I can
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Kelly Upshall
 
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Post » Wed May 30, 2012 2:36 am

I have the same problem with the dragons not wanting to attack. Had a few people tell me this was a "feature", and it's working as intended.......
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Liv Staff
 
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Post » Tue May 29, 2012 10:31 pm

I have battled 10 dragons since the 1.4 patch. 4 during the Beta and 6 since it went into production.
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Post » Tue May 29, 2012 11:13 pm

Dragons not attacking isn't an issue. There are random encounters where they aren't hostile. I have a mix of both - some are hostile, some not (unless I attack them.)

Probably has to do with the fact that not all dragons are big meanies and some sympathetic toward mortals.
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Pawel Platek
 
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Post » Tue May 29, 2012 7:00 pm

LOL, see OP? It's a feature!

Ok, in all seriousness though, I understand exactly what you're talking about. I have killed my fair share of random dragons since day 1. That doesn't mean I haven't had to reload save games over and over and over again to get those same dragons to attack me. Yes, I know there are some that just aren't hostile. Well, on my PC, that percentage is near 95%. I've reloaded savegames near 20+ times (saves where I know a random will show up the minute I quick-travel) trying to get a random to attack me. They'll attack eventually, just need some patience.

Does this mean it's a feature or a bug? I dunno, but everyone else seems to think it's working as intended.
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Post » Tue May 29, 2012 4:10 pm

Dragons not attacking isn't an issue. There are random encounters where they aren't hostile. I have a mix of both - some are hostile, some not (unless I attack them.)

Probably has to do with the fact that not all dragons are big meanies and some sympathetic toward mortals.

No this is a significant glitch which needs to be resolved.

as while i agree there are numerous cases where dragons simply just do their normal scouting..... I've found more and more frequently.. cases where the dragon will swoop in overhead.... notice you and trigger the music along with becoming a valid target...

However even while the dragon is being blasted with arrows and damage and even from other npcs.... the svcker keeps getting stuck in an endless loop of scouting and more often than not, just flies away after a period.

It's really weird, I've saved right before these occur and try many different ways to get the damn thing to either start attacking me or land or something. And i'm finding that sometimes you HAVE to run to a specific certain place at a certain time to trigger it to actually acknowledge you fully and attack as it was intended. It's like the scripts/AI are just malfunctioning completely.

Heres a good example of the total nonsense of a dragon attack gone horribly irritatingly wrong before i finally got it to land.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UqXwM5ws64

This isn't just happening once in awhile.... it's a battle in itself to try and get these dragons to attack. I've had word wall dragons do the same thing, run up to them, attack them, and then they just fly away sometimes.

Initially my first short play through, all was going well, dragons were spawning so often and attacking me directly that i thought that character was bugged and even without having any shouts i was up to 30+ dragon souls quickly, long lasting and deadly fights that i quite often wouldn't survive my first or 4th attempt in killing them. I even had 2 sometimes 3 dragons show up at the same time near the very start of that game..... i thought this was great... :).... unfortunately after creating the new one, i was lucky enough to have 1 dragon show up and actually manage to kill because they typically always seem to do the same thing as what is shown in the video above, come in with the apparent intention on eating me, only to fly around in repeated circles followed by leaving shortly after. I had 3 or 4 shouts to unlock for for each dragon i managed to finally kill. Dragons just seem very stupid..... very very stupid most recently.. with them randomly attacking other things and ignoring the player when they do finally manage to get their attention.
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Post » Tue May 29, 2012 3:16 pm

^^^What he said!!!
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Post » Tue May 29, 2012 3:25 pm

I love the fact some dragons cant be bothered to attack me despite how much I try.
Please dont fix this 'bug'.

Unpredictability is something this game needs direly.
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Rob
 
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Post » Tue May 29, 2012 1:08 pm

as while i agree there are numerous cases where dragons simply just do their normal scouting..... I've found more and more frequently.. cases where the dragon will swoop in overhead.... notice you and trigger the music along with becoming a valid target...

However even while the dragon is being blasted with arrows and damage and even from other npcs.... the svcker keeps getting stuck in an endless loop of scouting and more often than not, just flies away after a period.

Totally different issue, then, that I'd of course agree is a bug. If you're attacking a random dragon who doesn't attack you and it doesn't become hostile, that's an issue. I've never encountered it so I can't help you there.

However from all my save games since, IIRC, the game was released, not all dragons were hostile, and I'm 99% sure that's intended.
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Post » Wed May 30, 2012 2:06 am

I too have had problems with patch 1.4 but slightly different. I can absorb dragon souls when they're still alive, sometimes even when they have just spawned about a mile away, circling around something. They just disappear after the souls is absorbed but one time it the corpse landed on top of me. + magic resistance still not working.

And yup, i think too that not all dragons are meant to be hostile. It would just svck if killing you was their main priority in the world :blink:
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Post » Tue May 29, 2012 10:54 am

And yup, i think too that not all dragons are meant to be hostile. It would just svck if killing you was their main priority in the world :blink:

It's sort of a given when you do the main quest. I'm not seeing a spoiler tag here but, spoiler: Blades trying to get you to kill Parthuunax, Greybeards insisting not all dragons are bad and need to die like the Blades think. I always assumed the dragons that didn't attack tied into that little bit of rivalry.
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Post » Tue May 29, 2012 4:08 pm

Dragons were supposed to be "scary" as Todd Howard said but now I see instead of the Dragon chasing the man we have a game where the man chases the Dragon! Awsome! :D
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